The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-30
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ABBAS PASTA.

years, OF ABBAs PAsHA, the wise u en-
ergetic viceroy of Egypt, whose measures
have lone so much, during the last few
years, to advance the prosperity of that
country. We take from the "Men of
the Times" published by R~EDFIELD, in
1852, the following record of his bene-
6cent life:
Abbas Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, only
son of Soursoun Pasha, and grandson of
the late Mehemet Ali, was born at Jed
da, in the Hedjas, in the month of Siffu,
1929, "a. d, 1879 At the age of
eighteen months he was brought to
Egypt six months after which he lost
his father, who died at Cairo of plague
during the sadly memorable visitation
enth year; the child was brought up and
acquired the rudiments of an ordinary
education in the harem, of his mother,
when, in consideration of the character
and service ofhis father, he was made a
Pasha Of taOo tails, by order of the Sui
tan Mahmoud. At eight years of age
he was sent to the college of Abo label,
and subsequently to hat of Kaukah,
where he received a liberal instruction
in the Turkish, Persian, and Arabic Ian
guages, with all of which he is critically
familiar,) and also in mathematics and
military engineering. At the age of ff-
teen he was removed from collegiate
studies and appointed by Mehemet Ali
to the confidential Office of Provincial
Inspector, which post he usefully occupi-
oI So, ~o-10l &c @h-oa
At this time the expedition had been
sent against Syria, and Abbas was named
to the command of the cavalry division
of the Egyptian army, under Ahmed
Pacha Manickli. His service and activ-
ity were there honorably mentioned on
three or four occasions in the published
gazettes. The fatigues of incessant ex
posure and unhealthy bivouacs brought
On an attack of intermittent fever, which
necessitated his return to Alexandria
On his arrival, Mehemet Ali refused to
permit him to join the army, as he re-
quired the services at home of coniden-
tial men and Abbas Pacha received
the appointment of Governor of the
Gharbiah district. After two years he
was named inspector-general of the pro-
fAhOC0 oho 0OAAhS SAO year III hAlOI nv
great fire occurred at Cairo he succeeded
to the important and responsible Office
of khahir, or chief minister and presi-
dent of the council at Cairo. During
his occupation of these posts, for aperiod
of more than eight years, he acquired
general respect, both with the natives
and European ~consuls.
On the accession of his uncle, Ibra-
him pacha, Abbas lost favor in conse-
quence of his Vindication of certain of
the members of Mehemet Ais family;
and he determined ON a pilgrimage to
the Hedjas, whittier he proceeded on the
sixteenth Zilcade, 1867. He had been
there only thirty-eight days when the
him, and he was enjoined to return to
Egypt without delay, to assume the sue
cession. He was duly recognized by the
foreign counsuls as the legitimate sue
cessor, under the hereditary settlement
of lS41, and proceeded, soon alter, to
Constantinople, where he was well re-
ceived by the Sultan, and duly invested
with vicegeral authority in Egypt, On
his return, Goth November, 1S48,) he
set about the adoption of a novel line of
He eschewed the old system of
his predecessors, of frittering away the
labor and of the country in
useless ornaments, costly and unprofta-
BILE public works, and a week attempt to
maintain EUROPEAN manufacturing estab-
He directed the attention of
his people towards agricultural industry,
them from the pressure of Sc
we're taxation, and removed, as far as
possible, all restrictions on free internal
trade. He has spent $3.50, 600 in making
carriage road across the Suez; he
has expended large sums in improving
the Nile navigation; and he has now
the construction of a railroad
from Alexandria to Cairo.
The effect of these measures is now
beginning to manifest itself in the in
wealth of the country, the in
creasing productions. and in the exist
ence of a spirit of enterprise unknown be-
fore. The removal of the odious poll
reduced the peoples burdens and
the Pacha's income by the large annual
sum of So, 500, O00. Yet, we believe,
in spite of this, from a better system of
administration, the public revenue of
the country has now increased to almost
its former amount. To carry out his
plans, he had serious difficulties to en-
counter. He found in office a cabal of
men hostile to all departure from a sys-
tenn of things that enabled them TO en-
rich themselves by means of speculation
and corruption. But bringing a thor
ough practical knowledge of the popu-
ar wants to bear on the government of
the people, he determined athe dismiss
ed all those among the public once to
with the difficulty, and employ
ers in whose fidelity he could not place
the necessary confidence, and replaced
them by tried, and certainly, as events
have proved, more trust worthy and
men.
While he thus benefited his country,
he had the misfortune to raise up against
him at Constantinople, whittier all those
men repaired, a powerful and hostile
party, by which he has been since griev-
ously harrassed. They have had infu-
,nce enough to seduce several members
If his family from their duty and allegi-
lnce to him and their familiarity with
he of Egypt has lately been
advantage of by the vizier of Tur-
concert a system of judicial and ad-
illustrative reform, which under the
most specious pretexts for the improve
nent of the local government, is design
ID to subvert the authority and indie
,endence of the Pacha, promote disor-
Ter among the people, and so enable its
.'apacious projectors to aim a blow at the
.~xistino DYNASTY and sunnlv n lone COW