Tougaloo, Miss.— We have a colored man visiting his daughter to-day; his first visit to Tougaloo. He says he is keeping his daughter in school with the money saved by himself and wife on snuff and tobacco since signing the pledge; the result of the work of one of our students who taught in his district.
New Orleans, La.—The Central Church is having a wonderful revival. Mr. Alexander has preached every night since the beginning of the year. The interest is remarkable, crowding the room every evening with a quiet, orderly, and earnest audience; many have been converted. Twenty-eight united with the church Feb. 1st.
AFRICAN NOTES.
—The long delayed tidings have been received by the London Missionary Society from Messrs. Hore and Hutley at Lake Tanganika. The particulars of Mr. Dodgshun’s death are given. Annoyances and delays interposed by the Arab slave-traders are rehearsed. We give a few extracts from letters:—
“During the seven months of our stay here, we have done much towards making friends with the natives; they have closely observed us, and admit that they can see nothing bad; but the influence of the Arabs is so powerful that they, the Wajiji, are afraid to make any definite negotiations with us apart from the Arabs.
“The slave-trade at Ujiji is merely a small local affair—slaves captured in war, &c., amongst surrounding tribes, and passed from hand to hand, till they finally come to a stand in some Arab’s shamba: this used to be done in the market, but since we came here, it has all been kept out of sight. Once only some Wajiji offered us a slave for sale as they passed by our tembe. The traders owning these domestic slaves, have from twenty to one hundred of them (I think Muniyi Heri reaches the larger number); they are their domestics, boatmen, carriers, body guard, and cultivators, and, of course, form the principle population of the place, filling up with huts the spaces between their masters’ larger houses.