National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-20
INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES
from the settIement-MOre APpnca-
lions for Emigration than can be
AceommoIdated-The Work to
20 on.

Tie hfty-eighth annual meeting Of the Ameri-
ca Colonization Society was held last night ct
tke First Presbyterian church, on Fourand-a-
half street, above y. There were present as an
audience Sixty-sIK persons. Gen. J. H. b. La
trobe the president, called the meeting 70 order,
after which Rev. W. H. Steele offered prayer.
Mr.. VIM. Copperton, corresponding secretary,
submitted the annual report, Of which the follow.
ing is an abstract:
ANNUAL REPORT.
The report commences by referring 10 loss BY
the society durinE the past year in the deaths Of
der, Rev. Thos:. A. Morris, Hon. d. s. Gregory,
Robt. Campbell, Rev. Jas. Tracy, ex.Presidont
Millard Fillmore, Rev. Jno. Mcleod, Right Rev.
Jno. Payne, D. D. II also makes the following
financial exhibit: Balance In the treasury jan
uary 1874, t2Ss.tsi receipts from donations g.
sources, including loan Of $500, tll,2S3.0l,
making the resources for the year, $40 Is2.71; or
ance Of t6s2.b2 The receipts hsve been less by
$40, 62o4 than In tho previous year. During the
year 1874 the receipts were over $4,000.
pany Of emigrant5 arrived at MonroyLa after q
pleasant passage OF forty-four days. One Of the
smiE55snts Re ~ Pstsr M5ight was received into
Methodist Episcopal Church at its regular ses-
sion in January at Clay, Ashland, and appointed
The annual expedition Of the society was dis.
patched in the bargue Thos. Pope, which sailed
from New York on Saturday October 81: 1t
North Carolina, ! from Pennsylvania, 2 from
South Carolina, and from Tennessee. Two
two and twenty-One, and 10 were twenty. one years
old and upwards.
EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA,
under the auspices of the society, has been uuln-
terrupted for the last fly -four years Those sent
in 1874 make the number colonlzed since the war
TO be 3OS7, and total from its beginning of Is OT5
exclusive Of 5,722 recaptured Africans, which en-
abled the Government Of the United States to
IL IL NnNa 1pf1O
whom the society has given homes in Africa.
1t refers to the inducements offered, the fer
tility CT that country, and its salubrity for the
as to material prosperity and upon a somewhat
large scale it is their own fault. Many who have
gone have risen to affluence, and the grand ma
mass Of their brethren in the United States.
APPLICATIONS FOR PASSAGE
to the Republic were received during the year
from Rev. Andrew Cartwright, Of N. O.; Rev.
Charles W. Bryant, La; Henry Russell, Ala;
George Lewis, La; NJ. W: Moore, Miss; L. d.
Cunningham and Anthony r. Davidson, Ala.
Adviees frsm Liberia give evidence OF some pro-
gress and increased activity; $4,000 coffee trees
have been reported to the Government as planted
during the last year. During the year the eX-
ports amounted to 10000 gallons palm oil, 100000
pounds of ginger, 500 pounds OF ivory, $1,000
pounds Of coffee, 1853 casks Of sugar or 100000
pounds.
There is small vessel kindly provided BY the
British Government, used In maintaining regular
communication between the several countries of
the Republic. The schools Of the society num-
Der 81 pupils. In accordance with law providing
for the appointment Of a commissioner, and ex-
tending the boundaries Of Liberia 200 miles from
the seaboard, Mr.. Benjamin Anderson, the eel
ebrated explorer Of MenaDdu with an assistant
has been appointed commissioner and sent out.
Liberia has received and taken care Of nearly
1900 recaptured Africans, and thus greatly aided
the American Government in executing its obli-
gation for the
SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
The report recommends that the products of Lii
IBERIA be admitted free of duty, rs it is creation
Of the United States; that the United States
ration Of the country east Of Liberia, especially
with view to the opening Of roads and the lOca-
ton Of settlement; also, establish or subsdiIe
line Of mail steamships between this country and
Liberia, plying monthly. England already has
two such lines, afording weekly communication
to Liberia and the coast of Africa its purpose be-
ing to secure and maintain the ascendancy in the
African trade-an interest that Americans seem
to consider as Of little consequence.
1t closes by saying that the American Coloni-
ERtion Society has undertaken work to be meas
ured not by years, but by generatiOns-n work
which has outlived the lives Of its founders, ear
Hest friends and older officers, but which will be
imperishabe ITSELF or ct least will not cease until
the African in exile and Africa shall have no fur
Their need Of It's assistance.
DIR. John OleOtt, OF New York. general secre-
tRry Of the society, addressed the society giving
general rovieW OF what the society had done
should Be shown toWSTd the soIorsd HT race. 0i liz
read extracts Of speeches OF prominent mon on
the subject, and claimed that tho matter OF emi.
grating was with the cOlored, people; they wero
not compelled 10 90. There ls no desire to pro.
mote emigration by coercion. But they are urged
10 70 Tor their own welfare.
ADDRESSES YAvoRrNa THE CAUSE.
Mr.. Ell Jones, minister Of the Friends Society,
was the next speaker. lie referred to tho oduca.
tionRl, moral and agricultural pursuits OF the In.
hRbitAntB Of Africa, and pronounced them grand
GueeefseE-phying tributes 10 President Roberts,
and speaking Of him hs man who does eYory.
thing for the welfare OF the African race, He pro-
world eyer saw,
Rev. Mr.. Steele pronounced tho benedIctIon
and the society adjourned until to-day at noon,