The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-03
THE GREAT WHITE PASTA.
Belief That This Mysterious Person Is Ex-
nIOrer Stanley.

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LONDON June 28.-The opinion is growing
that Stanley is really the great White Pasha,
whose arrival in the Bahr-el-GhaZel province
at the head of a large force is agtating the
native mind at Suakim and Cairo, and set tho
Mahdi's successor at khartoum thinking of
the best and most expeditions means of ami
hlating the daring intruder. Englishmen, who
believe England's fair fame was furnished by
the failure to relieve Khartoum, cherish the
hope that the romance OF central Africa an
nails may eliminate in the wiping out of that
stain by Stanley, and clearing up the mystery
of Gordon's fate. The idea is fasci-
mating, but Stanley's mission is to join
Emin Pasha and the general opinion is that
he is too practical man to entertain the
thought of ousting the Mahdi and reigning in
his stead.
The more immediate effect of his move
ments will be, it is feared, to make more
miserable the sad lot of the Europeans who
fell into the MIahdi's hands after Gordon's
death, and most of whom are still in captivity
at khartOUm.
Your Vienna correspondent has received
from the great African traveller, Dr. Junker.
heartmoving news of these poor people lately
brought from Khartoum to Cairo by two Sou
danese messengers, who risked their lives to
deliver il. The news was brought in two
small letters, each about four times the size of
an ordinary postage stamp. One was written
by Slatin Bey, and the other by thes%idow of
an Egyptian officer who lost his life in the
massacre which followed the fall of Khartoum.
The letters say that Lupton Bey, one of
Egypts most trusted governors, who made the
Bahr-el-GhaZel province more than self-sup-
porting, has until lately been compelled to
work in the rude arsenal which the Mahdi's
successor established, as O common laborer.
He has to herd with common Arab laborers,
naked, save for a pair of drawers and fez,
and subject to the insults and i'll treatment of
native overseers. Now his lot is somewhat
ameliorated, as he has been allowed to work
in the mint, from which Khalifa Abdullah,
the Mahdis successor, is turning out any
amount of base coin, which his subjects are
forced to pass current.
Poor Slatin Bey is acting as Khalifa's fore
runner, which brings him into uncomfortably
close relations with that potentate. Barefoot
and half naked, he has to run by the side of
his high mightnesss horses, carrying a lance
and small banner. One of his most impor
tant duties is to hold the stirrup whenever the
fanatioal potentate deigns to mount or dis
mount.
But most to be pitied of all is a German
named Neufeld, who is kept in chains, and,
out of the tyrant's more wantonness, has sew
eral times been ordered out for execution.
The poor fellow is actually strung up to tho
gallows, and, after suffering all the agonies of
death, is cut down and resuscitated. The
Mahdi's successor used to derive much amuSe-
ment from similar fortunes inflicted on Baron
Seckendortf's servant, and Prussian nom
commissioned officer named Klotz, until death
mercifully ended their sufferings about
year ago.