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Show CONQUCniNQ THE CONGO. Itemarknlily ltnil.l Sprpml of Mlmlonur) ruU llirotiicli Tlnit llir.loii. i'very white itinn In the Conifn state is sin prised at the remarkable growth of the mission station., liitluit legion. Tlie missionaries mo spteadlng all over the t'otigo Ruin and nearly every whet e they aro finding' uwekomo from the natives. laUK' towns near the equator, a little south of tho Congo, numbeiiug from ten thousand to over thltty thousand thou-sand people, nru Inviting missionaries to settle anions Ilium. In November lust, says, tho Chicago 1'ot.t, tho 1'loneer, a little steauur In tho service of thu Congo Con-go llololo mission, slatted from Stanley Tool on her tint tiip up the river, 'i'lireo montlu n.ttt Ihjcu spent In the vety nrduous wotkof tiausportlng' the stoainer to Stanley pool. The uiu-sion stutlons she U to servo are aheadyes tahliahcd In thu ii(ion which w.is lint vUltotl about flvo yuut-o ao by tii.ntell anil Von Francois, who found Un.iv an enormoui number of cannibal;, ami many tierce ihv.utii.who irave them buttle but-tle nearly every Inch of the way. '1 hese same icgtoit nru now vcljouung tlio white missionaries. At the prcMtit tute of pi ogress In lest, than tun jean, theiu will not lc n dibtiicl of any iuipoitunee between tltanluy Tool nnd Stanley Falls whleli will not bo occupied by home missionary society. Mr. Jnmiscu, tho governor (juneral of thu Congo state, who icceutly returned to llrtibscls, teporR progTc: In all ic-specU. ic-specU. He soya the biun.in Luciiliees nnd tribal wars are dimiiiu-hiiig in numb. r. Many nallvei, i.h to learn useful ludustiiei fiom th Kmnjieatii.. I'll Ida ttre cultivated oil nil i.ldc, nnd many briuk honses titu hiiiklln;'. On th- k.i.,nl liver, whcio tt Ii v, y ,.. a m Wi Miiannhud tolotce hi'i way b-, ii ,o aim ., Jans'.eu v.iu. rccciveil ,ith cnihii slastiu fiiendshlp by crowd:. n( natives, who besought him to stay with them purmauunUy. On thu other litiiid, where tlio lluropeatu. hate not yet frequently appeared, nt. on thu upper l.omaml, the natlvei, still appear hostile und vanish wltliotil bilngliig tho provl lotu, the uldtos ask fur. Januuii utyi. It vill not 1hi long buforo in tliubu regions, aluo, thu whites will bu received iuu ftiuiully juunnvn wa-u.---( |