Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1882-08-03
LORNG ON EGYPT.
Arabi's Fight a Resistance TO
Carpet BaggerS.

AraW's Flght q KeSsSeaiC6 W
rpet-Baggers.
General Loring, at one time noted
in Egypt, has been interviewed in
St, Augustine, Fla, by a Florida
Timea reporter. The General, though
he has been several years absent from
Egypt, exhibits agood deal Of feeling
in regard to the recent catastrophe.
He holds England directly RESPONSE
bic for the existing troubles and i'm
pending anarchy: and he regards
the bombardment Of, Alexandra as,
under all the circumstances, one OF
the most abominable ontrages Of
which history has any record. In
the bombardment and the extensive
fires which followed it, nearly every
thing that constituted the magniG-
cence Of the modern city was de.
stroyed, and he says that capital will
not easily be induced to go in and
build it up again. while the khedive,
under the European domination
which is sucking the life-blood oi
Egypt, does not command the neces.
sy resources.
The iortiGcations OF Alexandria
were built partly under General Lor-
ings supervision, and he is confident
that if they bad not been caught un.
prepared they would have given the
English fl eet a good deal more trouble.
ut must be recollected," he said,
"that tbe fleet was inside the harbor
to which it would have been obliged
to force an entrance had it's hostile
purpose been avowel at the begin
ming. This placed some Of the strong
est defensive works at decided dis
advantage. The worst difficulty,
however, under which the Egyptians
laborel in heir defence was, that
their gunners had no experience in
handling the great Armstrong guns
With which the forts We're provided.
isuS Khediye, IsmalI, rnaI these arreaS
guns wonld be useless unless bs had
men who knaw how 10 work them,
and that the only way to teach them
efficiently was by actual practice.
But as it cost about a hundred dol
lars every time one of them was
fired, the Khedive felt that the es-
nense was more than be could stand.
The reault vas that when the shock
OF battle actually came, the firing
was wild and ineffective. can fis-
sure yon that il the Egyptian gun
ners had been sa experienced as they
were brave, the English fleet would
have had a serious time OF it.
70 the inquiry whether any eiiec-
tive resistance could be made by
Arab TO the march of an army to-
wards Cairo, the General replied that
there were no Qualifications between
Alexandria and Cairo, but that
good deal OF trouble and delay could
be caused hy the destruction OF the
bridges across the Rosetta and D"'
Meta branches OF the Nile, both OF
which have to be crossed in going to
Cairo. As far as Cairo is concerned,
! it ia not a fortified city, and is oil no
use for defence. The General said
he had no faith in Arab Bey ability
to fight & regular European army,
especially with the Khedive against
him, dividing the loyalty Of the sol
diera. Bnt the strength ol Arab :
csnae lies not in his power to fight
an English fleet or an Anslo-French
army. 1t lies in the sense Of wrong
on the part OF an i.dustr!"ns and
long. suffering people, who are the
victims Of slavery immeasurabiy
worse than any ever known at tie
South. Arahi's revolt ia but the
symptom and expression OF tL's
sense oi wrong; ami even though
AraLi ulay be defeated, the conflict
will never really end 80 long as the
lie blood Of the Egyptian people is
drained to satisfy the exactlons CT
foreign bondholders. Geh. Loring
said lie went to + orids to write
book on lsyi!, bot he had not
written = line yet.
The Salvation Army is the great
topic OF theological discussion IL
England lust now. The established
: Church clergy are divided in opinion
Canon Farrar has made it the object
Of discriminating denunclatlon II
West,ninster Abbey. Some OF the
Dishopa have written to the Arch
bishop oil Canterbury nrotestine
against his anbscription. Dear
! ! plnmpire, of Welli, has written tt
General" Booth, begging him to re
consider The line OF policy he ha'
adopted. The rean admits that goot
! ia being done. but it is mixed will
:, evil.
, John j. Flynn, eS-managlng edlto
, of the Chicago -Ns'0s, who was re