MONROVIA, Liberia,

August 15, 1854.

VERY KIND SIR:-It affords me as much pleasure to communicate, as I have no doubt it will prove gratifying to you to learn, that our steam mill arrived hear safely. It gave us some little difficulty in reshipping it from here to its place of location, being at the town of Marshall, some 40 miles south of the capitol, but we were successful in getting it there. We found, after setting it up, that some of the belting and starting bar was wanting; after some trouble, attended with expense, we got one made. Articles of this kind being rather scarce here, and yet so necessary to us, that if wanting, they think they cannot charge too much for their work. Not having sufficient brick to finish our stack, we had to make a temporary one of wood to find if it worked true. It was the 7th wonder here when the steam was let on; the colonists and natives took to flight as though Hades had let loose some of its inmates bent on destruction, the natives invoking their Greegrees for protection, and it took hard persuasion to convince them that there was no danger. We have not got into permanent operation, it being in the

rains we were unable to make brick, therefore, we had to ship from the St. Paul River, costing us nearly $25 per M., besides the delay, yet in a few days we expect to be in successful operation. The site for our mill is a splendid one for timber, being at the terminus, or rather junction of three rivers, the Junk, Farmington, and Little Bassa, whose borders are studded with timber, extending inland and inexhaustible. The natives principally are engaged in furnishing us; yet time nor money being of very little account with them, that it is only by enlisting the kings and head-men that we shall be able to keep supplied; and another thing being a hindrance is the timber being so unwieldy to them, knowing no artifice, that it takes a number of them to do the work of one or two men that understood it, and they stick to their old system of doing things with as much tenacity as they do their false religion; therefore, we must gradually introduce amongst them modern sciences and improvements with as much subtilty as though we were committing a crime.

Respectfully yours,

JOHN H. M. HARRIS,
Sec. L. Enterprise Co.

COMMERCE. The commercial department of Liberia is becoming of increased interest, and to leave this department of our relations unnoticed in this number of our paper would be treating amiss those of our fellow citizens who by their honest endeavours seem quite anxious to develope this branch of business and make its respecta

HON. D. T. HARRIS.-Died at his resi

and let us be encouraged, fellow citizens, and go anew to work-and our prosperity and elevation as a people and nation is certain. Teach virtue in the order of

riss. Occasions of this kind call for special notice-when from amongst a people as we are, who are in need of the services of men of ability, one and another of our valuable citizens are taken away by the hand of death-man is dissoluble-man is mortal-man is corruptible-all matter is subject to decay-how far above the comprehension of man is the all-wise decree of a munificent and All Wise Being in whose judgments there is no error. The subject of this notice immigrated to this country in October, 1848. Since which time he has occupied station after station in the Government; and the one last occupied by him of which we have notice, is that of Representative for the County of Mesurado. Honor to the ashes of the worthy. May his and the names of former departed statesmen live with respectability in our memory.

EVIDENCES. OF PROSPERITY.-It is with increased interest that we notice the growing thriftiness of our citizens. The hands of the ship-builders and mechanics in every department of their profession including the husbandman-the product of whose labor appears in our market, show the rapid increase of the industry of our people. Indeed, to an observant mind, who has watched particularly the increase of this people for the last ten years-it will unequivocally appear that Liberia now is not the Liberia of ten years ago. This idea may to some be a novelty from the fact of man being an improving creature; but without the pale of this negative conclusion. Consider reader for a while of the material of which Liberia is composed-of her many unparalleled vicissitudes owing to the depressed and abject condition of the majority of the immigrants filling up and making the great nucleus of her population-people generally of but little or no political information-and from among them, Legislators, Magistrates, and all other civil functionaries have to be taken. Now under these circumstances who can gainsay Liberia in her feeble efforts-at the same time so many important results follow, to raise her christian, civil and moral character. Indeed we are not only cared for by the zealous christian philanthropists but He who is the fountain of

THE LIBERIA ENTERPRISE COMPANY.It is known generally in this Republic that the individuals forming this association, immigrated to this country in December last; and notwithstanding the climatehave up to this period far exceeded the expectations of their best friends, and put to naught the extravagant suspicions of their enemies. Well done Liberia! The

spirit of enterprise, we find, is a natal spirit, and all that is required for its developement is the means necessary and adequate to the enterprise engaged in; and economy therewith will certainly ensure

success.

Mr. Hall

association are all go-ahead men, and with The gentlemen composing this mears they are calculated to accomplish with credit to themselves and honor to their country, the most hazardous enterprise. After the arrival of the Co's steam saw-mill per barque "Linda Stewart"-its erection became the first order of business. Joseph Hall, a man of no imposing ability, was engaged for the purpose—all was hope and fear for its success, but with unwavering assiduity, and great self confidence, he commenced his labors, and on the 24th inst., to the fright and surprise of hundreds of natives, who had assembled for the purpose, including the citizens of the town of Marshall-was witnessed for the first time the operations of a steam saw-mill in the County of Mesurado. appears to be a man of great original genius-a man entirely unacquainted with the English alphabet; he has merited praise and the good will of his fellow citizens. The present flattering prospects of the Liberia Enterprise Company leads us to believe that they will eventually wield a powerful influence in the interests of this State. Such representations of domestic industry, particularly by individuals of but yesterday's date, speak volumes in honor of the ability of men of color, who have the means to do with. What added to the novelty of the scene, was the fright of the natives, as the engine would let off steam they literally ran over one another with hideous cries. It was really amusing when this hilarity was added to by many of the citizens, who seemed equally as frightened as the natives.