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

The City as it is To-day-Entry of the
 Sirdar's Army-Tribute of the Vic-
 tors to the Memory of the Murdered
 Gordon.
 We approached Khartum with feel ings to which it would be difficult to give expression. Every foot of the way was sacred and full of memories. Be- tween that narrow strip of green which rose across the brown flood of the Nile and the long line of Omdurman, with it's shattered tomb and ruined forts, there seemed to stretch a century of humiliation and wrong and vain re- grets. As we drew nearer, and the green fringe on the eastern horizon be- gan to take the form of palm groves, every eye was strained to catch the first glimpse of the city. Khartum is the name so often used to epitomize the history of the Sudan, that many people have remained under the impression that it is still living city. They may have read that when Abdullahi-bin- Sayd Mahommed succeeded to the Khalifate, his suspicion and timidity were aroused against the descendants of the Mahdi, who had established themselves in Khartum. But only those who have traversed the country from Atbara to Omdurman can have a true idea of the consequences of such an attitude on the part of the Khalifa | When he suspected he exterminated; when he feared he made a desert and called Ii peace. That was the primi- | tive policy of the late ruler of the Su- dan, and Khartum, once the emporium of central Africa, was it's first victim. All the ruin and devastation we had l hitherto seen, the villages of clay, whitened with bones, had the color of the desert, and seemed to be natural part of it. There was no sharp con- trast between the living and the dead. l Khartum was not the same. Ruin stood amid the profusion of tropical na- ture. When the gunboats reached the banks of the Blue Nile we entered a new land-a land of palm groves and pomegranate. Tuti Island prepared us for the change. This level stretch of ground which the flood of the two riv- CTS threatens to overflow, wore an air Of peace and prosperity out of keeping with it's surroundings. It was like an understood from Colonel Ray that mat English meadow for greenness. Men and women were at work among the dhoura or maize crops, and the water wheel moaned musically as though no harsher sound had been heard. The village and the powder magazine near the center of the island appeared un- touched. Steaming slowly past the is- land, we drew close to the bank on which Khartum stands. Date palms fringed the river, giving food and shade to a few Arabs who came out tc welcome us. They are mixed race some with a complexion not much darker than a south European; other with strain of negro blood and oth- CTS whose regular features, slim, sym metrical figures, and graceful carriage proclaim the pure breed.
 Beyond the palms we saw the f1rst relic of the former greatness of Khar. tuna garden. Here, with winding paths and broad avenues between, were
 pomegranates, shrub-like trees witt
 blood-red flowers; figs, whose pear shaped fruit hung temptingly among
 tender green leaves; Times and orange:
 that were ripening in the sun, and al
 undergrowth of scrub that betokeneC
 neglect. East of this beautiful garder
 lay a few bricks marking the site O the church and of various buildings as
 sociated with Gordon's administration Thirteen years had buried their ruins il a dense growth of maize and sugar
 cane. On the top of mound stood { . hut roughly constructed of stone take1
 from these buildings. This was tn, ! Khalifa's telegraph-offfce, for Abdul
 lahi- -bin-Sayd is a man of keen intelli gence, and was never loath to use thi appliances of the 'infidels." The tele graph line still stretched from Omdur man across the river to Khartum, bu
 the operator had fled, leaving behinc his angarib and water-bottles. Movin: