--Dr. Zuchinetti has returned from a journey among the Makarakas, the Niams-Niams, the Gouros-Gouros in Darfour, Kordofan and Nubia, where he made a special study of the manner in which they collect gold. --Messrs. Cadenhead and Carter of the International Association were recently killed near the Tanganyika during a fight between two hostile tribes of the interior. The Sultan of Zanzibar has sent troops under Lieut. Matthews, an English officer, temporarily secured for the purpose, to quell the disturbance. --A Sheik has recently transported over eight hundred slaves in a single week from Suakim to Jedda. In order to evade the law the negroes are given certificates of liberation when leaving the African coast, but these are destroyed by their masters when they arrive at Arabia, where they are sold. The question of appointing consular agents at Khartoum and Siout for the purpose of breaking up traffic in slaves, is agitated. --There is an African chief named Matola, living in the Rovuma valley, East Central Africa, who speaks six languages. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about him is that he is a total abstainer. He became such from principle and has for many years never touched the native beer or any other intoxicating liquor. By his aid a church has been built to which he summons his people every Sunday, acting as interpreter when there is occasion. --The negro Anderson, who has had great experience in travel and adventure in Western Africa, is about to undertake the training of elephants for service in Liberia. He has at his command elephant hunters from the vicinity of the Congo, who will endeavor to capture and bring to Monrovia as many of the animals as are wanted. As domestic animals in Liberia are few in number and affected badly by the climate, this new enterprise is looked upon with great favor. --The French people have formed a gold mining company on the west coast of Africa called: “The African Company of the Gold Coast.” During the month of August, 1879, it was working actively upon a large and important gold vein, with machinery sent from Europe. The results obtained were kept secret, but it transpired on the coast that they had been surprising. A second company was formed December, 1879, by the English, called the “Effuenta Gold Mining Company,” for the immediate exploration of the rich territory named Effuenta. The gold fever actually animated the inhabitants of Wassaw as much as it did formerly the emigrants to California. * * * * * The Indians. --Secretary Schurz has pledged himself to send fifty Indian girls to Hampton, provided they can be received and cared for. He is ready to appropriate $150 a year for each. --_Indian youth not revengeful._--General Armstrong testifies that, “in nearly two years’ experience, we have found no signs of the revengeful nature ascribed to the Indian. ‘They are like other people’ is a common remark among us, and is the sum of Indian character.”