The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-18

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med Achmets knew that it wopld notao
/ for him with his present forces to. rerisn
where he was. He therefore gathekd
| together all his following, men, wof1fn
and children, cattle and proyisioIs.
crossed the Nile to the west bank, all
fed to Wild fnountain called Gebil GeclA,
/ 200 miles southwest of the island Of All
has, and about ninety miles northwest 4
the penal colony and military station 4
Fashoda. Here, in an easily-defendet
and almost inaccc sSible mountain, Ill
took up his abode The Baggara Arab
now began to lock TO his standard id
great numbers. This large tribe is noted
for its restless. .lawlesS, unrIily spirit.
The Ba9gataS were the former slaye-
hunters of the White Nile. and no doubt
dreams of the return of the old times of
murder and bloodshed We're not want
I ING. The present, ut least, was an OPP
portunity that suited them, and they
determined to take advantage of it..
Ws.saW great numbers of them. with
their slscers ;stessniinss < In tEic sut crossst
ing along the banks with their horses
and their cattle to Join Mohammed Ach-
met in his mountain fastness. 1t was,
\ however, the policy of the Government
ITO let the rebels alone, now that they had
\ left the river, thinking that they would
/ soon lose their zeal and disperse for want
OF provisions. But new Governor OF
I Fashoda had been appointed, who con-
I sidered his duty to signalize his loyalty
by organizing another expedition against
I the rebels. Contrary TO orders from
/ khartoum. he gathered the military
I forces from kaka, Fashoda, and the sta
| ton at the mouth of the SObat; in all,
Goo soldiers of the regular army. With
I These he Joined POO men of the large ma
! tivetribe of the Shillooks, under the King
ofthe Shillooks 500 men all told. With
these he matched sis days across the
desert by forced marches. On the sew
enth day, when the men were all tired
out from the long march, and utterly
unfit for action, they met the enemy
M6hammed Achmet was again victor
ious The fight was turned into aslaugl-
ter. Sixty men were taken prisoners by
the rebels; only seventy escaped by run
ming for it; and all the rest were sl;lln-
The Governor Fashoda and the King
OF the Shiilooks were both killed
Soon after these events we travelled
through the. country as far as the Sohat
River. As we passed the Island of Abb
bas we saw the spot where the soldiers
landed and where they were slain. We
saw the deserted village, already occu-
pied by a colony of ehattering monkeys;
the hut .where Achmet commenced his
career, aud boat which his people had
left half1inished. We found Kaka in a
state of siege by the ShillooSs, who had
taken the Killing of their King in the
throwing off the yoke of the Govern
ment that had never wholly subdued
them. When we landed ut Eashoda we
found the town in constant fear of an
attack We saw the wounded and hearI
the loud lamentations of those who
mourned their slain. At the Sobat we
found the Shillooks hostile. Twice on
our way back we were waylaid and par
TALLY surrounded by Mohammed Aeh-
NETS men. and owed our escape only 70
The mcrciful Providence of God and !
our own presence of mind and agil-
ity in going away from there. On
our return to the Khartoum we learned
that Raout Pasha had been recalled. all
new method of governing the SoudanH
from Cairo Instituted, and that GieglerI
.Pasha had been authorized to proceed
with more vigorous measures agains
the rebels. While we were there, "A
army ofsome3, 900 men We're gathered J
aud sent forward under Youssf
Pasha. We saw them drilling
after q fashion, nearly every day
Some of them received their pay
in our yard. We had good opportuni
ty to study their makeup. Erom tie /
first they had but little hope of success. /
About 100 deserted just before the de
parture. None of them had the first idea
of discipline, few of them had ever fired
OFF their guns, and l, 800 of them were
raw recruits, who did not know which
was the dangerous end Of their rifles
One man was asked how lfe would fire If
he met the enemy. and he held his gun
out behind his buck and said: So
Another was asked if he had bullets
enough, and replied that he thought his
gun would hold few more. The Gov
ernment throughout underestimated the
earnestness and strength of the rebels.
At this time they probably numbered
near 0,0O0 men, The plan of attack, rs
explained to us by Giegler Pasha, was
for detachment of 500 men to march
from Kardofan and join the troops sent
from kharteum at kaka. and thence
march in solid column to Gebel Gedir.
Mohammed Achmet was kept informed
of all these movements by his spies.
Before we left Khartoum a rumol
reached us, which was afterward con-
firmed, that the detachment from kor-
dofan had been interrupted by the alert
Aehmet and killed. Private advices re-
port that Senaar, on the Blue Nile,
had been captured and all the Eu-
ropeans put to death. And now
the news is confirmed that the
army. whose defeat was expected by all
who knew much about it, has been to-
tally cut to pieces, 1000 ont of 5000
slain, 5000 rifles and four cannon cap
|tured, with nothing to prevent the rebels.
from marching into Khartoum itself.
-Ihe Europeans there have hopelezzly do
termined to make the best resistance they
can. Their plan IS to barTicade them
selves within the stone walls of the Cath
olic mission and fight it out to the last
Mohammed Achmet is now complete
master of the Egyptian Soudan. He is
flushed with victory, having never known
defeat. He is now at the head of an inn
mense horde of fierce, fanatical and
bloodthirsty Arabs. True, that theii
method of warfare is primitive. They
even beat the rifles they have taken into
lances; but the impetuous charge of Arat
horsemen, armed with only these weap-
ons is rather demoralizing to an i'll
trained army Egypt is in no condition
Just now to undertake work of recon
quering the Soudan. Her troops have
repeatedly been ordered there. and have
as often refused to go. Unless it is re-
conquered. and the False Prophet sub
dued, that vast region must, for some
time to come, remain closed TO the out
side world.-ReD. Henry II. Laod, b.
d., sa Christian Union.
1t is seldom that success in passing
an examination leads to the suicide oil
the student, but such an instance has
recently occurred in England. About
four miles from Plymouth, Major Let's
prepares military students for their ex-
animation, and one of his pupils, Mr..
Jenkinson, having undergone his ex.
animation, was awaiting the result
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