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 IL-- il..y,l»BPII^Bp â-  ?1||*? i AN9 Tl eaâ€" 3few Ou« War tant 8treua-4(i Sot Springa^jig if and die, it ig aat ten yean re been eared r been given op in Oalifo Ilia ' hiayear, prioo â-º cents a box ing Lit ia not lo U| int in- flavor, and,| better if left i^ he lemons are lai^ aericus, Ga., pen- face watch rs without hmviim iith'^n^h several^ rough use. The i m his father, and ced on it forty an claims to have d of a rheamatiua^ Iplesa for manv mo-, ia carrj iug a hive Qt\ I and dropped it. active member nl is "thankful to aa lence." 3nt Chamber of tioLs were lately 5 bittereat reflectiooa ay companies. I| 3D of hops sent ndon coate 338. for haig, Holland, only] verei in London ;e, at 30^ per ton ii?o is 453. A ton rom Chester coats â„¢ merica a ton of oheeie] sorreapondenb reseL that he ia bom, ilbcvld Forbes oomm rney's fiihco. The :inai;7 in a bank, wtK'se name the pa iIIto!^? Pt;iirce, p?o -iiK'dt tli'ri^a aaan J vied each fordiflei is a i:-\\i well known a;iri i hcs't who read rea rnn-s were not focr -1; l gfiiphic p thfi battie of A.bu- .i'y 2\ews. Ha ii furceo en;i;ineer. proposes ii 3 transmiasion bet* n, involving the emj ;h â€" one for sending eiviijg telegrams, lett "l3 w^ighiug up to ne taken in tranei I hour, not withstand atatior.s which might l{ 10 way. M. Berlier i!ion to Lyons and rffected still more there beirg no sea and parcels sent ea would, it is said,] houra B railway from Snakiaj iipmeuf, will be |36,(r iblymore. The( iia charge will fall bondholders or the it the latter miist pa/ 1 tanoe, and to got.i bondholders, backeaij e powers of Earope,i gutter out of a do made, whose !n£;land's or Egyl Egyptian soil the Egyptian Got Eitvpt'a. The eoat be nearly $500,Mt| len E ,n 11 iny arguments br of the admission the franchise, onej that which rests nior.B .f the count Tolj pointed out, i puriod in its hi«* i by a Senate of Foix, in his woikj tea, maintains that; a of government had the beat of J*| yith the Romans, bat the lieutenaitj en the Druids from the hands »\ of Gaul began ♦• mana soon reduced ion. e in Disgnli* era, Bobby had 'rom the parlor carefully kept, a" rough with it the ere painfully apf lisobedience he 1 aud was sent f great gratilic ister who waa s ing.asheliftedi i discovered l**^, j in this househay uot neglected. I'J egret to say, ood book iw pleased, m*- [nued, 'Hhat its pages." **3 jvoutly adb*' rofit he deri^ and after ttoj Bobby a glJ i y ^^ bread and l»«*l^ tha vast apaoes east and WMk of id tie Maditerranean (over eig^t ;S thouMkud fqoare nule^Methe k It would seem at the fint gfauwa ;b«)lately unfitted for the mhaM- L„ of man; but as he contlnoeato r J miiltiDlT amid the ioe-noea of the ^iSe?rJedoe.he»int^»ln Cjren, and tornd «one. He who naVer traveUed through the deMrt i form a Jast idea of Aat atraoge irveloua region, m whieh all the conditions of hfe are completely It is essentially a waterkM ^thout rivera, creeks, ri»^e*». or Oace away from the Nile, the Spply of water j derived from deep feJr, scanty, and («•?«*• f^ng ffhta are freqaent. When I explored oreat Arabian DeMrt between the and the Red Sea, it had not ndned three yeara and when I travelled the Suakim route and through Kor- n no rain had fallen for two years. jtreen the twenty-ninth and nlneteenih of latitude it never rains a all. Mr become! precious beyond the con- ition of those who hhve never known scarcity Members of the OathoUo ion at El Obeid, where water is much e plentiful than in the deserts, assured that the summer before, water had ,n Bold as high as half a dollar a gallon be proprietors of the few wells that had dried up. When long droughts occur, alffaya scanty crop of doura fails « from the Nile, and the greater part Itho flocks and herds peri8h,as well as a Uiderable part of the population. It lows naturally that when undertakiDg K.inrney through the desert the para- lunb question ia water. A supply must IcArried sufficient to last to the next II, be it one or five days distant. It is ialJv carried in goat and sheep skins Ipended from the camels' pack-saddles. [eae are the water bottles of Scripture, Lch become leaky from wear, and al- ts lose a considerable portion of their litentB by evaporation. The first thing [er reohing a well ia to ascertain the jntity and quality of the water. As I the former, it may have been exhaust- by a prececiiig caravan, and hours ky be rt quir^.d for a new saply to ooze Um'i As to the quality, desert water I generally bid, the exception being ten it 13 wrr3e, though long custom en the BddouiuB to drink water so ckiah as to be intolerable to all except tmseivee and their fl Kjka. Well do I uembt-r how at each well the first akin- I was tasted all around as epicures sip wines. Great w-?s the joy if it was inmiced " moya jffeZica," sweet water; if the Bsdouins said " moosh tayib," I good, we might be sure lb was a solu- 1 ot Epsom ealts. The best water is Ind ia iiitaral rocky reservoirs in deep rrovr gorges where the sun never shines. I to " live springs," I never saw more halfadoEsnin six thousand miles' XtsL The desert would be absolutely impas- le without the camel. He was created jit, and thrives better there than any- lere else. His broad, soft foot enables to traverse deep sands where the \a'i would s'nk nearly to hii knees, and uld prompt!/ perish. He Uvea on al- et iK'thiug, the ecanty herbage of the |ert a:id the twigs of the thorny mi- bomp his favorite food but his Isti p'-eoioua qnaUty ia his ability to tra- 1 five daya without drinking during the ceat heat of aummef and much longer [)ther seasons. For this reason wells rarely more than five days apart. The |rican camol from Arabia, and has only bu;jjp Ths beat breeds are reared |the Ababedeha and Biahareens between Nile and the great Arabian ch in. t-y are dieiinguiehed by small head, ider neck and limb-;, and short hair. camel and dromedary differ only in sd, jiist ssthe dray horae differs from racer The burden camel, called H"' by the Arabs, never changes bis re- lar walk of two and a half miles an under a load, which should never eed three hundred pounds for a long iruoy, for his strength must be esti- Ited by what he can carry when ex- jsten by hardship and privation. The kmtdary, or riding oamel, called hageen, puoh snifter. With no other load than [rider, a bag of bread or dartiea, and a of water, he can travel one hundred 16!) in one day on an emergency. The ik of the dromedary (as of the camel) |ho moat eiaruoiatlng, back-breaking, 1 abrading mode of locomotion con- fibh but when pressed into a pace ivet)r B'x miles an hour, which is his urai gate, a good, high-bred drome t is as comfortable a mount as c in be iTed and I can aver, from poâ€" nnl erlence, thai; a fairly good horseman " nad himself perfectly at home on tt«re-back after two day's practice. of the most Interesting and pictur- es sigh-g of the desert ia a caravan of ^«i hundred camels just from Central '*. The sheiks and chief merchants ' turbans and flawing robes of various ' the camel-drivers and common pie are bate-headed, and witl only a yards of coarse white cotton around I loiQi, bat all armed with swords or =es. The animals are loaded with K bags and bales of ostrich feathers, arable, hides, and senno, the chief i«2tion3 of the Soudan ;whUe not a carey four or six elephants' tusks FPPed m raw hides, and looking like fo- te acytbe-blades. On foot is a mot- icrowd of almost naked savages from Re tribes of the Upper Nile, from the Z rl !â-  ^®"^y »«^«» *«e* "» height. snorter. Anri «.»- u__ omttt spokisi of Ib _. J^ dNB Bepti^ jw^Aad to lb m^. Ktad« vho wMst o«t to bear h'imu fooBd supplies oHoensti and vild boocfr. I naw fos'id wild honev, Iwt Um Unit loousta, which an aoiMtnaa MtM hv Bedouins, great abnadaaoe aft *hm n, as weUMtrfthepodsof a speeiea of kwost tree, windi an •dllda«nd an thooriit by •ome comloentatoBi to be tbe loeasft used as food hj St. Joba. The wfldiNxnMs is diversified by nHMmtafas abnost absolutely hare of all vegetiation. â-² Bedouin oan hardly believe that in other lands tbe monntaina are clothed to their sommlts with green and loxuriant fotasts, and that from thdr flunks dash down oaeeides and rivers of »*UVing waters." Sodi things he baa never seen-or even dreamed of, unless as a vision of the Hadtsni para- dise. But the valleys, or undies (pro- nounced toaddiet). and some portions of tbe plains an often oomparatively well supplied with vegetation. After every showf r of the brief rainy season, the dry beds in the wadies are converted for a few hours into furious torrents. The water disappears, quickly absorbed by the thirsty soil but where mn. impenetrable stratum lies ptraUel and dose to the surface, the water is kept from sinkii g too deep, and in such spots will be found trees and her- bage, the latter springing up with magic rapidity after the first showers. Many kinds of grasses affrd camcds, sheep, and goats abundant putu're for a portion of the year. Wild flowers are seen in great variety on the slopes of the Arabian chain, acres upon acres of heliotrope on the plains, a bush called merk, re- sembling ).he Scotch broom, and bearing small five-pointed yellow stars of sweetest fragrance. In Sennaar and Eordofan are hundreds of square miles covered with the pUnt which tases its name from the for- mer province and supplies the world with senna. After the first rain the trees which drop their leaves dming the in- tense heat of summer are swiftly clad in living green. Numerous species are found the heglik (Balanites ^gyptiaca), and several kmds ot acicia, among which are the seyal, of considerable size the sount, used for saddles and various uten- sils, and its bark for tanning the small Acacia mimosi, wiuh its huge thorns, the favorite food of camels and in Sennaar and K irdcfan the hashab (Acacia gurnmi- fera), which produces the gum arable of the world. It bears a small orange-colored button of intenso and delightful odor, identical with the " poppinaok " of Caro- lina and Georgia. The proximity of a thicket of these trees (the favorite resort of monk'^ys and grninea-fowli^ is revealed hundreds of miles off' by the tweet per- fume wafted upon the breeze and at the proper season lumps of the gum are seen glistening like icicles all over the limbs. Sputh of the thirteenth degree the huge baobab (Adansou a digitata) flourishes across the entire African continent. This is the elephant of the v^etable kingdom, thin-foliaged, unsightly, from sixty to seventy feet in c^inimference, but not over fifty in height. Its truak, always hollow, ia used in Kordof an and Darfour as a reservoir for water, holding from fifteen to twenty thousand gallons. From November to February, just after a good rainy season, the climate is perfection, just like the brightest and warmesj October days in \irglnla. Though the thermometer occasionally rises into the nineties, and sometimes higher, the air is perfectly dry, and the mornings and nights are pleasantly eooL Gitme ia founl in proportion to the vege- tation on the plains, ostriches and count- less gazelles and nntelopes in the wadies, rock-partiidge and grouse, guinea-fowls and hues on the high ridges, cBpric7rn8 and wild asses. Among the fauna of the wildamees are. some unwelcome speci- mens, locusts, serpents, and soorplona, the latter quite numerous, and altogether too fond of nestling on one's blankets of a cold night, but quite unaggressive if lab alone. Add to these the vultures, which stalk familiarly about the camp, pi jkmg up what they can find, and the j Mals Uld hyenas, whose howls are heard in the night. Traveling at this season Is perfectly charming. Everybody is in fine spirits, for water and pasture are plentiful laughter and endless chaff is iwsrd from one end of the colamn to the other. A carsvao of five hundred camels covers more ground than a large oavalcy regiment, mardilag with a front of aboot one hundred yuds where the wadies are broad, and rednoinff to single file when crossing narrow deilea between gates of granite and baaaltio oUlb. When even- ing comes, camp ii pitched insomepleas- ant wady, and qaiddy dbsens of ficasUln- «inate the valley. The large Soudan dieep, which foUow the), oaiavan, graafaig as tiiey go, suroly a dalioioas roast added to the game kiUed during tibe day mardi, and the canned soaps, meats, uid vege- tables we used to cany in abopdanoe. After dinner comas tbe nnequaled coffee, a f aight from Mooba, then p^ and pleas- ant chat, while at! around wa bear tba laught^ and gabble of tbe good-vatored soldiers and Bedonins mlnglad with wild and barbaric songs, aooompanlad^by tiie viol, called *«f»«nfe*. OooaslonaDy, of a moonlight nl^it, tbe Bedouins perform their national war-daaoe, wifcb aw(»d, lance, and diield. In mo( attack and de- fence, and even tiiofe^ great sbelkfa, tbe princely Mohammed KbaUfa, eoadeseends to take part while the beatliig of tbe darahukas wakes the echoes of the wady and the answering ydU of the artontahfld jackals and hyenas. If the "wiLdemess" Ho of in wbnter t^bn 'horter, and presently* cvotVâ„¢ many attraetions, it is qnita tba nm titeandevery varieSrofoolilwm with tha ^rtweer, aa tha Jkiakp -U tba the nig|tt,aad Aa byd^. Hotatm no* a blada of gnMB raliefva tha suligbt upon the ysOov oaeeaa rsaiaft tika aulahna ' deep ailenea and inKi^ta si bf tha dasarl Wbm B%ht luM and the soldiers and Badooins an adaep ia thefar faivooaas, walk away under tha imeqaaled Afrieaaaoo^bsfandtka fiiat ndga of sand or rbefca. Around you stretelies a booadleas s e aBke bot ft it m^ The sand gleaoM almost as wbitoln snow. Not a sound falls iqNm Oa ear, not the murmur of a bneae, not the rustle leaf or grass, not tbe Hum of the smallest inseet. Msnoaâ€"oaty sjImioo as pro- found as death, unless it Is broken by the howl of the hyena or the dIstaaB roar of the king cf beasts. Within the limits of B^ypt and the Foudan these desolate atmoors ezcend over three-quarters of a m^lion of squan miles, never trodden by the foot of m»n Daly a few caravan trails cross them in tiieir narrowest parts, wish scaniy wells at long intervals and the necessities of trade alone account for their being pene- trated at all. They are like oceans, when caravans pass each oth*-r in haste, like vessels at sea. The marches an pwfeotly terrible, and yet it is worse to halt during the diy than to keep ia motion, for the heat makes sleep or rest impossible, even under canvas. With the burning sand under your feet and the vertical sun oyer your head, you an as between the lids of an oven. In summer the thermometer rises to 160 and 160 degrees. The air that blows feels as if it had |nst passed through a furnace or a brick-kiln. Over the plain it quivers visibly in the sun, as if rising from a za i-hot stove, while the mirage mocks your senses with the most life-like image of lakes, ponds, and rip- pling waters. No more laughter and merriment along the column now. Sol- diers and camp-followers protect them- selves as best they can with turbans and blankets, bringing over all the hoods of their capotes, leavmg only a narrow aper- ture just enough ta see while, strange to say, the Bedouins stride along on foot, bar*-h,eaded and almost naked, without appealing to suffer any great discomfort. Were not the nights comparatively cool (80° in summer), neither men nor ani- mals could endure the terrible ordeal. THK BKDOITINS. The small area, not exceeding five or six thousand square milee, coming under the description given of the "wilderness," is the wandering ground of those tribes of nomads callM Bedouins. Their total number is probably about half a million. They all daim to be of Arab descent, their ancestors having cKased the Bad Sea from the Hejai (Northern Anbia) centuries before she Christian era; but some of them have become very much mixed since that time. In fact, in the Arabic language, whose plurals an so strangely formed, Arab is the plural of Bedawee, and ia Jie name of the inhabi- tants of Arabia proper, thou^ very im- properly applied to all people of Egypt, who speak Anbic, It is true, but belong to an entinly different race. The no- mads of the desert are always called Beda- ween. The principal tribes between the Nile and the Bed Sea are the Ababdehs, Blshareeos, and Hadendawas west of the Nile are the Hasseneeyehs, the K«ba- beesh, and the Beggaxas. All these, divided Into numerous sub-tribes, have almost identical customs, and differ chiefly in their dialects and the mode of wearing theb hair. They constitute the great bulk of theMahdi's forces, and are the most formidable adversaries the British have to encounter, as the latter leam««d from their experience at Tamai, where a British square of two thousand men was broken, driven back half a mile, and- its artillery captured by tiiese naked sons of ttxe de- sert, armed with only swords and spears. This alone would suffice .to attract the at- tention of the world, even if their cus- toms and modes of life did not invest them with peculiar interest. Their wealth consbta in flocks and ounels. They are carriers, gaides, and oamel-drivers, but no amount of money can induce them to work the ground, and they look with ia- fioifce contempt upon the fellaheen and the inhabitants of towns, whom they scornful^ term ** dwellers among brick." On my first expedition, a large sum in Austrian diver dol]an(fe' money they prefer) was giten me by the Government to Ure my ounel-driveis to dig out the Roman reservdn on the undent military road betw e en Keneb on the Nile and Berantee on the Bed Sea. In n^y to my oBiatB of axtm pay, the sheikhs as- sured me that not one of their men would degrade himself by sndi labor at any price, even a guinea per day. Tiiey an governed by an absolutely patrianhal way by their great shaikhs, and their con- dition is Taiy moA like tiiat of their an- cestors in toe days of Abraham, Lot and yThTit^. They have no Indlvldusl noBsnsBioni in the land, but the territorial Umits of eadi htlba an waU defined, and the enoroadmiant of one tribe upon tha nmge and walls ci another an the most frequent causa of their feuds. The ginat Bedouin tribes wen not re- duced tc'obadlanoe to tha Egyptian Gov- enunent wtthont kn^ and fiflsoa strugq^ MfthamT^iK^ AU's irwi hand foreed them to submit when be eonquered KordoAm in 1820. But it was a very Ihnited sub- nisrion. The Oovanunant narar Intor- farea with their faitscBal airsorwars, bttfiag tfaem to the rpde of thab sheikha, andweU nr lea inefulaflj, an a ftna-Iooking raea, ot medium baiglu andTaiy wall teoMd^ri^ saMll hands and fael,andtha fidMA ia^ap ef tha Arab. In color tlngr ' lanfa fnun dsrit oliva to dasp ehoaoIattiwbwtthsirfBaftnas an equal to the beat Soropean ^dia, with aqnikina noaa. nonMiwtote ahana than tbe Hebnw, thin lips, and splendid teeth, and tbdr hitir ia !«« and fiiided. The girls and young woosan often have re a lly be a u tifnl faeea and graesful fonns, but they kwe their beauty eariy and be oome hideous haga. They wear no veils, like the Mohammedan women of Bgypt, and their onl^ dress is a few yards of oot- ton, once white, wound around tiie wsiat, hanging to the kneea, and leaving tbe bust and shoulderB exposed. The Bedouin b the most abstemious of men. His food is a little doun obtained from the settlements in exchange few the surplus of his flocks and ^e akinsand charcoal that he pnpares for sale. His uunels yield him an abundance of excel- lent milk, and he eould live on that alone and its various prepantions. He needs but little meat, wiiich is supplied by his sheep and goats, with an oooaaional camel for some gnat fesst. Then who live in mon favored regions breisd horses and cattle slao The desert grasses supply mats for his tents, and uxo tnes with pack-saddles, ropes, and tan-bark. His water and milk an carried in goat-skins; his drinking- vessels an gourds and grass- woven bowls, which hold water perfectly. Civilized enough to appreciate the value of money and a few a«.tides of Eusopean manuf aetun, he wants little elie than long, straight, and broad double-edged sword-blades of German or^fipanish make, to which he adapts handles and scabbards of his own contrivance. A few possess flint-lock muskets and double-barrel guns. All carry lances made in the counixy, whose iron or copper heads an generally barbed with such cruel ingenuity that it is impossible to extract them from a wound without the most horrible lacer- ation. Fastened above the left elbow is a curved pruning-knife used to out twigs of the mimosa for camels. On- the right uppor arm an one or two small morocco casee containing texts of the Koran as amulets against the "evil eye" and o'her dangers. Most of them carry round or oval sUelds of hippopotamus or giraffe hide, aud it is a poinl; of honor with them to go always armed, as the following in- cident illustntes On the march, an E^ptian soldier, having let foH the halter of his camel, ordered roughly the Bedouin guide walk- ing in front to give it back to him. The latter replied **â-  Am I thy father's camel-driver to be thus spoken to " Said the soldier, raising his stick ** Thou son of a hog, give it here, or I'll strike thee 1 ' The Bedouin said: " Yon call yourself a soldier because yon wear the uniform of the Turks. Ton an notUng but an earth- d^eer I am a warrior, as all my fathers wen 1 " The soldier struck him. In a moment the Bedouin's huge sabra flished out of the scabbard. The other soldiers (whose arms wen packed on the camels, for we were In a perfectly psae e ful region jumped from their camels to gather stones to defend their comrade, wlule other Badouins ran up wich swoid and lance to the support of theirs. Hearing the shcuts, I rushed on my dromedary, nvolver in hmd, between the two besUle groups and commanded' peace. After hearing b)th sides, I ordered the Bedouins to deliver up thdr arms, which were packed upon a oamd. They submitted without a word, but three or four days afterward, as we wen approaching some wells where they expected to find other Bedouins, they sent me a deputation |eamestly praying the nturii of their arms, saying they would be forever disgraced if forced to appear without diem. The petition was granted upon promise ol good behavior, which was ftdthfully kept. (lO Bl OOXTIKUBD.) At Lafce Acain. Mr. Bdmund Tates, editorof the TForM. was released fcoui Hdtoway prison at 11 o'dook on die memlng of the 14th inst., having se rv e d anotly (me month and twenty-one days of a four months' nn- tenoe imposed by Lord Chief Jnstioe Ooleildge, for haTing allowed Lady Stradbroke to libd her cousin, Lady GxaoeVane, and Lord Lonsdale, hw an dopeaientstoiypubUshedinthe IrorM. Mr. Yatee, ahanreleased this asorning, sppeared mnoh worn down by his Impri- sQBUttSBt. HewaspideandhssKard. To few that met IJm he expressed blm- sdf as being haartUy glad to be out of prison, sad add that be felt fairly well. He was at ooee driven to his home. Mr. Yates was relsaaed at the dbeodon of the Heme Secretary, Or WllUam Vernon Haroourt, who bad been freely petitioned for Us nIeaM on the ground tbat his im- prisonsaent was slouiy kilUng him. Motto for the cnmationâ€" Death is real and death is umest. It is ssid that then Is a aoft ride to eT«Bf man. That'a tbmason a dude Is afcaid toitaad on his head. *^Fat, have you any pratfiss In Inland, Hkewehanlnlllinabt" «*ToUshun Dhbttyea iTerhearof Tip- r â-  AeltbelonghMr to Satth. otYiaayasd Haven, legalaiiy npon a hem's beak, dimbe up to a beam over tta stall, thenea dnpaupon the bade of the ' vhish aalwa ne AiHtkm, A O U a ^g au dog went regularly wUh hfa â- aaster to the butdier's to get his dinner. He carried a little badcet and lainimiia topayforit. Fumllybe was allowed to S**dana. But another bntdkeraoensssifc m a bill for the dog'sdallysupply of feed. It was aseertained that the anunal, havlnf a voiaetoas appetite, was getting doable ntitms. After he had eaten what be re- edtred at the first butoher's, he would toke the empty basket to another and eab OB eradit. Aooording toan Boglidi newQN^ar, an offioer ntuniing from a day's shooting^ left his game in the ouatody of his dogs, whom he locked np with it while he went upon some urgent business away frona home, and soon forgot both udnuds and game. He was detained for days, and when he ntamed bo'h dogs had died of hunger, having nfrained from touching the game. They had neither barked nor whinedduringtheircoidnement, evident^ fearing to betny the trust of their mas- ter A St. Louis badidor sat down to n toble in his room to write a letter, when an immense black spider advanced to- wai^ him npon the table. He took a strew from a broom and draw it gently over the spider's back and legs for ten minutes, when it went away. The next evening the spider reappeared and went through the same anMcs with the broom straw, to his evident pleaeura. This was kept up all the winter, the big spider coming out r^olarly every night fur a froUc with the broom straw. Adogbelonging to a Wanaqua, NJ., lad had for a long time been in the ha1»t of picking up his breakfast and runoieg away with it instead of eating it. The boy followed him on Friday, and the dog led him a roundabout trip, evidently to tire out his pursuer. Finally Uie dog lay down and waited for the b^y to go away. The boy started abrap'ly as if to go home The dog then ran very fast and disappeared in a covert, where investiga- tion revealed a decrepit and emaciated old dog, who was eagerly devouring the break- fast. El Hatadi Dreads Assassinatioiu Ic is generally understood among the tribes that El Mahdi's reason for leaviog Khartoum was his fear o' assassination at the hands of people ia his own camp. This fear has caused him to double the guard about his person. It ia sail that he discovered a oonspirafy of this natun last week and had two lieutenants and twelve men beheaded ia oonsequenoe. He is saiji to look wiih susiicion upon the Frenchman Pain. It is thought that the Mahdi's religions ixiflaence upon hie followers is on the wane. In a recent interview, published In the Pall Mall Gasetto, an Eag^h merohant who has tradf^d with Saudan since 186S, spoke as follows **Tue reason why the Soudanese follow i^e Bfithdi is Ix^use they think that the Mikhdi will make it pay. The great bait that has held the tribes togeer so far has been the pros- pect of plunder at Khartoum. That they have now got, and there is not much left in the country to loot. They will there- foro, sooner or later, 'all away from the Mahdi and quanrel among themselves. As for the fear that the Mahdi at the head of 100,000 men is going to rudi down on Soakin or Cairo, that is all non- sense, if the movement spreads it will spread as an insurrection, which the Mahdi will first exoito and then support. Afterward, if it succeeds, he wiU plaoe himself at its head, and that, of eoarss, is a considerable dagger. ",^tA "m «OKDON'S CORRESPONDEKCB* â-²4dItfeBid letters from the Itafbrtaaate S«lUcr Who FeU at KhaJtewia. MacMillan A Co.,London, publish a number of interesting letters from Genenl Gordon to an intlmato friend, Bev. Mr. Barnes. In a letter.dated Feb. 8, 1884. while on his way to Khartoum, Gord3n says " I arrived at Aboo-Hamed safely. Xhe terrible desert between Korosko and Aboo-Hamed is the worst in the Soudan. Tiie cold is intense by night and the heat Is intense by day." The letten through* out an strongly religions in tone. In one letter he namtes **When I was at Brua- sds. General Wolsdey tel^^phed me to come over to London at onee. King Leo- pold was averse to my going. I reached Loqdon at 6 next morning, and saw Wol- sdey at 8. Wolseley said that nothinff had been nttled, but the Ministers would see me in the afternoon. At noon Wol- seley accompanied me to the meeting. He entered Uie room first, conversed wiu the mlnisten and nturned, saying **Her Majeaty's government wantsyou to undea* stand ^t they an willing to evaenato the Bondui beeaun diey an unwilling to guarantee its futnn government. Will yon go and do itf I replied, *Yea.' Wolsdey said *Gj in.' On entering the room the ministen said: ,*Iid General Wolsdey toll yon our orders T 1 relied 'Yes. You will not guarantee futun government of the Sooun, and wish me to go up and evacuate the oountiy now.' They said, Yes. ' Yeiy little man pass- ed betwemi us. I started for Gahis at 8 the same evening. 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