The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-04

From the Christian Union CHenry Ward Beecher,.,
July all
All the jeering and the afYected scent,csrn os
Bohemia about the genuineness OF the NEW
YORK HERALD's expedition in quest OF the rreat
African explorer are at an end. DR.. Livingstone
has himself reported, and an interesting letter
to Mr.. Bennett gives q graphic account OF his ds4
appointments Of his sunerngs and his JOY at the
deliverance brought by Mr.. Stanley.
The peculiar juncture OF time at which this letter
appears prevents our printing 1t at length-which
1t well deserves-but we are not willing to watt
another week without giving at least its substance.
When the relief arrived the traveller had come to
UjJi from tramp Of between four hundred ana
five hundred miles, beneath q blazing, verti-
cal sun, having been banied, worried, de.
feated and forced to return when almost
in sight Of the end OF the geographical
part of his mission, by number OF half-casteg
Moslem slaves sent to him rom Zanzibar, instead
OF men. "The sore heart, made still sorer by the
man reached and told on the bodily frame, and de-
pressed 1t beyond measure. 1 thought that was
dying ON my feet It Is not too much to say that
almost every step OF the weary, sultry way was in
pain, and reached Ujiji mere ruckle' OF bones.v
There he found that goods to the value Of some
squandered by drunken, haifcaste Moslem tailori
to whom they had been unaccountably entrusted.
the Doctor was dead. So here he was in Uiiji.
among savages, and reduced to beggary. Stll hen
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him. But the rest of the story must be told In his
own expressive language
thought of myself the man who went down from
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richest blessings descend rom the Highest on you and
The news that he received from Stanley, OF theA
success Of the Atlantic cables, the election OF
Sthrliiing," for he had had no Intelligence rom
the outer world "for years. Then also ne learnedr
for the first time, that the British government had
had again been entrusted to slaves, and though
already many months over time upon the way, had
not arrived. Up to this time he had been unsaa.
ried, but Sir Roderick Murchison, the President OF
the Geographical Society, had lhaf playfally) set
and ne had ''stuck to the task with John Bull-isp
tenacity."
the DAYS Of herodotus- to HIM now Just on,
the point OF being solved. He has long and pain
fully studied the great watershed Of South Centra1
NOW, i" he tells U.S.
know about six hundred miles Of this watershed and
fountains arise earthen mound and the last of
tances on that cannot doubt their existence, and in
spite of the longing for home that sezes every
time think my family wish TO finish up by their
discovery.
In this and some other communications to the
nestle slavery OF Africa-"This fine country i8
blighted with curse fr0m above" and adds that
II his disclosures should lead to the suppression
OF the east coast slave trade he ''shall regard IT,
as greater matter by far than the discovery OF ALI
the Nile sources together.
The whole story-the original mission, the world'R
suspense with regard to it, the expedition Of search
and relief and its marvellous success-as IL Ia now
opened up in all its particulars is q wonderful rec
ord Of scientific devotion, human pluck and endur-
ance and generous enterprise, and bids fair mott
only to be the prize romance OF the nineteenth
century, but to exert wholesome and elevatinG
influence on the present generation and those Aae
are TO come.