Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1868 — Liberia. [ARTICLE]

Liberia.

The report of the condition of affairs in this country, sent to Washington by Commander Jeffers of the Swatara, is very interesting. The evidences of success iu the attempt to introduce civilization into Africa are manifest to the visitor. The great want, however, is capital, while another obstacle has been that the greater part of the immigrants have not been agricultural laborers? Too many are from the Northern cities, and of mixed blood, and unable to stand the climate. They resort to trading with the natives for support For this reason Liberia does not raise sufficient suitable food to support the immigrant population, and actually imports it from the United States. The Southern plantation laborers succeed well Universal suffiage is considered injudicious, aad only educated persons are allowed to vote. Commander Jeffers thinks if an impression is to be made on Africa, it will be through this colony, which seems to be based on Christianizing and moralizing principles, while the other establishments are based on trade in ram, gunpowder and muskets. —Daring the coining theatrical season there wifi be twenty-one theatres ia full blast