The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-06

dfd for him WHAT the comu40NN 194u8 NnO
Genius Of Rows THEosALD. PoRx, NARBuA-
ros, JOHNSON, BLACKSTONE BrRKn NALoHK,
STEVENS, and CoLLrsn had not been able 70
effect after years OF investisasloa. Fon know
the plaintiff by his Acknowledged writings. II
you regard MIN ~ aman possessing more &c.
Mus, more scuteness, and more industry than
all shcse Just enumerated put together, you
will them have 70 ssy that Hts possible for .
man TO possess al thsse, and yea foreso all the
honor, the profit, and the immortality that he
would reap from an acknowledgment oflfhe
work which would prove him to be all this
and more.
Mortality Among Whites In Africa.
A Philadelphia journal notices the continu-
ance of the fearful records of mortality
among the whites who have gone to Africa
A letter from a resident of Philadelphia at
Sierra Leone, July Htb, 1850, states:
THAT the yellow fever is making dreadful hay
among the Europeans at this place: In little
more than two months forty-hyeont of ninety or
man Catholic Clergy men from France, who arrived
here short time since have every one died within
tins were Mr. odheld. agent to the British African
Mail steamship Company, and Bishcg Bowen Q,
me lauren O. snd set
he was permitted to occnpy the See Init years
and FIVE months-a period longer than either Of his
two predecessors. eAnother evidence oil this IN
sanhrity is mentioned in case OF the schooner
Brontos, at New York from Sierra Leone; This
June. with crew of Eve white men and one color
cd. and on the first day out all hands on board ex-
| fever. and four died of the disease. The French
establishments at Grand Bassan, also saffer tern
dy; much SO, that il is announced that the We'll
known frm Of Regis, at thai place, i to be with.
Grand Bassam."
MI 10
| white missionaries to Africa, who also die Of
! very fast, Is that of the Rev. G. CO. MCQUEEN,
Of the American Presbyterian Mission at Con-
leo. Our Philadelphia contemporary ADDS
that, out of one hundred and seventeen white
| missionaries to Western Africa, sent by the
English Wesleyan Missionary Society, fifty
four died in the field, of whom thirteen died
within the first three months, twenty three in
six months, and thirty mine within one year
from their arrival. The same general fatality
has followed the efforts in the same region, of
the Church Missionary Society of London, and
all other Missionary Societies of Great Britain
and the United States.
The pestilential reputation of the rivers OF
Western Africa is said to be established by the
loss of life in the British expeditions to the
| Niger, the whites dying in great numbers,
while, on the other hand, out of one hundred
and fifty eight negroes in the celebrated expe-
dition of 1912, not one died. From this the
Philadelphia journal argues the importance
of the work of the Colonization Society in the
single aspect of returning, with their own
consent the Africans in America" We doubt
whether "the Africans Of America either by
the consent of those who are free, or the con-
sent of the masters of those who are slaves,
can ever be induced to go back 10 Africa in any
great numbers. The negroes who escaped the
mortality of the expedition of 1872 were I'M
doubtedly, without an exception, native Afri-
cans a fact to which they owe their exemption
from the pestiience that cut down the whites
| That the black skin can better bear the pecu-
| uarities of African climate than the white, as
our contemporary supposes, is not proved by
the statistics of mortality in Liberia Ihere
is a man of Intelligence, JOE MCINTOSH, for
merly a Judge of the Superior Court of Libe-
ria who has reinquished that Office and be-
come superin tendent of the baths at the w hite
SULPHUR Springs. in this State. who gives an
account OF that region by no means natter
ing either 70 the climate or the people.