The New York herald., 1870-06-14
War and Secession in Africa-oko S""'''
Ja.Ja and the British ,Neutrais.

War and Secession in Africa-Oko S"m'o'
Ja-Ja and the British ,Neutrais.
Our mail advices from the Wet Coass u
Africa come to us replete with news - ""'
fict" RACES at Its fountain source, and is ex-
tending. Divisions of tribe, feudal assump-
tions of power and thirst for the ''spoils'
of place stand forth and remain the exciting
causes of the deadly strife, as they have
in st. Domingo, in Hayti, and among
ourse.ves IN .as ..ai ..ia Of the brave and the
home of the free. Oko Jumbo, Ja-Ja, Warrlb-
boo and Addah Allison, chiefs of Bonny, and
European trader, are "fghting it out on that
line," away off in and long the Gold Coast.
Oko Jumbo has got hold Of battery Of Arm
strong guns, carried to him from Great Bri-
tain by an English steamer, and declares he
will blockade Opobo Immediately and knock
Ja-Ja ''higher than kite" or words to that
effect, so far as the native dialect permits
slang terms. Commodore Dowell, Of the Bri-
tish navy, has interfered between Oko Jumbo
and Ja-Ja. The Commodore acts-as did
England in the case Of the Alabama--on the
principle of fist ''cut your head and then
give you plaster for Oko Jumbo hav-
ing received his ri1ed Armstrong; call
right" the commander of her Majesty's
ship Rattlesnake offers to visit Ja-Ja
and seek to induce him to ''cave in" Oko
Jumbo don't relish "foreign mediation" how
ever He stands both on his rights as soldier
and on the rules of war as they have been laid
from Jugurtha and Scipio Africanus to Julius
Cesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon and General
Grant Oko Jumbo told the British officer
that inasmuch as he (Oko) had defeated Ja-Ja
the latter should be first to make proposals
for peace. The Commodore, however, pointed
out to Oko that the so-called defeat OF Ja-Ja
was really gain to that commander and that
he was consequently likely to soon have Oko
Jumbo 'just where he wanted him." The
British Commodore finally made propositions
for peace. He threatened, and this is the
serious point, that if British property or
British subjects were interfered with he (the
Commodore) would be likely to take both the
native chiefs in hands. 1t is very probable,
in consequence, that there will soon be strong
smell of palm oil and gunpowder prevailing all
along the west coast Of Africa and far away
into the jungles where the British lion may
eventually meet the parent beast and prove to
him that civilization counts for something
after all.
In the republic of Liberia still wages the war
of the "spoils. President the Hon. E. J.
Joyce appointed Mr.. John Waller Good post
master and collector Of customs at Palmas.
Mr.. Good, notwithstanding his name, had
political enemies. Citizens rose against him.
Judge Gibson, who attempted to administer
the oath of Office to him, was assailed.
The s'strikers" declared that if Mr.. Good went
into the Custom House s'six men would throw
him out of the door, break his neck and shoot
him." The excitement was TERRIBLE noisy
combination of Topsey, an abolition subscrip-
ton Sunday in Plymouth church, and Exeter
Hall after it received the news of the fire on
Fort Sumter. ''Further advices from Palmas
waited for anxiously."
The natives Of Ashantee and Okwau had
captured-it is feared they ''gobbled up
three English missionaries. A friendly chief
named Kumuse remained the sole dependence
of the Church and religion in that quarter OF
the world. Kumuse had already received a
pair ofscissors and piece of gum copal, so that
it was hoped that the evangelsts would come
out ''all right" Personal infallibility has,
however, made very little progress in the
direction of Okwau, so that the matter remains
in considerable doubt. The great questions
put by Dickens Garry Jelliby and the late
Lord Brougham also remain thus :-''Africa'
| a beast" said Garry; the negro "a man and
a brother" said the ex-Lord Chancellor.
| Which?