The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1866-10-04

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o say Like that eehoing strain,
Though the sound Of his love has died over tn
hilis,
| II will waken IN heaven aFain,
Aud again,
| u Wlll waken Ia heaven again.
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| Africa ana fhe African Race
| Among The readers Of papers ut Not.
| tingham was Sir Samuel Baker, who
gave some further "reminiscences Of hi,
travels in Africa, with especial bearing
op the future og the bstiye raees. Iii.
| objrct, he said, was TO paint the negro
Is he really was, but no blacker aud Il
| he spoke 10 his favor, il did not follow
that hethought he would ever be Speak.
er or the House Of Commons or yet
! Archbishop Of Canterbury. He did
hpwcycr, believe that at somc period Of
the fuure-though, unfortunately. that
| period seems too rempic for human eye
as yot to penetrate, the dark ness--man
would rise from the dpt 10 soinclh ng
more than the level Of the brute. Ills
travels had lcl him to the conclusion
! that mgu ia his Wild state Sis iufu.
/ rnccd very greatly By the features aud
character Of the cogntry which be ia-
habiicd. Generally the Wild eaa's on.
/ Is impulse Was 10 iiH his belly 70 day
aad 10 lcayc Il cmpty for to.worrow ----
III a bgasi. therefore, we're Gllcd, As lir
Is possible, il would all be eaten one
day
On one occasion, IN the course oi
iqrty lru days sail through marshes,
biz parts cnne upon parcel Of natives
fxsslly llic color Of siatc pencils who
somed IN q state oi al but starvation.
They looked m0Jp ike Tiyor guaia than
buuian bcings and be was glad When,
having gilcn them ali they could spare.
thcy ,pi Rway again, Coz these natives
would otherwise have stayed BY them
l,ll ihcy hai cateu everything belonging
70 them - 5000 as lhey reached the
eud u lie luhulnts apd came 70 t,rra
6osni, ihey mcl rish pptIFcs superior 70
those Nc bad spoken o. Thcy pos
scssci lhe aTl Of smelling iron, sud ~.
though haging only stone ior an auy'l.
au9,hcy ipr hamiacr apl cleil stick
Cor a Iair II ipnps, he bad seen a rude
shirt of m1ll. 9inchcs Ly inches, mldo
for ,Ln Chief by o native blAcksm.th-
So iif ibegs wrro evidences Of capsei,y
auang tie negroes, but tc loand the
cap9ci,y was on|y limited
IN infancy aud childhood the,s intel
/ liscncc WIS equal, IL um suporior to
/ thal ql Europeans, but at twelve or
+ fourteen tic intel og,aal capacity ap-
I pelred % have lot iis awoT " develop
mcut The negro sss capable, II con
tented aud healthy, as long a. he bad
some Muster mind 20 iDancucc him
nom, person superior TO hmsclf- whom
I b could look up to and bow down be-,
/ fore But remove this master mind,
agd be- walked like tho tclcgfapb,c IA,
struHent shog the operators hands was
removed lbe needle pulsatcd, but 10
lougcr gave ans iGtclligible signals II
was a peculiarly OF the Arabs and Ma.
humedaus that both thooght thoy were
! doing good 10 tho negro by cuslaying
/ him. Though they might and did Kill
/ nll the old people and sell thc younger
+ ones TO scryimdc, one ol the fret things
/ they did was TO teach the negro TO be-
/ lieyc 10 God in doing which they took
/ credit for rescuine the negroes from ui-
ter sayagcFy.
Sir s. Baker narrated with infinite
humor some circumstances Ola lndicrous
| character growing out Of the rupersti.
iiohs OF the natives and the difficulties
IN which their head sorecrcr occasionally
iound himself from FIRST promising aud
4 then being unable To supply rnin The
! Agrieaus, he Kaid were not content with
I the form of witeherait- spirit-rapping
and tablo,tnrning--w prevailed in
I England; any soreerer, whose attain.
ments rose no higher than these would
be looked upon as an IDIOT, and perhaps
| set 20 iFightop birds from the corn, 4
sorccror IN Africa above al things,
must be practical 4 Mr. Murphy, he
believed, had compiled weather alma
nae in this country. But il Mr.. Muir
ply brought out his work under rcspon.
lsibilities similar to those attendant on
4 almanuc.making in Africa, he would
think long time before writing it, aud
his Publisher still longer time before
bringing it out,
Supposing that the rain were promis-
| ed on the 26th Of August, all the tribes
| would assemble, and if it happened 70
be fne day tho almanac maker would
be seized, and unless he promised to
bring rain within q given time, they
would take lance aud cut him open to
see where tho fault 10 the almanac lay.
| Sir s. Baker declared that at one of the
furthcst points to which he had penc.
trated, he found traces of commercial
enterprise at one time existing, though
terminated long while ago, as he un'
4 derstood, because some white men of the
4 company had been put to death, Arabs
/ and all persons not actually black being
called awhite men in Africa.
From various details which he had
been able to gather he inferred that
these traders must have been Arabs
from the coast Of HanzbAy and as thu
rate Of progress in the East was so in
finitesimal, il was quite possible thai