The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-14
Our Correspondents and Their Achieve
mentS.

Our Correspondents and Their Achieve
ments.
The practical work, not only of the news
paper, but of the newspaper man, is well
illustrated 10y the recent achievements of the
correspondents of the HERALD. In all parts
of the world-Equatorinl Africa, Central
Asia, the Antilles and the lava beds of
the Pacific slope-the representatives of
this journal have pursued the missions
entrusted TO them with such persistence and
skill, combining the highest courage with the
most conscientious intelligence, that both they
and their labors demand from us and our
readers q word of recognition. First of all
comes Mr. Stanley, whose successful search
for Dr. Livingstone has been so widely cele- ,
brated and so generously acknowledged The
Stanley Livingstone Expedition opened new
field for journalistic enterprise and gave an inn
petus to intrepid inquiry such as the world had
never seen before. Even the British govern
ment regarded an expedition into the heart Of
Africa as extremely hazardous and as possess
ing few chances Of success The desire TO hear
from DR. Livingstone was universal, but the
hope of ever hearing from him again was en-
tertained by few persons, owing to the ap-
parent impossibility Of success in a search for
him among the black barbarians of Equatorial
Africa. 1t is high tribute to the newspaper
press that what the British government feared
to undertake the HERALD accomplished, and
in this connection it is due to Mr.. Stanley to
say that his achievement shows the literary
qualifications of the journalist and the cour-
age and administrative abilities Of the field
marshal.
Indeed, the combined qualifications of tho
soldier and the Journalist seem necessary in
any person who would give the world informa-
ton from distant quarters or the battle fields
of semi-savage nations. The recent letter,
from Mr.. Macgahan, our Khivan correspond
ent, illustrates this point. Like Mr.. O'Kelly
and Mr. Millen in Cuba he did not wait for
official sanction to undertake his mission. AS
it was necessary to 60 he went, and success
rewarded his going. His remarkable letter to
the HERALD is the record of his remarkable
journey. Drawing the dangers of Siberian
SHOWS and the storms Of the sandy steppes of
Central Asia, he journeyed from ST. Peters,
hundred miles yet remain to be traversed, but
a correspondent who has shown SO intrepid
a spirit can scarcely fail to overcome the OBJ
stacles in his way, and to send us, from time
to time, accounts of the battles and conquests,
or, perchance, defeats, of the Russians on their
new and chosen field.
The same reasoning applies to our Cuban
r., Ho1I,
his way to Spain as q prisoner, and Mr.. Mil.
len, who was more fortunate among the Span
ish hidalgos and is now home again. They
undertook like mission, their mission being
to penetrate the camps of the insurgents and
supply the HERALD with information in regard
to the actual condition of the instruction. It
was difficult task, and Henderson's failure
added to its difficulties while making it all the
more necessary that it should be undertaken.
Many reasons made the mission of these men
a necessity Cuba had long been at war with
Spain and though the Spanish authorities
were constantly asserting that the instruction
was at an end the war did not cease. Neither
the government of Great Britain nor of the
United States had any certain information as
regarded affairs in that island and no means
OF ascertaining what the Cuban instruction
meant. Under these circumstances the
HERALD undertook to supply its readers with
the knowledge which even Mr.. Fish did not
possess Mr.. OKelly was accordingly de-
spatched to Cuba with the avowed purpose Of
penetrating the Cuban lines and bringing us
faithful report of what he saw and heard.
But lest he might fail in an undertaking which
everybody knew he was trying to accomplish
we sent Mr.. Millen on the same mission ex-
cept that his purposes were not to be avowed.
Both happily succeeded, and both we're ar
rested when they returned from their visit to
Cespedes. The rest of the story we need not
recapitulate now; but the world is better of
for their sufferngs, and another stigma
attaches to the Spanish character for the I'M
necessary cruelties inflicted upon the HEnALD's
representatives.
The task committed to Mr. Fox, our CORE
spondent in the lava beds during the war
against Captain Jack and the Modocs, was not
easier or less dangerous than the missions of
any of the others That it was so well done
is in itself sufficient evidence Of the faithful
ness and courage with which he performed his
duty. He shared all the hardships aud
dangers Of the troops-often doing duty with
them--that he might be able to report the
hardshps and dangers and the accidents and
achievements of the campaign. The whole
country was anxious for the fullest informa-
ton on the subject, and this our correspondent
enabled the HERALD to give by manfully
Drawing every danger, living in the camp
while the troops were at rest and going out
with them when they went in search of the
treacherous Modocs.
A newspaper may well be proud of corre-