The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-26
Hot ard Searching Blast, Accompanied by
Storms of Binding Sand-A Powerful
Ally for the False Prophet.
The Friendly Tribes Win aGreat Victory
Over the Madhi's Followers.
Effort to Recover Gordon's Papers and Relics
Germany Obtains the Assistance OfFrance
in Her Colonization Projects.
FROM THE FRONT.
Brackenbury Approaching Abu- Ham cd-Ths
Rebels Defeated Near Suakim.

Rebels Defeated Near Suakim.
LONDON, Feb. PA Korti dispatch says
General Brackenbury, commander of the late
General Earle's force, reports from Hebbeh, op-
posite Kaniet island, that on the 2lst his entire
force, including 7S0 animals, guns and equipment
complete, crossed to the right bank Of the Nile
and was ready to advance at daybreak on Sun
day to Abu- Hamed, forty miles distant Brack-
enbury had visited the scene Of Colonel Stew
arts murder and found some of Stewards
visiting cards, and articles belonging to Herbin
and Palmer, and shirt sleeve stained with blood
The steamer which conveyed Stewart from Khar-
toum to the place where he was murdered is
now sixteen feet above the present level of the
water. She is Quilted and filed with sand. The
houses and all property belonging to the blind
man, Fakey Etrnan. one of the principal instiga-
tors of Stewards murder, were completely de-
stroyed Brackenbury's party is doing well,
and no deaths have occurred since to 18th. The
health Of the troops is excellent; only eighteen
men beside the wounded are sick"
A dispatch from Korti says the dreaded KAN
sin Winds which do not generally begin before
March, have already begun to blow over the
Soudan, and assumed almost the intensity of
companied by binding clouds Of sand,
which cut like needle points. The
troops only find shelter by lying down with
their faces to the earth until the storm is past,
whom they struggle out of the sand, almost
choked and blind. Cavalry horses suffer terri
bly, from the effects of these hot blasts, and
many of them have been so injured that they
had to be shot 1t is supposed the kamsin pre-
walls about month.
Sir Henry Gordon, brother of the hero of
Khartoum, has requested Zebehr Pasha to open
negotiations with the Mahdi for restoration Of
the private papers and other personal property
of General Gordon which fell into the hands of
the Mahdis troops when Khartoum was cap
tured Zebehr Pasha is requested to inform the
Mahdi that these souvenirs are only wanted for
the satisfaction of General Gordon's immediate
relatives, and is authorized to guarantee that no
military use will be made of the papers, etc.
A Suakim dispatch says "The latest news
from Agig and Tamai confirms the report of a
brilliant victory won by the Mudr of Taxa and
the Shukria tribe OF friendly Arabs against the
Hadendowah tribe in ali attack by the latter
upon some friendly tribes for supplying the gar
rison at Kassala with grain. 1t is now stated
that during the battle no less than $500 Haden
dowahs were killed, and among the slain was
Sheikh Moosa.
1.-THE Kassala garrison is short of food and am
munition, and as the place is hard pressed by
the enemy, surrender must soon result unless
tho garrison is relieved"
Gen. Gordon's Views of Death.
London Telegraph
God knows what my anxiety was. Not for
my life, for died years ago to all ties of this
world and to all its comforts honors and gories.
1t was on Sept. H. 1877. when on his expedition
to Shaka 500 miles southwest of Khartoum,
with four companies of Indifferent troops, to
break the neck of slave raiding i'll its very den,
that Gordon wrote these characteristic words,
which may be fifty quoted at time when there
is too much reason to fear he has actually laid
down his life for those whom he had vainly
striven to save. They breathe precisely the
spirit with which Gordon always regarded life
and death. "God has given you," he says.
writing to his friends, tiles and anchors to
this earth. You have wives and families; l. thank
God, have none of them, and am free. =
You only called on at intervals to rely on your
God; ] am obliged continually to do SO. mean
by this that you have only great trials such as
the illness of child, when you feel yourself
utterly weak, now and then am constantly in
anxiety. The body rebels against this constant
leaning on God; 1T is heavy strain on it; it
causes appetite to cease. Find me the man
and will take him as my help-who utterly
despises money, name. glory, houor-one VINO
never wishes to see his home again. one who
looks to God as the source of good and controller
OF evil one who has healthy body and an ener
getic spirit, and one who looks on death as q re-
lease from misery. If you cannot find him,
then leave me alone"
That instructive >clinging to life. which is so
natural to all men, Gordon seems to have over
come as completely as Ignatius Loyola, or John
Wesley. or Cromwells Puritans When his
poor Soudanese lambs pressed him on every
side with their complaints, he wrote: II must
not complain if they have no thought of what
have already gone through. There is only one
issue to it. and that is death, and often feel |
wish it would come and relieve men One can
hardly doubt that if Gordon was stabbed as he
left the palace he had so bravely held for twelve
months, he saw in the dagger only an instru-
ment of deliverance. In every reference to
death, it was with him the great release" II
value my life as naught, and should only leave
WEAKNESS for perfect peace"
PERILS OF THE DESERT