Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-08

Of that sent by him to New York was recently
sold at SIC. per pound, when Cuba was sell
ling at 6tc. The business is in its infancy,
and there is a lack Of capital. There is not
in the country a single plantation having one
hundred acres in bearing. The cost Of native
labor is from twenty-five to thirty cents per
day.
Rice is the great article Of food in the
country, and can be raised cheap. Specimens
have been brought to this country, and those
who have used it. pronounce it to be ofsu-
perior quality. Mr.. l.. will take rice clean
ing machine with him, on his return He
is confident that rice will soon become an
article of export.
Coffee grows wild in the country, but has
never been picked in any large quantities.
He brought out the first lot ever sent to the
United States, and it is pronounced by these
who have used il, the best in the world. He
sold what he had, at Philadelphia, for 524
cents per pound.
Wild cotton grows there in considerable
quantaties but very little Of it has found its
way into the market. Indigo grows wild,
but no efforts have been made to make it an
article of commerce.
Mr.. Lloyd broughton a lot OF peanuts the
Interpretation from the country. Believing
they can be cultivated with profit, he has
started q plantation of two hundred acres near
Monrovia.
He also brought lot of hides and skins
the first that have found their way to this
market. He thinks they can be obtained in
large quantities. There are immense herds of
cattle in the interior, owned by the native
kings, and running almost wild. BullOcks
are sold at Monrovia for about 81.
He thinks not one-eighth Of the colonists
that have gone to Liberia have returned, and
those, from their being unused to labor, were
not fit for the colony. During the first year s
residence there a person will not be able to
do much work, but after having become ac-
climated, few desire to return.
The colonists with their children are es-
timated to number full thirty-6ve thousand,
and there are in the colony some five thous-
and Christian natives, besides many Others
whose habits are becoming civilized.
All the children in the colony are sent to
school, and the attendance of the children of
Monrovia upon Sabbath schools isrepresented
to be larger in proportion to the numbers
than in any other place Of its size in the world.
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the interior by the churches at Monrovia, and
one by the Sabbath schools. The natives are
anxious to have teachers sent into the villages,
and will pay them iberally in the products
of the soil.
There are in the, country, besides the mis-
siOnaries, not more than halfa dozen white
people. There are chiefly commercial agents,
who have become acclimated, and who spend
a large portion of the time in trading up and
down the coast.
In reference to the slave trade, Mr.. Lloyd
says that not a single cargo of slaves has
been taken from the coast of Liberia in the
last twelve years. The French apprenticeship
system has also been broken up. Some two
years ago a French ship was on the coast, ap-
parently for the purpose of trading and get
ting apprentices, but it was suspected she was
a SLAYER and at Cape Mount the natives at
tackled her, and killed the captain and a por-
ton Of the crew. Since then there bad been
no vessels on the coast after apprentices.
The English are becoming acquainted with
the resources Of the country, and are taking
measures to improve them Agents have
visited the coast recently, and are making in
Vestments in plantations for various purposes.
1t remains to be seen whether our govern
ment by its wanton neglect and our mer-
chants, by their lack of enterprise, will allow
the field that has been opened to be occupied
by others.-BOStoH TrIUslIer.