The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-11-22
Justice in Egvpt.

sum Of sixty ryals. The poor man urged
that ne possessed nothing but cow, which
barely afforded sustenance to himself and
family. Instead of pursuing the usual
method when a fellah declares himself un-
able to pay the tax demanded of him, which
is to give him severe bastinading, the
nazir Tor Governor,) in this case, sent an
officer to bring the poor mans COW, and
desire some of the fellaheen to buy it.
They saying that they had not sufficient
money, he sent for butcher and desired
him to kill the COW, which was done. The
owner OF the animal went weeping and
complaining to the late Mohammed Dey,
defturdar.
"My master" said he = am oppressed
and in misery; had no property but one
COW, mich cow, and and my family
lived upon her milk; and she ploughed for
me and threshed my corn; and my whole
subsistence was derived from her; the nazir
has taken and killed her, and cut her up
into sixty pieces, and sold the pieces to my
neighbors. to each piece for one ryal; so
that he obtained but sixty ryalo for the
whole, while the value of the COW was one
hundred and twenty ryals, or more. | am
oppressed and IN misery, and a stranger
in the place, for came from another vii
lage; but the nazir had no pity on me. l
and my family are beggars, and have moth
ing left. Have mercy on me, and give me
justice; l impIore it by thy harem,''
The defturdar having caused the nazir
to be brought before him, asked him:
"Where is the cow of this fellah!"
81 have sold 1t" said the nazlr.
"For how much?'
,,For sixty ryals."
"Why did you kill and sell it!"
"He owed sixty ryals for land; so took
his cow and killed it and sold it for the
amount"
"Where's the butcher that killed it!''
"In Minoof.''
The butcher was sent fol; the defturdar
said to him:
"Why did you kill this mans cowl'
"The nazir desired me- he answered,
"and could not oppose him. If had
attempted to do so, he would have bea-
ten me, and destroyed my house, killed
1t, and the nazir gave me the head as my
reward"
"Man, " said the defturdar, edo you know
the persons who bought the meat?''
The butcher replied that he did.
.sThe defturdar then sent for the cadi Of
Minoof, and said to him:
30 cadi, here is a man oppressed by the
nazir, who has taken his cow and killed it
and sold its flesh for sixty ryals. What is
thy Judgement"
The cadi replied: He is cruel tyrant,
who oppresses every one under his author
ity. Is not cow worth hundre and
twenty ryals, or moref And he has sold this
for sixty. This is tyranny towards the
owner"
The defturdar then said to some of the
soldiers:
"Take the nasir and strip him and bind
him. Butcher, dost thou not fear God?
Thou hast killed the COW uniustly.'
The butcher again urged that he was
obliged to obey the nazir.
'Then," said the defturdar, IF I order
thee to do thing, wilt thou do itl''
81 will do it, said the butcher.
"Kill the nazirp' said the defturdar.
Immediately several of the soldiers pres
ent seized the nazir, and threw him down,
and the butcher cut his throat in the regu-
lar orthodox manner of killing animals for
food.
"Now cut him up,' said the defturdar"
into sixty pieces
This was done, the people concerned in
the affair and many others, looking on; but
none daring to speak. The sixty peasants
who had bought the meat of the COW were
then called forward. one after another, and
each was made to take piece of the flesh
of the nazir, and to pay for it two ryals, so
that hundred and twenty ryals were OBJ
tanned from them. They were then dis
missed, but the butcher remained. The
ckadee was asked what should be the re-
ward of the butcher, and answered that he
should be paid as he had been paid by the
nazir. The defturdar, therefore, ordered
that the head of the nazir should be given
him; and the butcher went away with his
worse than valueless burden, thanking
God that he had not been more unfortunate,
and scarcely believing himself so easily
to have escaped, until he had arrived at
his village. The money paid for the flesh
OF the nazir was given to the owner ofthe
COW.
The WAY TO DO IT.-The owner Of
fine building was informed by his tenant
that ''mysterious knockings" had been
heard on his premises, similar to those in
Stratford and Rochester, and expressed