The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-06
From he Boston IraUsller.
I.atar fran 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 advertisement, Offering premium of fifty dol
lars for the best five Of cotton, and promis-
ing TO furnish the means TO any competent persons
VINO wish to make the experiment
The Herald, in an editorial article, urges atten-
ton to the collection Of india rubber, 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 II and bring 1t in for SALE
The u S. Brig Perry, Captain A Ia. Foote, ar
rived at Monroyia June 10, in nine days from St.
Helena, all well. He reports that the slave trade
on the South Coast" ia on its last legs" Farther
north il is already nearly extinct.
About June q fire broke out in the new town Of
Buchanan, at Grand Bassa Point, and consumed
five houses In all other respects the new settle
ment was prospecting. The natives in the region
were delighted with the change since the expul-
sion OF the Fishman Grando.
In Bassa county large quantities of palm oil wore
coming into the different settlements; the farmers
at Bexloy planting large quantities of arrow
root, and there was prospect OF large crop OF
rice.
The brig Sea New arrived at Monrova May Is,
seventy six days from New York, with fifteen emf
grants. The Sea New lay fifteen days at Sierra
Leone, where strenuous efforts were made to per-
suade the emigrants to remain, but they all prefer
red the new republic to a British colony.
Extracts from Captain Forbes's (British) book on
'DhhoIly anu the DanOnan5, accusing the LII
berians Of "buying and selling Gods image" had
reached Liberia in the newspapers. The editor Of
the Herald, after copying the accusaton closes his
remarks by saying: "The whole thing is too rdc-
ulous to be treated seriously, and deserves no fur
Their notice from us than flat contradiction, which
we unhesitatingly record" The editor says that
the receiving OF "pawns," as practsed, according
to Captain Forbes, by the English, the Gold
Coast, is forbidden by law, and not practised in
Liberia.
April rs, the barquc Gem, from New York,
touched at Monrovia, having board the Rev.
Robert Bolton and lady, Presbyterian missionaries
to the Gaboon, 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 4" King in that neghborhood TO live in
peace. All promised compliance but one, who was
told that he must do it, or troops would be sent TO
drive him out of the country, for the government
determined to stop the war. This brought
him to terms, and arbitrators were soon to meet
and settle all their "palavers."
Judge Benson has aso been about forty miles
inland, with an exploring party, to select site in
the mountainous region for new settlement he
found the country fertile, well wooded and watered,
and the natives friendly and quite superior to those
near the coast. He selected site some thirty
miles inland from Bexley
The emigrants by the brig Aida, from New Or
leans, were doing we'll at Since. There had been
no OF the smallpox among them since they
landed; had there been any deaths except four
children. They had nearly all passed through the
acclimating fever, and at work their farms.
One Of them had built large boat, propelled by
paddle wheels, to ply between different settlements
on the Since river
The emigrants by the Baltimore, from Savan-
nah, were all landed in good health and spirits.
One OF them brought a steam saw mill, with an en-
CINE Of twenty horse power, which the editor ofthe
Herald thinks too large, though il may be success
full, notwithstanding