Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-28
Barbaritfes Of the Slave Trade.


The horrors of the African slave ira lie still
exist as the following narrative proves. 1t Sc
taken lrom the evidence by the Rev. Horace
Waller, printed in the recent Parliamentary
Report on the Slave Trade, issued in London:
Kidnapping is prevalent all over Africa,
leading TO all sorts of petty disputes and retala-
toDs; and the more disturbed The country Is the
cheaper slaves become. So cheap do they at
last become that Mr.. Waller has known children
of the age OF from eight to ten years bought for
les corn than would go into hat and it may
be easily imagined that when they are bought
so cheaply and when they fetch so large a price
on the cost, it pays the slave-dealer well to
collect ss many slaves as he can knowing that he
must lc acer' iiu proportion on the way, but
also know Dg that the remainder will pay him a
large profit. 1t is (remarks Mr.. Waller) like
sending up for a large block of ice to London in
hot weather; you know that certain amount
will melt away before it reaches you in the
country, but that which remains will be suff-
cient for your wants. MT. Waller further
explained how this "block OF ice'' melts in
transit:
sickness may break out; they may cross a
part of the country where there is very little
food and then may die of famine. Then again,
ii there is anything like INSTRUMENTATION in the
slave gang, the axe and knife used very
freely indeed, and an indiscriminate slaughter
takes place among all those who are inclined to
be obstreperous We liberated gang OF eighty
four slaves one morning, and within a few miles
of the place where we liberated them We were
shown places in the bush where slaves had been
killed only that morning. One poor woman had
a child on her back which she had recently given
birth to, aud which she too weak to carry
further. and the slave-dealer took it by the heels
and dashed its brains out against q tree. Another
woman was Ill herself and could not keep in the
line, and the slave-dealer dashed her brains out
with the axe, and she was cut out OF the slave
throng. They are all united i'm a long string,
the men being y0ked in heavy forked sticks,
which are kept on their necks from the time they
are captured till the time they are delivered ID
sometimes even three months at time"
The citizens committee appointed by the board
of supervisors yesterday, reported that all the
WORKS for the city had been thoroughly ex-
the new courthouse building and furniture is
50 130 Geo. and So $50 900 Is charged to the county
courts and officers in the same building, making
building, when completed, could not honestly
exceed s3,Coo,cCo. s3,52l,000 were paid for
armories and drill rooms, the real value being
500, goo; for lumber s463,t:o paid, real value
81, 90; for advertising, stationery and printing
81 16s $50 paid real value 81 $50 900. LOIS to til
city, SO $40 1885, The report Of the committee
shows that in getting the money ON the various
ly, large number Of the signatures not being
genuine.
ga countryman on his wedding tour halts
recently at Boston hotel. The day was chilly,
anu ai1er VAIN enc1s 70 extract heat from the
waiter, he rang the bell and Indignantly request
ed the attendant to "take out that darned steam
gladiator and bring in stove"
~They have begun in Canada to cultivate
rabbits an article of food, initiating European
countries where hundreds of miles of coastlands
are used as rabbit warrens, and their produce
furnishes cheap and nutritious food for mil
lions, while the furs have considerable value in
trade.
ga Boston organ of the Spiritualists an
nouncss :" that all or very nearly all the crown
ed heads in Europe to-day believers in spirit
communications, although 10 the Queen of Eng
land II has been reserved 10 courageousy an
nounec herself Spiritaalist."