The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-18

Leone, for provisions and towage, |
to sixteen thousand eight
hundred dollars. These drafts were
forwarded through a Boston banking
house 10 the first national bank of this
city. The association did not accept the
drafts on sight, but asked thirty days
time to meet them, and the president of
the bank, it is said. will do all he can to
secure the time asked for. The drafts are
for the expense of the towage of the
Azlr from Sierra Leone to Monrovia by a
Bri isl mail Gamer, and als) for provis>
Ons procured at Sierra Leone for the
half-starved emigrants. Upon the mat
ter of the provisions Major Delany states
that the association paid bills or pro-
visions in the city of Boston amounting
to eleven hundred dollars before the bark
arrived at this port, and after her arrival
here they paid seven hundred dollars
more. He Claims that the vessel was
amply proVis;oned and watered, and
that The suffering fer want of these ar
ticles is directly traceabIe to the wan
ton waste of the emigrants themselves.
Over tLis, of course, the association hsd
no control after the vessel lett this port.
The next and most serious charge against
The association is their failure to procure
a responsible and competent physician
for the voyage and in answer TO an ine uiry
upon this point, Major DelanY said that
the sssociIiiOn had not reli d upon
Curtis IS their ply ,iCiaD, but hsd
IrOcured the services of a cOmpe-
tent Practitioner from Washington,
who they had expected up to the very
! minute. 1t was not until the vessel had
weighed anchor that the association for
| one moment thought of relying on Cur
| tbs. The association are greatly in
| censed at what they term the exorbitant
rates charged by the British mail
| ste amer for tOw8ge, aud, to use the
| language of Major Delany, at is an
outrage that will not be tolerated. The
| bills will be paid, if possible, by the
association, but they will be paid under
protest, and I, who am well known in
| England, will write personally to the
! Earl OF Shaftesbury, and impure from
him whether or not it is the pol y OF
! Great Britain, which government has
spent millions of pounds in the suppress
sion of the slave trade and the civiIizl,
ton Of Africa, to sanction such an out
rage perpetrated by government agents,
the effect o. which is to reduce to a state
of impecuDiOsity tho who, like brave
pioneers, are engaged in the noble work
|
of their native land" Your cores
pondent learned that the association is
entirely unable to meet the drafts upor
them at present, but hope to be able, i
given time, to raise the cash among thosC
Of the blacks whose enthuiasm has no
cooled. Delany and his associates art
entirely ignorant, as yet, whether OF no
the vessel has been libeled or will bt
libeled for the tOwage, and have ceiveC
no information either from Capt. Holme
or from their agents who went out " i'll
the vessel. Capt. Holmes received
orders before leaving to remain at Mon
rovia no longer than ten days unless b
secured a cargo If, therefore, tn
vessel has not been detained by financia
difficulties, she is probably on her wa
: back to Charleston by this time. He
arrival here is anxiously awaited by tw
! hundred and fifty emigrants, one hun
dTed and ninety-seYen of whom az
adults, ard, despite the terrors OF tn
experimental trip, these poor people
who have lived here fer the last ivy
months, no one knows how, are read
> and willing at the shortest notice to ioi
their Comrades in the promised lane
IN. Y. Herald.