money will not be needed till the machinery is ready for delivery, which will not probably be sooner than two months after an order shall be given for it. Address, Geo. W. Taylor, Box 777 Post Office, Philadelphia. and in any required number, may be raised with much less trouble and expense than in this coun try, such as beeves or bullocks, cows, sheep, goats, swine, geese, turkeys, ducks and chickens; besides, numerous kinds of wild game, including deer of several varieties, are very plentiful; also, a variety of excellent fish abounds in the rivers; so that no industrious man need apprehend any difficulty in gathering enough animal as well as vegetable food. To the industrious agriculturist, Report of the Select Committee of the House of therefore, Liberia offers an inviting home-a Representatives of Pennsylvania, on the Sub-home in which all the necessaries, and many of ject of Colonization. the luxuries of life, may be produced with much less labor than in this country. Signed on behalf of the Board of Managers. SAMUEL RHOADS, Sec'y. Philadelphia, 4mo. 18th, 1854. Mr. Hunsecker, from the select committee to whom was referred the resolution to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill providing for an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Coloniza tion Society, to be expended in the removal of free colored persons from Pennsylvania to the colony of Liberia, in Africa, submitted the following report: Your committee have had the subject under consideration, and in view of its great importance to the happiness of the colored population of this Commonwealth, have given it more than ordinary attention. It is of the first importance to know what inducements Liberia presents to the statesman and philanthropist, to aid and urge the colored people among us to emigrate thither, to enjoy civil and social liberty and equality. Liberia does not consist, as some suppose, of arid plains and burning sands, but of hills and valleys covered with the verdure of perpetual spring, presenting to the eye of the observer, as viewed from the highest points of land in the vicinity of the ocean, the appearance of a deep unbroken forest, with hilltop rising above hill-top towards the vast interior. The country is well watered by many beautiful streams, the banks of some of which present encouraging scenes of agricultural industry. The soil of Liberia, like that of other countries, varies in appearance, quality and productiveness. There is, however, no poor land in Liberia, and most of it is very rich, not surpassed perhaps by any other country in the world. Among the numerous agricultural products of the colony, we may specify as exportable articles, rice, coffee, cotton, sugar, arrow-root, ginger, pepper, all of which can be raised in quantity and quality, not surpassed by similar products in any other country. Indian corn, or maize, grows very well on some lands, not so well, however, as in some parts of the United States. A great variety of fruits grow luxuriantly and plentifully, some of which are the pine-apple, lime, orange, papaw, coacoa-nut, tamarind, the plantain and the banana, the former of which is one of the most luscious and wholesome fruits in the vegetable kingdom, easily cultivated, and affording an excellent and nutritious article of food. Domesticated animals of every necessary kind, The climate of Liberia is, on the whole, healthful, pleasant, and well adapted to the constitution of the negro. The extremes of the thermometrical state of the atmosphere may be set down at sixty-five and ninety degrees. The average height of the mercury during the rainy season, is about seventy-six, and during the dry season about eighty-four degrees. The mean temperature for the year is about eighty degrees. The only recognised division of the year into seasons is the wet or rainy, and the dry season. During the half of the year commencing with May, much more rain falls than during the other half, commencing with November. As a general rule, however, it may be stated that some rain falls during every month in the year, and in every month there is some fine, clear, pleasant weather. Liberia is the land of promise to the black man. During the last thirty three-years many negroes have emigrated to Africa from all parts of this country, and have enjoyed a remarkable exemption from sickness and death; their aggregate mortality per annum for the whole length of time being only about five per centum, and for the last ten years less than four per centum, at once demonstrating their entire adaptedness to that region and work. Manufactures in Africa, according to modern improvements, are yet in their infancy. Yet it is astonishing what a degree of ingenuity the natives display in their numerous manufactured articles-such a knowledge of mechanies as to agreeably surprise all who have heard of, or been privileged to behold their handiwork. Iron ore is found in Africa in immense quantities, and from it are made, by the untaught natives, various ornamental and useful articles, such as spears, arrows, knives, armlets, bracelets, &c. They are exceedingly skilful in the tanning and manufacture of leather. Their mats for table use, bags for carrying various materials, and baskets of all sizes and descriptions, are wrought with great symmetry and beauty from sea-grass and the leaves of their innumerable and useful trees and plants; the palm tree, says a traveller, is applied by them to three hundred and sixty-five uses. Huts are thatched with palm leaves, its fibres are used for fishing tackle, a rough cloth is made from the inner bark, the fruit is roasted and is excellent, the oil serves for butter, the palm wine is a favorite drink. | the foundation of this independent nation of colored freemen among their own race of one hundred and sixty millions of people. The face of the country of Liberia, her soil, natural fertility, rivers, natural scenery, climate, civil and social institutions, manufactures, and commercial advantages, are such, that your committee have no hesitancy in recommending the young Republic to the favorable consideration of the people of Pennsylvania. The Objects of Colonization. 1st. To practically demonstrate the capacity of the colored man for self-government, and for independent, civil nationality. This has been realized by the establishment and prosperity of the Republic of Liberia, in Western Africa. Your committee regret that they have not been able to lay their hands upon any late statistics, showing the aggregate value of the commerce of Liberia. There arrived from June 20th to September 30th, 1851, at the port of Monrovia, twenty-five ships, brigs, schooners, steam vessels, &c.; and departed sixteen. The principal exports consist of palm oil, camwood, ivory, and Malagetta pepper. The young Republic, though weak and feeble as it now is, will hereafter direct and control, to a vast extent, the commerce of the Western coast of Africa; the rich products of that immense tract of country lying interior of Liberia, will find their way out through her ports, and as the natives rise in the scale of being, and begin to appreciate the blessings and feel the 2d. To fully break up and destroy the African wants consequent on civilization, they will slave trade. This, to a great extent, has been through some channel obtain the products and done, and is still being done, by planting and exmanufactures of other countries. Her posi-tending social, civil and Christian colonies of free tion on the coast, and her relation to foreign colored people, from this country, on the Western nations necessarily confer upon her this advan- coast of Africa. tage. What a market is here opened for the sale of our manufactures? Who can rightly calculate the amount of employment it would afford the operatives and workmen of our own land to clothe Africa's 160,000,000 of inhabitants, and the enormous trade which it could afford us in the luxuries, and what we consider the necessaries of life, from its prolific tropical soil? Commerce is the great agent upon which all colonization must depend. It is the civilizer of mankind; emigration is one of its collaterals, not its principal object. 3d. To introduce civilization and Christianity into Africa, and thereby promote the redemption of that vast continent and long and deeply degraded race, by the instrumentality of her own exiled children, going there from this country. This missionary work of African colonization has been most efficient and successful. And this 4th. To secure a home for the free colored people of the United States, where they may proin the highest sense. This has been accomplished; fess and enjoy undisturbed peace and freedom, The Republic of Liberia now extends from and, perhaps, there is no place on earth to-day where the colored man, in so high and rich a deShebar or Sherbeo river on the north west, latitude 7 degrees 24 minutes north, longitude 12 gree, possesses and enjoys liberty and social prosdegrees 40 minutes west, to Grand Sestees, lati-perity, as in the Republic of Liberia. tude 4 degrees 41 minutes north, longitude 8 degrees 8 minutes west in a direct line. In a direct line its length of sea-coast is nearly four hundred miles, and its extent inland about fifty The Maryland colony at Cape Palmas is not at this moment a part of the Liberian Republic, but soon will be, when the continuous coast under the control of the American colored emigrants will extend about five hundred and twenty miles. There are twelve millions of acres in the Liberian territory, much of which is very fertile and most is susceptible of profitable cultivation. It has been ascertained that the produce of a cultivated acre is more than enough to support a man. miles on an average. The population of the African Commonwealth, including natives, is about two hundred thousand souls. There it stands, a monument of the wisdom of its pioneer friends in America, populated and governed by blacks, from its chief magistrate down to the humblest officer, with churches, schools, good laws, the press, and all the blessings of civilization. There are few events, in this stirring age, more full of absorbing interest than 5th. To present a social, civil and moral argument-to induce voluntary emancipation of slaves, and secure their freedom and happiness in a safe and prosperous country of their own. is being most effectually realized by the reflex influence of the Republic of Liberia on the humane, benevolent and Christian masters of slaves at the South, in disposing them to educate and free their people, in view of their emigration and citizenship in that Republic. Its Fruits. 1st. Between six and eight hundred miles of sea coast of Western Africa have been secured to the Republic from the native tribes, and this territory extending interior from fifty to one hundred miles. 2d. Many of the native population have taken the oath of fealty to the government, while many tens of thousands have bound themselves, by treaty, wholly to abandon the slave trade and human sacrifice, and thus are brought in contact with and under the influence of a civilized government and people. 3d. The slave trade has been permanently. ex-compulsive, is one which it may be fairly tirpated from at least three thousand miles of the hoped the enlightened citizens of Pennsylvania Western African coast; from about eight hun- will never countenance or adopt. A little time dred miles by purchase and social redemption, and from over two thousand miles by treaty stipulations; and all of this, directly or indirectly, by the existence and influence of the Republic of Liberia. Conclusion next week. only has yet passed since an effort was made, in our Legislature, to introduce a law, similar in principle to acts adopted in some of the neighboring States, prohibiting, under penalties, the immigration of colored persons, or the employment of such as might come into this State from No prophet is accepted in his own country; others. any This measure, if adopted, would among strangers a man is esteemed according to probably have been made preliminary to some his talents and virtues; his ancestry and kin-enactment for the exclusion of those already here. dred are matters of no moment, it is even a de- Against any procedure calculated or designed to gree of merit to have emerged from obscurity; issue in the exclusion or involuntary emigration but at home, among kindred and acquaintance, of any class or description, on account of color or eminent qualities are regarded with a jealous parentage, the Editor would seriously protest. eye. The reputation of ability, wisdom, and exalted goodness is considered by the less deserving as a reproach to themselves. What is every day within our reach, we every day neglect. What costs us little, we lightly esteem; difficulty and danger and distance enhance the value of every object of pursuit.—Hunter. FRIENDS' REVIEW. PHILADELPHIA, FIFTH MONTH 6, 1854. If the civilization of Africa is to be effected by the establishment of colonies on its coast, composed of those who have had the advantage of an education in Europe or the United States, experience seems to have proved that those colonists must be either wholly or partly of African blood. The climate of those parts of the continent which constitute the seat of the slave trade, appears to interdict their occupancy by the white race. The effect of the climate upon the mixed races, in contradistinction to those of pure African descent, The report of the Committee of the Pennsyl-has, probably, not yet been conclusively ascervania Legislature on the subject of an appropria-tained. But reasoning from analogy, in the abtion to aid in the colonization of colored citizens sence of clearly ascertained facts, we should inof this State in the newly established government fer, that to those in whom the European blood of Liberia, is offered this week to the readers of predominates, the climate of the United States the Review, because this may possibly turn out to would be more congenial than the African. be the commencement of a series of measures, in relation to the colored race, to which Pennsylvania has been hitherto a stranger. If we say, as is sometimes said, that Africa is the fatherland of the negro, it can hardly be asserted of the mulatto, or the quadroon, or of those numerous grades which are scarcely distinguishable from pure Anglo-Saxon or other European races. If, then, the fatherland ought to be the permanent residence of the negro race, those less dipped than the mulattoes must find their place of repose somewhere else than on the south of the Mediterranean. TRANSPORTATION OF THE MAIL, AND POSTAGE COL LECTED. As an asylum for such slaves of the South as must either emigrate to what is often termed the fatherland of the colored race, or spend their lives in slavery, and as an engine for the extirpation of the African slave trade, the Editor can freely accord to the settlement of Liberia his cordial wish for its success and prosperity. It is said that among the inmates of the Colored House of Refuge there are frequent cases of pulmonary disease; the result, no doubt, of previous exposure, to whom a more genial climate than ours In the National Era of the 27th ult., we find an would probably afford a hopeful prospect of reco- account of the cost of transporting the mail, and very. If the civilization of Africa can be pro- the amount of postage collected in the several moted, or the condition of any portion of our States, in the year ending in the middle of 1851, colored population essentially improved by a which like almost every other comparison bevoluntary emigration to that continent, the coloni- tween the free and the slave States, exhibits the zation scheme, directed and confined to those ob- superiority of the former. In the sixteen free jects, may be worthy of the patronage of the States, we find the cost of transporting the mail State. The plan, however, which has been advo-stated at $1,433,572, while the amount of postage cated in some States a little further south, of pro-collected was $4,606,837, or something more than curing the emigration of the free colored inhabit- three times the expense of transporting the mail. ants, by compulsion, or by measures essentially In the fifteen slave States, though the white popu INDIAN CIVILIZATION. A Friend and his wife are wanted to reside at Tunessassah, to be engaged in managing the lation there, to which the correspondence is doubtless chiefly confined, is less than half what it is in the free, the cost of transporting the mail is $1,477,543, or $43,971 more than the former; while the amount of postage collected in these States is $1,714,159, leaving an excess over the cost of transportation of only $236,616. Hence we find the postage collected in the States, leaving the territories out of the calculation, exceeds the cost of transporting the mail nearly three and a half millions of dollars, thirteen-fourteenths of which excess are furnished by the free States. Why then should the postage on letters be en-day the 10th of Fifth month next. Applications for admission may be addressed to Jonathan Richards, Superintendent, at the School, or to hanced? MARRIED,-On the 22d of 3d mo. last, at Friends' Meeting House, Hopewell, Henry Co., Indiana, CHRISTOPHER MORRIS, of Milford Monthly Meeting, to MARGARET, daughter of Thomas Bell, of the former place. On the 20th ult., at Friends' Meeting House, West Union, Morgan County, Indiana, EDWIN JOHNSON, Son of Ashley Johnson, to ASENATH, daughter of Lot M. Hadley, all of that place. At Friends' Meeting House, Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio, on the 21st ult., ELLWOOD SPENCER, of Mahaska Co., Iowa, to ANNA RIDGWAY, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Ridgway, of the former place. (Located at old Westgrove Meeting-house, Chester Co.) THOMAS CONARD, Principal. JOSEPH ELKINTON, 377 South 2d St., Philada. 2d mo. 11th, 1854. HAVERFORD SCHOOL. THE SUMMER TERM will commence on Fourth CHARLES YARNALL, Secretary of the Board of Managers, 39 Market. St. Philadelphia 3d mo. 25-tf. WANTED. The committee having charge of Friends' Establishment among the Shawnee Indians, are desirous of employing two young men to labor on the farm, (practical farmers are desirable.)They also want to engage a teacher in the School, and a female to assist in the family; a middle aged man and his wife for teacher and assistant to be made to Simon Hadley, or John Hadley, Jr., in the family would be preferable. Application Sligo, Clinton County, Ohio, who will give any information necessary. Friends of good character, and of religious experience are desirable. REPORT OF THE MANAGERS OF THE TRACT The Managers present the following Report, viz.: There were on hand, Third mo. 1st., And there have been printed since, Making, Of these there have been distributed, Leaving on hand on the 1st instant, 182,831 98,120 280,951 96,710 184,241 Of the number distributed, there was taken by one Auxiliary, 367; for the inmates of Moyamensing Prison, and others in the lower parts of Philadelphia, 1,774; for the Eastern State Penitentiary, Almhouses and House of Refuge, 531; for First-day schools, the Borough of Germantown, and other places within the County of Philadelphia, 1,851; among Universalists, Infidels, and Profane Swearers, 2,207; in colored schools and among colored people, 667; at souphouses, 350. 200 were taken by two PresbyHome Missionary Society; 300 were placed in terian Clergymen; 720 by the Young Men's public schools; and 100 were given to boys collected at the corners of streets. 800 were distributed in Hotels, and 435 in private families; 300 on ships and Ocean steamers; 200 were binding, &c., including a balance due the Treasurer of $5 24, have been, 988 59 And there was a balance in his hands due the Association, on the 1st instant, of, granted for the use of the Arctic Expedition; The expenditures for printing, paper, 401 were taken by a Peace Society in Boston; 342 were for the State of Maine; 375 for Vermont and Canada West; for New York City and State, 3,855; State of Delaware, 730; District of Columbia, 170; for First-day schools, &c. in North Carolina; 2,115 in Ohio; Indiana, 1,040; Virginia, 556; 1,751 in Maryland; 1,000 in Iowa, 500; and for the Western country, including Missouri, 376. 20,616 were taken for distribution by the Central Book Committee of Indiana Yearly Meeting; and 300 were for a school in the Island of Jamaica. 17,270 were sold; and of the destination of 1,659 no record has been made. One new Tract, entitled, "A Proper use of Riches, exemplified in the life of Richard Reynolds," has been added to the series since last report. Nearly the whole of the edition of 7,575 Moral Almanacs printed for the present year has been disposed of, there remaining on hand but 125 on the 1st instant. The inmates of the Eastern State Penitentiary, Moyamensing Prison, and the scholars attending the evening schools for adult colored persons in this city, were gratuitously supplied with copies of our Almanac. And 855 of the surplus stock of previous years, 96 37 $1084 96 has received the sum of $500, a legacy from our of knowing the effect produced on the minds of Signed by direction, and on behalf of the Board of Managers, JOSEPH WALTON, Clerk. Philadelphia, Third mo. 15, 1854. FRIENDS' ASYLUM, NEAR FRANKFORD. The period has again arrived when it becomes the duty of the Superintendent, in compliance with the rules of the Institution, to present to the Managers his Annual Report. On the 1st of Third month, 1853, there were fifty-six patients remaining in the Asylurn; since which time forty have been received-making ninety-six in all, who have been under care during the past twelve months. The largest number on the list at any time was sixty-two; the lowest fifty-two; and the monthly average was fifty-eight and four-twelfths. There has been but a small portion of the time throughout the year, that one or both sides of the House have not been as fully occupied, as was consistent with the comfort of the inmates. During the past 1,063 Select Readers, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, and three months, every room in the female wards 1,979 of our Series of Juvenile Books, comprising has been constantly occupied, and a number 19 varieties, have been disposed of; leaving on have also been furnished with comfortable tem hand of the former, 1,147, and 16,098 of the porary accommodations elsewhere. have been distributed as Tracts. in The number of patients who have received Matter for one other small book, composed of last Annual Report, is greater by sixteen, than the benefits of the Asylum since the date of the Short Biographical Sketches, has been prepared. during the year previous. Rather more than paring for publication, in the form of a small recent en (ey received into our Hospitals), hape book, a condensed account of the life and reli- been cases of less than one year's duration. Of gious services of that eminent minister of the these, we have had the satisfaction of seeing a | large proportion leave the Institution, restored Gospel, the late Sarah Lynes Grubb. Our Treasurer has received donations e to the full possession of their mental faculties. and subscriptions to the amount of $540 62 Among the patients who have long been afflicted From sales of books, &c., inore recent 544 34 with Insanity, as well as those of date, we have had a number of cases of much in$1084 96terest, to whom the benefits of the Institution I have been strikingly apparent; two of whom, |
