Affairs in the Kongo Basin.
King Leopold of Belgium, who is the sovereign of the Kongo Free State, has published the reports of his officers who have direct supervision of affairs in the Kongo basin, in which it is declared that while slavery could not be the object of direct attack, yet all practical means have been employed for the suppression of the trade. Efforts have been made to diminish terrible wars and to put an end to cannibalism and human sacrifices. The Free State has to-day 115 stations and 684 agents, the greater portion of these being on the Upper Kongo. The public force numbers 12,000 men. Work upon the railway and in the introduction of the telegraph is progressing. The number of Belgian, British, and American missionaries in the Kongo basin is 223.—Missionary Herald.