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SOUTHERN BANNER: JULY 2, 1878.
From Egypt Up The Nile.
Colonel C. Ckaillc I<ong Describing Ills African
Explorations.
W1IAT HE THINKS OF THE MISSION'S
TO AFRICA AND OF THE FUTURE
OF ITS PEOPLE.
The meeting of the American
Geographical Society last evening
tilled Chicliering Hall. Messrs.
Ponce de Leon, Charles R. Austin
and Horace A. Foote were elected
Fellows. Chief Justice Daly intro
duced Colonel C. Chailie Long, late
of the Egyptian Army, who read an
address upon “Egypt, Africa and
Africans.” The results of his expe
ditions, he said, enabled him to in
troduce himself, first, as the only
American who has ever visited the
fabled Nile sources; second, to re
cord discoveries in the Nile basin,
which, while they have won honor
elsewhere, have drawn upon him the
jealous feeling of those devoted to
British interests in Central and Ori
ental Africa. The waters of the
Victoria Nyanza, he said, were then
sailed upon for the first time by a
white man. That portion of the
river leaving the lake fiom Urondo 1
gani was explored for the first time,
putting at rest all doubt as to the
connection of the two lakes. The
discovery, in latitude 1 deg. 3 min.
north, of Lake Ibrahim added an
other great reservoir to the sources
of the Nile.
Colonel Long did not attempt to
enumerate the public works which
have marked the reign of the Khe
dive, nor dwell upon the metamor
phosisof a part of Saracenic Cairo.
The foundation of a geographical
society by the Khedive at Cairo,
which was welcomed in Europe as a
great step in the interest ot geog
raphy, was a sequence as well, he
said, of the work of exploration to
which the Khedive has addressed
himself, in the construction of great
lines of telegraph and railway, ma
king Khartoum the great granary
entrepot of Central African products
on their way to Alexandria and
European markets. " But,” said he,
“ a great plague has fallen upon
Egypt, and a faithful butler and slew
ard, like Joseph of old, would be an
acceptable adjunct to the Khedive’s
household. The financial crisis has
checked his generous operations and
clogged the wheels of progress in
Egypt.” The speaker thought that
now, with Mr. Rivers Wilson return
ed to the charge, strengthened by the
hands of the Minister of Finance ot
France, it may be possible to resur
rect Egypt from the fatal filet
which she is entangled.
On the 11th of August, after an
expedition attended with great suf
fering, Colonel Long entered a great
basin in which the Nile lost itself,
This was Lake Ibrahim, destined to
lake its place with the Victoria and
the Albert of Speke and of Baker as
one of the great reservoirs which, fed
by perpetual equatorial rains, consti
tute the sources of the Nile. In the
Makraka Niam-Niam, the country of
the anthropophagi, Colonel Long
saw the congo, or native dance,
it he said:
The congo at night surpassed
Of
extravagant and fantastic dance, the
encentric figures cut by Clodochc,
resembling very much the orgic.- r.t
Mabillc or Bulier : One might ha\e
imagined that after all “can-can’’
might once have been an African
king fresh from these very regions.
The girl of the period in Niam-Niam
is very pretty—a little compact body,
with dainty feet anrd hands, the lat
ter, wit h throat and ankles, encased
in iron and copper bangles; the coif
fure, with all the natural kinks; is
banged a la mode, and would be the
envy even of our beautiful women ;
for the rest, nothing—the toilet being
the simple and primative fig-leaf of
mother Eve.
During his stay here, Colonel Long
was presented with Ticki-Ticki, a
woman twenty-five years of age, of
the famed and fabled race of pigmies.
When asked if she wott'd go with
him to Egypt, she repliel, “Yes, if
you will not eat me.”
She told me much that was inter
esting of her country, of how brave
her people were, and that the women
always accompanied the men in war
fare, armed with a little lance. The
Cheikh who gave her told me of
a tribe with huge elephantine ears
that hung to their haunches; but
even in the presence of these little
people of a veritable land of Liliput,
I was fain to give it place in the same
mythical category of those with tails,
who still persisted in evading the
steps of the traveller in Central
Africa.
Regarding Central Africa, he said:
I do not believe that Central Afri
ca may ever he the home of the white
man ; insalubrious conditions of coun
try and climate, with special refer
ence to the 1,200 miles of an im
mense basin of mud and miasma
which separate Khartoum from Gon-
dokoro and the immense regions of
marsh as traversed by me on the east
coast on the Equator, are to me a
deadly cordon which surrounds Cen-
t ral Afriea and proclaims it the ex
clusive home of its black inhabitants.
Colonel Gordon and myself are the
sole survivors of the original expedi
lion which succeeded Baker in these
countries, and both alike bear, iueffu-
ceahly, perhaps, in our persons the
souvenirs of its fatal poisons. And
as if to add additional proof to what
has already been said, Mr. Stanley
comes back with his youthful head
covered with the snow of old age.
And yet in my notes published in
London, I evoked a storm qf abuse,
because I said that I left conscientious
scruples against advocating the send
ing of missions into a country which
I believed would only devote them
to misery and a speedy death with
out any results that would justify
their inevitable martyrdom, at least
until such time as Central Africa
might be brought into immediate
and friendly intercourse by thatgreat
est agent of civilization-—commerce!
Baker came back representing Africa
first as a hell, the negro as a devil,
hut, feeling this to be unpopular, he
made the negro a good sort of a
devil, and the hell an indifferent sort
of a paradise, but a paradise, and, he
added, “if a man in full highland
dre ss and hag-pipes, would set all
psalms to lively tunes, the. negroes
would learn to sing them immediate
ly.’’ My time came next, I proposed
my little Lubari, the magnetic bat
tery, as the philosopher’s stone with
which the African heart was to stand
around and make obeisance. Mr.
Stanley succeeded me, and went with
unerring aim to the iq»ot—the con
version to Christianity of M’Tse by
copies of the Lord’s Prayer, the
Creed, and a bundle of Moody and
Sankey’s psalms, a conversion which
was strangely verified by Linant de
Bellefond, who says that shortly after
M’Tse, in order to prove his capacity
as a marksman, levelled a gun^at one
ot his wife’s heads, and blowing out
her brains, cried, “ Wohi Woh!” in
self-admiration. I would, ask why it
is that the black race of America is
not the proper source from which the
colonization and regeneration of
Africa is to come? The American
Colonization Society must view with
no uncommon pride, in the serious
and apparently earnest movement of
the negro freodraon of the South to
emigrate to Africa, the consummation
of their vows and their philanthropic
hopes. It would indeed be a fitting
atonement for the wrongs of this
unfortunate race, if the plenteous
contributions which have been made
to the international exploration fund
should be convened to this one great
object.—New York World
The Girls of Vienna.
[Chicago Times, Vienna Letter.]
At 10 or 11 o’clock supper is an
nounced, and a supper it is in good
earnest. People do little else in
Vienna except to eat and drink old
wine and beer. The ladies in general
dress very richly, wearing soft silks
and exquisite laces at dinner parties.
Jewels, too, are never lacking, and
are always worn with good taste.
The young girls or ladies* I should
say, from fifteen to twenty, have the
most perfect forms imaginable. Their
waists are round and slender, the
shoulders slope with Venu-like ac
curacy, but the bust is the crowning
beauty. I never saw anything to
equal the Vietmeoise deed ete. It is
the form and development of a woman
with the face of a young girl: but
what perfection ! I have a weakness
for beauty myself, and never see a
slender waist and shapely hand but I
think “ what a gill is comeliness,”
and when, as in Vienna, the hand is
only half the beauty of the neck and
arms, I think that the fashion of
dressing the young maidens in the
Austrian Capital something quite
perfect. Usually they wear white
and fleecy folds of soft tulle adorning
every “ corsage” (waist). The arms
are always hare from the elbow and
sometimes entirely so from the
shoulder. Up to the present I have
never seen but the most perfectly-
shaped hands and arms, and the
slender waists that look so white and
beautiful are like carved marble or
the pictures in the gallery at the
Hague in Holland. We can see that
the Flemish and German artists have
not far to look for their models. At
present all the ladies wear black shoes
like those known by the panic of
“ Oxford ties,” and if not always ap
propriate they are much more con
venient and cheaper, although the
general richness of toilet hardly sug
gests the idea of economy.
BUGGIES,
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BUGGIES,
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Athens, Georgia,
Manufacturer of and dealer in all kinds of
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Sulkys,
Top or no top Buggies and Spring Wagons
All kinds of vehicles repaired at short notice
Minting and trimming done in the best and
atest styles. Work put up to order and war
ranted to give satisfaction.
Black Smithing
Done in the best mannor, harness made aud re
paired at short notice. I use the best material
that can be had, and have skilled workman who
know their business. Having an experience of
eleven vears I feel confident of giving satisfac
tion. Give me a trial and I am satisfied you will
be pleased as 1 do the cheapest work in the city.
Shop opposite
J. Z. COOPER’S LIVERY STABLE.
W. R. BEAVERS.
jan296m.
CHARLES F. STUBBS,
(Successor to Groover, Stubbs & Co.,)
OOVTON FA^P@R
—AND—
General Commission Merchant,
AGENT, FOR THE
Quitman Factory Yams,
94 BAY STREET,
Savannah, G eorgia.
Bogging, Ties, Rope and other supplies fur
nished. Also, liberal cash advances made on
consignments for ssle or shipment to Liverpool
or Northern portB.
Mr. A. A. WIsh, Cashier and Correspondent
of the late Ann of Groover, Stubbs <fc Co., has
an interest in * he business. ajig21-tf.
COME AUD SEE THEM!
800 Chromes.
10 dozen Passe Partouts, in good variety.
10 dozeu Picture Mats the most beautiful
ever brought to Athens.
Panel Pictures.
Illuminated Mottoes.
Photographs of Statuary, etc.
Just received and for sale cheap at
inny7 -tf. Burke’s Book Store.
WOOL CARDING.
T HE undersigned is now prepared to receive
custom Wool for carding, and solicits the
patronage of wool growers. Satisfaction guar
anteed. Price 10 cents per pound.
|H. T. FOWLER.
mny-28-2m
EVER ONWARD.
Our Flag is thrown to the breeze—Our MOTTo is before the
People. We proudly take our stand as the “Champions of Low
Prices.
OTJB. SFX.E1TDID LEADERS.
50 Pieces Fine Mourning Dress Goods.
50 Pieces Eine Grenadines.
100 Pieces Fine Colored Dress Goods.
250 Bieces Fine White Lawns, Wite French Nainsook, White
Organdies Swiss Piques, Jaconet, White and Colored Tarlatan, and
many other nice goods suitable for
COMMENCEMENT DRESSES.
Competition with our prices is a matter impossible. Our Agent
was in New Yourk at the recent peremptory sale.
11.000 Packages Were Slaughtered.
We got a lot of most beautiful goods.
LADIES AND GENTS. HANDKERCHIEFS,
LADIES AND GENTS. HOSIERY,
LINEN HOUSE-KEEPING GOODS, &c., &c.
Our buyer MR. CHRISTOPHER GRAY is always in the market,
he has the benefit of unlimited Capital and 30 years experience.
Remember, our goods were bought for Cash and will be sold on
the same terms.
We stick to the programme inaugurated in the “Calico War, and
Undersell th.e Market 20 Per Cent.
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No. 4, Granite Row,
Southern Mutual Insurance
OOMI’-A.asr'X'j
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
YOUNG L. G. HARRIS, President
.STEVENS THOMAS, Secretary. v
Gross Assets, April 1, 1877, • - $784,487 o2
Resident Directors.
Young L. U. Harris,
John H. Nkwton,
Dr. Hkxry Hull,
Albin P. Dkaring,
Col. Robert Thomas.
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Stevens Thoma3
Eliza L. Newton,
Ferdinand Piiinizy
Dr. R. M. Smith,
John W. Nicholson,
* may7.3m.
FOR SALE OR RENT.
A DWELLING WITH EIGHT GOOD
rooms, fire place in each of the rooms, good
double brick kitchen, stable carriage and out
houses. Location on Hancock avenue, near
Lucy Cobb Institute. , J. II. HUGGINS,
oQ-tf No. 7 Broad street.
For Sale.
A second-hand Wheeler & Wilson Sewing
Machine; has been but little used uud is imper
fect order. For side cheap for cash. Apply at
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INTES-'W
Merchant Tailors Establishment.
M. E. Young,
[Late with Lucas & Ware,]
IS now openiug an elegant stock of Imported Cloths, Cassitueres
and Suitings, which he will make up to order as low as can be bought
in any market. He will also keep Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods,
Shirts, Collars, Drawers, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Sus
penders, and all such articles as tire wanted. Special attention paid
to cutting, and work guaranteed. Call and examine my stock on
Broad street, next door to Dr. C. W. Long’s drug store.
to theTpublic.
We take pleasure in recommending Mr. Young as a reliable man
and fust-class Tailor aud Cutter, in every respect.
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The export ot cotton goods is in
creasing, and if the foreign field was
thoroughly attended to, it is believed
it would take all the surplus goods
now manufactured in this country.
On Tuesday last the bark “ Tatia
Topan ” cleared at Boston for Zanzi
bar, (east coast of Africa,) with 2,600
bales of brown sheetings and shirts
ings, valued at $115,250. If New
England can compete w ith old Eng
land, the Jwo will r \\ n t ti e end
that their establishments can be run
cheaper in the Sjnth, and locate
them in the cotton producing coun
try.
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G. C. Thomas,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
watkinsville, ga.
iFFICE IN COURT-HOUSE, OPPOSITE
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o
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ap9-tt
J OB WORK OF ALL I’ ESCRIP-
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Railroads.
Schedule Northeastern Railroad.
Change of Schedule.
On and after Sunday, June 10th, 1878, trains
oil this road will run as follows. Trains daily
except Sunday.
Leave Athens ....7.00 A. M
Arrive at Lula 9.15 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 12.00 M.
Leave Atlanta via A. L. R. R...... 2.40 P. M.
Leave Lula. 5.25 A. M.
Arrive at Athens 7.45 A. M
This train makes close connection in evening
with trains on Air Line Railroad going botl
East and West, and in morning with trains
coming from East and West. In addition to
above, a special train will leave Lula every
Saturday at 9.00 P. M., arriving at Athens at
11.15 P. M. and leave Athens Monday at 4.00
A. M. arriving at Lnla at 5.10 A. M. This
special train connects at Lula with trains both
East and West on Air Line Railroad.
J. M. EDWARDS,
je5-tf Superintendent.
2Totice.
The Celebrated “BELLE OF KENTUCKY
Flour for sale.
npril 23 3m. F. It. LUCAS.
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MANY BARGAINS IN
Prints, Domestics, Dress Goods, Fans,
Parasols, Scarfs and Bows,
RUFFLINGS, WOOL FRINGES,
CLAIR DE LURE ARD GLASS FRINGES,
AND ALL SEASONABLE NOVELTIES FOR LADIES’
MISSES AND CHILDREN.
Also Immense Lots of
Men’s and Boy’s Clothing,
The Cheapest Cassimere to the Finest French Worsted Suits at
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GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, comprising al* the Novelties in
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Ties, Scarfs, Hosiery, Underwear,
Hats, Collate and Cuffs, and as usual a very largo line of our justly
Celebrated “ NEW YORK CITY ” Laundred, and our
“CROWN ” Unlaundred Shirts, the latter being
offered at $1 each for quality No. 1, and 75c.
for No. 2. Having the Solo Agency for
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IN CABPETS, MATTINGS,
OIL CLOTHS AND BRUSSELS RUGS,
LACE CURTAINS AND SHADES,
We also offer special inducements this week, and would kindly
ask an early examination of our IMMENSE STOCK,
being convinced that any one in search of
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