The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-30

Thrilling RemimIscemces Of Many
Wars from she Land Ofshe AxtecS 10
the PyramkdS-The History Of the
Obelisl< Now the Proud Possession
Of GOthaM-Gen. Grant In Egypt
Bl0ttlnG Ont aC0nSul General-The e
Original "9crAtcher.'' - PSctures
frem the Disastrous AbyssimIan
War-FriGhtfal Scenes Of Carnage.
1t is not often that men who have
been actors in or witnesses of stirring
events can describe them in a graphic
manner General W. w. Loring, late of
the army of the Khedive, and a veteran
of half dozen wars in the new world
and the old, is one of the interesting ex-
ceptions to very general rule. If he
would only write his memoirs, it is safe
to say that hardly any book of the latter
part of the century could outrank it in
all that combines the warlike, the roman
tic and the picturesque. From the ever
glades of his native Florida, where he
fought the gallant Seminoles as a boy, to
the capture ofthe Mexican capital, where
he paid the tribute of his left arm to the
god of battles, and from that proud day
down to the battles in savage Abyssinia,
in 1876, he has moved within the shadow
of death, Illuminated by the blaze of bat
teries and the glitter of martial weapons
So many splendid experiences have been
crowded into his life tnat every cIzp-
ter taken from it becomes an Arabian
nights romance, redolent of all that
can fire the imagination or captivate the
fancy. Now, with bronze of battle on his
warrior cheek, in the sturdy evening of
his career, he can look back on such
scenes as must fire the yonDg heart and
cheer the old"
A Times writer has already given to
the public a pencil picture of this re-
markable man. General Loring was kind
enough, on last evening, to accord an
other interview TO representative OF
this journal.
When the Times man presented him.
self, the General, with the unfailing cour
tesy of his Southern blood, was urbanity
itself. He was making cigarette with
a grace that would have done honor to
any despot of the Orient. His deeply
imbrowned face was lit up with interest
as he said impetuously:
"Oh, notice that
THE oBKIIsK FROM EGYPT
has arrived safely in New York. 1t
has had long voyage from the banks
of the Nile. What a history! There are
manv versions abroad relative to the IA
nous monument; would you like the
true one"
The interviewer expressed himself hap
py to be able to learn something authen-
tic relative to the big needle.
"Very well" said General Loring. ut
was erected at Heliopolis, the old biblical
city of On, by Thotmes Ill, of the eigh-
teenth dynasty, about one thousand years
before the Christian era. 1t and the ODE
lisk sent to England are about OF the
same antiquity, and the hieroglyphice on
both throw light on the history of ancient
Egypt. They are especially useful in the
way of chronology, as they were books
that fire could not destroy. The monarch
that erected it was the greatest king that
ever reigned in Egypt. He was greater
than Alexander, who sighed for more
worlds to conquer, bat who turned back
from the Ganges, leaving all beyond un-
fettered by his yoke. Thotmes III. not
alone penetrated TO the Ganges. but passed
beyond it
CoHQUKRIKG ALL ASIA
and all Africa that was worthy OF being
conquered. In Abyssinia history, he is
the hero Of all ages. He combined the
military genius Of Hannibal with the
grand conceptions of Augustus Cesar,
and the monuments Of his glory Will ex-
ist until the end Of time. On this ac-
count alone. that obelisk now in New
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