Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-06-11
|rom The NortoW Hcraid.
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We have seen and talked with Beverley Wil>on.
a very respectable free of color, who has lust
returned from Liberia, and brings the la,es, adyces
rom oar colony there. lie won't ont from this
place about Is months ago, in the ship Jupiter. for
The express purpose seeing the actual state and
condition ol the settlement with his own eyes and
alter staying there upwards of IS months, and sat-
lsiNmg Inns, II upon the snbc of his cno,,i,y has
come back only to take his family out. lis state
men, therefore, is worthy of all credit and we arc
happy to find that he fully confirms the account,
winch We had prcsousl received of the prospcri-
" and steady progress of the colony in ali its civil
and moral interests.
lie states more particularly, that he found tho
town Monrova quite thriving and lourisb;nc
place, c"nlnin" about fifteen hundred inhabitants.
with five houses OF worship ono PRESBYTERIAN. two
baPt's'N, and two NethodisS, carrying on pros
porous little trade with the natives. and with e.
telen vessels, of which there are ALWAYS seven mr.
eight, chiefly French and English, and some Of our
own country, in the port The houses are gene
rally PLAIN, but dccently built and some of thu
new on"e are even handsome. II is in fact he SAYS
APPETIZER place IN look ut than our Smitbficld
l"heh we hno" Is one OF the prctticst villages VIC
haNc,) especially rs it has the advantage of fine
bay before it, with ships in the harbor.
The people, with few exceptions, are sober. IN
dns'ro'Is, orderly, and wc-bchavcd. They ara
generally merchants and mechanics, and appear IN
be dom" well some oi them have made a clever
littlo property, and have very comfortable cstab
llsllmcnt>.-Ihcv are also on the best terms viii,
the natives, who come freely into the SETTLEMENT
lor trade and otlrr purposes, and have no appr,
henSlon OF any future hostiics with them. He
saw several OF the petty kings of the neirlborpr
tribes, who came TO Monro,a while he was there,
. attended by their Servants aud called on the Colo
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attention, and gaNe them the cu,omar, presents.
with which they were much plca>cd.-A number
oil the natNcN,hoth menand boys, (bu, no women,)
are cmpIoNcd by the colonsts rs servants or helms,
III the ilnilIcs, work Tor waves by The moon or
month, which they are always careful To demand
al the day, and are very sure to get
The children, (nclading some native ones, are
taneht IN good schools, and seem to learn their
books with grcat caerrncs>. There is also IA Sun
day school which has "ood many scholars and
Is we'll supported.
The climate, he savs, i, dcHghUui There Is
no winter, bnt the fainy season, whicl, is, in fact
the most pleasant time. II doe, not rain constant,
", but onlya few hours in the day. viii, intervals
oil rs many, and sometimes whole days, and several
days AT the time, and the weather is very rarely
such as to interrupt either business or pleasure
he Whole year Is much more agreeable for pco
pie of color tllan ours
The soil about Monro,i ia i, not fertile but there
Is good and rich land about Caldwell, and some
other settlements where the colonists who cultivate
the ground, easily ralse cJSsada. potatoes and
other vegetables, and beginning to raise rice.
which, however, the natives can furnish, as vel
on bctcr terms. The natural fruits of the conn
try, suchaS ORANGES, pantains aud bananas, cspe-
cally the last, are much finer than those of the
West Indies,
After tins we drc not surprised to hear, that tho
rooniNl>, with very few exceptions, land thoso ca
SLY accounted ior,) not only satisfied, but
hlelly pleased with the state of things about them.
and full of COURAGE and hope for the future. and
We are truly clad 10 learn that they remember
and often talk of their friends and bcncfactors in
tins country with the gratitude which becomes
them, and which certainly entities them to our
best v Shcs for their continued prosperity and sue
cess.
Mn. LIyINGsToN.-A letter from Paris dated
April 22d, states that Mr.. Livingston would sail
from llavrc on board the Constitution ireatc, brin-
ging the official intelligence of the passage of the
Indemnity Bill, instead of proceeding to England
or Belgium.
Commodore ELLIOT left Paris on the 2lst April
to rcoin his irigatc.
The debate in the French Chamber of Dcpu,ie,
on the indemnify Bill has occasoned at least one
duel between two of the members they exchan-
gcd aSSuplc of shots without effect, when the Sc
=. combs intcrcred. n. y. Com. .idr
II the latest date, the French Chamber of De-
putirs engaged in debate on the Abolition of
Negro Slavery in the French colonies. The num-
Der oislavcs in them is two hundred and seventy
eight thousand. In reply to several of the ora
tors, april 22d,) the President of the Council
Duke de Brogle) said
"Thc moment critical-tllat a hazardous
experiment was now trying in England, and that
in the uncertainty of its result it was the duty of
Ministers to be silent as to act otherwise would
cndanger the success of the experiment which Gov
ernmcnt would one day ry-hc would not say
when-lic would bind himself, 20 nothing
The five thousand shares of additional stock Of
the Bank OF Virginia, advertised to IL sold on tic
LIST INST, We're taken at an average Of 81 ~ cents
advance per share on the par value. The prem
nm tnr III, hon,tit of the trinr