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Show and exactions on the part of the govern ment. It comes as a fearful retribution. The government at Lisbon is prepariug with unexampled rapidity to send severa regiments at once to the scene of successful suc-cessful rebellion and slaughter. Drinking Blood! Fearful Fat o of Portugese in Southern Africa After Killing the Men, Thoy areUoasted and Eaten AlsoltomsFroni theDistrict Court at Provo. S cialC.tb'eram to the Denver NTews. London, April 21 The Portugese settlements set-tlements 011 the west coast of Africa ate in a state of horrible upheaval and riot. The French flag floats over the butchered butch-ered bodies of thePoitugese officer. The latest advices Irom this portion of the west coast, k town as Portugese Guinea, tell tales of horrible atrocities on the part ol the natives I, These do not stopshort of cannih.dism a and the drinking of huge draughts of steaming hum.in blood. On the island of Bissao, but a few leagues lea-gues distant irom the m ,111 land, the te bel natives, in number 6 000 have swept the Portugese forces btfoie them into the sea. A carnival 01 bl.iod and riot is now in progress 011 this island, which it will take a large and well-dulled fjree to quell The Portugese administration here, as or the main land, lias been growing un-poou'ai un-poou'ai f ,r m i t s, Secret aenis frmn both France and England, of the slave-driving stamp, are charged with blowing the embers of d s-artactions s-artactions into the ll'imes of mutinv. About two weeks ago, in the period of the full moon, the tetich men held a grand dance of the three tribes inhabiting inhabit-ing the island. MURDRRED HIM. - , In the frenzy induced by these weried cetemon'es, a Puitugese officer, owho was present as a witness, for amusement ' was hurled into the S3cred ring. Belore the chant closed a dozen knives were . sheathed in his heart, tr , ' The garrison was raised by a wild al- arm at 3 o'clock in the morning by the j,'' hyena-like clamor of the crazy throngs. Reinforcements from the frienly nativ- es of the Assebai tribe were hastily sum moned.; ' . About :8 j regular troops, comprising , , ' ' the Sole European military on the island s weie thrown out and came upon the mad devils dancing around the file. A . V terrible light followed and the Pun 113c-. 113c-. . witutliew, badlv beaten, diaaj.'' t tlx . J, mutilated remains uMhiri)' uil!;d Ha v. ing onc'tiisteil blood the-dusfiy l rebels o j j howled like dogs around ihe close stock . "de composing .the exterior delense" of i-' i, ' the ,orti " - Hi,.f The bodies some dead, others only , " ' dying of the unfciitunate Portugese in :- eluding one officer, were impaled on .v huge stakes,, and the scent of roastinsr luinan tiein wasjdorne on the westerly w ind to the dismay in the garrison. The frightful orgies continued day by day. 1 ne beleagued forces were afraid to stir beyond the breastworks. All the isolated buildings of the Europeans on the island were burned to the ground and the fleeing occupants struck down and mutilated. DKANK HUNAN BLOOD. 1 hi leaders of the bloody up-rising ii.. citased tie madness of the frenzied mur derers by drawing off the blood ol their viciims, and sending the steaming bowl around the circles, which kept up the war dances without intermission day and night Fienchmen. of whom theie are some fifty on the island, were treated with respect by the mutinous, and the French flag Boats over their villages. The gariison. having received the assistance as-sistance of a body of 2.000 friendly natives, na-tives, assayed to quell the mutiny at a blow, and deployed all their forces. A second and still more hoiribie inhuman in-human battle than the first followed. The natives on both sides fought liked starved tigers. THK THRRIBI.E FIGHT. Every weapon known to African warfare war-fare opposed the ritles of the Portugese The opposing tribes, numbering tieatly 7,000 ih their straggling ranks.were too strong for the government. Over 400 of the native friendlies were brutally butahered. Five Portuges : officers were slain, with forty of their men. Seventy- , ! one others were taken captive and re- t served for tortuie. ; ! The Portugese were completely rout- , ed and driven back in great disorder r to the end of their stand, where the bat i tered remnants with difficulty maintain I themselves in tiinporary intreuchments I The French Hug was raised with ghoul.sh ; ; ceremonies over tlie abandoned fort. ! TORMENTING THE CAPTIVES. 1 The captured soldiers were submitted I to every torment of which human and I savage ingenuity is capable. The rais- I ing of thi rlag was timed to the shrieks i of ihe poor devils oelow, who encounter j ed the agonies of tire and mutilation" f Red h t irons were ground into their 1 flayed bodies and their skulls were beat- i en into bags of small splinters of bone f by Hie clubs of the infuriatt d mob' ',: A Portugese officer who escaped to f the mainland declared that twenty years I experience with the barbarities of the I srvages of the d.trk continent had never before exhibited to him such depths of hellish abandonment to the fumes of de- 'i structive insanity. The island is now completely under I the sway ol the infuriated lebels. j Human bones strew it from end to end ! Nothing has been heard for days from the untortunaie relecat at the western end, whither the helpless remnant of the garrison withdrew. It is believed that this body has been swept away by the same terrible besom of tire and destiuction. Thesetilements on the mainland arc following the ex I ample set by Biasso. Tnis great and terrible in.uu reciion is the sequel of a Ling scries ol injustices- l |