Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-18

The Adventurous and Romantic Career
Of the Turkish General Murdered i'm
Albania.
New York World.

w ahC A"a hiSH UtEtaaA MuENGFcu LII
Albania.
New York World
Mehemet Ali Pasha was the ablest Of
the Turkish generals during the recent
war. BY birth he was Prussian of
French descent, his father being staff
trumpeter of the Nicholas regiment of
culrasslers Of Brandenburg. Young
julius Detroy was placed in q business
house at Magelburg. But he was of an
imaginative disposition, aud soon firing
Of business routine, he ran away to
RostOck, where he found Mecklenb11rg
brig getting ready for sea. The captain
took him on board in the capacity of
ship-boy, and after a long voyage, of
which young Detroy became heartily
| sick, the vessel anchored in the Bos-
IphOrOus. He had had enough of the
sea, and watching his opportunity he
one day jumped overheard, and swan
to caique which was passing. Its &C.
cupant, who proved to be Ali Pasha, at
terWard SO famous, and Grand Vizier
for many years, ordered the boy to be
taken In and was SO pleased with him
on further acquaintance that he took
him under his protection and even into
his own family. Detrov, a year later,
adopted the Mussulman religion. and
took the name of Mehemet Ali. His
patron sent him to a military school,
where he distinguished himself by his
intelligence and good conduct.
| He received his commissions in 1853,
and made the campaign Of the Danube
against the Russians. He was first I'M
der fire at the siege Of Sillistra, and it
was said that he did not seem very
courageous. It has been even alleged
by enemies that at the beginning of the
/ bOmbardment he sought shelter in q
cellar. But he soon gave proofs Of in
trepidity, and even of daring, winning
universal commentator. He once
spent a whole night alone in a captured
earthWOrk. Omar Pasha noticed the
'conduct Of the young officer, and
placed him on his staff, and in this
capacity he went through the Russian
war and, later, the campaigns in Mon
tenegro, Arabia and Bosnia. He be-
came colonel in 1868, and in 1865 was
made a pasha Or general. He was en-
ployed with distinction during the in
surrection in Crete, and again on the
Montenegrin frontier. In 1873 he was
given the chief command Of the forces
in Thessaly in order to put an end to
the excuses of the banditti, which had
become intolerable. Mehemit Ali &C
quilted himself of this difficult task with
great ability. Partly by artlfce and
partly by persuasion, by employing re-
morseless severity where examples"
were required, by daring attacks and by
skillful operations in combination with
the Greek detachments assigned for
frontier duty, he was able in short
1 time to re-cstabllsh order in Thessaly
Toward the close Of 1875 he was intrust-
ed with the chief command at Novi-
bazar, post of great strategic import
ance, and was afterWard engaged in
various military duties in connection
with the operations against the Serbian
insurgents. .t+
At the outbreak of the recent war
with Russia, be was assigned to- the
command of one of the armies operat-
ing against the Mortenegrins, Suleiman
Pasha being at the head Of the other
These two officers pressed the heroic
mOuntaineers hard, relieved Nicsics,
and were said to be even threatening
Prince Nicholas capital. when they
were recalled to oppose the Russians
who were crossing the Danube. Me
hemit Ali succeeded Abdul Kerim, the
former incompetent commander-in-
chief at the head Of the Eastern army,
but was given no control over Sulei-
man in the West, and Osman at Plevna.
Mehemet Ais battles with the army
of the Cesarew1tz generally proved in
conclusive, and it is said that to the
jealousy between himself and S11leiman
was due the slaughter of tie latter's
! troops in the desperate Shipka pass
struggle. Mehemet Xii afterward at
tempted the relief Of Plevna, but found
it impossible at that late date of his eff
fort to force his way through the Rus
sian lines. 1t spite Of mis- i'll success
Mehemet came out Of the war in better
favor with his sovreign and people than
| he entered it.