The New York herald., 1874-10-20
Mr.. stanley's African Expedition.

forfeited it is not the fault of the HERALD.
mr.. stanley's African Expedition.
Mr.. Stanley chief of the HERALD expedition,
organized and equipped for the purpose of
completing the unfinished explorations Of DR..
Livingstone, will now soon be again in the
heart of Africa. Having reached Zanzibar,
and having, with his official corps, been &C
corded friendly reception by the Sultan, he
will meet with no difficulties in obtaining the
needful men, mules and supplies for his ex-
petition. His valuable knowledge, obtained
from his first adventure to Ujiji will serve
him well in this campaign He will know
accurately what is wanted in the way of
animals, drivers, carriers, pioneers, equip
ments, provisions and merchandise for pur-
poses of trade with the natives. ne will
know the road and its dangers and diff
culties, and how best to avoid or
overcome them. He will know how
to secure the friendship and cooperation
of the African chiefs en- route, and the chief
and his people OF Ujiji will receive their good
friend Captain Stanley with hearty welcome.
Ujij will be his second or interior base of
operations. From this point he will set out
for the real work before him, the exploration
Of the region lying between that system of
interior rivers and lakes explored by Living
stone and the established drainage Of the
wonderful Nile. Stanley believes, as Living
stone believed that the whole interior sys-
tenn of lakes and rivers, from the seventh
degree south latitude, with their general out
flow to the northward, are drained into the
Nile. Others think that Livingstone's great
interior basin is tributary to the Congo. which
flows west into the Atlantic. Sir Samuel
Baker, from his last expedition to the
great equatorial lakes Of the Nile,
came away with the information from native
traders of the region that the Albert Lake has
q navigable connection with Lake Tanganyika,
tions-the drainage of Livingstone's interior
basin, and whether the Tanganyika is or is not
to be added to the great equatorial lakes Of
the Nile we hope will be settled by Mr.. STAN
ley in the explorations he has undertaken.
He goes out with the advantages Of many
years experience from his various African ex-
petitions He knows the requirements of
his present enterprise; he is qualified and
equipped to meet them, and we are confident
that he viii return crowned with complete
success.
President Grant - . spsech-Msker.
President Grant within the last few weeks
has been making remarkable progress as .
speech-maker. His first public efforts as our
Chief Magistrate were very brief and unprom-
ising. Beginning with bow to his audience,
.as + Only this and nothing more, n
he advanced to ~ thank you," and next to
II thank you, ladies and gentlemen" and
then to II am much gratifed with your
cordial reception and wish you good night"
he still slowly, for four years, improved until
his responses extended to five or six news
paper lines in small type. In his Atlantic
coast excursions this last summer his speeches
occasionally were heightened to ten lines, but
during the last fortnight, in the 'brown
forests" and the broad prairies of the Missis-
sippi Valley, he has rapidly enlarged his re-
marks to the proportions of q regular and
neatly presented discourse.
Among the red men Of the Indian Ter
ritory we find that our difident President
begins to be inspired Doubtless, from
the absence of unmerciful reporters, he
feels greatly relieved, and in the pres
ence Of the honest children of the
forest and the prairie he feels greatly in
spired. And SO from point to point warming
up to his work, he meets the responsibilities
Of the occasion and the expectations of his
audience. His is not the copious stream Of
Andrew johnson while swinging round the
circle;" nor does General Grant deal in
the classical periods or illustrations of sOld
Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," in their popular
discourses but to the point and the purpose
he gives us the concentrated essence of cable
despatch.
For example, in response to the welcoming
sreech Of the Choctaw Nation, their "Great
Father tells them that he is grathed to see
the evidences around him Of their prosperity;
that be is glad to see them engaged in raising
stock that he thinks, from this industry in
their fine country, they cannot fail to become
wealthy that he has always endeavored to
protect the Indians from injustice and give
them every civil right that in future years, if
he should drive again through their country,
he hoped to pass through great fields Of cotton
and other profitable products, to which the
soil is 50 well adapted. He had 10 doubt
that those people in time would be among the
wealthiest citizens OF the United States, be-
cause their soil and climate justified the
opinion and, finally, he was much pleased
ton. Similar replies, though not quite SO
lengthy, we're made by him to the welcoming
addresses in behalf of the Greeks and Chero-
KEGS, from all of which it is apparent that our
rnadest prneident can- if he Will cr,anlr 10 tl,.