The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-02
LADYSMITH
RELIEVED
AT LAST.
London wild with Jubilaaon.
Streets Crowded with Cheer
ing Throngs.
SUCH INTENSE EXCITEMENT
has Not Been witnessed In the
Metropolis Since the Relief
Of Lucknow.


LONDON, March ?, 4:s5 a m.-Bri-
tons feel that they are living In the
presence OF momentous events lorna
does Of patriotic excitement are whlrl-
Ing through the country. Even the
dullest soul must have been stirred by
the emotions Of yesterday and London's
100000 were raised to a high pitch
Of patriotic exaltaaon.
1t was a wonderful sight. Old men
have nothing in memory with which to
compare the day. Some lIlSened 1t TO
Lucknow, others talked Of the fall of
sebastopol. It was q time Of singular
abandon. The usual conventions OF So
eIety ceased to control, and everybody
knew everybody else. all Joining in
smiles or believing. as their DISPOSE
tons moved them.
Lord Lansdowne chose the psycholo-
gical moment to announce estimates
exceeding s1,OOO.OOe pounds and rather
startled the public by unfolding the
pEogramme Of the war office to send out.
in addition to the $1,000 troops now
afoat, $1,000 fresh soldiers. Lord Fob
srts VIII ultimately have force of a
quarter Of a million.
An order has reached Woolwlch arse
mai for the construction of 224 new
EunD from three Founders to twelve
inch guns. OF these 14O are to be naval
guns. ALREADY 5000 workmen are em-
pioyed at the arsenal and 5000 more
VIII be engaged. These decisions to
send out more troops and to increase
the home armament meet with unlvar-
sal approval,
Beers Away From Iadysmith.
The Beers seem to have gotten quits
away from around Ladysmith without
losing a gun or their baggage. Van
Reeneus pass is only about twenty
miles from LadysmIth. The enemy had
artillery In action Tuesday and they
probably utilized both railroads in re-
treating, sending the heavy pieces to
Pretoria and the lighter ones into the
Free State.
DR.. Leyds says that General Joubert
Is assembling $1,000 men at wineburg,
seventy miles northeast of Bloemfurtein
Colonel AIbpAoht, according to a dis
patch from Psardeberg, affirms that
the Beers have 5000 men left
whether Lord Roberts is at Bloem-
tuntein now or not. he doubtless soon
will be dating his dispatches there and
using the town as his advanced base.
Lord Kltchener's mission is to COM
blne the forces under General Colement
and General Gatacre and to advance
along the line Of the railroad to Bl0em-
fontein. The railway will simplify Inn
menseiy the perpiexities of transport.
The conditions at Ladysmith, some Of
which were explained by Charles VIII
lIams yesterday and cabled to the
United States, can now be better under
stood as the military authorities no
longer retain their special Information.
1t appears that since the middle Of
January the horses have been half
starved and altogether too weak either
10 drag guns or to carry cayalrymen.
Hence the impossIbllity Of dashing out.
LONDON. March 1.-THE war Office
has received the following dispatch
from General Butler:
"LYTTLEToN's HEADQUARTERS,
March !, 9:o5 mornIng.-General Dun
donald, with the Natal cnrbineers and
composite regiment, entered Lady
smith last night.
THE country between me and Lady
smith is reported clear Of the enemy. I
am moving on Nelthorpe."
BuLLER WAS AT IADYsM1TH.
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