Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-06-29

with which they had been manseled Wers OF
board, and many OF them retained the marks OF
THAR wrists and ancies. They were 270in all
but 100 had left before the Eihtope fell in Will
the ship. One Of the men said that the create
part had been brought down from the interior
and bought by the Frenchmenin the usual way.
Others had gone On board as labofers, De him.
self among the number, and had been seized,
pat In irons, and sioeet away In the hold. By
these means were the emigrsnts obtained, who,
ou; for the mutiny, were destined to develope
their faculties bg contsc CT with civilization; in
the island Of Reunion, late Bourbon. The sc-
count given BY them Of the massacre itself
was, thstft arose fr3m the cook sJabbinS one
OF the people who bad gone 10 he galley 10
get something to est but there can be little
doubt that the deed was pfemeditated, and that
the cooks violence, even IL true, was only the
signal for the rising.
fhe sequel Of THIS storyR ridiculous enough,
and we only relate tee specimen of the man
ner IN which the chief Of the French naval
squadron on the West coast Of Africa interprets
International usages aud respects foreign au-
thoritics. Captain Croft has been requested
~ the French Consul to 20 and rscapture <he
Resina Coli, aud be did set but NJ simon, NE
captain OF The last ship. put of in an open
boat when be saw the Efkinps approach, and
when the Rssiaa CstIi was captured be de-
nanded that che hheiild Be Immediately given
up 70 snen, 90 the ground thai she had never
seen out OF his possession inasmueh as be was
In the Deighborhsod, and had moreover de-
manded twenty men Of the Liberlan Gov
eminent 10 hsip him in the recpsery. The an
swer naturally was, that TIE Efhs1pe had cap
tured the vessel. and must have salvage. The
French eafteiu fefused to pay sny or to cone
to any settlement, and as the Regina Cali bad
been tszen into Monroya, he called on the
french naval force to interfere, and the last
we bear cf the matter is that two dispatches
have been addressed to the President OF the
Republic Of Liberia, couehed in the phraseol-
ogy Of which Europe has lately had more than
one Specimen. The demand II, that " Captain
Simon, OF the FesGch shiP, Rsgiaa Ceii, may
be afsin placed In possession OF his vessel, IL
legally seized by the English packet ship
Etkiope, and brought into the roads Of Monro-
via and furthermore, that the murderers be
spprehended and delivered up. IL will hardly
Be believed that It 10 desired also TO make the
Etkiope responsible for the damage which the
reb.liIous slaves did on board. But the style
OF the ss Grief Of the Staff Of the French Ma
val Division" is the point most worthy Of at
teHtion. With just seorn Of 90 pleblsn
functionary as the President of a republic be
thus expresses himself: al declare thas the
capture has been arbitrary, illegal, and value
less, and order that Captain Simon be iminedi-
ately replaced In possession OF his ship. l al
80 insist that the murderers of the crew OF the
RssfhG Cali be arrested and delivered to the
Of the Renasdtn
This, however, is bur pendant to the orig
inal history, which is the mu.iny of number
Of kidnapped slaves, bought, carried on board,
chained in the usual way, and destined TO be
to the French plantations under the
name Of " voluntary emisrants-o That the
system is nothing more than the slave trads un-
der another name, cannot be doubted. That
the immigration Of Africans and Asiaties 10
thinly peopled colonies is desirable, we have
always upneId, and even this French scheme
might have been 50 worked as to Be blessing
10 both Africa and the Antilles The various
races which have been introduced into the
British possessions have Of late years pros
pered and been productive of prosperity 70 9TH
ers The Coolies in the Mauritius and Deme-
rars, the Chinese in Australia, and even large
bodies Of negroes introduced into different
islands, have had no reason to regret the change
in their lot; and we hope that this kind Of en-
lgration will continue and increase. But moth
ing is more likely to check really healthy
supply of labor than such q nefarious traffic
has now been exposed. We trust that the
French Government will no longer hesitate to
proceedings which are able now
IN hos st Of the imnerial annrobation