Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Special Bequest*. 1. In writing to this offion on basinnss *1- W»y*gire your name *nd Post Office wldress. Business letters and communications to 1*1 published should be written on separate greets, and the object ot' each clearly indi cated by necessary note when required. 8. Articles for publication should be writ ten in a clear, legible hand, and on only one ^IdeOf the page. 4. All changes in advertisements mast reach us on Friday. Travftlft?^ '* * South ,Carolina Railroad. CHANOB.OE SCHEDULE, r BARNWELL C. E. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 1. 1878. -f THE ROSE OF EDEN. ti Kr. Chsrlest'ju, <r Summerville train, M''/ {Sundays excepted) ’ ' «’ •> : >.'• " ' ' • Leave PqpnierwUle 7 40 a sn Arrive at Chwteston- 8 40 a w I>eave Charleston S'lO'p’nl Arrive at Summerville , lk , 4 26 p in Breakfast, Dinner and'Supper at Bronchville ’ t *'1*itnden tiain .J !'•’fl drt' !Vft. I • .11.0 1, *_**: Connects at HiagevilledaSiy^Santfatyanxcep- ped) with day passenger Crain u> nn* from Charleston. Passengers frorti Ciindec to Co- fanbiaean fotcrough without detentioh on Ketadayw, tVedneSaars'' and Friday87 hm! IQolambia.lo Camden on Tuesdays, ’hwfdays iatui< Baj^yday* by - ecnnecKon ith (laTWk’sengK Wtisi. . ’ < • i. V 'V. Day and aigtit ir^ina cwnascl at Augtfttta with Qaosgia Hdiirttad and ‘'eifral Raitrwad. This ro\it»i;in hiifr quickest, an^’inoet direct to Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, St Lea# and'Otber'points ih tha {ierthwest. • M i -:. f <■ i, l Night trains fer Auffista cewnact closely With the fast mail train via Maeow and Au* gusta Railroad for Mason, Columbus,- Mont gomery, Mobile, New Orleans and points in the Southwest. (Thirty~six hours, ta New Orleans. . / . j...n Day ttains for Columbia connect cljsaely with Charlotte Railroad for all points North, making quick tirtie and no dslays. .(^erty hours to New York.) , Thetrainson the Creenvillc and Columbia ^nd Spartanburg and. Uni»n Railroads con nect closely with the train whjch leaves Charleston at 5 00 a ns and returning they connect in same ntRqner with the train wbion )c«ves Columbia Mr Charleston at 6 30 p m Ijturens Railroad train connects*! Newberry (to Tuesdays, Thursdays and isa'urdays. ; Blue^idge Railroad train run's dai y, con“ nectingwith tip and d^own {rains on Green ville and Columbia Rnilioud, t B. ,S ROLCMONS, Superintendent. ? B. PtoKvtSj, General Ticket Agon'. ♦v h r A * -4*ini t a Sarann^ and i harlcstoii Ryllroat' To. ' CHANGE',OF SCHDDULt. '7^ Chari.esw’o, S. C., -Tan. ?> t , 5 On and after Monday, J.i^iytry T, trains on this Road will leave N’ortheasteru Railroad ns fblloVs : ■ }f\K 1378, Mie Depot of I Fait Moil Dai! t save Charleston rnve at Savannah J.eave Savannah Arrive Charleston - 3 15 a m. 0 Otl a. m. 6 00 p. m. 11 00 p. m. Z\ I I I Arri i rn Lcav ■weav R;: 1 - ! Accommodation Trail, Stindayt Ezerptcd, _ ■' I • * Leave Charleston, - - « - . 8 00 a. nj» Arrive at Augusta - . - . 6 16 p. nV. Arrive Pori Royal - • 1 60 p. n*. rrive Savannah - - _- - 3 50 p. m. cave Savannah,) •. * ^ 00 a. ta. ave Augusta q - . « - 7 30 ji. u»- ve Port Royal - - 10 20 a. m. ve Charleston •' » -^'fi'SO'p. m. Night I’aiZfnger, Sundays Ezc«j!li4.\> in ! • * I * M . Ift . Leave Charleston - . ~ -3 SO p- T>. Arrive Port Royal - - ,6 45 a. nj. Arrive Savanmdi n - 7 25,8. m. Leave Savannah,,, - - - 10 00 p. m. Leave Augusta *, » * 9 .00 p.m_. Arrive Charleatbn - - S 45 a. in. A 1 •;« # ' i» j.« • v- * • Fast mail train, will , only stvp; a{, Adems Bun, Temassec. Qrah^ullq and .Mnptpiih. . Accommodation tr^in wp stop at alJ^U*. tionson tnis road and. makes close connection for Augusta and Porf. Roy^ apd,,all station#, apt the Port Royal Railroad, Fast mail makes connecU^n .(ot points in Florida and Oqotgia. .• . C. 8. GARDEN, Engr. and Supt. .8. C. Botlston. G. F. end T. Agent. . -L Id —l WILMINGTON,: COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. 3 i*. GxKERAL I’ASSJiNOKR Dspahtmxxt, CoLtJMBU,"S. 0., August 6, 1877. Thffollovtlng Schedule will be operated oa and after this date; j*-.. •"» a J Night Expms ’&**»+- Y ddjKG NORTH, Leave Columbia, — 4 Leave Florence Arrive at Wilmington Daily. II 15 p.tJg. 2 40 a. m. . 6 32 a, m. going sorrn. ' 'FJl V A- 6 OO'p. nv 10 02 iv m. 1 25 4.^ Leave Wilmington Leave Florence . - Arrive at Columbia - This Train is FoptJUprcMC making through connections, all rojil. North and South, and waterline connection.gjv Portsmouth. Stqj. only at Eastover, Sumter, Titnmonsville, Florence, Marion, F&ip Bluff) Whiteville and Flemington. -“ , f ’ .Through Tickets'sold and baggage check ed to all principal points. Pullman Sleepers op night trains. ' .*•■* ,. v • n-.r- Through Freight Train—Daily, except Sun- < * days.) :'A 'twnto NORTH. . H 1. r ,ve Columbia ^ ^ . . Ftrrenoe. t.. • WUm;ngt6h. * ' GOING SOUTH. Leave Wilmington, . v 9" . .- »• 5 00 p. nr. 4 30 a. m. 12 00 m. Lkave Florence Arrive 2 30 p. m, 2 36 a. m. 10 10 a. m. ive at Colombia . ., ^oool Freight Train leavea Colubia Taee- day, Tknrtday and Saturday only, at 6a. m. JFlfeeiet Flere^eali 80p.m. , A. POPE, 0. F. k T. A. J'T.DIVITO, Beperinteqdest. Fair Eve knelt close by the garland (rate, in the glow of the Eastern spring, She saw the flash of the angel's sword and .the sho rn of the angel's wing. She'thoughts',ps►ehe held her sobbing - breath, she oould hear the happy sighs "'t the tidy rivuleto that fed the mosses of Paradise; ’ 4' ^iv'- 6 anew hovf the btWit wets guttering, mong the clustering flowbrfe gorgeous bToonds and archlftp trees vt shadowed Eden's bowers, ;he cried aloud in an agony' cl , ^’lWf. orseful prayer*. ■ ’ me one bud, but sne, but one, from housands that blossom there!“ ned as he heard l^er piteous voice, fh rave, angelic grace, • ne looked w 1th a wistful tenderness the beautiful woman’s face, because it was so beautiful and ba se she could not see fair wei e the pure white cyclamen, shod dying at hep knee; because he knew this punishment ough the ttfeary years must burn, t through all things sweet and good on arth her heart would for Eden yerfrn, -»o gathered a rich .r^d rose, that grew where the four gyeat rivers meet. And flung It to the frail,, fat*! ijauds, that clasped Implbfinj yet * I • J And though for many a eycte i-past >that rose In dust has |a!n, ,i<t N With her whp bore ip op per brocs V when she passed from Hfe an! pAln, There is never a dauRb te k of Eve but emee, ere the tale of her,day* is done. She will know tlip scent of the Edep rose, jpst once beneath the sun! And whatever disewhe m*y win ov.looe, endurp,prdo, ordare, She will pever forgot the sweet enchant ment It gave to the common air; For the woj-ld m«y give her oontentonjoy, fame, sorrpw or sacrifice. But the hour that brought the scent.to the rose, she lived irr Paradise. tr i* S All the Year Round. * ‘ ■ _j » ^ i ■ . THE EMIGRANTS IN LIBERIA. 1 5 -V T1IF1K IHSETO HARMAXIttNf and iti<h»iio> at yiov- KOVI4. » s' ftjiisut'ad'o. ‘ About hill a Hide house First fhufrryKMionM of “t-lie Prom lard Fund”-IMtirul 0 f the *4u«k* l*il»rinRN-—1'riniinnl i>'rgleot of tltr FxoditM A*i«o< i:i- tlom. — 7 i, rNev-sand Courier] ^ Monrovia, Libkku. June 17.—JIow tlie Azor left Sierra Leone in tow of the British mail steamer on the after noon of the first of June and arrived here before day on the morning of the 3<J has already been told. On the evening of the 2d we caught our first glithpse of Liberian soil in Grand Cape Mount, to which we passed close etfodgh to make ottt the trees on its sides and top. fiticlly we stopped, the anchor was let go and we Were \ 1 I U W , j # AT MONROVIA ! All we bould see of Monrovia then was an exceedingly sickly light above and some distabce off, safd to be on the top of Cape half way up the stoocl among the dafk green Irees. To the left (westward] of the cape tyas a wide bai 1 , over which the breakers were rushing,' And to the loft ot tliat again was a broad white beach frin ged with trees. Rebind the fyir there was a glimpse of still water and a clump of treos. This was Monrovia, with its cape, as first seed. ' Shme of the passengers began tinging 1 ;r - Land ^he^d, Jt* fruits are waving, O'er i,ts field* of endless green, , ., , And the living waters laving fchores vfherebeavenlj! forms arc shen. But tfce Heavenly fornfte were oeen about then, and the singing stopped. Theycbnelatedof 1 ' ‘ a tLKirr '<()? w pua‘-ouT t ’ canokt, tiach propelled by two or three gentlp- men In the aforefnen^loned, fetate of • near nudity, with paddies shaped like a pointed spade, or a 'trowel bayoileti Each of the now arrivals haA a daik blue line about an inch broad tattooed frbm t^e roots of his hair‘to' the end orhis noise, and it was discovered that S6ma hnA in over the gangway in such numbers And scattered about the ship so quick ly that it was Impossible to get them off except by inaugurating a knock down and drag-out fight which would have been very unpleasant. The whole gang therefore got aboard. The head man immediately Sought the captain, ah^,produced their “books," 1. e. their .written recommendation of good ,obarpcter and working ability pro«qur?d frop various captains, and oa^tjed in water-tight tin tubes about twfll'i^ iol^es long by two thick, sus pended »bput their necks. It t then tranepired.that our new friends Were Krooraen,that Is member* of the Kroo Tribe of Africans., Detachments of this tribe, which is a vpry large one, are scattered up and dowu the west coast They are amphibious pslpals, and will do no work accept jsn fPr.JA the water. Their perfect familiarity with the element, and their skill and endurance In rowing and working about ships render them an indispen sable auxiliary to the trader along the coast, especially ae there are few good harbors, the’ports having generally, litce Monrovia, only open roadsteads, the veesels being loaded Ot unloaded by small boats. , ' THE KROOMAN. > A Krpqman will beg ' ■until you give bln ntneteeu shillings, then charge youj the odd one for a service north a penny, and want his pay in advance,, Jf they, as a people, have a single redeeming trq|t ot .q^aracter, I coulees Lhavs never seen, it manifes ted. They seem “vllHaps.by necessity; foolsby Heavenly compulsion \ knaves, thieves and treacherous by spherical predominance ; dfunkar ds, liar*, apd adultereis by an enforced obedience to planetary influence," Thair jn ? ordinate inquisitiveness, is unfettgrqd by any conventional delicacy. I think they begin to chew tobacco when about 4 years old, I will havq more to tel! cf throe gentry further .pn. The cause of the blue^marks on their noses le, however, curious enough to be recorded hero. Tt eeeme that in tl)e ttme iyben plave trads flourished the ^10913 were ac useful watermen as new. ( Ths ftlayes .woufJ',' therefore, never purchase one, or only did So to set him liberty, fearing to incur the hoetility ot tlje .trlW^ ahit the .jjirpos adopted the blue mark, ag a sign of their nationality which always protec ted them from purchase by the white men. They are very proud of having never been slaves, frequently twit the Liberians with the fact when ,a quarrel occurs. About 9 o’clock on the morPr '- T -- wrapped,* ,few colls of rusty chbln. On either side the landing is a shallow K udidy slip id which rest two or three (ate similar to the ope we came in- A, few>mps up the landing, and we reach foajr heavy partially dismantled Stone yplls, .tlj't remnants of a burned wareheusa* : -Then, walking single file In a narrow<path through 4hs. tftlcUy clustering wild verheaa growlog trotn three to six feet high, wajellmb-the hill over loose stones, am) through ocea- sional streaks of wet mn<V-.caused by the trickling Of some tlpystreaip. On the hill we fifid a broad street gspwjp, over with grass with cattle grazing In It, through which rune another narrow path, just wide enough for one man to. walk In. As we went on I noticed the bouses—generally stone—on either side. Ifany of them had windows broken and gaping, and all showed sad papd of repairs. Nearly every yard, likp the street, was grown up In rank vegetatiiy).. On every side was the : A* ,, ■» , APOiartATIOH* OJ DESOLATION. We did not meet a noul hi the streets. Then v:e went to breakfast with dark forebodings of the character of the country. At this breakfast i repeated that novel experlencetef sitting, at this table with colored folks. A piece of fresh fish, and the coffee wereihe owly Liberian products bn the tahto vT .The meat, the oysters ard the vegetables were all canned goods from England. After breakfast, through the same, paths through the same streets and by the same dilapidated houses ,we visited the American Consul The position Is held here by Mr. M. A. Aenmy, a Hol lander, who fulfils its duties pending the appointment of a successor to J. Milton Turner, colored, the former consul, *ho has resigned and gone home. ,Our next expedition was to the QUfStpmhouee, the entrance to which is on the main street The streets are all^broad and appear to intersect each other at the proper angles and distan ces. The original settlers seem to have had a care for that decency which Addison teils.us is so nearly akin to virtue, for nearly all of the old houses are two story ones, well built of stone pr brick,anil arranged with an eye,to atchiteqtutal beauty, and about.most af them vrero ones neat -etone • fences surroupdlhg ^arge.yards apd gardens. Those buildings are, however, fast go ing to reck and ruinr..,aad tb« more tpodarn, though hardly leos- dUapidat- ed, edifices are of wood, and look what I wouli^ inoaglne 10 be an aatiatie arch itect's pightmare. Monrovia has be tween f.,0t0,a44 5,000; Inhabitants, and Ing of our arrival, a large row boat, straggles over about a mile from the all had on 3ome ^ Clothes, only a cloth, others a coat "and"clot£, Others a coat on]y( others a shirt, one All three. 'They haS eaoh“ suspendfed, about th^ hecks a* ■string C»f beads, and somh small bags ijf'‘‘medl<3ne. k/ Somd'hhd'lilata, some ^aiylily trimmed smoking haps, some' rldtauTous Woolen' nigfift' Th'ese ^feffows gaiLTed away among themselves in some heath enish and unknown dialect, with a great mkny “o’s” and * short and long “a’a" In it. They occasionally" ad dressed tfe In some few words of im perfect English. I at once conceived the Idea’that they were the original intoners. Their whole language seem ed t^> be a series bfWonhtlons, i. BOARDED DT THE HATIVia. ' , ' The emigrants Fere/ the ‘ nibet dis gusted ana crAtfallsh fobklng set that ever I saw.. They wandered 'disconso lately around Inquiring anxiously' of each other whether these were*specl-. rhens Of Liberians. "Why,” said the ■■pipmjangw&y dered evdry canoe to keep off, forbid ding ohr •Hsitore totulfilf their dee/re to come »boardl.’'The rascals paddled around, however, and made a feint of climbing up the side, pad when the vigilant offleer rushed around to drive them bade, their compaoloae eireamed manned by eight Kroomen, pulled out with the harbormaster and emigration commissioner, who came aboard. They b> ing THE FIRST AMERIGO-LIBERIANS * j that we had seen, were watched with much interest The harbormaster is a young man, a quadroon, and was at tired in »' dark blue coat, brilliant, with, tarnlabed gold shoulder straps and trlmujicgs and buttons, while hia head! was ornamented with a white cork baf.'from the back of which de pended pugafee’ 1 (a scarf or veil of white cloth worn ajoupd the hat, and much affected by the .floods of the tropics.) The rent ol bis dre^s was that of an ordinary.clvillan. Thecotp- missloner Is also acting aecretary 0^ the State. He is about the same cojor as his compan^pp^but tallqr' aop ap parently several years older; and was made very sick by the swell. Tbe^p- pearance of these two well dressed and Intelligent specimens of the inhab itants of the "Black RepnbBp” was a great comfort to the emigrant^, giv ing them assurance that there were at least some clothed and civiiiized beings ashore. Just here a suRraisiNa discovery was made. It was found, from ths statement of the visitors, that the Liberian government had receive/! no notification whatever of the departure of the emigrants, or of any ^f the pro- c^edingfe of the Liberian Ejodps Asso ciation, or the steamship jAsspclptjfon! Nothing wao known In Monrovia the emigration except what had been gathered from sTray copies of ani'exV tracts from The, News and Goc^ejs. About 10 o’clock sevsfal of v|8 went ashore ^n th« harbormaster’s Ijoat On tLe way we passed a small srhqpD- er, anfchprsd^usUbff the head of the Cape, bearing ^iTe . nama A v Lincoln, and were Informed that she was a Li berian craft owned In Monrovia. We also learned that the dqnse^gr^n'fqll- age which covered the Cape .was, the coffee tfiee, the bill being a coffep po tation belonging to the eetate * pf '$£- President Roberta. A German bark" also at anchor composed the remain der of ttys shlpplng in s the roadstead. We pufled ovsr the bar with no trouble, the eurf being light Now we were in side the £ape, and on the Meeurodo River, whiclj here la |d>out half a mile wide. Vfe palled up to a small landing and disembarked. On our light here ia a dark, empty-looking stone ware house, and theground la trodden bare, except a taw desultory grass patches. TO tbs left ot this boose stands n hogs cotton tree, around whose roots ia head of the Ca^e inland, extending shout half;way .acrope (about half a rnlle) | pn.Abe,slde opposite^© which w* landed. The towq*tqpa <)pwn la the wooda sopa^where. J, walked acroeo ones, and found the .densa growth, of bananas, cocoanqt, m&ngo, cotfeon and other trees, and undqrgrowtb,,which ^ termed here “the buab,” terminating abruptly at the ragged back fences of the neighborhood. , n < THE CUSTOMHOUSE , was originally intended to be quits a handsome building, being of brick, with a deep porch, having high pillars supporting an upper poitlco, and being neatly divided off Into the various offi ces. Nature here has done her best to conceal the original ugliness, and the neglect-fathered increase thereof, of map’s handiwork, and at a distance this structure looks very well. Going from ijhe m/>in street tbrobgh an open ing Ip a,low, qtppe wall, which sur- ropndp a park about the pize of a block Ig pne oj! our American cltlqs, tpe Visi tor apprpa^pSjthe cuatotphpusO on' what was a long, narrow tyrl^ wplk, 5ut is noif apiepauooesslon of stqrqb- ling-blocks and pltfa^a.. On hip at the corner o,f the pyirl4 ptando the courthouse, a square .prick building, about twenty by twenty, vjjtp number less panes out of Its windows, weath er stained and generally Jpdigent i 00 j ( . ing, as if the firm formerly doing busl- nqps there under the name and style of I^aw fr Equity had gone into bank ruptcy apd left the property In the hands of a neglectful assignee. Tpe visitor ambles over the “walk” Af«f6- skld, (“stuijab!^” would be a more ap propriate napie for ft,) and has titqe moralizing qye pn theqfeedAqn .^/eithpf ffde of hlp r Some, hpndsotpe trees prpnch pvpr bis head, apd (ftip .qol<f f .dfpM pf, rqln water down the ba 9 k 0^ ^s fh|rtpp4a^ Pass ing another, opening ^e crosses qn ppen spac^ And reaches ^he^ctptyjpljpuiw, A? b“. alr ®* d 7 Iwmet) „to fiffepeft, he fipds thq brick floorq of the, portly sunken 0/ projecting, tjiq pias^ripft fklllpg amj the glass brok^ .^epipf #fTMweted In on^jroopaekXWl Is quit*!/ gotten through thp of v fleers pelng. of Average' lotqjllgenoe, aqd apparently ,atepoaed to besoppm- modatlng and bualpess-like, wblqh is a wopder, oooalderiq^ ^ow little bgslqesp there Is to do. Ttpu^the official Mute ness disposed of, ,wq. teupaf^sd back down hill to the water sjbi& ther# being neither reaUurant.por hotel in Monro via. I forgot to chronicle that half marble slab to the memory of some Liberian hero, which stands In just such a position that the unwary way farer may bark his shins and smash his features there against I beg leave to apologise to the readers of the News and Oourlsr’for omitting to wind up this description of Monrovia with a .quotation from "the deserted village.” Tbs iapt is, however, that there are no books of "familiar quotations” or cop- iqs of Goldsmith accessible here. Be sides that it la Impossible to Imagine Moorovi^^ui havjng ever been the loveliest village»f the.plain—especially aSilt Is bullt oo a b!U> Apropos of this absePvC of Goldsmith, 1 would remark bers’a laOMptable fact la none of the tany bpusqe that l visited ip Liberia id I eveia book worthy of ibp name except the Bible..,It to- Htonally tore that, with the exception of that, and,a few school books, a.hymn book or two, a email medical library, and a couple of those familiar Sunday school nov els, (those cowardly totrodaedrs of a very few grains of flabby morality In an Inferior sugar coating of flabbier sentiment and diluted sensation,) I did pot see a book, or an apology for a book, of any sort THk LITERARY TASTE OB THE LIBKRIlNR seeins to have expended itself In pho- togreph albums, of which there are vwoiDE three or four or five to be found qb every parlor table, the eposes in tended for pictures gaping likq open moutba. 1 really belleVe that niuqh of the wonderfbl ieeetaeSs ok the people proceeds from tbe utter lack of Intel lectual food.'.jlt eeeb«-w." < tihobgh no book at all were vrorso, than the bad one. than which, Lord Bacon sAys, there is no weroe robber. There are very few books from which some idea or Information may not be extracted. I noticed that the supply of newspa pers was also very limited. There were a few copies of the London papers, but America seemed almost entirely rep resented by the Washington Republi can, the Toledo Blade and the News and Courier, which proves that some other things besides poverty make strange ' bed-fellows. We learned ashore, much td our relief, that having somq ten days' notice of the arrival of the ‘eoilgEaqto through the newspa pers, 1 the Liberian government had made arrangements to receive them. I will say for the Monrovians that they seem to have actively aided the gov ernment in this matter. So, more by the mercy of Providence than good management on the part of the L. E. A. the emigrants were , Ay.*- ASSURED Of! JL SflELTKH for artlmd at least, .This was especially welcome as the rainy season has just set in. • If the8e,poor .pepple had been left to tbe ton flop me roles <jf the mana gers In Charleoi4)n,.they would have arrived here unanooensed, unexpected and unprovided for, and many of them without means, and their condition would have been deplorable indeed. Whefi we . returned to the>Aborwe were, of course, - eagerly - plied with questions, the kindest possible an- sworp t#. wltich were that we bad as yet seep both tog, and-could Judge of> nothing.,, X confess that la my own mln^ ^.^ati graye misgivings. From what 1 could see, the land saeraedany--; thing but a Canaan. George Curtis had also gona ashore, and returned with gieming jtccouqto qf the, fepd Jie bad had. Before he wentJifrhod set on foot a plot to hamper and Ifjure the L. E. A., by whom he wj^ senq quL He, er-SenatorGatllard, Clement Irons, Rev. S. F. Flegler and iackson Clark had been appointed a board of com missioners to attend to all the afloirt of the'steamship company and Ha emi grants on this side. The ex-8enator was elected chairman of the board, and qQ arrival here Curtis, who had antici pated t^e chairmanship, seceded," and forme<f a new board among the steer age passengers, of which he had him self elected ^qh&h-man. Hastening ashore, he aPftoifpeed himself as the head qf the Immigration by virtue of his cblalrmanshlp^iiiDd.oa the strength of bis suppositious official .capacity was invited ,to Bundry/tfsoda,” and rp- galed qpon the fat of Uje tend* ^He went ashore ag^ln. ihofpre -night, with his vfjfe., Before taking the reader ashore aga^n, I will give sqm* general Information regarding this , , , HEW “LAND or PBOM^SI.” . M ,t Liberia lies on the west coastj of Af rica,between the 4th and 7th parallels oj latitude, and the 7th arid 12tb me ridians of longitude. v Her .territanry r(jqe along thb epqte,tor about 000 npiUes, at a depth .varying from 40 to 150 miles, thq lapd hftTiqg been ^en- epaily acqqlrqd JbJ purchase frOm the niotlTjBa.,. The inhabitants contest ot oqiojfp^,impiigrantf|rqm America and tbshf.^afoondapte, variously estimated lajnutflbpr fro<n 8,pQ0 to 30,00q, there being no reliable census. .Jfjfom the best lOfOrmattAQ-I opuld get, f amfo- through the pork there U a plain neat =fl= Oa« iheh, t .- . a, IB wten*VM. .71 ■■■■■ ^ .. - : WW 1 . Quarterly, •emi-OMvalwpsariymaimlS madeoR liberal Uraw. ., “ ~ ter flnt buMrtioe aaleas< No eomaanieatloa will ter pa! I«m aeeonpealed by the sane aad addrvsr of the writer, aoi neMSMrffr. fi* ritblteattew, but m » guaranty of good fait b. Address, TBOf FlOFU. ,j, „ BarnweU C. fl. C. , y&f. , When at last the provisions ten ashet* and divided, it mm found that thsrajterera v( - ( bahixt thber wflata* rdormom ' 1 eround. Every ptsbeoger of tb* Asor had paid, bosidec hto or her passage money, for provistohs for * month's ' voyage, sod six'months' provtsloM af- wr arrival here. After a forty-two days’ Journey, with the replenishing at Slerth Leone, thefe were barely three week’s scanty provisions left, iDeludlog tel of. the-ship’s stores, which Captain Holmes turned over to them, and the stores belonging to' those put ashore In Charleston. “ * • The "Steamship Company” serini M have remorselessly drained' tblaepeo ple, having actually started some of them off in a penniless condition. Many of the buildings occupied by the pas sengers are dwellings which bad ap parently been long vacant, and had be,» come leaky, elpddlnlg the occtipanta' td ' th» rali^whloh in this season pours dbwn temoet evdty day. After tbs int day or two, however. 1 the roofe were patched up so as to render them tolerably water-tight. Tbe health of toofetof.'thhsiqlf:begah to improves^ shdh th tBey got freeffom the rolling and cooflnsmwttf-tbbfcfclp. ’ There is only one regfllkr phyteefoat Iflthis part <ft Liberia, and his pntotios te extend ed certainly in point df stpAhe, as ho visits from twenty miles up the St. Paul’s River end down to this place, AH during Wednesday add Thursday, and for several days thereafter, the emigrants were busily engaged at the landing identifying their fuhtKufo ahd other effects, and superintending their traaeportattbn. > r There are no borsoH in LfbSrta, althongh I am informif that ihey.are I the interior. abundant and cheap ia A. R Wiluaio. ' about'a douen white men, generally tradero. Tbe GovernmenttB called a Republic, and IS in its general features, about in the form of our State Gov ernment; The’ Republic is divided into four counttew^eack bating Its own lo cal government; ^hs iowns are gov erned by municipal’' officers,- J oat as ours are. Monrovia, which'is o-tmed after ex-Praeident of the United States Monroe, is the capital of the eotuitry, although Ghrand Bass, which is situated south of it on the ooast, is said to greatly surpass It in the amount of business done. The Congress, or Leg islature, to composed of sixteen repre sentatives and nine senators. The Vice- President presides over the Senate, and the loiter boose electa its own ohalRnap. jEvery head of a family to given by tbe (Government twenty-five acres uf-lrfnd^and.each male adult ten acfefl, selected from 1 any unallotted lands. Only property-bb|deni can Rote, after taking the ootfc'' of allegiance. There to do prescribed terth of 'rest denoe before beopmlng a voter. No white man can hold property, and that race to, therefore, disfranchised. Going on deck after breakfast that morning, I met a strange colored mad' with whom I entered Into conversa tion. He hod, be said, come out from Lynchburg, Va., Just after the war. In answer'td hry inquiries, he expressed himself af bring delighted with tbe country? in sort* ytears, he said, he mide fretn $1,500 ***a.(X» tested Wad much pleased, Being Interested In the fate of the emigrants. “What to-your occupation?’’ I asked. “An Under taker,” was -the cheerful response, Thdt day ; v - the KMlGRinrd Began to dismCbaw?' ‘ In large row bohts furnished by the Government. Each family generally took With It its Immediate personal ef fects, such aS bedding, etc. Most of them arrayed themselves In their Sun day beet to go ashore in, although a few adhered to the somewhat dilapi dated; and, frequently, uncleanly ha- bllaments In which they had made the voyage. By several neat tadka'the Azor had been broughtictose Into- shore.. Thte Liberians had somehow become poa- seeeed with the Idea that the Azorfc people were generally Independent capitalists, coming out tw (Uvete thMr funds In the country. OoneequSntty there wa» some dtoappointment at the appearance of the emigrants, which, to put it mildly, was not suggestive or wealth.-) £bey wens well raoefeed satf welcomed at the landing, bOweYer.Ond Immediately dondacted to the housee prepared for their reception In differ ent parts of town, what furniture they had along being borde on the heads of Kroo boys. Whatever else may be said of the Monrovl&oS, they certainly displayed great klndnees to the atran- gers, who were in manjr loetanoes ut terly destitute of provisions, sending them oooked meals aud delicacies for the sick liberally and continuously. lo this way only* Was Buffering hToldpd. During Tuesday and Wednesday the emJgraste- wera-*- being ^transported from the AzOr. A general visit among the emigrants ca Wednesday wbtmed that they were tolerably comfortable. -Nbne of ifrete.preTtoioaa had yebsqiBe ashore, but thetlndoetef of' the:' kr 0 n- rovis people kepk theta audited,. This was no light" matter by the- way, ah provisions are fretfully trfgh and hard to get. Although there seems to'be plenty of cattle, they are Usually owned bjrrtbs.natfyea, who never kill them unites they are obliged to do sh. Cae- saja, the great staple of the country, sells at 50 gents per bushel, a bushel,of the roots beJogabont equalto a bushel of sweet potatoeaV ysure sell at tbe same, priga , Fresh meat to almost Im possible to get. Even etifekens are ex ceedingly scarce, and very small ones sell at 26 cents each. Egg* Sreteise* cents apleoe by the dozen. Amsriottr flou r to $14 per barrel. American pork to $28 per barrel. English canoed meats and vegetables are 50 cents per can. Qalons bring 12 cents per pound. to about all the Monrovlan bill of fare, and it Is largely procured from English mall steamers which nominal ly pass twice a week. In answer to In- quintet-eo the subject I was told that itwaa^uppqsed; that beets, carrots, parsnips, aoioDe*p«is<bean*, potatoes, etc., would grow these, buff they h|d ____ newer tried. ■ Moorovlai. seads wlxtj plsfoJy Utat the sad teas insvltahls mUes down the l ooa*V'to Gran*,>Bess* andnould not be long delayed. Ool- 1 *£«r»k»w’s Tkuderkwlt, [Philadelphia TI«bmJ Washtnoton, July 19.—The GObiset meeting to-day was devoted to eon-' eldering the issue which Judge Ker shaw, of South Carolina, has retell with the gOterirthiuti Commissioner Baum bad already iosWodsd thseoua* jiel <7l the govemntenC to taka taoord of the case to the' Circuit Jotfri; and proceed at once through a irtlt of ha beas corpus to obtain possession of the Imprisoned United States officers . Jby aid of the sretshsL The eomtnte- sihner's directions were very spedfle, red closed by. informing the eomwel* that be considered the protection of' tbe Uffitess of the government of par- ’ amouhttmporta&fe/and thatohs right' - of tbe Oovernme&r tortiry tflese oases in Its own courts and before its own Judges Involved tbejqujfttrdn of tbs Govern- meot of the United Statee. The attor ney-general; however, In his instruc tions, hod given tite counsel discretion hi the matter ho fOr as fo firth appeal the case to the Supfomh Court of the Stats. .This he at once deoldld to do/ and gave notice ofhte intentions. Up on the anaouncement of Kershaw • refusal, after dtoousskm in tbs Cabinet, based upon the communications to tbs attorney-general and a full statement of the case and of the insthicttons given by Commissioner Baum, ' whieh'are set forth in a letter from the latter to Secretary Sherman, ft " was decided to take no farther stops 4a the'msftter till the qpunsel for the*' government can IwrWoaght here for a censtetatedn. Judge Kershaw Insists that thomatt* most- go before ths» Suprtkae'Odurt of South Carolina, and that In hto opinion, ae the depennent to idforeMd, to oordltely indorsed inln- ” fluentlal qumfteta In the State. The threat kith Vrhleh KerifhaW rfoeed his opinion is regained beta. by ths>>««- tboritieS as a good HMhtotftta’of’thd' sentiment with which the ghvecfilaent" will heve to deal to: the mktthr^ff' lt’' decides to fore* the (tote) over Jflto^the " Federal Courts, The matter th&yiiow ’ gooverforawetec,asitls not expec ted that a Oahtaet meeting willbebeid . oa Tuesday. ' ; - Vt r ' ! An Intarfotfog contribution to the secret history t>f the OoBfedency tor made A. 8. Cotysr; wlMFwak Member of the Confederate Hoose dtfring tbs' last year. Some ttmh towards tbs close of 1864 he served on th* com» !: mlttee that ipp appointed to: inveett-/ SteO the, situation, and examined’ emong otbara Geo. Lee, who told them ptofojy that tbe end was iasvttahto buttea pears, eouraaps, and othtafraito may ba had for t^s gaihering almost snywhere,Utey werescaroe and high. Under thesetatoditloo^ and as fop of the btalgrat* bad *ily mesas to op^sk of, and. many vmers aatlrely without foods, It Oil! bs seen thst th# ran a groat risk of beiiig without food alto- clined to think that t#y number froaj. gather. People mom psorty-arovi*-' 155,000 to 15.00a Besides these there _ / «- ere a few native Africans taken from captured slave ships and brought here, uncivilized detachments of various no- tlvy tribes, a narepej of f e)vlltoed sad way up the stumble whidh leads semi-tekfltoed nattves scattered about reotepta of the 'j*L among the Amerioo-Liberiaas, and toned and fitted out for , a with the diffioaltles.of a-staange ootfn. try it would be hardtolttagiae. Many of them had aheoieteiy no irmney at .teUsyeept the IO U nota^ which are tot worth titter paper hero yar theo’ drew Ictoldng'to a a set of resolutions for fowls. Veaetahlee it was iffipoeaU ble 1 to get^ and although mnngrirs. deljcloas pine&pplee,oranges, benanesi iemone, IJmee, ooooannto, bread fruit,. Davto’ particular fries* optiK* siog them. Finally, kovsilito, tbs hto* tar premised th* party would not fra* I President Devto*>woted