The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-10-24

he had better be quiet, and let the matter
drop. The young man who exhibited
such "smartness," rs the American would
call it, is now governor Of a province, a
favorite at court, the companion of the
Pacha In Paris and London, and much
greater man than Bessy Bey ever was.
The accession of Said, however, the uncle
and predecessor of the present Viceroy,
was marked by much more extraordi-
nary and characteristic event-au event
that would be considered horrible any
where else except in Egypt.
The head of the family, the Oldest male
within certain degrees of affinity, succeeds
to the government of Egypt, not the eldest
sou.
Abbas Pacha, predecessor of Said, was
hated for his cruelty. He seemed to think
no more of human life than we do of ca
nine life, and he thought less of murder
ing and torturing a human being than
most men would think of putting dog
to death in the least painful manner. AS
an example. He was walking in the
grounds Of his palace on the banks OF the
Nile, when a new breacb-loading gun,
fowling- piece, was brought to him. He
was a good shot, and ordered 1t to be load
ed with ball, which was done.
At the other side of tho Nile, poor
peasant-woman had just filled her water
pot at the river, and was walking up the
bank with the water pot on her head.
Abbas presented tie gun at her and fired.
She was wounded in the back and fell
writhing to the ground. The courtieTs
applauded the accuracy of his highness'
aim, and the Viceroy himself returned
the weapon to the attendant who brought
it, saying that he was satisfied with it,
No one paid the slightest attention to the
poor wretch who had been wounded. She
died that night.
1t is not wonderful, then, such being
the character of Abbas, that he was MUIR
dered at last. 1t is SAID that those who
did it, his own servants, were ihstigated
by members Of his own family, whom he
had outraged, so to do.
Abbas was living at the palace of Be-
| mia, near Cairo, when he was murdered,
and the chief eunucE, who discovered the
matter in the morning, before any one
else knew II, called Elf Bey, the Cover
nor Of Cairo, to the palace, in order that
they might together concert measures for
their own benefit, before the event should,
become generally known. They decided
that they should put Elami Pacha, son of
Abbas, on the throne, and not Said Pacha,
who was then at Alexandria, and who oy
the Mahommedan law was the rightful
heir. Had Elami been on the spot they
might have succeeded, but unfortunately
for them, he was then at sea, having set
out In u steamer, two days before, 10 60 TO
France, intending to make a tour OF Eu-
rope. If they could succeed in keeping
the VicerOy's death a secret till he be re-
called, the two friends, the chief eunuch
aud the Governor of Cairo, doubted not
that their enterprise would be successful,
and the new Pacha would do anything
they pleased for them aiterward. The
difficulty was to keep the death a secret.
y telegram was sent to Alexandria forth
with, n the name Of the Viceroy, order
ing the swiftest steamer available to be
sent after Elami Pacha to recall him. Said
was himself Admiral of the feet, and
therefore the necessary orders had to be
issued by him.
Carefully as Elf Bey and the chief
eunuch took their measures to conceal the
Niceroy's death, whispers were soon spread
from the palace in various directions that
all was not right; and Hahn Pacha,
friend of Said, having heard of the order,
sent to Said, and having heard likewise
the whispers alluded to, sent another mes
sage to him by telegraph, stating that the
5ouse he desired in Cairo was empty, and
begging of him TO come himself and oc-
cupy it, and not to send for any other
tenant. Hahn was afraid to speak more
explicitly. Said understood him, and
did not send for Elami.
The expedient which Elf Bey adopted
in order to conceal the death of the Vice
roy, was one which probably only would
have entered into the head of an Oriental,
and which an Oriental only would have
had the hardih ood to execute. 1t was this.
He got the dead body of the Viceroy,
Abbas, already more than unpleasant,
dressed up in the ordinary clothes, ordered
one of the Viceroy's carriages, had the
corpse lifted into its accustomed seat, and
took his own seat, as he had often done
during the life of Abbas, at his left hand.
1t was given out that the Abbas was going
to the palace, which he had himself built
in the Desert, ten miles from Cairo, the
palace called after him, Abbassieh other
carriages followed, and, during the horri-
BILE drive, he, Elf Bey, lifted the arm of
the dead man occasionally, as if replying
to the greetings Of the multitude. Was
it not horrible? In this way the drive
was accomplished. The Viceroy had gone,
as on former occasions, to bury himself In
the Abbasieh, and there to celebrate his
usual orgies, remote from public business.