The Nevada picayune., 1885-03-12
The War in Egypt.

HI TS3 ps IS auout. "c cup '"S following information from the Washington City Times Star:
 ] "The story of the war can be told in few woyds. Some years ago the Khedive, for tha purpose as he declares of civilizing the natives and establish ing trade with the Equatorial Africa, between Gondokora and the lake sources south of the Nile river, and appointed Samuel ha- ker Governor. In the meantime traders who had gone to that re. zion in search of ivory and other ar ticles of commerce, found slave dealing much more profitable. They gave 1t their sole attention, and in the course of a few years be- came so powerful that they were able with a large force of kidnap- pers. to defy the government. Ba- ker endeavored to deal with them, but could do nothing, and in 1873, Chimes Gordon was requested by theKhedive t) undertake the work To this Gordon cOpsenteuted, and after few years had so etfectually cOwed the slave traders that, had the Khedive been as eager to sup press the trade as he was to still the indignant voice of civilization the negroes would have beeen per mitted to abide at their homes in peace.
 1 Gordon remained in south Egypt with brief interval, until 1881, a
 large part of the time engaged in an effort to suppress rebellion against the Egyptian Government led by Suleiman Zebbr, son of the leading slave dealer in the country. Soon after the return of Gordon to England it was annoulced that an insurrection had taken place in ! the Soudan, and had assumed for midable proportions. Al the head of this instruction was one ] M MohammedAhmad also know of Fl Mahdi. and thefaIse prophet. ElMah di wasa religious teacher in the prov ince of Eongola, who by striking i eccentricities of manner of life, nm pressed the natives as being a more than ordinary being. AS his im- portance and influence increased he married into the surrounding tribes, and who about 1850 he de- clared himself to be the redeemer for whom Islam had long been looking and whose coming Moham' med had.foretold, and thousands be. lieved him and fiocked to his stan dayd. He claimed to be cOmmis- stoned of Allah to reform Islam, to establish universal equality, a uni versal religion and a community of goods. These appeals stirred the hearts of the fanatic natives; and the Mahdi soon found himself at the head of an army of thousands, backed by those, and also that of the slave dealers whom Gordon had been fighting, he felt safe Tn levying taxes and performing oth- CT acts which strictly belong to an organized soVernment.
 It soon became necessary for the Egyptian government to take steps to suppress the Mahdi rebellion, but every armed force sent against him was defeated. Finally. 1t was supposed, an inyincible army was sent under Hicks Pasha a distin- guished English General, was sent into the rebellious regions in the spring and summer of 1883, but Ill the following November that was completely destroyed at El Ooled.
 The disaster at Fl Obied put the entire Soudan at the mercy of Fl Mahdi. In order to ,pro- vide for the safety of the Euro bean inhabitants of the threatened city of Kartoum, was the commer- cial city of the country, "Chinese' Gordon by order of the English government, started to that city in February last year. He had. scare ly reached that city when 1t was surrounded by the false Prophet. Finding that escape both for him self and the inhabitants of the city was impossible, he appealed to the English government. With char acteristic procrastination, Glad stone delayed sending force until the people became so aroused that further delay was dangerous when Lord Wolsely was sent with a small army to rescue Gordon, the conquest of the Mahdl and hls