The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-01

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| petual hostilities. good road will be con-
structed from Gondokoro, parallel with the
course of the Nile, in short until the last cata-
ract is surmounted. AT that point (north latl-
tude 3.32C the general depot will be established
| and as the river will be navigable, the shipping
will be brought into play. Carts, horses, camels,
mules, ETC., are already prepared for the eXpe-
| dition: and in a very short time communica-
| ton between Gondokoro and the depot will be
opened for wheeled conveyances, which will
| materially facilitate operations. In TACT, the
difficulties of the expedition Will speedily vanish
with the means at the disposal OF its leader,
combined with the energy necessary to insure
| success.
at is impossible to estimate the results of the
| present expedition from financial point of
| view. But laying aside the returns to be made
of ivory and gum and beeswaX and other pro-
duce which should more than cover the cost of
the undertaking, il will be interesting to men
tion, as a portion of a great plan conceived by
Sir Samuel, that he hopes to render Egypt the
grand cotton-producing country of the world.
Nor is there anything exaggerated, improbable,
or QuiXotic in such an assumption. Should a
railway be carried from Souakim on the Red
Sea through those wonderfully-ferte districts
of Upper Egypt to Khartoum, described by Sir
Samuel in his Nile Tributaries of Abyssna,
from Casala to the banks of the Blue Nile. the
extraordinary resources of that country would
be awakened
An English paper says DR.. Gedge, of Bury St.
Edmunds' has accepted the post of superintend-
ent of the medical staff in Sir Samuel Bakers
eNpeultlOn 10 Lake NyaIlZa. Ir. Ge0ge Is also
intrusted by the Viceroy of Egypt with the col
lection of natural history specimens for a
museum about to be established at Cairo.
American Enemy Could operate.
A letter from London, dated August 49, con-
tains the following
Let us for a moment imagine that. in the
event of n war with England, America were to
despatch large fleet of iron-clads to Ireland.
As matter of course, our whole iron-clad fleet
would be moved to the westward for the pur-
pose of defending the coast of that island. In
the meantime a portion OF the American fleet,
consisting of n couple or so OF large iron-clads
| and many gunboats and monitors as had been
brought across the Atlantic, would come up the
English Channel destroy Portsmouth, and then
pass on to the eastward. ] maintain that in
twenty-four hours from leaving Portsmouth
London would be at the mercy OF the in
vaders There is nothing whatever to hinder
or prevent bold men from carrying out
this plan. From Portsmouth all the way
round to Ramsgate and Margate, with the single
exception of Dover, the defenses of the coast
| are such as would not turn back a baby that had
any pluck. At Dover the guns of the fort can
be avoided. At Sheerness we have a dockyard
and few men-of-war but no iron-clads. From
Sheerness right away to London Bridge there is
nothing but forests of masts, belonging to mer-
chantment in dock, to be seen right and left of
the river. inviting destruction as it were, from
any hostile vessels that got so far into the
bowels OF the land. am quite sure that halt-l~
dozen gunboat5 could in one morning utterly de-
stroy many millions of dollars worth of ship
ping on their way from Woolwich up to London
And, as l said before defenses that could really
prevent even a single gunboat from making its
way up the Thames, and destroying
in a few hours half the shipping and
three-tourths of the most costly merchandise in
England; for you must remember that nearly all
our warehouses are built close to the river, and
in them are stored away millions upon millions
worth of goods from every part OF the known
world. England has never since she was q
nation contemplated such war as now hangs
over her head in connection with the Alabama
question. During the long war we had with
France, our enemy had no navy that could be
compared to ours Moreover, he was depending
entirely upon the winds of heaven--or, indeed,
we all were-before he could move his ships
about or as he wanted them. But now it is en-
trely different Steam has not only bridged
over the channel it has also bridged over the
Atlantic. And remember that steam helps
an invader far more than it does a
defender. In the days of sailing ships an
invader of the Thames might have a fair wind to
start with, but be in terrible fix for coming
back Unless fortune so far favored him that
when there was change of wind IL should take
place exactly at the right moment he would in
all probability fall into the hands of his enemy
long before he could return. But with steam it
is far otherwise. The same power that brings
an invader up the Thames could take him down
again And remember that not only could a
fleet of gunboats penetrate to London Bridge ut
all hours of the tide but that in doing SO these
vessels could burn and destroy far more property
than the Alabama ever did.
The moral of my story so far is this:-What-
ever faults Englshmen have, a wapL of calcula
tion is not one of them. When they hear of
feet of American irOn-cads being off the coast
of Ireland then they learn that in every Irish port
on the west coast there are men of ours disem-
bdrking-men who will fraternize with their
Irish fellow.countrymen When they know that
the English fleet has gone to protect Ireland aud
that gunboats have found their way up the
| Thames in such different cases, ! say, will not
Alnl ha tff III
| will, and that it will be your fault-that is, the
! fault of your diplomatists--if it is not.
| A Vituperntive Divine AsSniIs II Bride in Berlin
A Berlin correspondent relates the following
Some time ago Il bridal couple were standing
| before the altar TO be married. Unfortunately
| for them, the officiating clergyman had heard
| that the young people would in few weeks
have again to request his services at the baptis-
mai font. In the speech with which, accord
| lug TO custom, he opened the ceremony, he al
| lowed himself to allude to the prospective
event. Then, becoming heated with his theme
| lie took upon himself TO enact the representa-
| weeping bride, and wound up by box
| ing her ears. Against this terrible affront
| the bridegroom demonstrated with wonderful
meekness. His one object being u be mar
ried, and by marriage TO repair the past, he
said few words to the Vituperative priest, and
requested him to proceed. Amid the tears of
the ladies and the rage of the gentlemen present
home the bride became i'll, and the following
| day was delivered of a dead child The thing
| got wind and was discussed in the public press
though, of course, those Immediately concerned
would have preferred to keep il a secret Upon
| this the pugilistic clergyman at once wrote To
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