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VifeQ on DCafQr 10 WItnesS Her oPtIatioiAos After proceeding few miles down tIe riy- CT, the boats returned, and inc inhabitants were eratiGed with an exhibition of the powers of the .aychimedes. She drew up large cotton wood tree, which had long beena denizen of the river, nearly opposite the town, and it was ia a few moments saved into three or four pieces, tie root sunk, and the pieces sent adriil.

 The operations on the Arkansas are en- ded for the present season, as the appropri- ation made for the purpose is exhausted.- There is, however, no doubt that 2 further appropriation will be made, and the purpose completed.

 We continue from our last the extracts fom Blackwood It is our purpose to show, more fully than NC haze yet done, that freedom is not the proper element of the Negro-that emancipation is ruinous, not to him alone, but 10 the country in which he remains, or is placed, as free man. The following extracts will go still further to show this, and will also give addi- tional proof, if mote evidence could be.re- quired, that the slave trade Is carried on, boldly and openly, in the colonies of free blacks in Afiica.

 "Bhen al; St. Thonas's Hast year. the master of. a French slave ship was there,

 who, amongst other slaves, had bought and brought seven of these liberated Africans 10 Porto Rico. After littie research, found young man who informed me that he was upon the estate ssCaroiina, :" to which these negroes, five grown-up people, one

 boy twelve years, and one q girl eleven years old, were brought. On their arrival, they aecosted him in English, which excit- ed his surprise, and, upon enquiry, he learn cd from tl4e!r own lips the 1acts which have stated. The two youngest told him that they had been at school with one Alr

 Davies n Sierra Leone, and the whole said that they were .'eatcded oa fts streets ef

 f'feetolrn,'' and sold as slaves. It Is very curious, that upon looking into Par. Pop. No. 364, of last year, find at page 9, in the evidence given by slave trader of the name of Anthony, that he had Ut one time purchased seeea et these liberated Africans from Freetewn, about the very time that these above alluded to had been brought from kfr;ea ;

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 Rofte Rico few years ago. About 3O Af. Vfho hoH ha1yi ofa4+oa

 had by their industry purchased ihem free had consequently acquired considerable dom, and continuing their industrious habits. property, resolved 10 dispose of that pro- perty, and with their wives and families to return to their native country in Africa They accordingly sold thelr property, real- ized the proceeds, chartered a vessel. and proceeded to Africa. On making the land. they thought they might as well request the master of the vessel 10 stop for about a week, in order that they might see f thev illSed the country informing him, that if they dld not return within q week, he might proceed on his voyage homewards. They 1 landed, went into the country, but were so disgusted with what they saw, that before the close of the week the whole returned on board che ship, and which proceeded back with them to Porto Rico, where tbev now are! !''

 "t he government Of Caraecas have late y publicly acknowledged, that even the partial emancipation Of the slaves has heen attended with the most ruinous effects nnon ! ne cultivation of the country, and the most dangerous domoralization an1onost inc slaves themselves. The decline of tbe prosperity ot this country Is well known to very mercantile man who Is, or who has I 'een, connected with 1t during she last !, Wenty years; and, if farther nroof were 'anting to show the misery 10 which inc oPsi'aton has been reduced, 1t may he ev- y day witnessed at Trinidad. where tba Greoles of that country ara eoa. on'fng up tie Gulf of Paria in little cock 1, ssheh ooafs' with their country provisions. ' ! sgs' and poultry, to market, without any . oYeFlsig but rag to cover their nakedness 1, ne plantation slaves look upon them win ' ny and astonishment, and designate then . CIV negroes '"

 Will any man look us in tbe faccs aflow f, ese facts, and still talk of. tie mental il laracier of the Negro-of the injury done Ii m and tho world by holding him slave-( 'd ef the duty of the South immediately ii free her Negroes? tF ine following extracts will prove how cl 1e asI'eFideilee eai, Dc placed ila tie ac- oi unts of the colonizationists concerning Ii ? state of the Negroes, who have been fo