gle set of muscles, animated by one heart, and directed? by a common sensorium.

8. "How different the condition of things in the South! Here, the face of the country wears the as-pect of premature old age and decay. No improvement is seen going on, nothing is done for posterity, no man thinks of anything beyond the present moment. Our lands are yearly tasked to their utmost capacity of pro-duction, and when exhausted are abandoned for the youthful West. Because nature has been prodigal to us, we seem to think it unnecessary to do anything for *ourselves. The industry and skill that have converted: the inclement and barren hills of New England into a garden, in the genial climate and fertile soil of the South, would create almost a paradise. Our natural advantages are among the greatest with which Providence has blessed mankind, but we lack the spirit to enjoy and improve them. The rich ore is beneath our feet, yet we dig not for it. The golden fruit hangs from the bough, and we lift not our hands to gather it."

Encouraging Facts.,

1: Emancipation.-Thomas Higginbotham, of Amherst county, Virginia, who died in February last, left a will in which he directed that his slaves, about fifty in number, should all be free, provided they were willing to leave the state; if not, that they should have the privilege of selecting owners, among his brothers and sisters. A correspondence concerning them, has taken place between Thomas Higginbotham's executor, and the officers of the Colonization Society. A letter from the executor, dated the 23rd of April, states, that all the servants, except one man, two women, and two children, have elected to accept their freedom, on the terms prescribed by the will. A farther communication on the subject is expected by the Society.

2. A gentleman in Buckingham county in the same ·

state, now deceased, left twenty-three slaves, with directions in his will, that they should be hired out, until his debts were paid, and then be free, His debts have been paid, and application has been made on behalf of his executor to the Colonization Society, enquiring whether it will send them to Liberia, on certain terms which are stated.

3. A gentleman in the neighborhood of Jonesborough, is willing to liberate four, perhaps five slaves, on condition of their going to Liberia, and the Society have been applied to, on the subject.

4. A gentleman in Tennessee, not long since died, possessed of twenty slaves, whom he manumitted by his will. His heirs contested this clause of the will, and it has been judicially decided, that the slaves should be free, on condition of their going to Liberia.

African Repository....

A Colored Infant School.'.

1. WE had the pleasure of attending a most interesting examination of a colored infant school, a few days since at the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia. Seldom have we witnessed a more lively or instructive scene,—so delightfully impressed with the beauty and sublimity of Christian charity.

2. Here were one hundred children collected from the courts and alleys of a degraded and much neglected portion of our city, neatly clad, with smiling faces and orderly demeanor, answering with the greatest accuracy, questions on science, history, and religion, and exhibiting, in their whole deportment, a singular specimen of early intellectual developement and moral training.

3. And this was all the fruit of one man's beneficence! A single individual originated and has support-ed this school for four years and a half;-having committed its management to a Board of four ladies, who generously superintend and conduct its operations; he regularly discharges the bills of expenses as they are :

presented to him quarterly-while, with true humility,, he conceals his name from the public, and contemplates. in secret the results of his charity.

Colonization Herald.

Irrouba,

Duballon gives the following account of a woman of color, in Jamaica,› in 1802.

1. "Let us visit the old woman that has seen her hundredth year," says one of the company; and we advanced to the door of a little hut, where an old negress of Senegal appeared, so enfeebled that she was bent forward and obliged to lean against the side of her hut, to receive the company assembled at the door; she was also dull of hearing, but her eye was still lively. Every thing around her showed that she was destitute and suffering. She had scarcely rags enough to cover her, and had not fire sufficient to give warmth, at a season when the cold is sensibly felt by the aged, and more particularly by those of her country. We found her boiling a little rice and water for her supper, for she did not receive that regular subsistance from her master, which her great age and former services required. She was besides alone and neglected, her exhausted frame was more indebted to nature than to her master.

2. The reader ought to know that independently of her long service, this woman had formerly nourished, with her milk, two white children, whom she had seen arrive at complete growth, and whom she afterward followed to the tomb; and these were the brothers of one of the masters then present. The old

woman perceived him and called him by name; she spoke with an air of kindness truly affecting, and said, "When wilt thou repair the roof of my hut ?" It was almost uncovered, and the rain poured freely.

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raised his eyes towards it; it was not higher than the hand could reach: "I shall think of it," said he. "Thou wilt think of it! thou always tellest me so, but nothing is ever done.

3. "Hast thou not thy children (two negroes of the work-shop, her grand-children,) who could mend the hut; art thou not their master, and art thou not thyself my son? Come, said she, taking him by the arm, come into the cabin, and see for thyself these openings have pity, then, my son, on the old Irrouba, and repair at least that part of the roof which is above my bed, it is all I ask, and the Good Being will bless thee." And what was her bed? Alas! three boards put together, and on which lay a bundle of parasite plant of the country." The roof of thy hut is almost uncovered; the sleet and the rain beat against thy miserable bed; thy master sees all this, and yet has no compassion for thee, poor Irrouba"-says the visiter.

Belinda,

1. Born in a pleasant and fertile part of Africa,. was brought from thence to America, when the was. about twelve years of age, and sold for a slave. 1782, she presented a petition to the Legislature of Massachussetts.

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2. "Although I have, says she, been servant to a colonel forty years, my labors have not procured me any comfort. I have not yet enjoyed the benefits of creation. With my poor daughter, I fear I shall pass the remainder of my days in slavery and misery. For her and for myself, I beg freedom."

3. The authors of the American Museum have pre-served this petition, written without art, but dictated by the eloquence of grief, and therefore more calculated to move the heart to pity..

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An Extract of a letter from S. G.

ALEXANDRIA, 1809.

I. AT Georgetown, I had the company of several! persons, among whom was a physican, who had but lately removed to that place; he appears to be of a sensible and tender spirit. He mentioned a circumstance of which he was an eye witness and it being, on a subject that had nearly interested my feelings. since I crossed the Susquehanna river, I cannot but notice it.

2. While he lived back in the country, he was sent for by a slave-holder to visit a sick man. When he came to the place, he found a black man lying on a plank, with a little straw, and a poor blanket over him. In attending to him, his pulse seemed to be throbbing its last; his eyes were shut, and life nearly gone.. Which, however, the slave-holder not expecting, he: began to curse and to swear at the poor slave, and threatening him, how severely he would have him whipped as soon as he recovered; for said he, he has brought this sickness upon himself, under pretensions of being religious, and going to night meetings.

3. Thus he continued his threats and swearing, when I told him the poor man could not live many minutes: more. At which his countenance changed a little ;: and the sick man, by a sudden effort, turning himself,. opened his eyes, and clasping his hand thrice, cried out in a language like this: "Oh, glory and praise unto thee, O Lord! Oh, what mercy and goodness thou hast shown me this day!-Glory unto thee, who art now taking my soul unto thyself, having redeemed it !" -He then expired.

Negro Slave..

1. THE following account of the dying hours of a converted native of Africa, was given by a lady who