Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-07-19

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least fear, had l convenient house al
Marshall, to bring out the remainder o.
my family, or 10 take under my care al
that place any American for acclimation.'
6. EDNA. This is healthy situation
at the mouth of the St. Johns, sixty miles
south of Monrovia. There are some very
beautiful and fertile islands in the river,
which, together with much valuable land
along its banks, have been ceded to the
society. About one hundred houses have
been erected.
Z. BAssA Cove is on the opposite side
ofthe bay from Edina-a settlement toun-
ded by the joint efforts of the New-York
and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies.
Nearly one hundred slaves, manumitted by
the will of the late DR.. Hawes, of fRappah-
annock county, Virginia, were the first
settlers. Many of them were decidedly
pious, and all pledged to the temperance
cause. A strong desire to plant this set
Element on the principles ofthe Society Of
Friends, induced those who controlled the
first expedition to send the emigrants un-
armed, and to leave them defenceless. A
native chief taking advantage Of tais, as-
tackled the settlement, killed number of
its inhabitants, an dispersed the rest. This
settlement has been re-established and
prospers. During the last summer more
than one hundred and fifty town, lots have
been cleared, and several houses erected
for the accommodation OF future emigrants.
The colonists generally are sober, peace
ful, contented, and happy. Their number
exceeds two hundred.
s. CAPE PALMAs. This establishment
is about $50 miles south Of Monrovia-
has been founded by the Colonization So
ciety of Maryland, and is patronized by
the legislature. The village Of Harper
contains about twenty-five private houses,
and several public buildings. The colo.
nists are represented by the late intelligent
governor, DR.. Hall, moral industrious, re-
ligious, and happy. This gentleman has
resigned his Office, and J. B. Russwurr:, a
man of color, and late editor of the Liberia
Herald, has been appointed governor OF
that colony.
All the settlements, except, perhaps; the
most recent one have schools and church.
es. The churches are eleven or twelve in
number, mostly erected at the expense,
and by the hands of the colonists.
The agricultural and commercial pro.
ductions of these places are rice, sugar
cotton, coffee, cassada, banana, (the tu Q
last bread s,ufs,) potatoes, Indian corn
cattle, hogs, hides, cam wood, palm oil
ass.- Observation-Disclosures
oranges, and lemons.
"We have often declared" says the in.
telligent editor of the Liberia Herald
"and we repeat the assertion, that no rea-
sonable man can desire greater facilitie:
for an honorable living than are to be found
in this country. The principal articles
that are in foreign demand, if not indigo
nous to the country, are found springing
up spontaneously through our mountains
hills, and valleys. Millions Of coffee tree:
of sufficient sizes and ages may be gath
cred from the woods between this and Junk
We know from experiment that they viii
bear in three years from the time of trans.
plantations; so that man who will com
mence with spirit, and set out Is or q
thousand plants, may calculate. with gooo
degree of certainty, on large quantity O
coffee in three years from the time he COM
mences operation" -,
The great staples OF the country vii
probably be rice, cotton, coffee and sugar
as they can be raised Of the finest quality