The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-08
Kentucky Mules.

Some days ago cargo OF 400 Ken.
lucky mules was shipped from this port
to Alexandria. These mules were o.
tensbly intended for the use OF the Brit
i,h army in Egypt. Short-siGbted peo-
pie imagined that Sir Garnet wanted tho
mules for his transportation service and
his batteries, but moments reflection
will convince any one that this could
not have been the case. Sir Garnet had
announced his intention of finishing tho
war not later than the 18th OF Septcm-
Der, and, aS we MI know, he has kept
his word. Why, then, should he have
ordered mules to he sent TO him to draw
either his baGGagc.wagons or his artil-
lcry, wien he knew that the animals
could not reach Egypt until after the
end Of the wiz, and why should he send
to America for draft mules when, ~ the
event has proved, he had all the beasts
Of burden that he needed
Furthermore, the British General is
an intelligent ard wcl-rcad man, and
he would never dream of employing
Kentucky mules in connection with bat
tcric,. The experiment was tried dur
ing our civil war, and with the most
disastrous results. In the rare cases
where . battery drawn by mules lasted
long enough TO reach position assigned
10 II on the battlefield it never proved
to be Of any service. The mules, the
moment they were detached from the
guns, invariably began an assault upon
the entire battery.
The landing of the mules at Alcxan-
dria will unqucstionably strike terror to
the Egyptians. The former animals
have brooded over the wrongs they have
endured during their confinement on
shipboard, md they will land in more
than usually gloomy and yindictivc
frame of mind. The Arab donkey boys
will crowd around them, regarding them
as new style of donkey, and The RULES
will improve the occasion. The i,Oe0
donkey boys will sail simultaneously
through the mir, and the mules, whose
appetite will merely have been whetted
by the triiling exercise Of kicking ten
donkey boys each, will roam through the
city ready to take hand-or rather a
heel whenever an opportunity OF Kick
ing an Egyptian presents itself.
The 400 Kentucky mules, under the
guidance of a dozen Kentucky mule
drivers, will Constitute the force WIN
which Mr.. Gladstone proposes to hold
Egypt in subsection. Marching from
place TO place throughout the country
they will reduce the Egyptians to state
! of affect terror. British troops or Brit
ish qendarmes will not be needed, ant
thr mules will suppress the Chamber o
: No,ablcs and thCck IT," spirit of nation
atty in the disbandcd army with NOR
ease and certainty than could the entir
contingent of East Indian troops. 1t
greatly to he hoped, in the interest
i science, that the mules will be given
-, fair chance at one of the pyramid
There are scientific persons in this cou'
=. try who are ready TO bet large odds tn
-, Kentucky mule can kick the large
~ pyramid into ruins in less than twcnt
go four hours, and although the pyrami'
# ought not to he wantonly destroyed,
n would he entirely proper to devote OF
~. of them to the purpose OF settling u
N, question whether there is anything {
ri Garth that Kentucky mule can n
Il. overcome.
nj No fault can be found by Europe wi
be the proposed method of occupyi'
cc Egypt. Kentucky mules are not op'
I'd to The objections which could be urg'
n AGAINST an occupation by British troop
or a~d even NJ. de Lcssep,, jealous AS he
rh of his international rcla'lonsi WI ncy
ch think of finding fault with the land'
mt. of "A few hundred ALLEGED draught a
is mails. 1t is the genius OF Mr.. Gladsto
in. which has devised this brilliant soluti
he of the Egyptian problem, and mex,
wc his paciIication of Ireland, it will be
isc grandest title to immortal famc.-N.
or Times.