Connecticut western news., 1882-08-09
Alexandria After Bombardment.

A correspondent the London Times writes as foll have just returned from the tow having landed with the second detachment of marines. We had to make our way through heaps of rubbish, from which the marines picked up the most miscellaneous assort- ment of odds and ends, consisting of buttons, stays, playing cards, files and boxes of matches. At several points we had to go in single file, at others to wait to allow wall to fall, at others to leave the street and adopt more passa- bIe sideway. No one was to be seen. It was march over the ruins of what had been city.
 At last we reached what had been the Square. What it was is too we'll known to need description; what 1t is is quite beyond all my powers. There in the centre, lighted up by a lurid mass of smoke, stood the large equestrian statue of Mehemet Ali; behind it I could see the Palais de Justice. Of the rest can only say that dis tinguished nothing. On either side of me was one long line of fire. At every moment house fell that made a sound which recalled the cannonade. As I walked on, I tried, but failed, to distinguish one house from another. In place which I have seen almost daily for seventeen years, l could not even find out the openings of the familiar streets leading to the mar kets. could only guess where certain familiar houses had been from the proximity to the statue, which stood alone in the centre.
 As walked, bounding from side to side to avoid the falls of masonry, an offensive odor would cause me to look | through the smoke. At last we distin. guished two moving figures. We went to them and I acted as interpreter while they told us history which reminded one of Dante's Inferno. The perfect calmness, the utter absence of excite ment with which they told the tale O horrors, the business-ike accuracy witt which they showed us where to go tt find persons in distress, and the quie manner in which, after giving us all the information we required, they left tx return to their work of danger anl charity as quietly as if there were noth ing extraordinary in their position, wal proof of 8 sort of heroism which wol the admiration of all and compels me t. give their names. They were Per' Guillaume, Belgian Franciscan, ant Frere Mivielle, French Lazarist.
 At last we made our way to the othel end of the Square. Through the treel of the garden and the smoke we could see the English church still standing though, I think, slightly injured, ant perhaps footed. As we passed win dow in house at the back of the churcl we were greeted with cheers, sBravo Inglesi l" and so forth. The next build ing was that of Dahan, where found { trembling porter displaying conspicu ous sheet of white paper as peac signal. I found all we'll. To the left on the opposite side, is the large un | A4uAoAoO UAASAAA48 OA AO4OS @A0 @ WsSUOA man with tears in his eyes begged m to assure his master that all was safe and he had even kept his papers on hi person.
 As we approached the street leading to the Coptic Church 8 crowd cam toward us carrying the flag of truce They were chiefly Oopts, but some wer Arabs, who came to say they had 1,30 refugees in the Coptic Church, also on prisoner, Berber, whom they had al rested while he was assisting to bur down houses. This man was brough out. accompanied by his master, re spectable Italian named Tresta, wh stated that his servant had forced hi1
 to leave his house and had set fire to il The man was handed over to tn guard, and after ample evidence ha , been adduced in support of the state ments against him he was shot.