Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-10-24
From the Boston Tvaveler.l

LATE FROM LIBERIA.-Our files Of Liberia papers to
June Is, indicate steady and quiet prosperity, with few
exciting events.
James X. Straw, the English agent, continues his ad.
vertisement, offering a premium of fifty dollars for the
best five acres Of cotton, and promising to furnish the
means to any competent persons who wish to make the
experiment.
The Herald, in an editorial article, urges attention to
the collection of India Rubber, as a new and profitable
branch of Liberian industry. The writer believes that
the trees are abundant in some parts of their territory,
and thinks the natives may be induced TO gather it and
bring it in for sale.
The U. S. Brig Perry, Capt. A. H. Foote, arrived at
Monrovia, June 16, in 8 days from st. Helena, all well.
He reports that the slave trade on the 90 South Coast
is :. on its last legs" Farther north, it is already nearly
extinct.
About June /, a fire broke out in the new town Of
Buchanan, at grand Bassa point, and consumed i've
houses. In all other respects the new settlement was
prospecting. The natives in the region were delighted
with the change since the expulsion Of the Fisherman
Grando.
In Bassa large quantities of palm oil were coming
into the different settlements; the farmers at Bexley
were planting large quantities of arrow-root; and there
was a prospect OF Il large crop OF rice. 81
The brig Sea New arrived at Monrovia May 18th, 76
DAYS from New York, with 10 e%migrants. The Sea New
lay 10 days at Sierra Leone, where strenuous efforts
were made to persuade the ~emigrants to remain; but
they all preferred the New Republic to a British Colony.
Extracts from the British Captain Forbes book on
{" Dahomy and the Dahomans," accusing the Liberians
of " buying and selling Gods image" had reached Ii
IBERIA in the newspapers. The editor OF the Herald, af-
ter copying the accusation, closes his remarks by say
ing: 1.-THE whole thing is too ridiculous to be treated
seriously, and deserves no further notice from us, than a
fiat contradiction, which we unhesItatngly record"
The editor says that the receiving Of " pawns, !" as prac-
tised, according to Captain Forbes, by the English, on
the Gold Coast, is forbidden by law, and not practised in
Liberia.
April 25. the barque Gem, from New York, touched
at Monrovia, having on board the Rev. Robert Bolton
and lady, Presbyterian Missionaries to the Gaboon, or
rather, to the new station in that vicinity.
The Hon. S. "A. Benson had been TO Tradetown, as
Commissioner from the President, TO compel the native
" King" in that neighborhood TO live in peace. All
promised compliance but one, who was told that he must
do il, or troops would be sent TO drive him out Of the
country, for the government was determined 10 stop the
war. This brought him to terms. and arbitators were
soon to meet and settle all their g pallavers."
Judge Benson has also been about forty miles inland,
with an exploring party, TO select a site in the mountain
Gus region for a new settlement. He found the country,
fertile, well wooded and watered, and the natives friend
ly, and quite superior to those near the coast; He select
ed a site some thirty miles inland from Bexley.
The emigrants by the brig Aida, from New Orleans,
were doing well at Since. There had been no cases OF
small pox among them since they landed; nor had there
been any deaths except four children. They had nearly
all passed through the a~cclmating lever. and were at
work on their farms. One of them had built a large
boat. propelled by paddle wheels, to ply between differ
ent settlement on the Since river.
The emigrants by the Baltimore, from Savannah, were
all landed in good health and spirits. Oae of them
brought a steam saw-mill, with an engine of twenty
horse power, which the editor OF the Herald thinks too
large, though it may be successful, Notwithstanding.
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A HARD CAsE.-"wll you pay me this bill, sirp said
a tailor to a wsggish fellow, who owed HIM a pretty
long bill.
fDo you owe anybody anything sirr said the wag.
ono, sir said the tailor.
ssThen You can afford to wait.D And off he walked.
A day or two afterwards the tailor called again CIR
wag was not at his wits end yet; so turning to his cred
itor, he said:
Are you in debt to anybody7r
Nyes sir , said the tailor