New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-22

rising to the head, and leading the van. of the medi-
cal fraternity in this country. i have no personal
quarrel with enmity against the Doctor. But u
dividusls have copplsssd Of this and other wrongs
TO The agents Of the American Colonization Society
in vain As last resort. write this puonciy IN De-
half of many hungry orphan children, and wretcned
widows made desolste by the loss OF ther usoshas
who have died for the want of food or medical a''en
dance in g strange and foreign land. do NOT WISH
the Society to throw him overheard, but SIMPLY de-
mand greater degree of attention TO poor ensrahe
higher grade of skill and efficiency in himself anc
then nav him better salary. Because TINS Is dear
country in which to live comfortably, and the man
who gives his whole attention 10 any one department
of business deserves to be well paid. Ii is common
sayipe here that we have either feast or famine
and II is no ess true in regard to physicians than pro-
visions Report says that two me al young gentle
men of Boston are abou; TO sail for this city. We
sball give them a hearty welcome and then we shall
have four physicians,-Drs Roberts, Moore, Lang
and Snovden The latter two gentlemen will need
considerable practice before they become skifu in the
diseases of this country. We wish them all success
and believe the interchange of thought and the
rettion for skill will render them AL more efficient.
Resides. we shall have Dr. McGll here the recent
Governor of Cape Palmas, graduate Of the medical
DEPARTMENT of Dartmouth, reported 10 be the most
able MUSICIAN in Liberia but, the society would
not pay him what be considered fair compensation,
he has given up practice for the present and associ
a,ed himself in business with his three brothers,
known as the firm of McGIl Brothers, one Of the
oldest. moot wealthy, responsible and respectable
mercantile houses in Liberia. hope that these four
,nfa hr1tn
teripg less medicine to their patients. think, for
this climate and its peculiar diseases it will be dis
covered in few years that the milder and simpler
systems of hydropatby and homeopathy will be more
effectual than the common allopsthc practice.
| will not harrow up your minds by any accounts
of fearful mortality caused by the want of medical at
tenton and the comforts Of life among poor emgranss.
Suffice il to say that Of two hundred of the emigrants
Of the Banshee which arrived the day we did sent
nm the ST. Pauls river, one-thlrd have died. and our
AGENTS citizens and physicians are all in controversy
about it, in two party papers, published in this city
called The Herald and Sentinel If any colonization
papers doubt my statements, let them only dare pub
lish the letters from these papers, Ii will all come
ont Let me only state one fact, and comment in fu-
ture. have spent whole day investi eating the
case of the Morgan Dix, which sailed from Baltimore
Nov l 1851, and arrived at Bassa with one hundred
and fftyone enigran;s all well. lSee AT. Repos. for
Dec. 1851, and April 1881 They were we'll supplied
with means-with a saw-mill and agricultural impe-
ments But where are they now ! Echo answers,
where Could the grave disgorge those old gun
boxes into which their frghta corses were hurried,
il would disclose horrid tale OF the neglect of the
physician, agent, or Society;-or exhibit the muir
derous work of sending fresh emigrants to people
new districts of country that resemble 10 place 50
much as Golgotha. Read and understand, that Of
hese one hundred and .tfty-oae emigrGats there
are but niRe suTric0rs. Others maintain that there
are fourteen. Grant that there ae fourteen survi-
vors | challenge the Colonization Society and their
agents here and in America 10 prove that there
more And all this is the result Of sending men to
the most unhealthy part of this country and packing
them into old rickety, matched houses in which, the
emigranis tell me, they had 10 hold umbrellas to
keep them from the pelting rain. Besides, they have
hut one ply stefan for Basss and Simon, which |
think are one hundred and fifty miles apart and
have too much evidence not to believe that some of
the emigrgnts actually starye and die for want of
food and medical care. But let me speak softly. 1
wepieh forgot that / must buy my goods aud pro-
yi.ions in New York, Boston, and Baltimore for my
store and after talking loudly, may be troubled
20 find an agent to discount my drafts, and forward
goods in cooniz alton vessels. Besides, may be per-
secuted by pack of huBgry pork caters in Liberia.
With the ply sicans have done at present. From
DR. Roberts and his particular friends may expect
resentment But if can only save from the grave
few poor Southern emigrants, aud make better the
chances Of long life to my friends from the North,
ain willing the Doctor shall pay me for my bodness
in any kind of coin he pleases In justice 20 the So
ciety may say that this Of the Morgan Dix is
an extraordinary one. The emigrsnts of the Isa de
Cuba in which came, having settled at this place,
have lost only three Of their number, and to be-
doing well; and the Banshee | have said, which
arrived the day, lost, of her two hundred
sent only fifteen miles up the ryer-one third.
Some of my friends write me, and inquire how like
the country. may say on toe whole, first rate, and
il did not, could return to the States tomorrow
sl coo better of than when here six or seven
mouths ago. have had three pOkers 10 the fire. and
God has prospered with all, although have been
sick at timer much three months; wife sick
constantly; children well now invite my friends to
come TO Liberia but take care to have some little
means to start with. You can earn it in America
easier than in Africa. Where one succeeds with
nothing, twenty suffer and die, leaving no mark of
| their existence. A. w.
FROM WA SHINGTON