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With a strong desire to promote the interest of theState of New-York, several intelligent gentlemen ofthe state formed a society for the acquisition anddiffusion of all useful intelligence connected withthe inland trade and navigation of the country.The society was called, the New-York CorrespondingAssociation for the Promotion of Internal Improve-ment. When the association was organized, DeWitt Clinton was chosen President, and DoctorSamuel L. Mitchell, and the Hon. Cadwallader D.Colden, Vice Presidents, and Thomas Eddy, Chairmanof the committee of correspondence and publication.The association exerted themselves for several yearswith great assiduity, and the labours of the chairmanwere very arduous, but promptly discharged. Whohas now the records of that association, I have notbeen able to discover, but much valuable informationmust have been collected by such indefatigable andintellectual men as formed that association; and it iswell known, that their publications were numerous. On the great subject of slavery, which is now agi-tating the world, Mr. Eddy took an early part. Hesaw millions suffering in bondage, and willed themto be free; but this was not enough; he knew thatmeans must be applied to ends, and that it was invain to deplore the condition of the Africans withoutstrenuous exertions. He was an active member ofthe Abolition and Manumission Societies, and corres-ponded with the philanthropists of Europe on thesubject, as well as with the leaders in the cause offreedom in Hayti. He saw, as every wise man does,that the evil was one that increased in magnitudeevery day, and as time advanced, became more diffi-cult to eradicate. It was the voice of such philan-thropists, that assisted the politicians in fixing theboundaries of the slave-trade, which was the firststep in the march of this charity; and which, if judi-ciously followed up, will, in the end, drive the evil fromthis country and the West Indies, and perhaps from