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Show STAnrLIMI DISCOVERT. It XVeodalolbe Arreat or n Italian Comit. Home, Nov. 21. AH Italy Is talking at the present moment of the stattliug discovery which led to the arrest a few days ago at Milan of Count Caguazzi, at a moment when he was about to step aboard the train forilonza, where he was engaged to dine witlt Humbert aud Queen Marguerite. The count was, until the moment of his incarceration, the principal civilian official at Massowah, and as he controlled the administration of justice, the local treasury nnd the service of supplies, it wiU readily be understood that he ruled sujireme in Italy's colony on the Bed Sea. Although covered with orders and decorations, and honored until the day of his arrest with tho warm friendship and ruppott of King Humbert acd Premier Crisp!, he now lies heavily chained in the hold of a government ship, where he Is to be tried for Ids life on a charge of high treason and fraud. Tho trial, which cannot fail to terminate ter-minate in his conviction, will likewise like-wise result in the liberation of his whilom partner, Muussa 1 Akkad, the most extraordinary scoundrel of the present age, who at present oc-euphs oc-euphs a circular cell In tho great convict prison et San Stefatioanl who, man-over, enjoys the rare dis-tit.ction dis-tit.ction of having been condemned to death no i( s3 than three separate times. It U Ju-t about leu months ago that King Humbert commated to penal sxrvitudw for life the sentence of death passed by Count Caguizzl ujen his former friend Moussi 1-1 Akkad. The latter lias 1-eeu a wealthy Egyptian land owner aud merchant. Ho was borninAltx-tndrla borninAltx-tndrla so-ne furty years ngo and flr-t nttraLtcd public attention in IS7J, when he was accused of having hav-ing po!oned his rich uncle, with the assistance of the latter' fair wiV,w homhe subsequent y married. It was further charged that after a few months of wedded life lie had murdered his confederate. aIo, in order to bs able to enjoy his uncle's wealth alone. The present Kbedive Twfik made Mousi a paslia, but lie, however, how-ever, dil not servo the Khedive faithfully, ns he also drew heavy piy from the deposed ruler, Ismail, at Paris and from the pretenJcr, Princo Halim, at Constantinople, tor serving their interests against TcwuVh government. For three years Mousa Pasha lived reace-fully reace-fully at Ma30wab, absolutely In-dilicrent In-dilicrent to tho curses and anathemas ana-themas launched at ills head by the friends and relatives of the many victims of ills trickery, and from the very beginning of the Italian occupation of Massowah, in 1SS5, he once more became n personage of considerable importance. import-ance. " After the Dongoll massacre, where a whole Italian regiment fell Into an ambush planned by Mousaa and was destroyed to the last man by the Abysslulins, this wonderful schimcr opened a contribution of $500 for public subscription for the creation of a monument to the memory of THE IXTCI1ERBD ITALIANS, though there is reason to believe that he was concerned in the preparation cf the massacre. Shortly afterward he visited Bome and was invited to dice with the King and also with Signor Cnpl, the Prime Minister, who was so much pleased with him that ho obtained fur him tho cross of the royal order of St, Maurice and St. Lazarus. A few months later au immense sensation was created, not only along the shores of the Bed sea, but also at Banie by tho news that Moussa Kl Akkad had suddenly been arrested on a charge of con s piracy to surrender Massowah to hostile Abyesinians under lias-fjloula lias-fjloula at a moment when the Italian Commander In Chief, General Gen-eral Orero, witli the major part of the garrison, was absent at Ado wall. The discovery of treason was placed to the credit of Moussa's former partner and friend, Count Cagnazzi, and It was he, too, who, as the principal civilian official, conducted the rocvedimrs, who presided at the trial and who finally pronounced sentence of death upon him. The arrest and Imprisonment of Moussa led to the lapso of a number of government contracts Iu which he was Interested, and lawsuits, brought In connection therewith by various Italian and Austrian firms against ills estate at Massewah and subsequently against the Italian government at Rome resulted in laying bare the fact that Count Cag-nazzi Cag-nazzi bad been Moussa's silent partner in all the legal and illegal financial nnd commercial transactions, trans-actions, and that the arrest cf Moussa Mous-sa on n charge of high treason turned out, in short, that whenever anybody any-body interfered with f the plans cr projects of the Count Le Immediately Immedi-ately proceeded to get him outof the way by arresting and condemning him to prison as a traitor to the ItaiUn caue. A number of more cr lets Innocent persons are therefore working out sentences of penal servitude ser-vitude In the great penitentiariei of tli kingdom, and It to probable that the approaching trial of CeuntCsg- ft tMft |