Alexandria Gazette

Next Expedition to Liberia.

We learn that the Mary Caroline Stevens, the Colonization Society's packet to Liberia will leave Baltimore for Monrovia, the first of May. This has been a fortunate ship, having, besides supplying the Colony with emigrants, cleared the last year upwards of eight thousand dollars for the Society's objects. Her whole management has been excellent, and her success complete. This is very encouraging to our fellow citizens, who are in the habit of contributing to the funds of the Society. Probably, no institution in the land has more economically applied the gifts entrusted to it for benevolent purposes; certainly none more usefully. All fears of 'famine,' once reported, have been dissipated. Preparations have been abundantly made for the reception of future emigrants, and many desire to set sail for the land of promise. One striking evidence of the strong hold this Society has on the confidence and affection of the American people, is the fact of the increase of the contributions to its objects last year, while there was a considerable diminution, generally, in the receipts of other benevolent Societies. But this year, it is thought, will witness a favorable reaction in all cases, and we may expect the Colonization Society will share largely in the benevolent offerings of the people, especially of the people of the South, who originated the institution, and who have never deserted it. A long career of prosperity is before it, if it shall continue to adhere to the fundamental principles of its constitution, as we are assured it will, and if it confine itself, as it certainly must, to the work of fulfilling the design of its founders.