The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-07-16

can Desert.
| Our telegrapnic dispatches of Tuesday
morning, containing an outline of the news
by the Arctic, advise that the vlceroy az
Egypt has sanctioned the project of a
railroad from Alexandria by way OF Cairo
to the Isthmus of Suez, and that the
work will be commenced withou. DELAY.
with the most skilIful European engineers
at his command, and able at any time to
summon one hundred thousand Arabs and
Copts to the labor, the energetic &c enter
prising IbFahim Pasha will not allow LONG
time to G apse before the whistle of the
locomotive will awaken the solitudes
Of Petra and Mount Sinai, scare the ma
rauding 8edonin out Of his wits and rem
der the journey from Alexandria 20 the lilo
y Land as easy and as rapid the passage
from New York to Beffalo The traveller
will start from the base of Cleopatra's S
Needle, reach Cairo in six hours, refresh
himself at the mammoth depot in the midst
OF waste bowling Wilderness" and staLd
upon the ancient shores of the Red sea
Ia Two days after leaving the d TIA Of the
Nile.
A railroad through tie scene of Israel's
Hight, and Pharoh' keen pursuit.! through
regions where the silence of death has reign
ed ever sine, amid thunderings and loud
elemental stife, WI Ell the law was given from
Siani now for the drst time in thousands
of years to be disturbed by the c.anking
and roar of modern machinery,-Here Job
drove his numerous hocks to the great
mats Of the South. Over this halo we'd
ground his contemporary Moses led the mur
muring and mut;nops Hebrews to the land
Of promise. In this now drear solitude the
hand of cultivated archi ectural science
scooped magnificent places olt of the so! d
rock, and bid sump: uous mansions and tenn
plies aud mighty cities rise at its mandate
This was the path OF the multtudinous
hosts of Amru the successor Of Mahomet,
when he led his fanatical and victoriods
thousands from Syria to Cairo anl Alexan
dria, pou:es his dense dark masses upon
Southern Europe, and aimed to subject
the Cruss TO the Crescent. These vast aud
arid sserts, over which the bald and rocky
Siam frowus IN stern grandeur, long after
wards trembled beneath the tread of armed
millions, whirling like some horrible tenn
pest through the scene OF Israel's trial
aEd punishment He who from the position
oil an humble suoaltern reached the throne
OF Bourbons, by series of usurpa ions the
most wonderful on record, would rival the
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lie eyes lie same waters that closed over
the engulfed chariots and horsemen of Pha.
raoh, & exhibits the temerity of attempting
to pass dry shod through the stormy waters
of the Arabian sea. But what was this
desecration in comparison with the painting
and coughing OF the iron horse, within the
view of the spot where the burning bush
exhibited its mysterious sign to the tremb-
ling Moses, where the tables of the law
we. e broken into fragments and over which
the pillar of cloud by day, and i:e by night
hovered and and guided the people of Is
rael TO the lovely regions of Palestines and
the Cananites.
The tour of the Holy Land, which in
the days of the Crusaders, was a pilgrim.
age of eminent peril, and accompanied by
privatians and sufferings little short of mar
tydom, will soon be accomplished by par
ty from New York or ST. Louis within the
limit of single season. The tomb of A Aaror
the site Of Calvary, the Mount of Olives
ond the shores of the beautiful sea of Gal,
liee, will soon be as accessible as the Tow
of London or the lake of Como are now
all the scenes of Scripture history become;
familiar to the eye, aud common places ii
the mind, of almost every transatlantic
t3urist.-St. Louis Unian.