I 1 1 GORDON AND WOLSELEY I 1 C mr gladstone and general lord wolseley nays says the new gorkun leun I 1 in a leading editorial will ha have hae e 1 brows of brass and hearts of atone stone w if they can face the wrathful outburst that the distressing news from khartoum is certain to call forth from an exasperated it ted nation the unctuous sanctimonious prime minister r i who gives a peerage for the opera boitse exploit at helel kabir and leaves a hero to con I 1 arout a hast host of devilish fanatics i vad and await t for a whole twelvemonth of harrowing anxiety the help that never came will need a buckler I 1 moro more effective than his worn out I 1 tricks of speech to avert the scorn and detestation that should overwhelm him now n ow the blood of athe the abandoned gordon cries cribs against him from the ground for no roan man y W believes bev e s in the relenting ing of Hickss butcher or will be gulled by the mendacious attempt to break the I 1 chock of the black ii tidings dingi if IV is ii now too probable that some odthe of the dispatches dispatch essaid to have been I 1 I 1 received from gordon during the last year were forgeries and it iq IE I 1 I 1 10 3 4 enouf enough h that many f the official reports cent sent from egypt 0 since lord wolseley took command there five months ago 0 have been deliberate lies all that we were vere told about the case and speed of AA river transportation tation as contrasted with the desert march from suikam to berber has proved to be a tissue noi and there was an I 1 f A I 1 1 e equal 1 want of truth in the aug smug assurances that danger dauger from the rebels was less dreaded than the ritu natural ial obi obstructions ruction s to advance and that the fifth cataract once passed the relief of khartoum would be tho the trivial task of a few days there was no basis either am fan r 4 it if seems Beems fora the comforting accounts of t the 1 e Mu murdis lidis growing weakness and aimless movement his desertion by bis his followers of gordons aggressive operations and I 1 I 1 I 1 of the lat tatters firs ability to maintain himself for years against the wan ah rai ing power of odthe the false prophet and fin finally a illy i it t was untrue that the bulk odthe of the rebel forces f arces was engaged 0 in the assaults repelled by gen stewart almost all the vague equivocal but on we th e whole enczur 1 aging information allowed to leak through the war office for the pur 0 o f pose 0 se af of calm calming i fiig the irritation and aexie anxiety afy of the english people le tarns to ani out 4 to 1 have been heer db delusion lusion or or intentional imposture imp coture I 1 but unhappily for mr glad w atone stone and his necked and inca a 0 alfe bw lieutenant Wol wolseley sOey a few IT facts can neither be disguised I 1 evaded nor condoned it is now g e nearly thirteen months since gordon went forth alone and unarmed B the desert deser tto to db defend fend khartoum 11 which was in jeopardy with a indetermination ij ib determination either to bring offin off in safety its panic stricken denizens or ufa be I 1 teach them his by example to hold 12 ri out hopefully and stoutly until eng w I 1 lands arm should shoula be stretched out zt alto k ato s them three months later clr ait was known in london that the peril of khartoum un was desperate that all avenues of escape had bad been I 1 cutoff cut off and that nothing but the 1 aro M pi arrival of df a strong british force could reasonably reason reasonably abl I 1 Y be expected deliver iti karri garrison 1 son from the frightful fate of yet then to 30 when the pla plainest inist dictates of duly and of honor urged decision and f j dispatch mr gladstone paltered palt palf ered and shuffled shu filed doubted dallied put ad 96 kh Wc stion by and wasted full five months moro more before he could bo be czi e ahamed V dand and frightened into a tardy recognition of his solemn fernn responsibilities I 1 bili ties then at laatt last when ben by 1 a mira degordon de ib gordon had managed to t 0 holdout hold out gen wolseley arrived at cairo inthe early daya of septem ve I 1 I 1 1 I 1 ber wito orders to organize at once ft a powerful expedition fir the relief aa ixba bf khartun khartum Khar itogni i tum I 1 then began the second series series of fatal blunders and delays gen I 1 I 1 wolseley had carte blanche from the war office ce and ind he fie might have bave I 1 hid had far more than thin the gr p picked irm in manhat in I 1 that h he actually accey aed ed within a fortnight this force I 1 t I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 might have been I 1 disembarked embarked dis at junki m and nod grahams experience demonstrates that no resistance by tho rebels could have impeded his advance while stewarts bucce successful march across the almost equally difficult desert shows that no natural obstructions would woul d have been found insurmountable table by sir samuel samu el baker and by every authority on Sou danese topography topo grap by in in london and in cairo general wolseley was implored to choose this route had betoken betaken he taken the theroun coun sel of these experts his a army might certainly have reached berber by the middle of october it would have found gordone Gor donri dond steamers still masters of the river to that point and within another forts night it might have entered khartoum but wolseley persisted upon following a route which as lie was cautioned would prove bly longer and not a jot safer in the end and although he was warned that there are limits even to the fortitude of heroes and that if much mo more retime time was wasted before r ro 0 lieving khartoum be he might not find gordon there I 1 1 and lastly that nothing might be lacked to demolish the commanders deputa tion it now turns out that had bad wolseley even on oa dec 30 nearly four months after afier his appearance in egypt instead of breaking up his force into three petty columns advanced from bortl to he would have come in in time to save khartoum from its implacable besiegers As it was the small but gallant detachment under general stewart that had bad to face tremendous odds and narrowly escaped destruction only gaining the nile in a season e ason to profit by the welcome succor which gordon in his extremity had bad sacrificed himself to furnish the pre presence tence of those steamers at bearing a large part of the troops that the abandoned gordon had bad inspired with courage and fidelity bears poignant witness to the lofty heroic stature of the theman man that final act act of abnegation but for which khartoum might yet be safe will be its defenders monument had wolseley wolseley t been a month ago pent up in the beleaguered beleaguer ed fortress and gordon been in command of the relieving force at corti how dif different would then have been the ismuel I but gordon in all likelihood is dead and it remains for Irti england gland 0 to deal with wolseley and with gladstone THEY ARE ane ahead of us in many improvements in the old world thus in paris letters are now ent sent by pneumatic tubes throughout the city at a cost of 75 centimes cen times they must be contained in envelopes supplied by the pott offices hitherto only open telegraph cards charged 30 centimes cen times and closed forms 50 centimes cen times ofa of a small size could be transmitted under the new arrangements anything may be contained in the tile envelopes excepting hard substances provided the weight does not exceed a quarter of oi an in ounce at paris also telephone b boxes 0 aes have been opened at the post offices for the use of which a charge of 50 centimes cen times for five minutes conversation is made THE connecticut T legislature got in a dreadful stew the other day because somebody asked for a little appropriation to repair a tats tat rebel flag captured at pass christian by a connecticut regiment the way those legI legislators tors went for that poor old ripped and torn rebel flag was enough to make tears come to the eyes of a p potato but we ought to grin and bear it it often a 0 connecticut legislator does any thing that ia is likely tobe to i be heard of beyond the walls of the sta state to house and antl we ought ough t t to 0 le let t him have a swipe at a poor old de fena cless rebel flagin bel wants it THE TUE es eugenta eu cu lenta has been described to the paris academy of sciences as an astringent and febrifuge capable of replacing quinine as well as a dye yielding a beautiful yellow color it grows in west africa and resembles the morinda of the south sea gem islands quio quite closely in many respects its I 1 active principle is dounda kino kine