AMERICAN JOURNALISTS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 20, 23 June 1874, Page 3

AMERICAN JOURNALISTS.

[From the "New York Herald."] As Mr Stanley is one of the most widelyknown men of the present day we do not think it necessary to dwell at length upon the fact that he anticipated the English Government in forwarding the first intelligence of the fall of Magdala—a piece of news which was the signal for a national jubilee throughout England. Neither need we remind the public that the finding of Livingstone recalls one of the boldest and most successful exploits recorded in travel, adventure, and journalism. But beyond these triumphs Mr Stanley remained to be tried. And now, having accompanied the second military expedition into a malarial section of Africa as a "Herald" correspondent, having, for active and untiring competitors, some of the best journalists of England, many of them in the secrets of the headquarters, he telegraphs the terms of the treaty of peace, which the '! Times" of London and other English journals eagerly copy, and, as usual, bears off the substantial journalistic laurels of the war. If we pauße to inquire what quality it is in the man that has brought him renewed distinction, we can only answer, it is because he is a complete journalist. Not only did he go to Ashantee at. the peril of his life, following the staff from the sea, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles, to Coomassie and send graphic letters descriptive of all the operations, but he organised a separate campaign, by which he was the first captor of the Lisbon telegraph station, whence he wired the important news that allEnglaud was anxious to learn. But Mr Stanley is not alone among " Herald " correspondents who have justly merited high literary repute aud admiration for courageous and chivalric qualities. Mr T. A. MacGahan, who was recently received by the American Geographical Society, when General Sherman joined him in a description of the Caucasus and the land of the ancient Oxus, completed one of the most rcmarkabla and perilous journeys in modern travel, being present at the fall of Khiva, and subsequently fighting in the bitter campaign between the Turcomans aud the Cossacks. It is now about a year since a resolute journalist attached to this staff volunteered to visit Cuba, go into the insurgent lines, and discover if the insurrection was a coreless fraud. All will remember the romantic journey of Mr James J. O'Kelly ; how he went to Havana ; then pushed boldly for the insurgent camp, in defiance of the Spanish authorities; his narrow escape from death : his visit to and interview with Cespedes; his arrest and incarceration at Manzanillo, and then the revolting persecutions to which he was subjected up to the moment of his release in Madrid. We need hardly mention Mr Fox, General F. F. Millen, and others, to illustrate what we would convey by these lines—that a true journalist must be a thorough man of the world, one of high culture, quick to learn, ready to transmit, having the military quality inborn, possessed of the literary faculty in the first degree, and of that refined instinct which teaches a man Dot to get killed if he can help it.