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ROLL OF EMIGRANTS FOR LIBERIA.

By Bark Monrovia, from New York, October 1, 1884.

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Albert Harris.

II

Mary Ann Carter

Baptist..

12

William Mills.

Baptist.

NOTE. The foregoing named persons make a total of 15,816 emigrants settled in Liberia by the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

The Sixty-Eighth Anniversary of the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY will take place in Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening, January 18, 1885, at 7.30 o'clock, when the Annual Discourse will be delivered by Rev. J. C. Thomas, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y..

The Annual Meeting of the Society for the election of officers and transaction of business, will be held at the Colonization Building, No. 450 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C., on the next succeeding Tuesday, January 20, at 3 o'clock P. M.

The Board of Directors of the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY will begin their annual session at the same place and on the same day at 12 o'clock M.

RECEIPTS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

During the Month of September, 1884.

THE

AFRICAN REPOSITORY.

VOL. LXI.

WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL, 1885.

SIXTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

No. 2.

The Sixty-Eighth year of the existence of THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY has just closed. In accordance with a time-honored custom, a brief statement of the more important incidents of the past twelve months is herewith presented.

NECROLOGY.

It is with sadness that the record must be made of the departure from this life of three Vice Presidents of the Society.

HON. JOSEPH B. CROCKETT, elected in 1854, long held a leading position at the bar at St. Louis, and removing, in 1852, to San Francisco, he soon became one the Justices of the Supreme Court of California. Acting from the highest appreciation of the judicial functions he distinguished himself as a judge, and was patient, earnest, painstaking and conscientious in his public duties.

REV. MATTHEW SIMPSON, D. D., senior Bishop of the Methodist E. Church, elected in 1854, was eminent for eloquence in the pulpit and on the platform, and for wisdom in council. A prominent churchman for full half a century, he gained and held the esteem and admiration of the whole Christian community, and he departed amid the reverence and regrets of all good people.

HON. ELI K. PRICE, elected in 1874, was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society and its President from 1862 until his death. Mr. Price was a man of signal personal purity, judgment and ability, genial in character and manner, and profoundly interested in all that affected his country and mankind. A long and useful life was given to him, closing in peace and made bright by the unfailing hope of a blessed inheritance,

Such men are the pillars of Christian society, and when they are taken away leave empty places which it is not easy to fill.

Liberia mourns the death of two of her citizens who adorned every station they were called upon to occupy.

HON. HENRY W. JOHNSON was of marked attainments and a stirring speaker. He removed from Canandaigua, N. Y., where he studied law, and was Attorney General of Liberia in 1870 and 1871. His health had been impaired for several years, and his departure. February 3rd, was sudden.

REV. ALFRED F. RUSSELL, who died April 4, emigrated in 1833, when very young, from Fayette County, Ky. He became a minister of the Gospel, and held numerous important public positions. At the general election in 1881, he was chosen Vice President, and on the resignation of Mr. Gardner January, 1883, succeeded him as President. Mr. Russell was an earnest advocate of the rights of the Aborigines, and a firm believer in the ultimate realization of all that the founders of Liberia desired.

FINANCES.

The receipts during the year 1884 have been:--

The condition of the work in the United States and in Liberia is such as to command the fullest confidence, and require the renewed and increased liberality of all the friends of African Colonization. The opportunities are great, the signs of the times are cheering, and it needs but faith and means to ensure speedy results.

EMIGRATION.

The emigrants mentioned in the last Report to have embarked December 1, landed at Monrovia, January 8. One of the number writes: "We are more than pleased with the country. We have not the tongue to express our feelings in regard to the future possibilities of this land and can only say, come and see us."

Our usual Spring expedition was by the bark Monrovia, which sailed from New York, April 15, with thirty-four'emigrants; and our Autumn expedition was by the same vessel,from the same port, October 1, comprising forty-seven emigrants. Both companies arrived out June 5, and November 11, respectively, and immediately went up the St. Paul's river to Brewerville.

These eighty-one persons removed from the following named places: Philadelphia, Pa., 1; Lincoln University, Chester Co., Pa., 3; Pittsburgh, Pa., 3; Shawboro, Currituck Co., N. C. 21; Kansas City, Missouri, 17; Wyandotte, Kansas, 4 : Topeka, Kansas, 16; Dunlap, Kansas, 2 and Lincoln, Nebraska, 14. Fifty are 12 years of age and upwards, twenty-three are between 12 and two years, and eight are under two years of age. Thirty-six are communicants in Evangelical churches. Of the adult males, 13 are farmers, I carpenter, I blacksmith, I stonemason, I plasterer, 3 teachers and minister of the Gospel. They are experienced, self-reliant persons, those from Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska being a part of the late "Exodus ' movment from the Southern to the Western States, now seeking true liberty and equality in the land of their ancestors.

Rev. Dr. Edward W. Blyden wrote March 12: The American Colonization Society for the last ten years has been sending out mechanics and farmers to Liberia. They are chiefly black men and they are building up two thriving settlements-Brewerville and Arthington. This kind of immigration should be encouraged. The mechanics and farmers have been trained to labor and they go to work and learn the condition and needs of the country before they aspire to be leaders and Presidents."

Hon. Benjamin Anderson, author of "a Journey to Musardu,” says July 9: "I have just returned from Brewerville, where I executed surveys for the land of the recent immigrants. They all seemed pleased with their new homes. They do not feel that they have come to live among strangers. They are a healthy, vigorous, cheerful, contented set. Brewerville contains the materials of rapid and permanent growth. I saw quite a number of strong appearing children of both sexes, who will live and be of use to the country."

Our Medical Adviser reports, October 28 :-"The last two companies were composed of healthy men, women and children, nearly all of whom were taken at an early day with the acclimating fever, but with no serious results, and they are getting along very well. One death only has occurred, and she died, July 4, from a chronic trouble brought with her from North Carolina."

The Society feels justified in asserting that the work which it has accomplished has benefitted not only those who have gone to Liberia but those left behind. As regards the emigrants, their success has been most marked, as it learns from official reports and the letters of emigrants themselves, and they are not merely in a much better position than they were before, but have the prospect of a future to which they could not possibly have attained in America. There have been doubtless a few who have not met with equally good success