Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-11
A REMARKABLE STORY.
A Native of UniOntOwn, Pa,
Turns Up as CetewayO, King
of Zululand.

The following remarkable story was
written By gentleman who processes
TO know what he is talking about. The
style is something like that OF one
Joseph Mulhattan, alias Orange Bios
som:
In Southeast Africa, stretching up
from the shores of the Indian ocean TO
the lofty SUBMITS of the Snow noun
tains, bounded on the north by Mozam-
biuue, and on the south by the British
colonies, is the land OF the Zulus, con-
tanning many thousands OF square miles,
and numerous, warlike, negro popuia-
ton. Lying south OF the troplc oil Gap,
ricorn, its dusky inhabitants, eneryated
bv heat, are mentally and physically SUI
periOr to those OF the tOrrid zone.
For many months, the veterans OF
Britain, commanded by experienced
generals, have been defeated i'll battle al
ter battle while endeavoring to subdue
this brave people. BradOck's awful re-
pulse. one hundred and twenty Jour
wears ago, on the banks OF the Mononga-
hela, was not so disastrous as the de-
struction a few weeks since OF an
English army in Zululand, when only a
single soldier escaped TO tell the tale.
Later comes the news of the tragic death,
at the hands OF the Zulus, OF Napoleon
", the Prince Imperial OF France.
Little, however, thought the people OF
western Pennsylvania, that King Cete-
wavo was born and partly raised in their
midst. CetewayO, whose real name is
Charles Manaway, was born of mulatto
parents at Uniontown, Fayette county,
Pa. March Sth, 1888, and consequently,
is now forty-one years old. He Is a full
cousin OF John Manaway, the wealthy
cOlored proprietor of the Spottsylvanla
House, Uniontown. In 1913, when
Charles was ten years old, his parents
removed to Philadelphia, where he was
educated by a wealthy gentleman Tor a
missionary TO Liberia. But in 1888 the
heretofore studious boy ran away, and
sailed to England. Enlisting in the
British army, he served through the
Crimean war, receiving an ugly flesh
wound at the storming OF Sebastopol.
He is next heard of in the French army
during the Italian trouble, and although
mere youth, his letters from the seat
of war to American newspapers attract
ed considerable attention. In 1909
he became q valet 10
a French nObleman, and in 1864 went to
England and joined confederate prlva-
teer bound for Savannah, Ga. His color
enabled him to convey COntraband ar
ticles through the lines without suspl-
cion. When General John W. Greary
was military governor of Savannah,
Manaway deserted, joined the Federal
army, and was commissioned first lleu-
tenant of a negro company. In Skin
mish lust at the close of the war, he re-
ceiyed severe but not dangerous
wound i'm the thigh, and was taken to a
Philadelphia hospital. After his dis
charge he visited UniOntown, but found
few that knew or cared for him. Re
turning to London, England, he be-
came the servant, then the private sec
rotary, of an English colonel bound for
the Cape of Good Hope. Here, for
two or three years, he spent all his
spare time in the study OF military sub
iccts. Deserving the colonel, he SNUG
gled himself on board a Dutch merchant
vessel, the Captain of which soon set
him ashore at the mouth OF the Tuleka
river in Zululand. His native ability
and acquired shrewdness made him ut
once the leader OF the wild natives. In
1869 he had risen to the position OF
Graalg or chief, and in 1871 was made
king.
Possessing a thorough knowledge OF
British resources and arts OF war, and
leading an army Of as brave warriors as
ever went to battle, he has proven him
SELF to be king and a general who il
equal, and it might be said superior,
to the very ablest British commanders