Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-16

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Chief Massala, of Niyi on the lower
Congo accompanied by eleven alternative
Africans from the Congo valley, have
arrived at Brussels and were received
there by the King of Belgium yesterday
They will remnin III the kingdom for
some time and take part III the Antwerp
exhibition. These are the first of his
new black subjects that King Leopold has
seen, although some three years have
elaped since Stanley began. under the
immediate direction of that liberal
monarch and his associates in the
great enterprise, the arluous work of
planting colonies along the Congo
and opening TO Legitimate trade and civil
ization the vast regions drained by that
immense river and it's tributaries.
Scarcely more than Il score of years have
rolled away since these regions-a terri
tory rs large MS that drained by the Miss
issippi and its branches was an utter
blank upon the map of Africa and. bear
ing this in mind the magnitude of the
work that has been accomplished within
the past three years under the auspices of
the organization viyiiied by King Leopold
may be appreciated. The river has been
opened to commerce anda line of trading
stations, the nuclei of future cities. estab,
lished extending nearly 1000 miles from
its mouth; the slave trade with its attcn,
dant horrors and dcpopulatiou of native
villages has been extirpated, and steamer,
are now daily visitors to communitic,
who in 1882 gazcd upon the pioncet
smoke boats" with nmazemcnt and con
stcrnntion. If the same wise AN,
peaceful policy which has done 5,
much IN so short time be steadily ad
hered to, the mercantile and ndventurou
spirit of the Europe and America of to
day may be relied upon to work miracle
in equatorial Africa before another scor
of years have lapsed. 1t would not b
surprising if within that tins Bonn an
Vivi and Leopoldville and other of til
furnishing infant foci of trade on til
Congo should grow into thriving elite
and locomotive whistles startle the hir
popopotami and crocodiles of the reach,
where rapids and cataracts impede {
render difficult the navigation of til
mighty river. ....
If it should prove that through Austria
disapproval Minister Keileyis constraine
to return home, he will not be the fir
American minister who has been repud
ated at Vienna. In 1861 Preside1
Lincoln nominated Arson IL. BurIingam
minister to Austria who proved obie,
tionable because of some things he In
said regarding the Kossuth movement f,
Hungarian independence and the dealin,
of Austria with Sardinia. Mr.. Burlingan
had, in the buchanan campaign
achieved notoricty through Ii
championship of the cause
Senator sumner, who had been assault,
and badly beaten in by Preston S. Brool
for some reflections, made in a speech
the Senate, upon South Carolina rel
tive of Mr.. Brooks Mr.. Burlingan
took up the quarrel and challeng,
Brooks, but, ms the latter insisted up,
lighting in the United States and Il
former iii Canada, the expected duel t
which the whole country W
waiting with breathless interest. ney
came OIL. After his rejection !
the Austrian court Mr.. Burlingar
was made minister to China, where he
endeared himself TO the celestials til
they subsequently sent him back to t
United States ut the head of IN cinbas
to conclude a treaty with this goyernmel
He performed this mission to the eminc
satisfaction of both parties, returned
China ard, to the best Of our rocollectio
spent the rest of his life there and, aft
his death, was exalted by the adnirii
Chinese TO a high place among III,
departed saints.