American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

The following very interesting Letter from Lott Cary, a respectable colored Clergyman, who has resided in the Colony of Liberia from its establishment, and holds a high standing there, is full of instruction and motion to the Free People of Color of the United States:

"Dear Sir: Your letter of the 31st of January came to hand safe—And with a great deal of pleasure I transmit the following lines to give you some faint idea of the state of things with us. We are disposed to endeavor, if possible, to get at least one vessel of our own to run from this place to America, and we intend through that medium to bring out passengers and our own supplies also.— We cannot, I think, make any arrangements at present to purchase a vessel, as the brig Doris does not go direct to America, but I hope we shall by the first opportunity.

The present expedition, I think, will pass through the fever with but very little loss; it is, I thank God, more favorable than I have ever known it—we have lost only two, and one was a child in bad health before.

Our native schools, both Sabbath and regular school, continue middling uniform—their improvement the year past has been very encouraging. Nearly the whole settlement at present attend Sunday School. There are at present five Sunday schools in this settlement.

I have a very great wish to visit you, which I trust I shall do at some future day; but at present I am so very busy, it is impossible for me to spare the time—I am at present trying to build me a stone house which I have got the first story near up, and the other story I must try and get up before the rains set in too constant, which is fast approaching. My building—my farm—the sick—the school—the church, and other calls, make my life a very busy one at present. But I hope that I shall be able to get some of it off my hands the present season—but at present the loss of six months would be almost like losing all the days of my life.

As it respects my colored friends in Richmond, I feel for them very much indeed. But what can I do? I wrote to them, individually, as long as I found it was profitable to them, for I am no great scribe, and I found from answers which I received to my letters, that they had suffered through misinterpretation. I thought, therefore, that it was best to communicate to them through the "Board of Managers of the African Missionary Society," and I have done so for the last two years. Sir, I am confident that all the colored people in your city will regret the loss of time when they are convinced of the great mistake that they labor under; for I am of the full belief, that you might go out in your streets and take a list of names of the first hundred men that you saw and send them out, and in twenty-four hours after they arrived in Monrovia, there would not one be found amongst them that would be willing to return to America, unless you should chance to fall upon some one that ought not to walk at large in any place.

The arrival of the Doris has given us a middling full supply of tobacco for the present season and therefore, if you should have an opportunity, do not send out a large quantity—say, not more than three or four hogsheads—and then there will be no risque of finding ready sale for it in such parts as will pay you in America.

The people at the new settlement are getting on very fast with their improvements—that settlement opens to the farmer a great and delightful prospect. The natives paid more attention to the cultivating of coffee this season than on the former, and have brought in a much larger quantity and better quality than ever. I think that in one or two years more, we shall be able to export it in middling large quantities. I could send you now a small quantity of very good coffee if this vessel came direct to your place."