Phenix Gazette

AFRICAN COLONY.

We have received from Liberia tidings of a consoling nature, so far as they go. Our intelligence is up to the 26th of March last, at which time the inhabitants were in good health and spirits, and a general spirit of harmony prevailing. They express their warmest gratitude to the Colonization Society. The surrounding country, to the distance of 100 miles, has been explored, and is found to be abundant in tropical productions, & copiously supplied with streams on which at some future day manufactories will be founded.— The inhabitants have begun already to make inquiries on the subject of gold mines, and to flatter themselves with the hope that their researches will not prove unproductive. But this is not the only subject that interests the emigrants. Another African writes that he is busily engaged in the cultivation of Coffee, and he felicitates himself this season on the prospect of an abundant crop. The morals of the people have much improved—they are engaged in building, ploughing and planting and there is throughout the colony what may be called an esprit du corps—they are rejoicing in the idea that Providence, by the means of such humble instruments, designs hereafter to build up a great and mighty nation—that they are destined for the advance guard of civilization. and that Africa is hereafter to be recorded in the archives of glorious history—that she is to have orators, poets, legislators and law givers.

Balt. Am.