Clouds there have been, but his mercy, Hath their silver lining shown; Hath his love safe bridges thrown. Strength for each appointed labor, Mercies multiplied by mercies God transforms our sighs to praying, So we pause and place a pillar Of God's love, so firm and true. E. E. -000 AGENCY FOR INDIANA. The Rev. W. W. Hibben has been recommended to this Society for an agency in the State of Indiana, and for a few weeks past been engaged in his benevolent labors. The New Albany Daily warmly commends the cause, and adds: "We hope he will meet with that success which the importance and humanity of the enterprise should receive. We have personally known Brother Hibben for twenty years, and we can say that he is the proper man for the position he occupies. He is an eloquent and fervent minister, a large hearted and liberal minded philanthropist, and is in all respects eminently fit to lay the Colonization enterprise before the people, and convince them of its humanity, its Christianity, and philanthropic design, and the great results it has already accomplished. Our citizens should subscribe liberally in aid of the enterprise." -000 DEATH OF REV. W. W. FYFFE. We notice with deep regret the sudden decease, at his residence in Cincinnati, of the Rev. W. W. Fyffe, who has directed his thoughts for more than a year to the welfare of this Society. He had accepted an agency in Ohio, and had been diligently preparing for an earnest prosecution of his work, and cherished a purpose to accomplish much for Liberia; but he is suddenly cut down. We can only speak of him as a worthy minister of Christ, who cherished a warm desire for the establishment of his kingdom in Africa. ·000 We publish this month from the Portland Christian Mirror, an article worthy the careful examination and profound reflections of our readers. That Constitutions of Government derive their highest sanction from God, and that to Him, those who administer such Governments are responsible, cannot admit of a doubt; nor that such constitutions should admit of change for the correction of great evils, and the diffusion of the most precious blessings of human existence. The religious relations of men, as individuals to God, and to eternity and to society, are their highest relations, which Governments should protect, and deem it a sin and sacrilege to violate. The idea of individual morality, embraces all morality and for eternity. When existing in all minds, the State becomes one Temple, adorned for the worship, and honored by the presence of the Divinity. Truth, justice, and benevolence find therein a home. The whole frame and order of things tends towards perfection. The idea of Milton is realized: "The commonwealth becomes one huge Christian personage-one mighty growth and stature of an honest man- as big and compact in spirit as in body; for see, what the causes are of happiness to one man, the same will ye find it to the whole State." States like individuals are capable of improvement, nor do we prefer the Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is, to a better. Imperfections in both are to be preferred to anarchy or despotism. ·000· On the 2d of February, Mr. Tozer and Mr. Twells were consecrated in Westminster Abbey, London-the one as Missionary Bishop of Central Africa; the other to the Bishopric of Orange River State. There was a very large attendance, owing partly to the fact that the Archbishop of Canterbury officiated for the first time. The Bishop of Oxford preached upon the occasion, taking for his text 2 Tim. iv., 5, 6. Mr. Mann has been about three years on the coast of Africa in the pursuit of his favorite science, botany. He is said to be in the service of the English Government, and has all the appliances for travel. AFRICA. Letters have been received from Corisco, dated to December 2d, and from Liberia to December 26th. The Rev. H. W. Erskine reports a revived state of religious interest at Clay-Ashland, and the addition of eight communicants to the church. The Rev. J. R. Amos and his wife arrived at Monrovia on the 25th of December, after a short and pleasant voyage. The great geographical problem, the source of the WHITE NILE, has been solved by two English travelers, Messrs. Speke and Grant. -000 RECEIPTS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, From the 20th of April to the 20th of May, 1863. Francis J. Oliver, Edwin Steans, E. Davis, each $1.. $45 00 55 00 24 00 10 00 West Rutland-Wm. Hum- OHIO. Rev. B. O. Plimpton, (117:) Perry-Lewis B. Wood..... 11 50 1 00 ............ 12 50 Edinburg-A. S. Plummer... 2.50 16 00 78 00 500 10 00 5 00 18 00 40 00 2.00 27 00 10 00 117 00 3 00 3 00 335 00 $338 00 THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY. Vol. xxxix.] WASHINGTON, JULY, 1863. [No. 7. The Great Geographical Discovery of the Sources of the Nile solved. REMARKABLE NEGRO RACES AND DISCOVERIES. “It has been given to the present age," says the 'National Intelligencer,' to solve this interesting geographical problem, as also that of the northwest passage; one by one of the great riddles of Tellus have been guessed, until only a few years ago, one of the most industrious of American travelers could say that since Columbus first looked upon San Salvador, the earth had but one emotion of triumph in her bestowal, and that she reserved for him who shall drink from the fountains of the White Nile. 66 It has been to Captain Speke, an Englishman, to realize this unusual emotion, as from the depths of an unknown land, he cries Eureka.' As might have been expected, new achievements form no exception to the general rule, which demands enthusiasm, combined with fortitude, as the condition of success in any undertaking of high enterprise. In a letter to Sir Roderick I Murchison, received by the last mail from Europe, the fortunate discoverer writes: 'I said I would do it, and I have done it.' The Victoria Nyanza is the great reservoir of the sacred Bahr-el-Abiad, (White Nile.") Speke and Grant started from Zanzibar with seventy men, but by sicknes and desertion have been reduced to seventeen. The Egytian Correspondent writes to the Boston Daily Advertiser, May 30, 1863 : Captains Speke and Grant have discovered the answer to a question which has perplexed the world ever since the time of Herodotus. "With regard to the sources or the Nile," said the Father of History, more than twenty-three hundred years ago, “I have found no one among all those with whom I have conversed, whether Egyptians, Libyans, or Greeks, who professed to have any knowledge, except a single person," whose story was untrustworthy. Cæsar is reported to have said that he would abandon war-like pursuits, if he might have a certain hope of seeing the sources of the Nile. Horace alludes to "Fontium qui celat origines and Tibullus, still fourteen hundred years ago, adds: "Nile pater, quanam pos um te dicere causa, Aut quibus in terris occuluisse caput." It was long since ascertained by travelers ascending up the stream of the Nile that near Khartum, in north latitude 15° 37', its waters divide into two branches, called respectively the White Nile and Blue Nile. Below this confluence the Nile flows fifteen hundred miles into the Mediterranean, and (with the exception of a single unimportant tributary) it receives nowhere a single drop of water, while it is a fruitful source of supply to numerous works of artificial irrigation. The sources of the Blue Nile, three springs in north latitude 10°, were ascertained by the Portuguese Jesuit, Father Lobo, and afterwards by Bruce; but those of the White Nile have hitherto defied discovery. Browne penetrated as far as north latitude 7°; Linant Bey, in 1827, not quite so far; Mr. Hoskins and Col. Leake, baffled in their efforts, declared that an armed force would be necessary to subdue the great extent of country through which the river passes. Werne went as far as 4° of north latitude and M. Brunt Rollet nearly as high. The former was obliged to return by reaching shoals which could not be crossed by his boats, and he dared not leave them. The river where his explorations ceased was three hundred and twenty-three feet wide, "broad, surrounded by high reeds; the banks (he says) seem to be of a soft, green color, formed by pale green aquatic plants-lilac, convolvulus, moss, water thistles, and a kind of hemp-in which yellow ambac trees flourish, hung round with luxuriant deep yellow creepers." The river seemed to stretch SSW. The latest expedition in this direction to discover the source of the Nile is that of Capt. Petherick, as a volunteer of whose party our fellow-citizen, Dr. Brownell, of Connecticut, lost his life last year in the manner heretofore recorded. Dr. Brownell's death occurred in north latitude 15°. The fate of Petherick and his companions is unknown. Meanwhile Captains Speke and Grant entered the interior of Africa from the eastern coast, and left Zanzibar, September 25, |