Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-08-12
VERY LATE FROM WESTERN AFRICA.

VERY LATE FROM WESTERN AFRICA.
The barque Chatham, which was chartered by the
New York Colonization Board to catry out provls-
IONS to the Colony of Liberia, returned to N. Y on
Wednesday evening last from Liberia. She left Mon
rovia on the 3oth of June.
The Liberia Herald says, "peace and quletness
prevail in all the region around. We do not recol-
lect time OF general and profound tranquility as
at present"
The supply of provisions, sc. sent out by the Col
onization Society and the Methodist missionary So
ciety, was gratefully received, will be seen by the
following extract
/ ss, ss. MoNRovfA, June 10.
Never have We known supplies to be more oppor-
timely received by any community, than were those
brought by the Chatham, Captain Bearse, which
rived at this port after passage of 80 days from N
York, on the 9Th instant. The "hungry time " had
set IN, and many of the people were anticipating ac-
tua want and suffering, which trust will be pre-
vented to some extent by this and subsequent arri
| vals
| In December about two hundred came, week af-
terward, the Pons landed seven hundred and fifty ;
and by another vessel sixty emigrants srrived
from the States-making over one thousond added to
those who were here, and that too, at season not
the most favorable for planting.
The Luminary says it is really too bad that the
people of Liberia should suffer from scarcity of
provisions, with soil SO rich, and such genial c-
mate. Yet already some are SO suffering from their
incidence. Here, where moetv of labor the
part of the husbandman is crowned with superiority,
the cry of want is beginning to be heard, and we an
ticpate this is only the beginning of sorrows If
people will be so blinded to ti.er own interest-if
they will neglect their landsf they will fold their
hands in ideness waste their substance in foolish
attempts to live easily by the patry traffic with
the natives, may expect, year after year, return
of these seasons.
! The Lumnary of June 10th gives the following
account of the health of the missionaries
| "Rev. j. b. Benham is very slowly recovering
from late severe attack of the fever. Mrs. Ben
ham is now sick. Rev. w. B. Hoyt still quite fee
be not having fully recovered from very severe at
tack. Mrs. Hoyts health continues poor her re-
turn by this opportunity, is contemplated. Mrs Will
kns and others, as far as heard from, quite well.
The season had been very dry. Grass and all ten
ner herbs had been scorched blasted, and killed by
the sun. The springs of water are dried up in most
places.
1t lis supposed that about three hundred of the re-
captured slaves from the Pons have taken to the bush
unwilling to submit to the restraints of civilization
These have committed sad depretatlon and have thus
increased the distress.
Governor Roberts had appointed Mr.. Jas. Brown
commissioner to purchase additional territory
He has purchased upward of 35 or 40 miles of the
coast, commencing from Little Cess, Kroo country.
number of these points have been, and are, nval-
able palm oil marts. These purchases excite the iea-
lousy of British traders, who fear that their interests
may be injuriously affected.