Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-30

CONDITION OF LIBRRIA.-DT. RaiueY who went
to Africa with the Echo negroes, gives a good
account of Libsrin. He says it has effectually
redeemed GOO miles of the African coast from
thecurse of slave-trading, except so far as the
French are concerned, who conduct slave trade
under the name of emigration. OF the condition
of the country DIR. Rainey says:
Monrovia is city Of three thousand inhabi.
tants; population as virtuous orderly and well
conducted as can be found in any country
The city is not heathily located, and hence bears
but little of that impress of prosperity whichis
everywhere observable throughout other por.
tons of the republic / made a short visit up
the fine St Paul river. The first few miles are
covered with a low, dense growth Of mangroyes,
from which the most noxious ehiuVia arises,
generating intermittents, aud, coupled with 9TH
er causes producing also the much dreaded ma
lignant African fever. Generally speaking, the
fever is simply an epidemic maIarous in
termittent, Of a type by no means as dele
FERROUS or of half SO rapid elimination as
the congcstive fever of the Missouri river
bottoms. Beyond seven miles, however, the
country becomes high and rolling upon both
banks, affording good water, and heulthful
drainage, while it is covered with rich and very
productive soil over substratum of ferrugin-
Gus sandstone, and in places hornebled, in which
lime largely predonnates. inspected the
banks closely for twenty miles, aud passed
through some large and hourishing coffee and
sugar estates, aud through fields Of very good
corn. examined two large steam sugar mills,
made in Brooklyn. One of them is erected at
the expense of the government, and grinds corn
aud manufactures sugar and molaSses, and
makes corn meal, on shares with the people
The cane is of an excellent quality. The coffee
tree bears large berry, and far more profusely
than any that have seen in Brazil. Que man,
Mr.. Hooper, a protege of our late lamented
Downing, has eighteen thousand trees in bear
ing. But as money, especially specie, is scarce
in the country, he told me that he would be able
To gather from only five or six thousand trees,
thus loosing many thousand dollars, as the cof-
fee is exceedingly highly priced and readily
commands twenty cents per pound in Monrovia.
This river is most densely populated. The
whole district is high and healthy. Fine brick
houses appear all along the stream in Caldwell,
New Georgia, Clay, Ashland, Virginia, Louisi-
ana, and the many other tiourishiug settlements
which passed. The settlers seem to be thrifty
and happy, notwithstanding several tribes os the
cUlonists complain of CASTE and say that the Yir-
ginians are most too high.headed, and are all
the tune claiming that they are the "uualityr
OF Liberia. j saw beyond these settlements the
low ranges of mountains, stretching away to
the south, or the first bench Of which the So
clety have large acclmatiHg hospital and farm,
called Carysburg. Scarcely any of the colonists
remain in Monrovia, but nearly all proceed to
this place, or TO Robertsport at Cape Mount
Liberia is evidently advancing; and if she can
only be protected by ChriStendom from the
outrages which France is practicing on her, and
which causes niuetenths of the interior wars
that weaken her, she will rapidly assume a po-
Sition of much interest to us and to the word,
IN trade rs well as in the progress of civiliza-
ton.