The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-11-10


s,ss ss 300 ospSiu ~sise has Just Nv
" r q sx ss% Which
porsucs la relation TO the movements OF the repuo"0
o. Libsra - The follewing extracts:-
Er,rset of a Letter foam Li,ut Commanding Bill to
C'm, Read, dated Q. S. brig Borr' Porto ff'ya
aoa my arrival at Mourovia on the 10th nit found
that the colony Liberia had proclaimed its- an ind
psudsnt nation under the name OF ,he Recubmc OF u
IBERIA enclose a copy Of a IL TER which CIV Roberts
addressed 20 ms app Use Of the dignity Of his
sov.romso.-.uclo,ug printed copy Of the declaration
Ia letter from the same. same date and port Lieu
sudins Tell gives account Of his cruise
insson on the night Of thu sst August. owned in Nvv
York from Rio JSnero With the usual assorted -lsvs
cargo on board sni lumbar enough for l,vs deck ne
Informed slso that the Malaga had precisely suoh
oarso except the Lumbar The American brig sens s
tor" boarded IN M.reh st. from with sucp
w Huntington reports that she the sen tori nov a
seuttlsd In Rio H.ving safely landed 800 LSpe
Frto ehe proceeded Into Rio under nras'""s ~ r.,
where her owners suffered TO strip nsr OF All ae
furniture, and then the government ssssl har =,
asr. taken on
.n thsss transactions (ssys Lieutenant Commanusus
Belly perceive th- mode In shsn Inc
ana the bsss uses which It 10 applied oy Foreigners
who have the msnliness to vindcA's tns iessa'm
-Th. American factory at this place Il the principal
trading estabshuspt under the American nss On tne
souhern coast being branches OF It, a. at Ambi
sstto aud at Lo.ngo, owned by Mes.s Soornows
Hunt 0slem Massachusetts,, who said to be doing
fAr buslness ia guns. ivory copper and ebony; tina
house sends out from Fix to eight vessels snpusly"
From he .osrcs understand that up wards OF
thirty American veesels annual come fsisht.d from
Brasil by Brozlaus to the south coast; some OF them
wen known. taking return cargo OF slaves under
Brssisn colors their American first leaving them
But the most Of them believed " leave the coast
carrying white passengers only "
This sh.msfsi traffic, and ought possible, to b.
arrested Win not the republic OF Liberia be OF the
mort important agents for eecting his object at some
future though 1t may b. distant tims May 1t not far
nish only harbDr but facilities for supplying any
vessels that may be employed for REFRESHING the trade
and vessels Of her for this purpose As she
Strengthens and improves her own resources she
VIZ furnish more inviting habit.tien aud resting
place for the free Of color who will be emsn
oipsted In the United States and she may even
come to exert . greater degree Of moral force
over tho continent OF Africa, to restrain the ali
meats OF the slave trade and Civ. the African mind and
manners wiser and q more liberal direction The
present position OF Liberia will essen the Idle sslouses
which England has entertained Of relations to that
country, and lead her to treat them with more con
ddsnoe and more kindness
We uudsrstaud that Governor Robsrts, to when
Lieutenant ComD anding Bell reft born in Nor
folk and lived afterwards In Petersburg, Virginia. He
Is described to an Intelligent and weil-behaved |
man, who has exchanged many civites at Monrovia |
with our squadron.