Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1831-10-27


certained. that there are in the King
dom 10000 Sunday schools, contain
ing 800, 600 scholars, under the su.
perintendencc of To-, 200 conductors
and teachers, whose services are given
graiuitously. All this has been nc.
complishcd since ;heir establishment
fifty years ago.-Engii'h paper.
FROM Liberia
OFFICE ov THE CoLoNIzATIos SocIErY,)
Washington. Oct elsf. 1881.
Dispatches from this Colony, bear
ing date up to the 2d Of September,
have been received at the Office of the
Colonization Society. The affairs Of
the Colony are highly prosperous, and
the rumor ESQ industriousiy circulated
some months ago bv the enemies of the
Society Of great mortality among
the emigrauts by the VoladOr, which
sailed in. December last, is wholly un-
founded. Two small children only
have died out Of more than eighty per.
sons who embarked on board that YES
sci. The Colonial Agent is in good
health, and DR.. Todscn, the Colonial
Physician, who has been severely in
disposed,i is fast recovering his strength.
Both these gentlemen have shown most
commendable zeal and good judgment
IN the discharge of t.eir respective
duties. The native Tribes are seek
ing the protection and submitting to
the laws Of the Colony. The country,
to considerable distance in the inte-
rior, has been explored and found to
promise, IN most parts, success to the
agricultural industry Of the Colonists.
No less than forty six vessels have vi
sited Monrovia during the last year,
twenty lone Of which were American.
Indeed, every thing in the intelligence
just received seems to indicate that
Providence is opening before the free
people OF colour in our country rich
inheritance in the land Of their ances-
tors, and inviting the American Peo-
pie to aid with the powers and resour-
ces OF the Nation, the great. humane,
and christian work in which the Socie-
~ is engaged. Ample extracts from
these dispatches may be expected in
the next African Repository.
Philip augustus; or, The Brothers
IN firms, is another novel from the au-
thor Of Richsiieu, DE L'Orme. &c and
ia, in the opinion Of the writer himself.
"the best thing he has composed. -
His readers, we think, will probably
be Of the same way Of thinking. Tho
we are long way in the rear Of the
critics who gravely advise Walter Scot,
to give place to this competitor, and
are no longer such enthusiastic novel
readers as ever fairly to have read any
el ms stories through, it is fair to say
that great many persons are of a very
different opinion and practice. The
: work is dedicated, by permission, ia
SOuthey; so that it comes into the
world under fortunate star. The fol
lowing is a description Of sort o
beauty quite to our taste, and gallan
readers will be fam to know more o
her: L. S. Gao.
1.-THE second was young lady o.
perhaps nineteen or twenty, slight il
figure, but vet with every limb rOunde,
in the full and swelling contour Of wo
mans most lovely age. Her feature
were small, delicate, and no wher'
sharp, yet cut with that square exact
ness Of outline so beautiful ~ the ef
: forts of the Grecian chisel. Her eve
: were long. aud full, and dark and lh
black lashes that fringed them, az sh
gazed earnestly on the figure Of ID
y Coucy, swept downward and lay upot
9 her check. The hair. that fell in
profusion of thick curls round her face
was as black as jc, !; and yet her skin
i though of that peculiar tint almost 10
J. separable from dark hair aud eyes,w
. strikingly fair, and a. smooth a. ala
!. baSter; while faint but very beauti
e fol colour spread over each cheek, an
J. died away into the clear pure white {
her temples"
Mary Ann Higgins, handsome gir
~ aged 10. was on Tuesday convicted I
Ie Warwick Assizcs, Of administering q
,, senic to her aged uncle, with VIcW
kill him and obtain his property. II
old man died from the poison; the ~
r soDer was believed Ia be instigsicd
n The act by her sweetheart, EdwaT
= Clarke, who was tried a. an aoeessar
n Dot acquitted. She was executed G
e 'Thursday, at Whitley Common, nei