Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-11

An occasional correspondent, whose letter has
been delayed in transmission, writes fiom Alex
andria on June II: "a couple of letters which
appeared some time ago in your columns signed
respectively "a. H. and 'Scalpe,' have created
something little short of civil war in the small
American colony in Egypt, and yesterday, the
former of the two led to a Scene at the Ramleh
railway station here, which is worth reporting.
Mr.. Strang, lay agent ofthe American board of
missions, who is suspected of having written the
letter in question, was sitting in one of the car
rages waiting for the train to start, when two
persons, one of them Mr.. Stroogo, the Italian
Yankee, not very fatteringly referred to by the
writer as the tool of Consul General Butler,
approached the carriage, and asked the gentle
man IN question if his name was Strang. On
latter replying that it was, Strologo invited him
10 step out on the PLATFORM and on his refu sal,
began an attack on him with a heavy stick
through the open door, accompanying the blows
by some very unconsular language indeed. The
missionary being muscular Christian, and hay
ing, happily for himself, a loaded cane in his
hand, accepted battle, and stepping out of the
carriage, was fast proceeding to give Mr.. Buffers
friend a Roland for his Oliver, when the bystand-
ers and the company's employees interered and
separated the combatants, at the same time dis
arming both, but not till the arms and back of
the Italian had received some severe punishment.
The battle was supposed to be over, when Strolo-
COS companion (sad to be Col. Skinner, also a
friend of Mr.. Buffers but not yet in the khedives
service) snatched Mr.. StTang's cane from the
person who held it, and handed il to Strologo,
who then recommended his attack on the uu-
armed missionary with the loaded end of the
stick. The latter did his best to protect his head
with his arms, but his cheek was cut open before
the Italian was again disarmed. The scandal
GUS scene-the details OF which have had from
an eye-winess-is to-day The talk of Alexandria,
and some people go so far as to say that Col.
Butler could have guessed in advance at what
happened, his relation with Strologo being very
intimate indeed. Nor is this all, as the letter of
"A. H. contained some uncompimentary verb
ties about the colonel himself which he would
probably rather have kept out of the New York
papers. His wrath against yourself for pub
fishing it is great, and | am assured that he
lately endeavored to induce one of the Ameri-
can officers in the viceroys service to 90 to Con-
stantinople and cowhde the blackguard "a
combination of phrase and fact with which he
is said to have been more than once familiar
in New York. The officer, however, though
given to understand that such service would
also be grateful to the khedive, declined the
mission, which may now, perhaps, devolve on
Mr.. Strologo-for the colonel, being more famous
for discretion than valor, is not likely to fight
his own battles"
We have before stated that we knew nothing
of Col. Butler personally, but a letter from him,
on this subject to gentleman in Pera, has been
shown to us, which we feel bound to say is in
finitely more discreditable than anything yet
reported by ga. H." As specimen of written
rOwdyism, we have seen nothing equal to it
above the name of any person claiming, even
by courtesy, to be a gentleman.-Ed. LeUGnt
Herald, July5.