Oct. 66 8th, T. D. Bell, Esq., of Newark, being his annual subscription of Nov. 9th, 66 27th, Rev. J. T. M. Davie, being a 4th July collection in the Green- Dec. 6th, E. F. Backus, Esq., donation, 5 00 7 26 10 00 500 50 00 Rev. M. B. Hope, 20 00 R. S. Simmons, Esq., executor of Hart Grandom's Estate, Phila- 1000 00 66 25 00 66 12th, Collection in Bethel Presbyterian congregation, Rev. George 19 50 66 14 00 7th, Miss Elizabeth B. Morris, of Wilmington, Rev. S. McFerran, being a collection in Congruity Presbyterian Collected by the Rev. John B. Pinney, from September 17th, to October Bucks County, Abington From members of the Abington Presbyterian 85 19 Coon, cash, cash, each 25c. Wilkesbarre, 4th July collection in Presoyterian church, Rev. J. Dorrance, pastor, $11 50, collection after lecture, by J. B. P., $3 50, N. M. Owen, $5, M. Glassel, $2, Mr. Boker, Mrs. Butler, each $3, Mr. Tracy, $1, Mrs. Conyngham, Mr. Taylor, each $2, Wm. H. But ler, T. S. Murray, Mrs. S. Butler, Wm. Wurts, cash, cash, A. Fuller, H. Wright, A. T. McClintock, cash, G. Burrows, Isaac Wood, H. M. Fuller, H. B. Wright, Mr. Grey, Mr. Biddle, each $1, Columbia County, Berwick, Mrs. Shuman, 50c., Mr. Shuman, $1 50, Robert McCurdy, D. Miller, each $1, Mr. Headly, $1 50, A Friend, cash, each 50c., A Friend, $1. Mr. Davis, A Friend, each 50c., Mrs. Kloty, 12 c. Bloomsburg, Wm. G. Hurley, Esq., $4, A Friend, A Friend, each $1, Rev. J. Waller, $6 25, Mr. Barton, 50c. Danville, Margarette Montgomery, $10, Mrs. C. Montgomery, $9, J. Grier, $3, Mrs. Loughead, $5, Mrs. Woodside, $1, Miss Mary Montgomery, $5, Alexander Montgomery, $10, M. C. Grier, $3, Mrs. McGill, $2, Lot Bergstresser, Wm. Case, jr., each $1, Judge Montgomery, $5, J. Reed, $1, J. C. Boyd, $3, A. G. Voris, L. Gibbs, each 50c., Miss M. Montgomery, Rev. D. M. Halliday, each $5, Dr. McGill, $3, C. Cameron, $5, Mr. Hebler, $2, G. H. Rittenhouse, 25c., Mr. Gerhart, $1, Miss R. Ellsworth, $3, 105 62 Total collected by J. B. P., Total receipts for the African Repository, from September 20th, to December 20th, 521 63 1219 55 $1751 18 41 50 CONTRIBUTIONS to, and receipts by, the American Colonization Society, from the 24th, November, to 24th of December, 1842. Newbury, Collection in Congregational church, per Rev. George W. Peacharn, Dr. Josiah Shedd, Hardwick, Deacon E. Strong. 2055 11 57 8 00 10 00 St. Johnsbury, Erastus Fairbanks, Thaddeus Fairbanks, each $10, Dr. Westminster, Rev. Seth S. Arnold, $5, MASSACHUSETTS. Belchertown, M. Lawrence, $1, C. F. Tenney, 50c., CONNECTICUT New London, Mr. A. Barnes, per Hon. T. W. Williams, NEW JERSEY. Newark, New Jersey State Colonization Society, per Matthias W. Day, 50 1 50 10 00 10 11 26 11 105 00 105 00 Alexandria, Annual collection on the 3d July, Rev. C. B. Dana's congregation, $18, DELAWARE. 18 00 18 00 Wilmington, Miss Eliz. B. Morris, from the fruits of her industry, in the manufacture of coat plaster, to be applied to sending out liberated slaves, $200, MARYLAND. Montgomery county, In part the bequest left by Mrs. Elizabeth Davis to the society, by the Executor, R. B. Davis, Esq., VIRGINIA. Collections by Rev. Samuel Cornelius, agent: Berryville, Dr. Koronslar, Dr. Frank Kerfoot, each $5, 200 00 200 00 308 00 10 00 Richmond, Virginia State Colonization Society, per Benjamin Brand, 72 00 East Woodby, J. M. Gray, Esq., $5801, 58 01 500 00 Lynchburg, Emigrants' account. William B. Lynch, Esq., to aid the Society in sending eighteen of his manumitted slaves to the Colony of Liberia, $500, Lexington, Collection in the Presbyterian church, Rev. J. W. Paine, pastor, per Hon. J. T. Moorehead, $16, KENTUCKY. Danville, Rev. Samuel Williams, $20, OHIO. Euclid, Mrs. Sarah Shaw, $10, 10 00 10 00 Total Contributions, OTHER RECEIPTS.-From the proceeds of trade with the Colony, $2,236 40 $8,333 13 $10,569 53 FOR REPOSITORY. NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Walpole, Rev. A. Jackson, '40 to '42, $3, Concord, ARKANSAS.-Choctaw, Rev. C. Kingsbury, '41, to '44. $4 50, George THIS meeting took place on the evening of the seventeenth instant, in the office of the society, and. adjourned to a more public meeting in the Hall of the House of Representatives on the next evening. The chair was taken by the Rev. James Laurie, D. D., a Vice President, and one of the long tried friends of the Society. The Rev. Wm. Hawley invoked the divine blessing. The meeting was large, and attended by members of both Houses of Congress. The Secretary of the Society, (Mr. Gurley) stated the several topics of the Report of the Executive Committee, and read such extracts as it was thought might prove most interesting to the audience. Many and extraordinary events have occured to enlarge and brighten the prospects of the Society and the Colony during the year. The loss sustained by the decease of two of the Vice Presidents, the Hon. SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD and FRANCIS S. KEY, Esquire, was noticed in appropriate terms. They were both early engaged in the cause, its warm and eloquent advocates at all times, and died in full confidence of its triumph over opposition in this country and every obstacle in Africa. Mr. Key had urged in a speech, of excellence seldom equaled, before the Colonization Convention during the last summer, the duty of Congress to extend protection to Liberia, to American commerce on the African coast, and to devote its energies with invincible resolution, to the suppression of the slave trade. The following Resolutions were then submitted and supported by their movers with great ability and eloquence, and unanimously adopted: By Z. C. LEE, Esq., (of Baltimore): Resolved, That the sudden decease of FRANCIS S. KEY, Esq., one of the founders, for many years a member of the Board of Managers, and more recently a Vice President of this Society, has deprived the institution of one of its strongest supports; and that, under a sense of our irreparable loss this only consoles us, that to animate us in duty no holier or mightier influences are necessary than those felt in the echoes of his eloquence, reflected down upon us from the height of his unsurpassed and undying example. By HON. JACOB H. MILLER, (Senator from New Jersey): Resolved, That, it is of vital importance to enlarge without delay, the territory of Liberia, so that its jurisdiction over the entire line of coast from Cape Mount to Cape Palmas, shall become incontestible;-that, this Society has a right to expect foreign States and Powers, to abstain from attempts to obtain possession of lands within these limits, and that all the friends of the Society, be urged to afford it the means of concluding all necessary negotiations for this great object. By REV. C. W. ANDREWS, (of Shepherdstown, Va.): Resolved, That, for the better information of the public, the Ex. Com. be requested to procure, by the next annual meeting, and earlier if praticable, a census of the Colony, embracing its geographical extent and political organization, the number of inhabitants, their age, sex and professions, health, and the extent of their education; the number of original settlers who were free born, and the number who were emancipated, with a view to colonization, with the States from which they have respectively emigrated; full statistical accounts of agriculture and commerce, the institutions for intellectual, social and religious improvement; with an exact statement of pauperism and crime, together, also, with such facts as may illustrate the influence of the Colony, upon the contiguous native tribes. By HON. MR. PENROSE, (of the Treasury Department) : Resolved, That, in the view of this Society, the Colonies of Liberia, are effectually promoting the great cause of missions, and that as communities already supplying and sending forth Christian teachers among the heathen, and as schools in which a far greater number will in future be trained up for the propagation of Christianity in Africa, they have the strongest possible claim for support upon the clergy, and churches of every denomination in our country. By HON. HENRY A. WISE, (of Virginia): Resolved, That, while the decrease of the African slave trade, and the great movements among the nations for its suppression, is a subject of congratulation to this Society, they are deeply convinced, that, among the agencies operating against it, the influence of Liberia is pre-eminent, inasmuch as it has suppressed this trade on an extensive line of coast, and is introducing the mighty elements of freedom, civilization and Christianity, to change and elevate the character of the African people. |