Liberia

The Department of State is in receipt of information from Liberia on the subject of the condition of that country and its adaptability for colonization. It is represented that the frequently-repeated statements as to the fertility of the soil and tho beauty ot the country are correct, but that the climate on the se'icoast, is very dangerous to all but the natives. Horses, mules, and donkeys can not live there. Horses are found in the interior, but when brousrht to the sea-coast sicken and die. Althougk as to teinperature constant snmmer prevails, yet the miusniatic influence, the result of tho heavy rains altemating with hot sunshine, causes sickness duriug six months of the year, and during the remnining ríx months tho power of the sim is sucïi that it is almost impossible for any but natives to work. The mean temperature of tho climate is about 85 deg. , bat on account of the dampue3s of the climato tho heat is Biiltry, depressiufT, and weakening. There is still very little civilization and agricultural enterpriso. Liberia has never produced sufticient food for her own consumption, and, although she could be a great ricegrowing country, rice is imported from England and otlier countries and sold at $4 a bushei, twice the oost at whieh rico conld be grown and eold thero. Flour is $14 a barrel, bultor $1 per pound, and hams from $5 to $8. Otber provisioas are proportionately high. There is not a plow in use in Liberia, and the agrioultural implemonts are of the most primitivo character, such as cutlasses, hoes, bill-hooks, ete. Thero aro no public schools. Tho emigrant has to compete with the uative labor. The natives are strong and hardy, and one of thora will do the work of a horse at 50 cents a day. The scttlers wanted in Liberia, as thoughtful and prominent Liberians recognize, are those who ean afford and ■would prefer to pay their on expense of voyage and settlement. The back hilly country is said to be fiue and healthy, but it is penetrable only by the footpaths which have been cut by the natives through the almost impenetrable foreste, and everything must be borne oii the heads and backs of naüve carriers, as there are no roads.