genial humor, his playful fancy, and his ready sympathy in all that affected the welfare of those around him. He had a remarkable sense of propriety, and could entertain the gayest circle with a fund of wit and repartee that seemed exhaustless, without once forgetting the dignity and sacredness of his calling. For thirty-six years he has been connected with the Reformed Dutch Church, and prominent in every movement to advance its interests. His lectures during two or more seasons at the New Brunswick Seminary, will long be remembered by all who heard them. The theme grows upon us as we dwell upon it, for the writer had the great privilege and advantage of listening to him for seventeen consecutive years as a pastor and teacher; but this is not the time nor place for an extended eulogy. His praise is in all the churches, and his memory will never die. He has gone to the Master whom he loved and served so faith. fully; and a host of those he has been instrumental in gathering into that fold, will be with him in the new home to which he has been translated.— Jour. of Com. PRESIDENT BENSON arrived in London on the 12th of April. Letters are received from him to the 12th of May. His health had been much im.proved, and he was passing his time very agreeably in London. It was his purpose to visit the Continent, or start for the United States, about the 20th of May-most probably he will first spend a short time on the Continent, perhaps a month. Though of unmixed blood and African complexion, President Benson has shown distinguished talents and virtues. His personal history is full of interest. Taken by his parents when a small child from the shores of Maryland, and after his arrival in Africa captured, his life was preserved for several months by a native chief in the forest, then restored, through the agency of Mr. ASHMUN, he received some of his first lessons from his lips; and subsequently from missionary and other teachers and his own energetic studies acquired that education which qualified him for his high position and commanding influence. FATAL LION FIGHT.-For the last few days of Lynn Mart, Mander's menagerie of wild beasts has been exhibiting on the Tuesday market-place. This menagerie is well known by the accidents which have occurred in connection with the feats of daring amongst the lions, by Maccomo. On a recent Monday evening, a real lion fight took place between the famous lion Wallace and a lioness. It appears that the lioness had hitherto been kept separate, in consequence of her not being perfectly tame. Having recently shown signs of a quiet spirit, the proprietor ordered the slide which divided her den from that in which the other lion and lioness were confined, to be withdrawn. No sooner was this done than the lion Wallace crouched down, and almost instantly sprang upon the new comer with the utmost ferocity, and seized her by the throat. A fearful scene ensued, but it was of short duration, for Wallace was assisted by another lioness, and, combined, they succeded in killing the lioness very quickly. The roaring of the wild beasts during this struggle was fearful. It is said that the lioness which was killed was worth nearly $1,000.-English paper. FREE NEGROES-The following table shows the number of free negroes in the several states of the Union, and also exhibits a fact which is perhaps not generally known, that there are more free negroes in the fourteen slave states and in the District of Columbia than in the nineteen free states: WEST AFRICAN DISCOVERY.-Recent explorations into the great continent of Africa show that there exists a salubrious interior, with noble rivers, lakes, mountains, fertile regions, and numerous inhabitants, many of the latter in a semi-civilized state. Capt. R. F. Burton, the indefatigable traveller, has sent an account of his examination of Abbeokuta river, which he ascended from Lagos, and found to be navigable till crossed by a ridge of rocks, at a place called Aso, which bars any further progress. Captain Burton was continuing his survey of the coast rivers, with a view of finding the best means of communication with the interior. Dr. William Durrant, medical officer of the Niger Exploring Expedition, states in a letter dated London, February 12th, that he observed the further he progressed inland, the less virulent became the climatic diseases; that the native tribes at the confluence of that famous stream with the Tchadda are Mahommedans, and in mental and physical qualities are superior to most of the African nations; and that "cotton grows spontaneously, and might be successfully cultivated, over a most beautiful and extensive country." ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH OUT HER HANDS.-She is doing it in her children to God and for God. A remarkable instance of it came to our knowledge within a few days past: a gentleman came to our office with the copy of a will lately made by a colored woman, now deceased, leaving to the Missionary Society twelve hundred dollars. This woman, fifty years a member of the M. E. Church, was a slave up to her fifteenth year, when she obtained her freedom papers on account of her integrity of character. She was never married, never received above six dollars per month at ser genial humor,' the welfare of and could er seemed exh his calling For thi Church, lectures long be The great years tend nev full fol J 199 RECEIPTS seventy-six, and ⚫ "grave with ve had, up to the time of the beginning of her last sickness, val 59,300. She died at the advanced age of while in health, so that she literally made her e and in the resurrection will be, we doubt not, as the "angels of RECEIPTS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, From the 20th of April to the 20th of May, 1862. MAINE Portland-Mrs. Eliphalet Greely, 50 00 NEW HAMPSHIRE. By Rer. F. Butler-$31.40: Lyme-Gen. David Culver, $10, D. C. Churchill, jr., $3, Hon. D. C. Churchill, F. Dodge, Miss E. Franklin, $2 each, Capt. Skinner, Dea. Storrs, A. G. Washburn, John Wash. burn, A. Thurston, H. M Clark, Rev. E. Tenney, Miss N. Franklin, S. S. Grant, $1 each, Benj. Griffin, E. Martin, D. B. Dimick, Mrs. T. Lambert, T. L. Gilbert, 50 cents each, Cyrus Warner, 40 cents, Mrs. Jenks, Mrs. Steele, 25 cts. each-which constitute Hon. Allen Tenney, of Concord, a life member. VERMONT. By Rev. F. Butler-$59.97: Castleton C. S. Sherman, $10, Benj. F.Adams, C. M. Willard, $5 each, Hon. Zimri Howe, Wm. C. Guernsey, C. Griswold, H. Griswold Dr. Jos. Perkins, $2 each, H. Westoner, W. Moulton, $1 each, B. W. Burt, 50 cents.. Royalton-L. Burbank, R. K. Dewey, G. H. Harvey, Dan'l Rix, $1 each, others, $4.35.. Sutherland Falls-Wm. Humphrey...... Thetford-Cong'l Church and Society, $15.72, which, and previous donations, constitute Rev. Leonard Tenney a life member Windsor-A friend. ... .......... West Brattleboro'-Legacy of $1,000, of Samuel C. Clark, deceased, received from his son and Executor, Lafayette Clark, in a Bond of N. York and N. Hampshire R. R. Co. for that sum.. 31 40 32 50 8 35 200 15 72 59 57 PENNSYLVANIA. East Springfield-Stephen War- Miscellaneous.. U.S.Government,19,965 00 THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY. Vol. xxxviii.] WASHINGTON, JULY, 1862. [No. 7 ON THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, ITS PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES. BY GERARD RALSTON, Consul General for Liberia, (London.) A paper read before the Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, May 21st, 1862. LORD ALFRED S. CHURCHILL, M. P., IN THE CHAIR. (Reprinted from the Journal of the Society of Arts, London, May 23, 1862.) The small Republic of Liberia, founded by the benevolence of the American Colonization Society on the West Coast of Africa some 40 years ago, for the purpose of furnishing an asylum to the free people of colour in the United States, who, from the unfortunate prejudice against blacks, cannot live happily in their native land, and which has since become the asylum of the recaptured Africans taken out of the slave ships by the American cruisers for suppressing the slave trade, is becoming so interesting and important a community, that I beg to give a concise account of its present condition and its prospects, with the desire of attracting the benevolent regards of all Christian people, but particularly of the British nation, towards the young and rising State. Liberia (the land of the free,) on the west coast of Africa, is a place of refuge for those poor negroes who, not comfortably situated in their native country, have migrated from Virginia, Ohio, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and other States of the Union. These negroes have been aided by the benevolence of the American Colonization Society, at Washington, to remove to the coast of Guinea, where, after undergoing a variety of hardships and afflictions incident to settling in a savage region, they have formed themselves into a respectable commonwealth, numbering some 500,000 souls, of whom vice, and yet she had, up to the time of the beginning of her last sickness, earned and saved $9,300. She died at the advanced age of seventy-six, and had provided while in health, so that she literally made her "grave with the rich," and in the resurrection will be, we doubt not, as the "angels of God."-Ch. Ad. & Jour. RECEIPTS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, MAINE. Portland-Mrs. Eliphalet Greely, by Eben Steele... NEW HAMPSHIRE. By Rev. F. Butler-$31.40: Lyme--Gen. David Culver, $10, D. C. Churchill, jr., $3, Hon. D. C. Churchill, F. Dodge, Miss E. Franklin, $2 each, Capt. Skinner, Dea. Storrs, A. G. Washburn, John Washburn, A. Thurston, H. M. Clark, Rev. E. Tenney, Miss N. Franklin, S. S. Grant, $1 each, Benj. Griffin, E. Martin, D. B. Dimick, Mrs. T. Lambert, T. L. Gilbert, 50 cents each, Cyrus Warner, 40 cents, Mrs. Jenks, Mrs. Steele, 25 cts. each-which constitute Hon. Allen Tenney, of Concord, a life member.. VERMONT. By Rev. F. Butler-$59.97: Castleton-C. S. Sherman, $10, Benj. F.Adams, C. M.Willard, $5 each, Hon. Zimri Howe, Wm. C. Guernsey, C. Griswold, H. Griswold. Dr. Jos. Perkins, $2 each, H. Westoner, W. Moulton, $1 each, B. W. Burt, 50 cents. Royalton-L. Burbank, R. K. Dewey, G. H. Harvey, Dan'l Rix, $1 each, others, $4.35.. Sutherland Falls-Wm. Humphrey...... Thetford-Cong'l Church and Society, $15.72, which, and previous donations, constitute Rev. Leonard Tenney a life member. Windsor-A friend.. West Brattleboro'-Legacy of $1,000, of Samuel C. Clark, deceased, received from his son 'and Executor, Lafayette Clark, in a Bond of N. York and N. Hampshire R. R. Co. for that sum.... 50 00 PENNSYLVANIA. By Rev. B.O. Plimpton.$66.60: 10.00 6 60 500 4.00 41 00 66 60 ..19,965 00 388 47 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. OHIO. By Rev. B. O. Plimpton, $11.30: 1 30 5 00 Braceville-Franklin Stow.... 5 00 11 30 1,000 00 |