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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Canadian opinion of Newspaper Mobbing (search)
Interesting News from Liberia. --The Monrovia (Liberia) correspondent of the New York Herald writing on the 1st of July says: The Liberian Government had just paid the people the sums due--eight dollars per month — for supporting the Congo negroes rescued from slavers and shipped there by the United States Government and the Colonization Society. The living freight taken out by the United States frigate Niagara had all become useful laborers to the colonists. The Congos were industthe prize secured a British cruiser ran in and took her from them, denying President Benson's jurisdiction in the Gallenos. Not being able to get her over the bar again, the Englishman burned her. Quite a number of "distinguished" colored gentlemen and ladies from New York — including Mr. P. Downing, of the (oyster) Downing family — had arrived in Monrovia, and all the ladies of that city were busily engaged in learning to play on the piano under the tuition of Mr. Luca, an American arti