The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-08-21

xrrEcTs OF rHE SLAVE rRADE-A PANIC.
DROUGHT AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF LIVES


| xrrIcrs OF rHK SLAVE rRADE-A PANIC.
DROUGHT AND YAxINK--iHousASDso OF LIVES
LOST. -
The Losdon Times published the foller-
ing extract of letter from DR.. Livingston.
dated River Shire. February 90. 1868, Civ
+. ing the latest news of his expedition:
"Of late affairs have taken an entirely
new phase, or rather we have bad our eyes
opened to see that the old system. which has
kept this region shut up frdo Gnod in4u
of rendering all our lsbof ofha avail Fhe
slave hunfiuysystem has come across our
path, and had nearly or quite de9opu!ated
the valley OF the Lower Shire. You may
have heard that certain slave dealers came
along Dr.. Kinks path, from Tetie TO this
riyer-instigated one tribe against another,
and were paid in captves, same OF whom We
liberated. The capiives who escaped US
are Sc parated at Teue, the men retained and
the women and children sent up the lam
best 10 buy ivory. panic seized the pop
ulaiion OF large district above the Gaia
raets. They fed to the Shire. leaving their
hue gardens and grain behind them
drought and famine folio wed-thoussads
persisted, and still die off daily. We counted
thirty-two dead bodies floating down as we
steamed up, and these are nothing to those
who perish in the villages and lie unburied,
or those that pass by at night or are devour-
ed BY a,liga,ors. Well, further down the
river in the country around Mount Clarsn'
don, a half caste marauder. called Marianne.
has devastated and depopulaied with. ii is
said, about thousand armed slaves, and
where las, year We could chase any
amount OF fresh provisions and cotton at the
cheapest rate-Captain Wilson. of d. a. ).
Gordon. thought that hundred tons OF
cotton could be collected from that valley
and the hills adjacent-we saw not single
village. only here and there few misera-
BILE wretches striving TO keep soul and body
together by fishing and collecting together
the seeds of grasses. Our labor Is very
much increased by this depopulation, mas
much as we must go at least three hundred
miles for all the food our native iaoorers re-
quire.
Another man, called Belshore, made
slave forrays west of the Shire; and SO does
another, named Mello; and another called
Jose St Arna, higher up the Zambesi; and
several other parties of slave hunters are
out south of Senna-any one with few
guns and slaves may do the same. No
notice is taken of it by the authorities till
the culprit is rich enough to stand squeeze.
He may then be imprisoned. 1t would be
unchari,able, to say that there is any mule.
ting--but he is released, and at liberty,
after a short confinement, to begin again.
This Marianne was sentenced to three years
Imprisonment for rebellion and at least
forty murders-come back and was received
as guest of the governor OF Quillimane.
till he ran away and his excellency ran
after him, but of course could not catch him.
This system has been going on for long
time but we did not become aware of it, by
actual observation, till lately. because the
shaving which went on under the name,
French Free Emigration" was supplied
by forays in the counties north aud north |
west of Qaillmane.
You are probably not fully aware of what
Lord Palmersion has done by his policy on
the West Coast. Were he not in power. l
could say great deal more than. for fear Of
being set down as "loady." l dare do
now. Mr.. Wilson. an American mission
ary. who has written the best book have
seen on the West Coast, says that. had it
not been for his policy, Africa rs yet had
scarcely been accessible TO missionary la
Dor. BY means Of the security which our
squadron impaired. over twenty missions
have been established. twenty dialects re-
duced to writings, and zoos communicates
have been received by the different church
es Education is impaired TO thousands Of the
young. and good Influences are spreading
inland. Lswul commerce has been increased
IRON eco. 900 annually to between f2.OOO.-
900, aud 5000, 900, and more tonnage is
employed in carrying it than ever was en-
gagged in the slave trade, even in its palmi-
est days