New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-08
FRENCH DISCOVERIES Nv AMERICA.

LECTURE BY GENERAL J. G. WILSON oN MARQUETTE
AND JOLIET's VOYAGE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI.
General James Grant Wilson lectured on
Tue Northwest and It's DISCOVERIES last evening be-
fore the New.York Association for the Advancement
OF Science and Art at the Brick Presbyterian Church. ut
Fitth-ave. and 1hiriysevcnth-st. The audience was
large aud app relative Dr. g. IrenHls Prime called the
association TO order. General Wilson spoke In part
follows:
In the be eginning Continent created for some
high and holy purpose. For reason known to It's Crea
tor alone the civilized world remained III Ignorance oi
friday October II. 1892. the outprss Oh e Continent
seen by the world GGn"rse ma aycat
Spain started in race iOr the masnr cent prlz1
in. and claimcd little TO- The New World. ut 10 Franco
belongs the honor OF frAt exploring ana settling tat
west In the year 1888 Jacques Cartier Of 81 Mao dis
covered and IDlOrcd the Gull nnd yer of ~. Law
renee. In 1904 Samuel Chanlplan Landed on ihcArca-
da and years after established colony at Quebec
In iGG4 Claude Jean Aloucz VISITED Lake Superior. es
tablishiug missions there few years later jacques
Marquette entered Indian village Oh the north side of
tile Straits Of Macknaw and built chapel.
IL was believed nj that time that TO me
southeast Of Canada there flowed vast river called the
Mccbusepe. Misslssppl. whose course was neither
the east TIE dangerous duty Of exploring tho unknown
and mysterious stream was intrusied to L9ui. Joe;
native OF Quebec While Marquette was engaged IN de
livering the Word OF Redemption 10 the Indians and
wnie they listened rcveTe@lly % to the Hn'iini mstmi
It,lict arrived MacAlndw, bearing n COM
mission from LOuis dc Buadc, Court dr Pdllunn ana
Trontenac empowering him 10 select Marquette as
c0mpauiou and TO enter upon voyage OF discovery. .
4, wos On n bright and beautiful morning the month
OF Nav 1878 that Joliet and Marquette left Machnaw
I'm twO frai canoes. On June the vOYagers reached
the mission Of 81 Francis Xavier AT the NOUN OF tue
Fox RIVER TO- uniting IN prayer near us
ont Of discovery They soon
reached the waters OF the Wisconsin, where they no
longer had TO breast strong current. After long
tourney they at length entered On June IL the great
down with the rapid current the French adveniurers
passed the Missouri known to them by ITS Indian name
of PentanOni. and the Ohio, whose low banks we're
DATED with villages OF peaceful Shawnees, until they
tanned the Mississippi neither nOwed into the
Pacific as had hoped, into the Atlantic Ocean
east of Florida aud fearing that y volunteering urter
thry might fall iuo the hands OF the Spanards they de-
ternlned TO return Cauada. IL was on the return
tourney that and Marquette reached the site OF
cf Chicago i'm septsmper being the rsb white man that
IL IA absoucly certain visited the marshy prairie on
which stands the wonderful metropolis OF the Nortn
west. ,,,..t..- ,o..
Slng along the western shore OF Lake Michigan Mar
te and Joliet again found themselves at Green Bay
having been absent little moro than three months
n rnst be added in all there explorations and exped
flons ON THE continent French exhibited capacity
for dealing with the Indians on other principles tnah
those of the American and English system OF killing ana
King In the style OF the Cheyenne massacre
and the Ponca numbering and plundering-shameIui
outrages that no right minded man Win Inc smLlest
remnant of conscience ean speak OF WitRout Iees tne
blood tingng 10 his face. .
The Rev. DR.. Bevap, pastor Of the Brick Church. ana
the Rev. Dr. Allan of Ptsburg, made short addresses NJ
the conclusion Of General Wilson's lecture.