Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-02-27
zooshcr African war.

! he English settlement at Sierra
Leone has cost the Eng ish govern
no:.l from first TO last about as, 900. GOO
IN money and the lives of Il large num-
Der Of gallant soldiers AID able ad-
I m:ulstratOrs. 1t used to be said, THAT
Sierra Leone always had two govern
Ors, one going out alive and the other
coming home dead and this CHASTITY
extravaganza does not DO much I'M Us
tlce to the deadly aud pestiferous eli
mate of the colony. The colony was
founded il 1877 for the suppression
OF The slave trade and tie elevation of
the negro. The slave trade has been
suppressed by cause3 with which Sierra
Leone had nothing whatever t. 90;
hut eighty seven years of pious and
pGiia,thropic labor aElQpG the negI oes
have not resulted i'll their elevation.
Ga the contrary, some CT them seem
to grow steadily, or unsteadily, worse;
and they have recently been indulG-
ing III exploits which threaten to
fcS.lit ii even more equiv
ora ana c.1tarSlin3' war than the one
winch has just been brought 20 a close
in Ashan:co. One Of the tribes whose
elevation was sought by the establish
inent OF the Sierra Leone colony are
INC 4AcE-OAiS, u WIZ lIhc anu Di,sNS race.
TER king offer, d to send some of his
soldiers 10 aid Sir Garnet Wolseley;
the offer was accepted with thanks;
the men were duly forwarded, and arc
now with Sir Garnet in Ashantee. The
king was paid for the loan of his men,
and was supposed to be quite satisfied
with his bargain. But the other day,
either out of sheer 'cussedness" or by
reason of some grudge, he suddenly
made an inrOed into the British settle
dered town called Mannoe, and
carried of all the inhabitants
negroes--into slavery. He then
sent word tt the British COM
manuant that lie would return the
captives upon the payment Ct an ade-
quate ransom; but as this Is not the
way England does business, he was
informed that unless he sent the pris-
oners homo and made compensation
for their town he would be chGstised
To this he retarted, Come and take
me" and thus here is the probable be-
ginning Of another African war. Nor
was this all; for {. few days afterwards
the British commandant, happening to
be at Free Town, went across the river
with three other Enghshmen to enjoy
q few days shooting. Shooting in
plenty they had-but it was in being
shot ut, for on the second night, the
house which they occupied was at
tackled by two hundred armed men Of
the Snoosoo tribe. The commandant
and one of Lis friends we're wounded,
the other two were badly beaten; their
arms were taken FROM them, and they
escaped with difficulty with their lives.
This little escapade occurred within
four miles Of the government house
and in British territory. It would
seem as if eighty-seven years of mis-
sionary effort and GS,0C0,0O0 should
have produced moro perceptible pro- !
gress in the civilization of Africa than
these facts iGaiease.-New xork lVor1o.
-AceordiDg to Pliny, fire was long |
time unknown to some Of the ancient |
and when a celebrated as |
tronomer showed it to them they were
n raptures. The Persians,
Greeks, eES several other
acknowledge that theifanSestsgs
were once without the use OF FIRE, ana
the Chinese confess the same Of their |
Pompanion, Mola, PITT
ta-ch ard other ancient writer's speak
Of nations ~'ftiii.aets, st the time when they
wrote, knew not the4ss Of ffe, or he'd
Just learned IL. Facts Of the shme
kind Gre also attested by several meF=
lern nations. The inhabitants of the
Marian Islands, which were discovered
il 1854, ilaa 10 idea Of FIRE. Never
was establishment greater thac tl1lr' 8
when they saw it on the. desert ia one
Of their islands. At first they thought
it was some lind Of animal that fixed
to and fed upon wooa !