The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-21

| like a beautiful inmate o. the barem clothed
the tssa ny asS ha, q a oi
| Egypt, for am SICK OF the nauseating filth that
meets you at every turn. Slaves Of hereditary Gus
toms and ancient prejudices, marrying the moment
they arrive at the age Of puberty, acknowledging
poly gamy and possessing such unprecedented iaci-
lities for divorce knowing no such word as indie
pendence, bowing and prosnting themselves under
the bastinado the women hiding their soreeyed ug-
illness under the same hind OF veil as that worn by
Rebecca, and the men still wearing the garments OF
many coors like that which Joseph wore; without the
extraordinary industry Of the Chinese the bravery OF
the Malay; the grace, the beauty aud ingenuity OF
the native of Hindostan void Of all manliness or
nobility OF purpose, walowing in their sloth and
| their debssing sensua ICY, under the decimating
scourge OF the CONSUMPTION, ground down by reent-
unworthy Of their ancestral honOrs live on, regard
less OF their fate OF their ownwlthout the vital
spark OF active labor, Of religious freedom or OF civil
| liberty. Plague, pestilence aud famine may con
sumo them, war and revolution destroy their habi
tations, without stimulating them o more energetic
| or more ambitious measures Standing on prec-
pee, STOPPING to the bowstIing, with death staring
them in the face the everlasting Ahdt kestm (tod Is
gIeat)! OF the Arao is all the consolation he re-
qalres.
| dria, for al terwards am booked for Jerusalem.
Murray appears to DE the Bradshaw of Egypt, as
well as OF Europe and asia Minor Take Murray
with you and yeur dragoman, and If you are indus
triols, and not too sentimental, you may do up
neede-theie is but one renlaining-ahd the cati-
combs; these three are the living links that bind
one with the dead Their immensely, their gran
deur, their proud antiquity, make them the signal
own time. The two thousand years have again
come round-the age that has twice given birth to
the mastadonic beacons that distinguished the two
great eras that have lived and died; bat what Is
there now to mark the third? Two thousand years
hence the children of Egypt will expect SINE tow
ering monument to mark the thnd great epoch
of their country history. What hall be the me
mory that binds the present period with the Pillar
ard the Needle--to the Pyramids aud the Sphinx?
Shall it not be the railway, the steamboat the ele
graph, bringing about the moral aud the physical
change that everywhere follows the footsteps OF the
Anglo Saxon race! No better fame can rest upon
the Pashas reign; no filter mantle can fall upon
the tombstone OF the present dynasty than the in
PRODUCTION OF the arts and sciences OF civilized mau
But fear that Said Pasha has not the ability the
to make the moral change unless spurred on by
the energy Of the American, the capital OF England,
the sword of France. Inheritil all the tyranny
and desposism Of his father, without any of his
military genius; wishing to be thought great mill
tary tactcian, but possessing neither brains nor
bravery for the science OF war; spreading gloom
aud msery, and discomfort throu. every mud cabin
in his kingdom-even carrying the harassing torture
of the CONSUMPTION into the Soudan where his pos
sessions six times the size of France, that he
may raise the army from 5000 to 10000 men;
speaking English and French, and keeping tho
roughly posted in the political changes Of Earope
jealous OF the Consuls who rule him with rod OF
iron; cunnngly trying 70 strengthen his own posi-.
ton by pitting France against the encroaching
power of England aud America against them BOTH
protesting peace TO ali mankind and friendship for
the Sultan OF Stamboul yet all the while increasing
drilling and equipping powerful army, Said Pacha
continues to battle those about him with an ngenui
ty and success worthy OF better reputation than
he enjoys, managing always TO bury his future
plans in an impenetrable mystery-remembenng
how insipuatngly Nicholas flung Egypt ut the head
Of Aberdeen, and how disguised Mahemet Ali was
xusfh int rfav nf Erpne and Rr.S
STA in 1877 when those three Powers In the battle of
Navarino stopped the former king rom riding over
Greece and walking into Constanunople-.
knows but what the present sovereign may not lose
his empire by foolishly following his fathers fruit
Who would have thought of finding twenty thou
sand Europeans oS the popaation-in this
fine old Macedonian clicked shaped alexandria,
while at Cairo, with population of 100000 there
are but five thousand foreigners. i am agreeably
surprised to ind this ancient school Of arts aud
scen ses--the great entrepot OF Eastern commerce
flooded with Greclan merchants before 1t Became
EgyptiaDized--so animated with modern life.
Alexandra, with its wonderful manuscript library
Of a million volumes any one OF which had il been
saved from the burning pile or the ruthless destrnc
ton OF the plunoeliDg Arabs, might have told Us
the whole history of the pyramids, and saved d.
tinguished antiquaries and Swans much useess
abor ia tiounGering over heireogyphics that have
bailied them and will continue so TO do for
ries--no matter how learned some Of their decpher
ngs may appear-w;h its famous Ptoemic museum
and lis remarkable structures, one Of which ~ bent
with age and i'll usage, while the other is still ap-
parently as fresh when erected-the delicate play
things OF the yoluptuous Cleopatra--the wondrou-
piece Of spiral granite how raised no tell
giving Pompey the credit which belongs 10 Do
eletian; Alexanoria, with Its antic tombs where
kings and cmperors, conquered and conquering, slept
their long sleep, while the storm and tempest Of war
throughout their wide possessions sweeping like
whirlwind the land. met the storm and tempest
Of the great Leyantine Sea- that washed the q C.
III mir IN al
requiem amidst the breakers and the winds, leaving
an echo that shall last the life OF history Aexdn
dria, with its interesting associations, was among
the ancient cities whose history most impressed
when NJ school, With the fall OF the Roman emp G
her commerce dropped, us Tie choked camel an
the reduced population, are willing TO attest. One
branch alter another was Topped of, till Gamas
discovery made the Southern Cape the toll gate OF
the Indian race course. When the proud relic n the
great Alexander, who conquered Bucephalus before
he conquered worlds. and shed tears when there
we're no worlds 70 play with Alexandria, the
seat OF Christianity, the great outlet of Indian and
Egyptian trade. only known for its ancient re-
nown Although the canal 70 Suez would shorten
the route from the Leyant 10 India some 5000 miles
and would bring New York 5000 miles nearer q
China; apd notwithstanding the recent discussion
Of the enterprise Ia England doubt IL the under
taking will ever be accomplished The excayatlng
and the grading would not be difiicu.t and as the
Red Sen is some thirty feet higher than the Ncdi-
terraneen, the surplus water OF the Nile would be
useful In irrigatiug the Desert. Yet the project
would never succeed without Western capital, and
'tis not likely that England will furnish the means
10 open highway for all nations TO her Indian pos
sessions Besides, from what saw OF the navigE-
ton Of the Red Sea in steamng through In the Nu-
ba, should think very dangerous 20 sailing YES
sells, and canal exclusively for steamers would be
expensive. Another thing Two years hence rail
road will he completed between Cairo and Suez, aud
before the canal could be finished Stephenson. IL he
lives, will have the worlds highway a. he terms
IL, opened from England 10 India ia twelve days,
while Shanghnessy II negotiating for telegaphic
station among the ruins OF Niueveh!
Alexandra, with its harbor where Nelson 80 sea-
manike worked his fleet in spite Of pilots or OF
buoys, before the battle Of the Nile soon "a a
| win commence a new era In her history. Commerce
/ will again flow into her warehouses and she will
| prove herself worthy OF her past glory. Already
you s,e the stimulant which the Indian traffic has
| given 10 her trade. Buildings shooting up,
streets being widened, real estate IL advancing
Egyptan exports will be BROUGHT 20 the seaport