New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-06

He then used his power

der his thumb. He then used his power
most shamefully.
Early in the history Of the American SER
vice in Egypt. one Major Hunt was sud
denly killed by being thrown from his horse
while on duty. Under his contract his
widow was entitled to q pension. Stone,
count Of his dislike for Major Hunt, for
they were not friends-refused to present
her case to the Khedive, although she went
to bis rooms and, appealing to him on her
Bonded knees as her countcymsn. begged
him to aid her.
This is an actual fact, assure you, and
may be verified at the office of the Ameri-
can consulate in Cairo, Had it not been
for his Excellency Admiral Mckillop Pasha
distinguished English officer in the Khe
dives service, and Mr.. George Anderson,
an English gentleman in Cairo, Mrs. Hunt
would have been unable to leave Egypt,
she was SO destitute.
Colonel w. H. Jenifer was brought to
Egypt as inspector general Of the Egyp.
tian cavalry. He was second in command
on the Confederate side at the battle of
Balls Bluff, which, unfortunately for Jeni-
ter, was the scene of Stones disgrace, and
Stone, remembering old scores, made the
new -comer's life 60 unpleasant that he
forced him to throw up his commission.
You may imagine that the Americana in
our little colony had hearty contempt for
a man who would thus treat brave enemy.
Probably no officer brought to Egypt had
greater professional ability than Colonel
Beverly Kennon. He had been an officer in
the United States navy prior to the war,
and served with distinction in that of the
Confederacy. As an artillerist, engineer,
and photographer he probably had no su-
perior in America. His system of coast de
lenses won him from the Viceroy the high
est decoration that could be bestowed, viz:
tho medUia of the first class, Kernon be-
came so disguised, not only at the ill treat
ment he received from General Stone, but
also at the injustice of Stone generally
toward his cOuntrymen, that, against the
protestations of the khedive Of honor,
rank and reward in store for him, he threw
ND Ills commission and returned home. This
was in 1873.
l could tell you many more cases of
American officers who had to resign rather
than stand the abuse and tyranny of Gen
eral Stone. More than forty officers who
served with distinction in the rebellion, on
one side or the other, have been in Egypt,
in the Khedive's service. and have left thor
oughly disgusted, not with the khedive,
who is bigh-toned gentleman and much
beloved. but with Charles P. Stone, their
fellow. countryman. There are now not
more than fifteen American officers in the
service. six OF whom left for Egypt in Au-
gust last.
In answer to a question as to the strength
of the Egyptian army, its condition, and
also the effect of the infusion of the Ameri-
can element, Colonel Reed continued:
The army numb 60.000 men. Some of
them are on furlOugh, but could be called
upon it wanted. The army has been very
much benefited by the new element, but
not so much as it might have been with a
diff. rent chief Of stat. With either Gen
eral LOring. who is the second in rank un-
der Stone, bu. VITO ranked him originally in
Egypt. losing his grade by trick of Stone,
or the gallant General K. E. Col,t0n, who
succeeded Stonewall jackson to the com
mand of the Stonewali Brigade, the ser
vice would have been more benefited,
and the position of an Office in it would
have been more cOngenisl. l found the
Egyptian army much better than antici-
pated. l went to the East in 1873 as lieu
tenant colonel Of the Generals staff. Cleaner
soldiers than the Egyptians l have never
seen on parade. An inner service, which
carried me across the Nubian desert to
Dorgola in the Suydam-although have
followed Mcclellan in the Peninsula. and
Sheridan and Custer in the She nandOah-
showed me that lad never served with bet
ter or drawer troops. Ii have anything
to thank General Stone for it is the oppor-
tunity he gave me on this occasion to do
duty under 80 gallant a colder as General
r. E. Colston.
In answer to question as to how the
pay in the Khedive's army compared with
that in ours, Colonel Reed said:
1t does not compare at all A Major
General receives flO0 q month, aud Briga-
der General receives $50 month, which
is good enough; but q poor, jack-legged
colonel gets only fi6 month; lieutenant
colonel, f4l, and major t31-certainly
not enough to enable them to live like gen
tlemen, when it costs "a day in gold in
any decent place in Cairo When tell
you that this does not include rations, you
will see that the Egyptian service is
not the Gel Dorado that our Ameri-
can officers at home seem to suppose
it to be. An officer on the General staff, for
instance, stationed at Washir gton, which is
to the United States what Cairo is to Egypt,
would be entitled to five rooms, at $l6
month each, for which he could draw the
money if he did not use the apartments. IN
Cairo ne receives instead one months pay
extra during the year. ftl, which is great
Stone is responsible for this: but a burning
outrage for which he is responsible is, that
officers of the grades of major and lieu
tenant colonel are required to travel by
rail eecond class. Major E. o. Fechet Of
the typographical engineers, on being Of
tered second class ticket. tore it up and
threw the fragments into General Stones
face. The major resigned soon afterward,
and he is now the RemingtOns' agent in
Japan. Such indignltits as these could
easily Rave been avoided if General Stone
hut hao he
been only too happy wien ne could pro
yoke them. Then, again, there was DR..
Edward War, en-, chief surgeon of the staff,
who was fore ID to resigL on account of the
lnkind treatment he received at the hands
IF General S. ne.
You may iu &c from all this that the life
If an American officer in the Egyptian
army is not che to be envied, although it
night be made pleasant enough with diff
erent kind of man in command. Nor does
he position give one prominent place in
society. as myht be imagined. 1t bestows
IN an officer 10 distinction in Egyptian So
.iety. Any officer below the grade of colo.
,el ranks in tie social scale about as high
ss a sergeant in the United States army
loes, except among the English residents,
Who recognize a gentleman az such on his
PERSONAL merits-certainly not because he
las the misfortune to be obliged to go to
Egypt to serve tributary to the Sublime
o0rte.-New York Graphic.
]ne Man and Three Children Drowned.
A letter from H. G. Plunkett, keeper of
It, Joseph's light, furnishes the following
tatement of distressing accident to the
Bay st. Louis Herald, under date o. Janu-
Try 30:
Robert Butler, assistant keeper at St.
Joseph lighthouse, on his return from Bay
IT, Louis yesterday, capsized at P. M,
when three miles northwest of the light
louse. immediately, as We we're watching
ho hoat friond of nina Mr Iohn u Can,