Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-29
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The Great White Chief Is Be-
 lieved to Be Stanley.
WILL HE TRY TO DUST THE MAHDI
Terrible Sunerings of White Prisoners in the Soudan-The Incredible Tortures Inflicted on . German Captive-Two Egyptian Governors Badly Abused.

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 Egyptian Governors Badly Abused.
 LONDON. June 29.-The opinion is growing that Stanley is really the great White Pasha, whose arrival in the Bahr-el-Gha1el province at the head of large force is agi- tating the native mind at Suakim and Cairo, and set the mahdi's successor at Khartoum thinking of the best and most expeditions means of annihilating the daring intruder. Englishmen, who believe Englands fair fame was tarnished by the failure to relieve Khartoum, cherish the hope that the TO- nance of Central African annals may cul- minate in the wiping out of that stain by Stanley, and clearing up the mystery of Gordon's fate. The idea is fascinating, 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 mahdi's hands after Gordon's death, and most of whom are still in captiv- ity in Khartoum
 A Vienna correspondent has received from the great Afric n traveller, Dr. bunker. heart moving news of these poor people lately brought from Khartoum to Cairo by two Soudanese messengers, who risked their lives to deliver it 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 tho widow 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 Egypt's most trusted governors, who made the Bahr-el- -Ghazel province more than self | supporting, has until lately been compelled l to work in the rude arsenal which the mahdi's successor established as e common laborer. He has to herd with common Arab laborers, naked, save for @ pair of drawers and @ fez, and subject to tho insults and ill 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 l forced to pass current
 l Poor Slatin Bey is acting as Khalifa's fore runner, which brings him unto uncomfort ably close relations with that potentate Barefoot and half naked, he has to run by the side of his high mightiness' horse, carry ing lance and O small banner. One of hi. ! most important duties is to hold the stirruE whenever the fanatical potentate deigns t< mount or Jdismount
 But most to be pitied of all is . German named Neufeld, who is kept in chains, and out of the tyrant's mere wantonness, has sew eral times been ordered out for execution
 The poor fellow Is actually strung up to tn, gallows, and, after suffering all the agonie | of death is cut down and resuscitated. Tn, Mahdi's successor used to derive much amuse ment from similar tortures inflicted on Baror Seckendorff's servant and Prussian non commissioned officer named Klotz, unh death mercifully ended their suffering, about c year ago.
 No wonder Dr. bunker congratulates him self upon the prudence which saved hin from similar fate. He was actually on tn,
 way to join Lupton Boy when he received
 warning and turned back and took shelter ir
 Emin Pasha's province. Baron Seckendorn'
 servant disregarded the warning and duly
 fell into the black Neros hands
 Three missionaries and four nuns, Aus
 trians and Italians, have been better treated
 and. beyond the inconvenience of having
 been compulsorily married, have not muci to complain of except their actual captivity
 and agonizing uncertainty in which thel
 spend their days One of the messenger
 who brought the foregoing news pluckily
 agreed to return to the captives, and he lsf
 Cairo on June for Khartoum, via Berber
 carrying tiny letters for the captives and
 considerable sum of money for their use, ovel
 and above the large reward paid him for hi faithful seryicea