The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-19
NEWS FROM EGYPT.
EGYPTIAN ARMY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO BE
PUNISHED ACCORDING TO LAW.

PUNISHED AClOkDlNp ~ LH"'
London, September 1S.-Daily Telegraph's
Cairo disp patch says: Arab Pasha says he
was compelled to fight against his will.
Alexandra, September IS.-lwo thousand
Albanians have been received to form the nu-
cleus of first police force.
During the siege of kafr Ell Dwar, eighty
FIVE of the enemy were wounded; five since
died.
A mixed English and Egyptian military
commission will try the rebel chiefs.
Cairo, September IS.-Arabi Pasha in
formed General Lowe that he trusted himself
to English honor as a soldier whose army
had been defeated. General Lowe re-
piled that he could not discuss the question OF
war.
Arab considers that M. DeLesseps shame
fully betrayed the neutral Egyptian party, who
depended upon his assurances that he would
prevent any landing Of troops or war material
by way of the canal
London, September IS.-The Times has
the following from Alexandria: The follow
ing decree was proposed at the council OF
ministers to-day, and has been signed by the
khedive.
Article 1.-The Egyptian army is dissolved.
Article 2-Officers guilty of rebellion will be
prosecuted according to military law.
Rae Pasha, Minister of the Interior, states
that as a restoration Of order will be Impossi-
BILE, unless capital punishment IS awarded to
the leaders of the revolt, they shall abandon
the country if milder sentence is passed against
them.
The total surrendered here consists OF 5000
men, seventy horses, 1900 remington rifles,
and fifty field pieces.
| FURTHER NEWS FROM EGYPT.
London. Sept IS.-A dispatch from Alex
andria to the Times says The Italian, 1t.
Poavtucico. who was placed under arrest on
Saturday by Gen. Woods, states that he join
ed Arab Pasha, in moment Of FOLLY, and that
he had been in the hospital all the time since
entering Arabi's service.
The Daily News has the following:
Alexandra, September I7.-More than one
hundred officers and men came in here to-day
from Aboukir. Many of the men carried four
or five rifles, bringing besides their own, those
of their comrades who had fled. Arms and
horses given up are in good condition. lbrahi
Bey Lewfek, formerly governor OF Behrout,
arrived here to-day from Cairo, where he had
been in prison several weeks having been in
carcerated by Arab Pasha. He reports that
Zapazie and the surrounding country, are
ruined. and that Monsarath has been pillaged.
Alexandria, September 1.-THE garrison Of
Aboukir. which was ordered to proceed to
Kaffr- El-Dwar to surrender, marched out of
the place last evening; but an entire regiment
with their arms moved off eastward to join
Abdul Pasha at Demietta. The remainder Of
the first detachment, about $50 men, reached
Kaffr El-Dwar at o'clock this morning.
MANY others had escaped on the way, carrying
off two or three rifles each. The rest Of the
garrison, numbering 5000 or 6ooo arrived at
Kaffr- El-Dwar al noon. They were dis
armed. The men were dismissed to their
homes. and the officers detained. Reports of
pillaging of Mansarath arose from a mob
smashing the windows of the loyal inhabit-
ants who had illuminated upon receiving
news of victory of Tel-El-kiber.
ARABI PASHA AT HOME.
\ London, September 1S.-The Daily News
has the following
Alexandria, September IS.--The regiment
which left Aboukir last night to join Abdallah
Pasha, at Damiette, was Arab Pasha's own,
and numbered 500 men. While at Kafr-El
Dwar. Arab and his wife lived with his father,
mother sister and brothers. Arab only ate
and drank wha, they prepared, as he believed
the EnSlSn mao spiSs III HIs camp VINO "lSheu
TO poison him.
HEAVY FLOODS.
Heavy floods have occurred in Lombardy,
Eenetia and the Tyrol. The city of Trent is
submerged. Verona is inundated, and sew
eral bridges have been demolished. There
has been no loss Of life. The damage to
property is valued at two million arancas.
; JUDGE IRELAND told a newspaper. man at
! Marshall that he felt encouraged because he
+. had had large audiences at all points. lie is
: relying on a dangerous symptom; the larger
S the audience the more dangerous to John.