Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — Stanley’s African Expedition. [ARTICLE]

Stanley’s African Expedition.

We have received communications of a most interesting nature from our commissioner, Mr. Henry SI. Stanley, announcing the successful exploration of the delta and main channel of the Hirer Rutiji, which flows into • the sea some seventy miles to the south of Zanzibar. The letter, which is very long and copious in information, is dated from Zanzibar the 19th of October. Leaving that island on the last day of September, in his yawl, the Wave, Sir. Stanley, accompanied by his two Englishmen, Pocock and Francis, sailed down the SamboOrango mouth,in the Delta, and proceeded up this into the main stream, which he stemmed to a point much higher than had previously been readied. lie found two wide and navigable mouths and an upper channel, which carried his boat on five feet of water to Kisu—the point where the slave caravans of the interior, as he found, regularly cross on their way to Dar-Salaam and the northern ports. From information acquired in many quarters he reports that canoes and lightdraught launches plight ascend as high as 240 miles from the coast, and his obs&vatiofrs establish the possibility of a flourishing and prospeious trade in ivory and gum copal, drugs and grain, with the populous tribes of the alluvial plain through ■tfiiieh the Rutiji flows. He also points out with clear detail how the launches of Her Majesty’s squadron upon this coast mav, by ascending, properly equipped, to ftisu* completely stop, the overland slave traffic which now crosses the stream at this point. ■ ___ Mr. Stanley reports most favorably upon the sailing qualities of his little vessel, the Wave, and after surveying and mapping the delta of the Rutiji and visiting the island of Mana, in the offing, he returned, all well, to Zanzibar, and was enlisting his men for the expedition Into the interior at the date of nis letter —London Telegraph. —The Conduit Pipe Company, of Pittsburgh, have completed their line of pipes and are pumping oil from Millerstown to Faigview at the rate of 4,000 barrels pew day. Sr