Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-09-19

UNTIL 14th NOVEMBER, after the
election, at the following rates.
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Orders to be accompanied by the cash.
The War In Egypt-Defi.a lat Of Arab.
On Tuesday last the cable reported
that Sir Garnet Wolseley had ordered a
general advance on Ara.bi's works at
Tel el-Kebir. The same evening the
entire British force, with the exception |
of small body left in charge of the en-
campment at Kass asin lock, took up the |
line of march for. Tel-el-Kebir on the
Isnailia and Cairo Railroad, close along
side the parallel line of M. de Lesseps's
fresh water canal and about twelve miles
distant from Kasssasin lock. The object
OF the night march was that the men
should be within. easy distance OF Ara,
bis position by break of day, at which
time the assault upon his works was to
be made. The movement seems to have
been complete ~ successful. The attack
was begun f,y dawn and the engage
ment was We rY brief. The main attack
was on A4rs.bfs left flank, and under
cover of che, guns of the heavy artillery
the troops advanced and carried Tel-el.
Kebir with rush. The time occupied
in close fighting does not appear to have
lasted more than 20 minutes; but that
it was sharp, though short, is evident
from the fact that "many officers are
included in the report of the killed and
wounded. The brunt of the action was
borne by the Highland Brigade. The
probable British loss is put at only two
hundred; the Egyptian loss in killed
alone at two thousand, which, if true,
would indicate massacre rather than
battle, and that the slaughter must have
been principally of the fugitives as they
were pursued north and south of the
fresh water canal by the Indian cavalry
on one side of it and by the British cav
airy On the other. Besides the actual
Egyptian loss in killed and wounded,
forty guns and large number of pris
onegs are said to have been taken. The
total strength of Arab has been esti-
mated at from forty to fifty thousand
men, without including the swarms of
Bedouins that, it has been said, had rail-
lied to his support, although recently
deserters coming into the British lines
decare that the Bedouins had aban-
doEt him.
AT4bi Pasha and Toulba Pasha, the
leading spirits of the rebellion against
the Khedive and the English and
Free CD boards of financial control, APP
pear d and surrendered Internationally
Frjtiay, and the Egyptian troops in and
around Cairo have rendered their sub
mission. It is not without clear reason,
therefore, that General Wolseley tele-
graphs to England that the war in
Egypt is over, that no more troops are
needed, and that the men he has with
him will be glad to get home. If it were
not Egypt that was the theatre of war
so sudden collapse would have seemed
marvellous. The dispersal of from thirty
to fifty thousand men at single blow,
like phantoms, and by only few Brit
ish brigades, seems even now scarcely
credible in the light of what has been
said Of the religious fanaticism of the
Egyptians and the influence Of Arab as
the leader of the revolt. Arab is pri-
soner in the hands of the British the
conscripte fellahs have hurried back to
the fields from which they were torn /;
the Bedouins have sought their old
haunts in the desert, and such regulars
as held together have rendered their
submission, to be dealt with as may be
deemed most advisable. The Egyptian
army, as an effective force, is thing OF
the past, and 40 all resistance is every
where at an efd, the war, as Gen. Wolse-
ley has telegraphed, is really over. (
But, as the Baltimore San says,
though the war has been sharply and
sun1marily brought to close, the Egyp-
tian question yet remains to be adjusted
by the conference of the western pow
ers, which was simply adjourned until
the British had suppressed Arab and
the authority of the Khedive should be
e established. One Of the most inter.
esting questions that will come before
the conference will be the future rela-
ton of the Khedive to the Porte. An
other and even more delicate question
will be the one started by Count Corti
the italian representative, in respect to
an international protectorate for the
Saez canal, and a third, what lien, if
any, England shall have on Egypt for
her military services in restoring order
with the sanction of and as the agent of
the powers. These and other nice points
will now come up before the conference
for adjustment, and with the ultimate
fate of Turkey in view and the diverse
interests at work, its deliberations will
be looked forward to with anxiety by
more than one of the powers represent
ed there.
A QUART OF WHEAT.-A respecta-
BILE citizen of this county, and read
juster, when the State debt was an issue,
showed lis postal card few days since
from the Agricultural Bureau at Wash
ington which informed him that, by the
request of Hon. John Paul, he had sent
him quart of wheat. This gentleman
laughed at the idea of buying his vote
with quart of wheat. and stated that
he would not vote for Paul. How many
voters have been supplied in this man.
ner with quart of wheat from Wash.
ington? The voters of Augusta will
not sell their votes for quart of
wheat. This device will not work with
men who value their votes and freedom.
General Mahone's Attorney General
has been indicted on charge of con-
spring with others to create disturb |
ance and for drawing a pistol during
the riot he had created. The Generals |