Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20

should be. Holman declared thathe would rath-
er see the bill fail than have the House yield up
on this question. Cannon, Hiscock and Atkins
were reappointed conferees on the legislative
bill. and Hiscock, Robson and Cox OF New
York conferees on the deficiency appropria-
ton bill. A resolution was adopted referring
to the Committee on Civil Service Reform
the question of inequalities Of salaries be-
tween Senate and House employees, provided
that no salaries have been increased. The
House then went into committee OF the Whole
on the Senate amendments to the river and
harbor appropriation bill, and the result was
non-concurrence in $50 of the amendments.
THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS.
The following etterin the New York OJser-
rer from Hon. Victor G. Barringer, of North
Carolina, American Judge in the New Court
of Appeals of Alexandria, gives the clearest
and perhaps the most truthful account yet
published of the occurrences Immediately pre-
ceding the bombardment of Alexandria by
the English fleet. The letter is dated Alex
andria, June 49,:
Grave disorders broke out here at $3.50 P. NJ.
on the 18th inst. hasten to give you some
details on which you may depend. There IS
much need of the truth, as far as it can be
ascertaned for no pains have been spared to
SOW, far and wide, misstatement and falsehood
in respect to the incidents of last Sunday.
give single speciman. One of the New
York daies telgraphed to its correspondent
at Cairo that it wanted picturesque news from
Alexandria, This correspondent, young
Englishman, who was not in Alexandra at
all on the 18th, applied to some of his young
countrymen for the needful items of infOrma-
tion. They practiced a cruel hoax on him;
and, unless the managers Of the New York
press have been sharper than their correspond
ent, one can hardly estimate the amount OF
suffering which their picturesque news has IN
hicted on our friends in America
The morning of the 18th opened beautifully
in this city. The public tranquility never SEEM
ed more assured We have had troubled state
of affairs for some weeks. The army, with
Arab Pasha at it's head, was engaged in a
bitter quarrel with the khedive but 1t was
an internal dispute which turned purely on
rnce Arab personited the Egyptians, while
the Khedive symbOlized the hated Turkish
power. If the parties had been let alone, it
might be interesting to speculate on the end
and results of this controversy. But they were
not let alone. AbOutS month ago England
and France decided to intervene against Arab
and in the interest of the khedive. am not
concerned to pass judgment on this policy, or
| on the manner in which it was sought to be
| enforced. I assert, without hesitation, that
| up to this moment when the joint fleet an
chored in this port, events in Egypt had not
| assumed any form hostile or offensive to Chris
tians and foreigners. From that moment
there were the elements of disorder, which
spark might set into flame. And the spark
| might come from either drection-from the
| foreign population as we'll as from the Ga-
tive. For. if the latter felt affrOnted, and not
awed by the moral demonstration made by
| two great powers, there was danger, on the
other hand, that the roughs OF the foreign
population, mstaking wholly and magnifying
unduly the character Of this moral display,
would gladly seize the occasion to put upon
| a people ordinarily docile and submissive. IL
was hoped. however, that this danger was
| over-past. The Admiral commanding the fleet
had promised in no event to land troops or flre
a gun. Arab, the real master of the country,
| had given the most solemn assurances OF pro-
lection and safety. Dervish Pasha had just
arrived from ConStantinople on mission or
inquiry into the causes Of the recent disturb
ances, and a general confidence was felt in
the happy issue of his mission.
The 18th came, as l have intimated, with
better lookout than we had had for some time.
The city gave itself up to the usual round Of
Sunday festivities and dissimtions About
the hour have already indicated, in quarter
of the city where good many beer-shops and
bad houses are located, drunken Maltese ana
an Egyptian got into an angry dispute. The
Maltese stabbed and killed the Egyptian. In
few minutes the fight was general along sew
eral streets in the neighborhood, and even into
the Grand square, where I had full view Of
it from my balcony. 1t was from the begin
ming and to the end tumultuous encounter,
evidently without any head or organization.
The natives were armed onlywith clubs. They
struck at random every man in the European
dress whom they encountered, and so brutally
were many of the dead mangled that it is evil
dent the murderers in many instances, I'm
gered long over body after life was extinct,
or even paused in their mad career to beat the
lifeless corpse. The combatants, on the Eu-
ropean side, were generally armed with knives
and firearms. Unluckiy, they resorted often
to the irritating and dangerous tactics OF
shooting down into the streets from windows
and balconies-a species OF warfare almost al
ways as fatal to friends as to enemies. But
where the roughs of the city-the low Greeks,
Italians, and Maltese-came hand to hand
with their foes in the streets and in the squares
they rarely missed deadly aim, and they lost
no time in mangling what was already dead,
or moltally wounded. The fight ragged till
near O'Clock P. NJ. The work of pillage soon
commenced but it was generally in small
way. The large shops were too strongly bar
ricaded for clubs--the only weapon OF the
Arabs-to make any impression on them.
The open beer-shops, the cafes, and show
cases along the streets suffered without mer-
cy. There was something comical in this part
of the scene One might see child toddling
along under the weight of doll bigger than
itself a woman bearing on her head a lot OF
broken chairs, the whole not worth ten cents;
a man with an armful of glassware, with
which he would finally fall to the ground amid
the wreck of his plunder In one case de-
voted Mussulman was seen carrying on huge
cross, evidently with much care, as If he ex-
pected some day to sell it to good Christian,
instead of smashing it to the earth, or using 1t
to crack the head of some European. The ma
tive police, first on the scene Of these dlsor-
ders, participated in the sacking, and, 1t IS
said even in the work of death. But about
O'Clock the military in fulfo came forward,
and in an instant there was quiet. After a
residence of eight years have never known a
more tranquil night in Alexandria than that
of the 11th. The delay in the arrival OF the
troops was painful, perhaps criminal; but al
ter full examination, must say that what mas
happened to us in respect to the police and
military is not far worse than what is charac-
terstic of these protectors of the public safety
everywhere. They are always, and in all coun-
tries. too lat. on the theatre of action. and
they too often share the sympathies of the
rioters
The killed outright numbered fifty-six Eu-
ropeans of various nationaities-no Ameri-
can. As to the Arabs, it is very difficult to
ascertain the number. Estimates vary very
much. The best opinion is that they lost
quite as many in killed as the Europeans. The
wounded on both sides are about three to one