The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-08
people. was put unon bis trial FOR atfemnt.

people, was put upon his trial for attempt
ing 10 poison Coloncl--now General
Phayre with arsenic and diamond dust.
This trial was the same In which Sergeant
Ballantine earned within months time
his remarkable fee OF cI0,000, or $4,000,
as advocate for the Gaebdar's defence. In
1880, after the first Afghan campaign OF
lS19-S0, Colonel Macpherson was promoted
to maior-generalship while he was In CON-
mand OF the divisional staff OF the
Bengal army. II was while he was on
duty during the Afghan campaign
OF 1880 that Mr.. Yates, Of the London
World, got off somewhat humorous story
with regard TO him and his regiment. II
appears that the London Standard had
nlegraphed TO its correspondent, Mac
pherson, In the koorum Valley with Gene
raj Roberts. to proceed at once to Zulu
land. This telegram, 10y some mistake, was
sent not TO the correspondent, but TO Gene
raj Macpherson, I'm the Khyber Pass. The
latter telegraphed backward and forward
10 the Government OF pnaia and the War
Office in London, wishiRgIsoknow whether
he was TO take his Bengal Ipgiment with
him to the Cape. Hk 1crvsus and tele =
graphic excitement last'd for eight days,
and when ne discovered that all the time
the telegram had been meant only for q
special correspondent OF the same name he
broke down in melancholy agony.
MOHAMMEDANs As SOLDIERS.
Up TO the present moment il has not been
announced what troops will compose Sir
Herbert MacphcrsOn's East Indian contin-
gent. When the late Lord Beaconsfed de-
tcrmned TO bring the troops Of IlindoStan
into the arena OF European politics, in 1873,
by detailing them to the occupation OF Cy-
pruS, it was generally feared in England
that his action was menace TO the security
Of Europe, it being argued that when the
millions Of India. realized that they were
IN important factor in European politics on
behalf OF the English Government their
race and religious preiudices would spccdi-
iy teach them that they might become a fac
tor upon their own account in a sweep
ing antagOnism against the Christian ma
tons Of the East. Those who were well
acquainted with the ordinarily quiet dis
position OF the IIindoo entertained no such
terrible Vaccinations, but serious fears
were entertained about the disposition Of
the IIindOstan Mohammedan. The latter
was represented to be a fanatic, who enter
tanned q military respect for his British
officer, and a much more serious respect
indoctrinated their KOranic dogmaS with a
powerful ilayoring OF political hatred.
The result, however. totally refutcd the
prophets Of evil. The IIindostanee Mus
sulman proved himself rs willing and
a. enthusiastic Il soldier under the
British llag rs either the Puniabee sikh
or the Bengaloc Sepoy. Bombay, in the
course Of a singularly checkered existence,
in which she has passed into the possession
successfully of MahrattaS. Portuguese
was she not a gift to England in 1862 by
the Portuguese az part OF the dOwCry OF
the Inflnta Catherine, who was betrothed
10 Charles II. Y-and English, has seldom
seen more brilliant spectacle than the de-
parturc OF the Indian contingent Tor Malta
in April, 1873. With certain amount OF
political wisdom Lord Lytton, almost rs
well known rs Lord BeacOnSfield's
mobile instrument as owen Meredith,
gathered the Indian contingent from
all parts, and made no distinction in reli-
gion. The GoOrkha from Nepaul, with his
terrible kookra in his belt, and his Brah-
ministic beliefs less accurately fixed in his
intelligence the sikh, from the Land Of
the Five Rivers Qhc PAM ABB; The 1.-The
bodied and narrOW-mindcd SepOy, from
Bengal; the Swart, slim, and active Sepoys
from Bombay and Mldras-al assembled
one fine April morning on the Madam,
which stretches its avenuc-guarded eX-
panse of ycllOW-grcen between the fort and
the native town.
DEPARTING FOR CYPRUS.
When the order was given this force,
with colors flying, bands playing, and thou
sands of swarthy turbaned men and bare
headed women bringing up the rear and
shrieking ont their own " God speed" and
"God be with you's," marched across the
bare Madam, through the broad and hand
some Rampant Row, and thence down TO
the Apollo Bunder on the sea, where they
gave three cheers for the Rance OF Eng
land with one strong voice, and followed
these up by Il peculiarly bitter eXecra-
ton against all the Queen OF England'S
enemies whatsoever. Europeans were
reused into wild enthusiasm by the
scene. They checred the GhOorkhas;
they checrcd the Mohammcdans and the
Hindoos they chccred yet again and again
for the Scpoys aud the Silshs, and when the
great body Of swart troops had responded
to this strange atilatus OF European stoicism
again and again, and then silently departed
to the troOp-shipS in the stream OF Bombay
harbor. it was felt by all that the spectacle
had been remarkable. Loyalty pclYaded
the bronzed and the white man with one
simultaneous thrill--for the moment 1t
made the whole world kin. During the
subsequent sojum Of the Indian troops
in Malta and Cyprus the native sol
diers. no matter OF what creed, re-
tanned the same cheerful confidence
and buoyant cnthusiasm and when they
returned 10 India they had no stories TO
tell OF hatred against the Christian, al
though they had many and many one 10
naT1ate about the strange adventures they
had had upon strange seas and almost STU
stranger lands. The deduction fTom these
facts is that the MOhammedans OF lndia are
soldiers first and rcligionists alterWaru, 80
that they will 90 at least rs chcci1uliy lorth
to Suez to snite the EgN ptians as they went
forth to suppress the irreprcsSiblc Afghan
under Generals Roberts, stewards. ana MAC
pherson. Fortunately for the peace OF tue
Christian world, the Mohammedan world Is
split up into rs many factions rs tilat OF thc
Christian, so that it is still possible lOr 'ne
MusSumans. both Shias and So0hees,'oi
India to advance without fear or question:
mo AGAINST the pecuIar Islamtes who are
now defying the European forces at Alex
andria. II Mohammedanl>m were all COM
pactcd not only would the MohaminGdan
soldiers Of India refuse TO fight their
brethren in Egypt, but the whole Christian
world would now have to hold It's own
against the more numerous fanatics WHO
honor Mohammcd as their prophet and Al
lah as their deity.
IBy Associated Press.l
WORK STOPPED on THE FORTIfICATlONs.
ALEXANDRIA, July 1920 4. Nv ork
on the Notifications has been completely
N,an,,od DIIrino a reconnaissance yester-