The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-02-05
Couditlon Of Liberia.
d.. Raincy who went to Africa with

the Echo negroes, gives good account
of Liberia. He says it has e!fectually ro.
deemed 600 miles of the African coast
| from the curse Of slave trading, except so
far as the French are concerned, who con
duct a slave trade under the name of en-
igration OF the condition Of the coun-
try, DR. Rainey says:
"Monrovia is city Of three thousand
inhabitants; a population as virtuous,
orderly and well conducted is can be
found in any country, The city is not
healthily located, and hence bears but
little of that impress of prosperity which
is everywhere disccrnable throughout 9th
er portions of the republic. made a
short visit up the fine st. Paul river
The first few miles are covered with
low, dense growth of mangroves from
which the most obnoxious cffiuvia arises,
generating intermittents, and coupled
with other causes, producing also the
much dreaded malignant African fever
Generally speaking, the fever is simply
an epidemic malarious intermittent, of
type by no means as deleterious or of
half so rapid culmiuatIon rs the con-
gestive fever of the Missouri river bot
toms. Beyond seven miles, however, the
country becomes high and rolling upon
both banks, atfordng good water and
healthtul drainage, while it is covered
with rich and very productive soil over
u substratum of forrugulous sandstone,
and in places horneblcnd, in which lime
largely prodominates. inspected the
banks closely for 20 miles and passed
through some large and tlourishine su-
gar estates, and through fields of very
good corn. [ examined two large steam
sugar Ills, made in brooklyn, One Of
them il erected at the expense Of the gov
ernmont, and grinds corn and manufac-
lures sugar and molasses, aud makes corn
meal on the shares with the people. The
cane is of an excellent quality. The coffee
tree bears large berry, and far more pro
fusely than any that | have seen in Bra
zil. One man, Mr., Hooper, a protege OF
our late lamented Downing, has eighteen |
thousand trees in bearing But as mon
cy, especially specie, is scarce in the
country, he told ne that he would be |
able to gather from only five or six thou
sand trees, thus losing many thousand |
dollars as the coffee is extremely high |
priced aud readily commands twenty FIVE
cents per pound in Monrovia.
This river is most densely populated. |
The whole district is high and healthy. |
Fine brick houses appear along the
stream in Caldwell, Now Georgia, Clay. /
Ashland. Nirginia, Louisiana, and the !
many other touri>hing settlements which /
passed. The settlers seem to be Thrift j,
t. and happy, Notwithstanding several
tribes of the eolonists complain Of caste,
and say that the Virsinians arc most too
high-headed, and arc ali the titae COM
planning that they are quality Of Libc- |
ria. | saw beyond these settlements the |
l5w ranges Of mountains, stretched away /
t. the south, on The first branch Of which |
the society have large acclimating hos |
pital and farm, called Carysburg. Scarce
ly any of the colonists remain in Mon |
rovia, 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 Chris.sndom from
The outragss which France is practising |
ON her, and which causes nine ~tenths OF |
the interior wars that weaken her, she |
will rapidly assume position of much |
interest to us and to the world, in trade |
as we'll as in the'progress Of civilization.' |