THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Vol. XXXIV.

MARCH, 1880.

No. 3.

American Missionary Association.

We are glad to be able to announce the safe arrival of Prof. Chase at Sierra Leone, about the 8th of January, and hope before our next issue to receive valuable advices from him.

We call attention to the Thirty-third Annual Report of the Association, recently published. In addition to the general survey which was read at the Annual Meeting at Chicago, and the minutes of that grand gathering, we have given, as usual, a detailed report of our work, and we suggest to pastors and others who may desire to inform themselves in regard to particular aspects of it, that if they will notice, they will find all this matter so classified in the Report that they can easily select just what they want. Thus, after the list of institutions and teachers, they may find the following headings: Delay in Opening Schools, Quality of the Work, Closing Exercises, Industrial Departments, Growing Favor, Buildings, Rented Property, Libraries, Student Aid, Religious Character of Schools, Colored Teachers, Theological Departments. The Church Work and other main departments are analyzed in the same way. We have done this, hoping to make the Report a helpful document and one easily used by the friends of the Association. Dr. Storrs’ sermon is also printed with it.

Miss Parmelee’s paper, read before the Woman’s Meeting at the Anniversary in Chicago, excited so much interest at the time and since, and gave so vivid, so faithful and so sympathetic a view of the perils of the girls of the South, that we have, besides giving a portion of it in a former Missionary, re-printed it in full, and have sent it largely to the Christian women of our churches. We beg them to read it, remembering that its statements are facts, and that the evils of which it speaks are among the better class of the colored women of the South, and hardly suggest the depths below, in which the mass are at home, and into which education and enlightenment only make the fall more fatal. May God’s spirit move the hearts of our Christian women to save their sisters.

One of our colored ministers, trained in an American Missionary Association school, in stating some incidents of his life to a friend, said that he was led, when about sixteen years old, to give up gambling and licentiousness, simply out of regard for his teacher, fearing that she would learn of his evil ways and despise him. That teacher little thought then, and has never learned even, of the blessed influence upon that young man, of her pure and consecrated life, which, through the providence of God, led to the transformation of a gambler and profligate, into an efficient and esteemed Christian minister, through whom she is now preaching to hundreds and even thousands.

The Superintendent, scouring through Georgia, came across Rev. Mr. Thomas, a choice man, who has charge of two colored Presbyterian churches at Union Point and Woodstock, under commission of the Northern General Assembly, and who got all his schooling—three years—at our Lewis High School in Macon, Ga. So the fruit of our tree of knowledge, is falling over into other church lots, and we are glad of it. Such fruitage is a great encouragement to the teachers of our minor schools.

A Bible Example of Reconstruction.—It was after the return from Babylon. Civil and the moral reformation went hand in hand. The first Governor, Zerubabel, who was a grandson of a former king, had the high priest, Joshua, to lead in the worship, and the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, to preach and to teach. The next Governor, Ezra, instituted for the instruction of the people an extensive system of Bible-readings. “So they read in the Book, in the law of God, distinctly and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.”

The next Governor, Nehemiah, was a reformer. He put down the practices of taking heathen wives, of violating the Sabbath, and of exacting illegal interest. No improvement has as yet been made upon that style of civil reconstruction. Religion and education, the church and the school, must go along with the re-ordering of the State. So we find our work at the South in the line of a Divine pattern. The Bible gives us its ideal of dealing with freedmen by taking into its sacred canon the five books of Moses for the emancipated Israelites, the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah, for the restored captives.

ZEAL FOR STUDY.

A good deal has been said, from time to time, of the abatement among the colored people of that eagerness to learn, which marked the days immediately following their emancipation. Of course, much of it is true; many found by trial that it was not so easy or instantaneous a process to learn to read as they had supposed; the pressure of self-support drew away the attention of others from their aspirations after an education; unduly excited ambitions and crude hopes were seen to be unfounded, and in the disappointment many were discouraged. But all of it is not true. There are many instances yet of the early eagerness to learn among the young, and even among the old; we give an instance from a teacher’s letter: “One woman, 39 years old, lives in the country, and walks six miles to school, and six miles again after school to her home. Her seat has been vacant only on one or two of the rainiest days since the school opened, September 1st. At home, she has all her household affairs to look after, and finds time to study at night even then; and if, on account of helping her husband to pick cotton in the fall, she would go late to bed without ‘knowing her lesson,’ it ‘worried’ her so, she said, that she ‘could not get a wink of sleep,’ and her husband would waken to find her up and studying. She is gaining slowly in rudimentary knowledge, and is very much pleased, or, as she would say, ‘proud’ of her success. Several such ones, eager to learn, I have under my care, and though they can learn but slowly, it is really better than that they should never know anything, though I think we would count it hardly worth while to take such pains so late in life; yet, better to get upon the first round of the ladder than not to rise at all.”

TROPICAL AFRICA. The Three Lake Missions.

Among the great movements of this stirring age, none are, perhaps, more far-reaching than those for the exploration and evangelization of Tropical Africa. The splendid achievements of Livingstone and Stanley crown and complete the efforts of their heroic predecessors. Africa’s three great central lakes and her two great rivers—the mysteries of the ages—are now explored and mapped.

The missionary efforts that have followed these discoveries reveal an enthusiasm, and a consecration of talent and life, worthy of the vast field thus opened. In the promptness of the response, the money and the lives devoted and the number of missions founded or projected, the last five years give a history that probably has no parallel in the records of Christian missions. The story of these adventures in discovery and evangelization has the fascination of romance, and is pathetic in the piety and the sufferings of both travellers and missionaries.

We select as illustrations the three Lake Missions of Tropical Africa.

1. The Victoria Nyanza Mission.

On the northern shores of this greatest of Africa’s central lakes is the dominion of King Mtesa—a name now familiar to the civilized world. He rules over two millions of people, has a navy of 300 war canoes and an army of 150,000 warriors. In 1875, Stanley reached his capital. The welcome was cordial, and for two months the traveller taught the King the principles of Christianity with such happy results that the Bible was studied, and in obedience to its teachings, an enemy and rebel, conquered in battle and doomed to death in accordance with African morals and invariable practice, was spared! Stanley appreciated the true value of the King’s “conversion,” and saw the need of having his own incipient teaching followed up by steady missionary labors. His appeal for such labors was written in Africa and appeared in a London paper Nov. 15, 1875. The prompt response should be noticed. Three days after it appeared, came an anonymous offer of $25,000 for the founding of the mission, and soon another equal sum was proffered. The venerable and efficient Church Missionary Society undertook the work. The consecrated money was soon followed by the consecrated men. In 1876, the company of missionaries landed at Zanzibar, and travelling the 800 miles of jungle in six months, and marking their first disaster in the death of one of their party, reached Mtesa’s capital. They were welcomed with enthusiasm, and when the name of Jesus was uttered, a salute was fired. The work was begun immediately, but soon the second great disaster came—two of the company, Lieutenant Smith and Mr. O’Neill, were murdered at no great distance from the capital. But instead of discouragement, these disasters called forth new enthusiasm. Three young men were promptly sent out by the Church Missionary Society. They took the Nile route, but a journey that should have taken three or four months was protracted to nine by the floating islands in the Upper Nile and the ignorance of the Arab captain. One of the missionaries received a sunstroke and was obliged to return. At length they reached Uganda and were joyfully received, but soon came the greatest calamity—a week after their arrival two French Jesuit priests came also, and succeeded in so disaffecting the mind of the King as to arrest the work, and lead to the withdrawment of most of the missionaries. The summary at the latest dates is: Sixteen missionaries in all have been sent, of whom six have died and three have returned sick. Of the seven still in Africa, four have been permitted to go on various duties and three remain at Uganda without the facilities either to carry on their work or to withdraw.

2. Tanganika Mission.

Ujiji, the location of the Tanganika Mission is endeared to the friends of Livingstone. Here he made his temporary home, and here, almost ready to die, he was discovered by Stanley, to be restored to vigor and to toil still longer for Africa, till at last he was found dead upon his knees. The plan for a mission here was formed by the London Missionary Society, scarcely less venerable than the Church Missionary Society.

Mr. Arthington of Leeds, Eng., one of the generous and prompt donors of $25,000 for the Nyassa Mission, gave a like sum for this. Four ordained missionaries, one scientific man and one builder, left London in March, 1877. Their journey from the coast of Africa was protracted over thirteen months in consequence of the many obstacles and vexatious delays. Added to these trials, death did its fearful work. Under these discouraging circumstances, Dr. Mullen, the intrepid and beloved Secretary of the Society, obtained the reluctant consent of the Directors to lead in person an additional force, and to hasten the progress of the supplies. But he had gone only 200 miles from the coast when death closed his useful career. No event in the last five years has cast such a gloom over mission circles in Great Britain as the sad fate of this noble man.

3. Nyassa Mission.

Again is the stimulus of Livingstone’s labors seen, and his name and memory honored in the founding of another mission: the Livingstonia on Lake Nyassa. It was a labor of love for the Free Church of Scotland, aided by sister communions to undertake this mission. In the Spring of 1875, the expedition started, having been furnished with all needed supplies, including a beautiful steel steamer and two boats for the use of the mission on the Lake. After a tedious journey up the Zambesi and Shiré and a toilsome land journey of 60 miles, around the Murchison Falls, the Lake was at length reached.

After a brief search, a site was selected that held out unusual hopes of coveted advantages—there were no mosquitos and a favoring lake breeze gave promise of health. But alas for the unforeseen and insignificant difficulties that sometimes defeat the greatest undertakings—the fatal tsetse fly compelled the choice of a new location. But we cannot give space for the subsequent details.

The disasters and deaths in these missions have had a depressing effect upon the hearts of Christians in Great Britain, and we fear that the discouragements will to some extent be felt in this country. But we must guard ourselves against hasty inferences and unwarranted fears. We should remember:—

1. That trials at the outset are often God’s means of arousing a deeper faith. The history of missions, modern and Apostolic, is full of examples. The Teloogoo Mission where such an unusual work of Divine grace has recently been experienced and the converts have been numbered by thousands, was for a long time the scene of unfruitful labors. Bishop Crowther’s Mission in West Africa, now so strong and growing, had an early experience of toils and persecutions. The Apostles themselves encountered imprisonments and death not only, but their labors were sometimes followed by defections, perversions of doctrine and scandals in life.

2. We should take courage from the fact that the slave-trade, the worst foe to missionary labors in Africa, is feeling the effects of the earnest efforts of Great Britain for its overthrow. Sir Samuel Baker, and after him Col. Gordon, the stout old Covenanter—the Havelock of Africa—have crippled its power on the Upper Nile, while the labors of Sir Bartle Frere, and subsequently of Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, have been equally effective along the coast, so that the Church Missionary Intelligencer feels authorized to say that “the slave-trade if not killed, is scotched.” The missions themselves, though hindered in many respects, have had a salutary influence in shaming and arresting this fiendish traffic.

3. Finally, the church of God must bear in mind that the Saviour’s last and great command, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” is accompanied by that all-comprehensive and all-sufficient promise, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” God will redeem the whole world, and in the Saviour’s heart and plan, Africa is not forgotten.

THE NEGRO IN AMERICA AND AFRICA.

Dr. Edward W. Blyden, of Liberia, Africa, is the author of an interesting article in the Methodist Quarterly Review for January, 1880, from which we gratefully reprint elsewhere his tribute to our work. Anything which comes from the pen of this distinguished gentleman—one of the most cultured men of the race whose cause he pleads—is well worth reading and consideration. With much that the Doctor says, we are in full and hearty agreement, but beg leave to make one or two suggestions, growing out of what seem to be at least not unwarranted deductions from his positions.

No one can regret more than we do the prejudice which exists, in this country especially, against the colored man. And there is no doubt that, as Dr. Blyden observes, even among those who are not unmoved by the story of his wrongs, and who are earnestly engaged in philanthropic efforts for his uplifting, this personal prejudice and sense of superiority does exist. That it is not so to anything like the same degree in England and on the Continent, is suggestive in the light it casts upon the fact among us. On what is the difference of feeling founded? Certainly not altogether in the natural race-prejudice. That is a fact not to be denied. There is a prejudice which is universal between all people of distinct races of men. It is felt by the original inhabitants of Africa against the Caucasian, as Dr. B. shows, as well as by the white man in his own home against the black. But in this land, the prejudice is intensified by the position and the character of those who have made up the negro population.

Dr. Blyden objects to our calling the Negro, Indian and Chinaman “the despised races.” He even dislikes to have Africa called “the Dark Continent.” Of course, our brother knows that the sympathies of this Association are, as they have always been, with these people of his land, and that our toils and labors have not been limited, nor of brief continuance, in their behalf. All this he most fully and kindly acknowledges in his article. It is hardly necessary for us to say, then, that we have used the term as describing what is, and as contrasted with what ought to be. It is true, rightly or wrongly, that they have been looked down upon and are still despised. And we have used the word as setting forth the fact, and as, therefore, the strongest plea to Christian sympathy and help; for we have been sure that where we could enlist these, the term would no longer have application. The good Samaritan did not despise the poor Jew who had fallen among thieves, as he held him up on the ass which bore him to the inn. He was too busy pitying and helping him. Perhaps this is enough to say. We have used the term “the Despised Races” not as an epithet, but as a plea.

A fair inference at least from the Doctor’s article is, that he sees no hope for his people on this continent, and that their only way to success is to emigrate to the land of their mothers, and to make its reclamation their ambition. But how does that affect our work and the present generation? The American Colonization Society, as seen by its last published report, sent out to Africa during the year 1878, one hundred and one colonists; during the same year the bark Azor transported two hundred and forty. It is but a spoonful dipped from this deep sea. It is but the smallest possible percentage even of the increase of the colored population of America. Meanwhile, what are we to do with the five millions who remain, and with their children and their children’s children? What we do for them we must do for them here.

We, too, believe in colonization; in the evangelization of Africa by Africans; and the only difference in our aim and purpose from the work with which the Doctor is so fully identified, is that we want to distribute our colonists more widely. It is well to have a Christian republic in Africa. But it is our desire to plant small colonies of twenty-five or thirty, among whom shall be both ministers and mechanics, here and there through the still “dark continent”—points of radiation for the light of life and of Christian civilization which they are to hold forth.

We are full of sympathy and interest with the good work in Liberia. May the Lord bless it abundantly. But the work here is not hopeless. Hundreds of thousands of the Freedmen still answer, from amid all their disappointments and disabilities, “We are rising.” Our plan and purpose desire to take part in both hemispheres of the whole rounded work—to save the African in America and in Africa alike.

DR. BLYDEN ON THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

The American Missionary Association, whose publications we have prefixed to this paper, in their work of lofty and noble purpose through the South are endeavoring to prepare the negro for higher spheres of labor than “cotton-fields, turpentine orchards, and rice-fields.” Every negro who is at all acquainted with matters in the United States must have the highest admiration for it. Almost alone among the benevolent institutions of that land in the days of the great struggle, they never for one moment yielded to the imperious dictates of an oligarchical monopoly, but gave expression to the idea which they inscribed upon their banner, that one of the chief purposes of their organization was to resist the tyranny of the autocracy which doomed the negro to perpetual servitude. No one could be enrolled among its members who was a slave-holder. They have the gratitude of the negro race.

But history will have a brighter page than even that with which to adorn their annals, when she comes to recount the devotion and sacrifices of the hundreds who have been sent forth under their auspices, as uplifters of the prostrate host in the South, to whom, left as they were, paralyzed by slavery, free movement and real progress were intrinsically impossible without the aid of such agencies as the American Missionary Association. As time rolls on, the romance which clings to those heroes who fought to unfetter the body of the slave, will fade beside the halo which will surround these who have labored to liberate his mind.

(Methodist Quarterly Review.)

REV. CHARLES B. VENNING.

One of our most earnest and devoted missionaries at the Jamaica Mission, after severe and protracted suffering, has entered into his rest. Mr. Venning went about fifty years ago, when Negro-slavery was at its height, to work on a Jamaica sugar estate. He was then an ardent young Englishman, and easily led into dissipation and vice. But the Lord arrested him, and the course of his whole life was changed. He entered the Mico Institute, a Training College for Schoolmasters, and was a successful teacher. He then became interested in the efforts of the American Missionary Association, and desired to devote himself entirely to school work and religious teaching among the Negroes in the country districts of the Island. His name stands on the list of missionaries in our first Annual Report, and he has labored faithfully every year since—while his health would permit by active efforts, and when on a bed of suffering by example and counsel.

We quote the following from the letter of a fellow missionary: “I never saw a man who so entirely devoted himself to the work as he did. He had the true missionary spirit. He not only preached the Gospel in his own church, but from house to house and in the most out-of-the-way places; indeed everywhere where men would give a listening ear. No other missionary in the Island did so much for the education of his people as Bro. Venning, and outside of the towns there could be found no people so intelligent as his. He watched over his flock with almost a painful interest—encouraged and reproved. He gathered the poor that were otherwise uncared for about his own door, gave them shelter, fed them from his own table, and clothed them from his own wardrobe.”

One who knew him intimately at the Island writes: “He labored literally night and day most earnestly for the salvation of souls and the welfare of those who had been converted. Being a born educator, he has left his mark upon the generation that has grown up under his instruction. As a private Christian, he was most real and honest, and free from all guile, exemplifying in all his life, in the most striking manner, those beautiful words of Scripture ‘harmless’ and ‘blameless.’ His faith triumphed nobly in the end. In my interviews with him of late, it has been most interesting to see with how firm a grasp he held fast to the assurances of God’s blessed word, and thus found perfect rest and peace to his soul.”

ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.

Nashville, Tenn.—Religious interest is reported in the school. Six persons have professed their faith in Christ. The day of prayer for colleges was observed and we hope that good may result from the day.

McIntosh, Liberty Co., Ga.—Pastor Snelson writes: We observed the week of prayer. The weather was mild, and consequently we did not have to go into the Academy for the use of the stoves. Last Sabbath, eleven were received into the church by confession and one by letter. It was a blessed day with us. There is much here to do. Miss E. W. Douglass is a great help to us. The people all like her. She is at work any and everywhere. They call her in some places the lady-preacher. I would to the Lord that more missionaries like her were sent throughout the field of the American Missionary Association. Pray for us.

Anniston, Ala.—On Thursday night, December 25th, the colored church was crowded to its utmost capacity to witness the exercises of the school children, which consisted of songs, recitations, etc. The Rev. P. J. McEntosh has had this school and church at Anniston in charge for a number of years and has labored with untiring energy to elevate the colored people, and has met with a great deal of encouragement. After the school exercises, the presents from the Christmas tree were distributed among the children. Several white visitors were present and spoke very highly of the management of the church and school. On Friday night, they gave a fair at which they realized $56.80.—Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.

Greenwood, S. C.—Mr. J. D. Backenstose writes: I have just closed my first week of school for this year (1880), and am glad to be able to report a larger number of students than ever before at this place.

I have had to rent a room of one of my neighbors, and we have as many boarders now as we can well accommodate, even with our new house, and more are to come in the middle of the month.

The house is 18×36, containing two rooms 18×18, with two windows and a door in each room and a chimney in the middle. Each room is to contain three bedsteads, and from six to nine chairs. The house completed and furnished will cost $228.68, a little more than we calculated, but it is large, well built and well furnished.

Talladega, Ala.—Both of the barns, one being new and very valuable, with most of their contents, including hay, grain, corn, and corn-fodder, 300 bushels of cotton-seed, with tools and farm-implements and three cows, were burnt Wednesday night, Jan. 7. Evidently it was the work of an incendiary, but not instigated at all by any prevailing ill-will toward the College. Subscriptions were at once circulated among citizens, both white and black, and while the amount raised is not large, the number and willingness of the contributions prove the interest felt by this community in the College. Efforts will be made to rebuild at once. The loss is estimated at $1,200. It falls heavily on the agricultural department, which is becoming an important factor in the college work. The farm does much toward feeding the large family, and gives opportunity of self-help to the young men.

North Carolina.—While Islay Walden’s people in Randolph county were hauling in logs for the lumber of their new church, the mill was burned, and a part of their boards. The owner not being able to rebuild, and there being no other mill near, the people came together to help him, the young colored preacher putting down $25 from his scanty salary. They hope to have the mill under way again in three or four weeks. Meantime they will hurry in their logs, to be the first of the new sawing.

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.

“Slavery amongst the natives is another matter. The Wajiji are great slave-holders, slaves being as common as domestic servants at home; but no great numbers are owned by individuals as among the Arabs. A common present between chiefs is one or two slaves, and Mirambo sends small parties from time to time to buy both slaves and ivory. When the Portuguese and Arab slave-trades are crushed out, or nearly so, we shall see and more fully realize the extent of native slavery, or slave customs, which cover the continent through its length and breadth. The former will have cost an immense outlay of the power and influence of civilized Europe ere it is swept away. The latter will take years of faithful mission labor to eradicate.

“To fulfil my promise to an Arab, to whom I said, ‘We do not want to buy except for our own use; but I will send your words to England,’ I add these few lines:—The Arabs say, ‘If the white men will come here and buy, we will grow as much sugar and rice, and spice and oil, &c., as they want, and would much rather get our money in that way, than in dangerous [and, as they admit one by one privately, illegal] slave-hunting.’ I keep telling them that the slave-trade is dying out, and they had better look to something else before they are left in the lurch.”

—“I have great trouble with my sailors who of course are not sailors. On one occasion I was close off Cape Kiungwe. About two A. M., pitch dark, a heavy squall burst on us from the northward, with sheets of rain. I could not see one foot in front of my eyes. This lasted for two or three hours, the boat sweeping along at a great rate without a stitch of canvas, and a nasty foaming sea. All six men became perfectly helpless, and huddled together inside the cabin. The good little binnacle, however, kept the compass-lamp burning, and by it only I knew where to steer; had it gone out, none of them could have put it to rights. I could not possibly let go the tiller; they were perfectly unable to work the paddles had they been required, and it was only after roaring myself hoarse at them that I could rouse them to bale the water out. When they get home they strut about with a little cane in their hands, and boast of their sailorizing.”

—“I trust,” he writes, “no one will call this mission disastrous, or condemn Ujiji hastily as unhealthy. It is certainly much healthier than Zanzibar, and both Mr. Hutley and myself were never more persistent in our determination to go on. Certainly we want more help, but the work is going on. We are living down native prejudices and suspicions, and the lies of slanderers. We will slacken no effort to carry on this work; and I am speaking, not at home, but in the midst of the work and its difficulties. May God induce His stewards to do their part, and see in the vacant spaces of the ranks only cause for new and earnest effort. I commenced this letter with but mournful news; I desire to close it with an expression of thankfulness to God for what health and strength and success He has given us, and with an earnest appeal to all missionary hearts to apply their means and strength with renewed vigor to this work, and to be assured that, however cavilers may talk of disaster, there is no despondency here.”

—On the eve of going to press the Directors have received a telegram from the Society’s agent in Zanzibar, to the following effect: “The Rev. W. Griffith and Dr. Southon arrived at Ujiji on the 23d of September; all well.”

—An Alexandria despatch to the Daily News says Ismail Eyoud Pacha has been appointed Governor of the Soudan, vice Gordon Pacha resigned.