The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-20
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- Observation-Disclosures. &c.

IL was stated Yesterday that In Aiexnndiia,
Es,..,,,, : military commission is now sitting
-, essnn,,;re into the circumstances and facts
eonnee.ei with the shooting affray which oc.
cnrred between party Of Americans IN thai
city ON the 18th Instant, Major Campbeil
heinz. fa ayerously wounded. The affair, !,
win be recoilected, was between the ohitca
states cons;itgeneral, George y. Butter. asIu
Mfr. Wadeich, bis secretary, on the one pa,s'
and General W. w. LorlnS, C1lonel .. W
REYNOLDS, aad Major William I. n. I'n1p'
hell. who had served in the American Con
fslcrate forces, and have been recently en-
ployed In the army Of his h,gnhess tne
Khediye, on the other. We give the 'o'iom-
ING sketch of the American officers ID Tue
ESyptian service who have been drawn INTO
the shooting affrsy:
BRIGApIER-GESEGAL ". ". LoRlNG.
A soldier from his fifteenth year, the Gene
raj served with great distinction in Fiorlda,
on the Plains, in the Rocky Mountains. IN
Mexico (where he lost an arm, and as ai'l-
sion commander in, the Confederate ariiiies.
Though vet In the prime OF ilfe, ne mas pro-
babIy been under tire more frequently tnan
any officer now in active service III any co'isi-
trv. 1t was remarked by a spectator OF Il
great military pageant at Alexandra, IL
which Loring took part, that his empty
sleeve conferred on him more dignity ana
more honor than all the stars, crosses, ahd
cew-gnws. with which the well-padded
breasts Of the Egyptian pachas, generals, ana
other officials were proiuscly covered. Genc-
raj Loring was chief Of corps, with DIS
headquarters in the old Strangers Iaiace at
Alexandria, his command extending over thc
whole delta UP to Cairo.
COLONEL a. ". REYNOLDS
was chief of staff OF General Lorings E@yp-
tian corps. lie is graduate OF west ioint.
Colonel Reynolds served with distinction ~
the United States armies in tlortda, on tnc
Plains, and in Mexico. Returning 10 VIZ
ginia, bis native State, at the outbreaks
of the civil war, lie distinguished hun
self os brirudjn-gcneraI in the armies OF
the Confedcracy, but particularly ut HE E'i-
lie Of the Gauey, in West Virginia Colonel
REYNOLDS was commissioned It general ., The
Epyptian agent in New York, bat consented,
on his arrival ut Cairo, TO be cnt down 10 Il
coloneIcy, with the promise Of speedy pro-
motion; but that promise had not been tui-
filled.
MAJOR WILLIAM +. A. CAMPBELL.
Major Campbell is II fine type Of the
American sailor and officer. A TcnneSScan
DIV DlFLfl, Hp tiC SiiiuNN 'Stet'"' i'''
in 1917. In 1861 lie resigned and reported
for duty to the Confederate Government,
and was ordered to Florida to organize the
dcfcnces Of that coast. At the request OF
Commodore Tattnall, of Merrimac memory,
he was ordered to report to that officer, and
served with him in and around Savannah.
He was then detailed to proceed to
England to superintend the building
and take command of a steamer SINH
lar to the Susquchanna. 1t was he
who suggested and planned the cruise in the
North Pacific which proved so destructive
to the American shipping in that quarter, and
he was selected by Admiral Marry especially
for that work. He built and equipped his
ship and got safely to sea, but serious ACCT
dent to her machinery compelled him to
seek port for repairs, and, permission
being previously obtained, he ran into Calais.
where his ship was detained, by order of the
French Government, to the end OF the wal.
He was now connected with the heavy artil-
lery, and was chief of staff to General Sibley,
who is in command Of the khcdive's artiI-
lery