St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-25


I grant, but they are not to my mind entire
cowards must say am against doctors.
IT a man is suffering intense pain and is in
more or less desperate condition, would
give as much morphine as would still the
pain. There's
NOTHING LIKE A CIVIL WAR
to show what skrmks men are. I expect
both sides despise them equally. If in two
days find the news correct that the Mahdi
| is still at Kordofan, shall let out all the
political prisoners, which will shock the
( townspeople but will be true Joy and de-
| light to me, for 1t has been work utterly
repugnant to me. like free
will. We left God without our
free will We must return with our own
free will. hate forced subjection and
feel sure that to let these people out with
free will to 60 to the Arabs or not, to be
bad policy. must say feel it great
compliment when my councillors say
to ME, do what you think right, irrespec-
tive Of our advice, when they know am
ignorant of all that goes on, ignorant of the
Arabic language, and exist in my style
ignorant of Arab CUSTOMS ETC., etc.
You will do better than we do is what
they say, and I, poor devil, do not know
where to turn. Oh, our government! Our
government! What has it not to answer
for? Not to me, but to these poor people.
l declare, if I thought they wished the
Mahdi would give it up. so much do I
RESPECT FREE WILL.
ssMr. Gladstone has rival up here in his
shirt and collars -Mohammed Bey, Ibro-
him. He appeared to-day with regular
wings, rather ragged and his collars up to
his ears-regular orthodox patterns must
say hate our diplounatist. I dwell on the
joy Of never seeing Great Britain again
with it's horrid wearisOme dinner parties of
miseries. How we can put up with those
things passes my imagination. 1t is
a perfect bondage at. those dinner
parties. We are all in masks,
saying what we do not believe, eating and
drinking things we do no want, and then
abusing one another. / would sooner live
like dervish with the Mahdi than go out
to dinner every night in London. hope if
any English general comes to Khartoum he
will not ask me to dinner Why we cannot
be friends without bringing their wretched
stomachs in is astounding. 1t
certainly is a. curious exempliti-
cation of how very lightly religions
set on men, and to note the fearful apostasy
of both Musselmen and Christians when
their lives and property are menaced.
There is scarcely. one great family OF the
Soudan families who can trace their pedi-
gree for 500 years who have not accepted
Mohamet Achmet as the Mahdi to
SAVE E-THEIR PROPERTY,
though they laHgh at the idea afterwards.
I am afraid to say what numbers have been
killed fhrOrph fbN y,rpSnDt nOlicV
css Certainly sos some 500, 600, ' and 'i t IS
not yet over. For my part I
hope they, the Arabs, will all run away.
We have in most effectual way restored
the slave trade and slave-hunting, for her
majesty's government cannot keep the Sou
dan, and never will Egypt be able to govern
it. The only thing to be done is to give it
to the sultan. What an end Of diplomacy
for her majesty's government! And it was
so everywhere. When left, in January,
1880, to have settled it quietly, giving US
Kordovan, DoTfud and Bahrgazelle and the
equator, with decency and quiet. [ want
to get out Of the affair, but with decency.
Put yourself in my position. If you say
rapid retreat and leave Sinaar to its fate l
will say, No; would sooner die first,
and will resign my commission, for could
not do 1t. If you say, Then you are no
longer governor general then I am all
right, and the responsibility is on you. 1t
may be that all this writing is unnecessary
and that you have other views, but it is as
well you
KNEW MY OPINIONS.
81 am secure against any loss by the king
of the Belgians if [ leave Fl. NJ. S. There
fore am, so to say, free Of 81. M. S. If
you turn me out OF governor general am
relieved from all responsibility as to your
action in Soudan towards the people. do
not think am insubordinate in the matter,
nor unreasonable. If was Lord w Olseley,
I would make her majesty's government
send the Turks here There is 2,11O
ardebo in the magazines to-day. Six
weeks consumption and then the sponge
must be thrown up. could write volumes
of pent-up wrath on this subject, if I did
not believe things are advanced and all
work for the best. There was slight
laugh when Khartoum heard Barring was
humping his way up here, for so we read
Tewfik'S telegram, regular Nemesis. l
am sure we are deprived OF treat in not
being able to decipher the long kilograms
on the preceding page. 1t also is delicious
to find not one civil word from
any official parsonage, except Kitchener.
1t relieves me immensely, (alsO must ex-
cept Tewfik, who in his dispatch was civil
and polite). Evidently am in disgrace.
How fearful if Barring does bump his way
up here. AS British commissioner, shall
consider he has expiated his faults and
SHALL FORGIVE HIM.
We seldom realize our position. In ten or
twelve years. time Barring, Lord Wolseley,
myself, Evelyn Wood, ETC., will
have no teeth and will be deaf.
Some of US will be quite passe.
Now, what has been the painful position
for me is that there is not one person on
whom 1 can rely. Also, there is not one
person who considers that he ought to do
anything except his routine duty. We
have now been months blocked and things
are critical, yet not one of my subordinates,
except the chief clerk and his subordinates,
appears to-day. I have to send for
them and wait till they come,
perhaps an hour. Patience is
almost exhausted with this continuous, ap-
parently never ending trial. There is not
one department which have not to super
intend as closely as if I were it's direct head.
Nearly every order, except when it is for
their interest, has to be repeated two and
even three times. I may truly say am
weary of my life, day and night and night
and day it is one continual worry"
Railroad Land Grant.
WASHINGTON. June 24.-It recently
having come to the knowledge of Senator