Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-06
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
KHART0UM FALLEN
And General Gordon A
Prisoner.
TREACHERY BY THE NATIVES.
London In A Fever Of
Excitement.
A MURDER0US LUNATIC'S FATE.
Cleveland And The Cabi-
net Makers.
THE FALL OF KHARTOUM.

General Gordon Betrayed BY the Ma
tfves-The General and His Troops
Captured BY the Enemy-Wild Ex-
element In London.
LONDON, Feb 5-The news on the bulle-
tin boards this morning, which drew immense
crowds and caused the widest excitement,
that Khartoum had fallen and General Cor
don was prisoner, was confirmed by the
announcemen that a dispatch had been re-
ceived at the war Office from General Lord
Wolseley, dated at Korti, in which he states
that a native courier from Metemneh had ar
rived at his headquarters with the startling
information that Colonel Wilson had return
ed from Khartoum, to which place he had
been dispatched with a small force from
General Stewards camp Metemneh, on
the steamer found there upon its capture
He reported that Khartoum had been cap
tured by the enemy and that General Cor
don had been made a prisoner of war. Colo
mel Wilson said that all along his retreat
from the Inflated city he was constantly har-
raised and subjected to heavy fire from the
enemy's guns. Many of the shots struck the
steamer, but without doing serious damage.
Everything went comparatively well until
within a short dist ance of Metemneh, when
his vessel ran ashore on oneo of the many is
lands there and is totally wrecked. Colonel
Wilson states that Khartoum fell
January 26, and he arrived off the city two
days after the fall He expresses the belief
that the capture of the city was brought
about by the treachery of some Of the natives
that General Gordon had pressed into his
Tyo1o,,o1 yViJcon,S 1i+t1o foroa of 1ast
accounts was still on the island on which
he was wrecked, waiting steamer to take
him to Metemneh. The courier reports, adds
General Wolseley, ''that the fall of Khar-
toum has caused a general feeling of gloom
throughout General Stewards camp and that
fears were expressed that unless reinforce
ments soon arrived their fate would in all
probability be soon sealed"
The confirmation of the fall OF khartoum
has caused the widest excitement through
out the city, far exceeding in intensity any
that has been aroused by any of the start
ling events of the past few weeks. The gov
eminent officials and their sympathizers hope
that the news will turn out to be greatly ex-
aggerated and express their belief that Cor
don has not vet been driven from the citadel
in the center of the city. Mr.. Gladstone, on
learning of General Wolseley's dispatch, pro-
ceeded at once to his official residence at
Downing street, and Immediately issued a
summons to the members of his cabinet
requesting their presence at once Mr..
Gladstone appeared to be greatly agitated.
This action in calling meeting of his Cabi-
net is, it is believed, for the purpose of ten
dering his resignation. Not since the pas
sage Of the Dardanelles by the British fleet
during the Turco-Russian war has there
been such wild excitement.
The Daily Chronicle says that the telegram
announcing the fall of Khartoum was re-
ceived at the war Office last night.
saws: at have personally known only two
heroes in the course of my life. One was
General Robert E. Lee, the other is General
Gordon
A native reports that the Mahdi had sixty
thousand men in the vicinity of Khartoum
and that he introduced number of his ennis
saries into the city. The emissaries mixed
freely with the native troops under General
Gordon and by brides, threats and
working ON their religious feelings induced
them to mutiny. Seven thousand of the
garrison deserted to the rebels, leaving Cen
eral Gordon only $500 faithful soldiers. With
this small force he attempted to hold the
city against the Mahdis great army, but
after severe fighting, in which large num-
Der of the rebels were killed, he was com
PEELED to surrender.
The Standard says that all party spirit
| must be dropped and one supreme united
effort be made to save Gordon in crisis
which can only be compared to the begin
| ming of the Indian mutiny.
| The morning papers are entirely devoted to
| the news about General Gordon and express
sions of the country's feeling in regard to his
misfortune.