Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-03-16
Opening of the Hsthmus of Suez.

VpehAhAS VA eAo VA '
We clip the following able article upon
the opening of the Isthmus of Suez, from the
Now York World
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The 9th OF April, 1902 6lds 1air to be a
notable white day IN the annals OF com
merce. On that day, M Ferdinand dc Les
seps, the protector OF the great Suez canal,
and the president OF the company BY which
the work OF piercing that canal has been pros
ecuted, invites the different European cham
bers OF commerce to appear by the'f dele
gates, at Alexandra, IN Egytt, tl,Pre 10 III, |,
spect, IN company WIN himseii, tiie aGI''''l vM
condition OF tins astonishing enterprise "hat
the condition IS, NJ de Lesseps mas aireauy
announced to the world SINCE the ilrst day
of January last, the waterway has been open
from the Mediterranean, the Moreo Clausum,
the shut and Inland ocean OF antiquity, TO the
Indian seas Boats daily pass from Fort
Said to Suez, ana IRON lSma''ia TO AagazlS,
stopping at "way-statlohs on the pierced ana
severed lsthnus as they pass
IN a barge carrying th'rty passengers ana
towed by small steamer, Presehted 10 the
Suez Company ny rfnce Nalo'eo'i, NJ ue LES
seps, i'll twenty-tour hours, has passed from
sea to sea through a canal offering an aver
age width OF about forty-hDc 1eet, ana an a'-
erage depth OF about tour ieet'
lhe canal OF Pharaoh Necno ana Darius Is
thus echPsed; and the magnllcent PROJECT OF
the lrst Napoleon, ior shortening the way from
EAlTpe to ASIA, IS passing h'o realty uiloef
the auspices OF his nephew ana successor :,
lhe discovery OF America ana AuStfaha
has modIi'eu very cohslderapiy the III torrance
OF this great event to the prosperity OF ChriSt-
endom, How to reach ASA as TO t'e pest ao-
vantage, was tor many centuries the leading
problem OF European commerce a.
| ne Nr"SitueS soNeu ~ W ','e sie"t P'U''' "
and glory OF Nuremberg, Augsburg, ana the
Flemish cities, by an overland transit ifom
Venice to the Northern ocean; 'aSco de
CANA gave 1t new solution, to the Dencht OF
Portugal;, Columbus, beueVlhg Musell 10
have finally answered 1t, SIMPLY put II BACK 10
its just place among the questions OF mundane
economy. M. de Lesseps may larry cialm
the enduring honor OF meeting 1t on the
ground OF its real merits, and oil setting IT IL
forever, if his canal OF four feet IN depth shall
prove, as he believes that 1t VIII prove, to be
susceptible of the enlargement needed tomake
it safe, commodlouss, and speedy highway OF
transit from Chrstendom to Cathay' "a
The successful piercing OF the lsthmus OF
Suez, means nothing less, than complete ultl-
mate reversal OF the commercial relations be-
tween Great Britain and tie european contl-
nent Conceived IN French brain, prose
cuted by French energy, and accomplished
mainly by the use OF French capital and skill,
the achievement OF this colossal undertaking.
while it invests the French name with new
and brilliant aureole of renown, offers to other
nations than France the opportunity OF such
commercial development as twenty years
ago it would have seemed idle Tor them to
dream Of
The astute citizens of the Swiss republic
have already sgnified their sense OF the new
impending order of things by the eXtraordn-
ary resolution of their Federal Council en-
powering Swiss merchants to send the Swiss
flag to sea. Trieste, Venice, Malta Naples,
all have their Helyetc residents, watchtul and
eager to take time by the torelock and secure,
at least, their fair share Of the opulence which
is now about to pour into the lap OF the CONT
nent Italy, Austria Greece, Spain and Iur-
key, will not be slow to learn how great and
wholesome change this new highway of the
world prognosticates in their respective posi-
tions as maritime States.
A passage for ships to India by the 1sthmus
of Suez sounds the knell of British supremacy