Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-27
n.po1EoH,s VISIT TO ALGERIA.

The Emperor of the French has gone
..ross the sea to visit his colonists in
Algeria. At last accounts he had reached
his African possession, and been received
,;,h ,rsat enthusiasm. The ovations he
received, probably gratuitous' were not
Maid for from his own purse. They are
aid sometimes to have been so betrayed
in France. 1. is worth while now, since
N.poleon has designed to visit Algeria, to
bring to mind some facts and matters in
regard to that country. The Emperor
will not find the country which he has SO
unsuccessfully attempted to COLOMBO an
Arcadia; but when he has been rolled
from town to town, and from ruin to ruin,
over the heavy, burning sands, which
stretch along the five hundred miles of
coast which he is pleased to claim, and
seen the Incidence and ignorance which
find habitation there, he will understand
why the French peasant, who has gone
thither in search of those beautiful and
fragrant bowers. and that ease and plenty,
which Partisan journalists have described
as Astounding there, so soon returns to
his home in the valley of the Rhore or
Seine. Algeria has been Frenkh pos
session for upwards of thirty years, and
during a great portion of that time strenu-
Gus efforts have been made by that gov
eminent to induce her citizens to 20 and
settle there. The attempt at colonization
has met with little success. The country
stretches along the Mediterranean about
500 miles, and from the sea back to the
great Sahara Desert. Its average width
is about 200 miles. The country is
mostly desert; though among the Atlas
mountains which extend into the southern
portion, are found some very fertile val
legs. They are, however, isolated, and
offer few inducements to Europeans to
make them their homes. They are better
suited to the Kabyles who inhabit them.
The Arabs, true to the prediction of their
ancestors, still cling to the deserts for their
homes. The whole population numbers
about two and quarter millions. Nearly
two millions are Arabs and Kabyles,
ignorant, jealous and revengeful. In 1852
the whole white population. excepting
soldiers, numbered less than 100000. 1t
is estimated that the conquest and reten-
ton Of that country has cost the French
Government 100000, 900, and hundreds
of thousands of lives. There is nearly all
the time some lighting to be done with the
natives, and the possession is chiefly valu-
ably to the French Government as q
school for its army. Rough is the country
and the people, and so will Napoleon see
them, for now he is there, and no dis
lance lends enchantment to the view"
Napoleon's visit to Algeria will not prob
ably tend very much to increase his desire
to plant colonies. 1t will not be likely to
operate very favorably to OWNS Sonora
scheme. After he has gazed his fill on
ruined castles and decaying towns, and
sufficiently exhibited himself to the curl
Gus eyes Of his semi-barbarous subjects,
he will return across the sea a much wiser
ruler than when he left the Tuilleries; at
least as far as his colonial government is
concerned. His journey is not without
meaning. 1t is natural that a person, be-
fore he irrevocably commits himself to
any great enterprise, should wish to I'M
derstand the nature of the undertaking as
fully as possible; and it may be presumed
that Napoleon wished to see the con-
dition of his pet colony with his own eyes,
before he endangered the peace and pros
perity of France by trying to plant colo
MES in the New World.