The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-08-21
TIE WEEKLY ARTZONAN
AUGUST 2l.........,...........I869.
THE sUEz CANAL


 From g valuable article published in the
 Zemort0l Dip7omahque we have been enabled to gather much n.ormation relating to the great Saez canal winch is destined to bring about wynde-fa! changes in the commercial word, and i've in history as one o! the great, est achievements, ln enterprise and engineering 2 skill If tue nineteenth century.
 The canal crosses the isthrtus on tonrue Of land a5ou, % miles long. Ships of the largest tcnags car pass through it; there being au average depth of taeuty-six feet of water wsth an average width Of 200 feet Sail ing vessels vii be towel through with steam .uSs
 The work Is near completion and has already been slaieisativ tested to insure complete suc- ca9s' one powerful steam tug passing through -he portion finished, a, tbe rate of ten knots per hour. without. ia lh9 feast, disturbing the eU5snlun.as by wash. at this rate, vessels wi. pass through tae cauaIin less than twelve hours.
 To show what aa enormous saving this will make to commerce we Lave only 10 glance at the distance thatviJ be saved in going to and from tLe fer East 10 to some ofthe great cities of the world I, will shorten the distance to Coastaainople, 4,3)9 leagues; to Loudon 2,800 leagues and 10 New fork city, 2.4OO leagues
 Iae completion of Americas trans-contin- eo'a. railroad, uniting ,he Atlantic and Paci- hc oceac5 by an iron baud has somewhat a-7,aFed the pride and ap45ition of the Ameri-. can people They hardly realize, that in the .s37 ot agyps, where civilization began,
 --- of equal magnitaiewill, in all probability oe coa2.stsd before the year 1869 closes.
 he Eaiding spirit of ,his great work is NJ. es -essePs. He seems to have been one of mos. i'd, tar-seeing men. ralsed for tb4 oc- --si4a, "lo grew stronger and more determin. e., ,ae 'Eo-e opposition be had to encounter. 4. Ta5 the almost unanimous sentiment that .ae saiuas sands of the desert would fill the -an5i, Ina, ,he motion of vessels would cange he washing away Of the embankmeuts, and .4oa5And other objections were raised-suai- s'ent 10 discourage Q less brave spirit than N. .o Lessogs.
 It is striking.y interesting to review the es. 9rts which. Ir'm time to time and at different periods, were made to accomplish this work igloaotus mentions the commencement of the d work oy Pharaoh Aecieos, eco years before | Le 1,sia ot Christ. but itwas abandoned from .la. cf labor; more than 100000 men having, , Is said, Pe-isued of sickness and exposare 7'.b,n teg years. One hundred years later -a reraiana conquered Egypt, when the work 9-s renewed by Darius, but abandoned by IS successors. At different periods several . ',ler attempt ts were made 10 renew the work, .ut wars ragged with fury civilization and anl- d dticn for grea; deeds of enterprise went down, r md the canal was left to the wear of time un- Il hardly Q trace could be found of work ' hat cost vast sums oi money and hundreds of Of human lives For the greater part of 2000 years the dark 'ess Of light seemed to have hung over Egypt Enterprise and ar oition for noble deeds had :. departed from the land all she could boast of were the cgum5ing, mOuldering pyramids and nonaments which bear testimony that great ! ,eople there lived, dourishsd for time and hen fell into decay, It was Jeff for the French .. eople ,5 inject new lie into this desert waste , nd to cause towns and citiss to spring up , new where, for centuries, all had been as V ient as the grave; they feel justly proud at \ ais grea: triumph, not only in national point V f view, 5usa an evidence that the Latin f ace yet possesses capacity fer carrying out . reat enterprises equal vl.h tLat possessed by V Is rival the AnEio-Saxon, b