is at the latter, and Mr. Appleby, a layman, at the former of these places. As you will have accounts from the other stations connected with the mission from time to time, by their superintendents, I shall confine my remarks, in what I shall say, to the one of which I have charge. The superintendence of this place during my absence devolved on the Rev. Mr. Smith. On my return I found the school nearly the same, as to numbers, as when I left, about 25 boys. The female department of the school was almost broken up, by the death of three of our girls, and the want of a proper female teacher. We are now, however, collecting them slowly, and trust soon to have as many as Mrs. Payne can attend to. The boys have made considerable progress in their studies during our absence. With a few exceptions they read well enough to make the responses in the morning service, which I have now introduced, as a daily exercise. At night I use a part of the "evening service," in the Grebo language. Externally, the school is as flourishing as I could expect. But we need the influences of the Holy Ghost to sanctify the means used for the conversion of the children committed to our care. A far more interesting department of labor than even the school, however, is, what I consider more peculiarly missionary, namely, preaching the Gospel. Besides the regular services of the Sabbath, I have resumed the practice of preaching during the week in each of the four small towns connected with Cavalla. Though the congregations are not large on these occasions, they are sufficiently so to make it infinitely important to preach to them a precious Savior. The conversations which follow the services on these occasions are often very interesting, as indicating the real state of the heathen mind, and the grounds for hoping that even such persons may be converted. "Grebur," said an old man a few evenings since to my interpreter, "we know that Payne speaks the truth; that not greegrees or doctors can secure to us health or life, without the will of God. But we are afraid to throw away our greegrees unless this was generally done; for in that case we should be ruined by witches." G. replied, "Bah Quoah, if you do not believe the foreigner, do hear your own countryman. You know that I once kept many greegrees, but when I came to the conclusion that they were vanity, I determined to put them away. My mother begged me not to do it; my uncle was angry, both said I would die. Soon after my mother was taken sick and died, and not long after, my uncle. I have had no sickness since. It is true my child has died, but I believe God has allowed this to try me." I could relate many such incidents but I have not time, as the vessel sails early tomorrow. I am, Rev. and dear sir, yours truly, J. PAYNE. BRIEF NOTICES OF HAYTI-By John Candler, London, 1842.-" The greater part of the land, in some of the extensive plains, is well adapted to the cultivation of sugar; and the exportation of that article was once very large. Previous to the year 1789, according to the table given by Bryan Edwards, in his history of the West Indies, the annual export of sugar from this colony, chiefly to the mother country, was 1,296,360 cwts., or about 65,000 hogsheads of a ton each. This trade has entirely ceased; and on this circumstance is built the hypothesis, maintained in France, and in all the colonies where slavery still exists, that freedom has ruined the island, and that slavery, and slavery alone, can be relied on to ensure a sufficient supply of sugar for the markets of the old world. By far the larger part of the estates of the old proprietors went out of cultivation for want of hands, on the depopulation that followed the civil wars; but much land is still devoted to the sugar-cane, and yields an abundant supply of syrup, or uncrystalized sugar, and also of a spirit that is distilled from it, called tafia, which is consumed in the island to an astonishing extent. A great part of what once constituted the wealth of slave proprietors go to supply the wants of the descendants of their slaves, who are now free, and possess the soil. It is quite true that these wants of the people pursue a wrong direction that sugar is better than tafiathat it would be far better to export sugar, and purchase manufactured goods with the produce, than to consume the ardent spirit distilled from it: but this is a matter of taste with the consumers, whose comforts, real or imaginary, are bound up in the present system; and all we can say to them, as we might say to multitudes of the English, Scotch, and Irish, who pursue the same course, is, that in using strong drinks they greatly mistake the meaning of comfort, and retard their own advancement in civil society. The syrup consumed is of excellent quality, as good and useful for all domestic purposes as sugar itself. "A review of the present exports of Hayti, brings us to a comparison of its foreign commerce with that carried on by other nations: nor shall we discover in it that ruinous deficiency of which the pro-slavery press of Europe and America is so constantly complaining. The annual exports of the republic at the present day exceed in value a million sterling. Its trade with the United States of America was greater a few years since than it is at the present time. In the year 1839, the United States imported from Hayti to the value of 2,347,556 dollars; and exported thence to the value of 1,815,212 dollars, whilst, from all the British West Indies in the same period, the imports were only 1,835,227 dollars, the exports 1,522,347 dollars, leaving a balance of imports in favor of Hayti, as compared with that of our colonies, of more than 500,000 dollars! In the same year, Hayti sent more merchandize to the United States than almost any European power, except Great Britain, France and Russia, and nearly as much as the latter. During the year 1840, the imports of foreign goods into the United States amounted to 107,141,519 dollars. The exports to 132,085,946 dollars, or £27,000,000 sterling. The population of the United States is twenty times as large as that of Hayti: its trade is only twenty-seven times as large. "In the year 1840, the declared value of British and Irish produce and manufactures exported from this country to Hayti, was £251,979, a larger amount than is sent either to Denmark, to Prussia, or to our own trading port of Malta; and more than half as much as it exported either to Mexico or to the great empire of China! The total value of the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom, exported from this country in 1839, was £50,060,970. The total mean value of produce exported from Hayti, in the years 1838 and 1839, as we have seen in the previous table, was £1,040,799. The population of Hayti may be estimated at 850,000; that of Great Britain and Ireland is twenty-seven millions. "Thus we see that the exports of the United Kingdom, considered relatively in proportion to the number of its inhabitants, are as one eighty-five to one; those from the United States of America, as one-sixty-five to one; those from Hayti, as one-twenty-five to one. So that Hayti, poor, and despised as she is, has a commerce, in native produce, nearly threefourths as large, in proportion to her population, as our own United Kingdom, which is the great manufacturing mart of the world; and seven-eights as large as that of the United States, where the staple exports are produced by the labor of three millions of slaves! The only disadvantage to Hayti in this comparison is, that Great Britain has an immense carrying trade; Hayti has none: but how can she be expected to raise a commerce of this kind without capital; and how can capital be created whilst she continues to exclude foreigners from her soil, and whilst her institutions tend rather to depress than to encourage the industry of her people?" CONTRIBUTIONS to the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, from June 24th, to September 14th, 1842, inclusive. June 24th, 1842, Received from Rev. N. Gillet from Rehoboth Presbyterian congregation, per G. R. White, Esq., of Pittsburg, $3,-less discount, 45c., July 9th, Rev. A. Hamilton, being a 4th July collection in his church, 23d, Rev. T. Love, as follows: Red clay Creek congregation $5 93, Aug. 3d, Dr. T. Sweet of Carbondale, donation, "10th, 4th July collection Presbyterian congregation at Cedar Grove, Rev. A. Nevin, pastor, $10, 4th July collection Presbyterian church, Lewisburg, Rev. P. P. Marr, pastor, $8 69, "13th, 4th July collection Presbyterian church, Butler, Rev. L. Young, 18th, 4th July collection Presbyterian church, Great Conowagu, Rev. H. Watson, pastor, per W. S. Martien, Esq., $7 50, 4th July collection, Alexandria Presbyterian church, per George B. Young, Treasurer, $8, " " " 23d, Newtown, Presbyterian church, Rev. R. D. Morris, pastor, be- 25th, A number of individuals at Donegal Presbyterian congregation, per Rev. T. M. Boggs, 29th, Received from 6th Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Rev. J. 31st, Samuel Davis, Esq., his 4th annual instalment of Sept. 1st, Great Island Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Boyd, pastor, a 4th July collection, per Mr. Lalor, " 10th, E. W. Howell, his own annual subscription for 1842, of 14th, S. Berwick, Columbia county, being a 4th July collection, per Sherman & Rittenhouse, $3 25-less discount 50c., 1 Total in Office, Collected by the Rev. John B. Pinney, Agent, from June 16th, to August 27th, inclusive. 2 55 600 10 00 4 00 5 00 18 69 5 00 15 50 9 00 14 00 41 50 100 00 5 16 4 00 2 75 243 15 Lancaster county, Donegal, Collections in Donegal Presb. church $13 50. 65 22 York county, York, C. A. Morris, S. Small, Mrs. McDonough, each $5, Mrs. Cumberland County, Shippensburg, Collection, $2, subscriptions $4 50, Washington County, Washington, 4th July collection in Presbyterian church, Fayette County, Brownsville, Legacy from the estate of J. Thornton, Esq. (de- Alleghany County, Sewickly, 4th July collection, Sewickly Presbyterian 91 25 6 50 43 00 262 661 173 48 J. Shipton, $3, J. Gemmil, J. H. Davis, each $1, R. Dalzell, $2, D. Richey, $2, Cash, Robert Carothers, each $3, J. Irvine, J. & J. Parker, each $2, Cash, Cash, Mr. Orr, each $1, Cash $5, G. Ogden, J. McCord, Cash, each $2, Cash, R. H. Davis, each $1, J. Myers, Mrs. Patterson, Wm. McCuthcheon, Rev. R. Riddle, each $2, Mr. Reynolds, A. Mason, each $1, D. C. Stockton, $5. East Liberty, W. Cox, Cash, each $1, G. Negley, $2, Mr. Long, Miss Negley, each $1, D. Negley, $2, Mr. Halleman, Rev. Wm. B. McIlvaine, Mr. McClintock, each $1, R. Bailey, $2. Steubenville, Ohio, Hans Wilson, Esq., to constitute the Rev. Henry G. Comings a L. M., of the P. C. S., $30, Beaver County, Beaver, Esquire Allison, Esquire Agnew, Hon. T. Henry, each $5, J. Allison, Jr., $1, J. R. Shannon, Esq., $2, J. Barclay, $1, 335 345 60 19 00 1006 77 CONTRIBUTIONS to, and receipts by, the American Colonization Society, from the 24th August to the 22d September, 1842. ΜΑΙΝΕ. Collected by George Barker, agent: NEW HAMPSHIRE. Collected by Rev. Reuben Porter, agent. Concord, The Ladies' Colonization Society, $20, J. Stevens, a Friend, 5 00 20 00 25 00 26 50 26 50 VERMONT. Collected by Rev. George Barker, agent: Shetford, Balance to constitute the Rev. E. G. Babcock a L. M., 11 00 11 00 MASSACHUSETTS. Collected by Rev. J. K. Davis, agent: Richmond, Donations from several, $5 25, 5 25 Pittsfield, Donations from several, $11 83, 11 83 Sheffield, In part to constitute the Rev. M. Bradford a L. M., $28 66, Great Barrington, To constitute the Rev. Elisha Turner a L. M., $35 75, Donation, $2, 28 66 37 75 83 49 RHODE ISLAND. Collected by Rev. J. K. Davis, agent: Providence, From Rev. D. Wayland, $10, Dr. J. H. Mason, $5, Moses B. C. Ives, Esq., $10, Cash from several, $10, J. Manton, Esq., $5, 40 00 40 00 CONNECTICUT. Collected by J. K. Davis, agent: Salisbury, Donations from several, $24, Bridgeport, By the Rev. G. S. Coit's congregation, to constitute the Rev. Thomas Coit, of New Rochelle, a L. M., $30, 24 00 30 00 54 00 NEW YORK.. Collected by Rev. J. K. Davis, agent: New Lebanon, In part to constitute the Rev. Silas Churchill a L. M., 24 00 Lansingburg, From two individuals, in part to constitute the Rev. E. Oranoke County, Salem, Annual subscription by J. B. Griffin, Esq., $10, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington, F. S. Key, Esq., donation, $100, NORTH CAROLINA. Collected by Jas. Higgins, agent: Orange County, Collection in Presbyterian church, per William Mor 2 51 8 00 10 00 44 51 10 00 7 37 17 37 100 00 5 00 105 00 |