Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-03
THE MURDERED PACHA.
The Traits and Trials Of a Turkish
COmmauder.-Ills Army..IIIs Con-
tempt for Memammedan
RegulatiOnsAA Great
Man Wasted.

vas rece1tly assassinatsd IN Albania. ,
1e was made of altogether other stuff
han that of the common Turkish off
,ial. Apart from political questions,
lis views we're wide and liberal, and no
,onventionslties bound him. he made
no secret as others did, Of his breeches
Of the Moslem creed. | shall never for.
get the little comedy which was played !
when poor, tat old Hsnky Pacha at TIE.
liche wanted a drink OF brandy, and
SUNK slyly into hut aud got secret
swig at the bottle, The air of misery
with which be hid the bottle afterwerd,
and the absurdity Of bis endesvor to look
unconscious and innocent when he
walked into the field again, we're things
Lsech would have delighted to draw or
Dickens to describe. / 6rst saw Mehe-
met Ali in the act of entering little
beer hall in Sofia, His suite staJed out.
side and looked disguised; but it Was not
in Mehemst Ais way to trouble himself
about that sort Of prejudice. He dag
aged his own reputation ia this way, bat
he was Indifferent to opinion on the mat
mer He was yet man who exerted
himself to please, and who generally
succeeded, In command l saw him mod
est, unassuming and genial Under ar
rest found him the same. He came to
Sofa heralded as the deliverer Of the
country. He was to beat back the Rus.
SLAMS beyond Pl4vna, re-establish con.
nection With 0smau, and throw an i'm.
passable barrier of men aud fori6ca-
tons across the Balkans. Everybody be.
lieved 10 him aud in the popular imsgin.
ation his victories we're won already
Less than two months later he was ar,
rested on the foolshest of all possible
charges, and | accompanied him 10 his
disgrace. He rose splendidly superior
| to his position in either instance Nc
| glori6catiou damaged his modesty, and
no undeserved disgrace had power ovsi
bis sweet and equable cheeffulness. d
4 His army had been for the most par
mere rabble. he himself described th,
Moustaphiz to me as "set of bald.hesd
ed old gentlemen who suffer from hernia,
These made up one third of the, fore,
under his immediate command at Ka
mirIf. Half of the restiwsre undisciplin
ed and coWardly savages-Bashi, Bszouk
aud Zsibeks. The remaining porto
! was made up OF hard bitten veterans
who loved him aud believed in him, an
would have gone anywhere with him G
for him. He arranged beautiful serie
of parallels The Moustaphiz deserte
= one after another, withou! even pretenC
ing to fight for them. The commapdin
y officer at Etropol was q drunken foo
u who let the enemy in upon Mehemet Ali
' flank aud rear, and wrecked bis who
" position. He was without sleep at th
time for forty eight hours, and the stu
. ton was one of terrible and prolongJ
= anxiety. Yet bc never lost his nerve
~ his prssencs OF mind or his cheerful bo
A' homie, or for one Infant surrendert
10 any ons Of ihe characteristics Whit
Ae made him admirable asd lovable I
y" showed no hysleric Oheertulness, but Il
" settled content Of great nature, stea
e. fast within itself and uuafraid OF destn
30 ~ Ia action he hid beneath o phlegmai
4" surface very equable courage and gre
: readiness ofresource. In society he "
ne unaffected aud charming Had he.be
fairly treated, the fortuaes of the "
70 might possibly have been for a long tin
70 reversed But Suleimau sold him
"a the LON and 0smsn, against bis strer
" GUS advice, hsld that headstroug conI
~ which ended in toe iall OF PlevpH.
~ came thus 10 pass that Mehemet a
Z" stood clone, o man Of genius in the mi,
- Of a mob Of ins4psblss, ineorruptil
I" honest in the midst Of a thSssand sbar
~ less intFigpes, phenomenal man, v
'1' when the tails Of that terrible war con
TO to be truly told, vii bulk large 10 hie
=" fy taking bic place among Roropt
W heroes. ~"
,.u His ksenest sufferiugs were broul
about by the barbArities committed
his own men, know for one how
suffered under the murder Of Russ
lys wOuuded, and the mutilAtion Of Russ
rs dead. know how he threatened, Z
bns entreated, and punished, and how It !
DO. all nearly in vain. He feltihe diSgr
lob Of these atrocities personal TO hiNs
Tor and went near to breaking his be
IT, about them; yet even Ia the midst OF
sen this be had bis cheerful = gGtap ia
ian ready when yOu passed him, and
low cheerful smile. Commondiog disiI
re re- grated force, fac ed by an enemy outni
in bsring him G9e to one, suspected {
Ten. traduosd, and plotted sgSinst at he
quarters, egtegiously sold by bis ini
ors in eoamand, hated and eovied,
ed. OBJ ct Of iunumsrsble hbels and cab
be went quietly along doing bis hoI
b best. Ard possessing his soul 80 pstI
''s fortitsds 10 The course Of my exp
euce in Turkey ! is4tped to lOathe
tbe Turkish cause, to despias ne Tarl
|. Is oHoer, aud honestly to admire apd
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