Eight years will not have passed before the
negroes will lie in a numerical majority in
some of tlie Southern States. At tlie
present rate of increase, in 1085 there
will be 08,000,000 white people in the
United States, and 102,000,000 colored peo
ple. In Soutli Carolina he has bought
and paid fur 270,000 acres of land,
which ho cultivates. Iu the South
ho pajs taxes on more than $Ol,-
000,000 of property. He is editing, printing
and publishing 100 newspapers. And yet
of the 7,000,000 colored ]ieople of this coun
try more than 0,000,000 can not read nor
write.
THE CONGO CONFERENCE.
Importluico of IN Work to Thta Country
S(iUml by tln* American Delegate.
New York, May 27. — General 11. 8.
Sanford, of Florida, who with Minister
Kasson represented the United States
at the Congo Conference, expresses
himself us much gfatified with the
work of tlie conference and tlie part
this Government had in the creation
of tlie Free State of the Congo. He predicted
that tlie result of the conference would ulti
mately be acknowledged as one of the
greatest works of this century. He attrib
utes the agreement reached to the fact of
the United States having recognized the
flag of the International Congo Association.
Previous to that the association had but a
)rivate character. Mr. Sanford de
scrities the new State as neutral ter
ritory—an Afiicaii-Belgium, in fact, where
American capital ami enterprise mwy se
cure a full share of commerce and manu
facture. It s capable of relieving (he ef
fects of our over-production, having a ne
gro popillut.oll of .Ml.(I K),OKI or 00.001,003,
whose wants constantly increase. The
country is rich in ivory, gums, vegetables,
oils, coffee, sugar and India rubber, for
which there is a demand here.
