Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-13

The Pharoahs have long sincs left the de-
cadence that was once magnificent Egypt,
but Egyptian plaques still remain, and this
week has witnessed the advent OF the plague
of iron. Hurting through the air, crashing
through walls, carrying thunder and destruc-
ton all round, come the destructive pests OF
the modern plague of Egypt. And how do
the adherents of Arab conduct themselves
amid the crashing of the English cannon
balls and the topping over of Egyptian de-
lenses? 1t Is difficult at present to tell, and
for reason every reader of the kilograms
that are arriving, and of the newspaper ex-
tracts that are published, should keep we'll
in mind in perusing the tidings of passing
events. The news respecting Egypt comes
from English sources. Two parties are in
combat, the intelligence received and the
news presented come from only one OF them.
4 careful recollection of this fact will save
the reader from many mistakes and endless
mysifcation. That English war ships and
English cannon have accomplished much de-
struction among the Egyptian fortresses and
defenses generally, is regarded as matter
Of course Amid smoking ruins
and the scattered fragments of de-
stroyed streets and fine edifces;
amid the silence OF desolatien, and pitiable
scenes of destruction and death, the British
troops will at length enter, raise their flag
and utter exulting cheers over their victory.
But will it be victory? Alexandria is not
Egypt. There are miles OF white sands to be
marched over, the hot, glaring Egyptian sun
reflected from the white and glittering sur
face. When the English, in the war with
Napoleon, caused her troops to traverse those
fatal sands, great numbers of her soldiers
were attacked with opthalmia. Coming
from a land where the brightest sunbeams
are weak and pale, their vision could not !
withstand that excess of sunlight, and I
crowds of the army returned home unable |
10 gaze upon the face OF wife, or child, or
mother-hopelessly blind. There exists at
present a possible danger beyond that of /
climate that is of most threatening charac-
ter, that may give infinite trouble and cause /
immense losses to the English. That danger |
is an outbreak of Mohammedan fanaticism |
the fanaticism that once made the Moor |
dread, and that seated the Arabs in the most |
fruitful districts OF Spain, and caused every /
country and city in Europh to tremble for
their own existence. The APPEAL has made !
its readers acquainted with the existence |
of an ancient Eastern prophecy, attributed /
to Mohammed, that in the year of the prophet |
1900, in the month Moharram, at a time 4
when the people of the NOLAN medsn faith /
shonId he in sfraitS and tho faith in Yoaril I'll u
Mehid, the teacher, the messiah, shou Id ap- /
pear. Forty years of age, OF noble presence,
having the peculiarly of one arm being l
longer than the other, Mohammed his /
fathers name, his mother Fstima, hidden /
for TINA before the great day on that
day he shall appear To him the faith
full shall gather, and the followers of the /
prophet under his guidance shall raise the
sinking standard of the true faith, shall
invigorste the dropping hearts of the dis
ciples of the Koran, and the unbelievers
shall be made TO fly as the dust is whirled
away in the blast of the desert. The pre-
dicted man exists to-day, his age, the name
Of his parents, the long aud short arm, are
all found in him, and the giaeurs call him
'the false prophet" He has for some time
been hidden, preparing in strict retirement
for the immense part he has to play on the
worlds stage. Already thousands of adj
lerents have erected his standard and are
preparing for his public manifestation.
Mecca and other holy places have been dis
urbed by their proclsmations of the coming
,ne, Ell Mehid. The day so solemuly prophe-
\ 6 a.. ri. |
The French in Tunis have humbled the fol-
overs of the prophet, the English are now
Icing the same in Egypt, Russia has tri-
implied over the crescent in Turkey. The
up of bitterness approaches its overflow,
md with the first of the month of Mohar-
leliverauce and of vengeance arrives. The
Arabs are already excited; in Algiers, Tunis
md in Morocco expectation is aroused, and
low in Egypt, the land of predigies, every
lerye of the oriental constitution is CULVER
ng with indignation and hate against the
hristian intruders that have set aside and :
nsulted the children of the prophet. Should D.,
he feelings the old prophecy and The
trsngely oPportune existence of the man
oward whom every Moslem eve is turned
0 day have so wildly aroused, swell out
alto a grand outburst of religious fervor and
then England, millions of
Fhose subjects in India are Mohammedanq,
lad France. with its Mohammedan possess
ions of TUnis and Algiers, will find them
Elves involved in difficulties whose terml-
alton it is not easy TO foresee.
SPANISH PATRIOTISM AROUSED.