Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-30
FROM TIE INTERIOR OF AFRICA.

FROM TIE INTERIOR OF AFRICA.
The Cape Town Mail, of March Is, (received by
the bark Springbok, at this port,) contains letter
from DR.. LIVINGSTON, n bold explorer and devoted
missionary. who writes from the Interior Of Africa.
The Cape Town PAPER, in introducing the letter.
says
"Dr. Livingston n solitary white mnn, appear5
to have been received with unboundcd commence
and Kindness bv the chiefs and people everywhere.
Such has GENERALLY been the first stage of inter-
course between the savage and the civilized"
In his letters Dr. l.. gives some account of his
= travels and troubles At one time in latitude ~
l6/ south. all his attendants were down with tho
, fever They were then passing through densely
wooded country, in which the axe was in con-
slant operation, and DR.. L., for part OF the way
had to drive and cut Il path too. In some places
f the country flooded for fifteen miles and val
leys ape lred like large rivers, with hIppopotami
+ in them. For three days they waded through tho
reeds and high grass to obtain a passage into the
river Chobe, which they reached on the fourth
day-embarked m pontoon, and, after proceed
ing about twenty miles, reached Makosofo w
age which Dr. Livingston entered Fid'ng on hs
back Of a hjppopotamuS. They received much kind
attention at this village, but the chief a lad OF
eighteen, declined to Learn to read, lest 1T should
change his heart, and make him content with one
wife" They went up the Leamby and Londa
rivers in canoes, with six padders; who propelled
the boats at the rate of about forty miles per day.
The Londa river is one of great beauty and
breadth, often being over mile broad, with 49,
lands three or four miles long in it, these are COW
cred with sylvan vegetation, the rounded masses OF
which seem to recline the bosom Of the %GAer:
The fever however; spoils ell the beauty of the
sccno
DR.. L. saws that he has not found spot that
he could pronounce salubrious, and therefore they
must brave their destiny, and surely he argues.
they can if the slave trader does. He met in the
interior Arabs from Zanzibar, and Portuguese from
the farthest trading stations inland on the west!
He preached in many spot where the name OF
Christ was never heard before and for nine weeks
was in intimate in tercohuie th the natives, who
treated him kindly; but conversation, anec:
dotes, quarrcling roaring, uancing singing, and
: numbering have, he says, impaired greater dIs-
gust at hcahenism than he ever Ind before. and,
in comparison with the southern tribes, firm be-
lief that missionaries effect great deal more than
t they aware Of even when there are no conver-
= sons The temperature in the shade in the inter-
or at 100 degrees and often 80 at nine o'clock
at night.
, DR.. Livingston states that lie found there some
Portuguese trading in ivory. One of them was
the first Of that nation who ever saw the lambert
river in the center of the African Continent. As
) he travels; DR.. L. will note cory of his obs6rva:
tons, which will probably be published hereafter.
= A LAuGuABIE 1NCIDET-One summer evening,
at a church in Poughkeepsis, it found Necessary
to have all the windows open, on account Of the
heat. The preacher became very eloquent and
calming down into solemn mood, he ri3ited the
attcnention Of his audience. You might hayo
, heard dropping Of pin. He then scared into a;
strain of eloquence that carried his hearers along
with him. lie quoted passage Of Holy Writ, and
applied its the hearts and conscences OF his audi
ence. 1t WAS solemn moment-th6 preacher
saw his advantage, and was resolved to use it /;
again he quoted rhc pungent passage, and began
to apply it with all his skill.
II wv no of my hearers that in these ciS-
cumstances he acted thus? Who, can say, he did
'Iit2"
! At this moment an insect Few into the meeting
house, screeching out, "katy-dd. katy-did"
I The whole audience became convulsed with
laughter The minister's eloqucnce went for
naught, he stood amazed and ventured an angry
expression, while we thought, Truly, there is L6t
one step from the sublime to the Ridiculous"
Tnt CrnAs SLAVE TRADE.--Capt. j. Smith;
late of the brig Julia MOulton, arrested by
one of tire deputies OF the United States Marshal,
charged with being engaged in the slave trade. IL
appears that the captaih succeeded in landing six
hundred and sixty slaves on the coast of Cuba,
and afterwards as has been the custom since tho
adoption of the treaty for the suppression of the
traffic, destroyed the brig by fire. Captain Smith
! was lodged in prison, as no bail could DO taken;
a Tho offence being capital one. Another of tho
- Marshas deputies also arrested ship chandler Of
this city, who is charged with fitting out the brig.
He was directed to give bonds in forty thousand
! dollars to answer. This was complied with.--NttS.
York Herald.
COMMON SENsE.-&The Roomtield OJse,rer and
other Missouri papers complain Of fires aud nsub-
ordination Of the slaves and insists upon a mors
vigilent enforcement of the law. " "Ruuaways fill
the woods" says one the numerous fires we
have had-arc caused either by them or slaves"
answers another. Let the laws be rgidly en-
forced" over all, and we we'll put down lawless
slaves and theving 0botionists" To all this the
German Paper of Vt. Louis the brave Alzieger des
UeStciiS, replies;
This is all very fine, but will not avail much If
the Shareholders wish to be free for ALL from
all their cares anxiety and trouble, they have no.
thing else to do than TO extend their hands to
those who are in favor of the peaceoble and legal
abolition of slavery. They would thereby not
only establish for themselves an n,perishable mon
ument OF honor in history but act in conformity
their own interests.-Leddcy..
; CoLoRED PHYsIeIANs.-Two coored men. Dr. j.
II. Snowden, and Dr. Daniel Lang, Jrr both
thoroughly educated physicians under the caro-
and expense of the Massachusetts Colonization
= Society, have sailed for Liberia in the Sophia
Walker, the one to be employed at Sinou, and the
other OH the st. Pauls river, attend to the
4 ly-arrived emigrants during the acclimation; so
that that there now four regular physicians in
' the employ Of the American Colonization Society
. in Liberia.
i WELI-CLoTuEp-Th Now Orleans Bulletin sa5s
j. that "slnyes never freeze or starve."' We hare
Q heard that they often have good dressiags s