Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1882 — THE WAR IN EGYPT. [ARTICLE]

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

The Mussulman priests say Arabi Pasha, inasmuch as he is opposing aggressions by a Christian nation against a Moslem country, is simply fulfilling his duties as a good. Tollower of the Prophet, and therefore the Saltan mast not take part with a power determined to crush Arabi. Cable dispatches of the 15th reported a great deal of excitement at Port Said, and an outbreak was expected at any moment It was stated that a wide divergence of views existed between the Porte and Lord Dufferin touching the wording of tbe manifesto against Arabi. Sir Garnet Wolseley arrived at Alexandria on the 15th of August The Khedive issued decress authorizing the British Admiral and commander of the force to occupy such points on the Suez isthmus as they consider useful for miiirary operations against the rebels, and inviting the Egyptian authorities to acquaint inhabitants with the decree, anl authorizing the Br.tiuh authorities to prevent importations of coal and munitions of war along the and to seize prohibited articles. Arab called a meeting of ulemas, and obtained from them a fetma deposiug the Sultan, and naming the Sherif of Mecca as Caliph. Arabi is said to be organizing the Bodouins in Upper Egypt. England’s action in has been indorsed by Emperor William of Germany. Gable dispatches o# the 16th inst state that there is no prospect that England and Turkey will agree touching the proposed military convention. The policy of Gen. Wolseley is to divide Arabi’s forces, and he, with the authority of the Khedive, has issued a proclamation to the people of .Egypt, representing the sole object of the British to be to restore the authority of the Khodive. It is said the hopelessness of the straggle is becoming apparent to the Egyptians. Gen. Wolseley, at Alexandria, issued a manifesto saying the chief object of Great Britain is to restore the authority of the Khedive in Egypt, promising at the same time that peaceful natives will be kindly treated and the mosques respected. The report that the Ulemas had deposed the Saltan is nntrue, as also is the statement that Menotti Garibaldi was organizing a force in Italy to aid the Egyptians.