The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-05

deficiency OF chairs is supplied by logs or boxes,
cr ppy article that happens in The way, or Is the
good supply Of ,hcm-are badly clothed and
sloyeny and the poultry aud all dumb animals appear to
share the dwelling Nth them There seems to be very
little idea OF an economy OF work in the little improve
ners maze upon the lots patch is half cleared here
and another commenced there. Now tree is half
cot down and then left aud the destruction OF
customer commenced In fact, the lazy shfess charac
ter OF the "iree negro seen in every direction There
Of course few excephonssome instances where
the settler shows energy and perseverance but these
lot more than three four out of collection
OF over hundred and fifty families numbering
one thousand souls
The first settler went on to the land ten years ago He
is full blooded and his wife Is as black as the
Queen OF Spades The man's name is Riley, probably de-
from his former owner, and he escaped from Perry
county Missouri, some years ago. He had a good
master and comfortable home, but was per
hs the oounny SlSsR bis Sons ana %
10 Canada He is one Of the few exceptions TO
which have alluded his lot i. toeraby well cleared
show Of cleanliness in his cabin, and he has paid with
to!crablc regularity on his purchases somewhat rare
occurrence His escape from servitude he told me, was
unattended by any adventures fortunate thing for him.
as he took his wife with him.
Another settler upon whom called IL named Robinson,
and probably the most likely man. as his wife is one Of
the most likely women, the settlement He is stall
worth black, very dark coored and strong He appears
10 have perseverance, and his wife, well looking mu.
latto woman, Ia valuable help 10 him She docs what
few of her neighbors dokeeps herself her children and
her dwelling clean. She has bright fine girl
u
hoy about Eve years old. There is some show
Of order and taste in the single sttngroo below which
their log cabin contains The reoesses on each side Of the
cooking utensils and other odds and ends which neces
sary accumulate in such housekeeping Some pictures
are the walls and clean cover on the table. The
foor is well swept and the yellow is piled up ia
heap outside the house. instead Of inside The sleeping
apartment above, instead of in corner Of the lower
room, which is generally the case.
Robinson like his neighbor Hlcy, an escaped slave
from Missouri He was owned in Boone county and
rtNo,rtt IN gSr In
had several escapes of being captured He
once stopped in the road by white man, questioned
himself in tight spot he Sroxo for his life and raa
ming down steep embankment, got into the woods.
Here he was hunted for some days, bat by
good luck evaded his pursuers. His wife, who
was also a slave, escaped some years since from
kentucky, by the aid OF come Ohio aboitionsts.
colony was compeed to adm, .hat The
ment had not answered the expectations OF its projectors
as yet, and TO express his fear that it would ultimately
really unit TO provide for themselves They seem, he
says, 10 require guiding and directing hand, and to be
entirely deficient in forethough and settled purpose The
men who are In health sooner lind the warm weather
at band than they leave their homes to work out"
either BARRIERS, boot blacks walters or In any
other position that may offer on board steamboat
in hotel This is at the very season when they could
protaby labor their land but their sole ambi-
ton seems TO be TO obtain some light employment where
thought Of the is needed and where they
earn little money without hard work. They Ieturn 10
their families in the winter and lay idle long the
lille money tney nave saved Will last his gone they
go dscontentedy to choppng wood burning for ashes
and year after year their lots present the desoae
wild appearance and their pay ments for the land are
seldom met
Mr. Renne informs that the negroes on the settle
ment suffer terribly in the winter for the want Of clothing
and good shoes II is the lack of these probably that oc
casions so much sickness and is making consumption
fhta disease among the black population OF Canada In
deed it is very evident that the Egn Association dead
failure and that the experiment Of self supporting colo
nizaton of escaped slaves doomed TO be unsuccessful
The object Of the Rev. Mr. Kings visit to Europe is to
raise funds by charity TO sustain his fading colony; but
he Is successful he wish to be- the money
he realizes viii only serve to proong its existence few
years. and may eventually add to the proA OF those who
have specialized in the land II Is probable, however,
that the money be raises will rather be invested In
ming OF more slaves from the South than in building
churches and schoolhouses In decayng settlement At
the public meetings in Edinburgh and elsewhere at which
Mr.. King has begged donations from the charitable his
appeal has always set forth the claims Of the fugitive slave
in the strongest light lie is reported in the Einbugh
Wines Of November the 10th 10 have stated that at the
time Of the passage OF the Fugitive Slave law
in the United States, thirty thousand fugitive slaves
found their way into Canada, nearly all Of them in de
based and ignorant condition. He also stated that mp
wards 81 one thousand escaped slaves were settled upon
the lands at Buxton but would appear that his figures
are exaggerated probably for the sake Of effect
upon his audience.
may be set down then as certain that the Egln Asso-
citation, Incorporated 'for the settlement and moral i'm
prevent Of the coored population Of Canada has entirely
iaea M ~ 9Osst has seriously deprs
the best portion Of the white population and has congrega
ted together colony of blacks who are incapable Of work
suffer determination athe hands of that terrible scourge
consumption
may that the crops for the past three years have
been failures, as indeed seems probable they generally
must be. Bdckwheat, corn and potatoes planted
last year to meet the deficiency but without any great
am informed that but for the establishment OF
pearlash factory on the settlement by shrcwd Scotch
man. through which the settlers have been enabled
aize ptance out Of the sale of the ashes made from
burning the wood on their lots there would have been
little short Of starvation for many Of the families, for
there is nothing for them to steal in the neighborhood
without they plfer from one another
THE DRESDEN SETTLEMENT.
The settlement next in importance In the county Of Kent
and the odcst established in the county that known as
the Dresden Settlement in the township of Dawn. In
its character is entirely different from the
Egin Association, being common school for manual
labor, the settlers living much alter the fashion of Mr.
Horace Greoeys well known hobby Like the Egin As.
ISOLATION however, it has proved total aud amcnable
failure ts only fruits having been quarrels between the
blacks, and sharp money making tricks the part Of
Of TIE white phisnhroplsts connected with the
scheme The principal man in the Dawn institution at
inception old mulatto OF the name of John L.
Brown, who has been for many resident Of Cana
da, and whose home is now in Chatham. l received
narration Of the RISE progress and decay Of the settle
ment from him. and, the story is interesting will
peat it in the language of my Informant
THE STORY OF OLD BRowN-NoT ossAwAToMIE.
al am Of the Oldest if not the Oldest eolored settler
in Canada now living. came from Cincinnati, in 1929,
President of the Cincinnati Colonization Society There
were then only three colored men living Toronto One
Of them named 7. Butler, and he returned to the
States and died in Albany years ago They had all
Of them escaped from slavery. believe ! was
the frs. free colored that ever came from
the States TO Canada-that is to say, half free in
the States, for Of color is entirely free there.
subsequently returned TO Cincinnati and fetched four
hundred and sixty negro emigrants amongst whom
great many fugtives We went 10 Sandusky, where
We chartered vessel and came over to this side.
The society represented contracted with the Canada
Land Company for the purchase of twenty thousand
Of land to be called the Wherefore settlement. The
Canada Company bought the government lands with the
exception Of the clergy lands at the time of the
battle Of Waterloo for twenty five cents Their
deeds are good deeds We were to pay
shngs and six pence for purchase, in ten
yearly pay ments ana at the end Of that time to receive
our deeds The tract located fifteen miles northwest
Of London and now the Grand Trunk Railway runs
through It's centre. We failed in payments and only
succeeded in taking up thirteen hundred acres, which
ua mai frr and decided original