The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-01-04
Particulars OF the Terrible Affair at Alex
andria, Egypt.
ALENANpRIA. Nov.

ALEXANDRIA, NOV. -, lSf 4.
Night before last seventy-tive Algerian
pilgrims were drowned in this bay Dit
terently from what happens in other places.
the disaster has made no sensation in
Alexandria. In the Levant and Rast,
where thousands are slain dav by day by
the scourge Of contagion or famine, the
loss Of seventy-tive lives, and those Ara
blan, calls forth no signs or tears.
Hence, as far as there is any information
on the subject, one must rely upon the ex
ternal information of those who witnessed
the sacrifice At II o'clock on the even
ing OF the 22d the Assyria arrived from
Algiers bringing a large body Of pilgrims
bound for Mecca
AT the entrance OF the harbor the yes
sells inbound are boarded in the usual
manner, by the health officer The Assyria,
just in from Algeria, was naturally re-
garded with suspicion. The pilgrims on
board were ordered to land at point be-
yond the city. Accordingly lighters were
ordered alongside; the dusky pilgrims
were, with their effects, put into lighters
and prepared to be lowed ashore They
doubtless felt melancholy satisfaction in
having touched Egypt-a land that j. to-
day as sacred to every creed and religion,
as it has been the theatre Of all species Of
crime and barbarity
AS the lighter was being lowed ashore
another passed of the same character.
struck her nearly amidship, and cut her
down to the waters edge. The Arabs did
not have time to realize their situation
To be drowned within sight of one Of the
most populous of the Mediterranean ports
did not enter their heads Great ware
houses, bay filled with watermen and
boatmen, every appliance in sight and no
storm-the confidence Of man is very
strong that he cannot drown.
Yet the loaded lighter was no sooner
struck than the water rushed in by the
great cash and scarcely minute passed
before all were gone forever. The sud-
denness of the shock-the indifference of
Mussulmen to death; the superstition that
attaches to this extraordinary pilgrimage,
together with the fact-more important
than all-that each pilgrim was loaded
down with gold carried in leathern belt
about his waist, conspired to make each
body rest at its fatal anchorage. None
came up; none were saved.
| cannot accurately describe what oc-
CURED in the last sad moments of this
utFOleu Ddiu Uut DIS LII DIS we KNOW mere
they exhibited the same loyalty to their
faith which made them undertake the
journey. Yesterday the authorities were
engaged throughout the day in fishing out
the bodies and burying them ashore
An elderly gentleman was recently
"confidenced" on a train running into
Keokuk, by sharpers, who induced him to
buy draft (worthless) on Buffalo for
$l58.40, he paying them two 500 bills,
and they paying him S42.60 as change.
The conductor on the train took the first
opportunity to quietly suggest to the in-
nocent old gentleman that he was afraid
the draft was a fraud. "Well," was the
bland response of the imperturbable
greeny, "if it is any bigger fraud than
my two one hundred dollar notes were,
then | am not forty-three dollars ahead
which | think | am. | am not in the habit
of dealing in counterfeit currency, but |
always keep little Of that sort of stuff
about me for the benefit Of that sort of
customers