The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1872, Page 5

FIVINGNTOME POUND, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY. MAY ¥1, 1872->TRIPLE SHEET, ruary 8, and arrived at Zanzibar ‘on tho 2d of April. Abdallah ben Nasib at once carried the slavo Sa’eed to the house of the correspondent of Herald” spccial Report from | the Hxnatp at Zanzibar, and the nows was Zanzval- —_--_s =. Detailed News of the Herald Afn~ | can Exploring Expedition. CONFIRMATION OF THE FORMER REPORTS. Livingstone and Stanley To- gether at Ujiji. HOW THE WELCOME TIDINGS CAME. THE SLAVE COURIER, SA*EED. Story of Seyd ben Majid, the Arab Chief. Difficulties and Pluck of the Herald Explorer. THE [NATIVE WAR NEAR UNYANYEMBE, A LONG DETOUR NECESSARY. The Herald Forces Waiting at Ujij Face to Face with Livingstone ; at Last. What Must Have Been a Happy Meeting. Livingstone’s Explorations Among the Great Lakes. —_+—___ Impressive Triumph of Herald Enterprise. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, May 20, 1872. The following special despatch concerning the safety of Dr. Livingstone was received to- @ay at the Bureau of tho New York Herarp here from the resident Herap correspondent ht Zonzibar. It was telegraphed direct from Aden, having reached there by the regular snail steamer from Zanzibar: — THE GLORIOUS CONFIRMATION. Ihave just received the following detailed confirmation of the rumor which formerly reached here, and which I sent on to you, that Stanley had found Livingstone, and that the two explorers were together at Ujiji. THE CHANNEL BY WHICH THE TIDINGS CAME. Seyd ben Majid, one of the wealthiest and most powerful Arab chieftains at Ujiji, left that town on the 12th of January, and arrived at Unyanyembe, the half-way station on the regular and shortest caravan route between “Ojiji and the coast, on the 5th of February, ' THE “AMERICAN GENTLEMAN” aT UJUT. Upon his arrival he announced to Sheikh ben Nasib, an important chief of that place, woll known in Zanzibar owing to his being engaged largely in commerce with that place, that tho “‘American gentleman,” Stanley (the Herarp correspondent), had reached Ujiji about fifty days before, and had been already staying there 2 month when he (Majid) had left there. STANLEY'S ROUTE. Stanley had been compelled, he further sta- ted, to got to Ujiji by a very circuitous route, as the regular caravan route had been rendered ‘impassable on account of a native war among the local chieftains; and it had been only by good luck and perseverance that Stanley had managed to get through at all. LIVINGSTONE AMONG THE LAKES. At the time of Stanley’s arrival Livingstone had temporarily left Ujiji on an exploying expedition into the neighboring country, and hod established his camp at Myemba, which is twenty days’ march from Ujiji, and about midway between the Lakes of Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza. [This agrees exactly with our prediction at the time of the first arrival at Bombay, two years ago, of the news of Livingstone having gafely reached Ujiji, that the great traveller would probably spend a considerable time in exploring the chain of huge interior lakes which we now know exist in this part of Africa. —Ep. Heraty.} MERTING OF LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY. Before Seyd ben Majid, however, had left Ujiji Livingstone had returned from this ex- pedition, and had met and welcomed Stanley, and the two white men had taken up their residence together. BY COURIER TO THE coasT. Sheikh ben Nasib, to whom Seyd ben Majid ‘pommunicated this intelligence, in pursuance of a request which had been previously made to him to at once send to his brother, Abdal- lah ben Nasib, a merchant in. Zanzibar, any news that he might hear of Livingstone or Stanley, despatched his trusty slave, Sa’ced, throe days afterwards—that is, as soon as the necessary preparations for the journey could be made—with these welcome and authentic tidings to the coast. ARRIVAL AT ZANZIBAR, Tho slave Sa'eod loft Unvanyembe on Feb- duly communicated and disousied, *~ ey + ermanexd uP Att Doupis, At first it was thonght strange that if the wings were, indeed, tid; and Stanley and ‘Tidngstone wero really in Ujiji, they should have Saye no letters to the coast; but this” was at otied and satisfactorily explained by the slave So'ood es “mA NATIVE (WAR. When Seyd ba Majid loft Ujiji ho had mo purpose to come ag far as Unyanyembe, but simply intended to reopai the regular caravan road to travel by means of an armed force which he had gathered together, and of which he was in command. He had, therefore, no idea at that time that the operations would carry him so far, as the news then at Ujiji was that the native chief, named Misambo, who was tho chieftain of the opposing forces, had taken up 4 position between the two places and deemed himself strong enough to hazard a battle with Majid. \ OPERATIONS STILL GOING ON. As Majid approached, however, Misambo retreated, and, in following him, Majid had come so near to Unyamyembe that he paid that town a visit, and then told the welcome news dotailed above. WHY THERE ARE NO LETTERS. It can easily be understood why, therefore, neither Livingstone nor Stanley havo sent any letters. Had they known that a channel of communication was open they would doubtless have availed themselves of the opportunity. THE HEALTH OF THE EXPLORERS, Tho news in rgard to tho health of both the explorers is only negative. Seyd ben Majid did not say anything about their being sick, and it may therefore be taken for granted that they are well. THE HERALD AND DR. LIVINGSTONE. The Foreign Presa on the Herald's Livingstone Expedition. (From the London Daily Telegraph, May 3.] Good old Sir Roderick Murchison ought to he living to-day, Should the news prove true that Dr. Livingstone has been discovered safe and sound, and our great traveller, indeed, return to us by- and by, the one element of sorrow in that happy reunion will be that the warm-hearted Murchison is no more. How he would have hung delighted over the brief telegrams which came to us yester- day from Bombay and Aden, announcing, with much appearance of probability, that the Doctor has been found by Mr. Stanley at Ujiji! This intelligence had been brought, it is stated, from Zanzibar by the steamer Abydos, which took out the members of the party of search lately despatched from England; and the news appears to be confirmed by the subsequent despatch which conveys to us the report of some natives who had arrived at Zanzibar from the interior. It will be truly strange if almost the first word that greeted the search expedition was to the effect that the object of their mission might be considered accom- plished ; for if Livingstone had really been found at Ujiji it would be n@arly the same thing as though he were already at Zanzibar. Such tidings must imply that the native war which stopped Mr, Stanley at Unyanyembe on his way up to Lake Tan- ganyika had come to an end, and that the road was at last open. This, again, would lead to the conclusion that the second caravan of stores sent the Doctor from the coast arrived at its destination, the Jong-miasing | explorer — was once more fairly provided with the beads, cloth and other commodities which he so urgently wanted, The latest local opinions and speculations upon Livingstone’s whereabouts were read before the Royal Geographical Society on the 23d ultimo, from Dr. Kirk's letter to Sir Henry Rawlinson. In that communic&tion the British representative said that his “whole rellance was upon Mr. Stanley,’’ who, as is known, held @ roving commission from the New Youk Henatp to explore East Africa and find out Livingstone. But the enterprising American had lost his goods and men in a fight with the negroes; one of his white companions had died, and the other be- come insane; while Mr. Stanley himself had fallen ill and could only proceed in a litter, A pre- vious war upon the seme path had stopped all traf- fic for three years and might do so again. Living- stone, by the latest accounts, was pomme recat out of supplies, living upon credit from the Arabs, If livin at all, and his letters were somewhat fretful an despondent, as ifeven his patient temper had be- come clouded, If he received any supplies Dr. Kirk's bellet was that he would go north, to trace Tanganyika and discover, if possible, its con- nection’ with Baker's Lake. If he did not do this it would be,*the writey thought, because he had made important researehes beyond Cazembe and the western shore of (ate fi Dr. Kirk, meantime, refused altogether to despair of his return, which, however, could not possibly happen while the Unyanyembe war continued. A small expedition of natives was fitting out to go from Zanzibar to Ujiji, but the search party, then ex- pape! to arrive, could not start up country before ‘he rains of March and April were over. eantime food was abundant again, and porters easily ob- tained, and there were three chances of galning news of the great traveller—viz., Mr. Stanley, the Zanzibar messengers and the well-equipped party coming out from England. The journey from the coast to the lake and back occupies six or seven months under favorable circumstances, Such was the aspect of things im January and February of the [om iop toh year, and it would be plain, even if one telegram did not state the fact, that whatever Intelligence has since reched Dr. Kirk must have come from native sources, Now. to say that native news is untrustworthy would be delicate and even complimentary language— such news {8 more often sheer lying than truth, and at the best is generally a mixture of true and false. Everybody remembers too well how the Johanna men swore “the thing that was not’? about Livingstone’s death as having happened | ata point on the further side of Lake Nyassa, It cost us a special ee and the delay of a ear to prove the falsity of these unmeasured ‘ascals, who lied stoutly and consistently to ac- count for leaving their master, and thereby to get their forfeited pay. It ¢s possible enough that a band of Africans, newly arrived at the coast, and hearing of the search exhibition just landed from the Abydos, might lie the other way, either from sheer African love of invention or to prevent the Englishmen from going up Wed ne e mo- tives which could prompt such mendacity are so numerous that the one fact mentioned in the tele- gram, “There are no letters,’ is enough to make us reluctant to accept the good tidings as accurate, Acrap of written paper from Livingstone, dated any day within the last twelve months, and from any place whatever, would be worth more than all the oaths which these black men will take, one aftcr the other, with a gregarious air of innocent sin- cerity. If, however, there be an Arab Mussulman among them, and he vows the tale is true upon the | Koran, that would be very different from negro | Piet gat 9 A thorough Moslem seldom or never | speaks false when sworn upon “the Book,” but to ali these points Dr. Kirk would, as a matter of course, be keenly alive, and there is consequently much encouragement in the fact that he thinks the intelligence likely enough to be worth transmitting. Looking at fs having thus passed the ‘custom house” of his investigation, it 1s really most hopeful. Our representative will not have forwarded the statement, we may he sure, withont | rigidly testing it, and easton, enough the news might be worthy of credit without any written roof brought down from Unyanyembe. Long as | he interval has been since definite communica | tiona have reached us from Livingstone, the silence is entirely natural. Travellers in Aivica peas into its dark interlor, like divers into & gulf, and nobody can tell where or when they will come forth again into light. The impatiences of our Civilization are forgotten, or are no longer under- stood by such men; they imbibe African languor, with her hot and lazy airs; @ delay of a year or two in accomplishing a great object appears to them Merely incidental, and they settle down to pass @ wet season or to wast six months for goods as wo should take “forty winks? in busy Ero) we must remember TLivingstone's long: ye ence in this way before We marvel that no jetters arrive with the negro news at Zanzibar. [t ts also possible that tho dreadful hurricane of which we have Jost heard may seriously interrupt the communications by land as well as by sea. Ik Pee shores of Teneenries 5 and, sup) march, which are known up to last autumn, we are inclined to think very hopefully of the telegram. ‘The American p: left the matnland in April, 1871. Its leader was in Unyanyembe by August, which month he passed there unpleasantly enough, In September, however, he was able to proceed to- wards Ogara—a spot rene days’ journey nearer to Ujijt; = ope place he duly Teac! ed, according £0 news, sald to have heen krougsevo Zansii Ue tuue ue gue MO LAP Siticay, ts wold better than five-sixths of the whole Nagns | 2 ng have attained tha! it by October, the dates allow exactly and accurately for the meeting announced, nd for the marcii of a native caravan to Zanzjbal aring information of tiie ingilent. In a wo! Livingstone and Stanley were only alive, the ‘“an- designed coincidences” of the report show very favorably, and we are enabled to state that, both by those who represent the journal which commis- sioned Mr. Stanley and by the officials of the Royal Considering, then, the dates of Mr, Stanley's Geographical Society, great confidence ts felt in t truth of the story now published. Should the good news be confirmed, the utmost credit will be due to the courageous New Yorker, and splendid Cred may be expected for science ; since the fruits of Liv- ingstone’s long explorations will now be safely yeaped, United with another white man, and rejn- foreed with goods, medicines and means of all so! the boave Doctor will assuredly either bring or send down his Journals and maps, dnd we shall hear be- fore the year is out what he has found either north- wards or westwards of the Long Lake. For all this, of course, we Must walt patiently as yet. But in a fortnight the royal geographers will certainly re- ceive the lettor® and full details coming by the Abydos, and then we shall be able to judge with fair assurance what are the probabilities of once more seeing the great explorer back in our midst, bearing with him, tt may be, the deepest secret of the heart of Africa, {From the London Standard, May 3.] The good news about Livingstone, whose truth successive driblets of intelligence have for a long whilo established, or seemed to establish, has been confirmed in a fashion that we scarcely dared as yet to hope. While it is well to receive the an- nouncement with all due caution, there appears no reason to doubt that the gallant traveller whose name ts @ household word in England is at this moment alive and in good health. The tele- gram which Sir Henry Rawlinson read to an enthusiastic audience at hia reception of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday is corrob- orated by another despatch which reached Eng- land last evening, and which comes, we may presume, from a source entirely independent of that whence the message published yesterday morning issued. Dr. Livingstone has arrived at Zanzibar in the company of Mr. Stanley, who, in the good ship Abydos, sailed from America, detor- mined to do all that human power could achieve to discover, and if needs be to rescue, the bold ex- Plorer, whose courage is admired not less across the Atlantic than in this his native land, and has received at least a more substantial testimony of honor iD gh ae ja the New World than in the Sid. Hartly do wo congratulate Mr. stanley on the triumphant results which have—we hopo we are Justified in saying—crowned his quest; and all honor, not alone to him, but to the generous pro- moters of the noble enterprise which Mr, Stanley was despatched over thousands of leagues of ocean to conduct! Shall we confess that while we felicitate Mr. Stanley upon the issue of his mission, and while we Revue frecly and fully as we do the splendid qualities which inspired his country- men with the determination to discover Living- stone, we are conscious of @ sentiment somewhat akin to envy and closely allied to shame ourselves. Shall we say what we cannot forget, and what we blush to record—that the assistance and the en- couragement which the government of England de- nied for the expedition bound in search of the man whom England 80 profoundly admires was given ungrudgingly, lavishly, by America, and that the nation, which of all others in the world has the character of being almost sordidly practical, with- out a moment's hesitation took out of its voifers all the money which was needed in furtherance of so Magnanimous a design— Via prima salutis, Quod minime reris, Graia pandetur ab urbe ? Can Livingstone, we may well ask, have thought that the first white man whom he would meet, and who should have succeeded in pene rating to him, would have come, not from the land of his birth, but would be the chief of an expedition equipped at the expense ofa foreign country, aud that country America ? With whatever of rich reanits, the purposes of Dr. Livingstone’s long and perilous self-expa- triation, the end of his totls and hardships, of his exposure to the many dangers of that mighty con- tinent—our knowledge of which is at present liter- rally contined to {ts fringe—are, we may be quite certain, accomplished. ‘The gallant explorer would not have made his way to Zanzibar unless the ob- ject of his venturous search had been fairly fuifilled, He would not, we may be quite certain, have re linquished his toj!s unless those toils had done ail that there was for them todo; he would not have consented to join Mr. Stanley or his comrades and to proceed to Zanzibar unless he had made the great discovery and solved the colossal secret which animated his first efforts. Fatlure 1s not a word known in the vocabulary of men like Living- stone. They accomplish the work which they have taken in hand, or else we see them no more. Liv- ingstone and his fellows, Sturt and hundreds of others, are, 30 to speak, the epitomized embodi- ments of those attributes which we are accus- tomed to consider as peculiarly national. They seem to gather up into the focus of ‘their own rsons no small portion of the pluck, the patlence, the courage of which we are as a people so proud. They show us with new and splendid advantage all those national features which we like to see in ourselves; and as we in- stinctively honor and admire the men for their no- bility and their excellence, so do we Cela? a fit by the practical results which they achieve. hen Livingstone is once more in our midst, he will re- ceive such a welcome as falls to the lot of few men In thetr lifetime. A conqueror returning from the scene of his victories and the fleld of his glories, with all the pomp and circumstance of war, could Instance. If the news should prove true tt may be thought a little curious that’ the steamer which carried out the last “Livingstone Search Expedi- tion” should be the first to bring us the ‘glad tid- juga. The Abydos, it will be remembered, con- veyed Lieutenant Austin and the other members of the exploring party piganized by the Royal Geo- apace Society to Zanzibar, and the presené re- port seems to have been telegraphed im some face—the name of which ald be illegible in fhe telegram—on her returfi voyage. Mr. Stanley, whom wo Are td regard as the fortunate discoverer of Livingstone, — the special envoy sent out by the New York HeERaLp for thi Seroucka Pes whe Ay wee mitt at 8 gentlem also was an this or course T2ther increase than easenied our annlety. Wo may remark that tho ™erioan ex: Re job was leapatched in the spring of last 728% r Stanley Starting, from Bagamoyo, on the coast on the let April and prodeddiig Kazeh, more than two-thirds of the way from Zanzibar to Lake Tangan ka. It was here he picked up those re- ports ol ‘an old man with a long beard almost white” being passed by Arab traders, and which led to the report a few months ago that Livingstone might be heard of almost any Gay: We need not fay on behalfof our countrymen that they will await further intelligence with the deepest interest. more de notiig improvenle grr present re- pertence justifies a certain amount of scepticism. [From the Birmingham Post.) If we may credit the very startling news from Bombay, published in our telegraphic columns to- day, American journalism has just achieved a tri- umph, which lays this country in general, and its men of science in particular, under a heavy and lasting obligation, It is stated that the Abydos, returning from Zanzibar to Bombay, has brought the joyful intelligence that Dr. Livingstono is safe in the company of Mr. Stanley, the commissioner Sent out by the New YORK H&RALD in search of the long-lost African explorer, but no details of the dis- covery are furnished. If this be true, our American contemporary has won a victory which will cover it with ater glory than the most astonishin, feat in telegraphy or the most successful political forecast, and has proved once more that the pen is mightier than the sword, even in enterprises which seem almost to necessitate the employment of armed force. The sole check to the satisfaction with which we receive this news is the reflection that our only authority for itis from some natives from Zanzibar, and even their testimony comes to us only at second hand. It must be borne in mind, however, that the natives’ report 1s probably the only channel of information possible in such a case, and there 1s prima Jacie evidence in its favor in the fact that these informants supply the name or de- scription, not only of Dr. Lividgstone, but of his American companion, of whose existence they could have no foreknowledge. Assuming tho correctness of tho report, it is dimcult to Overestimatg the yalug of its opsequanae for geographical sclence, for comméreé an rt hu- mal ip Dr. Livingstone is known to have pene- rar into regions of Central Africa never before Today by civilized man, and no one who has fol- lowed his previous carcer can doubt that he has turned his opportunity to splendid account and ap- pited his cultivated powers of observation to master the treasures of knowledge which every step in that unknown tableland must have brought light. What marvellous adventures may be destined for our ears it would at present be useless to speculate, but there can be no doubt that the result of Dr. Liv- ingstone's prolonged explorations will be a valuable addition to the sum of human knowledge, and not improbably of human weaith and happiness. [Fom the London Globe.) The Abydos, telegraphed from Bombay, professes herself a ship of good hope. Let us hope that she will fulfil her professions. She has carried from Zanzibar sudden and what reads like impossible news of the safety of Dr. Livingstone, The report terribly requires confirmation. So often have our hopes been raised only to be disappointed that we fear to trust to what we hear on such vague au- thority. It will turn out very strangely if another achievement is to be added to tho suc- cesses) of newspaper correspondents, It will be remembered that a Mr. Stan- ley, belonging to the New York HERALD, was attached to the expedition. It{s to him, and not to those whose Aone he was sent out to report, that the merit of the discovery 1s at present attributed, It Yankee ‘cuteness has restored our friend to us we shall certainly feel no touch ofjelousy. It will be the best debt of gratitude that we ever owed, We shall look anxiously for the confirmation of the wished-for news. Repeated disappointment warns us not to hope too sanguinely. But till failure is certain it is our duty tohope with all our hearts. ae aduty which we are only too glad to be able 0 . {From the London Standard.) Welcome news come# this morning from the eastern coast of Africa. Tho Abydos, returning from Zanzibar, brings word that Dr. Livingstone ts safe, Mr, Stanley, the representative of the New York HERALD, 1s said to be with him. It will be, in- deed, a feather in the cap of our enter- n stores Ot wen.th, and we can picture the bold man, witha faith wayerlng as he found himself in thé heart. of & barbarous continent, ‘helpless, without means and with few followers.!” It is a gratifying reftec- tion that private enterprise of America has success- fully penetrated the gloom that surrounded the mystery of the career of this great traveller, and through that instrumentality another page in the book of sctence will be opened to the work. “The work of Bruce, Burton, Grant, Speke and Baker will now be supplemented by @ more perfect knowledge of the heart of Africa, Tho story of the Feet {and lakes wil be told and the old secret of he Nile rol of the last sWwathing of fable and romance.” The accomplishment of such a work is an honorable achievement, and will remain an en- during monument to journalistic enterprise, KNUCKLE GGWi! The Supplemental Article to the Treaty. Sugar to Make the Squeamish Swallow the Surrender. POLICY OF THE FISH SENATORS. They Will Simply Vote for the English Demand. DEBATE TO OPEN TO-MORROW. The Opposition to Do All the Talking. PUTTING ON THE PARTY THUMBSCREWS. ae eee Ben Butler Against the Disgrace. —+——_—_. FEE-FO-FUM TERRORS FOR THE HERALD. WASHINGTON, May 20, 1872, The understanding tn the Senate now is that there shall bo no Executive Session of the Sen- ate until Wednesday, when the discussion re- garding the resolution to advise the President to accept the terms of the British ultimatum in tho treaty businoss will be resumed. In the mean- time, THE NEW ARTICLE, AS AMENDED by the Foreign Relations Committee, has been printed, and fs in the possession of each Sena- tor, with! the most earnest, and thus far effec. tive injunctions, to keep its contents a profound secret, Every additional day's delay is supposed to be an advantage to the prospects of its ratification, for the reason that the lobby, backed up by the ad- ministration, is assiduously working to OVERCOME THE NATURAL INCLINATION OF THE SENATE to rejectit. Tho version of the amendment given in these despatches last night is confirmed by to- day's revelations, and tt is, therefore, probable that as soon as Saturday noxt our government will be in condition to telegraph to its Minister at the Court of St. James the information that GRANVILLE’S DBMANDS WiLL BE avusrrap: by the Senate. It is possible, however, that the de- prising transatlantic contemporary if its emissary has been successful in his search and has been the happy means of bringing succor to the great explorer. Nothing as yet but the bare fact is transmitted by the telegraph. Tho news had been brought to Zanzibar by the natives, and of course we cannot as yet receive it as positively authentic intelligence; but all African travellers seem inclined to put more trust in mysterlously conveyed native reports than would be accorded to them by ordinary hearers. What will be the feelings of our own government, who refused to give help to a search expedition, if it turns out to be truo that the braye Doctor's life has been saved by the exertions of an American newspaper? We will not attempt to conjecture, Meanwhile, tf Dr. Livingstone’s safety ts confirmed ‘we shall rejoice in something more than the rescue | ofa brave traveller from a gioomy fate; we shall not have in store for him areception more jubi- lant and profound than that which now awaits Livingstone. And a conqueror, in- deed, Livingstons may well claim to be. His | triumphs have not been won, a8 they have not been | sought, at the point of the sword or amid the rattle of musketry. He has fought not with man, but with nature. He has overcome obstacles and im- pediments as terrible as armed battalions could in- terpose; has stormed places more bel Ay nt than battiemented forts, and has survived dangers of a deaditer kind than those of lurking ambuscade, In his train he has not spread havoc nor desola- tlon—he has been the avant courrier only of the civilization which is of peace; yet he has glorified the name and increased the power of England as much aa if he had annexed entire kingdoms to her imperial sway, confiscated foreign crowns and muicted whole countries in overwhelm- ing penalties, While he has labored for his country he has been laboring also for all mankind. He has been adding to the sum of human knowledge ; and he has been, it is not premature to say, the instrument of o so es flelds of in- dustry and labor and gain to the human race. Colonization can only follow exploration. Had it not been for Columbus the Pilgrim Fathers would never have found a home across the Atlantic. Thus the material advantages which the labors of Liv- ingstone may be found to have conferred are alto- gether incalculable. Africa, writes the Roman his- torian, is always. producing something new; and in this nineteenth century we can as fa only con- sider ourselves to be on the threshold of the great African mystery. ‘The most desolate desert and inhospitable country in the world, even Greenland and Nova Zembla itself not excepted,” are the words in which Defoe makes hig hero, Captain Single- ton, describe the Continent of Africa, Since then African exploration las tought us how partial in applicability the description of the novelist Is, We have learned to discredit the myth which fabled that Central Africa was one mass of sand bed. We know that in that vast area there is vegetation of | luxuriant richness, glorious valleys and indefinitely | fertile soil. We know that river-courses run where | we had once supposed the earth to be parched with an unquenchable thirst, and that regions which we had thought were uninhabitable save by monsters, | offer fair and fruitful homes to men, But even | inherit all the treasures of geographical knowledge | he has acquired in “all the long years he's been wan- dering away.’’ A new world may be introduced to our acquaintance when he comes home to tell us the | whole truth about that fair Central African table- | land where his explorations have been mainly car- | ried on. The orthodox riddles of geographers will, of course, be answered once more, and the sources of the Nile wiil perhaps have been found to be now really discovered in Lake Tanganyika or elsewhere; but itis not alone in reference to the gratification of scientific curiosity that Dr. Leh stone’s fresh discoveries will be enthustastically welcomed. Vast schemes of commerce and coloniza- tion may ultimately be subserved by the Informa- tion he Will bring us. Though, so to speak, at our own doors, the resources of Africa have been nearly as much a closed book for CUR i as were those of the New World before the discovery of America. Our settlements have been posted on the skirts of the huge coutinent, We have been content with, or have perforce acquiesced in, the vaguest knowledge of the interior, In recent years we have known that the old schoolbook theories which constructed the whole continent of sand were absurdly wrong; but what we have known of the inland regions has merely whetted our appetite for more knowledge. If, indeed, Dr. Livingstone is on his hd back to civilization it will not be an exaggeration to say that he must come laden with richer stores of in- | formation than any—if we may say this without being supposed for a moment to detract from the well-earned fame of other explorers—that have yet been brought home from any part of the world by one man in the lifetime of the present generation, {From the Anglo-American Times, May 4.) Mr. Stanley, the representative of the New Yorr HERALD, was thought to be writing in a strain of highfajuten to his journal when he declared that, dead or alive, he would pints Livingstone home; buat he 7 dae to be as good as his word, to have vingstone at Ujijiand to be bringing him Well done to the HERALD! joined LI jome alive. The California Press and the Search for | Dr. Livingstone. when we have sald all this, how insignificant our knowledge of Central Africa, when compared | with the immensity of the space whic! it | embraces, reaily 18; how altogether do our | reogTaphy books, hen we turn to them / for iniornation on this subject, represent to us a | hiatus valde defendus! Dr. Livingstone, once he has come back to us, Will give us the information | with which we can supply our deficlencies in each | one of these respects. He will be abie to tell us | which of our conjectures are true or which fulse. | He may be able to unfold to us such a vision of a | new civilization as we have never dreamed of, and he may thus practicalty reclaim and give back to the human race a kingdom that shall exceed all the | countries of Europe in magnitude. It is, indeed, | beyond the possibility of imagination to predict | either what the information which Dr. Livingstone | may bring back with him will be or what may be its | results, Ail we now know is that when he docs arrive he will have a welcome from us such as Eng- | land could alone give and Livingstone alone secure. {From the Manchester Examiner, May 3.) Dr. Livingstone’s safety has so often been re- ported that we naturally receive each succeeding intimation with diminished confidence. The tele- gram we print to-day Is as tantalizing as any of its | predecessors. The statement that “Livingstone is safe with Stanley” is explicit enough standing alone, but it (a coupled with the qualification that the nows “Is brought by natives,” and, until we know something of the source from which it is derived, it would be unwise to place implicit trast in it. If {t had been contained in despatches from either of the travellers, its authenticity would, of course, be beyond question; but it is not likely that so important a fact would have been [From the Sacramento Daily Record, May 11.) So much has been said in regard to this celebrated | English traveller that any allusion to his career may | seem to some like a twice-told tale; yet we take no small amount of pride in the success of the expe- | dition sent out by American citizens in search of the great explorer, not only because of the accom- plishment of the desired object, but from the fact | that to American journatism is to be given the credit of performing @ signal feat in the service of humanity and science that the British government has failed to perform. When the first tidings of the expedition were received in this. country from the heart of Africa there was a grave doubt in the minds of many wno read the reports as to their, authenticity; but there appears to be no quea- tion at this time of the correctness of the re- ports and the safety of both the celebrated traveller and the now famons American expedition. Seven years ago Dr. Livingstoue left England, in | the service of science, and six years since he was heard from thirty miles from the East African coast. ‘The last tidings of the explorer, until the recent Intelligence, were received in 1868, Since then his career has been @ matter of conjecture. He has held no communication with the outer world for the period of six tedious years, and, quite deserted, he has toiled on in his chosen work. The New York HeraLp remarks:—“It seemed as ifa sad endin; ‘was abont to mark the life of Livingstone, patient, bold and persevering man, with a large, active brain, had spent the best years of a busy life among savages in & lost land, laying bare the | mysteties locked in the dumb heart of barbarism, } and filng up by wearing toil and sacrifice, huge bianks on tie map of a continent. Ye when this great life seemed about to be aignched amid savage gloom not a heart leaped omitted eyen in the first brief telegram an- nonnecing Livingstone’s safety. Hitherto native reports have ravely turned out satisfactory, and thig is quite enough to put ua on our guard bhi ih England, tis country, It was as hough a man who had lavished his years to amass & | Rey prize saw {t melt away in a hiqeous dream. nt Yho orize of Kuowlguae Whieh be bad wrunt bate which will certainly ensue, may be protracted until next week, in whish case, as @ matter of course, England will be compelled to wait a little while longer for the full realization of ber victory. It ia certain that THE ADMINISTRATION SENATORS willdo nothing to provoke debate. They will re- main silent until the opposition has exhausted Itself, and then, if they are assured of success, they will press for a vote. Secretary rish 1s entirely satisfied with the situation, The amendments of the For- eign Relations Committee are acceptable to him, and, in his opinion, will not prove unacceptable to the British Cabinet. He has uot abated a parti- cle of HIS INTENSE ANXIETY TO CARRY IT THROUGH, and occuples much of his time In lobbying for that purpose. Mr. Seward’s famous Alaska dinners would now bear repetition in the interest of the administration were it not for the fact that we have no one here now who is capable of presiding over such entertainments. The announcement received here to-day by telegraph that MR. SEWARD IS IN FAVOR of the ratification of the pending proposition, on the ground that such a result would justify the re- sult of his negotions in the matter of the Johnson- Clarendon Treaty, is not calculated to strengthen the administration. In fact, it draws public as well as official attention to the records of members WHEN THE JOHNSON-OLARENDON TREATY WAS RE- JECTED, ana will doubtless result in causing some of them to reflect upon the wisdom of pursuing a consistent course, and voting now as they did three years ago. Since the efforts of the administration have been made directly perceptible an evident change has been noticed in the tenor of current comments on the subject. Denunciations of the treaty are not so frequent as they were. Members of the House seem to be in doubt, and, with ‘THE EXCEPTION OF GENERAL BUTLER, the majority of those on the republican side are almost as reticent as the Senators themselves, Nevertheless, it is the almost unanimous opinion of those who do discuss the matter that we have got the worst of the bargain. It is agreed that we WENT INTO THE AFFAIR HANDICAPPED by what now appear to have been blunders com- mitted pending the Joint High Commission delib- erations, and that we have increased our welght ever since. No new arguments are advanced in favor of ratification, and people are getting tired of the constant repetition of the old one that OUR COMMERCIAL INTERESTS demand an immediate ‘acceptance of the British terms. j Ii ts understood %-night that the Foreign Rela- | tlons Committee ts quietly onguged in investigating the circumstances connected with the premature Publication OF the correspondence fn the HERALD. get inforraation from newspaper correspondents; hence fhe committee have hit upon tho novel lan a INVESTIGATING THE SENATE ITSELP, Chey dogun with the members of the committee, “and will soon examine each member of the Senate regarding his relations with the HeraLp men in Washington, and call upon each one to produce his copy of the correspondence or prove that he bys it in his possession, Secretary Fish has already given the committes all the information he hategarding Experience ‘has proved the futility of attempts to | 2 LE ne | from the wastes was above all 7 attet up to the time the correspondonte waa alee ae to the Sonate, It {8 understoog rings ~ittes are satisfled that tne that the cdi om, oMiciala at the gove._ seek pre! rate noconnection with the m&e,, “ that having completed tye “ezamltation veaboas ip by wonderful ‘ Senate, the committee, badkev ‘ ‘ al Yesearoh, will results of overshadowing 1@{% -“.C" * begin " aah, PROCEEDINGS OF SOME DIREFUL Gh.\840TER =~ against the HERALD's represenative here Telegrams have been received here from f 4 in London, making tnquirtes after information re. Harding thd TRAV status df atairs, Which fee shows that, with all the assurance of tho English Cabinet, it will achieve final success; there aro person® in England who yet believe that the _— Senate ts still true to thé interests tt 1s supposed represent. Lee Tho Alabama Claims in Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, May 29; 187 .. Tho Board of Trade this evening passed resol tions approving of the supplemental article 60 Treaty of Washington now before the Senate, witte Proposes to establish as a rule of international 7 that hereafter consequential damages shall not claimed by England or tho United States. The; consider that this embodios principles not onl sound and equitable but of tho greatest practi Value to this country. SPAIN’. . Government Announcement of a Generd| Brea Up of the Carlist Combination.’ \ Military Action in the Disaffected ate Amadeus Irritated Against France. \ . TELEGRAM TQ THE NEW YORK HERALD, ry Mapnip, May 20, 1672, It is oMctally announced to-day by the Span! government that desertions from the Carlist banda in the Province of Biscay have commenced. Mang? of the insurrectionists present themselves Long King’s troops and give up their arms. More th four thousand have already submitted: Uribart, a Carlist leader, is dead. The insurgent bands in the other provinces, out. side of Biscay, are dispersing. iz MILITARY SWEEP OF THE DISLOYAL DISTRIOTS. Detatchments of government troops continue te encounter Carlist bands in the disaffected proe vinces, The insurgents are invariably beaten ant dispersed. ) CARLIST IRRITATION AGAINST THB REPUBLIO FRANCE. It is stated that the attitude of the government of France towards the Carlists, and the facility wit! which retreating insurrectionists escaped’ in! France, have caused a deep feeling of irritation 4 the part of the Spanish government. Hf Befior Garcia Gutierrez, the Spanish Consul ‘a¢ Bayonne, France, has arrived in Madrid. He one for the purpose of formally complaining of tit course pursued by the French authorities towar fleeing Carlists. POLITIOAL RUMORS. A report was current this morning that a Francisco Romero Robledo, Minister of Pubil Works, had withdrawn from the Ministry, but tt denied this afternoon. GERMANY. The Imperial Army Band to Perform in Boston, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, May 20, 1872. The Imperial Army band, by consent of the Em- poror, will sail shortly for America to take part Im the World's Peace Jubilee at Boston. POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN JERSEY. The Republican State Convention of New Jersey to appoint delegates to the National Convention at Philadelphia will be held at Trenton on Tuesday of this week. The Democratic Central Committed of the State met yesterday in Trenton and issued the call for the Democratic State Convention, on the 26th of June, at noon, in Trenton, KILLED BY OOAL OIL. Four Children Burned to Death Through the Employment of Oil in Kindling #¢ Fire. } N MEmPuIs, May 20, 1872. , Four children, at ages varying from twoto t m years, were horribly burned in this city on Saturd py night by the eldest kindling a fire with coal ¢ pif. One died an hour after the accident; the second: nd third soon after and were buried yesterday. ' fhe fourth died this morning. Died. Lunn.—In the 82d year of her age, MARGARRT’ { the beloved wife of Michael Lunn, a native of cc unty Limerick, [reland. f May her soul rest in peace. Tho relatives and friends of the — arere ap fully invited to attend the funeral, from he or la dence, 503 West Thirty-sixth street, on Wedr sesday afternoon, at two o'clock; from thence to C - glva: Cemetery. tror Other Deaths See Fifth Page.) ; Killing the Hair.—To Neglect the Hatr, oF to use any of the Imitating proparations whl ah inj the vitality of the scalp, {# simp) Wy sudden an ‘4 cert ive, Vigorow 4 flexible, and. Ram them al death to the fbretda and ine, condition ¢ ine MIC J pt ‘ttle: nad pa Rs By ALOMs c UAL UALR IN sy} Tort ty the one thing needful. Sold by all dru; gists, Bell Schnapps.—This Celebrate a Reyere age and Tonic is sold by all grocers and drugs ksta, A.—For a Stylish and Elega at sume mer HAT go to ESPENOHIED, Manutactu: re 1B Nas Suu street, A.—Herring’s Patent } ‘CHAMPION SAFES, 261 and 262 Br oc rease 1G0. A.—Herald Branch lee, Broek! ym, corner of Fulton avenuoand boorain syeect, A.—Nestle’s Lacteous Farina, i the Mother's vile sun hand ™ Recommended by eminent physicians. A.—A.=—No Sediment! No Sta olsons!!! characterizes the EGYPTIAN HAL NG from all other pre sictans, A.—A.—Not One Person in a Hum ircd believes until he tests It by actual purchase thasW [1 PLN EM oie) & ©O., 686 Broadw: sell Decorated’ vi; Seta, 15t pieces, for $0); China Dinuer Plates far@ {751 dozen; Glasy Goblets, $1 per dozea, Plated 1o0.P ithe $7 cach, and ivory-handled Dinner Kntves, $ap@ doze: Yet it is'an uctuaf fact and the demand is eDoray jus, A.—Gents’ Silver Pearl Cassimer ¢« Hata Only Five Dollars; not a common article, ® , the price seetns to indicate, buta gentiouan’s Hat, WARNCOOR & CO., 519) jroadway. A.—Royal Havann Lottery.» Prices Res duced. J. B. 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