Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-09-13
TRADE WITH AFRICA.

Late accounts from the African Republic of Ii
IBERIA give favorable description Of the state Of
the country. Settlements were being formed in
the INTERIOR and the natives at the newly.
territory Of the Gallinas had furnished proof of
their readiness to abandon The slave trade by giving
notice to President RoBERTs and Commodore FAM
SHAW Of a Spanish brig lowering on the coast for
slaves. A new town is to be formed at Gallinas,
and is TO receive the name of Quincy, after Mr..
SAMUEL GURNEY, Of London. The subjoined ex-
tracts of letter, addressed by President RoBERTs
to gentleman in London, give the latest nforma-
ton on the general condition of the Republic:
GovEREMEsT HOUSE,, MoSRovIA, JusE 20, 1851.
am happy to say public affairs progressing smooth
ly At no time in the history of our little commonwealth
has the progress Of general improvement been
aging than the present time Commerce decidedly in
creasng and before has agriculture Liberia received
greater attention. Among the neighboug native tribes there
are fewer and commoions and they rapidly
too adopting civilized and industrious habits This is in
great attributable to the abolition of the slave trade
upon this part Of the African coast and think may safely
say that the traffic again be revived within the urs
dicion of Lberacertany not between Sierra Leone and
Cape Palmas.
Now that the slave trade is end upon our coast and
have secured nearly all the intermediate points of terri
tory between the extremes Of jurisdiction, giving
attention TO extending influence into the interior
Measures being taken to form settlement in the
tain region in the interior Of Grand Basa The country
been explored, and Is as being healthy and fer
tile, while the aboriginal inhabitants friendly,
edy industrious and intelligent than the natives
the coast. and more confirmed in the opinion
that il is healthy in the interior of this country, beyond
the Duence Of masma arising from the mangove swamps
bordering the whole coast than in any location at present
occupy, and shall not fail give my bst influence and
enlargement to the foot for forming interior
settlements. ba5 sna m, III
NATAL, town Of recent origin and situated north Of
Moorova lattey attracting attention port Of
commercial Importance number Of English capitalists
understand have purchased sites for orehouses, and
cured large tracts of land with view of cnlvang and
porting cotton from the colony An intelligent gentleman
writing from there the subject says This article loot
ton] will and does grow, and vigorously too in this
y, may be plantations the banks of the river
Umganee-which, though totally neglected and the
plants stiHed with weeds producing cotton abundany
no one thinking it worth while to pick it, Bot the insta-
bty Of labor operates against its being cultivated to any
extent. personally acquainted with the farmers Of
sthese plantations who state that in addition their ina
by to get the requisite Of steady cheap labor they
had to sell their for from ID Id per h. persons
'!!:-iaS there"
We know not how these specuatons will succeed bat
quite certain that the prof. sangune Of satisfactory
results Africa has in its time produced many million
pounds Of cotton but owing to the onnercouse Of the
natives with the European markets, and their Incidence
combined with utter ignorance Of the vaue Of the staple
civilized e partial absndonmen. Of the traffic had, unit
within few years snce ensued, and its increase
the past half century is trng compared with what il
should be. The exports Of the material from ,
Pounds.
Egypt 10 1884, were Observation-Disclosures IS, 800 600
Rest Of Africa, western Coast) "a 0uO. 900
Total. ..................5 SO COG, 900
Exports in 1871. emitting Egypt. IA, 000. 900
By which il will be that the exports half century
since from Lower Africa amos great in 1884 they
were from the whole grand divson including Egypt We
believe therefore, predcana opinion upon ,he.e expert
mental developments, shat the hopes Of the planters writing
from there arc not altogether ill-fnunded.
Meanwhile the American Colony, (Libea,) we'll as the
English settlements, deserve attention. The exports
the coast lily increasing, and will speedily al
ford ample market for American products in return
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