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Domestic News June 2, 1835

The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

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News from Liberia via the brig Susan Elizabeth reports good health and agricultural progress among settlers at Cape Palmas, Bassa Cove, and Edina. Paul River lands yield $100 per acre. Caldwell residents cleaned the town. Infrastructure includes a stone jail and courthouse under construction on Crown Hill and a 30-foot lighthouse on 250-foot Cape Palmas. New Georgia, a settlement of recaptured Africans from the US, features industrious, religious residents in neat houses with cultivated grounds.

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Liberia.-By the brig Susan Elizabeth, from Liberia, the Journal of Commerce has received the Herald (a monthly paper) of March 30th, one month later than before received. The health of the settlers at Cape Palmas is good, and they are progressing in agriculture. Also at Bassa Cove and Edina. The lands of Paul river, it is estimated, yield a crop worth $100 per acre. Caldwell, the inhabitants with much public spirit, turned out and cut down the brush, weeds and high grass in the town for three quarters of a mile. In regard to internal improvements, the inhabitants are putting, as they ought, their own shoulders to the wheel, without depending too much on the patronage of the colonization society. A building for a jail and court house, is to be erected on Crown hill, of stone. It is already advanced one story. A light house 30 feet high, is also about being constructed on the apex of the cape, which cape being 250 feet in altitude will give it a commanding position. New Georgia is a settlement of recaptured Africans, sent from the United States. They are very industrious and religious, and live in neat houses, with their grounds well cultivated.

[N. Y. Star.

"He who can buy ' golden opinions from all sorts of men,' will have little reason to complain of the want of all the external marks of respect. Bacon said, that 'Knowledge is power;' but had he lived in our days, he would have been compelled to substitute 'riches' for 'knowledge,' so universal is the homage paid to them in all ranks,-Countess of Blessington's Two Friends.

" There is no such bond for our friendship as a consciousness of dependence upon those who love us, and nothing so efficacious in cooling us to friends, as the discovery that we can do without them."-Dr. Bird's Infidel.

What sub-type of article is it?

Migration Or Settlement Agriculture Infrastructure

What keywords are associated?

Liberia Settlements Cape Palmas Agricultural Progress Internal Improvements New Georgia Recaptured Africans

Where did it happen?

Liberia

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Liberia

Event Date

March 30th

Outcome

good health among settlers; agricultural progress with paul river lands yielding $100 per acre; town cleaning in caldwell; jail and courthouse advanced one story; lighthouse under construction.

Event Details

The Herald reports good health and agricultural progress at Cape Palmas, Bassa Cove, and Edina. Caldwell inhabitants cleared brush and weeds for three quarters of a mile. Residents are undertaking internal improvements independently, including a stone jail and courthouse on Crown Hill and a 30-foot lighthouse on 250-foot Cape Palmas. New Georgia settlers, recaptured Africans from the US, are industrious, religious, living in neat houses with cultivated grounds.

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