The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-09

the Nile, but this one newly discov-
cred flows westward, and whether its
course is continuously westward to the
Atlantic, or around into the Nile, through
the Bahr-el-Ghazal, is the question to be
settled. We have no doubt that the two
outlets of the Albert Lake are the two arms
of the Upper Nile; but the fact remains to
be established
From Ujiji we think it highly probable
that, from the revival there of his recollec-
tions of his old friend Dr.. Livingstone, and
of his unfinished work of ascertaining the
destination of his great interior river, the
Lualaba, Mr.. Stanley has moved westward
for the solution of that problem, unless his
own measurements of the altitude of Lake
Tanganyika have satisfied him that that great
interior basin does not belong to the drain
age of the Nile. Lieutenant Cameron, from
his careful observations has settled this
question; but he has not, from following
the stream, established the fact that the Lua-
laba is the Congo. This is his conclusion,
from the ascertained level above the sea of
the river, but it may be discharged into
some interior lake that has no outlet, or it
may pass into the Atlantic through chan
mel of its own north Of the Congo.
In conclusion, the inquiry recurs, What
does all this signify, or what practical
African explorations? We have anticipated
this inquiry, but we again answer that
within the last fifteen years these African
explorers have opened in Central Africa a
new world of fertile lands, of limitless capa-
bilities in the production of all the great
staples of the temperate and torrid zones. q
new world Of broad domains, in which the
native tribes and European celonists, as in
South Africa, may be blended in the build
ing up Of prosperous Christian States and
new markets even for the manufactures of
Lowell and Philadelphia Meantime, the
services to civilization, humanity and Chris
tianity rendered by Mr.. Stanley in his
African labors will speak for themselves, as,
for example, in the abolition of the great
slave market and slave trade at Zanzibar,
and in the various movements set afoot for
the general suppression of this infamous
traffic. Thus, with the opening of the sealed
books of Africa, begins the emancipation
and elevation Of her tractable native races,
and such are already the ripening fruits Of
SANKEY'S explorations
WE COMPLAIN OF THE HEAT in New York,
but in comparison with that of the North
west during yesterday we may be said to
enjoy low temperature. Owing to the de-
velopment of another storm centre in the
region of the Upper Missouri the afternoon
of yesterday brought intense heat, CORE
spending fall in the scale of atmospheric
pressure and high winds in Dakota, Min
nesota and Nebraska. Thus, at Bismarck,
Dakota, the thermometer indicated 103 de-
grees and the barometer 20. % inches, while
at Fort Sully, over one hundred and fifty
miles to the southwark, the mercury rose
to 104 degrees and the barometer showed
only 29.42 inches of pressure. From these
conditions we at once infer that the storm
the scene Of the Indian war in the Yellow
stone Valley, where, doubtless, copious rains
will extinguish the grass fires kindled by
the hostile Sioux around the military camps.
Rains have prevailed in Nova Scotia and in
the Gulf and the Ohio Valley States. In
tense heat has been experienced all over the
country except in the extreme South, where
the weather has been cool for that latitude.
To-day the heat will increase in New York,
with slowly falling barometer and partly
cloudy or fair weather. We announce the
advance of the Northwestern storm centre,
and the probability of its arrival in our
vicinity by the end of this week.
WITH THE TVRKs IN THE TIxoK VALLEY it
was tolerably certain that Saitschar could not
hold out against them, and its abandonment
without fight was the wisest thing under
the circumstances that the Servian General,
Leschjanin, could have done. The Servians
have now, as stated by our special CORE
spondent, withdrawn into the Morava Valley,
fortifying the passes in the rugged noun
tains that guard it, and there await their fate.
They can run no further. What can be done
with an army so demoralized as that of
Servia it is hard to tell; but judged by the
presumptuous over-confd of its generals
and the want of steadiness of its rank and
file since the war began, we cannot hope for
much now. There is bare possibility that
such disaster rs overlook Mukhtar Pacha
in Herzegovina awaits Osman Pacha in the
mountains of Servia, but it is difficult to
credit the latter commander with the impru-
dence which led to Mukhtar's terrible defeat
The war, for the numbers engaged, has been
very bloody so far, but tho next operations
will prove bloodier STILL
The HAMBURG MASSACRE AND THE MoLLIE
MAGUrRKs. The democratic newspapers ask
why does not the republican party arraign
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as in
state of anarchy because of the Mollie Ma