The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-12
Our San Francisco Letter.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
San Francisco. July %, 1882

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
San Francisco, July 90, 1882.
Ever since England presented her compli-
ments to Egypt, and expressed her views of the
situation by means of a series of four hundred
pound shells carelessly dropped into Alexandria
about two weeks ago, the war has been prac-
tically at an end. There have been threats and
skirmishes, and incendiary fires and dismantled
Arabs here and there, | ut nothing more, and an
inactivity on both sides has supervened which
can be called mastery only on Arab Bey's side.
Entrenched at Cairo, holding the water supply
at Alexandria in his hands, and being daily
Joined by new forces of Arabs from the Interior,
he has nothing better to- Go than keep still,
while England, whose ironclads draw too much
water to come up the Nile or cross he inter-
vening country en- the dew, is massing 1000
men at Alexandria to advance and fight him
with. Arab has shrewdly used the idea of a
holy war in his campaign thus far, and has
gained great strength thereby. The average
Arab prefers a holy war to a picnic, and if some
vigorous rebel will only take the lead, and allow
the copper-colored wanderer of the desert a
chance to shrek Allah Bismillah, and cimeter
an inidel throat or two before Iisecting his
-nwnah" Aes us happy as a mi er without a
blood relation in the world. There is this about
the situation, however. Arab is in command
at Cairo. He has all the time he needs. He is
massacring Europeans everywhere in the in
terror, and is making grand preparations for a
holy war, tie only troops at Alexandria being
marines, whose numbers are not sufficient for
more than outpost skirmishes. Even when Sir
Garnet Wolsely arrives, a week from now,
the English forces will be too small to
do anything. A report is current this
morning that Arab has offered to surrender
and end the war, on condition that immunity be
granted him and some of his colleagues, and
that he be exiled on full pay. 1t looks very
fshy, however, and is doubtless some cores
spondents canard. The romance of the war,
thus far, consists in the discovery of somebody
that Arab hates the Khediye because when
Arab was yet q lieutenant he fell madly in love
with q Young Coptic girl. Unfortunately for their
happiness the Khedive got a sight of her ano
with the connivance of her father, embezZled
her and locked her up in his harem. Arab was
so furious that the Khedive made him a Bey.
His hatred was unappeased however, and he is
now enjoying his revenge. The English policy
in the war as evinced by present actions, and as
stated by the London Times, is to conquer
Arab, re-instate the Khedive backed by a con-
s~titution which England will dictate and there
by put England in actual control over Egypt.
All of England's naval and army power will be
used to obtain this control, and any power that
interferes will be treated accordingly. The
Khedive will become a vassal of Great Britain
and Egypt an English dependency, and Turkey
has lost an opportunity in refusing to promptly
aid the Khedive, which England will turn to
mos. notable profit.
THE sAcHs-sHANNoN SHOOTING.
The irate husband has been making a nui-
sance of himself during the past week in rather
sensational style, ana as the parties are very
wealthy and very well known, much talk has
thereby been created. Some seven years ago
the local Jewish and Christian circles were
stirred up by the marriage Of Miss Flora Shan
non, daughter of Collector of the Port, L. b.
Shannon, to Samuel Sachs, a youth belonging
to a millionaire Hebrew family of this city. The
marriage has been reasonable unhappy, despite
the fact that two children blessed it. through the
mad jealousy of the husband. AS to whether or
not he had any cause to turn yellow, nobody
SeamS m know However that may he he has
contracted a habit of getting drunk and consider
ably beating Mrs. Sachs from time to time till
the policemen daily roasted on the steps of THEN
Van Ness Avenue mansion in hopes of being
called in to suspend hostilities and get a square
meal. Last Wednesday,, however, Mr.. Sachs
heard something that he did not like, and waltz
ing down to 522 Suffer street, held an interview
with Samuel Cook, a dapper young married
man from Los Angeles, and thrashed Mr.. Cook
within six inches of his life. Then Mr., Sachs,
who by the way was tolerably drunk, went home
to Van Ness Avenue, called his wife names and
pulled out a pistol with which he murderously
shot her in the arm. She screamed and turued
hand springs, mamma and papa turned up and
took charge of their poor darling,
law and papa-in-law being equally tender and
affectionate and taking her home. She is not
hurt much, and though Samuel is out on $40, 600
bond in consequence of his target practice. the
affair will all blow over unless the people with
whom he is unpopular, conclude to hang him,
which Is not likely.
SAN FRANCISCO JUSTICE.
Speaking of hanging, if there is any able
bodied citizen of Hawaii who desires to do a
murder or commit a crime of large proportions,
and is afraid to try it down there, let him by all
means come to San Francisco. Our city is the
paradise of the criminals. Everybody has a
carte blanche to do as he royalty pleases concern
ing the ten commandments and the penal code,
and the law will not touch him after he is
arrested. There never was a time in the history
of any country in which the legal technicality
rose to such grand Importance, and the facts in
any given case sank to such depths of insigniti-
canoe. Whether it be due to a diseased state of
public opinion, or some kindred source, [ don't
know, but the fact is that it is impossible to
convict anybody in the San Francisco courts if
the accused be only meagerly supplied with
money or influence. The three most tagrant of
San Franchises criminals since Pinney, are
walking the streets to-day. The first Is IIbbey,
who as Secretary of the Dupont, street Commits
sioners, forged and stole some $3.50, 600 Of the
city's money. There was no question about his
guilt. Nobody ever doubted or denied that, even
himself. The trouble was to convict him how
ever. He was jailed, the case was dragged on for a
while, the sensation blew over and he was
bailed out. The other day, on the simplest and
most disgusting of technicaEities, something
quite as important in the case as the dotting of
an . - or the crossing OF a ct he was made
a free man. The second is Wheeler who
strangled his sister-in-law and packed her dead
BODY in a chest. 1t was a most brutal, unmiti-
gated piece of deviltry. He had seduced the
girl and killed her to get her out of the way,
choking her. with her consent. as she sat on his
IDaa The deta;IS ar horrible and everybody