New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-11

Nth IL has been arrested for violation of the
lava No Gaze Of bsstardy has hitherto occurred;
the general moral standard Of the community is
high, ard the social improvement is marked and
manifest.
The settIers are for the msst part fugitive slaves,
and of the whole number about one.third are Of
pure African descent. II Mr.. King be right in
this, the proportion Of blacks is, l think, much
greater than in the Province at large. Those OF
them who have been accustomed TO farming snd
have had some capital TO commence with, have
done exceedingly we'll having cleared more iAnd
and made greater improvements than the great ma
iorty Of white settlers in the same tune and under
similar circumstances. Those who have brought
neither skill nor capital have hsd much more dif
6cut task but even these have so far either paid up
their instalments regularly, or when they have
poised them, it has been BY permission, the money
being laid out upon the land so to render future
payment easier. Many haze already paid ia full
for thea, farms and ssceired their deeds, Others are
prepared TO do 30 in the coming year. and Mr.. K.
10 confident that at the expiration Of the ten years
all Will have come into full possession Of their ands.
Two settlements of Europeans have been formed
in Canada under Government direction, one OF
Highlanders at NOtOwassgs. north Of Toronto,
another of mixed Irish, English and Scoth emf
srsnts at Ramsey, near BroOkvine; the settlers Of
both for some time received aid in provisions farm
ing inplements &c, but both have failed. At the
High land settlement 8 ,me 90 or 80 Of the original
settlers With their families stlll remain the others
have long been dispersed. They began to do better
immediately the Government aid was discontinued
Mr. Kipg attributes the greater success Of the set
t]ement at Buxton partly to the fact that, in the
first place, the negroes better az men than Ed
ropeaD emigrants, and so are better fitted to con-
tend with the difficulties attendent upon clearing
heavily timbered country; but mainly to the cir.
Gun stance that the colony at Buxton was, from the
beginning, self supporting. The negroes perfectly
understood that they were to depend upon them
selves alone, that they were 10 receive no supplies
in money, in food, in clothng and thus their
pride and self reliance being excited, they worked
with a will, not otherwise to have been looked
for If, on the whole, this has been wise and has
" ,rked well in one respect it may have retarded
the progress of the settlement or ut least have d.
m nished the result as in it; since many OF the
negroes have fund it more profitable perhaps
necessary, to employ part OF their time and laoor
at a distance from Buxton. Now, however, the
completion of the mill, the brick-yard and the
potash factory affords field for labor the place
ittef
Of the fifteen slaves Mr.. King originally brought
with him, three have died, though their places have
been taken by children that have since been born In
Canada; nine are with hum stu settled at Buxton;
ono is married and lives at Chathsm two, mother
and daughter, are at Detroit, but Mr.. King has
lately received a letter from the daughter, stating
that they are about 10 return to Buxton One OF
the Slaves at that time an old Of IS, received
in COZ sideration of his age some assistance in put
ting up his cabin, and we believe in clearing bis
land He married at Buxton woman of suitable
years, and has since supported her and himself
without assistance / saw his house, his garden,
aid bis corn PATCH and every thing looked neat and
fOurishlDg.
Tn company with Mr.. K. and our companion
from Chatham, we walked over part Of the set
tlepent. The place was certainly no realization Of
Utopia, nor did the cabins resemble the neat,
white painted houses Of NeT-EOgland village.
Every thing was new, rude and rough. To city.
bred man tho timber was terrible. saw one tree
left standing by the roadside, at least Eve feet
through at the base, and rising straight ss an AZ
TOW and scarcely diminished in circumference to
an immense hight, before it gave of branch.
Nest of them were from two to four feet in diam.
eter The road was merely awids lane cut straight
tbrOush the forest, with the roots Of the trees
everywhere traVeIsing the deep, friable soil. On
either aide, here aud there scattered the cab
lis and clearings Of the settlers-the former al
built of uDhewn logs, set back the prescribed nun
Der Of feet from the road, and each one SURROUNDED
by its kitchen garden. They were not destitute OF
all traces of ornament. Over the rude porch front
ofthe cabin creeperswere frequently trained and ole,
covered with hop-vine in full bearing, looked ex'
eeedBely pretty. Some of the gardens boasted flow
er.beds and right colored phloxes and peoples and
corn flowers were in contrast with the dark fOres:
which hemmed US in We entered the cabin Of a
fugitive, but two years from Kentucky, and who
bad married, we believe some time after he had
reached the settlement The cabin was smaller
than the model; but the owner, with an eye at a
future time of adding to it, had built the chimney
double, and huge brick Ere place stared at US
from the outside. Within was the wife, with
couple of small children, her relations, to whom
the couple afforded home. There were chairs,
table, large chest and cooking stove and its
utensils. The family dinner Was sill on the stove,
pork and potatoes, while into another vessel in
quantity Of bet, bubbl ng fat, had been thrown
some green corn in the ear. The man was absent
at work in the brick Yard.