Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-10-28

TO AraDl u 10 act against the WahaeeSD
openly revolted, killed its officers, and
had to be decimated and disbanded,
the survivors being Incorporated in
other regiments. When the expedition
had reached the Hedjaz and was in
face of the enemy a second regiment
mutinied, mastered its officers, and
after being brought to reason by Tur-
kish troops was sent back to Cairo.
Meanwhile many of the conscripts
sought TO escape the conscription by
cutting off their fore-hnger or putting
out their right eye, until they found
that the terrible pasha, with n view to
companies of one-eycd recruits, aud
made those who had mutilated their
right hand pull the trigger with the
fingers that remained. Gradually,
however, the fellahs submitted to their
fate, and showed in the Hedjaz, the
Morea, the Soudan, Syria and Asia
Minor that they could, when properly
hand ed, fight well and even gain vic
tories; but in all these victorious cam
paigns they were led by Turkish and
Grcassian officers, and behind them
were placed bands of Bashi-BazookS,
VINO ruthlessly shot down first to
attempted to run away. The any one
employ men of fellah extraction as ofli-
GERS was Said Pasha, who made the
army plaything, and imagined that
his picked troops, by being pampered,
had become so attached to the service
that they would not leave it if they had
the choice. This illusion OF his was de-
stroyed in q way at once comical and
characteristic. One day when en-
camped on the borders of tho desert,
near Lake Mareotis, he was relating TO
his friends how devoted his troops
were, and, noticing an expression of in
credulity on the face of one OF his
hearers, he proposed TO supply an un-
answerabe proof of what he had said
by giving the troops an opportunity of
disbanding if they choose. Immed.
atelv q general order was issued in
forming the soldiers that his highness
had decided to allow all those who
were desirous of leaving the service to
return at once to their homes. The
khedive, accompanied with his friends
and armed with n field-glass, took his
stand on position overlooking the
camp and awaited confidently the re-
suit of the experiment. He had not
long to wait. AS soon as the soldiers
heard the welcome announcement they
{ OF rid of their arms, boots, belts, and
everything which would impede theil
movements, and started Immediately
for their native villages, SO that if ener
getic measures had not been taken tC
stop the stampede and bring back the
fugitives, his highness would have
found himself alone with his officer
and staff. This incident cured SaiC
Pasha of his illusions about the feeling
of the rural population with regard Il
military service, and he prudently re
Trained from any moro test experiment
of the kind. Though he disliked Turk
and Circassians, he recognized tina
these races possessed certain militar
! qualities in which the native Egyptian
were deficient, and consequently n
refrained from promoting follahs be
yond the rank of Captain. Under hi
successor Ismail, who promoted som
of the fellah captains to the rank G
colonel, the service did not becom
more popular among the lower classes
: and 1t is difficult to say whether th
, army was more efficient because it ha
, no serious work to do in the field. |
: the Creton insurrection it was PAL
u alyzed by the political intrigues of tn
l viceroy, who was in secret cOmmun
cation with the insurgent leaders; an
: in the Russo-Turkish war it had lit
opportunity of showing what stuff
was made of. The part which it ha
: played under the present viccroy
: still too fresh in the public memory
require description.
q Left EVsrythiug.