eral unrest and a wholesome dissatisfaction among our people in a number of sections of the land, to my certain knowledge, and they sigh for conveniences to and from the Continent of Africa. Something has to be done." A VIRGIN MARKET. That religion and philanthropy have something to do with the interest that the European world has, of late years, taken in the exploration of Africa, is unquestionable. That Continent may be regarded now as the only virgin market, of any extent, remaining for the rapidly increasing surplus, everywhere, of manufacturing industry. If the United States do not at present feel the want of such a market as much as other nations, the time will come when they will no longer have the advantage of England or France or Germany in this respect; and they should not forget that they have a foothold in , Africa that no other nation enjoys. From the mouth of the Mediterranean southward to the English settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, there is no one spot that offers greater facilities for introducing trade and civilization into the interior of the Continent than Liberia. Slowly, yet steadily and surely, a nation is growing up there, whose sympathies, if we retain them, will give us practically the benefit of a colony without the responsibility of a colonial system-a nation which, at the end of sixty-three years, is further advanced than were many, if not all, the colonies of America, after the same lapse of time. Surely such a nation is not to be regarded with indifference, but may be considered as no unimportant factor in the commercial and manufacturing future of the United States-to say nothing of its peculiar fitness for conferring upon Africa the benefit of Christianity and civilization. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. The Sixty-Seventh Anniversary of the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY will take place in Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C., on Sunday evening, January 13, 1884, at 7.30 o'clock, when the Annual Discourse will be delivered by the Rev. O. H. Tiffany, D. D. The Annual Meeting of the Society for the election of officers and the transaction of business, will be held at the Colonization Building, No. 450 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C., on the next succeeding Tuesday at 3 o'clock P. M. The BOARD OF DIRECTORS will commence their annual session at the same place and on the same day at 12 o'clock M. OUR FALL EXPEDITION. 66 The fall expedition of the American Colonization Society sailed from New York for Liberia on the 1st December. It comprised select emigrants, mostly in families, from Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska, the adult males, including two ordained ministers, and farmers and carpenters. Those from the last named States were a part of the Exodus" movement of a few years ago from the South. Jackson Smith is one of the “Wanderer" captives landed at Savannah in 1859. He is a fair scholar and mechanic, and with his family joyfully returns to his native land. Two colored missionaries, Rev. W. W. Colley and Rev. J. H. Presley, with their wives, embarked on the Monrovia, intending to labor among the Vey people, within and beyond Liberia. Mr. Colley has passed several years in Africa. By his efforts, mainly, the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention has been organized by the colored Baptists of the United States. LIBERIA AND THE CONGO. Through our Ministers at London and at Monrovia, this Government has endeavored to aid Liberia in its differences with Great Britain, touching the northwest boundary of that Republic. There is a prospect of adjustment of the dispute, by the adoption of the Mannah river as the line. This arrangement is a compromise of the conflicting territorial claims, and takes from Liberia no country over which it has maintained effective jurisdiction. The rich and populous valley of the Congo is being opened to commerce by a society called the International African Association, of which the King of the Belgians is the president, and a citizen of the United States the chief executive officer. Large tracts of territory have been ceded to the Association by native chiefs, roads have been opened, steamboats placed on the river, and the nuclei of States established at twenty-two stations under one flag, which offers freedom to commerce and prohibits the slave trade. The objects of the society are philanthropic. It does not aim at permanent political control, but seeks the neutrality of the valley. The United States cannot be indifferent to this work, nor to the interests of their citizens involved in it. It may become advisable for us to co-operate with other commercial powers in promoting the rights of trade and residence in the Congo valley free from the interference or political control of any one nation.—Message of the President of the United States. NOTE. The foregoing named persons make a total of 15,735 emigrants settled in Liberia by the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. * Went by the bark Monrovia, July 16, 1883. ARRIVAL OF THE MONROVIA. Letters from Liberia announce the arrival at Monrovia, August, 21, with emigrants sent by the American Colonization Society. They proceeded on the following morning by the steamer St. Paul's to Brewerville, where they are to settle. Rev. Hugh M. Browne and Rev. T. McCants Stewart, professors elect in Liberia College, landed at Monrovia August 5th, and were cordially welcomed on the 10th, in the Methodist E. church by the citizens and the City and College authorities. A handsome luncheon followed at the mansion of Mrs. exPresident Roberts, where covers were set for sixty guests. The emigrants are stated to be well and pleased with the country. RECEIPTS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, During the month of September, 1883. |