of speculation reigns at Axim and in the districts of the
Golden Coast. From the climate and the conditions of exploration, the
working of the mines proceeds slowly. Commander Cameron, director of
the West African Goldfields Company, has introduced upon his grant
the hydraulic processes employed in California.

--The _Journal_ of Geneva announces that the International African
Association is occupied at present in seeking colonists who will
receive gratuitously land in the countries of the Congo, of which
Stanley has taken possession. It is negotiating to attract the
Germans, and already the Prussian journals speak of the creation of a
German Consulate.

--Flegel has offered to the African German Society to make a new
exploration in a region entirely unknown, which extends to the Congo;
or, if they choose, to return toward the west to Mount Cameroon. The
Government of the German Empire has granted a sum of 50,000 francs
for this exploration. On the other hand, some private individuals of
Lagos, where Flegel has resided since his last voyage, have furnished
him funds with which to conduct an exploration to the basin of the
Niger and to Benoue, in the advancement of science and commerce.

--Mr. Petersen and Dr. Sims have founded at Stanley Pool a new
station for the Livingstone Inland Mission. Dr. Sims very quickly
commenced to heal the sick, which gained him the confidence of the
natives. These latter do not labor hard enough to produce from their
land the provisions necessary for the number of Europeans established
at Stanley Pool, and the price of provisions has greatly increased.
The steamer, Henry Reed, destined for the Upper Congo was to start
out the first of August.

THE INDIANS.

--Of the 6,000 Pi-Utes it is said that there are never more than 600
on their reservation at one time. Not more than fifty attend the
agency school.

--The National Indian Association, an organization composed
exclusively of ladies, has for its object to obtain for the Indians
the rights of citizens, and to induce the Government to allow them to
own farms.

--The General Council of the Choctaw Nation, recently closed,
appropriated $100,000 for the erection of a new council house, the
old one to be used as a manual-labor school for the education and
training in industrial pursuits of fifty orphan boys.

--The ceremony of receiving Sitting-Bull into the Catholic Church at
Fort Yates has been indefinitely postponed because Sit