Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-02

kgi the fellow who stole it. There Is
| erain of comfort IN that I paid eos ($475)
| Tor my horse. You have no idea how cost
| liy some things ure here. But the horse is
a good one. The only article that Is plenti-
| full and cheap ID the shy and acrobatie flea
( This bird grows to q monstrous size here,
and he is wonderfully plentiful. He carries
| a biting apparatus with him that is good
deal like twoinch auser, and makes
| hole in you STRAIGHT to bed rock, like an
artesian we'll, only not so comfortable. If
some OF these chaps could be moved over
| into Pennsylvania and set to boring for oil,
the chap who imported them would make
take a real interest in the oil business,
they would fetch it, If they had to go
plump throuA to China. There Is no
chance that We shall get out of here
Betere CbristmaS
perhaps not for months after. The
weather is not half as bad as you would
think. On the co2sst the damp sea breeZes
make it cool, and in the interior you csn
stand 115o when the evaporation is so great
as 10 produce . breeze. This is no fairy
tale. but the unSarnished truth. They are
firing occasional shots along the line while
Iwrite. Our sentries fire at anything, and
when they can't see that, they blaze away
at nothing. The city OF Alexandria is in
bad way, and should not be surprised II
there was another uprising. A few such
defeats as yesterday viii change the local
colorfng very materially, and mark the
change with blood A rebellion among the
natives would give chance for more
slaughter, and likewise more buncomoe
about a AIussulman massacre. once worked
for New York newspaper, and have seen
some pretty elevated lying. Eut the &C cor
respondents at Alexandria are away up. in
the clouds on that score. Perhaps. they
ought to be excused since her majesty
government doesn't allow them to tell the
truth 1t is hard to tell what to think
about the
Religious Aspects OF This War.
/ have very little con fidence in the con.
tinued loyalty of the troops that are to
come from India. /; there should be
defeat. its effect on these men would be
rather serious. do not know much about
these troops, but / do know something
about the Indian army. l know that, SO
far as its native members are concerned,
there is very little friendship for the En-
glish Government. There has been going
on for some time in India rearransement
OF the army mastering out OF men and
a new formation. The facts show that
about one out of every three natives once
freed from their duties has voluntarily gone
back into the army. Their religion has
never vet interfcred with their military in
tegrity, and it has been proved that
they would fight against their CO.
roligionists. But they have never
yet been brought face TO face
rulers at Mecca. The orders OF the tin
might have little or no effect upon tin In.
dian Mussulmans, but the edict from Mecca
would have quite different result, | am
sure. IT, therefore, these Indian re 'ruits
are Mussulmans, there is danger that they
will fall in with the Egyptians, "r thatsup'
posing they ostensibly remain tue tO TIER
British allegiance, their sympathies will be
so
Strongly In Favor fArabi
that it will take more men to keep them
up to the scratch than it would to clean
out Arab altogether. This DANCER is now
becoming rather pointed, if the rumor
prevalent here that Arlbi, in case he is
proclaimed rebel by the Sultan, means to
rely solely upon the support OF Mecca and
declare himself Caliph. Now, If these In
dian troops are Mussulmans, the foregoing
dangers stand good. And, if they are Se-
poys, it looks to me as though their with
drawal from India left matters uncovered
there and ripe for Mussulman revolt. 1t
has long been notorious that the
utmost hatred of the English existed
among the Indian Mohammedans. Arabfs
earthworks have been thrown up almost
exclusively by peasants. From all / can
| learn the stories of his imprecsing these
people,are vastly overdrawn. They seem to
| be tflocking to his support in swarms.
Those who have been employed as soldiers,
| or who known the use of arms, are at once
| put into the ranks. Those who are more
| used TO the employment OF the spade are
set to work upon the Notifications, and
most effective diggers they are, too, as the
| fine intrenchments of Arabi's lines we'll
prove In Afabi's camp, learn from the
| deserted and wounded, there is the widest
hatred for the Khedive. He is called
traitor, tool in the hands of, the Reds,
| de.erterto the infidels, and, in fact, almost
| everything that is against the Egyptian
| ideas of loyalty and honesty. 1t would be
A Bad Day for Tewhx
! il he were to fall into the hands OF Arabi's
| followers. Arab hnGeli is nos so violent.
| | gather that he is quiet just and we'll
p0ised leader, who is not only wildly idol
ized as the new commander of the faithful,
but is earnestly respected by all around
| him The story in Alexandra 10 that, on
| the day of the bOmbsrdment, proposal
was made to him that Tewfx should be
put out of The way at once. Arabi prompt
| ly replied: Not that. We are soldiers
and Egyptians-not assassins." II thele
stories Of Arab be true, what folly - call
| him an adventurer and an irresponsible in
| CCndary. Unless am very much mistaken,
This man will make things hum before we
| get through with this Campaign. There is
| one Swiss officer in his army, and 10 day
| hear it said that an Italian officer has es-
| Cjpcd from our lines and gone over TO Ara
| hi. The Italians hate us like thuHdsr.y The'r
| sympathies are altogether wi tn the native
| army.