/ Registered for] CTran~a~sion Abro~. "FOR GODj AND GOOD TO AFRICA AND HER PEOPLE."

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1 / Regstered for] CTran~a~son Abro~. ON. Y ouug :n the aro of a for an4 ~ter8~ "FOR GODj AND GOOD TO AFRICA AND HER PEOPLE." VoL "V I., No. 64.] LONDON, TUESDAY, OOTOBER 2:J, {~vsms~orn~, Suhse.~ptcn, 6s. per CONT~.NTS. - PAC, E PAOE Puya (SI~"~ of l~eca)... 3Z Cape Coast Female Natve ~hool : The West Afrcan 3[als The Chorsters Sur~Uce Q~e~ton... :... 4~ Crgmb~a Apt~fntments Propo,~l Sendng of Young Aftca~ to Engl, + To I.*am ~echsncal Arts Legal Practce" To ~e S~ge Roofs fron F~ Suggestons for Destroyng the Bug.a.Bug, orwhtoant Gold Coast Sen ~Leone... ; State of the Eastern Dstrcts of the Gold Coast Copy of Petton of the Kng, Chefs, Headmen, &c., on the Gold Coast, Abeokuta tro :the Goveraor-Creneral... : : Ordonn~nce of th~ Egba Government, Abeokuta, Imposng Customs Whole~e H~nan Sacr~ces n Brltsh Terrtory on the Gold Coast Dutes... 4~ Curous Important Results of Earthquake Acem ~Ierehanta Petton Rolot v. the Queen John Shaw ~ Abyssna o-.~.~f" ca~. ~CH~n. a.te ""r: " :... : Prncpal Events PUYA (SPECIES OF I:tHEEA.) (.B~meHa puya ; B. fft~cens.) l~lc, onp f Mr. We~t.\!.Her IAPg. Lwhle at for of atract s -from #. Male l~lowers; 8. Denuded Bccds mvgnfcd; d. Scccl n ts envelope. A letter respectng ths plant wll appear, ff IX~ssble, n our November number. We are ndebted for the above plate to tho kndne~ of Dr. Forbes Watson, E. I. ZIuseum. /.., : :~+

2 !! 38 THE AFRICAN TIM.~8. [O~OBSR 23, THE WEST FRICN MAILS. the arrval of the monthly mals, all mported goods mght ba nrf_~dfu r. CAN.NIB LISM, transhpped on board of her from alongsde the steamer at once, savng thereby the tme the mall-steamers are oblged to stay a The Afrcan :Hal Company s steamer Lagos, Captan Corbett, order to dscharge ther cargo, besdes havng, n many ca~s arrved at Lverpool on Wednesday, October 10, wth a far most nconvenently to carry to the coast of Engl som e goo~ cargo twenty-one passengers. that should be led here. If these suggestons be lstened to, The general health of the Europeans at the rvers s reportedt wll be dong justce to both whtes blacks. as good. Her Brtannc Majesty s Consul at Ferno Pc, I trust, Mr. Edtor, you wll gve publcty to ths, excus~ C. Lvngston, Esq., was on a vst to the Bonny Rver New me for thus trespassng so largo n your valuable columns ; we Calabar u Her Majesty s shp Oberon, for the purpose of endea-havpourng to reconcle the turbulent natves u those dstrcts, therperle, KeLp. no other way to get what ought to be done.~yours n quarrels havng for a long tme back serously nterfered wth the palm ol trade. It s, how~ever, very doubtful f hs praseworthy pacfc efforts wll be attended wth the euccess they GAM~IA APPOINTM~NTS. ~ O ~ItE :EDITOI~ OF 7HE A~RIeA~ TI]~-~, deserve, for the old-stng feuds between the hostle trbes have of late been greatly aggravated by the Crusha men havng made London, October 10, a rad upon New Calabar captured a largo number of Sr,~Pleaso gve publcaton to ths letter as an encomum to prsoners, about 100 of whom were reported to have been eaten the Admnstrator of the Government at Bathurst, Rver Gamble, at a great cannbal feast. As a natural result of ths fearfulfor the recent appontment of Thomas Johnson (negro Second massacre, the New Calabar men have expressed ther determna-wrteton to retalate upon ther enemes n the same fashon. late Actng Engneer Hurst, dece~ed. Why should not the u the Colonal-offce) to be Actng Colonal Engneer, vce The coloured teachers u charge of the mssonary staton at educated negroes enjoy the sam0 prvleges as the Europeans? I Bonny, establshed about twelve months ago by the l~v. Dr. am eagerly expectng to hear when that loug-stng Colonal Crowther, Bshop of the Nger, have been emnently successful, Chaplan s appontment, whch s stll held by a negro roverend ther man efforts havng been drected to the Chrstansng gent%men as actng, wll be made permanent, subjecto be cvlsng of the rsn generaton. Already many of the chldren n the schools cau read the Scrptures fluently, u addton releved at a certan perod by another from Serra Leone. Snce the Afrcan clmate s most dangerous dsagreeable to :Eurepcaus, let the educated negreca be apponted to fll up some of to the acquston of other knowledge of a cvlsng tendeuey. The steamer Thomas Bazloy, belongng to the West Afrcan those vacant appontments, legt been seen whether theyam Tradng Company, has returned to Br~s Rver from an expedton up the Nger. The captan bugs reports that the suece.~ What can be sad of Dr. Horton, whose ablty qualfcaton not qualfed to hold responsble posts n the Government servce. of the persons a charge of the parlous tradng statons factores establshed up the rver last year, has far surpassed the the mouths ofthe negroes antagonsts? But alas I none dare to gansay, whch, n some respects, have closed most confdent expectatons. "the sear of the severe wound n the negro race s etll vsble," whch IasroP Pxsszxo~Rs.--Messrs. Samuel Cheetham Jan evdently prevents Dr. Worton from beng P.:H.O--that s, pro. Janse, Old Calabar; R. Hemmngway, jun., Bonny; F. Hazlewood, R.N.~ Rev. C. F. Lel, Loges; Mr. audmrs. Lyell, Acorn ; j~dc~ of ~lour. I need not say much on ths pont, as the Admnstrator, Colonel D Aroy, at the Gamble, has now turned over Zps. James Speede, Staff-Asssstant-Surgeon 5ohnstone~ Chef a" fresh page entered upon a new mode of admnstratng the Justce Haekett, Cape Coast Castle; M:r. Drake, Leutenant Government. I wll only congratulate my frends n ther now Byron, 4th W.I.R., Serra Leone; Captan Bernard, 4th W.I.R., appontments, hopng to hear more of ther welfare, say also Gamble; together wth one deck soven fore-cabn passengers. tha the Admnstrator s now dong hs best to foster the cvlant-on of that colony uuder hs control, for whc he deserves every prase. Should thngs be contnued the Gamble as at TO THE EDITOR OF THE A~R[CAN TI:ld[ES, present, Colonel D/trey wll never lack prase from the negroes Bathurst, Rver Gamba, August, ther European frends n the colony.~youra, &o., Sr, ~ Please allow me a small spac~ n your columns Jes. W. F. P~r.rs. to show how poor people who are mportng Kola nuts from Serra :Leone have to suffer the loss of ther property from the TO PRESERVE SKINGLE ROOFS FRO~ FIRE. bad management of the Custom.house. There has been a con. etant grumblng among the poor people, tll they were made to" zo za~. ZDIT0n O~ ~m~ ~.~arc ~nres. know that they have a rght to redress from the Colonal Governmont. One or more people complaned of the total loss of ther to set hs house on fre whlst hs famly were asleep u ther beds, Sr,---=An Afrcan frend nforms me an ncendary lately tred baskets of Kolas, whch were led from on board the malsteamer; marks numbers taken by the tde-water, been prevously soaked n ol. The dabolcal act was only pre- by placng ou the shngles a pece of burnng canvas, whch had stored n bond at the Customs warehouse tll t he next day, whchvented beng successful by au opposte neghbour seeng the burrng canvas n tme to preventhe gnton nf the woodeu shngles, was the tme apponted to receve dutes of the Kolas. After such dutes are pad, the people could not fnd ther Kolas ; whch happly were damp wth dew; as he farther nformed why? Because the Customs offcers would close ther eyes, me that fres are often very destrnetve among Afrcan towns, by refused to see that they ought not to have allowed anybody t6" fres orgnatng n the woodeu shngles, I beg to call the attenterrer of your readers to the followng very smple plan of ren- take away ther Kolas ag a rush, wthout appontng a proper offcer to delver them.outo the partes clamng them, wth derng wooden shngles freproof, whch has been for many proper permts from the collector showng dutes had beau pad. years used wth success n the State of North Carolna n the Instead of ths, the collector would only concern hmself to Unted States of Amerca. collecthe duty for the quantty of Kolas found on the manfest, They grnd the natve carbonate of ron--that s, the common would not concern hmself at all wth regard to tbo manage-blacment of delvery afterwards. Can ths be the rght mode of whch they pant the wooden shngles of ther houses, ever lead--wth lrseed ol, to the consstency of pant, wth performng G6vernment dutes, subjectng poor people to the loss ther best wooden buldngs. Ths smvle plan, provded two or of ther property? Could not Mr. Collector of Customs put a three coats of t ere used, s ~o effectual, dent b~ldugs panted stop to ths by employng some tde-waters to superntend the wth ths ureparaton have bceu purposel# exposed to the full lng delvery of goods n bond-store, accordng to marksheat of a ldrgo fre for a consderable tme wthout ther sustanng any njury. l am, Sr, yours truly, numberspecfed on permts, also to take marks numbers of goods stored a bond on the arrval of steamer~ AMrevs Anr~oANUs. thereby exonerate owners from the constant loss of ther property. Loss of Kolas was also complaned of, whchi understood from the collector hmself wa~ owng to the nsecurty of SUGGESTIONS FOR DESTROYING THE BUG-A-BUG the store wthn whch Kolas are kept, whch gves an opportunty to dshonest persons of openng baskets draftng awaya ~0 ~HE EDITOR O~ ~HE A.~RICA.N ~I~F~, OR WHITE ANT. good quantty of Kolss. " Why s not a proper store erected on Sr,--I have been told that Brtsh Combo would produce the beach as a warehouse, whch need not cost more than about large crops of unequalled ground-nuts but for the ravages of the a sum whch can be col/coted n on~ month from the bug-a-bug, that fearful nsect plague of Afrca, the destructon Kola duty alone? caused by whch s one of the hndrances to agrcultural progre~ss I am sure that every one wll agree wth me, that should a there. I beleve that f some dry chlvr& of lr~ were thrown proper warehous~ be erected on the beach, even at such a small nto or otherwse placed n the ants nests, t woul destroy.~.ll cost, t wll termnate the lo~es constantly complaned of. By the nmates. I hope some of your Afrcan readers wll try. t~ another mode that 100l. could be saved, perhaps, ths s that on some whte aura nests near them, watch, sad commumc~m the colonal steamer D~ver, now condemned for navgaton (as the results of the experment to you.~yours, &c., am gven to underst), sh)uld be made a store-shp. Then, AMICVS ApPOINts. \ CorOneR 28, 1866,] - THE 2FI~ICAN TIMES. 39 SIERR& LEONE. compsned by the Kng of Gomooah (chef of a large popu- dstrct), some of the respectable personages of the town, We are compelled to defer Lord Chef 3"ustce Tumor s elabo-lourat~ judgment n the case of Rolot ~. the Queen John Shaw repared to Government House. The party were met at the foot of untl our next. the steps by hs Excellency the Admnstrator, the Kng was saluted wth a volley of language unbecomng hs poston, or the dgnty of the Queen s representatve. " copy OF PETITION OF THE KING, CHIEFS, HEADMEN, ETC., ON THE GOLD COAST, TO THE GOVERNOR. That on the 24th of the month of July, several canoes, sxteen GENERAL. or more, belongng.to the company of fshermen n ths town, Cape Coast, September, were sezed stored n Gothc House, the l belongng to the sad company of fshermen was approprated hy the Governmeat, a buldng s now n course of eonstrueton~report To h ~ ~Y~rcdl~neg Major JBlae kall, G~vemer.Oen~ral Corn. m~r.n.~hef of 1Ter $~ajegy s C~lony of Shrra Z,.on~ says a future bonded warehouse--upon ths same l ; ths l Fort* amf Settlement* on t~ add Coach of Afrca. has been the property of the sad company of fshermen tme out The humble Petton of the undersgned Kng, CMefs, Headmen, mnd. We do not objec to any mprovement that hs Excellency other Resdents on.the Gold Coast under the Brtsh Protecton, but we do most certanly pretest aganst that arbtrary rule that the Admnstrator may deem necessary to effect n ths our town, Humbly sheweth, forfets sezes men s property, wthout lcence, leave, or taw, That your pcttloners, havng taken nto consderaton the wthout consent of the owners, or offerng any compensaton for pre~ent unsatsfactory state of affars on the Gold Coast, of the prvate njury thus perpetrated. Cape Coast n partcular, arsng from the present real-admnstraton on ths Coast, have unanmously resolved to address your establshed by hs Excellency the AdmnArator may be revsed That your pettoners earnestly pray that the pgs law lately Excellency wth the vew of drawng your Excellenoy s attender modfed ; that n ts present condton ths ordnance presses to the same. wth undue severty on the poorer elas~es ef the communty, That your pettoners sncerely deplore the undgnfed ll-treatment to whch hs Excellency Colonel Conrau has at varous for sale, these means have been vrtually forfeted by the whoso only means of lvelhood s the rearng of these anmals tmes subjected the Kng of Cape Coast. On the occurrence of a unequal operaton pressure of the above-named ordnance. vacancy, from whatever cause, u ths place, n Kng s elected, That n all countres, evlsed uncvl.~ed, certan customs by the suffrages of the majorty of the people ; John Aggery, preval at certan seasons of the year whc had been hallowed on the last occason of such vaesney, was so elected, by those who by tradton n the mnds of the people, but whose orgn are had a rght so to do; ths electon was confrmed by the then veled a the msty obscurty nf ages, such as Lord Mayor s Governer. show n London, the Lenten festvtes n Pars other ctes, That on the 28th of March, 1866, Mr. Charles Baunerman, the yaughernaut ~ car n Inda, harvest custom here. These actng under the nstructons of hs Excellency the Admnstrator, customs take place annually abou the harvest-tme ; for the proseented Kng Aggery, n a magstrate a court, for allegedmore barbarous praetlces whch formerly prevaled," the blank cruelty, n puttng twoef hs own people n rons for dsobedent frng of muskets was many many years ago substtuted. Ths refractory conduct. The court was held by two mltaryfrng of salutes takes place n convenent places u the town ; that offcers the garrson. The Kng,was arragned as a crmnalths year the companes were ordered to perform these ceremones on the mltary parade-ground, or near the Salt-pond. H~s although the charge of unnecessary cruelty w~ n~t pm.yed, he was,@ubjected to a severe unnecessary reprm, w~m a Kxcelleney the Admnstrator, well knowng that on these very warnng that f another case be brought aganst hm he shouldspots many a battle has been fought between the dfferent companes when dfferences have unfortunately arsen~howtho very be punshed as a common malefactor. Such conduct can only have one result--the subverson of all rule amongsthe mass of facts of ther beng ordered to go to these spots for the frng of the people, by lowerng the Kng s dgnty author_ty. _ The ther gun~ was almostantamount to an order for the People to offce of the kng as chef magstrate the regulatng the dtt~r-gences that arse among the mass of the people, n whch ther own some, perhaps, beng nflamed wth lquor, bodes of holday- massaere themselves, as the exctement of the tme, laws, customs, tradton are concerned~n fact, the domestcmakng men beng armed wth muskets, massed on the very government of the people n those detals that t would be spots where serous encounters have unfortunately but too frequently prevaled, the consequence would have been, no doubt, mlx~ble for any European to cope wth, unacquanted wth the natve laws, customs, tradtons of the people. In a countrythat several lves mght have been lost. lke ths, where nneteen twenteths of the people are n a state Under these crcumstances, the Kng ordered that no frng of of nature, wrongs wll be commtted, dfferences wll arse, whcharms should take place; the people carefully obeyed bm, could not be desl t~wth from a European pont of vew; because they know acknowledge hm as ~her kng. But t s only under tl~e penalty of the natve laws customsfor ths, t would, perhaps, have been our panful duty to record that evl.doers among the mass of the people are kept n check, scenes as shockng as what took place on the nght of the 4th of because the mass underst ther own laws customs ; not to September, 1865, but wth ths materal dfference, that the say that they do not apprecate the Queen s courts, for as a rule people would have been ther own butchers, estead of beng the people gladly aval themselves of the law courts, but n a slaughtered lke sheep by the solders of the 4th West Iudau communty of a half-mllon of unevlsed men, we say that Regment, a record of whch was forwarded to Her Majesty s crcumstances frequently arse where natve cue.tom s of more Secretary of State for the Colones. aval than Brtsh laws. We must say the ttuta; rne peopm That your pettoners, percevng, wth exceedng concern chersh ther own customs, revere ther own laws, because they regret, that for some tme ~uco a degree of ndfference want have been hallowed n ther mnds by tradton, whereas Euro- of cordalty seemed to have arsen between our Kng hs F.xeellency the Admnstrator, whch was s stll workng detrmentally to the nterests of our country, of ths ~t~n scendent customs to natve laws, laws however customs, much they are may to the be superor masses as yet only an extraneous growth, for them to be fully unver-communtsally apprecated s, work of tme. n partcular, after patent delberaton determned to nomnate a representatve, a natve gentleman of ablty, exp,. We do not complan of the efforts that have been, stllrsnce, prudence, one who at ths tme was well receved contnue to be made, to cvlse our coantry; God forbd; but at Government House, whose presence at ths tme always we do complan of the wholesale sweepng away of those means appeared welcome to hs Excellency the Admnstrator. The applances whch tradton has prescrbed for the good object of ths nomnaton truly was, that the real wshes the government of the masses of the people, before they are n condton to apprecate a betterule. A state of anarchy wll be the to tme become more fully known to the Kng hs people, ntentons of hs.excellency the Admnstrator mght from mo certan result of such volent transton. more amply explaned, than had been pos~bie n the short That on the 19th Aprl, 1866, the Kng.was nvted to bo formal usages whch untl thou had exsted, whch pre~nt at the Government House, by occason of new chartereven the most p~mtve etquette could not dspense wth. Our beng read the Admnstrator sworn nto hs new offce ; the representatve, n a communcaton, nformed bfs Excellency of :Kng, wth a retnue, repared to Government House at the hs appontment (seeenclosure). After some delay, a reply was apponted tme. On hs entrauca on the prems.es, hhe was met vouchsafed, Mr. Samuel Wood, the Government Interpreter, b Y the Actnz ~ Secretary ~ fcaotan ~ -- Cary~ of the 4th Wes~ tautenwas despatched to the three refractory dsloyal chefs of ths Regment) Mr. Samuel Wood, the Government Interpreter, town ( one of whom was by hs Excellency the Admnstrator commed to leave the premses, as the Admnstrator dd publcly reprmed for hs dsloyal conduct~ hs superor not desre hs presence. That on the 23rd of June last, the chef, the Kng of Cape Coast, u pretendng to set hmself up Kng of Cape Coast was nvted to Government Hour, the ~s a second kng), asked them f they also had any h ~n m~s~ge of hs Excellency the Admnstrator beng, that he had the nomnaton of a representatve, to whe~ they repled a t o receved letters from head-quarters, that hs Excellency was negatve. About ths tme your pettoners representatve desrous of comng to a proper understng wth the K!ng beng agan o~ terms of frendly footng wth hm. The Kmg~ ac- Joggernaut. t

3 4O THE AFRICAN TIM~8, [OOTOBER 23 s WHOL:ESALE HUMAN SACRIFICE IN BRITI8K TER, forwarded a despatch (No. 2 enclosed) to hs Excellency the RITORY ON THE GOLD COAST! Admnstrator, nformng hm of the approach of the annual eustom~, aud n accordance wth ancent usuage, the reply (No. ~ro ~rm zvx~ of zm~ A~mxo.~ ~ar~. 3 enclosed) we submt to your Excellency wthout further Aecra, (]old Coast, West Afroa, August I0, comment. Sr,~In my last I nformed you brefly of the death of Quow That on hs Excellency refusng to acknowledge our representatve the Kng, on the plea of the negatve answer he Daddy, the Kng of Aquapm, at Akropong t the captal o" that receved from the three refmetory dsloyal chefs, the headmen of the communty addressed a letter to hs :Excellency the country, about the end of June. The exact day of hs decease s uucertan, as n these parts the death of a chef s kept secret for Admnstrator as per letter No. 4. Ths letter was conveyed by days, aud frequently month* after t takes place. four companes captans of the town. Hs Excellency the The death of Kng QuowDaddy was the sgnal for the,acr~. Admnstrator, after havng read the letter, uncourteously drove (ng of ~orne thrty-flee to forly men women connected wth hs household. Such a whole.~do slaughter of human bengs wthn away these deputes n a most dsgraceful manner. No 5 letter came from hs Excellency the next, letter No. 6 was the the jursdcton of the Government of the Queen of Engl has reply. not been known or heard of, even n the remotest or most savage That at the sttng of the Commttee of the l~ght ffonourable uncvlsed regons of th.~ p.rotectomte, for the last dzt//years. Worshpful the House of Commons u Parlament a~sembled In Akropong the Basle mtssmnarea have numerous largo establshments. Immedately on thedeath of the Kng beng made last year, the Kng hs Councllors, wth consent of varous kngs headmen of ths protectorate, despatched delegates to known to them, ther prncpal, the Ray. ~r Wdmann, despatched an express to Leut. Brett, the chef cvl commant of Aecrs, represent ther nterest at the sad Commttee, they agreeng each to contrbute hs quota to defray the expenses of the sad through Mr. MUeh the agent of the Basle mssonares at Chrs. delegates; that on ther return, forwardng ther bll of tansberg, nformng hm of the occurrence, of the certanty of great dsorder rregularty, f the Government dd not at once expenses to the Kng, he (the Kng of Cape Coast) called or. all the chefs headmen to redeem ther promse, contrbute depute some offcer or mportant commssoner up there to preserve ~ to pay the sad hll. Hs Excellency the Admnstrator heatng order keep n check any such desre on the part of the people. of ths, despatched specal messengers ssued a proclamaton Ths frendly tmely warnng of the Basle msso nare{, was forbddng the varous kngs chefs of the protectorate to contrbute to the sad fund, whch arbtrary measures have worked treated wth that contempt wth whch the Brtsh aumortes on the Gold Coast nvarably treat nformaton comng from sources not entrely strctly offcal; whch latter, be t observed, to the prejudce of your pettoners. That wth regard to the alleged peace wth Ashantce, your almost always proves to be corrupt, false, manufactured to pettoners consder that hs Excellency the Admnstrator has sut offcal despatches. The result of ths apathy s, that many been ll-advl~l n the measures he has taken to brng about poor vctms have been rathlessly slan to accompany Quow Daddy to the next world ; amongsthe number four young females, hs that desrable result, have cause to fear that the publc mnd may yet be dsabused aa to the seemng tranquuty wves. 8overal of the ntended vctms fled to the dfferent rest. deuces of the Basle mssonares, were afforded refuge by the peace whch now preval. And fnally, that your pettoners, n Roy. Mr. Wdmaun the Roy. Mr. :Kadre. Some cf the~ layng these facts before your :Excellency, beg to assure your are stll n thehs of these mssonares, ethers who were beng :Excellency of the rooted love, respeot, veneraton, wth whch they regard chersh the prestge of the Brtsh rule n smuggled to Acorn for better protecton were dscovered klled. ths country ; that they are actuated by no motve of personal llwll or ll-feelng towards hs :Excellency the Admnstrator, whom Some, agan, who reached Accm n safety, were pursued actually sezed n darnu~wn under the very walls of the runed Fort, would have been earred away had not several of the they wll wllngly beleve s personally desrous of effeotng some good 4" for the country; that they cheerfully record ther testmon resdents forced the matter ou the notce of the Commant, who that Colonel Coarse, wth crppled reaouroe~ hs accesson to wth the utmost reluctance nterfered, fned the offenders l 2L offce, has done more far the santary mprovement of the town ~twelve pounds! of Cape Coast than any prevous governors durng the last twenty Akropong s only eghteen mles from the seat of Government years; that very apprecable mprovements have been made n n Aecra. It s a country very easly acee~blo through, good the markets ther regulatons ; that the streets have been roads made, not by the Government,but by the German masmaares. Aquapm, of whch country Quow Daddy was supreme much mproved, unwholesome nu~nces extngushed; that the frghtful desecratan of the Sabbath that formerly exsted has chef or Kng, has, ever snce the Dansh Government transferred been, f not as yet entrely done away wth, at least very much t to the :Brtsh n 1850, been most thoroughly under the con. reduced modfed; ~that materal progress has been fostered, trol of the Commant of the Eastern Dstrct. Rven "de 27uvfgnee," whose only faults may be summed up a these two words, wth all these many other materal advantages whch Cape Coast has enjoyed. We regreto state-- ths s the cause of lazy tyrant, caused the dgnty of the Government to be upheld our present complant--that a system of arbtrary rule, a system there n a manner that dd hm credt. On one occason he went of general polcy whose only object seems to be the determna-uton abrogaton of the real authorty of the chefs head- to Akropong wth twenty men of the Gold Coast Artllery, sezed Quow ])eddy n the mdst of hs guards, surrounded by men, the elmnaton of all moral nfluence, consequent dsorganzaton of the protectorate, are surely steadly progress- fve thous more armed men. Hs summonses were never dsregarded n Aquapm as they are now. ng; our desre s to co-operate wth the Government cotdmly respectfully for the general mprovement progress Igo one can magne what possble excuse the local authortes can frame for lookng on wth ther hs n ther pockets whlst of the whole communty. these wholesale publc murders are beng commtted under ther That our rghts prvleges be recogused, that beforevery no~. any radcal changes be ntroduced future, that our nterest may I am at a loss to conceve by what means the Governor purposes to brng down Kng Ageman as a prsoner f~om hs natve not be sacrfced to the wll of the few whose only nterest a the country s the value of the appontment they receve, mete naccessble forests n Akm, transport hm for an rnapnar~ out ther measure of affecton for the same accordngly. offence, when he, by hs apathy, admts that he s utterly ncapable of brngng to punshment the chefs of Aquapm, who are And your pettoners, as n duty bound, shall ever pray. John Aggery, Kng of Cape Coast; Cudjoe Ayee, Cofee wthn a day s easy march of th, ruff of James Fort, who Ebboo, Quah Tawrah, Quah Ashun, Qaabna are clearly gulty of the most atrocous of crmes. Akropong s Aryeusoo, Quaw Adooareoo, Cudjoo Arbahkah, about sgh teen m les from Actors. Kng Ageman s capltal s just Cofee Ahn, Quabna Sacoom, Cofee 3.[ensah, 118 mles from Acorn. ] shall make no other remark upon ths Quacoe Men,h, WUam Tobee, Cudjoe Arquahtcabbeh, Col Ashun, Quase Amarahere, Quaw state of affars, than to say that you may expecto hear next month that humanbengs have been sacrfced n front of the BasleMssonhouse at Chrstansborg, to accompany Kng Dowoonah to the other Mensah. Quanta Indooamah, Captan J. C. De Graft, John Hooper, Elas tlooper, Quacoe Bayah, world, that chef beng now n a state of health whch admts of Cudjoo 0too, Quscoe Dadde, Col Abbrabrah. but small hope of recovery..?f.b.~r/:e c,~rr~pond~nc~,s unavodably pos~pomd uml next I must not omt to nform you that after much pressure had been broughto bear aganst hm, Leut. Brett, the cvl commant, despatched a person to Akropong to repre.~ent the Oo vwmh.~en. A.T. vernment to watch proceedngs that country. But nstead The followng s an extract from a prvate lettereceved from of sendng some respectable man of nfluence, or even a steady ]:[cr Majesty s shp Brsto!, dated Asceman, August 28 : "Our trustworthy man ofhs own, he despatched one of hs con- engnes are broken down, we leave here to.da~- for Engl s,ables, a notorous scamp ragamuffn, whom he hmself had n e~mpany wth the Leer, ~vhc has put n l~ero from the dsmssed from offce only three days before for ucorrgblo con- who had been dsmsscdat le~t ten tmes before. Ths Paef~ on her way to Engl. The Leer s to tow us acrossduct, the calms on the lne, wc expec to be n Engl the frst rel~roentath e of t~* ~BrtOh Government, so far from attemptng week n October." to put a stop to human sacrfces, actually made use of hs an- OCa OB]~R 23, THE AFRICAN TI~[F_~. 41 thorty, hs ragged, seedy unform, to ad abet n the You are doubfle~ aware that tropcal Afrca, or rather I should ~e~ure of votmsl Those executons that have as yet taken say torrd Afrca, abounds n ants throughout all ts forests place am supposed to have been prh afe; but when the Gr cultvated tracts, that they construct monster ant-hlls, rsng Castomfor Quow Daddy takes place n January next, there wll frequently to tea or twelve feet n heght, or even more, be a consderably larger number put to death more 2u31f ly unlesshavng many of them a sn~,malarly castellated aspect. Snce the the exprng Govermnent nterfere. great earthquake n 1862, whch was so destructve to the houses The late Kng, Quow Daddy, on the day he gave up the ghost, n the Acorn captal, these mllons of ants have almost entrely called hs prncpal wfe to hs 1,Gem delvered over to her dsappeared from the westeru parts of the "kecra dstrets~that charge a large quantty of gold dust, tellng her that t was hs s, they are not now found as usual on the surface of the ground, desre that as many vctmshould be sacrfced for hm as possble, that as he knew from experence that the "whtemen," fally appearedurng some showers of ran last year, but they are probably down some way under the surface. They par- meanng the Government, lke the money, she was to keep the are now entrely out of sght ; the traveller may now walk old to pay to the Government any fne they mght mpose an for many mles wthout seeng ona tran of ants crossng hs path. ~dpeople for sacrfcng human beln~ to accompany hs ext Ths sngular fact has probably some connexonwth our present from ths world. Subsequent events have pred that ths chefearthquake atmosphere nfluences. was wse n hs own generaton, dd not reckon wthout hs The drought stll contnues, wth the sun s rays extremely host--/, e., the Cvl Commant of the Eastern Dstrcts. Them )owerful parchng durng the mddle part of the day, can be no mstake as to these facts--for facts they most ndsputably are. The Roy. Mr. Madro, the Basle mssonary from Akro- the south-west, ntensely cold for ths clmate, that a fre the nghts unusually cool. Occasonally a strong breeze blows from pong, recently pad a vs to Aecra, hetold the Englsh Commant a great deal more respectng these murders than he It s frequently the ease that the latterans commence here becomes agreeable. lked to hear. But besdd the trustworthy evdence of the Basletowards the end of September, contnue through October; mssonares, we have that of numerous other eyewtnesses, ncludng Government constables who, whle at Akropong on other country, enable the farmers to grow a crop of cor~, other should t so happen ths year, t wll be a great benefto the dutes, Were present when people were klled u cold blood cn vegetable food; but should the latterans also fal us os the account of the Kng s death. One of these constables reportedf<~rmer have done, there wll necessarly follow a great scarcty of to the Commant, n the hearng of ~veral of the merchantsfood, aud much sufferng among the people.~yours sncerely, reddeuts of Acera, a open court, an nstance that he N. a~tually wtnessed, he only receved a reprm for hs offconsness.--yours, X.Y.Z. zo ~az v nrro~ or znz ~RIC~,X ~:~y.~. Grd Coast, September 11, o ~ x~rror oz am-s A~m~eA~ ZlXZS. Sr,~When a Queen s representatve ssues proclamatons nformng the nhabtants of the place he rules that certsu Krepee, kugnst 6, Sr,--I tl~k f; rght you should know the state of affafrs events have actually occurred, all are bound to beleve what s so publshed. here, whloh those whom t concerns ought not to delay to have nvestgated. The moment I arrved here the sad news came to Colonel Conran, the Admnstrator of ths Government, ssued certan proclamatons to the effecthat he had arranged a peace my ears, whch was agansthe Asabco Kng, who had treaehercurly receved from the Kng of Ashantee the followng goods--fast, ths monarc had sued for peace, that he had done wth Quacoo Duah, the powerful Kng of Ashantce~that, n vz.,-360 heads of cowres, 1 fne country clath, 12 double nothng more than accepted that offer. fl~ks, or 6 gallons of rum ; he has promsed the Kng of ~ ow what s the truth? Why, that t was no such thng ; Ashantee, arerrecevng the above-mentoned, that he wll run Quacoe Duah s so udlguaut at the statement, that n all away from Krepee, on Brtsh Protectorate, to jon hs subjectsprobablty hs Majesty s now on hs way, cr s preparng, to wth all hs meu; memawhle to attack some of the adjacent make another nvason of the so.called Brtsh Protectorate. terrtores, to plunder them away to Ashantee. Ths s hs The Kng says that Colonel Conran, through Mr. Blaukson (a agreement wth the Kng of Ashantee. Surely a wolf cannot member of the Councl), came begged hm for peace, that refuse a bona. The sad Aahantee Kng, sent hm word that on hs hearng what Mr. Blankson had to say, he sent down he wll soon send for hm; soon after the Kng sent aboutambassadors consented to a peace provded Ganeu was gven thrty men, ncludng executoners, wth another present, to up, Or hs head sent to Comasse. Does ths look lke the Kng brng hm up to Ashantee. At the moment the men reached to sung for peace? No end of dffcultes wll arse now n consequence cf ths extraordnary unfounded statement of the Asabeo before the Kng delvered ther me,sages, the sad Kng absconded to hs relatve town (adjacent town), Bose, for ~h roteeton ; whereat all the Krepees, so as to put away fles from Admnstrator~ made wth all the solemnty of an offcal proclamaton. Colonel Conran knows how to drll men, ar care, at once agreed, delvered the Asabee Kng tothemake roads sheds, do many other good thngs, but he has Ashanteo men, who were easly sent for hm. What they have shown he s not the man to conducthe poltcal affars of a done wth hm nobody knows; although they dd not solely country lke ths, where nothng but courtesy dplomacy wll satsfy themselves wth the Kng nor hs famly; perhapsdo. Colonel Co~aran s undgnfed extreme harshness to the they wll ask for the whole of Krepee by--bye. kngs chefs of the protectorate have made hs very name lq ow are not the Krepees under Brtsh protecton? so that odous to the people he ought to endeavour to conclate they may make known to the Protectorate of such Kng s msbehavour, that they may have a decded answer to gve to then have shown great grattude for the Iaateral benefts he has persuade by a gentle courteous demeanour, end who would the Kng of Ashantee;--Yours, &o., D. secured to them. The Kng of Cape Coast was Ixost shamefully (rented the other CURIOUS AND IMPORTANT RESULTS OF EARTH- day, I am qute confdent that~f he ~ghtly represents hs QUAKE. case to the Home authortes n DownnG-street ha wll obtan I 0 eke ~ DI~OE OY TKE AYRICAN a D.IF~. some redress. Were s a man, acknowledged by a prevous Acera, Gold Coast, September 7, Governor Commer-n-Chef as Kng of Cape Coast, a Sr,--The season has, stll contnues to be, very unfrendly salute of seven guns s fred from lqer Majesty s fort, a guard of honour composed of Her Majesty s Iroops, commed by to the natve farmers. On the 17th of March last, a most destructve drought, whch had contnued for many months Europe,an offcers, present arms salute hm, whle Her Majesty s b played the natonal ar of" God save the Queen." tl~ughout the Aecra dstrets--i do not here nclude the entre Ths man s "kcked or turned gnomnously down Government eastern dstrcts, but the Aecra dstrcts only, stuated between steps, after he had beau nvted to Government flouse to hear the the rvers Sekenn Volta~was happly brokeft up by a fne new charteread. Beally ths s too bad. Unless Her Majesty s ~ower of ran, whch was followed by other showers at ntervals untl the lath of May. They then ceased untl the 16th of June, Government wsh to drve these pcovle to acts ef voience, they when a lght shower fell. We then had no more ran untl the ought at once to put a stop to ths u~hcard.of tyranny. 31st of July, au~ then only e lght shower. There has, n fact, The nght of the 4th September, 1865, left great btterness behnd t, aud what then ocourred ought to have the lght of been no properany season n the Acorn dstrcts ths year, nnd the consequence has been a falure of all the crops of corn, yams, day thrown upou t. let those deeds whch cry aloud er easzada, ground-nuts, &c., whch were growng near the Coast. justce be nvestgated, eurely Mr. Buxton others wll Ths wll probably ooeason a great scarcty of food among the denounce them. It s tme that somethng should be done. 0east populatons about the end of the year. As the advocate of the poor Afrcan, you ought to urge that t Ths rregularty of seasons s doubtless connected wth what be done at once. O~E OF ZnE OPPRESSF..D. may be termed our earthquake atmosphere, whch evdently stll contnues to exst. There have been two very dstnct shocks of H~lz.--0n the lath September the arsenal of Port-au-Prnce earthquake here durng the past three weeks; the latter sho~k was blown up by au exploson. Two hundred adjaeent]~houses occurred on Saturday mornng last, the 1st nst. were destroyed.

4 . ~ ;t THE AFRICAN TIMF,8. [OcZOBER 23, CAPE COAS ~ FEKALE NATIVE SCHOOL. man of law? 0h, no ; that s not at all necessary n such an out,. Mrs. Joseph Moseley acknowledges gratefully the followng of-the-way place as-afrca, among such ereatur~ as the donatons :- Afrcans. Wave wexot lately found t necessary to remark upon Amount already publshed the placng of leutenants captans of West Inda Regments Hs Grace the Archbshop of Canterbury (2nd don.) 0 0 upon the Bench as judges of the Supreme Court at Cape Coast? The Dowager Lady Buxton (2nd don.) Mr. Deputy Judge B chotls s Chef Secretary of the Government Mrs. Henry Kemble, Camberwell (2nd don~, wtlx at Serra Leone. He s no lawyer; afew years ago he was a promse, D.., of 10L 10s. for 1867) clerk ; now, such s the glorous system of appontmentsn 0 A :Frend toafrca s best Welfare. 5 0 force for the West Coast of Afrca, he a a deputy judge, n whch Mss K, Bradford, Yorkshre capacty h0 pronounces judgments under whch the Governor Gurney Hears, Esq. (2nd don.) whose chef secretary he s becomes enttled to one-thrd of the P. H. Gosse, Esq amount recovered. Truly the West Coast of Afrca offcals, from Mss C. I 0 0 the hghest authorty downward, are a prvleged, body. Of Colonel Martn, IJeamngton course, they ore mmaculate; of course, they are ncapable of Mss Morrs, The Grange, Salford beng nfluenced to do judge decree wrougly becatmo Mrs Lndale money s to be got, for t; but, as C~ssr a wfe, so also judg~ Mrs. ]q arrs, Bath governors should be not only pure, but above suspcon. The Mrs. Crewdson, Kendal (2nd don.) whole system on the West Coast of Afrca s radcally wrong. It Lady Ella Stewart, Castle Stuart, Irel s unjusto governors other offcals that they should be Mrs. Goodman, Brmngham placed n postons n whch t s l~ossbt~ for mproper motves Mrs. Lnfaly, Jersey to be attrbuted to them. They ought not n any case to be W. R. Reeves, Esq., Tverton sharers n what may be obtaned through ther own acts Mr~ Wllams, Warlord decsons. So much per head for slaves lberated was all very Unknown, n Stamps well ; but anythng more than ths s openng the door to abuse Mss Henchey, Marne, Hastngs ()2nd on.) dscredt. The salares Of all offcals oughto be such as to Mrs. Caltman, Lecester render t unnecessary tha they should receve any porton.of Mrs. Heard, Leamngton what may be derved under fnes judgments. It cannot be Mss Cooper, Lecester dened that whle they are made partcpators n the pecunary Mss Maudy s collectng card results, they are judges :n ther own cause. Not another word need he sad n condemnaton. Nor can t be urged aganst 118 that unless they had such an nterest they would be lax n the performance of ther dutes, because ths would be brngng at once a charge whch we have not brought~vz., that they are capable of bengoverned swayed by ther own pecunary TUESDAY, O~TOB.ER 23, nterests the dscharge of ther du tcs. We are glad to see the Afrcan judgments comng underevson of the Prvy Coundlt ROLOT v. THE QUEEN AND JOHN SHAW. Mr. Rany has done good servce to Serra :Leone n advocatng them there wth so much ablty. But the colonal revenue T~E decson of the Judcal Commttee of the Prvy Councl, as cannot afford many such decsons as that n Rolot v. Shaw; that delvered by Lord Chef Justce Turner n the case "RoIot v. the s, f the colonal revenue s to furnsh the money to pay the Queen John Shaw," s worthy of more than commonotce. pper. If the Treasury of Serra Leone were suppled fromimperal funds, not almost entrely from local taxaton; t would The colony of Serra Leone as, we fear, abouto be burthened wth the expenses of ths appeal ease---expenses whch cannotbe another matter. :But the moneys leved n the colony ought fal to be enormous when compared wth the revenue of the not to be dsbursed by partes havng no responsblty wha taver colony. And ths s not the worst. There are, t seems, two to the contrbutors. Thanks to the_admrable efforts of the other appeals to the Prvy Councl aganst decrees pronounced Church M~onary Socety, the growng wealth ntellgence of the natve populaton, there am suffcent dements out bytho same jtat#e (!J at Serra Leone, n whch the same Mr. Shaw, Actng Collector of Customs, s the defendant. We should not be of whch to fo~m a smal legslatve body whch should have surprsed f a sxth or an eghth part of the entre revenue of theeffectual control over the expeudture. The Parlamentary Com- recommended tha the people should be prepared for salt- colony for the current year were to be thus swallowed up. Themttee taxpayers of the colony have no control over the publc expeu-governmentdture. They have only one representatve n the Legslatve expendture of ther own money Let them begn by havng a real voce n the Councl; the power to dspose at wll of ther money s n the hs of the Governor of offcals who see wth the Governor s eyes vote wth the Governor s tongue. Ths s avery THE AFRICAN CLIMATE. serous matter. Hem s a.colony n whch the publc health s Wr. alluded s our last to the furous attack then makng upon constantly sufferng through the want of santary mprovements, the West Coast of Afrca, u the Brtsh newspapers, n consequence of the deknesa mortalty from yellow fever on board the non-executon of whch s a dsgrace to the mother country-- a colony n whch ~ lttle comparatvely has been done for the H.M.S. Brstol. We ourselves gave an aceount of several deaths convenence of commerce, tha the exstng state of thngs has at tha Gamba caused by the same dsease. All the old stereotypedenuncatons of the fatal clmate of the West Coast of been made a reproach to the Afrcan communty by decrers of the negro race--a colony n whch agrculture cannot be promoted, some of the most necessary ads to cvlzaton made from evdence before the Parlamentary Commttee of last Afrca have been reproduced, copous extraets have been progress cannot be ntroduced, for want of adequate publcyear to prove thathere are fevers on the Afrcan Coast, that funds--a colony n whch the Government neglects educaton, the want of towns of cvlsed socety aggravates ntensfes the effects of the clmate to such a degree, that no shps of because t would cost money to bestow t--a colony already mpovershed by other proflgate expendture, now to be mulct n the Navy no West Inda regments oughto be sent on West perhaps a sxth or eghth of ts annum re~-enue, because the old Afrcan servce. All the sckness mortalty resultng from system s perssted n, of appontng as offcals ncapable the unfortunate Ashautee expedton--that fatal encampment at E/lropeans or other strangers--people who care not one strawprahsu~has been classed the ordnary rate of sckness for the progress future welfare of the colony~ nstead of ots-mortalty n regments on the Coast Now, we are not abouto Gated natves who may be found fully competent, who are nte-contenrested n the prosperty well-beng of tha place the or even for West Inda blacks untl after acclmatzaton, whch that the Afrcan Coast s a healthy one for European~j communty, who would be n some degree amenable to publcseems to be almost as severe for them as for Europeans. We are opnon the dscharge of ther dutes. compelled bu too often to notce the fatal effects of the clmate, But the evl whch s at the root of all ths les not only u n recordng the deaths from fever, dysentery, &e. What we the appontment of such Europeans as Mr. Shaw to offces suchcomplan of s that u these attacks Afrca s spoken of as f the as that of Collector of Customs but n the judcal system as yellow fever ~whch by the way s not frequent n ts vstor), worked n Serra Leone other West Afrcan colones We have shown l~.t month thathe deaths n the Brstol were the dependences; n the part!cpaton of the chef authorty n result of bad management ; the ~ellowfever at Bathurst, B~ver OambD, the proceeds of fnes sezures. Who s the judge whosewth the bad fever prevalent at the same tlme among the natves, s soppoeed decson n these cases.appealed aganst? Who s ths Deputyto have been corned by the putrd efltuvla from the dezd who were Man n Judge of the Yce-Admralty Court of Serra Leone, whose com. the latexpedton from Bathurst, as the prnclpsl scene of daughter w~ only three mles trom Bathurst, the wnd was blowng drect from ~ll teney as a j_udge s clearly about equal to that of Mr. Sha~ as there to Bathurst the commencement of the,e fevers durng ther ester of Customs? He s a legal man, of course? Even thoughe may be, lke the Queen s Advocate the same place, Pre~alence The aggravated common fever whch s ade dcstroylng the bh_kc _uhoo~ tlon n -- _~zr~at numbers may be traced to equaly, recog. ~L~able " m~+- unneee~tnry eau~t, each ~ would have produced In Engl at th~s tt only some local attorney n an obscure West Inda Isl trans-anlated to a post of legal emnence u poor Afrlea, he s of course a a tholera u fatal as the fevers at the GambL~ O0 0BE 23, 1866.] THE AFRICAN TIMES. 48 dysentery other bad fevers were to be found erchu rd~ theranks. When the fact of the surplces beng ready was n Afrca. The yellow fever n almost always n actvty n some communcated to the Rev. Mr. Blake, some dre change seemed one or other of the West Inda Isends; f we refer to old to have comento the current of that gentleman s deas. Whether records, we fnd tha those sls were at one t!me.consdered as t w.as that he had scruples as to the employment of aurpllc~ fatal to European lfe as the West Coast of Afrcas now. But chorsters n other than a cathedral church (of whch dgnty n the muc has been done for enablng the European to lve I pretty St. Mary s cannot boast), feared a reprm from the - there, whle n Afrca nothng has yet been attempted. We do / :Bshop of Serra Leone, who t seems has no chorsters n hs not hestate to say, because t s cur frm belef, that f the~chureh, or whether had altogether renounced surplces for protected. Terrtores, for example, had been sehled by Englsh- [ chorsters as ~mpropor," we know not--but frst, "He had some-.,, men, &e., as Jamaca, &e., have been; f roads such changes ]thng to ted the chor before they should wear the surphees, as have been ~ made n Jamaca, Trndad, &c., had been made I then h6 ohjected to th~ surplces altogether. Ths was of there, the Protected Terrtores would not have been at ths day courma sad blow. After havng expended the money collected for one whr more nsalubrous than are the sls above mentoned. them upon the purchase makng of surplces, so tha the.so But we chose, durng a century a-half, to depopulate thepoor natve boys mght present themselves always unformly respcetabla n the house of God, to be debarred from usng these,protected Terrtores, that we mght fll the West Inda Isls wth Moves; that we mght dear those sls for cult-spotlesvaton, we hed over the sad terrtores to the bush, be a great grevous wrong. The degree to whch ths feelng garments was naturally consdered by all concerned to consequently to all those clmatc nfluences whch n a tropcal prevaled may be gathered from a perusal of the letter on ths.country are fatal to the lfof natves of the temperate zone. We subject, n our page. The cho remonstrated. Tha chaplan are,. therefore, greatly answerable for that of whch we now com-repled, "They were gnorant," gave them three days to an. But, t wll be sad, that does not alter the factconsder whether they would sng wthout surplces. ~sanwhle~ ~ at those countres now are pestlental, agords no the letter says, "The chor was threatened wth excommuncaton reason why Brtsh lves should now be sacrfced them. from the church, mprsonment n the admnstrators goal, None, except that our former gult has entaled on us for not dong as the chaplan wlls." The chor succumb to the~.o a legacy of watchng of partal occupaton from whch, powerful persuasves. And what s the ssue? Eventually, "All grumble as we may, we cannot dsengage ourselves untlsngng chantng by natves n the churchas been stopped the slave.trade s utterly extnct, untl w~have rased theby Mr. Blake," who s tranng some West Indan solders n people of the several Colones settlements to the capablty ther stead, of ~elf-governmenl Wth regard to the Navy, we say unhestatngly that nneteen-twenteths of the deaths from clmatc from Mr. :Blake, are gnorant of hs motves ; but we should We deeply regret all ths. Of course we have heard nothng nfluences the Afr0an squadron mght be avoded by an have magned that a clergyman gong to do duty ou the Afrcan mproved system of relefs; as regards the complanng Coast would have been only too happy to encourage the natves offcers the West Inda regments, we may, perhaps, be per-mtted to xemud them, that servce n these regments has beenthng n ther mode of dong t whch dd not satsfy hm, to assstng at the servces of the church, f there was some- sought because of the rapd promoton resultng from a greaterendeavour to correct t, wthout offendng the susceptbltes mortalty n them than n European regmeuts, because (as of those who were thus wllng to do servce. What has ee the appontments monopolsed durng the las two years by occurred s, however, a bad begnnng for Mr. Blake, unless he offcers on the {]old Cape Coasts) of the many adventtous wshes to confne hs mnstratons to the garrson of Cape Coast emoluments fallng to ther lot. At the same tme~ we shallcastle only, or to them the few European or educated natve gladly hal wth them the perod when the West Inda reg-resdentsments may be wthdrawn from servce on the West Coast of of a dfferent stamp for such a place as Cape Coast. And f ths be the case, we could have desred a man Afrca. If the polcy at present pursued on the Coast s to be ~ontnued, there wll he but lttle need of ther presence there n any consderable numbers. A natve polce wll prove much PROPOSED SENDING OF YOUNG AFRICANS TO moreconomeal~ may be organsed so as, n a great measure, ENGLAND "TO LEARN MECHANIOAL ARTS AND to replace them. But we repeat our asserton tha them s no LEGAL PRAOTICE." reason why the Afrcan Coast should not be made at least as I~ the C~urch lfss[onarst 2?zcord for June last, some account ~It~g as the West Inda Isls. As cvlsaton progresses, s gven of a proposal by Governor.General Blackall "to many of the causes of dsease wll dsappear; everyearsend over promsng young men, at the expense ~f the adds to the number of educated Aft-cons who are destned to be colony, to be traned mechancal arts n legal praetce, -the actve promoters of that cvlsaton. If Engl wouldo f the Church Mssmnary" " Socety wll be answerable, for,, ther her duty, by as lberal an expendture on useful santary moral relgous superntendence whle m Engl. Ths works on the West Coast of Afrcas she has made n oth erproposal looks at a frst glance so attractve, so. favourable, so more favoured dependences, that cvlsaton would now be benefem for Afrca, that we deeply regret to" feel t to be our rapd; the materal results would be such that Engl as duty to protest aganst the adopton carryng nto effect of well as Afrca would have reason to rejoce at what had beenany such plan It s not that.we beleve no good could accrue effected. to Afrca from ts adopton, but that mor evl than good would result from t. Wth regard to the "legal practc#" porton of the proposal, we have no hestaton n gvng t our unqualfed THE CHORISTERS SURPLICE QUESTION. condemnaton. We canuot magne a greater curse to any Wz were clamourng cad prayng for some tme, end the chefcommunty than the exstence among them of a class of poor, authortes there were dong the same, for a Brtsh chaplan to greedy, almost necessarly subservent, legal men. We offcate n the church at Cape Coast Castle: That one would be presume they would be poor men, because t cannot be proposed sent out some day or other was certan, Colonel Conranto scud sons of the more opulent natves to Engl for legal havngven much greater effcency to the Government schooltranng at the publc expense, such a course beng at the same at Cape Coast, the pupls, under proper nstructon, were pre-tmparng meanwhle for servce as chorsters, whenever the happysuffcent wealth among the natve traders merchants at unjusto the taxpayers unnecessary. There s now <lay of the advent of another Colonal Chaplan should arrve. Serra Leone, Loges, wherever lawyers are requred, to They attaned, we havevery reason to beleve, a credtable admt of ther sendng sous to Engl for legal educaton, so.degree of profcency, for on occason of what but for the ab~ncethathere s no such necessty a.s could alone justfy burdenng of surplces we mght call a dress rehearsal at St. Mary s Church, the meagre reveuues of the colones wth expen~e~ for such a, the Governor others w.ere so much pleased, that a collecton purpose. The legal przes of the Coast oughto fall, for a tme "was made for the vocalsts. The amount collected was, at ~ho at least, almost exclusvely nto the hs of sons of natve nstgaton of ther clever nstructress, MLes Grace Hughes, merchants traders who have been able to gve them a sut- educaton. Ths s tha natural course~ the natural devoted to the purchs~ of whte surplces for these young natveable chorsters. Whle the surplces were u course of sttchng or course s n such thngs the rght course. sewng, the expected chaplan arrved. The feet of the exstencedsmssng, therefore, ths part of the proposal wthout <ff a b of chorsters was made kuown to hm. He asked, t furtheremark at present, we come to that whch refers to seem% abou the extent of ther acqurements, whether theymechancal arts. Of the necessty of gratutous nstructon u could sng chaunt the prncpal portons of the servce com-thesrdonly so executed. Satsf-ed on ths head, he asked where thet s at present a great wan~; but egau we do thnk tha the there can be no doubt. Both n mechancs agrculture.varplces were kept. They were not yet qute ready, hut ",m duewant ought not to be ~uppled u the way proposed. It s of tme the manufacture was completed. Now, then, St. Mary s wascourse very unpalatable to Imperal authortes on the West to boast the great attracton of natve chorsters n whte surplces. Coast or n Engl to be taught n anythng by a natve of But clergymen of the Establsh ed Church are nothng now,t seems, Afrca. But, unless we very much mstake the measure of" f not crtcal, end, we were almost abouto add, there s no endaf can capacty, they wll have to receve many such uupalate ~o ther vagares snce Hgh Church Low Church have dvded able le.~ons. There can be no doubt abouthe preference to be -I

5 [ t 44 THE AFRICAN TI.MEg. [OCtOBeR 23, gven as regards advantage to Afrc Afrcans, to the proposal of Dr. Afrcanus ]Iorton over that "of Governor-General readers, but just of those for whom you especally labour, that s, the natves of ths country who are able to apprecate a news. Blackall. Dr. Horton, u hs clever lttle work, "The Poltcal Economy of Brtsh Western Afrca, ~ paper, but also that you hereby would confer a great boon on lays down clearly the many of us: I thnk t of great mportance that the Afrcans proper course to be pursued n ths mportant mt/tter. He says : get acquanted wth the prncpal events of the large human "There should be formed an ndustral establshment at the famly to begn themselves to feel a part of t, I am sure you mountan vllage of Gloater, under the. supervson of the wll earn the thanks of many, venture to hope you wll Church Mssonary Socety, pad from the Imperal chest, where further the uteresta of the paper tself, hy th step. Just now I have not much news to wrte you from pad carpenters, shoemakers, masons, blacksmths, wheelwrghts, fe., are to be contnually kept at work. The superntendent shouldthese parts, except that I thnk I am rght n belevng be a practcal German mechanc, a type of those of the Baslethat every peacefully - nclued person n these places mssonares at Aecra. The recruts should frst be sent to the on both sdes of the rver "Volta ~ chefs, merehants,,ms. Normal School at Ksay, where, after learnng to read wrtesonares, other people ~ would be exceedngly glad to for one year a-half, they should be sent to the ndustral have our small war palaver settled peace establshed agan, school at Oloster to he put to a trade, be kept for four or f not on a better, at least on the same state as before the war. fve years, so these useful arts mght thus be taught wth I thnk t would have been more easy to hnder t, but as that s great advantage to the colony." now of no use, no party has been conquered, there s not Dr. Herren shows how the establshment may be made parlslly self-supportlng. And we contend that some such course the Englsh Government would undertake t wth ther power by the least hope that a new war would brng a better ssue, except as ths s the one proper to be pursted. We are not nsensble laud sea out here, whch t seems s not to be expected, we to the advantages dsrvable from a vst of some of these should make the best of present crcumstances. Everybody who mechancs to Europe. But we would have ths great favour, knew the localtes end the people could predct such a result. f t ~ to he granted at Imperal or colonal cost, bestowed on before. Experence bus confrmed ths, the fact should the most profcent workmen of the Gloster (f Gloater) esta-noblshment. A free passage to from Europe, Wth a moderateborders of Asante,~ frendly relatons order between the be lost. Open roads, an open rver from Ads ~ to the allowance whle there for a year or two n ad of hs labournmcal trbes s all we can expect, I thnk also all the wages, certan employment for hm n some of the best Government wsh for. Accordng to sure nformaton from the workshops durng a porton of the tme, should be a prze open Anglaw (Awoona) Akwamu sde, they wsh as much for to competton every year among the workmen ; the best man as anybody else. There are over the rver fve large ms~onary should be allowed to wn t, wthout favourtsm--farly statons, wth about twenty European mssonares, at present mpartally. Ths would gve a stmulus to exerton among nearly cutoffrom us, from the sea, from each other, besdes the workmen.n the colonal establshment, the temporarymercantle establshments, the newly prosperng cotton trade, practce of such prze workmen n Engl would brng them &e. There are ten mssonary statons, wth about forty up to the Imperal stard n ther respectve branches of European mssonares tact famles peoples on ths sde,- ndustry. There can he no doubt of ths beng the course most all sufferng more or less under ths state of thngs. If they all advantageous for Afrca, we thnk t must appear to everyunte wth the merchants well-nclned natves; I am sure one to be that whch s most far to the Afrcans themselves. they are able to brng about an honourable lastng peace, whch We therefore clam for t the serous consderaton of the Govern-thment. :We are sure that there s evl n seudng over a numbersena suffer, murder, man.stealng, robbery, dsorder of every Government wll accept ; f not, the trade s rufed, the mls-. of pot young men to Engl, whle, f done at colonal knd wll contnue tll the war breaks out agan. Some of us expense, t s-unjusto the taxpayers. To make the :Englshare therefore resolved to try the bles~d work of peacemakng, vst a prze open to competton among men already well God grmt that we may be able by next mal to report a happy accomplshment of ths am! A look on the map of the a~aounded r. There would practsed be a n manfest therespectve advantage trades to s the qute colony, another as Basle Msson, the only one now exstng of these Eastern Dstrers neghbourhood, shows that excepthe Englsh Govern- wcr as to the ndvdual who had deserved t by hs profcency, ndustry, general goocl conduct. We do not want any l~ettngment take possesson by force of the sea towns east of the rver for the Afrcans. Where there s any ad to progress n cvlantcs whch they canno themselves supply we thnk t ought to agansthe Anglaws, how much soever they may suffer, because "Volta, there s not the least hope of accomplshng auythng be found for them--but n all other respects we would have them frsthere s a wld rver to cross, then one day s journey of treated as you would treat Europeans. unnhabted grassy desert, or at the seasde wth s, swamps, lagoons, before reachng them; then the begnnng of the war was certan by msbehavour on ~of~ sde~, rough people GOLD COAST. as the Anglaws are. If there s a toler@le peace, they are far To z~r r=or~or or ZHZ ~BICA~ Zn~S. more easly to be kept n order, because they are a tradng people, Eastern Dstrcts, Krobo, August 4, freely mx wth us; only you mu~ no~ fry to lreat tt~ra Sr, mthough one of the readers of your valuable paper from accordng to Enfl~f law, exce2t you mahs t~em frs~ Y~nglst~ the begnnng, I had not yet the honour of wrtng to you, notwthstng that I was very much nterested t, have endeavours for Afrca, yours truly, J.Z. subjeets.~i am, wth the best wshes for the prosperty of your heen a long tme n ths country, resdng travellng dfferent places. Your paper s no doubt a great boon for all of us, I have felt t so; but beng formerly engaged n a smlarstate OF THE EASTERN DISTRIfff8 OF THE GOLD enterpr~, under smlar crcumstances out here: I got rather COAST. fred of wrtng for newspapers, gave myself more up to 2:0.TIRE EDITOR OF THE AFR.IC.L~ T~. drect work n ths country for t; n translatng the Bble, Acorn, Gold Coast, West Afrca, August 10, &o. I feel t s not qute rght, for the apathy of proper fellow- Sr,~0ur dstrct contnues the same clsturbed unsats. Iabourers brought our own paper to a close, s a most factory state as the last mal left t. If anythng, t may be sad annoyng thng for au edtor n such a case. Stll, even tbs to be altered for the worse, as from what has been occurrng of frs tme I wrte to you, I do t accordng to a German p.roverb, late one cannot make sure how soon he wll be sezed executed for the purpose of accompanyng semn deceased chef n some capacty or another to the world after the present. The kngs chefs are stll on the Volta, where they am determned to reman untl they can muster suffcent force to stance, the chef of ths place, fe.--who never or seldom see or enable them to take advantage of the approachng dry season to read any other newspaper, stll by ther educaton or other-wpwse are nterested the thngs of the cuter world, especally same tme to wpe out the Awoonlahs or be thcmselvea rubbed out the dsgrace attached to the late campagn, at the Europe Amerca. Moreover, your paper generally manages out. The three prncpal kngs of the :Eastern Confederacy, to arrve n due tme, s of.the newest date, whle we Jackee, Cudjoe, Dowoonsh, deserve great pra~ for thus Europeans often do not get our Europeanewspapers, or get them stckng to ther post after havng been left n the lurch by the a fortnght later than the arrval of the mal, not knowng whom Government that pretends to protect asss them. we ought to blame for t. Could you not for the beneft of such They have made Addah ther head-quarters, snce the termnaton of the frst campagn n Aprl last they have by ther readers add, say one column, "Eptome 0f News of the Last Month," up to your date, enhance the value of your paperown personal exertons succeeded n ganeg over to our sde all very much? Though I wrte ths qute for myself, I am not the doubtful trbes on the left bank of the Volts, besdes overawngterms.the only sure that I express the wsh of hundreds of your humblest "The Poltcal Economy.of Brtsh Western Afrca; wth the Requ~ments of the Several Colones Settlements, &e.,&e. By Afrcanus ~. / Commonly "Addab." for /Even Aquamboes the Awoonlahs to such an extent are mghtly that they dsturbed are now by sung ther Herren, M.D., Edn. S.A.S., &c. Johnson, Fleet-~treet, London. Prce One Shllng. t Commonly "Ashantee."--ED..#. 2. O0 robbp. 23, 186{}.] THE AFRICAN TIMES. 45 so obstnately stckng to Addah, knowng that t augurs no gem P.8.--I nclose the remanng porton of our petton (not sou~ for them. TMy also would treat for peace, but they do not know n May); also copy of correspondence between Colonel Conran how to go about t; t s not certan f they would agree to Mr. Irvne on the subject of Kng Ageman s request for gve up Geraldo psy the expenses of the war r or at least a powder. I regreto say that the letter n whch Co, lonel Conran part. The kngs have also opened the path to Crepbe; cotton, calls Ageman "a scoundrel," &o., s mssng. ~he copy Mr. gold, vory begn to come down agan n small quanttes. Irvue had ha~ been stolen from hs offce, the orgnal has Panyarrng, however, renders the roads v.e~. unsafe; theredsappeared from the Commant s offce! I send also copy of s no obtanng redress for any wrong commtted one yard outdoa letter from Captan Pelo, R.N., the then senor offcer u the the runs of James Fort.. If a persou sends goods to Crepes, or Bghts, to the chefs of "Jellee Coffee." Ths letter, or r.~ther a even to Aquaplm, hm goods are pany arred, hs agentcopy of t, was sent to Mr. Irvue as chef of the pettoners, by s sezed sold nto slavery, he appeals n yam to the BrtshColonel Conran, through the then Cvl Commant, Captan authortes for protecton satsfacto.n,~_ Droust, of the 2nd West Inda Regment. We suppose the Governor s ntenton sendng ths letter to the pettoners was to A Brtsh merchantakes hs shp t~ Pram Pram, whch s twenty-two mles east of Aecra, or to Addsh, ffty-fve mles eastprove to them that the squadron dd ~ asds~ the enemy, but on of Acorn; he ls goods at each of those port~ ; he s made t5 the contrary. In fact, ths was hs object, but wo thnk t would pay the sum of 9/. 17s. lld. at the former place, 52L 0s. 9d. have been much better for hm f he had kept t que to hmself, at the latter, n the name of Custom dues to the Brt.h Govern-ament, for 1~rot, ctfon. Hs factory at Addah s attacked plus. dd promse to destroy the Awoonlah towns by means of the the only thng t does prove s that the Government actually doted; at Tram Tram he has trusted goods to partes who avalnaval force n the Bghts, f the Jellee Coffee~ aded them u any themselves of the general suplneues, of the Government to refuseway. And ths we ponted out n our petton,.~nd Colonel payment; he proceeds to the nearest Brtsh Court, James Town, Conran a hs reply dened. A coal. Acorn, Iodge~ a~complant agansthe theves at ddah, ~.~CL0 slyn r.~, takes out a summons agansthe Pram Tram debtors; the Cvl Copy--No. I. Commant refers the mdro serous affar of Addah to hs Accra, May 4, superor the flovernor at Cape Coast." In the meantme he dsposes of the lesser matter, the Pram Pram debtors, thus: ~r~ Excellency, Colonel Contan, Admnstrator of the Government of Sr,~I have the honour to state, for the nformaton of h~ declne* ~o uus a summons agan,~ the partu, for ~v.asons best the Gold Coast-- known to hmself, whch reasons he declnes to famsh the oredlor wth. The reply from the Governor about the Addah rob. of Akm, to say that Ashantees n consderable numbers h~d That ths mornng I receved a message from Chef Agamn, bery s as follows: "Sr, you wll please nform M.r. Xudeshemer that f he chooses to rsk hs property n such remotenot aware what ther ntentons were, he consdered t hs duty appeared n hs plantatons plundered them,, as he wos out-of-the-way places as Addah, where Her Majesty s Govern-tment cannot afford protecton* he must st the consequences. Eastern Ds~ets. report the same to the Chef Cvl Commant of the P.S.--You wll further have the kndness to make ths person pay He was of opnon, from the proceedngs of the party of up the bai/mce of hs dutes for the goods he led at kddah, Ashanteea who had been seen, that ther ntentons were hostle you wll ascertan from hm f he has led any goods at not peaceful, therefore thought proper to prepare for the the mall ntermedate ports, where we cannot afford to placeworst. He also begged to nform the Governmenthat he had collectors of customs, f so make hm pay duty on such no ammunton, requested that he mght be suppled by the goods also." Ths s no romance; t s not even overdrawn. A Government wth a small quantty of powder lead bars to search through the Acora records wll prove the truth of t, f a enable hm to resst any attacks whch mght be made ca hs reference to the deluded merchants be not deemed satsfactory part of the Brtsh Protectorate. evdence. They hold recepts for ther dutes, letters from In answer to these requests, I repled that, consderng the offcals declnng to afford them protecton. frendly stng the Government were on wth the Ashautees, Agan, wth the poorer condton of the natves, Bushmenthat t was mpossble for me to gran these requests untl I had the lke. One "J aychay," sword-bearer to the late Kng, frst communcated wth hs Excellency. Quow Daddy, of Aqnapm, s n danger of hs lfe. We fles to I would humbly beg you WIU take the earlest opportunty of Aecra; he takes out a summons agansthe aggressor n Aqua-laynpn; he pays for summonses, warrants, constables expenses, fe., t would ~trengthea Chef Agamas very touch--the very fact of the nformaton before hs Excellency, as, u my opnon, close upon 6L ; he remans loafng about the purleus of the the Government supplyng hm even wth a small amount of court for four months, watng n van for the defendants. At ammunton, wth a strct njuncton only to be used n case of length the defendant (who has heard that n Aecra now-a-days hs beng attacked or hs terrtory nvaded, would tend there s u new Commant wth every change of the moon) greatly to prevent any further encroachmenta by the Ashantees. wrtes a frendly letter to the Commant, tells hm that ~I have the honour to be, Sr, your obedent servant, rt I, ~,1 gayehay s a lar a bad fellow, laychay s called up, (Sgned) N~ccr. IavI~z, the defendant s letter s read to hm, there s an end to the matter. Chef Cvl Commant Eastern Dstrcts. Poor "Jaychay "sstll to be seen at Accra, especally on court To the Hen. Alphonso Cary, days, tryng to attracthe attenton of some magstrate. He s Actng Colonal Secretary, Cape Coast Castle. aft:ad to go up to hs country. We s a runed man. He has sold some of hs relatves to pay hs heavy expenses at Acorn. CopyNG. 2. There are three cases of ths very nature that have been brought James Town, Acorn, May 14, to the notce of the authortes n Aecra, aud absolutely nothng Sr,~I have the honour to acknowledge recept of your has been done afte recevng the poor fellows money for costs. ExceIIeney s letter of the llth nst., n reply to my commun/caton to you of the 6th nst., relatve to Agamn, Chef of Akn, And ths s what they call profecton---~ocernment / I have always beau a frm supporter of the Government, trust! shallswadroo. I perceve wth great regret that your Excellency stll be so, f I possbly can. I have ever been of opnon that entertans so bad an opnon of ths mportant chef as fo br even a tyranncal Government, f admnstered by capable men, hm wth the epathet of "scoundrel," that your Excellency consstently wthout regard of persons or colour, would be expresses surprsat my recommendng any encouragement beng better for the present state of ths country than the rule of the gvento ths-chef n the way of supply of ammunton for the natve chefs. But no flovernment at all s preferable to the defcnce of hs boundary of the Protected Terrtory n case of exstng farce. The natves generally prefer to be under a nvason. I have been resdent u Acorn for the last elevea European Government--that of Engl frst, that s supposedyears, durng fve of whch I have been n the Commsson of to be strcto all alke, to admnster justce wthout delay. the Peace, I can assure your Excellency that ths chef has I repeat, that they would su~ mt to much of what n other partsbeen always looked upon wth such great unversal respect ought be termed ~rndng tyranny, provded they see t consstently practsed justly meted out to all alke;, abovetrustworthy guardanof ths fronter aganst Ashantee. I was that he s consdered by the whole of the Eastern Dstrcts as the all, they lke a Government that s able to protect, as well as to qute unaware, untl I had the honour of recevng your Etcel- letter, that Chef Agamn "p.rovoked the!ast.a..shantce as well as n Accra Cape Coast. war," that he was desrous of agan provokng hostlmes. punsh, one that can punsh offenders n Akm Aquspmlency s The natves of those parts, chefs~ people, are exceednglyon reference to my letter to your Excellency of the 6th nst., tractable submssve to the authorty of the whtes, moreover, I fnd that I submtted to your Excellency what, n my humble patent long-sufferng. There s also a good understng opnon, was the necessty of Chef Agamn s hauds beng always between the European merchaots the natve chefs ~ d prncpal people, strengthened by the Government by the supply of a small who lsten to the advce of the former. quantty of ammunton, wth strct njunctons that t should ere t not for these crcumstances combned, they perhaps mghtonly be u.%-<l n case of hs beng attacked or hs terrtory have long ago kcked agans the prcks. I trust thngs may nvaded. con change for the better, though I confess I see no hope of at In Leutenant Herbert s llness, I, at hs request, forwarded at pre.~ent.~youra trnly Acc~A. Chef Agamn s applcaton to your Excellency. I have now

6 ! 1 /. 46 TH_E A~RICAN TI~ ES. [ OC-v~BER the honour to acquant you that I have forwarded your Excellency s letter, wth ts enclosure, to Leutenant Herbert, who become convnced that somethng more s wanted besdesendng after mssonary can have but ver], partal success untl they mssonares puttmg men-of-war m the water, that s to wll doubtle.~s follow your nstructons the matter, reservng to myself a copy of your Excellenoy s letter of the 11th nst.-- encourage the formng of a pro.per Government among educated Afrcans, whch must go h m h m the great work. Alas! I have the honour to be, Sr, your obedent servant, (Sgned) NtcaL Inw~, J.P. I am also nstructed to nform you, M_r. Edtor, that the wom "truth," n reference to the relatons of Lagos Abeokuta, To hs Excellency the Admnstrator of the has been over agan dscussed by sensble men on ths sde Government of the Gold Coast. of the world ; the concluson s that to open the doors for cvlzaton Chrstanty n these parts of Afrca, the L~gos Copy--No. 3. Government must put away all hostle sprt the use of mght H.M.S. Espor, Jellce Coffee, Eebruary, for rght, end endeavour to eultvate peace frendshp wth the Sr,--I wrte ths letter to tell you that hs Excellency the Egba Government, n order to secure 9sacral p~ce a~wny t~ ur. Governor of the Gold Coast has determned to punsh the peopleroundn$ trbe, whch wll tend ultmately to the heapng up of of the Angola trbe for havng nvaded the country of the Addahproperty between themselves. Then ths part of "Afrca shall people, for havng burnt destroyed the property of Brtshsoon stretch forth her hs unto God."~Your most obedent merchauts, aud for steppng lawful trade carred on by _the servant, merchants people at Addah ; for that purpose s sendng By comm, GaG. W. Jomxsex, a large army of solders, whte men natve trbes under the Secretary Drector of the EgbasUated Protectorate, towards the Volta. I warn you of ths, as I beleve Board of Management, Abeokuta. th6 chefs people of Jellce Coffee have nvarably beeu loyal people to the Queen of Eoglaud, aud well kndly dsposed to Her Maestv s Navy all whte men, I therefore should ORDONNANCE OF TIIE F.GBA~ GOVERNMENT, ABE0. be very" sorry ndeed to see ether the town of ~ ellce Coffee KUTA, IIIPOSING CUST01[S DUTIES. destroyed, or ts nhabtants any way njured. Let me advse " ~If rce ~ll "rb.e." you, therefore, to take no part whatever n the war ; for should "The Egbas Unted Board of Management" s establshed n the Governor fnd out (whch sooner or later he s sure to do the fourteenth year of Shomoya, Bashorun, Presdent-General of that you have gven, lent, or sold ether men, arms, powder, or the rad Board of Management. At a specal commttee held on food {o the enemy, or afforded them any assstance whatever, Frday, the 6th day of October, n the year of our Lord one you wll have to answer for t at your perl, wll get yourselves, yoftr women, your chldren nto such troubla that t on Wednesday, the llth day of the sad month of October, t thous eght hundred sxty-fve, an adjourned meetng wll not be forgotten very long. was proposed agreed unanmously to author(as the levy of an Trustng you are all well, wshng you every success n export duty on all goods produce leavng Abeoknta for Lagoa legal trade, I am, obedently yours, elsewhere. And whereas t would be for the cvlzaton (Sgned) 3I. S. L. P~, mprovement of ths country, for the nterest of Commer Senor Offcer Bght Dvson. commerce protecton on the property of European merchants, To the Chefs Mr. 5ohn Tay at Jellee Coffee. natve traders, others, t was therefore enacted, True Copy (sgned), E. Conmn. 1. That t shall be lawful for any person or persona (wthout Cape Coast Castle, Yune 2, excepton) to have free access n Abeekuta for the purposes of Sr,--May I requesthat you wll be pleased to forward ths trade, to export therefrom any goods or produce, passng copy of a letter from Captan Pele, R.N., to the Hen. Ncol from Abeokuta to Lagos, hy the Rver Ogun or elsewhere, Irvne, J.P., of Acem, whose name heads the petton of the 5th subject to the regulatons herenafter mentoned. from sundry merchants traders. 2. That ou all goods exported from Abeoknta to Lagos, by the (Sgned) E. Cowxx~, Rver Ogun or elsewhere, there shall be pad the followng duty Colonel Admnstrator. n cowres or produce, at the tme of such exportaton--va., To Captan Drouet, 2nd W.I. Regment vory shea butter, three strngs of cowres on every pound; Commng, at Acorn. palm or nut ol, one strng on every gallon; cotton, twenty cowres on every pound. Nc~e.--~Ve very much reg~tha ths. other C~.Icl C~st lett.e.m now nserted, &c, dated August, by some acclcen~ ma no,reach us aur alter 3. That all other goods not named shall be charged or charge. our September number was ready for press.--ed A. "*: able wth a duty of 3 per cent. on the marketable value of such goods produce at Abeckutat thetme of such exportaton. ABEOKUTA. 4. That such duty shall be payable pad at the Customhouse of Abeokuta, on all such goods produce as shall be zo ~E ZDrrOS OF zm~ Arme~z~" ares. Bashomn s House, Abeokuta. September 6~ ntended to be exported by the Rver Ogun, that on such I have the honour, by comm of the B~mm, Pre~fdcnb payment a permt for the exporthereof shall be granted by the to r uest that you sh 1 e o s name.n collector, deputy-collector, or such other person or persons as your lst of yearly subscrbers for the,~]rfcan 2Vnes..tne shall be duly ap~nted for that purpose, that stleh permt Bashorun hopes that you wll publsh the enclosed ordonnance, shall be Sent wth, accompany such goods or produce, on wll always be delghted to receve communcatons from the ther exportaton, aud shall he produced, f requred, by any "Egbas Unted Board of Management," lately formed for the person or persons n charge of such goods or produce ; that :Egba n ston. the payment of the duty on goods producexported overl The Board of Management s establshed on purpose to drectshall be payable at such place as shall be" from tme to tme the Natve Government, forward cvlzaton promote apponted. the spread of Chrstanty, together wth the future protecton of 5. That any goods or produce beng exported from Abeokuta the property of European merchants Brtsh subjects, whchby the Rver Ogun or elsewhere for whch a permt shall not on have been of late so sl~amefully dsgracefully abused, on dem be produced to any person apponted for the examnaton account of there beng no proper Government to mauage the msunderstngs between ths place Lagos. the Board of Management, ~r any four just(sea of the peace of such permts, shall may be sezed; on proof before The Bashoruu trusts that you wll always fnd space n your apponted for that purpose, the mou-produoton of such valuable journal n commentng upon the resources of ths permt, the goods or produce shall be declared forfeted ; on country, the benefts to he derved by merchants good men sale, the proceeds of such sale shall, after deductng the necessary who may see the.necessty of supportng ths newborn Govern-expensesment, thereby fulfllng the great promse of hastenng cvlza- sezer collector, the balance to the Treasurer of the be pad as follows--va., one-thrd thereof to the ton, strengthenng that Chrstanty for whch your journal Board of Management for the use of the Egba Government. speaks, month after month, on the West Coast of Afrca. And 6. That ths ordnance shall take effect mmedately on the knowng Abeokuta to be the very centre for commerce publcaton thereof. fortune, the place where Chrst s Gospel has already been Passed n the Board of Management ths 1 lth day of October, most frmly planted, t s the ntenton of ths newboru Govern-ment to rng the bell round for the support of merchants fve, confrmed the 23rd day cf March, the year of our Lord one thous eght hundred aud dxty- good men to ad n spreadng the same far wde among the By comm, surroundng trbes. Sao~or~, BAs~o~v.v, Presdent-General. The Bashorun trusts that you wll not be slack on.your part n GaG. W. 3omxsox, Secretary Drector. dong justce, by settng forth the advantages whela ths newborn :Board of Management offers, through the assstance of the A~F,0XWA, Sept. 3.--The duty dsputes are not yet settled : t Almghty, who they trust wll gve knowledge understng s not popular ; many evade payment by not shppng ther produce at Am. The ol trade has gven employmento our mer- to the members thereunto belongng. Tell Engl that ther efforts to elvlse Chrstan=~ e Afrcans by sendng mssonary cantle frends of late ; eleven aud a-half heads of cowres are pad OC~0BV, R 23, 1866.] THE AFRICAN TIM~.,8, 47 for the measure of palm-ol, nne a-half, n some cases ten, you a good floggng." (He was a very severe man; he never heads, for black ell. There s a greater dem for slver at threeforgave anythng n hs own people, thoug he went to church heads the dollar; there s an expectaton that cowres wll fall more than some other supercargoes here, so called hmself a n value n consequence.~/ w$ IroMn. Chrstan.) He ordered the shp s gg to follow hm, save The Yoruba Country s not yet settled ;the old Yoruba to~nshm f the canoe should capsze. He ordered hs Kroe boys not are jealous suspcous of the rsng strength of Ibsdan."~ to keep too near the canoe. The eanoemau, knowng he had no I&m. ol to sell to Seholefeld, who would therefore take hm back There s much war trouble n the Nger ds~rots n the flog hm, capszed the canoe. The Kroo boys who were wth neghbourhood of 0ntsha. hm a the canoe were pcked up by the gg, but Scholefeld could not be found, the canoe not beng vsble n the darkness (eleven ACCRA. MERCHANTS PETITION. P.~:). In the mornng ~r. Scholefeld was found dead un&r (Contnued from P. 133, VoL., No. 60~ Jane, 1856.) the canoe, near the road leadng to the Court of Equty. He was And, f n the latter case, whether they are to appeal to natve bured July 12. law for redress. The Consul s comng to hold an nqury nto ths, I wll If Brtsh protecton s stll to be granted, your pettoners send you word all about t.--yours, --. respectfully beg that measures may be adopted havng for ther object an early termnaton of ths Awoonlah war on an honourable footng, n a measure that wll tend to the restoraton of PRINCIPAL EVENTS. It s reported that Colonel D Arcy has been recalled from the commerce n these parts, a free navgaton of the Rver Volta Gamba, that the present Admnstrator Lagos s to take hs ali along that porton of t whch runs through the Protectedplace; that Commer Glover, R.N., wll resume hs post at Terrtory. Lagos; that Colonel Conran wll arrve n Engl from Your pettoners, n the meantme, respectfully suggesthat, Cape Coast by next mal, when hs successor wll be apponted. pendng the settlement of these dsturbances, a hleckade be declared of all the Awoonlah ports from the rver Volta to Keggee, Nassau, Frankfort, to Prussa, s dated September 20, 1866, The decree for the annexaton of Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, as your pettoners have reason to beleve that the enemy haw commences as follows: "We, Wllam,.by the grace of God, recently purchased war stores on a large scale from shppng, K.ng of Prussa, &c., order, wth the agreement of both Houses especally at $ellce Coffee. of Parlament, what fell.own: I. The kngdom of Hanover, the Your pettoners, n concluson, would desre to dall your electorate of Hesse, the duchy of Nasmu, the free town of F, xcellenoy s notce to the fact that the Kng of Aquamboe has Frankfort are, conformably wth Artcle 2 of the deed of consttuton for the Prussan State, to be uuted for ever wth the not yet been called to account for the nsult offered to Her Majesty s Government.n assaultng the messengers whch your Prussan monarchy. 2. The Prussan Consttuton h to coma Excellency dspatched to hm wth drectons to proceed to Aecm, nto force fa these dstrcts cn the 1st of Octobe/, 1867, &e. de. also to the fact of ths same chef havng asssted the enemy The Prncess Dagmar of Demuark, sster to her Royal Hghue~ n the late campagn n a very materal manner. the Prncess of Wales, arrved at Ch-oustsdt from Denmark on Your pettoners respectfully beg that measures may be adoptedseptember 26. Her marrage wth the her of therussau Empre wlt take place u November. " to compel hm to render au account of hs conduct n the late campagn, open the navgaton of that part of the Volta Ca s n nsurrecton agansthe Turksh Government. It passng throughs domnon s. s sad tha tl~e nsurgent Chrstans have beaten the Turksh And your pettoners, as n dut~ bound, wll ever pray. Egyptan ~oops a several engagements. The Turks deny ths. (Sgned) Ncel Trvme, L. ]q esse, G. T. H. Lyall, Peace was sgned between Austr Italy ou October 3, 5. Br, W. P. Gunnel, T. B. all the former pos.~.~sons of Austra n Italy have been gven up l~eeman, S. Br~uner, W. G. Bruce, lethe French Commssoner, by hm to the Italan authortes. The Italan troops have entered Vence. W. Adder, J. ~. Clayton, many others. The Loudon Asatc Bank has stopped payment. The Bank of Queensl s to be wouud ~ up. The loss to the ABYSSINIA. ~hareholders, t s lad, wll not exceed 8L per share. Some :French papers have publshed a long accouut of a great The Empress of 5Iexeo, now n Rome (sster of the present battle sad to have been fought between the armes of Kng Kng of the Belgans), s sad to have lost her reason, "under Theodore the nsurgents of Tgnd Choa, two of th e the shook caused by so many hopes suddenly dsapponted." prn.dpal most te(lned provnces of that country. The two A target, 30 feet broad, 30 feet hgh, 9 feet thck of sold armes are stated at about 100,O00 men each. No decded grante blocks faced wth rolled rou plates 4 nches thck, erected vctory was ganed, but the Kng s army remaned masters of at Fortress Monroe, U.S.A., was entrely destroyed by eleven the feld of battle. The klle~t wounded n the two shots fred at 350 yams from 16-ne~ 12-nch guns! Such armes were estmated at some 70,000! The report adds that s the amazng power of modem artllery. the Kng, "n a rage, had sent an order on the Ist August for All the Europeau armes are now beng armed wth breechloadng rfle~. the mmedatexecuton of the Englsh captves, Cameron, Raseam, Stern, &c.,&c." We venture yet to hope that ths ~r. Fnd goes out to Abyssna- wth an autograph letter from s all an nventon. Should t, however, prove to be true, we may Her X[ajesty the Quecn to Kng Theodore, to obtan the release possbly gve the publshed detals of the battle, whch are curous, of Consul Cameron the mtsonares, f stll alve. Colonel ff correct. Merewether wll follow Mr. Flad, wth sutable presents for the Abyssnan monarch, as far as ~assowsh, where ho wll awat the result of Z[r. ~ lad s msson before he proceeds further. 0 THE EDITOR OT THE A]FRICAN T][]KE~. A frghtful gale occurred off the east coast of Newfoundl Duke Town, Old Calabar, August, on the 22nd of September. A French frgate several coasters Sr,--I do not ~ee that you publsh anythng about our placewere lost at St. Perre. Over 150 dead bodes were washed here, I am sure t wll do good f you wll publsh a lttle. ashore at St. Perre. "We coloured Brtsh subjects are hardly put to t here between The war contrbutou mposed by the Prussans upou Saxony the supercargoes the natves. If any one of us owes a trflea eght mllons of thaters, or 1,200,000L sterlng. (fee or sx dollars) to a natve, they go to hs house seze all Tar Nzrnz~,.~ns.--The Kng has ~ued a proclamaton, he has; but f a natve owes a butt of palm ol to us, he neverdeclarng that t s mpossble to govern wth a Second Chamber pays quetly; we are often beaten nstead of pdd, as they say they cousttuted lke the one whch has just been dssolved, as the don t r, ln~ ~avn~ the fne. Our lves are always n danger here, dvson exstng between Government representatves occasoned contnual changes u the Mnstry whch were prejudcal ~-~ -~,~-~ct~mes net a lttle protecton, as wheu we had the re w-~qt l~ l~oor Mr. Se holefeld, when the Kng was asked to to the prosperty of the country. punsh some who were sad to have gven offence, or f not, to T~z Ponr~o~a Fon~..zcxzm.xs.--It has been decded by the sezo them send them ca board the merchant shps, that the engneers of the War Department to alter the constructon of the e~percargees mght flog them ; but the Kng would not, sad 8pthead forts from a combnaton of grante ron to one eutrely of ron cf the most massve character. they must take the matter to the Supreme Court on the West Coast to settle t; that he could not punsh or detan Brtsh W~sr INnIA ~q B" TAS~ANIAX, October 15.--A good deal subjects for them whle he dd not fnd any fault n them. Ths of dysentery fever prevaled at Barbadoes. Two cases of was the Kng s decson ; he oughto be prase4 for t. yellow fever occurred ou board shortly after leavng St. Thomas, I have called Mr. Scholefeld poor Schohfeld because of hs both of whch proved fatal. sad end. Mr. John H. Scholefeld was representatve here of a Yellow fever s stll prevalent at St. Thomas. Lverpool house, k Calabar man came.on board hs shp at nne at nght, asked for goods, as he had tome ol to gve. S; sad, DIED. "No, but I wll go 6n shore wth you n your own canoe." The man sad, "No, captan; take your own." S. sad, "No, I go At Krepee, greatly lameuted, on the "26th July, Mr. "Edwtrd u yours; f you tell me les, I shall brng you off gve Wallace Bruce, merchant. Many wll mourn hs tour. I!

7 f : t I 48 THE AFRICAN= TIMES. [OCtoBeR 29, 1866, WEST AFRIGA GO IPANY, LIMITED. DIR~.~fORS : :. OMAS CLEGG Esq, Cheetham Hll, near Manch~ter. HUGH BIRLEY, Esq., Ddsbury, near Manchester, CAarman. ;~] I ~E..EDERIOK ATKINSON, Esq., otton Dealer, -~,nch~s~r THOMAS BI:{IC-~S, ~.;Sq., ~S~LU~LUL<~, ~o.~ ~ ~r error T * DW 1~ ~ ~1~! 1~ 011 1~r,~t,-~m n T~r, rl~,~,~.l- JAZ ES]~Ianche~ter.H. WHITEHEAD, Esq., Royal George 51rs, near/r-,..,~, o,-,~, -~t.,... "-~ --~~- BANKIngS : CONS0~A ~ED BANK, LIMITED. Solaclroz: JAMES STREET, Esq., Manchester. BROX~ZRS : Messrs. HUOOINS ROWSELL, 1, Threadneedle Street, [Messrs. P. EOKERSLEY SON, Hopwood Avenue, Mah- ] che~ter. London. SZCu~zrARY : Mr. J. R. CLARKE. Offces of the Company: 17, DICKINSON STREET, ~LANOHESTER. Ths Company beng now n actve operaton, s open to receve Consgnments of Produce from natve traders others on the West Coast of Afrca, to execute orders for all descrptons of goods, on the most reasonable terms, whch may be keown on applcaton to the Secretary. To be pobh.~e, p "... I ~ b A~,~WS PATZ~T ROr~Tn~G ~ d rce 2~ 6d each as soon as 400 copes arel ~OTTON, WOOL, other ~steral, PRESSED sub~cnbed for the fouow~g " worts, n Ar y ~v~r~ ~u~, PACKED y W.. "... "~-- ~-"~^ ^r at ]PRESS n HALF the USUAL TIKE ~ugar Mlls for of No. 3, P]owden-Dmt~mgs, x emp:e, ~onuou, ~r,~- "1, ~ - law Author of "The Censor Censured; or the Calumnes of SFllttng the Cane, r.alm ~4ut Assorters, ~u~ ~rackers, Cau~taln Burton on the Afrcans of Serra Leone Refuted" :--I every knd of ~achnd for Afrca or Inda. No. I. ] 17, COWTER b~treet, CITY ROAD, LONDON...: Judcal Acts of Hs H0n0ttr John BEADS, PROWSmNS, TRADE GOODS, as under, on The lfo Oar), 0hef Justce of Serra I~0ne, - SALE at ~. LEVIN S STORES, Extsndng over a Quarter of a Century. LONDON AND LIVERPOOL. AI~, an Inqury as to what PsbHo_ Ser~ e~ hehas.rendered Bm~s.--Agras, Seed, Corals, Popoppes, Ponuds, T ever n hs capacty of a Z[ember of the Legm]auve ~ouncn m the )thor descrpton. Dffuson of Educaton, the Extenson of Commerce, or ~e I Psovz~0ss./--J ams, Sardnes, Potted ~Ieat~, Pottecl Fsh, Admnstraton of J ustce at Serra Leone ts Dependences.. Potted Soups, Bscuts (tns), Geneva, Bry, Rum. l. No. 2. -Sum)B~u~.--~L~USkets, Cowres, lrlnt~, Olsss Goods, Combs, Clothng, Crcoke)y, Statonery. An Inqu~ nto the General dmns~r~t0n of the Ao~xctm.--l~mmel s: Pomade*, E.~eucea,, Perfumery. Fdrbes : Provsons of every, descrpton. Lamplough s: Drug% Government of Serra l,~one by Ma~or Samuel Wensley Blsoksll :,nd ~re~ne~. Includng the Appontments he has Conferred, as well as the All o~ers addressed to ~. L. LEVIN, I, Bavs Marks. Lou- Offcal Acts he hag Sustaned. - dos, E.0.,. wll receve attenton per repro mal. Also, a Mnute Investgaton as to ~he Valdty of the Grounds "~TEST COAST of AFRICA,: MADEIRA, TENERIFFtL upon wmch he has endeavoured to ~ustty the vrtual Extncton ~ ~ :v ~.v.~,the A~. rlcan:bteara~p~ ~m,~aufs_ve~.~ (carryng.he,~ ^ Tral.. b.,~ury... m Cvl... Actons, endmri by Ms unconst tu onatrans-~uest t! ssen. era, ~ Y s prg ~tatts) drect ~cave.,.tv~:uu,. ~ Z[ADEIRA, m~,,~_, V,~ ~?~_o TENE fer of that Ancent R~ght rote the hs of hs S p y pa g - APE Z~ strafes, w~th - some " arks Bern n o. P the C..use. ~b,oh Co~- ~r~f~., " A COFF]Lg O ~ : I oor Afrcan palhas, CAPE COAST u~o~.~, ~.CO,~) J E~_, _~u~" ~.d hm to. Absndon.th%Or~mauce" to Co.mp? p... PI~nt~s to ~re ~amy,or ~s[~ m.a~.n,o~, ~o~ ~, ~,,u-benin. ~:~ "T] ~uz~ ~,~,~n~.~ BONNY. FERNANDO PC,... OLD CAL~&R, "Wrongs before they could obtmn Redress m,no bupreme uour,. ] an~t~n~on~sd/~eted to alteratons n the ports of call whch BAT~U~ST,:S~R~.~O~.~ONEOVr~, ~V fll be publshed, by Subscrpton, so soon a~" 150 copes are come nto o1~erafon by ths packet., - subscrbed o~:, n Two Vols., 8re, :glt, : Noxz.--The Company a floatng depot at Serra I~ona beng -. " :. about to be removed, goods ~r that port wll meanwhla T]~E COURSE Olq ~ DI V ~NF,. LO V E~, be led drect from the Company s steamers at shp s expense, or, THE BIBLE READ ARIGHT. but shpper s ns "k. By the Anther of "The Kngdom of Heaven." Goods for C~_~ooxs must (for the present) be taken fro. Subscrbers ne~es, wth the amount of Subscrptons, wll be alongdde at Green Patch, at consgnee s rsk expeose, bu~ receved by the Agents of the.dfr ca~ T~ m~_ on thfl West C?ast, the X Company wll shortly provde a small salng vessel to conve end by Wllam Edwards, Esq., ~[an~ger of the Afrcan ~ v)~, cargo-betwccn the steamers at Green Patch the anchora~ at 4, Coleman-street.buldngs, Moorgate,street) London. Cameroons, at shlppefs rsk. Nozlcz "No passengers, goods, or parcels can be taken for PROVISIONS. ~be Undsrnoted Goods,. no~ on h for mmedate shpment, ~.L~vzra.~ "or T~mn~s untl the removal of the quarantne restrctons mposed at those places. sg only of the well-known br of.forbes,.kberdeen London: S~wdnes, Preserved Salmon, dtto Lobsters, 250.1~orse power, A. J. M. CROFT, Commer, wll leave The fast pbwefful Steamshp 0ALABAR, 1,208 to~, dtto Oyster~, dtto. Herrngs, dtto Mackerel, dtto Haddceks, LIVERP00L ou WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, at 11 ~.~. dtto Turbot, Dred Coa~h~ dtto Lngfsh, Hgh-dred Herrngs, Passenger~ embark by steam tender, leavng the North.Lng Salted Salmon, dtto Herrngs, dtto Macker~l, Preservfd Fsh Stage at 93.0 A.~. punctually. Soups, Herrngs & la Sardnes, Preserved Soups, dtto Meats, dt~ Goods a~ d heavy baggage must be alongsde the shp st the Poultry, dtto Game, dtto Vegetables, dtto Mlk, Potted.~eats, loadng berth, Husksson Dock.,~ not later than 6 P.~. on the Anchovy Paste, Jams, n Tns or Jars, Fruts, Bottled Dred, 22nd. - " Pckles (Pure), Sauces, Mustard, Oatmeal, Barley, C~rn Flour. No goods, or parcels can be shpped wthout pre-.payment of The above may be had n any.package or sze; also Hams, Bacon, freght. " Cheese, Butter.. Nozlcz.--Owng to alteratons :under the new postal oontrs~t Prced Lsts a]l other nformaton may be obtal:ed of Mr. n the dates of;arhval at LverpooI of the mal packets, t s M. L. LEVI N, 1, Beds Mark~, London, Sol0.Agent for West Coast of Afrca, all orders forwarded hm wll receve mme-decdedate attenton per return Mal. Lverpool wll be the 10th 24th, the arrvals ~s o~ to defer commencng the b-monthly eal.~g~rn~ January next; thenceforward, the dates of departure ~_~ JOHN BROWN, JUnor, " 17th of each month. COM.KISSION MERCHANT (late of 6, WOBURN PLACE, For further nformaton apply n Lverpool to the Compsn~s Agents, M~-srs. FLETClq RR PARR, 23, Castle-street, RUSSELL SQUARE, LONDON),.Saga to nform hs Frends Correspondents that he has or at the Company s offces, No. 14, Leade~hall.street, London. ~OYED hs O~cea to 5, HAT, ON GARDEN, HOLBORN, Prnted ~ Publlahed b~.w:~om~ Jom, so~, at lsl, Fleet~treet~ ~ t~c~y I, ONDON, E.C. "V ol, The West ] S Dahomey. Jobber 27atal Coal n Royal WM. DEN Oom Co ), A, v~ merely n The total Ths many artcle The on the be made a so Pepper, Gn~ supply The great facht greatest regt The meuts, Cozrpany more to foster