HOW THEY LIVE IN LIBERIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 346, 23 February 1856, Page 6

HOW THEY LIVE IN LIBERIA.

The litde seed of republican liberty which yrars ago was transplanted from the shores of the United States to those of the African continent, bus, under the benign influences with which it has been surrounded, grown into a vigorous young- republic, and bids fair to become at some future day a powerful and influential nation. The "results of the enterprise of planting have proved ail thai was anticipated. Liberia is now the cherished home and refuge of the fugitive and outcast coloured race—the only free and civilized land in all the world where colored men can and do fill every office m the gift of the people, and where they arable to develope every high and noble faculty of their existence. Liberia is riot yet much of an agricultural country. Most of the settlers have farmed only upon a small scale, for the reason that'very few

modern labor-saving machines or improvements have been introduced there. The earth, however, is cultivated much more cheaply and easily than in America. A tract uflaud is given, under certain restrictions, to each emigrant, and alter being cleared of timber, by cutting and burning, rice and cassada are hoed into the ground. The soil is seldom ploughed, and there are . no working oxen and but few horses in the State When the rice is ripe it is cut with a knife. Besides nc? and cassada, the emigrants also raise and sell corn, potatoes, and other vegetables. Sugar cane and coffee, too, flourish remarkably well. There are but few drones in Liberia. All who-|~ really wish for employment can fi;>d a field*? for their labors either as mechanics, fanners, merchants, or day workmen. Upon the farms both Americans and native Africans are employed. The difference in their respective powers of usefulness maybe conjectured from the fast that in April last, the wages of Americans were seventy-five cents a day, and of the natives twelve and a half cents. There are. of course, no slaves in Liberia. Slavery is prohibited by the conititution and laws of the republic. The natives , nevertheless, frequently bind their children for a certain period to the emigrants, in compensation for money loaned, or assistance rendered ; bul this is contrary to the laws The number of native Africans in the republic at the pivs«nt time is 20.000. They live in the old patriarchal style, moving about from place to place, and until subdue I by the Liberiar.s the different tribes were at war. Many of them are now partially civilize;!, and all are rapidly coming under the general influence of civilization. Ihe climate of Liberia is very healthy after the process of acclimating is over. But many of the new comers die under the acclimating fever. It is said by residents of the place, that the fever is more fatal to individuals from the southern part of the United States than it is to the uortheaers. — Boston Journal.

Geskral Bosqukt's Address to hisTrohps. —The attack on the Malakholl' was directed by General B■ivquet. General .VTMaiion was the first to lead his division to tlie breach, having1 tlu' Zouave* olilie Guard for a reserve. Geneva Ide la AFotteronjre led the next division, having the Grenadiers and ti.e Vohi^eurs of the Guiul as a reserve. This division attacked ili'j ettrtain wiiieli connects ihe Malakhufi to the 11- dan. Tiie f<ill-.\vin<_r is liie order addressed by General Bosquet to the troops tinder his coitim.iiid immeil;utely before j:"iii<r uito a rliou —" Soldiers of the second corps and of the reserve. On the 7t.h of June you had the honour to .strik<» pniudiy the fir si blow ri^ht to the heart of Hie Uu<sifin army. On tht: Kith of Auuttst, on the Fciiem \y,i, you infiieted a most shameful humiliation upon the enemy's army »f relief. T.i-d.iv is the coup dc grace y the coup wm-te, that you art- about to .-Hike svith tint finu \nu\t\ wiiich theeiiemv knows so well, hv carryiiifr j,j s ], lle „f d< ; ;,;iiee ;U the Maliik.ifi", while our eotniades of the I^n^lish army and of thi' Firs! corns wiil commence the •ts^Hilt on the It-dan am! the Central Bastion. This is a general a-sauli—army against army. Ii is an inrnuiise victory, with which the youu* ea-les of Fiance are tiiis day lobe cro'wiieilForward ih-n, (-nfurn .' .\laiakh..(V JIIU | S.-has-topol f,,r os, in,,; • Vj 1( . !' {.; „,,(.,.,.,„. j- jiasQUiifi' C-niinnnder oT S, :C! .ad (J-rps. Head tiiiarlcrs, St'jiteini.er 8."