New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-01

| en-, diin hsd iccn loft at Nu'sawa. & Tie en-
| il,sh site explorer WIS in good health and high
,Iis; lie lad totally recovered in the pure mir Of the
hle c, mtry, from tie fever which had weighed hin
down ever since is arrival in Africa, ard able u
uivcl without litter. Tie first two nights they slept
| in Gmlets en- tie road. About two O'Clock on the
Il ind pfe1 ocn ey reacl cd village called Ilisonguny
Az hey halted, the nl abhants, urged by curiosity
fctled arourd Il EN-, and of the betterlookng ma
ivez he'd Roscl er TO il house. TIE invitation wa
acCeIttd ard after raltakng of lunch prepared by his
servants, Il ure,, Getting Roscher, in accordance with
il custom, lay down TO sleep. Rashid went to the
river 1t little dstance to get some water and upon
| ] is return sw h fellow servant engaged in a
r,nisst with several armed men; one of them, just at
at noncn Pierced Omars breast with an arrow and
Rail ID lastered to is MASTER Entering the hut no
,Hw Reel err with poisoned arrow sticking in his
toeon lying dead near is couch. Alarmed and fright
tred lie few 10 a field Of casslva near by, pursued by
ansvs Of tie hostile PARTY. After dark he re-
tim cd TO tie scene Of the murder The corpees OF his
mister and Omar still lay untouched where they had
ALLEN but before morning, Rashid, from place OF
orcealn ent, Jaw IL murderers carry them on. lie
late ned back to Nus,ews and communicated the sad
rews to II Sultan, WHO Immediately sent him, with
ieyeIrl mcn, 10 Sultan Hingomanje in Mamemba'
in whofc territory the crime had been COM
mitted Tls ruler at tie head Of fifty soldierT' pro-
cceded 10 tie village and arrested four men whom the
villagers rointed out IA the criminals. TWO oil
tl,m were residents Of the place and were
called Makokota and SikambOni, the former the
lcrdn nm of tho hamlet the very person who had In
v;,ed Rcscl or TO il house and in whose possession
vos fcund one Of Roschers revolyers. Rashid then
,,k 81 sroe Of the books and other effects at Nussewa
uIi,i belonged 10 his master, but was unable to dis
liza ;or rnal and notebook which had been car
,;,d away Inv the mur1erers. Setting out for the
coo.t le me-, the caravan which had been sent with
s,rrss for Ro-cter from Zanzibar and returned with
!, snd H. four prisoners to Kina. These latter will
ally suer IL deserved penalty Of their crime, but
ier deah cannot compensate the world for the lose of
ore Of tie most ardent daring and sefsacricing Of
tie RAW travellers who have fallen in attempting TO
exJ Lore tie hidden rgion OF Central Africa
-PaIon Won der Decken, who left Germany about the
erd of April, well provided with instruments and
nears for the purpose joining RoScher on the shores
of Nyassa was met at Zanzibar with the of the
latter travellers untimely death. 1t was probable, at
tie laft accounte that Won der Decken after seeing
justice dCne TO Rotc ers mnrieres, would go forward
to Il lake region and continue tie explorations which
Il G deceased traveller had 90 much at heart.
--rurmeiter long known as a successful South
An eIcan explorer, il publishing in the two leading
gecpInpfiCal journals of Germany, account of his
travels in tie La Plata region and of a journey from
Ro.aIio acro+s the Cordieras to Copiapo, in Chill.
He returned to Germany by way Of the Isthmus of
Panama in May last and the results of his lengthy
jouJn in TIE southern division of continent will be
en- bodied in a work entitled " The Physical Geog-
raj by Of the Argentine Confederaey.
An English traveller, Dir. T. J. Hutchinson, mar
rates in tie rages of late London magazine the incl
dents Of Journey to Great Batanga, rarely visited
negro province on the Blight of Biafra whose inhabi
tants have acquired enviabe Dotoriety along the
Wet African coast by refusing either to hold slaves
Themselves, TO assist in any way the barbarous slave
treere Arriving from Fcrnar do Pc at the Harbor of
Patnce, be thus describes tie scene which greeted
lin: AT distanoe of what appeared to be about ten
miles toward tie interior stands the Manga mountain
Nhitb IL marked in tie Admiralty Chart as ,707 feet
in hight but to which is given. Elevations of
lieh ground, some of pinnaeed sugar-loaf form,
oil eIs Of different shape rise all round far the
tie eye can reach while falling broad precipce
in tire different streams appears the white foam Of
TIE rambling cataract Of the Lobe River. The author
buitciututlS Nieltu us hhVhh
az tie Cataract of Batanga whose different cascades
are seJaraied from each other by insular and tree
covered rocks. The country in the neighborhood Of
Batsrga is comparatively free from coast-fever and
il destitute OF the misunderstanding mangove forests
which lire the shores to the north and south Of it.
The Governor of West Siberia, Mr.. lassfort, sends
to the imperial Russian Geographical Society the de-
scIpiion of species Of nele, OF which the natives Of
the Government of Tomsk manufacture thread
wliTs, and fsLing-nets and which, when care
fully PREPARED may lie made INTO fabric resembling
linen. 1t ia extensively cultivated by the inhabitants
If the department but is also found in natural state
in large quantities. Its culture is about to be intro
ductd into all the Siberian provinces where neither
flax nor hemp are grown.
Tie Prussian Embassy IN Persia, to which il
attached corps Of scientific men, left Teheran the
let of September for extended exploration OF the
SoutfeI portion of the kingdom, and int nded to pro-
coed HI far as the Persian Cub. Tine Berlin Govern
mert i'll publish the results OF their explorations in
great national work, under the edorship OF Brugsch
and in the same style as tho magnificent volumes of
LeIsus On Egypt.