Litchfield Enquirer

From Liberia, according to a letter of the 18th September, quoted in the Philadelphia Chronicle of yesterday, direct intelligence has been received. Out of the number of emigrants per ship Harriet, from Norfolk, which went out last spring, thirty had died, and among them, Abdul Rahaman, the Moorish prince. Sierra Leone was almost desolated by the yellow fever, so much so, as to make it doubtful whether the post would not be abandoned by the British Government.

Upon the subject of the slave trade the letter has this fearful statement:

The slave trade is carried on still with activity; and when passing the Galenas I saw six or eight slavers waiting a cargo. Even from the river, whence I at present write, there are some for a similar purpose. The greater part of these are Baltimore built vessels under Spanish colors; and so extremely sharp as seldom to admit of more than three feet between their platform and deck. On this subject there appears to me to be a great degree of ignorance in the United States; for the belief of many is, that a total suppression exists here, when the truth is, it is carried on as violently as ever. The landing of a cargo in the Spanish West Indies requires but a douceur of four or five slaves to an official; and the fetters of 180 to 200 human beings are knocked off, the vessel washed and sweetened, the owners receive 4 or 500 dollars each, and in the course of five months she arrives in Africa for another cargo. On this subject, the hearts of thousands are feelingly alive;—and I can but add my wish for the early arrival of that day when every man in christendom shall conceive it to be wrong and unjust.—N. Y. American.