present value of all the houses, lands and slaves in the United States, is 2,519,009,222 dollars; so that the amount annually lost to the country by the use of ardent spirits would be more than sufficient to buy up all the houses, lands and slaves in the United States once in every 20 years. Judge Hale, after twenty years' observation and experience, declared, That if all the murders, and manslaughters, and burglaries, and robberies, and riots, and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other great enormities, which had been committed within that time, were divided into five parts, four of them would be found to have been the result of intemper ance. In one place, of only 6,000 inhabitants, the chief magistrate, being himself an eminent physician, informed our Secretary, that twenty-eight in that place were killed by strong drink in one year. This would make, in thirty years, eight hundred and forty. And if eight hundred and forty would be killed in a population of 6,000,|| how many would be killed, in that time, among 12,000,000? The proportion would be 1,680,000: while the use of this poison, without affording the least benefit, would greatly increase the diseases, lessen the reason, and diminish the happiness of all who used it; and, upon an average, would shorten their lives probably at least five years. And if drunkards, upon an average, shorten life only ten years, and temperate drinkers five, and there are only four sober drinkers to one drunkard, it would cause a loss in the United States, in thirty years, of 32,400,000 years of human probation and of active usefulness. In the county of Baltimore, in Maryland, out of 1134 paupers, admitted to the alms-house from May 1829, to May 1830, 1059 wère brought there by intemperance; viz. of temperate adults, 24; of adults whose habits were not known, 24; children of temperate parents, 13; children of parents whose habits were not known, 14; children of intemperate parents, 115; and intemperate adults, 944: total of temperate adults, and perBons whose habits were not known, and their children, 75; and of intemperate adults and their children, 1,059, The society was organized and the constitution adopted at a meeting in Boston, Feb. 13th, 1826. || From about that period numerous tracts, sermons, addresses, and other publications, presenting facts illustrative of the alarming extent and consequences of the evil, and pointing out the remedy, and urging the temperate portion of the community to adopt the principle of total abstinence, have been published and very extensively circulated. Medical and various other associations and ecclesiastical bodies have adopted resolutions on the subject, and public opinion has in many ways been very decidedly expressed. Agents have been employed who have travelled, and addressed the people, and organized temperance societies very extensively in all parts of the country. The result was in about five years as stated below. On the first of May, 1831, there were reported more than 2,200 societies and embracing more than 170,000 members. These members have been constantly increasing, and have, in many | cases, been more than doubled since they were reported. There are also numerous societies which have been formed, and some of them embracing large districts of country, not contained in the above list, and from which no returns have been received. The number belonging to socie ties which are not reported, in the state of New York, are supposed, by the committee of the State Society, to amount to more than 30,000. From the best information which has been obtained, the committee conclude that there are now formed, in the United States, on the plan of abstinence from the use of ardent spirit, more than 3,000 temperance societies, containing more than 300,000 members, From the influence of these societies, and other causes, 300,000 more may have adopted the plan of not using it, or furnishing it for the use of others. Connected with these 600,000, of children and persons in their employment, and under their control, may be as many more. 1,200,000 may already have been brought under the influence, and may now be experiencing the benefit, of the temperance reformation. And thus The quantity of intoxicating liquors drunk had diminished in some towns three-fourths, in others nine-tenths. In some towns no retailers were licensed. Since January 1st, 1830, more than one hundred and fifty vessels have sailed from the port of Boston, which do not carry ardent spirit; and it is believed, that there are now afloat on the ocean, more than four hundred of this description. The longest and most difficult voyages are made without it; and greatly to the health, comfort and safety of the men. Of seven hundred sailors, who have called for a supply of books, at one office, more than two hundred abstain from the use of spiritous liquors; and should this course be adopted by all seafaring men, it would prevent, according to the opinion of experienced navigators, more than half of all the shipwrecks on the ocean. More than 1,000,000 have given up the use of ardent spirit; more than 3,000 who were engaged in the traffic have renounced it; more than 1,000 distilleries have already been stopped; among more than 100,000 people, none, except keepers of public houses, have license to sell this destroyer; and from more than 100 public houses it is excluded. My belief is, says the chairman of the committee of the New York State Society, that this state has saved, during the last year, in the lessened use of ardent spirits, $6,250,000. And it is entirely past all calculation to estimate the great increase of wealth to the state in labor, more usefully, and more vigorously applied to every department of industry. And since rum has been dismissed, and the mind has recovered its healthful tone, the Spirit of the Lord has a power, and has been at work, in various parts of this state, in a wonderful manner; and all appear to agree, now, that the too common use of ardent spirits has been one great cause of apathy on religious subjects. This report is a most comprehensive and invaluable manual on the whole subject, AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. Notices of the Colony. FROM letters published in the African Repository it appears that the colony at Liberia is in a highly prosperous state, that the health of the colonists was good; their agriculture and commerce, both with the contiguous tribes and with foreign countries, was rapidly advancing; that forty-six vessels had visited their port during the year preceding the date of the letter, and that the value of their exports had amounted to $83,911. Free schools had been, or were about to be, established at all the settlements, in which were 126 pupils, and the number was expected to be doubled. A revival of religion had been experienced to such an extent that 60 persons had, within fifteen months been added to one church; of whom half, at least, were recaptured Africans. The directors of the Basle Missionary Society have resolved to discontinue their mission at Liberia. The colonial agent has been authorised by the Board of Managers of the Society, to employ a native teacher, to instruct a class of young men in the colony in the Arabic and other languages of the interior, provided such a teacher can be procured for a sum not exceeding $200 a year. Departure of Emigrants. A new schooner, the Margaret Mercer, purchased by the society for the use of the colony, sailed from Philadelphia Oct. 18th, having on board nine emigrants, one of whom was the Rev. William Johnson, a colored preacher from Hartford, Connecticut. The schooner Orion sailed from Baltimore Oct. 26th, carrying between 30 and 40 emigrants. The vessel was fitted out by the Auxiliary Society of Maryland. R. S. Finley, Esq. agent of the society for the western states, has ascertained that 100 emigrants are now ready and anxious to embark for Liberia, and that 300 will be ready within the year. Measures have been taken to fit out a vessel at New Orleans to take them. Dr. Charles Stone, a young physician of Cincinnati, has offered to accompany them to Liberia. The ship James Perkins, of 400 tons, is fitting out at Norfolk, Va. to carry emigrants to the colony. Already 245 respectable free persons of color, from Southampton county, have made application for a passage; and it is expected 300 will go from that county. American Board of Foreign Missions. EMBARKATION OF MISSIONARIES. was appointed and held on the previous evening, The Instructions of On the evening of the 21st, Mr. Spaulding received ordination as a missionary in Mr. Holmes' meeting-house, sickness having prevented his earlier ordination. Rev. Mr. Maltby, of Taunton, preached the sermon, from Acts xxvi, 16, 17, 18. The audience, both at this time and on the 19th, was large and highly respectable. On Saturday, Nov. 26th, eight ordained missionaries and a physician, with their wives, and an unmarried printer, embarked at New Bedford, in the ship Averick, captain Swain, for the Sandwich Islands-a larger number than ever left our shores before, at one time, as missionaries to the heathen. Their names are as follows: Missionaries,-Messrs. JOHN S. EMERSON, DAVID BELDEN LYMAN, and EPHRAIM SPAULDING, from the Theological Seminary at Andover; Messrs. WILLIAM PATTERSON ALEXANDER, RICHARD ARMSTRONG, and COCHRAN FORBES, from the Theological Seminary at Princeton; and Messrs. HARVEY REXFORD HITCHCOCK and LORENZO LYONS, from the Theological Seminary at Auburn: Alonzo Chapin, M. D. Physician; and Mr. Edmund H. Rogers, Printer All, except the last, are married. Of the nineteen persons, one was from the state of Kentucky, three from Pennsyl-the Sandwich Islands mission. The collection vania, one from New Jersey, two from New York, one from Connecticut, seven from Massachusetts, two from Vermont, and two from New Hampshire. It having been expected that the embarkation would take place on the 19th, a public meeting While detained at New Bedford, the missionaries preached to various congregations in that and the neighboring towns, at the request of the ministers; and in most of the places where they preached, collections were taken up in aid of on the evening when the Instructions were delivered, amounted to $68,37. The amount collected in the other congregations referred to was $147,43. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th, the missionaries and their wives, with between two and three hundred of the friends of missions, were assembled on Taber's wharf, the place appointed for embarkation. Here the missionary band united with others in singing the hymn "Blest be the tie," &c. and were commended to the protection and blessing of Almighty God in a prayer by Mr. Greene, when they immediately left the wharf in a sloop provided to take them to the ship, lying two or three miles below. They were soon on board, and at 10 o'clock the anchor was weighed, and they proceeded to sea with a fair wind. The missionaries remained about ten days at New Bedford, participating in the kind and gratuitous hospitality of the friends of missions there, and being favored with the most interesting Christian intercourse with them. All the arrangements with the owners and captain of the ship, as well as the other circumstances of the embarkation, were of a very pleasant and satisfactory character. REV. Messrs. Alfred Wright, and Loring S. Williams, of the Choctaw mission, who have spent the last summer and fall at the north, superintending the printing of books in the Choctaw language, have recently been appointed by the Committee to proceed to the new Choctaw country, west of the Arkansas territory, and commence a mission there. A large portion of the members of the church, and others who adhere to the Christian party, have already removed, or are expected to remove this winter, and to settle together on the Red River. Mr. and Mrs. Williams started about the middle of October and proceeded by the way of the old Choctaw nation. Mr. and Mrs. Wright embarked at New York for New Orleans Dec. 1st, and will go from that place directly to their field of labor. The following paragraph is taken from a letter of a gentleman not connected with the mission, who was travelling from the Choctaw nation to New Orleans, and shows the interesting and The Averick was spoken on the 2d of December, lat. 36 degrees 22 minutes, long. 63 degrees 50 minutes. Of course she had nearly crossed hopeful circumstances under which this new misthe gulf stream. All were well. At least two of the ordained missionaries are expected to become connected with the contemplated mission to the Washington Islands. Mr. Hill, the Treasurer of the Board, was at New Bedford during most of the time, superintending the embarkation in respect to the concerns of his own department. BOOKS IN THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE. THREE books prepared and translated by the Rev. Messrs. Wright and Williams, of the Choctaw mission, have been printed under their superintendence, during the last summer and fall, at the press of William Williams, in Utica, N. Y. The first is entitled Chahta Ikhananchi, (Choctaw Instructor,) containing a summary of Old Testament history and biography, with practical reflections. The book contains 157 pages, besides 27 cuts designed to illustrate the most important scenes. The second is entitled Holisso Holitopa, consisting of selections from the Gospels of Luke and John, designed to give a full account of our Savior and his instructions. It contains 152 pages, besides 17 cuts illustrative of New Testament history. sion will be commenced. The date is Nov. 14th. I passed a night at an encampment of nearly two thousand Choctaws, who were on their march to the west; and it was to me, I assure you, a deeply interesting occurrence. I had been but a few minutes on the spot where they had encamped for the night, when the blowing of a horn announced that the hour of their evening devotions had arrived. I attended their meeting, and gave them, through an interpreter, a pretty long talk, to which they listened with the deepest silence and attention. Then I called upon one of them to pray in his own language. I suppose that a hundred of them, at least, instantly prostrated themselves on the ground, and all was solemnity around. Oh it was a heart-thrilling scene. Would, thought I, that those churches which have contributed to the support of the missions among these Indians, could only behold this spectacle. What a rich reward would they feel that they had received. And would, too, I felt, that all the enemies of missions and of the Indians were present, and their flinty hearts would melt in tenderness and compassion towards them. The Rev. Dr. CORNELIUS has accepted his appointment as Corresponding Secretary of the Board, and will enter upon the duties of the office as soon as his present engagements will permit. It is stated with regret that the insertion of the portrait of Mr. Evarts is again very unexpectedly The third is a translation of the History of Jo- obliged to be postponed. The plate has, howseph, making 48 pages, with three cuts. Of each of the first and third of these books 1,250 were printed; and of the second 1,000 copies; making in all 3,500 copies and 398,000 pages. ever, been received, and is in the hands of the printer; and if a sufficient number of impressions can be taken seasonably, it will be inserted in the next number; if not, it will be in that for March. Mon. con. (of which to constitute the Rev. NATHANIEL HEWIT, D. D. an Honorary Member of the Board, 50;) 57; gent. 17; la. 17,50; Brookfield, Gent. 24; la. char. so. 14; fem. Dorcas asso. 6,50; Danbury, Gent. 11; la. 38,83; young la. union so. 10; mon. con. 36,25; Huntington, Gent. 61,30; la. 64,03; la. glean. so. 30; la. union so. 40; mon. con. 18; Monroe, Gent. 33,28; la. 33,79; New Fairfield, Gent. Redding, Gent. 24,30; la. 18,31; mon. con. 4; Stratford, Gent. 15,88; la. 34,62; a lady, for Sandw. Isl. miss. 1; Trumbull, Gent. 12,07, la. 13,19; la. sewing so. 7; mon. con. 2,75; Unknown, Ded. expenses paid by aux. 80. Franklin co. Vt. H. Janes, Tr. Franklin co. Ms. F. Ripley, Tr. Ashfield, Gent. 54,95; la. 44,80; mon. con. 12,22; Buckland, Gent. 33,62; la. 39,30; mon. con. 11,32; work. so. 5,51; Charlemont, Gent. 37,56; la. 30,11; mon. con. 5,40, Colrain, Gent. 12,07; la. 22,50; Conway, Gent. 77,64; la. 104,43; Gill, La. 6,42; mon. con. 3,88; Greenfield, Gen!. 62,50; la. 48,33; mon. con. 42,09; 91 50 44.50 96 08 213 33 67 07 12 00 46 61 51 50 35 01 50 815 71 25-815 46 30 37 111 97 89 75 73 07 34 57 182 07 10 30 152 92 1,101 36 700 00-401 36 Hawley, 2d par. 20,26; gent. 35,55; la. 27,55; 83 36 Heath, Gent. 53,06; la. 28,11; la. char. so. 5; 86 17 8.00 11.00 3 00 la. 33,14; mon. con. 19,23; benev. band, 4,60, 86 76 West Chester so. Gent. 4,38; la. 75c. 5 13 Lebanon, Exeter so. Gent. and la. 36 12 Goshen so. Gent. 91,75; la. 50; 141 75 Montague, Gent. 22,31; la. 18,03; mon. con. 2,87; c. box, 50c. Northfield, 2d par. Gent. 5,28; la. 11; c. box, 1; juv. so. 2,25; Shelburne, Gent. 51,28; la. 41,32; Warwick, Gent. 7,56; la. 12,50; Wendell, Asso. 15,40; mon. con. 5; Ded. expenses paid by aux. so. Grafton co, N. H., W. Green, Tr. Bath, Gent, and la. 43 71 19 53 92 60 20 06 20 40 1,020 48 14 61-1,005 87 10 00 283 76 Campton, Gent. 37,43; la. 35,83; mon. con. 47,54; 120 80 23-283 53 205 44 Hanover East, Gent. and la. 13,67; mon. con. 3,48; 17 15 Hanover Plain and Dartmouth Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Asso. Hebron, Mr. Perkins, con. 3,94; 5.00 con. 40; 59 00 Hebron, Gent, and la. 20 35 16 42 2.00 19 04 1 12 New Sharon, La. 15,10; mon. North Yarmouth, I. H. Portland, G. and G. M. 3; la. of 2d par. 17,88; Westbrook, Mon. con. Essez co. Ms. J. Adams, Tr. Salem, Mon. con. in Howard-st. chh. 17,84; do. in S. so. 6,76; Essez co. N. J., T. Frelinghuysen, Tr. Fairfield co. East, Ct. S. Sterling, Coll. at ann. meeting, Bethel, Gent. 32,67; la. 14,54; mon. con. 20,36; sab. sch. 2,54; (of which to constitute the Rev. ERASTUS COLE an Honorary Member of the Board, 50) 70 11 Bridgeport, Rev. Mr. Blatchford's cha. and so. 83 50 Lebanon, Gent. 7; la. 22,31; mon. con. 40; 69 31 Lime, La. 12 15 Littleton, Gent. and la. 5 00 Orford, Gent. 4,22; la. 5,32; mon. 24 60 mon. con. 46,60; 95 76 Thornton, Gent. 3,63; la. 13,35; Unknown, 16 98 55 557 95 3 67-554 28 Hartland, W. so. Gent. 4; la. 7,09; Wallingford, Young la. miss. so. Lincoln co. Me. W. Rice, Tr. New Castle, Gent. 18,78; la. 16; mon. con. 15,22; Phipsburg, Rev. J. Boynton, Merrimac co. N. H., S. Evans, Tr. Boscawen, Mon. con. Concord, Mon. con. Middlesex, Ct. C. Nott, Tr. Chester, Gent. 16; la. 14,25; mon. con. 8; contrib. by W. W. 5; a fem. friend, 50c. J. P. L. 3; East Haddam, Gent. 23; la. 24; Haddam, Gent. 44,75; la. 32; Hadlyme, Gent. 8,57; la. 10,50; Killingworth, A fem. friend, Lyme, Gent. 14,60; la. 28,94; mon. con. 10,65; N. Matson, to constitute the Rev. CHESTER COLTON an Honorary Member of the Board, 50; Millington, Gent. 8,92; la. 8,05; North Killingworth, Gent. 12,05; la. 18,17; mon. con. 12,01; North Lyme, Gent. 19,38; la. 21,75; 46 75 635 89 25 1,139 29 104 19 16 97 42 23 41 13 Pettipaug, Gent. 35,34; la. 34,68; mon. con. 30; 100 02 Concord, La. Saybrook, Gent. 32,14; la. 34,79; mon. con. 10,25; Westbrook, Gent. Ded. expenses paid by aux. so. Middlesex co. Ms. C. Davis, Tr. Acton, La. East Sudbury, Gent. and la. Natick, Gent, and la. Middletown and vic. Ct. R. Hubbard, Tr. Chatham, Middle Haddam, La. Middletown, 1st so, Gent. 51,75; la. 64,26; Upper Houses, Mon. con. Middlefield, La. 77 18 12.00 583 54 1 70-581 84 4 07 17 93 21 85 14 31-58 16 17 73 116 01 14.00 24 66-172 40 Monroe co. N. Y. By E. Ely, Attica, Presb. chh. 5 00 Brockport, Mon. con. in presb. chh. 40 00 Byron, Fem. miss. so. 22 00 East Avon, Mon. con. in presb. chh. 10 62 Livonia, Mon. con. 21; sab. sch. chil. 10,50; fem. mite so. 10,75; 42 25 9 83 50 00 in 1st North Penfield, Presb. chh. Ogden, Mon. con. in cong. chh. 35; cong. chh. 15; Rochester, Mon. con. presb. chh. 171,96; do. in 2d do. 163,18; do. in 3d do. 70; la. of do. to constitute the Rev. LUKE LYON an Honorary Member of the Board, 50; Mrs. A. M. 1; Royalton, Mon. con. in cong. chh. Sweden, Mon. con. in presb. chh. 14,50; cong. chb. 3; New Haven city, Ct. C. J. Salter, Tr. Fem. miss. asso. 129,40; mon. con. in three cong. so's, 16,29; gent. in united so. 5; New Havenco. East, Ct. S. Frisbie, Tr. Branford, Gent. 52,05;la. 40,67; Cheshire, La. Ded. sums ack. in Nov. 165,78; Dec. 132; New York city and Brooklyn, W. W. Chester, Tr. Norfolk co. Ms. Of $150 fr. gent. in 2d chh. Dorchester, ack. in Nov. $12 were fr. E. Riggs, 5th pay for David Riggs inCeylon. Northampton and neighb. towns, Ms. J. D. Whitney, Tr. Coll. at ann. meeting, Amherst, A fem. friend, 1st par. Gent. Belchertown, Gent. Chesterfield, Gent. 5; la. 7,07; Cummington, Gent. 18,62; la. 33; East Hampton, Gent. 14,84; la. 11,06; fem. benev. so. for Payson Williston at Mayhew, 6,25; Enfield, Gent. 142; la. 72; mon. con. 52; Goshen, Gent. 17; la. 12,75; mon. con. 7,26; Granby, E. par. Gent. 35; mon. con. 15,02; to constitute the Rev. JOSEPH KNIGHT an Honorary Member of the Board, W. par. Gent. 57,25; la. 42; mon. con. 20,05; fem. work so. 15,50; Hadley, Gent. 76,50; la. 29,24; mon. con. 80,40; fem. mite so. 17,62; sab. sch. for sch. at Bombay, 2,94; ELISHA DICKINSON, which, constitutes him an Honorary Member of the Board, 100; W. Dickinson, 50; E. M. 4,50; A. M. 1; Hatfield, Gent. 58,44; la. 50,34; Illinois, A lady, Middlefield, Gent. 37; la. 8; mon. Northampton, La. 103,66; mon. 297 78-338 11 29 04 1 00 100 25 33 75 12.07 51 62 32.15 272 00 37 01 50 02 134 80 362 20 108 78 2.25 56 58 165 39 14 80 32 70 68 70 East Haven, Gent. 21,18; la. 28.92; 50 10 Guilford, Gent. (of which to constitute the Rev. AARON DUTTON an Honorary Member of the Board, 50;) 95,70; la. 64,20; Madison, La. cent so. 159 90 Ded. expenses paid by aux. so. Old Colony, Ms. H. Coggeshall, Tr. Dartmouth, Coll. for Sandw. Isl. 6 56-1,89 00 7 21 1.00 127 44 105 84 |