The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-11 00:00:00

S.qutt Anurica, it,

T. 4411 WW pac pTs Fait .TRE WEST COAST
' .dE SOUTH AMERICA:
Positively first vessel.' Will probably, complete her loading
. by Thursday next, the Pith instant:
- FOR. VALPAiikSO, ,
, ~
VIB The splendid British-built iron clipper Barque
J. i ir POLESTAR,
Ja4..:a,.';
;:a.,.-7.7 • Capt. CROIIE ;
A 1 at Lloyd's twelve years, 647 tons register ; two years old,
delivers her cargoes in perfect order, and is a vessel 'ot the
greatest speed- leading in
CPOI`TaeSIV
Devr-.H,Aini:.
sr
co:
The beautiful iron Clipper NAUPHANTElvilluucceed the

_ .
Positively first ship. Is advancing rap.idlY 100 iser loading,
and' will have immediate despatch.
•• • • VOX
itit.!;# The beautiful Liverp‘ool-built clipper BriptlgnO
hMIFR,
Captain SUMMERS ;
A 1 at Lloyd's thirteen years, 245 tons ; was built by the present
owners, Messrs. Thomas Royden and Son, expressly to compete
with the fastest vessels of the day, has made some of the most
rapid passages on record, and invariably delivers her cargoes
in the best condition : loading in the Prince's Dock. Apply to
COTES WORTH, LYNE,' & CO
_ •

REGULAR 14-INg QF PACKFITS FOR THE
'WEST CcuigT OF SOUTH AMERICA.
Loads-in Salthouse Dock. . :Has large engagements for cargo,
. ' and will have prompt despatch.
• • - - FOR VALPARAISO,
The magnificent Cumberland-built Clipper Barque
.0k JOHN PEILE,
ail' Captain 0. WILITEWAY •
- • 366 tons register; A 1 at Lloyd's tarteen Years ;
newly eoppereci, and well Mown in the trade for delivering her
cargoes 1 first-We order. - For terms of 'freight' end passage
apply fq IHRIE .4 TOMLINSON.
The JOHN NICHOLSON, A I fourteen years, is loading
rapidly, south-east corner of Saltlionse Don, and is expected
to complete her loading in the course-4 the present week.
Now loading in Salthouse Dock, and will follow the 'Dalemain,
with immediate despatch.
FOR LIMA,
•
The beautiful British-built clipper Brig -
CHRISTIANA CARNBLL,

Captain MOORE ;
222 tons register ; A 1 at Lloyd's twelve years, anal; in every
respect a most superior conveyance. For terms of freight apply
to DIRIE & TOMLINSON.
The DALEMAIN is e%pected to potatlete her loading by,
To.morz olv (Wednesday) Evening. ' • •

iIIoTTLAIrLiriE OF N.CEETS FOR THE WEST

. . . _
COAST OF- SOUTH AMERICA.- •
FOE VALPARAISO; '' • '
'lt
,e,,,,, k The fine A 1 thirteen years clipper ship
)4' .4•"#s, N. CARACCA,
.1941 a- E. W. NEILSON, Master;
-.'.••
• • 418 tons register • built expressly for the West
Coast trade, only eighteen months old, having just arrived off
her second voyage, making tee passage borne in 79 days; offers
a desirable opportunity for quick despatch to shippers of fine
g°oo.

Now loading east side Salthcrnse Dock. Positively first ship.
Has room fora few package.s gods, and clears This
Day (Wednesday), thelltlitliant:
The fine A I ten years Barque • •
BRITISH MERCHANT,
D. SCOTT, Master' •
374 tons register; a regular trader, and favourably known for
her rapid passages and delivery of cargoes in perfect order.
Apply to 'NELSON, ISMAY, & CO. ; or
THOS. ROBERTSON & CO.
Tower-builtugs. §watnb Ityam,.streA

The Cheapest, Quickest, and most Direct Route.
Napier and Company's Steam Communication between.
LIVERPOOL AND RHYL,

.(From the New Landing-stage, Liverpool),
And the adjacent places of Abergele,Blettws, Conway, Colwyn,
Cwm, .Denbigh, Dysp:th, Henllan,! Llanrwst, Llansantffraid,
Ilangeruiew, Llanfautallaaiarn, Llanddulas, Llanelian, Llan-
drill°, Llanasa, Llanrhaiadr; N eliden, Mochdre, -Newmarket,
Pres4dyn, Rhuddlan, Ruthin, St. Asaph, St. George, Bodfrey,
Llansannan,•Trefnant, Tremeirchion, &c., &c.
- The New, Powerful, and Fast-Sailing Iron
- • Steamer LION,
JOHN WILLIAM FIRTH, Commander,
• Fitted up expressly for the station, or other
suitable steamer, will sail . from the New
Landing-stage, PrilleC'S Dock, Liverpool, and' from Rhyl
(weeher pernaiting), ad under, punctually :

. ,
—"Fitom LIVERPOOL. '
Wednesday July 11, at 11 a.m.
Thursday July 12., at ,It p.m.
Friday July 13, at 2 p.m.
Saturday July 14, at 4 p.m.
Monday July 16, at 5 p.m.
Tuesday „ July 17, at 51 p.m.
Wednesday - July 18, at 6 p.m.
Thursday July 19, at 7 p.m.
PROM RHYL.
Wednesday... .............. .: ..... :July 11, at 3i p.m.
Friday , „July 13, at 5 a.m.
Saturday July 14, at a.m.
Monday July 16-, at 8 tr.m.
Tuesday _ July 17, at 9 a.m.
Wednesday July 18, at 10 *a.m.
Thursday July 19, at loi a.m,
Friday July 20, at 11 a.m.
Fares :—Saloon, Is.; Fore Cabin and Deck, 6d.
. Passengers per steamer Lion for Liverpool should leave the
railway at the Foryd Station.
For Freight, &c.,
,apply to Messrs..Namn, Sawn, Davins,
and Co., owners, No. 4, Waterstreet,4thyl ; or to
Macias. GLADSTONE, OLDILAM, & Co.,
25. Bath-street, Liverpool.

.)- FRof IBT JUNE TO IST OCTOBER, 1860.
.. , ~i-:\
.la iiW a,,_ LIVERPOOL AND DOUGLAS,
4,.. I, ,
"::= I- ISLE OF MAN.

The Isle of Maw Steampacket Company's large, splendid, and
powerful Royal Mail Steam-ship, DOUGLAS,TYNWALD,
MONA'S QUEEN, or MONA'S ISLE (New 'Steamer), is
appointed to leave the. North Landing-stage, Prince's Pier,
LIVERPOOL, FOR DOUGLAS,
EVERY Approo, at HALF-PAST ELEVEN o'clock.
AND , ' " •
FROM DOUGLAS •FOR LIVERPOOL,
EVERY.. MORNING at NINE o'clock (Sundays excepted),
With her Majesty's Mails and Vaasengera.
Average Passage--.-5i hours.. •
Faxxs.---Saloon Cabin and reeti, 6st Fore Cabin, Se. Half
fare under 14 years. Servants full fare.
RETURN TICVEVS.—,AY4I4Ie for 28 days : Saloon Cabin and
Fees, 91. i Fore:Cs.bin, 6d. Also issued at the stations of
the le9.nOioxit and. Forth-western,Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Gres Western, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Great
Northern, North Staffordshire, :East Lancashire, Oxford,
Wdreester, and Wolverhampton, Midland, and other Railway
Companies.
Cargo conveyed two or three. times weekly.
Goods received at the Company's berth, South-west corner
of the Clarence Basin, Liverpool, every lawful day.
The Company hereby give notice that they will not be respon,
Bible for the consequences of any irregularity that may take
place in the sailing of the steamer. With liberty to tow.
Passengers landed and cmbarked at ' Douglas, in •boats
belonging to the Company, when required.
. - 'AGENTS.

LIVE 601, ORV9It.:D, 60, Tower-buildings
South, 22, water-street.
.Manchester ... JEo4.l34Valkooree.r, 774, Market-street.
Douglas 3tuosjel6

.VINO

a&Qaaailieeitisum

Ylii fh' Geographical -7,.1 •
e Section' of the tritish
Association, a very interesting paper, by Dr.
Livingstone, was read. We subjoin a few extracts :
" In the upper part of the Lower Shire, in the high-
lands, and in the valley of the Upper Shire, there is a
somewhat numerous population. The people generally
live in villages and in hamlets near them. Each village
has its own chief, and the chiefs in a given territory
have a head chief, to whom they owe some sort of
allegiance. The paramount chief of one portion of
the Upper Shire is a woman. The sites of their
villages are selected, tbr the most part, with judgment
and good taste. A stream or spring is near, and pleasant
shade-trees grow in and around the place. Nearly
eyery village is surrounded by a thick high hedge of the
poisonous euphorbia. During the greater part of the
year the inhabitants could see an enemy through the
hedge, while he would find it a difficult matter to see
them. By shooting their already poisoned arrows
through the tender branches, they get smeared with
the poisonous milky juice, and inflict most painful if not
fatal wounds. The constant-dripping of the juice of the
bruised branches prevents the enemy from attempting to
force his way through the hedge, as it destroys th,-; eye-
sight. The huts are larger, stronger built, with higher
and more graceful roofs than any we have seen on the
Zambesi. Many of the men are very intelligent looking,
with high foreheads and well-shaped heads. They show
singular taste in the astonishingly varied styles in which

their hair is arranged. Their, bead necklaces are really
pretty specimens of work. Many have the upper and
middle As well as the lower part of the ear bored, and
have from three to five rings in each ear. The hole in
the lobe of the ear is large enough to:admit one's finger,
and some wear a piece of bamboo about an inch long in
it. Brass and iron bracelets, elaborately figured, are
seen ; and some of the men sport from two to eight brass
rings on each finger, and even the thumbs are not spared.
They wear copper, brass, and iron rings on their
legs
.and arms; many have their front teeth notched,
and some file them till they resemble the teeth of
a saw. The upper-lip ring of the women gives them a
revolting appearance ; it is universally worn in the
highlands. A puncture is made high up in the lip, and
it is gradually enlarged until the pelele can be inserted.
Some are very large. One we measured caused the lip
to project two inches beyond the tip of the nose.; when
the lady smiled, the contraction of the muscles elevated
it over the eyes. " Why do the women wear these
things ?" the venerable chief, Chinsurdi, was asked.
Evidently surprised at such a stupid
.question, he re-
plied, " For beauty ! They are the only beautiful
things women have ; men have beards, women have
none. What kind of a person would she be without
the pelele ? She would not be a woman at all with a
mouth like a man, and no beard."
"They seem to be an industrious race. Iron is dug
out of the hills, and every village has one or two
smelting-houses ; and from their own native iron they
make excellent hoes, axes, spears, knives, arrow-
heads, &c. They make, also, round baskets of various
sizes, and earthen pots, which they ornament with
plurabitgo, said to be found in the Hill Country, though

we could not learn exactly where, nor in what quantities:
the only specimen we obtained was not pure. At
every fishing village on the banks of river Shire
men were busy spinning buahe and making large
fishing nets from it ; and from Chihisas to the Lake, in

every village almost, we saw men cleaning and spinning
cotton, while others were weaving it into strong cloth in
looms of the simplest construction, all the processes being
excessively slow. This is a great cotton-growing
country. The cotton is of two kinds, 'Tonji mange,'
or foreign cotton, and Tonji cadji,' or native cotton:
The former is of good quality, with a staple from three-
quarters to an inch in length. It is perennial, requiring
to be re-planted only once in three years, The native
cotton is planted every year in the highlands, is of
short staple, and feels more like wool than cotton.
Every family appears to own a cotton patch, which is
kept clear of weeds and grass. We saw the foreign
growing at the Lake and in various places for thirty
miles soikth of it, and about an equal number of miles
below the cataracts on the Lower Shire. Although
the native cotton requires to be planted annually in
the highlands, the people prefer it, because, .they say,
'it makes the stronger cloth.' It was remarked to a
number of intelligent natives near the Shire lakelet,
you should plant plenty of cotton, and perhaps the
English will come aeon and buy it.'—' Surely the
country is full of cotton,' said an elderly man, who
was a tre4ter and travelled much. Our own observations
convinced us of the truth of this statement. Every-
where we saw it. Cotton patches of from two to
three acres were seen abreast of the cataracts during
the first trip, when lake Tamandua was discovered,
though in this journey, on a different route, none were
observed of more than half an, acre. They usually
contained about a quarter of an acre each. There are
extensive tracts on, the level plains of both the lower
and -Upper Shire, where salt exudes from the soil. Sea
Island cotton might grow well there, as on these the
foreign cotton becomes longer in the staple. The cotton
growers here never have their crops cut off by frosts.
There are none. Both kinds of cotton reßni,re, but little
labour—none of that severe and killing toil requisite in
the United States. The people are great cultivators of
the soil, and it repays them well. The grow lassaver in
large quantities, preparing ridges for it from three to.
four feet wide, and about a fuot high. They also raise
maize, rice, two kinds of millet, beans, sugar cane, sweet
potatoes, yams, ground-nuts, pumpkin, tobacco, and
Indian hemp. Near Lake Nyasa, we saw indigo seven
feet high.

IAN() quantities of beer are made. We found
whole villages on, the spree, and saw the stupid type of
drunkenness, the silly sort, the boisterous talkative sort,
and on one occasion the almost-up-to-the-fighting point
variety, when a petty chief, with same of the people
hear, placed himself in front, exclaiming, ' I stop this
path; you must ga back.' Had he not got out of the
way with greater speed than dignity, an incensed
At4komo would have cured him of all desire to try
a similar exploit in future. It was remarked by
the oldest traveller in the party that he. had not
seen so much drunkenness during all, the years he had
spent in Africa. The people, notwithstanding, attain
a great age. One in struck with the large number of
old greybeaded persons in the highlands. This seems
to i,,,Aicop a healthy climate. For their long lives they
are not in the least indebted to frequent ablutions.
Why do you wash yourselves ? our men never, do,'
said some women at Chiusurdi to the Makololo.
An old man told us he remembered, having washed
himself once when a, Loy, but never repeated it ;
and from hip appearance one could huikly call
the truth of his statement ix question. A fellow
who volunteered, some wild, geographical.infartnation
followed us about a down mites, - and introduced us
to the chief *arm Moezi by saying, They have
wandered they don't know where they are going.'
Scold that man,' said a Makololo head to his factotum,
who immediately commenced an extemporaneous scold-
ing ; yet this singular geographer would follow us, and
we could not get quit of him till the Makololo threatened
to take him to the river and wc.pla him. The castor-oil
with which they lubricate themselves and the dirt serve
as additional clothing ; and to wash themselves is like
throwing away the only upper garment they possess.
' They feel cold and uncomfortable afte;• a, wash. We
' observed several persons marked 4 the small-pox.. On
asking the chief, Monga.o.-,,who was a little tipsy, and
disposed to be very gracious—if he knew its origin,
whether it had come • to, them from the sea, Ile did
not know,' he. said, ' but supposed it must have
come to them from the English!' They have the idea of
a Supreme Being, whom they name Panabo, and alto of
a fute,rfi state. The. Chief Ohinsurdi said that they all
knew. that Ahey lived again after death. Sometimes
the dead came back again,--they appeared to them in
dreams,. but they never told them where they had gone.
ta.' This is an:inviting field for benevolent ent{erprise,
needing
There are thousands Askuetion, and
here are materials for laßflil
et°44eree, awl a bra
healthy couutry, with; xpiap o the noxious insects with
which capPk4 Buxton, and SPeke were tormented, and,
,vrai the snrgle exception of thirty miles, water com-
mwlicatiou all the way to England. Let but a market
be opened for the purchase of their cotton, and they
can raise almost any amount of it, and the ale: trade.
will speedly be abolished."

3IARIIIAOp I,IETIVEEN Fills Cousma.—Dr. Bermis,
of Kentucky; bas found that ten Per cent. of the deaf
and dumb, five per ce4t, of the blind, and fifteen per
cent. of the idiots, admitted into the various charitable
insti,tutiuns of the United States, are the issue of mar-
riages of first cousins. These unions are now prohibited
in certain States, and especially in Kentucky.—the
Lancet,

REPRESENTATION OF SLIGO.—T4Righ,t Hon. John
Wynne is about to' rc4la his, seat fo; Sligo. Mr.
Francis maccioxpoigh,, Q,C., is leaping for Sligo to corn-
ras4ce a cauXos.. The. forensid abilities of Mr.
4acaonongb render him one a the most eminent
,
members of the bar, while the sterling Conservative
opinions he entertains make him a worthy successor to
Mr Wynne. Mr. Macdonough is supported by the
whole strength of the Conservative interest.

PULLINGER'S FRAUDS.—The report c the Union
Bank of London, preparatory to the annual meeting on
Wednesday, was issued on Saturday morning. It con-
tains little more. than a recapitulation of facts already
k Wni Out of the £263,12,5 stolen by Pullinger,
no
i 11,116 has been recovered, leaving the total loss
£252,009, which is to be met in the manner originally
proposed—namely, by the reserve fund of £100,852, the
writing off of £120,000 from capital, and the appropria-
tion of £31,157 from the current profits of the, year just
ended. As those profits have amounted to £124,563,
there will remain sufficient to pay a dividend of 12s.
per share for the last six months, and to carry over
.43,40 Q to the next account. With the dividend and
bonus paid in January, the proprietors will thug have
received 12f pet cent. for th year qn, their capital of
£720,000. .