The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-14

hood, and most of the buildings on the river bank were large and substantial.
 The governors palace, of which the facade and the walls of the first floor remain, must have been an edifice of some pretenton. It's walls are solidly made of stone, and enclose a parallelo- gram of considerable extent. In the center is a large courtyard, with the basin of a fountain. At the back is the garden, and on the east one-story building, with a flat roof of cement, The divan where Gordon awaited his fate was at the front of the house over the arcaded basement, and near the windows, whose fan-shaped tops give them a distinct appearance. In the corner facing south is pile of red brick and stone, with the marks of a staircase on the wall. It was here that Gordon died. Slatin's story of the last scene enacted on this memorable spot Is confirmed by natives. Gordon, standing on the top of the steps, de- manded of the Arabs, Where is your master?" The only reply was a spear thrust, and Gordon fell forward with out a word. His body was dragged to the palace entrance, where the head was cut off and sent to the Mahdi, who caused it to be exposed in Omdurman. What became of the body is uncertain. This only is known-that 1t was hacked to pieces by the horde of fanatics against whom the governor of Khar- tum had made so gallant stand. The palace was afterwards used as harem 1 by the Khalifa, and remained much as Gordon left it until Abdullahl-bin- Sayd, fAa rip ipa nF ,ie nj; vals, invented a new superstition, and made Omdurman the sacred city of the Mahdi.
 Although the thoughts of all were turned to that corner of the ruined palace, our steps were directed towards the bank. Facing the river, across a 1 broad avenue with palm trees, rises the | front of the palace, wall of plain white stone. The center of the facade | is pierced by a double row of twelve windows, while each end projects slightly, and has three windows with l fan shaped tops. There in the pres ence of the Sirdar and representatives of his victorious army, was performed the ceremony of hoisting the British and Egyptian flags. Guards of honor from all the British regiments that had taken part in the fight were stationed along the front and east of the palace. On the left were the Warwicks, Lin coins, Seaforths and Camerons; at , right angles to them, and extending along the front, were representatives of the Royal Artillery, the Grenadier Guards, the Lancashire Fusiliers, the Northumberland Fusiliers and the Ri- file Brigade, together with company of the Eleventh Sudanese. A special guard of Royal Engineers old corps-held the post of honor on the right. The Sirdar and staff took their places within the line, while the gun boats were moored close to the bank. Officers and men wore their kharki uni- form, the only variation from this dus- ty yellow being the gray of the Sirdar the white and elaborate dress of the German Attache, and the tartan kits of the Highlanders At quarter-past ten o'clock the Sirdar gave the com- mand, and the Union Jack and the cres- cent and the star of Egypt crept slowly to the top of the flagstaff, the bands meanwhile playing the national airs of both countries, and the artillery firing a salute of twenty-one guns. The re- sumption of British authority over the Sudan having been asserted by the un- furling of the flag side by side with
 that of Egypt, solemn service was held in memory of the man who had striven to maintain that authority un- impaired Cheers for Queen and Khe- dive had hardly died away before min ute-guns boomed across the river. The
 Dead March" from "saul'' was played the Rev. MT. Sims, presbyteri- an chaplain, read the fifteenth Psalm, in which many of the qualities that distinguished Gordon are named the Rev A. w. Watson, Anglican chap lain, said a prayer, and the Rev. Fath
 CT Brindle, Roman Catholic chaplain
 read a special memorial prayer. The
 pipers of the Seaforth Highlanders
 played lament, and the Sudanese es-
 saved Gordons favorite hymn, Abide with Me-
 No more impressive and touching
 ceremony has ever been witnessed
 There were in the company men whom
 Gordon was more than name and an
 emblem of courage and devotion to
 duty, men who thirteen years before
 had risked their lives to save him. To
 these especially the service appealed
 with overmasterng force. But they
 were not alone in being moved by the
 significance and solemnity of the occa-
 sion. The British soldier is not a crea-
 ture of sentiment, yet it was impossi-
 ble to glance along the rows of faces,
 hardened and burned by the fa-
 tigue and heat of a severe campaign,
 without seeing how deep and general
 was the effect. The scene could not fail to stir the indignation as well as the
 memory, Behind us rolled the brown waters of the Nile, across which Cor
 don had looked in vain for the coming , of the English. Away to the right
 flowed the White Nile, whose spent , flood had made that weak spot in the , defence of Khartum which hastened it's , downfall The ruins were before us, a
 heap of bricks and mortar, with a few broken walls, near which lay steam (Continued on Seventh Page.)