The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1872, Page 3

SE - OED STANLEY IN PARIS. The Discoverer. of Livingstone Feted in the Capital of Fair France. THE LION OF THE DAY. What tho Figaro, Soir, Gaulois and Republique Francaise Say About Him. HIS BREAKFAST WITH SHERMAN. The Bygone Times of the Old and Young Heroes Reealled. THE STANLEY BANQUET. Mr. Stanley Tells His Own Story of His Herald Mission Into Africa. THE FINDING OF LIVINGSTONE Jast Tribute to the Correspondent and Hearty Recognition of the Herald Enterprise. Paris, August 1, 1872, Henry M. Stanley, correspondent of the NEw ‘Yorx H&RALD is to-day the lion of the great city of Paris. Fresh from the jungles and swamps and marshes of Central Africa, that strange and myste- rious country, as full of danger and wild and fanci- ful romance as any fabied land of antiquity; fresh from combats with its savage inhabitants, its lions and tigers, and its equally savage humdn beasts; ‘but, above all, fresh from the society of the far- famed Dr. Livingstone, so oft reported dead, so oft Fresuscitated, and killed over again; bringing news from. him, messages from him, letters written by his own hand—he is sought for,, honored, feted, talked about in a ‘way that will turn his head if he has a head capa- Die of being turned. Itis no easy thing to get the London and Paris worlds talking about you for ays, but that is what Stanley has accomplished, much fo his own surprise, too, apparently. He has been in Paris now about a week, and during the ‘whole of that time he has had scarcely a moment's rest. All sorts of people call and ask to be presented 40 him. He is overwhelmed with invitations, a tithe of which he would not be able to accept were he to remain here a year. He is interrupted by news- paper reporters, importuned by correspondents of the pictorials for sketches and scenes from his travels, and generally lionized to an extent that has astonished him beyond measure. For the poor man did not know he had done anything so extraordinary until he got ont of the wilds of Africa and found that the whole civilized world was ringing with his exploits, THE FRENCH PAPERS are full of gossip concerning him; and, as usual, ‘when talking about anything or anybody not of their Own country, make ail sorts of funny and amusing mistakes. The Sotr, for instance, announced the arrival of the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone in Paris as Lord Stanley, son of the great Lord Derby, who, at the instigation of the New YoRK HEkaLp, “notre conjrére fameuz,"’ nobly undertook to find the great traveller, and, finally, after unheard-of diMicnities succeeded, to which were addea many details and particulars of an equally reliable and astonishing nature. The Figaro came out next day and declared the whole thing to be a canard of the most stupendous proportions. It declared that Lord Stanley being the son of the late Lord Derby, now deceased, had succeeded to his father’s name and title; that consequently there ‘was no Lord Stanley, and therefore the whole story Qs well as the report of the discovery of Dr. Liv- ingstone was an immense hoax. The Figaro has itself mentioned so many canards that its faith in ‘the capacity of other papers to manufacture sen- ational news is unbounded, and its credulity was therefore wofully imposed on, as it sdon found out. The next day the Gaulois and the République Frangaise came out in long articles, poked fan at the Figaro and_the Sotr, showed up their absurd mistakes, made some of their own almost as bad, and gave, respectively, a glowing account of the expedition, in which the courage and energy of Mr. Stanicy and the enterprise of Mr. James Gor- don Bennett, notre Uusirieux conjrere, were ex- tolled to the skies. STANLEY'S MARCH TO UJIJI. Stanley suddenly finds himself a great man; nor the carping criticism of the London Spectator, that hopes no great good from the expedition; nor the absurd doubts of the Standard will prevent all honor being accorded him or detract one iota from his meed of glory. And Stanley merits it all, That march of a thousand miles through the jungles and swamps and marshes of Southern Africa, over mountains that had never yet been scaled by any white man who bad ever come back to tell the tale, through forests dense and dark, and @ank with the heavy vegetation of a tropical clime ; inhabited only by savages, wild beasts, venomous fnsects and monster serpents, and the still more ferocious cannibal negro; crossing rivers whose Swift-rushing currents made it almost impossible ‘to pass them ; wading for hours, for miles and miles through swamps and marshes, rank with their dark, slimy vegetation, waist deep with the green, filthy, stagnant, stinking water that poisoned the very sir. Again, across arid, thirsty, burning plains and Geserts, right under the equator, where the sun pours down his burning rays, withering up every living thing with his flery eye; making his own roads, finding his own provisions, fighting his own battles; now making war with his little army against some hostile chief who refuses to let him ‘pass, now employing ali the arts and seductions of ‘an old and experienced diplomat to accomplish his Purpose; again quelling a mutiny among his own men; fording rivers, scaling mountains, passing Gefiles, threading narrow forest paths, dark with ‘the luxurious vegetation and beset with danger at every step; but, worst of all, struggling in the con- tinual, unceasing grasp of an enemy more deadly than the colis of the slimy boa constrictor, more ruthless than the fangs of the African tiger, more fatal than the poisoned shafts of the canni- ‘Dal negroes—an enemy that racks the bones and Gries up the blood and crazes the brain with bis Mery breath, and reduces in a few hours a hale, hearty man to a mere “ruckle of bones’—the terri- ble swamp fever of Central Africa. This malaria, this miasm of the marshes, is something dreadful. It rises from the putrid, stinking, filthy water, rife ‘with the seeds of death, and hangs over the coun- try in the form of a dense, but invisible, fog, thick- ening and poisoning the atmosphere like the plague and rendering life impossible to any but the strongest animal organization. One can under- stand the success of such an expedition when un. @ertaken in a country where this enemy has not to be met, With good health, a sound body and a Clear head insured to him, anybody might carry it to a successful conclusion. But far different is it ‘when laboring under the continual attacks of this insidious enemy, with the frame reduced to 4 mere skeleton, the blood boiling with fever, the brain in 8 whirl, delirium with all its horrors ever threat- ening, and to preserve through it all sufficient en- ergy to command 140 wild negroes and Arabs, to keep them in subjection, to crush every attempt at mutiny, tokeep on the march througn days and weeks and months of sickness and fatigue—then is ‘, the wonderful part of the story. And then to have found Livingstone. To have undertaken a project 1p which the Royal Geographical Society of London, backed by the ready purses of the whole English nation, had failed; that the mighty English govern- ment had pronounced impossible; for a simple newspaper reporter to carry it out to a successful ¢onclusion, while the government and the Royal Geographical Society and the whole English nation were talking about it, is it mot worthy of all praise? And will it not ramk with Kane’s expedi- tion to the North Arctic regions, Bonaparte's pass- age of the Alps, Hannibal’s march upon Rome, Sherman’s march to the sea? HIS BREAKFAST WITH WASHBURNE AND TALK WITH GENERAL SHERMAN. ‘The day after his arrival he was invited to break- fast by Mr, Washburne, and found a smal! but select company assembled to meet and welcome him, among whom was General Sherman. The General, without ever suspecting that they had met before, was delighted at the opportunity thus offered of talking to aman who had been the leader of one of the most remarkable search expeditions ever undertaken, and they were soon engaged in an animated conversation relating to the interior of Africa. Sherman was interested in every detail given by Mr, Stanley, followed with a breathless interest every incident and every phase of the interesting story and became as absorbed in this romantic history as though it had been a new and brilliant campaign of which he then for the first time was learning the details, Their heads together, leaning over the maps, Stanley pointed out to him his course from Zanzibar, ex- plaining as he went along the nature of the country and the peculiarities of the vegetation, the curlosi- ties of the animal kingdom, the courses of the rivers, the means employed to cross them, the disposition of the natives, their costumes, manner of warfare, types to be seen among them, their villages, how he paid his passage through some, fought his way through others, stole through others again at dead of night like a robber; how he made war on one chief with- out success, what detours he was obliged to make to get around the country occupied by him, how he came upon other tribes that were at war and was again and again obliged to go back and go around to the right and the left and wind about in all con- ceivable directions through swamps, jungles and marshes; the death of the two white men with him, his hours and days of fever and de- lirium, when the world seemed to whirl around his throbbing brain as around an axis, and ne- groes, Arabs, donkeys and trees and forests ap- peared to his feverish vision as one jumbled, undis- tinguishable mass of objects, without consistency orreason;the mutiny of some of his men, the treachery of others, the long night watches, when he Could trust to nothing for his safety but his trusty revolver, until at last, after five months of weary marching under a tropical sun, he arrived within sight of Ujiji worn out, broken down, dis- couraged, without having found the least trace of the maa he was looking for. The sudden intelli- gence that he was in the same village with Living- stone, the meeting and formal introduction and bows, the stream of conversation, of questions and answers, broken by exclamations that fol- lowed once the flood gates were opened; the meals taken on the veranda of Livingstone’s house, with thousands of wondering natives gathered around, looking on in astonishment at the second white Ynan they had ever beheld. All this inter. spersed personal adventure and explanations upon the map, commentaries and questions on the part of the keen-eyed old hero, and related by the principal actor in it, formed a story and a scene rarely equalled in interest even by the most sensa- tional romances ef Charles Reade or Wilkie Col- lins. Then, with Stanley’s great maps before us, we explored the shores of the Lake Tanganyika; we sailed past the “New YORK HERALD Islets; we ascended the famous Chambest; settled forever the problem of its direction; visited Lake Lincoln, and thought it was meet and just that the man who gave his life for the freedom of the Africans should herein Central Africa, at the sources of the grand old Nile, have his memory embalmed and his name made immortal as the old river itself, in being borne by one of the springs that supply its waters. It was interesting and curious to watch the old hero and the young in conversation—the one with his sharp, keen eye and quick, apprecia- tive mind, grasping details, foreseeing events and often eagerly anticipating the story and hurrying on to the point where the whole interest is con-. centrated; the other, with his dark, resolute eye, somehow reminding one of General Sheridan, and his tawny complexion and quiet voice, calmly tell- ing his story, both leaning over the map on which Stanley had traced all his sinuous wanderings, “It is a great thing,” said Mr. Washourne, “I only know of one other great expedition brought to so successful a termination.” “What is that?” asked Sherman. “That is Sherman’s March to the Sea,’ replied Mr. Washburne. “That was nothing to this,” said Sherman; “it was easy in comparison to this march to the centre of Africa and back.” “It is your modesty makes you say 80, General,” remarked Stanley. ‘By the way, do you remember ever meeting me before?” “No,” replied Sherman, Whereupon Stanley commenced and repeated a speech of some minutes in length, @ speech evi- dently meant for the red men, for it was full of high- flown metaphors and contained references to “fire water,” ‘the Great Spirit,” “our brother,”” the “pale face,” “our Father in Washington” and a variety of other subjects in which the Indian is supposed to be particularly interested. “Why, that’s a speech I made some years ago to the Sioux Indians while out on the Plains, Were you there?” “I was there,” replied Stanley, “reporting it for the HERALD, and, to tell you the truth, Ihave had occasion to repeat your speech, almost verbatim, more than once to the negroes of Central Africa.” “Well,” said Sherman, “I would never have recognized you, and certainly never expected to see in that HEeRaxp reporter the future discoverer of Dr. Livingstone.” Some people nave said that General Sherman is crazy. If he has any weakness in that way it must be, like Moltke, on the subject of maps. | Abit of paper, covered over with marks repre- senting mountains and rivers, and roads and woods, | and land and water, possesses for him untold attrac- | tions, One scarcely ever meets him now without amapin his hand, and Ihave no doubt that he finds more pleasure in contemplating one than he would ina Rubens or a Raphael. The latter are good enough in their way, but give him for real beauty a map of the world large enough to cover the wallof his room. As a matter of course, then, he asked Stanley for amap, and as a matter of course Stanley was only too happy to give hima copy of one he and Livingstone had made them- selves while in the wilds of Central Africa, and they separated with mutual expressions of satis- faction and good will. THE STANLEY BANQUET. For some days preparations were being made by the prominent Americans here, principal among whom was Mr. Washburne, to give Mr. Stanley a dinner such as would have gladdened his heart could he have eaten it in the wilds of Africa, and three days ago he accordingly received the follow- ing letter :— THE AMERICANS’ INVITATION. i Panis, July 20, 1872, Henry M. STANLEY, Esq. :— Sim—The undersigned, your American fellow citizens, temporarily sojourning in Paris, have heard with great pleasure of your safe arrival in this city, after the accomplishment of an object which has ¢ mel ge ba "age deepest interest through- out the civilized world, In order to testify our high appreciation of the indomitable courage, energy and perseverance which crowned with such brilliant success your efforts to find Dr. Livingstone, as well a8 to express our sense of the enterprise and liberality of the New York Herarp in sending you forth on such An extraordinary mission, we beg of you to afford Us the pleasure of meeting you at a dinner to be given at such a time as will best suit your con- noe. We have the honor to be, very respect- . B. Washburne, George 8. Hartsutf, ickham Hoffman, L, P. Graham, Henry A. Stone, 0. Hopkinson, John Munroe, F. Blake, Jr., N. H. Swayne, L. Hi. Bigland, Frank Moore, J. M. Macias, James W. Tucker, G. F. T, Reed, A. J, Drexel, d, H, Hayes, i. A. Bowen, B. F, Breeden, G, N. Kettle, W. EF. Johnston, M. D.; John Love, E. W. Pike, Winthrop, A. Van Bergen, J.C, Kane, G, B, Shattuck, Charles Lherbette, John W, Crane, Wilham B. Bowles, W. H. Huntington, Elliot C. Cowdin, E, W. Hitchcock, A. Pollok, W. H. Vesey, J. B, Kiddoo, Beary Were T. R. Sullivan, E. B. Russel, Hi Keene, William J. Florence, Charles Lepy, J. T, Perry, peoege P. lealy, G, C, Webb, R. W. James, Maurice Strakosch, H. A. Johnson, Cc. C, Seligman, Jonn Russell Young, Lorillard Spencer, Alfred Lockwood, Henry Trumbull, John B. Norris, E. R, Andrews, Jobn Garcia, Willham Young, yy Fe Castion, . * Sonn, . J . Dewey, ieee a, Seer eet 01 Ne jathan Appleton, Georme H. Reay, Mr. Blowite, D. H. Wickham, Mr. Austin, Paul 8. Forbes, Pheodore Braine, D. D. Home, O. J. W. Mintzer, . T. Pratt, Tracy Thornton, E. Westhead, STANLEY'S REPLY. To which Mr. Stanley replied as follows :— Hore. pu HELDER, Panis, July 30, 1872. GENTLEMEN—I have received your letter of this BG, seNhe me to accept the compliment of a din- ner from my compatriots and friends now resident in Paris, to be given in acknowledgment of the “enterprise and liberality of the New YORK HERALD” in sending out an expedition in search of Dr, Livingstone, as well as of the extraordinary good fortune and perfect success which, under Providence, attended the footsteps of the expedi- tion I had the honor to command. Gentlemen, be- lieve me, Iam deeply conscious of the great honor Tore would do me, and through me not only to the journal I have the pleasure oi serving, but to the pa- tient, resolute, brave and Christian gentleman whom lleft in Central Africa, 1 therefore spindly accept your invitation, and shall be pieased to meet you July 31 at any house or place that may be deemed most convenient. Ihave the honor to be, gentle- men, your obedient and humble serene HENRY M, STANLEY. To His Excellency E. B, WASHBURNE, Minister Pleni- potentiary of the United States of America, and Many others, THE BANQUET. The Hotel Chatum was fixed on as the place of Meeting and eight o’clock the hour, The dining hall, which is on the ground floor of the hotel, was ornamented in the most beautiful manner by & perfect forest of fowers, which, as seen through the glass walls of the ball, on the side next the court, presented @ most fairy-like and enchanting appearance. At least so seemed to think a large and respectable crowd that gathered in the court of the hotel and watched the proceedings through the glass doors and listened to all the speeches with untiring vigi- lance during the whole evening. There were nearly one hundred gentlemen present, the most prominent of whom were His Excellency Mr. Wash- burne, Mr. W. Vesey, United States Consul at Nice; General Love, of Indiana; Genera) Kiddoo, Mr. Young, late proprietor of the Alvion; Mr. William Bowles, Mr. John Russell Young, Rev. Dr. Hitch- cock, Colonel Moore, W. J. Florence, the comedian; Mr. Home, &c., &c. After grace had been said by the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, who made some feeling allusions to the trials through which their guest had passed, the Chairman, Mr. Washburne, rose and addressed the company as follows:. MR WASHBURNE’S SPEECH. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN AND FRIENDS—Some three years ago our distinguished guest, Mr. Henry M. Stanley, who was then, as now, the correspondent of the NEw York HERALD, was in Europe. He was then, as now, a young man, who had been schooled in the best fields of newspaper enterprise, not only in our own country, but in another hemisphere, He had been on the press in New York city West, in Chicago and in St. Louis, and most likely in Galena. (Laughter.) He had been a war cor- respondent at home, and had been with Grant, and Sherman, and Halleck, and Terry. He had also been a war correspondent abroad, and had followed the Abyssinian expedition, and won fresh laureis by his activity, enterprise and intelligence. The tee | editor of the HERALD, Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr.—(applause)—was in Paris at that time. A great English travelier and explorer had disappeared in the wilds of Africa, and the curiosity of mankind was excited to know what fate had befallen him. Nothing defl- nite could be found out in regard to him. All efforts toan American journalist the idea of sending, at his own expense, ley, single handed and alone, to find br. Living- stone, the long-lost traveller. (Cheers.) Our guest Was sent for to come hastily to Paris from Spain, and he met Mr. Bennett in his room at his hotel alter he had retired for the night. A conversation of five ntinutes completed the business, and the Journalist summed up his instructions to his corre- spondent about this way:—*You shall have an un- limited credit; find Livingstone.” That brict and sententious and effective speech reminds us of what took place between Grant ang Sheridan tn the Valley of the Shenandoah. After Sheridan had expialned his plans his chief only answered, “Go in, Sheridan,” and Sheridan did “go in,” and Stanley went “in.” It also brings to mind the incident that took place between our great American traveller of his time, Join Ledyard, and some eminent English §e ‘apher of that period, He had heard of Ledyars 0 Was then in London, and sent for him to come and talk about some great exploration, and concluding that dyard was the mman he wanted asked him when he would be ready to start. “To-morrow morning” was the em- hatic reply of the great traveller. Our friend here joses no tine in entering upon and completing his work, and when accomplished he does not have to make the same return that the Mississippi sheriff made to a writ against a debtor who had run off into a Ag ge oy comativus in swampo, (Great laughter.) We soon find him at Zanzibar, on the coast of Africa, organizing his expedition. From there he crosses over to Bagomoyo and then heads for bd gy oe a little pleasure trip of some three months, I believe. This long march had been ter- ribie, and had brought with it sickness, discourage- ment and demoralization, But it was always “On Stanley, on"— (laughter) —and with unsubdued cour age. 1t could truly be“said of our guest at this time— r. Bennett conceived Mr, Stan- No danger daunted And no labors tired. And I think it was from here, sir, you bid the civil- ized world farewell, until, as you expressed it, you should see the “old man face to face or bring back his bones.” And, as J understand, it was from here that your great troubles vegan. You found your- self in a deadiy climate, struggling in jungles and in fastnesses, amid wild and hostile savages at war with each other; you were scorched by an African sun, bringing burning fever and wild delirium, but on you went. You cut through forests and you passed over mountains; you fought battles and you won victories; you gave fight to the great Mirambo, the chief of the Wamogas— (laughver)—who con- cluded that “discretion was the better part of valor” and retired, realizing there, no doubt, in the centre of Africa, the full force of the couplet :— He who fights and runs away Will live to fight another day. And then you appear to have commenced a great flanking operation in getting outside of Mirambo's dominions, and I think you must have gathered some experience in that business in Grant's great campaign of the Wilderness, (Che And your experiences at home must been ‘useful to you in other respects, for 1 was greatly amused at breakfast the other day to hear you tell General Sherman tuat you had occasion to make the same speech to a wild African chief that you had heard hin make in camp at Fort Laramie to a chief of the Arapa- hoes. (Langhter.) We follow you with breathless interest and become excited as you. approach Ujijl, on the banks of the Tanganyika, and we par- ticipate in the feeling of hope that you had that you migut there hear something of the object of your long and grievous search, We see your brave little party enter the village, sick, ragged, worn down, emactated, drums beating and fags hying. But the flag still highest in air was the starry banner of our own Republic (long continued cheering) —that emblem of our nation’s glory and grandeur, respected and honored everywhere by Christian civilization, and saluted with reverence even in the wilds of Africa, (Great applause.) Our interest intensifies when we find that there 1s a white man in Ujiji, and we participate in bag when you atep out from among your Arabs and address this white man—“Dr. Livingstone, I believe /’ And we throw up our hats when we see a smile light up the features of the brave old man, and when he an-. swers, “That is my name, sir.” (Applause.) That was an introduction worth having, and which must become historical. We congrat- ulate you, Mr. Stanley, on the glorious success that has crowned your efforts and your labors. We pay a respectful homage to your cour- age, your energy, your fidelity and your perse- verance in overcoming ail obstacles in your path, (Great cheering.) We honor the enterprise and liberality of Mr. Bennett, who conceived and car- ried out with his own means this wonderful expe- dition, (Applause.) We thank you tor the intelli- gence you bring us of Dr. Livingstone, and we rejoice that you met him face to face, and that he still lives to pursue his explorations still further and give to the world the result of his explora- tions, (Cheers.) We were all interested in the fate of that great traveller, and we admired, too, his courage, his tenacious purpose, his ‘gift ot con- tinuance’’—persevering through Jong years for the attainment of the great object of nis life; cut of from the civilized world, in soll- tude and isolation; prostrated by disease; worn out with longings; the victim of treach- ery and deception, yet ever intent on his great } crossing continents, threading rivers, Ts, ) have purpose navigating lakes, scaling mountains and bringing new countries and peoples to the knowledge of mankind, And from what you told sir, | find that Dr. Livingstone has made a pathway to all American hearts, He has given to one of the great jakes he has discovered the name of that man whose memory dwetis in all our hearts—Lincoln, fons continued TT But, gentlemen, I will etain you no longer, for | know you wait anxiously to give your approbation to a sentiment which I now propose to offer :—‘“Henry M. Stanley, the cor- respondent of the New York HERALD, the man who discovered the discoverer.” We honor him for bis failed. With the PUMA HeNE genins which belongs | courage, his energy and his fidelity. We rejoice in tht triumphant success of his mission, which has ae him imperishable renown and conferred ad- itional credit on the American name, We cordially welcome him on his return, and “may he live loi and prosper.” (Great applause.) . MB STANLEY'S SPEECH, Mr. STANLEY responded to the toast in a speech in which he narrated the incidents of his expedi- tion from the period at which Mr. James Gordon Bennett gave um his first instructions down to the discovery of Dr. Livingstone in the wilds of Africa, His adventures were related in an easy, unembar- Tassed, conversational style, suposionaly inter- rupted by bursts of natural eloquence, which held his auditors spell-bound, He said that the expedi- tion which had procured him the honor of their approbation was not the first thing of the kind Which he had attempted in the service of the New York HERALD. He had accompanied the gallant army of Abyssinia as far as Magdala, and t ye knew how the enterprise of that journal had been rewarded by his being able to flash over the wires the news of the triumph been accomplished there. (Applause.) He sub- sequently assisted at another triumph of civiliza- tion—a victory of mind over matter—the conquest effected by Leaseps over the sandy dunes and ex- panses of the Suez Isthmus. (Applause.) He had explored the great mysterious Nile, the temples that dominated its shores, and the grand old granite and syenite statues that guarded the sacred precincts up as far as the fanes of holy Phila, the gloomy aisies of the great Luxor, and the sad, tune- jul Memnon tracing the history of Egypt from the glorious days of Sesostris down to the deep degrada- tion of Mameluke times and its uprise again Lo the dawn of a fresh regeneration and the knowledge that civilization means power. He had not time to descant to them upon that occasion on the relics of refined art which he had found in Greece, nor to warm up their rehgious sentiments by speak- ing to them of Jerusalem and Nazareth. Nor would he detain them by telling what he had seen in Spain, Italy and in the land of Hatz and Saadi, ‘The rude Caucasus and India must be passed by. No more of these, he said; but, gentlemen, animated by your friendship, en- couraged by the sentiment which led you to com- ge the enterprise and liberality of the NEw YORK HERALD, and the generous idea which in- duced Mr. James Gordon Bennett to send relief to @ good old man almost perishing on the shores of the Tanganyika aud to get news the world so much desired, 1 will proceed to touch upon a few brief points which I know will not be devoid of interest on the present occasion. (Applause.) Do you know what Zanzibar is? I am sure ldid not. I had not the slightest idea what sort o! place it was. It is a gem of the ocean, You find there one of the most attractive of islands, laved by the most sparkling of seas, warmed by rich sunlight and verdurous beyond imagination. Do you know what Africa is—that portion of Africa to which our attention is now drawn? Its coasts, even while you look onit as you ap- proach its shores, fascinate the imagination, I remember even now the ardent hopes that sprang up as I gazed upon it. How grand appeared those groves of graceful-topped palms, how mysterious the bold headlanas to the north, how grandly heaved the land swells toward the west, what solemn thoughts crept over my mind, as the fact that those undulations, those forests, those groves, must be crossed by me! for who knew what might happen, who knew what fate awaited my litue ariny abd myself? However, as all augured well | why should our spirits be dashed when heaven and earth seemed to smile a welcome? But I dread the ridicule that perhaps would be excited it | told you all that was in my mind when I set foot upon the sandy beach, aud was greeted by many sono- rous “Yamos"? from the grim-looking’ people who were thus saiuting me. 1 had no boats to burn, for those which bore me were not mine; but there were resolutions to form as well as sadness to banish, and I assure you the spirit was not want- ing. (Applause.) After narratM]g the diMculties and annoyances which beset him on his advance into the interior Mr. Stanley thus proceeded :—Dim and indistinct are the memories of the many arnoy- ances which I bore, All my dificulties recede froin my memory When | see such an array of faces smil- | ing a cordial welcome. Had any one told me that such things would ve my reward on my return; that such hearty compliments would be paid to me as the representative of the New YoRK HERALD in Central Atrica; that I should receive such loud- sounding praise from journals representing such a variety Of languages, | should have doubted, Then there were pains—grievous bodily pains—always present; dangers and hardships ever in the per- | spective; but here | find pleasures and joys | which are almost intoxicating, And what pleases me greatly is the fuct that Mr. Bennett, like the generous-nearted wan he is, kept up his hopes of my success. On December 31 he says in an editorial:—*We have great taith in our experi enced Oriental campaigner, who conducts this e: pedttion, and strong hopes of his coimplete suc- cess.” The editor guessed accurately wh he goes on to fay, “We think that by this time he has ac- complished his journey to Ujiyi, and has found Dr. ingstone.” He was only wrong when he expressed. his belief that at that time I was back at Zanzibar, “Meantime,” he says, “from the news- | paper extracts on the subject which we transter to | this paper, it will be seen tnat our African expedi- tion 1s attracting much attention.” In this he only spoke the fact. The speaker reverted to his inter- view with the great explorer. Let me speak again, | he said, of Livingstone, the enduring man, the | brave and resolute traveller, the practical Chiis- tian gentleman. Whata weary, despondent look his Tace must have worn when he arrived at He had much of that when I saw ire it was to me to see him brighten up iittle by ttle, to feel almost a childish Interest, so intense was it as | enacted the part of a newspaper in what I toid him. It was medicine.t him, this long series of startling events that I bad the picasure of relating! It was life to him, this fresh white face from the United States, which came to tell him that America and rei had not forgotten him. Can any of you imagine yourselves in his position’ Can you imag- ine yourselves communing with your own thoughts on the Weary march through those silent forests, with their appalling, intense silence, his utter lone- liness Warning him, as he saw the bicached skulls of those who had gone before, of his own littlencss and his possible late?’ I could not, indeed, had { not seen these things. I remember well, when in | just such a scene as I have pictured, ! thougit | of this and addressed him on the sub- ject. He said if he died he would like to be buried in just such a place, and with only the dead leaves of the forest ever him. No grave would he like better; often and often had he thought so. Gentlemen, Mr, Stauley said, it was no exaggerated account 1 wished to’ bring with me from the heart of Africa. 1 vowed 1 would bring | nothing but the piain, unvarnished truth, for this ‘was @ case where there was no necessity for exag- geration. I wished to bring home facts; you see yourselves how they have stirred the hearts of na- tions. Those tiny flags, embiems of governments and nations, unite in praise of them, Seldom was there such unamimity upon any one topic as on that of Livingstone, ‘The story of your reception of his words, of your gathering together around such a | hospitable board to praise the liberality of the | young gentleman who sent me to find him, will be | very attractive and interesting to him. (Applause.) | I know well how pleased he will be; his is a heart to be touched by it. Permit me, in his name, aud on behalf of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, ti Fhe for your kind impulse, and for the interest. you have manifested in myself accept my deep and sin- (Great applause. AFTER MR. STANLEY had concluded Mr. Washburne said certain the company had in their minds the gentleman who had set on foot the expe- dition, and who had furnished the sinews of war to carry it successfully forward, He would, there- | fore, propose “Mr. James Gerdon Bennett, Jr., the | eminent journalist, who conceived the idea of send- | ing Stanley to find Livingstone, and whose un- bounded liberality sustained an undertaking the success of which has given to his journal a still more world-wide reputation.” This toast was re- ceived with immense and long-continued applause. There were two HERALD correspondents besides | Mr, Stanley, but with the proverbial modesty which has ever distinguished HeRraLp correspondents, they both declined to make a speech, averring that | they were readier with the pen than with the tongue, and that thelr province was reporting other people, not themselves, MR. RYAN'S SPEECH. Mr, Ryan, of the American Register, therefore responded to the toast by expressing the gratifica- tion which he felt at finding one of his olu associates and co-laborers Meeting with the reward to which his energy and daring justly entitled him. It was unnecessary for him to say more in regard to Mr. Stanley. Other speakers were prepared to dilate on the subject of his expedition. As to Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., no one admired more than he did the sagacity and power of initiation which were marking his course, and which had resulted in such | brilliant successes as the Abyssinian expedition and | the discovery of Dr. Livingstone. At the same time it was due to the memory of the great fly his father, to say that it Was to the train- ing which he had received from him that he owed the cere gratitude, he was development of those qualities. (Applause.) The | same might be said of their distinguished guest, | who had caught the spirit of enterprise and con- | tempt for difficulties which were characteristic of Mr. Bennett, Sr. (Applause.) As to himself, he | (Mr. Ryan) Could say that ifhe were goods for any- thing in his profession he owed it entirely to the se- vere training which he had received in the HERALD establishment, and to his becoming thoroughly im- bued with the ideas of the greatest journalist and greatest worker of his time. (Applause.) After this speeches were made by General Kid- doo, General Love, Mr. Young, Dr. Austen, of the London Times, and Mr. Crawford, of the Daily News, MR. YOUNG'S SPEECH, You have been good enough, sir, to toast me as an Englishman. A countryman of the illustrious Livingstone by descent, asi am proud to own—born in England, but with my dearest affections and all my worldly interests vested in your fortunate ljand—I am sometimes almost puzzled as to m, nationality. Yet on this occasion I could well wis! myself & John Bull, pure and simple, it I might with better grace offer my tribute of w: admira- tion and profound gratitude to the gentleman who is the guest of the evening. 1am not, indeed, au- thorized to speak on behail of others; but, if | know anything of my countrymen, 1 am certain that my celings repressut Apogee of our universal public, | Bigelow was one of his dearest friends, and he had | as we and that they will care little for the difficuities that have arisen concerning Dr. Kirk and his conduct. ‘These may well be left to the members of Mr. Stan- ley’s own profession, so numerously gathered around this Man: squabble they will have over what was don what was left undone. For my art, as a retired journalist, I have leisure and inclination to look above and beyond these comparatively trifing disputes. It is to the future, sir, that I turn my regards, as I think over what there remains for the enterprising genius of @ Bennett to map out and the persevering energy of @ Stanley to accomplish. And there seem to me to be three great discoveries still to be undertaken for the benefit of mankind and the further glory ot the New York HERALD. Can you not, in the first lace, fancy Mr. James Gordon Bennett summon- foe by telegraph Mr. Stanley to his presence, and asking him in the coolest way in the world whether he belicves in the existence of a veritable North Pole’ ‘The reply is “Yes,” of course. “Can you discover it?” is the rejoinder, to which Mr, Stanley answers with his habitual modesty: ‘1 don’t know, sir; but Pil try.” “All right,” says Mr. Bennett; “go ahead; you shall have unlimited credit; find the Pole, and hoist the Stars and Stripes upon it!” leave you to judge, gentlemen, whether the thing will be done. Again, can you not fancy Mr. Bennett, sitting quietly on the deck of bis yacht, and once more summoning Mr. Stanley to his side? The dialogue between them is, as usual, brief and practical. “Mr. Stanley, do you believe in the great sea serpent?” “I do, sir’? | “Then go and find him, You can have unlimited credit, Twist a cable about his jaws, tow him in from sea and beach him upon the spit of Sandy | Hook.” Gentlemen, I leave you to determine whether this feat will not also be accomplisued, The third and most important of the discoveries yet to be made by this combination of rare enter- prise and dauntiess perseverance carries me .back to the days when I, too, was in the press, and used, with many others, to shoot puny arrows agaiust the tough and impenetrable shield of the redoubta- | ble New York journai; for Mr, Bennett in. this crowning instance is not indebted to his own desire for tne diftusion of usetul knowledge, but to the marvellous forethought aud sagacity of his late father, You must, many of you, often have read | the wierd problem propounded in his columns, but | remaining to be solved by a Stanley, I give tt you in three words, as { resume my seat:—Who struck Billy Patterson +” | s OTHER FESTIVITIES. Mr. Home delivered a clever aramatic recitation in the course of the evening, and was followed by | Mr. W, J. Florence and Mr. Bowles with song and | story. MR. CRAWFORD'S SPEECH, Mr. Crawford, correspondent of the London | Daily News, on his health betug proposed by Mr. Washburne, said he felt overwhelmed by the unex- pected compliment. The many friends he saw about him understood the French phrase, chaieu- reuse tmprovisation, which meant an excellent speech on the sudden, and if that was looked for from him the andi e would certainly be disap- pointed. He would take tie opportuity of express- ing the pleasure he felt in being among Americans, He beileved that, owing to pecultar circ stances, very few Engiishmen knew Ameri is well as | he did, It had been his to be | acquainted with every American Minister in Paris | from the time of Mr. Mason downwards, Mr. Vilege successively introduced him to General Dix and | Mr. Washburne. In the ever-hospitable drawing rooms of the United States Legation he had for many years met the clite of American society in Burope and had made many friends, In a peculiar manner, therefore, he shared in the sentiment of rejoicing — whic! had been well expressed by @& preceding speaker at the happy issue of the Geneva Conference. As an old journal- ist of twenty years’ standing and a more or less “special”? correspondent, he was proud of belong- | ing to the same profession as the guest of the even- ing, who, by his daring and success rprise, | had made himself the first. “special’’. in the world, His feelings with regard to the youthful Mr, Stanley, by the side of whom he had the honor of sitting that evening, were akin to those of Salvator Kosa, When, entranced with admiration and stimulated by the sight of a great masterpiece of # great painter, he exclaimed, “ Anch’ io sono pittore.” DR. AUSTIN'S SPEBCH, Dr. Austin, of the London 7imes, made a very neat and appropriate speech, in which he spoke in glowing terms of the energy displayed by Mr. Stan- ley and the enterprise of the HERALD. He said that, according to the proverb that “two in a | trade can never agree,” he sliould be jealous of the | success of the HERALD, but he was not in the least. He only praised the daring of one journalist and. the generosity of another, undertaking an expedi- | tion, in doing a great thing, which his own paper ought to have done. He said he regretted exceed- ingly the unfortunfte quarrei that seemed inevita- ble between Dr. Kirk and Dr. Livingstone; but he felt sure that whatever be the result few Engilsh- | men would not refuse the due meed of glory to Mr, Stanley. They had unfortunately in England a few learned geographers and savans, who, jealous of each other as of Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley, were disposed to indulge in carping | criticism and fault-finding sneers, These people | were, however, few, and he felt sure that the great mass of the Englishmen would rejoice over the suc- | cess of the expedition as thoro ly as if it had been carried out under the auspices of the Eng!ish government. It was truly a great deed, worthy of the great journal that had accomplished it. ‘The company separated at a late, or rather early, hour of the morning, the utmost good humor hav- ing been the characteristic of the evening. Take it all in all, it was a most brilliant success and the most remarkable testimonial! and compliment ever rendered to a journalist. LIVINGSTONE AGAIN. —_—_+ {From the Evening Mail, August 17.) gives all the letters sent by Dr. Livingstone to Lord Stanley, Earl Clarendon, Karl Granville and Dr. Kirk, seven in number and mostly very long. Altogether they occupy two pages of fine print in the HERALD, enough for a moderate-sizeg@ volume. These are the letters which Earl Granville certifles to be genuine, after they had passed the severe scrutiny of subordinates in the Foreign OMce who were familiar with Dr. Livingstone’s handwriting and with all the existing information concerning Africa. This oMcial cer- tificate cannot-be impugned, and the controversy about the genuineness of the letters may as well be given up forever, For ourselves we must say that such decided testimony was not needed, That the letters are not those of the idea! Livingstone who Is known through his published works we“admit. We have, however, known of more than one instance in which books of travel have acquired a literary finish which their avowed author was incapable of im- Re ting to them; and even were it certain that Dr. ivingstone dispensed with all literary id, we must | not forget that a man who has for years been iso- | lated from civilization and had led such a life as he | has would hardly write with the same care and | attention to ie puvereues as though seated in his own library, with abundant leisure and with favor- | able surrounding influences, The letters published inthe Herarp to-day will | afford abundant opportunities for criticism as to | their literary faults, but are none the lesginterest- ing or valuable for that. Their very freedom from | the constraint of conventionalities gives additional freshness and piquancy to their revelations of inte- rior Africa. The unstudied sentences are full of | vitality and give most vivid impressions. Thus, in | the letter to Lord Stanley, the explorer takes very | few paragraphs to explain some of the difficulties | and dangers of African travel, yet the picture is | complete. | a) ee ee. ee “Bad water and frequent wettings told on us ail, | by choleric symptoths and loss of flesh,” he adds, | an iinagine from the fact that’ fifty-eight inches of rain had fallen that year up to the middie of July. He found “continued wading in mud | grievous” and for the first time his feet failed, ir- ritable ulcers having fastened on each foot. No wonder that with such and even worse expe: rience he felt like writing to Lord Clarendoa in No- Yember, 1871. ‘ * * ” * *| It seems singular that after so many ages have | elapsed the most successful of modern explorers | should avow his determination to follow the sug- gestions given by the father of historians and | geographers, Herodotus, ut in this he has simply acted as many others have found it wise to act. Successive revelation of the countries described by | Herodotus all tend to enhance his reputation for accuracy and judgment. It remains for Living- stone to furnish further proof that Herodotus had information concerning the interior of Africa which no modern man has been able to acquire, We see nothing inexplicable in the steady determination with which the veteran ex- plorer continues this work. Being a man of firm urpose and ubfaltering courage, and having gone pack to Africa with @ fall comprehension of what was before him, we are not surprised that he pur- sues his task not merely without repining, but with a sense of humor that seems to offend some of his critics, They have as little comprehension of the man as those critics of Abraham Lincoln, who could not believe that the Saviour of his Country | indulged in humorous stories of a questionable character, BRIGHAM YOUNG ON A TOUR. SALT Lake City, Utah, August 17, 1872 Brigham Young anda party of Church officers are making @ notable tour through the northern counties of the Territory. They are received by the Mormon peopie with processions, music, flags, ban- ners and flame: OAPSIZING OF A BOAT IN NEW YORK BAY. Fort Haron, N. Y., August 17, 1872. This evening, as William H. Rudkin, of William street, New York, with his wife, were out fishing tn @ small boat, they were run into by the steamboat Trenton and ¢ peized near the Swash Channel, Messrs. James McNulty and Charles bh. Losier, of Brooklyn, who were in another smail boat at a dis- tance, hastened to the scene, and through their exertions the parties were Guaily reecucd, 8 THE PHILOSOPHER'S RETURN, Mr. Greeley’s Parting Speech at Rye Beach. What He Knows About the Beauties of New Hampshire’s Seaside Resorts. ON TO NEW YORK VIA BOSTON Boston, August 17, 1872, Mr. Greeley bade adieu to Rye Beach this morn- ing, in the midst of a driving rain storm. He rode in a close carriage from Mr, Jenness’ cottage Hampton Beach, a distance of some six miles, and’ thence a mile further, to Hampton station. At the! various hotels at Hampton Beach—the Granitey the Hampton Beach, the Boar's Head and the Ocean House—he was the object of a great d of admiration. The rain cleared away and he en-| tered most of these hotels in order to shake hand! with the'guests. At the Hampton Beach Hotel h found himself formally welcomed by Mr, Geor Lunt, of Boston, ina set speech, and he was com: pelled to make a reply. He spoke as follows :— MR, GREELEY’S PARTING SPEECH, Mr. LUNT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—It has ni been my good fortune—as I should certainly e: teem it my good fortune—to spend any consi able part of my life at seaside resorts. 1 have bee! a hard worker all my Itle, and my work has been of that nature which required daily attention, 80 that Thave rarely ever mingled in gatherings such this, which I understand are for that laudable pur-, pose, the pursuit of health. have always under- stood, however, that one great specialty of the sea-: shore was iminunity from speec! akin, I have’ always understood that whatever was done Lee | this American matter of Ri yf did not descen to the beach, In the presence of the mighty oceang which you continually hear rolling in upon you, human impotence and insignificance stand dum! It seems, however, that in late years OUR WORST HABITS AVE GROWN more upon us, and resorts such as this are proof against temptation, so that on this occasto a few words may be said. It has always bee! doabttul whether the mountains or the oce: . pI nd stronger attractions for t! go to Lhe mountains and r continued increase of strength. ‘ort to the seaside and find there, in th ever-roiling wave and the fresh breezes, not un-| mingled, perhaps, with the pleasure of fish, theit great attraction and delight. I presume the wisest—perhaps I should say those better able to a it—try both; spend a few weeks at the seasid and then at the mountains, and this, I presume, the best way; but this I know, that th seashore of my native State, which I never visite until yesterday, has marveilous attractions for meg atonce of beauty and strength. It isso noble coast that one might well wish it were may be ein there were more of it, However, we may be gla to see so great a number of people here—rejoice t | see so many of our States, such diversities of clie mate, represented, My idea is that THIS INTERMINGLING OF MEN AND WOMEN, mainly educated and enlightened men and women, from dilferent sections of our country, is conducin, toward the better unaerstanding—that reconcilia< tion of the heart and understanding which see: to me so indispensable, 1 was not among the most strenuous in favor of conquest and sub< jugation, but 1 am among the most ear~ Nest and hopeful for thorough reconciliation, among all classes of the American people, believing and trusting that your coming here,; whatever its purpose may be, most conduces ta that beneficent, that most essential end. I rejoice! to find so many of you here, and I trust you will go! home, each-and ali of you, strengthened not only int physical health, not merely prepared for the labo of the coming r, but strengthened also in hear and parpose to love and labor for the upbullding o the American republic and the genuine unity of all classes and sections of i3 great Union, HOMEWARD BOUND. At the conclusion he drove to the station an® took the Eastern Railroad tor Boston. There had been no previous intimation along the route thati he was coming, except an item in the Boston papers that he was expected or else private hensaiael but, neverthiess, at every little station there we knots of pecple collected to see him, and at onal or two places the crowds assumed, without pre- arrangement, the proportions of an ovation, Att Newburyport he was compelled to appear on the platform and shake hands with a large crowd. ‘They appeared to be quite enthusiastic, and one in= dividual remarke “We'll show ‘em what we know about beans next November, Uncle Horace.” At Ipswich, Beverley, Salem and Lynn similar demonstrations were made, evidently impromptu and quite hearty. On arrival at Boston, Mr. Greeley drove at once tothe Parker House, where he dined and where he was waited upon informally by @ number of the political dignitaries of Boston. He left this after- noon by the Old Colony train for Fall River, and will arrive in New York to-morrow (Sunday) morn- ing. THE “STAR IN THE EAST.” Great Preparations for an Exciting Cam paign—A Call Issued to Union Soldiers of the State—A Grand Republican Demonstration to Take Place on th 27th Inst. PORTLAND, Me., August 17, 1872, The next great political event of this season im this State will be the mass Convention of Union soldiers to be held in ‘his city on the 27th inst. The | call is to all Union soldiers in Maine who cherish the great principles for which the war was fought to a victorious end; who believe that a Union sol~ dier who fought to save the Republic has larger’ claims upon the’ government than a rebel) soldier who fought to destroy it; who believe in extending a just and generous hand to @ defeated foe, but who are opposed to granting amnesty and pardon to such rebels as Jacob Thomp~ son, who plotted the destruction of Northern cities! | by the most cruel incendiarism, involving the de~ struction of women and children; who believe that the Union soldiers are entitied to the largest pen- sions the government 1s able to pay, and who view with alarm even the remote intimation of placing. the rebel soldiers on the same basis, which, if ac- complished, would not only withhoid much needed aid from those Union soldlers who were rendered helpless by their wounds, but would utterly con- found all demonstrations of patriotism and treason, and would deprive the government in future exigencies of that loyalty and jove on which it must always rely in times of great public’ peril ; who believe that the present unparalleled. and unjustifiable assault upon the private personal character of the President of the United states— the first soldier of the age—are but the emanations: | of bitter partisan hostility, and should be rebuked and denounced by all who appreciate the honesty of the man and the modesty of the hero, The call has the names of 1,000 soldiers in ail parts of the State already appended, and additions are made by every mail. Invitations are to be ex- tended to all the campaign clubs in the State, and an evening demonstration is expected that will equal the great torchlight procession of 1860, General Burnside, Senator Wilson, General Butler and General John M. Harlan, of Kentuc! dy to be present. By the arrangement for ex ra trains and haif fares the committee expect to make this the greatest political gathering thatever has taken piace in Maine. ANDY JOHNSON, Speech of the Ex-President at Nashville- A Roundabout Way to Congress. NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 17, 1872. Andrew Johnson made his promised speech tow day at the Exposition building, in this city, to about three thousand people. It did not vary much from his Knoxville speech, though more elaborate. He referred to the general preference for military men for office, and warned the people against it ag of evil tendency, and while speaking of amnesty asked amnesty for himself. It Is inferred from this that he desires the nomination for Congress for the State at large. hs MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS, Boston, Mas August 17, 1872, It is stated that at a meeting of liberal republi- cans and democrats in Boston to-day, it was re- solved to ask Charles Francis Adams to become their candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, A tel mon the subject is said to have been des- patched to Geneva, ALABAMA POLITICS. ° MontcomeRy, Ala., August 17, 1872 The republicans of the Second district of Alabama nominated J. T. Rapler Ag for Congress on the first ballot, over C, W. Buckley, late member of Congress, i