American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

We do not know whether the unfinished
and discontinued course of lectures which
Mr.. Henry Stanley has attempted TO de-
liver in New York. is the only course
which he meditates delivering. We sup
pose it may not be. For although h. has
but very slender qualifications for deliver
ing Instructive lectures on explorations in
Central Africa. and would weary an audi
ence in less than ten minutes il he tried
to he instructive. he is nevertheless the
Mr.. Stanley who has travelled to Tangan-
yika and other more or less unprOnOuncea-
BILE places: and throughout the country
there are hundreds of towns where there
are hundreds of people who would give
half 4 dollar a piece to see with their own
eyes the Saviour of Livingstone. and the
small black boy who accompanies him,
and the African lanccs. shields. bows, ar
rows. javelins and garments which deco
rate the platform, and the American flag
which waved over the Herald expedition.
MIR. Stanley'S first lecture, which Is the
only one we have heard, was, we must say,
about the most depiorable exhibition of
ignorance and self-su':iciency that we
have ever lieen called upon to witness.
1t was uncOnsciOusly Ofiere |, or ir would
have been an atrocious insult to the pub
lie; and one could not but think that our
British cousins must have been in a littl
panic about American goodwill, or they
would have never taken up the heavy
handful of being civil to our enterprising
discOverer. When gentleman who has
but slight Difference for Lindley Murray
prOnOunces ''prosaic' ''prosiac"; and
''fertile' with the ''i'' very long; and
.'deteriorate" as if it were derived from
|.deter'' and the second sep i'm ''deter''
We're SUI; and GLOVER as if the ''o''
were extremely short-it is with reluc-
lance that one hears him giving his views
as to the origin of the negro race. or say
ing that Sir Samuel Baker and other gen
tlemen think SO and so. but that "i'r.
Livingstone and II think differently. The
lecture which we heard may be character
lied roughly as being composed of a most
tedious enumeration of meaningless Ami
can proper nouns, varied by occasional
bursts of Herald ''headline' eioquercr.
all delivered in an uncultivated voice and
with a manner anything but enlivenin".
A large map hung beside the lecturer. but
no use whatever was made OF it, and ev-
erything showed incompetence. People
in the audience We're long-suffering. but
about onc-quarter OF those present left the
hall before the lecture was half over, and
others were cmulating the example o! the
young African on the platform, who
ought to have been in his bed two hours
before. and who. in his drowsiness. nearly
bobhed his young head off. We should
advise Mr.. Stanley TO eSchew ethnOlO%y
and to stop all articulate aspiration for
the evangelization of Africa. to make one
laxative lecture of what he saw of DR..
Livingstone, and to deliver it before rs
many country lyceum audiences as Mr..
Redpath can secure for him. The Who'll"
thing has been frightfully overdone. the
''intellectual department. of the Herald
not being extrava%ently strong, but the
natural desire TO look upon a nororiety
may he counted on in This case as in 9th
erS, and Ujiji will still do to coniure with
in the rural districts. But offering intel
iigent audiences such matter as Mr.. Stan
ley spread before us at Steinway Hal ar
CUES Il pretty low view of American in
tolligencc, an, we would not have the
English publ: believe that it is GOOD
enough for us. There have been OF late
some surp, i~il@ mistakes made on this
point by Eng slmon.-N. y. Nation.
Stock OF I'd mess pork is now given
L.. D. 10 II.