The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22
& ANDERSON, S. @, THURSDAY. AUGUST e. 1878

support of their idea. Above Clay
Ashland are the settlements of New
York, 600 population,) and Louisiana,
(4O0 population.) Just above the rapids
is the fourishing settlement of Arlington,
With a population of between 600 and
700. This portion of the st. PauPs is
the most thickly populated in the Re.
public, and most of the unoccupied Land
along the river front is owned by old set
tiers. There are few settlements along
the Junk and Po, aud one on the lower
portion of the st. Paul's. Then few
families are scattered about here and
there, all of the remainder of the popu-
lation being in the towns, most of which
have already been named, and smaller
settlements. Liberia has only received
an addition of a few hundred by immi-
grafton during the past ten years.
From Clay-Ashland we came back
down the st. PauPs River, stopping at
several places to do little foraging.
The result was q bushel or two of butter
pears, Ia fruit about the size and shape
of very large pear, with green or pur-
pie rind, and containing soft, buttery
interior which is very palatable when
eaten with spoon and we'll mixed in
disgusting looking mess with sugar and
vinegar few sour-saps, Ia fruit much
commended, which grows on tree, re-
sembles a dropsical cucumber and taste,
like nothing at all, seasoned with weak
vinegar,) a few delightful pineapples, q
dozen or so chickens, and an equal num-
ber of eggs, collected one, two and three
at time; few oranges, plenty of lem
ons and lines, and several large punches
of bananas, and sheep, which was eyi.
dently in the last stages of consumption,
(the sheep here have no wool, and !
couldn't to save me tell sheep from goat
For all of these we paid good prices
The quadruped just alluded to was de-
voured at single meal, and then we
wanted more. It was about the size Of
an ordinary black and tan dog, but tasted
very well. He and his like sell for about
two dollars, when they can be gotten.
while pair of turkeys brings five dol.
lars. At few places along the river
they grow
INDIAN CORN
in small patches, but it deteriorates great.
ly in this soil and climate, producing
however, fair "nubbins," suitable fol
feeding stock. saw few watermelons
generally of the "Joe johnson" Tor "rat-
tlesnake") pattern, but they, too, were
small. although there is little difference
between their taste and that of Hanover
County" or "Augusta" rapture.
L1BER1AN HOUSES.
1 had an opportunity Of inspecting the
interior of moro of the houses. Nearly
all of the dwellings in Liberia, outside
Of Monrovia, are furnished plainly-very
much i'm the style prevalent among col.
ored folks in America. There were the
familiar plaster of Paris images, dogs and
cats on the mantles, the familiar gaudily
gilded and painted china cups and mugs
and the familiar ghastly caricatures o.
Scriptural scenes, where a knock-kneed
Joseph is always being sold into captivity
in a yellow shawl by an obviously iato1i:
Gated gentleman with very pink legs and
very large arms, who holds in his Other
hand long walking stick, while blue
camel watches the proceedings with an
air of personal interest. Altogether
could easily imagine myself in the best
room of q respectable colored family
down South. In Monrovia more of ar
attempt at elegance is made, there being
wide settees and more elaborate furniture
generally. The pictures, however, are
invariably common and poor.
THE COMPILATION POLICY.
We got back to Monrovia some time
after dark that evening. Here it trans
pired that DR.. Roberts, who had very
kindly acted as my guide, understood the
management Of Kroopen much bette
than did. he had Been stern, e3achne
and sharp with our crew throughout
while T tried the pacific policy. They
refused point blank to row out to the
vessel, and it was only after the assump.
ton of threatening tone by Us regard
ing the withholding Of wages and rum
that they finally consented. 1t was char
acteristic of the animals that, after being
paid in full, they came to me and deman.
ded repayment ON the ground that theil
headman had failed to pay them. This
headman followed me around for two
days trying to persuade me that he haG
been promised an extra dollar, until
took occasion to inquire, in his hearing
how much it would cost to break Kroo'
mans head. Then he desisted, although
he might with ilnpunity have continued
dunning to this hour, as ne weighed
apparently, about 225 pounds, and an
assault upon his precious person would
have cost me (being white man) about
s25. One day Capt. Holmes and l toos
heart of grace and called to see
THE PRESIDENT.
The Executive mansion is not q very
imposing structure, being an ordinary
red brick, two-story tenement house, with
a porch in front, to which a fight o.
common wooden steps leads up from the
front gate which opens on the street
The yard in front is shallow, and ha.
apparently little care taken of it, although
the building itself is in tolerable repair
On the benches in the front porch there
are usually several persons loa6ng, prob
ably either petitioners for something OF
hangers-on. The interior is plainly fur
nished, the most noticeable objects in
the parlor being two large and elabo
rately gilt, old-fashioned parlor tables
surmounted by large mirrors, in equally
elaborstely gilt frames. Our cards were
taken up, and in q few minutes tho Pres
ident, Anthony w. Gardner, came dowr
stairs, and we we're introduced by 9
Young man who had taken up our "paste,
boards"-I as "Mr. album News anc
Courier" and the captain as captain
album Azor." The President is tall
thin, apparently about sixty years of age
and shade or two darker than the octo
room. He dresses as becomes his year
and position, plainly but well, adherint
to the old-fashioned high collar with
which our ancestors used to make them