Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1851-06-26
A RAILROAD THROUGH THE AFRI..
CAN DESERT. H.

A RAILROAD THROUGH THE AFRIs
CAN DESERT. +,
An English paper, by The last arrival, has
the following article in,reaiion TO this en-
lerprise and its results:
= The Viceroy Of Egypt has sanctioned the
project OF a railroad from Alexandria by
way OF Cairo, 70 the lsthmus Of Suez, and
the work will be commenced without delay.
With The most skillluI European engineers
al his command, and able al any time to
summon ore hundred thousand Arabs and
Copis 10 the labor, the energetic aud enter.
Prising lbrahm Pasha will not allow long
time 10 elapse before The whistle Of the 10.
comotive will wake the solitudes of Petra
and Mount Sinai, scare The marauding Bed.
ouin oul OF his wits, and render the journey
rom Alexandria 10 the Holy Land as easy
and rapid as.the passage from Buffalo 10
TO New York. The traveller will start from
the base Of Cleopalra's Needle, reach Cairo
in six hours, refresh himself al u mammoth
depot in the midst Of the "waste howling
Wilderness and stand upon The ancient
shores Of the Red Sea in two days after
leaving the Delta Of the Nile.
A railroad through the scene Of Israel's
flight and Pharaoh's keen pursuit---tbrough
the regions where The silence of death has
reigned ever since, amid lhunderings and
loud elemental strife, the law was given from
Noun, Horeb--now for the first time in
thousands of years TO be disturbed by the
clanking and roar Of modern machinery
Here Job drove his numerous hocks 10 The
great maris oftho Soulh. Over this halow-
ed ground his colemporary. Moses, led The
murmuring and mutinous Hebrews 10 The
Land Of Promise. In this now drear
soliIudelhe hand of cultivated archi.
tectural science scooped magni6cen,
palace out of the solid rock, and bid sump.
tuous mansions and temples and mighty
cities rise at its mandate. m ai. 10 s.r,..
This was the path Of ofihe mulliludinou;
hosts ol Amru, The successor Of Mahomet
when he led his lanalcal and victorious
Thousands from Syria TO Cairo and Alexan
dria, poured his dense dark masses upor
Southern Europe, and aimed 10 subject IN,
Cross TO the Crescent. These vas, and al il
deserts ,over which The bald and rocky Sna
frowns in stern grandeur, long afterwards
trembled beneath the tread of armed mil
lions, whirling like some horrible iempes
through The scene Of Israe's trial and pun
ishment. He who, from the position Of al
humble subaltern. reached the throne of tn,
BOurbons by series Of usurpalions ih,
most wonderful. on record, would rival tn,
lame and miracles Of the Hebrew iawgver
} lie eyes the same waters that closed owe
J, the engulfed charots and horsemen o
Pharoah, and exhibits the temerly Of al
tempting 10 pass dry.shod through The Storm!
waters oil the Arabian sec.
But what was this desecration in compar
ison with the pan.ng and coughing Of Ih
iron horse, within view Of the spot wher
the burning bush exhibited its mysterou
} sign TO The trembling Moses, where th
tables OF the law were broken inlo fragment
and over which The pillar Of cloud by da.
and fire by night, hovered, and guided tn
people of Israel to the lovely region Of tn
, Phiislnes and Canaaniles.
The tour Of the Holy Land, which, il
the days Of The Crusaders, was a pigrimag
. OF imminent peril, and accompanied b
priyalions and sufferings lltle short of mat
tyrdom, will soon be accomplished by
) u party from New York .or 81. Louis, with
! in the limit Of a single season. The tom
r of Aaron, The site oil Calvary, The Mount G
} Olives, and the shore of The beautiful Sea c
Galilee, will soon be as accessible as III
f Tower of London or The Lake Of Como or
now, and all the scenes of Scripture Histor
become familiar 10 the eye, and common
place in the mind Of almost every trans
atlantic tourist.