bal King was going to have another "grand custom." This sacrifice is to celebrate the new yam season, and the preparations were to have been of the most complete character. All the principal natives and traders at Lagos had received invitations to be present to witness the ceremony of cutting off the heads of about 2000 human beings. From this it would appear that the protest lately made against such acts of barbarism by the British Government, through the late Mr. Consul Foote, has had no effect.

WHERE TO PUT THEM.-So many fugitive negroes are collecting in Kansas, that the inhabitants there are becoming much perplexed in seeking to dispose of them. A letter to the Chicago Tribune, dated Camp Hunter, Kansas, Dec. 21st, contains the following paragraph:

"The vast number of contrabands arriving daily at the various border towns within this State, is exciting considerable interest in the Haytien Colonization Society. It is proposed to establish a contraband line of iransportation from here to some railroad point in Iowa, and thence by railroad to your city; where they will be taken charge of by the general agent of the Haytien Emigration Society, who has authority from the Government of Hayti to furnish transportation for one hundred thousand emigrants from any point East of your city to Hayti. How efficient this movement may be we are not able to say; but that something should be done for the comfort and welfare of the refugee slaves arriving here from time to time, is a matter beyond disputation."

It is plain that a thoroughly organized system of African colonization must be adopted, should the number of fugitives from the Slave States greatly increase. They would impoverish any community where they might fix themselves, unless sent out of the country or maintained by the Government under some plan of apprenticeship like that adopted by the Emperor of Brazil.

"UNCLE SIMON."-Many of our readers will remember this man, formerly a slave in one of our South-western States, but who was redeemed by the liberality of friends. He then removed to Liberia, and became a missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. The Rev. J. L. Mackey lately visited him at his station, (Harrisburg, twenty-three miles from Monrovia,) on the Saint Paul's river, and under date of August 24th last, remarks:-"We found Uncle Simon Harrison and his people all pretty well, and his place much improved since I was there, six years ago. He has his grounds in very good order. His wife shows some taste in gardening, and cultivating flowers about the yard. He has an orchard of coffee trees, which look very vigorous and thrifty, and are now in full bearing. At table we were treated with coffee of his own growing, sweetened with sugar made on an adjoining plantation. The agricultural operations on the river have greatly advanced since my visit in 1855."

FUNERAL OF A DRUMMER BOY.

There was a military funeral at Camp Kalorama, Washington, on Saturday. On Friday, Joseph Winters, one of the drummers of the N. Y. Nineteenth, was drowned while bathing. An army correspondent thus refers to the sad event:

He was a pleasant, good boy, and his sudden death made a deep impression in the encampment. His body was brought up from the creek and laid beneath a new tent pitched to receive it, under the trees on the north side of the parade ground. The men stood in silent rows in front of the tent until sundown, while a guard detailed for that purpose paced slowly back and forth. A letter was found in Joseph's pocket from "Cousin Susie," and as his comrades thought that he had no parents or brothers or sisters living, his captain wrote to her.

A little barefooted fellow, about eight years old, stood on the land where Joseph's body was recovered by the divers, and when the surgeon, promptly on the spot, was vainly endeavoring to start the water-clogged wheels of life, the little barefooted fel

low walked in silence up the hill side with the men who carried the body, following close behind; and there he stood before the tent curtain in serious stillness. At last he spoke, with respectful manner, and clear manly enunciation, to one of the field officers:

"Will you be so kind as to tell me, sir, whether he was a good boy?"

"I believe that he was, my little fellow, but I did not know him very well." "Has he a father or mother, sir?"

"Why do you ask, my boy?"

"Because I hope that he did not have a mother, sir, or a father; they would feel so badly to hear that he was drowned." The officer cleared his throat and the little fellow went on. "And if, sir, he has no mother or father, and if he was a good boy, I am glad."

"Why glad, my boy?"

"Because, sir, I think it was the best time for him to be taken away."

"Why the best time?"

"Because, sir, what the Lord does is always best." The funeral sermon was preached, the regiment attended the funeral, and the usual volley was fired over the grave.

Memorial of the American Colonization Society to the Congress of the United States.

COLONIZATION OFFICE,

WASHINGTON, January 1, 1862.

To the Hon. Senate and House of Representatives

of the United States of America in Congress assembled:

The EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY observe with deep interest that the President of the United States has, in his late Message, recommended that the Republic of Liberia should be acknowledged as Independent. They also notice his recommendation of some plan of Colonization for free people of color in some climate congenial to them. It seems proper to represent that the American Colonization Society was organized in this city in December, 1816, by eminent statesmen and philanthropists from both of the two great sections of the Union, in a spirit of good will towards free people of color and the African race; that they declared it to be their purpose to act in co-operation with our General Government; that from that Government they then received, and have since continued to receive, some countenance; that as the great field for their enterprise they selected Africa as the best home for the independent free national existence of black men; that Providence has remarkably prospered their endeavors, so that a Christian Republic has risen upon the western shores of that land, extending its possessions and jurisdiction nearly six hundred miles along the coast and over numerous and populous tribes of native Africans; a Republic animated and regulated by the elements of order, education, growth, and social improvement. Civilized and Religious Institutions have arisen and multiplied, the slave trade has been suppressed, and a Christian State of progressive power and unspeakable beneficence attracts the eye and thoughts of uncounted barbarians.

While many weighty considerations, social, political, and economical, point to Africa as the home for her exiled descendants, moral considerations show clearly, that no other region of the world opens before free men of color such broad avenues to usefulness, happiness, and national renown.

These views of the statesmen and philanthropists who founded this Society, were expressed in a memorial* to Congress during the first year of its existence, and have been prosecuted by it since, with inadequate means, but earnest zeal and energy. The experience of the Society has demonstrated the ennobling power of liberty-that high inducements prompt to high achievements; and thus far has Liberia risen in character and hopes, because so grand a prospect has spread out before her, and she has stood unchecked and unembarrassed by the competition of powerful civilized nations. She occupies a country exhaustless in resources, and there is nothing to impede her growth. To say nothing of her gold and other mineral productions, the soil of Africa is well adapted to the culture of coffee, cotton, the palm-tree, and the sugar-cane, and all the rich and varied productions of tropical climates.

*NOTE.-The late General WALTER JONES was the author of this first memorial, from which we present a few sentences:

"Your memorialists beg leave to suggest, that the fairest opportunities are now presented to the General Government for repairing a great evil in our social and political institutions, and at the same time for elevating, from a low and hopeless condition, a new and rapidly increasing race of men, who want nothing but a proper theatre to enter upon the pursuit of happiness and independence in the ordinary paths which a benign Providence has left open to the human race.

"These great ends, it is conceived, may be accomplished by making adequate provision for planting, in some salubrious and fertile region, a colony to be composed of such of the above description of persons as may choose to emigrate; and for extending to it the authority and protection of the United States, until it shall have attained sufficient strength and consistency to be left in a state of independence.

"It may be reserved for our Government-(continued these memorialists, in a spirit of prophetic sagacity)-the first to denounce an inhuman and abominable traffic, in the guilt and disgrace of which most of the civilized nations of the world were partakers-to become the honorable instrument, under Divine Providence, of conferring a still higher blessing upon the large and interesting portion of mankind benefitted by that deed of justice, by demonstrating that a race of men composing numerous tribes, spread over a continent of vast and unexplored extent, fertility and riches, known to the enlightened nations of antiquity, and who had yet made no progress in the refinements of civilization; for whom history has preserved no monuments of art or arms; that even this hitherto ill-fated race may cherish the hope of beholding at last the orient star revealing the best and highest aims and attributes of man. Out of such materials to rear the glorious edifice of well ordered and polished society, upon the foundations of equal laws and diffusive education, would give a sufficient title to be enrolled among the illustrious benefactors of mankind; whilst it afforded a precious and consolatory evidence of the all-prevailing power of liberty, enlightened by knowledge, and corrected by religion. If the experiment, in its more remote consequences, should ultimately tend to the diffusion of similar blessings through those vast regions and unnumbered tribes, yet obscured in primeval darkness, reclaim the rude wanderer from a life of wretchedness to civilization and humanity, and convert the blind idolater from gross and abject superstitions to the holy charities, the sublime morality and humanizing discipline of the Gospel, the nation or the individual that shall have taken the most conspicuous lead in achieving the benignant enterprize, will have raised a monument of that true and imperishable glory founded in the moral approbation and gratitude of the human race, unapproachable to all but the elected instruments of Divine beneficence-a glory with which the most splendid achievements of human force or power must sink in competition, and appear insignificant and vulgar in the comparison."

But the most precious fruits of the enterprize of this Society are to be seen in the moral and intellectual power of the men of Liberia.

There is little prospect of securing a permanent home for a large number of our people of color on this continent, or the adjacent islands; nor in any other country than Africa does their future for happiness, security and political independence appear inviting. Liberia will naturally secure the sympathy of the more powerful civilized nations-from her remoteness she will have little cause to fear oppression-and deriving high advantages from their friendly intercourse, she will be disposed to reciprocate them.

The Executive Committee are, then, confirmed in the views of the Fathers of the American Colonization Society, and see with pleasure the attention of Congress invited by the President of the United States to the interests they involve. These interests are to freedom, humanity, commerce, civilization and religion, immense. The commerce of Africa already attracts the attention of many nations, and when her people shall be taught her resources, and be trained to habits of civilization, she will become one of the richest marts of the world. Thus all our benevolence towards her children will be rewarded-their afflictions converted into blessings, and Africa and America rejoice in mutual benefits under the benign Ruler of Nations.

The Committee are well persuaded that the multiplication of Christian settlements of free colored people on the coast of Africa, and especially that an annual appropriation to aid the removal and support of such persons in Liberia, will result in great benefits to those people and to the United States. And for these great ends the Executive Committee of the American Colonization Society will ever pray.

R. R. GURLEY, Cor. Sec. A. C. S.,
WM. McLAIN, Financial Sec. A. C. S.,
S. H. HUNTINGTON, of the Ex. Com.

RECEIPTS OF AMERICAN COLONIZATION. SOCIETY, From the 20th of November, to the 20th of December, 1861.

L. Pulsifer, $10 each, in aid of the first N. H. emigrant, Francestown-Hon. Wm. Bixby, $10, Israel Batchelder, $2, T. B. Bradford, $1.50, Rev. Charles Cutter, $1.20, P. H. Butterfield, Miss Ona Hopkins, $1 each, Others $1.30-in aid of the first N. H. emigrant, Hancock-Cong. Church and Society, in aid of the first N. H. emigrant, Keene-Hon. Josiah Colony, $5, Dr.

9 00

25

20 00

18 00

Daniel Adams, $4, Rev. W. O.
White, A friend, $3 each, Hon.
John Prentiss, Rev. Z. S. Barstow,
D. D., Rev. J. A. Hamilton, $1
each, in aid of the first N. H.
emigrant,
Manchester-Hon. G. W. Morrison,
$5, Hon. Wm. C. Clarke, D. C.
Gould, $3 each, J. Hersey, $1.50,
P. H. Chandler, John P. Newell,
Hon. S. Upton, Mrs. Mace Moul-
ton, $1 each, in aid of the first
N. H. emigrant,

VERMONT.

By Rev. F. Butler, $61.21

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16 50

91 84

10 09 Brookfield-By Luther Wheatly, Esq.,

Simon Colton, $4, J. S. Allen,

PENNSYLVANIA.

By Rev. B. O. Plimpton, $18.50Wesleyville-Steward Chambers, Fairview-Joel Chadwick,

2,000 00 Girard-Riley Pettibone,

173 00

500 00

60 00

9 00

742 00

39 50