The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-02

the death of Syud Uhmed, his followers dis
persed themselves in various directions His
own family fed to Tonl1; but such of his dis
ciples as we're unable to make their way back
to British territory effected their escape to the
mountainous region beyond Peshawur, where
they fraternized with the Yusufzyes, and be-
came the nucleus of those desperate fanatics
who have since given us so much trouble at
Sittana.
1.-The doctrines of Syud Uhmed, promul-
gated by Moulvee Ishmael, found favor in the
eyes of considerable portion of the Moham-
medan population of Delhi, Bareilly, Agra,
and Allygurh. From the last named town
several Moslems of high position in Govern
ment service migrated to Tonk several years
before the mutiny, and thence kept up con-
stant correspondence with the refugees on the
Peshawur hills, who were also Joined by
every one that was in distress, and every one
that was in debt, and every one that was dis
contented.' From this Moslem Cave of Adul-
lum emissaries were from time to
and breadth of India, and money
was freely contributed especially from
Patna, to keep alive the smouldering
embers of fanatacism. The border annals are
filed with the oft-repeated tale of murder,
raids, and petty warfare, instigated by the
Akhoond Of Swat, who may be styled the
high priest of the Wahhabees, and for which
we are largely indebted to our apathy in 1929
-30-31. The Moslem reformers, however,
are not confined to the northwest frontier, they
swarm likewise in Lower Bengal. Two of
Syud Uhmed's disciples, known to the Ben
galees as the Moulabees (Moulvees) ex-
cited disturbances at Baraset as far
back as 1912, the existence of which
was first communicated to the local
magistrate by the commissioner of the dis
trict, who had been warned by Lord William
Bentinck from Calcutta, in consequence of
letter addressed to a merchant of that city by
an indigo planter settled near Baraset In
the neighborhood of Calcutta and Dacca these
puritans or fanatics-call them what you will
pass by the name of Firaiees and are SO
far formidable that they supply money to the
more active malcontents thickly scattered
throughout India The real matter for sur
prise, however, is not the existence of this
danger, but the fact that the Government are
now for the first time sensible of the
necessity for caution, perhaps for &C
tion. They have all along persisted in regard
ing the Sittana raids as cattle-driving forays
after the manner of those familiar to readers
| of Scottish history; nor were their eyes
| opened by the startling discoveries made by
Mr. William Taylor, at Patna, in 1S56-57.
Even now they have exhibited the utmost re-
| luctance to believe anything of such a dis
agreeable nature. A native police officer,
| himself an orthodox Mussulman, who appre-
hended Wahhabee emissary on his way back
to the hill, was reprimanded for his excess of
zeal. Fortunately an English officer was sub
| sequently able to pounce upon this same
emissary, on whose person were found papers
of serious if not of alarming import. Upon
this scent the Government have let loose
their sleuth hounds, with what success re-
mains yet to be seen. ~ 4sn=s ssazss