The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-12


has since was here last year, built magnificent
palace large square building with much preten-
VI Jns TO modern architecture which looked noble
and grand from the The neet OF steamers were
moored In the lake opposite the city, and looked luz
posing. perfect forests OF masts were here seen
from steamers ana Arab dahablches. quay, broao,
nrm ana spacious bounds-tne waters edge on Inc
issnslia Side from which well built carriage anu
trainc road runs TO the city, hal mile OH, wnlcn
putt on rising ground, continuation oil III Suisr
highlands.
The lake VIII permit
FIVE HUNDRED SHIPS TO Anchor FREELY IN 1T.
us average depth Is nineoeea eet the waters OF
the Mediterranean let Into the 18th OF No
vemDer, 1862 amid great rejocings ana 1e Detlls.
IL required S0oJ01J cubic metres OF water 10 NIL II,
which process lasted over three months IL is the
inland harDor Oi the isJnmus, and looking on its
broad blue waters one cannot help thinking that
is,nala IS gong to be great city and that the
whole nature OF the country Will be changed from
les Darrenness into as verdant and fruitful aspect
| as the finest lands OF Egypt
LAKE Ilnsan, aud one glance at the dark mass, vita
their forest OF spa and tunnels you the great
work they have accomplished ana OF the immense
usefulness they have been 10 The canal company.
IsMAlLIA
stand sat the confluence oil lnree canals the Mari
time, the Sweetwater, from Suez 10 Isallla ana the
canal from ZaRasg to lsmaiia, which runs through
ancient Goshen. Different races OF people IN
haolt the land OF Goshen ana all that is at present
fertile OF Egypt Goshen Is q land winch recalls
hosts OF scripture studies. Within It's confines
6wet the children Of Israel 400 years bondage. 1t
was one Of the most fertile parts OF the country,
with excellent pasture land. At that time Egypt
was powerful, and for many centuries afterwards 1t
was the mistress OF the world aud the cradle OF the
ar.s and sciences. the desolaton that les eastward
OF lsmaila n the first giiinpse we have OF this
once celebrated country. The bounds OF the vision
are hated on the same des0late expanse, which
seems TO embrace tue azure mantle dropped protect
ngiy IL by the heavens; but the lively fancy OF
tue soul springs over the lintaDle haltlng not un
IL has surIeiIed itself with a-devourIng glances
at the eternal pyramids, Memphis, the city
OF the Hundred Gates, at royal Memnon, al
the coiossi OF Aboo SimDel, at Pnp, where Osiris
stlll Eaunts the lsle and at the thousand temple
palace ruins OF superb Egypt. Near unto us just
thirty miles. lie the ruins OF plthorn and Rameses.
the treasure cities OF the Pharoahs. Sixty miles
further or lies Bubastls, the city OF HisKah and
seventy miles further lies Heliopolis, Bethshe-
lures Egypt was at the height OF It's glory Her kings
Were conquerors over the natons she was the
fairest upon earth. Fields shlmmered with giowDg
| graln, hooks graZed IN penltude ana clothed by
their numbers the land through winch the seven
mouths OF the great river ran and by the clear pools
and still water It's ridges were SOFT with showers.
| the furrows were filed with water ana the land
dropped iatness. Israel, though in a land OF milk
and honey. could not forget It's SURPRISING fertility,
Its wealth, and even hammered after the l-scious
neshpots
There came time to end all this and 10 punish
the Egyptians Tor their many SINS Iney had for
gotten tae wonders performed by the living God;
they mad forgotten that the supreme God had turned
their rivers into blood that they themselves had
been tormented by MES which devoured them, by
frogs which destroyed then thai their increase and
locust; that their vines had been destroyed by han
and their sycamore trees by frost, their cattle BY
han and their 1ocKS Uy hot thunderDolt5; that God
had let loose the lerceness Of his wrath and indig
nation by sending evli angels among them. and
Dy peStllcnce tlat their uTSC-b0rn were
slain III one night, and that finally their king and all
his great captains and hosts had been overwhelmed
IN the Red Sea- All these had been OF no avail was
necessary TO punish their everlasting obduracy their
unabashed immortality and while Egypt WAS still the
mistress OF the nations while her mead lowered up
into the heavens, the prophets appear and launch
their denuncatlons against her. joel IirsJ coin-
menced the fearful srain Egypt shall be Desola-
| tiOnu Isaiah next comes upon the scene and says
| Il Will give over the Egyptians unto tue hand Of
cruel lord.n jeremiah takes up c awful prediction
with terrible partcularity, II Will punish the mu-
Ind If IN and w
gods and their kings, even Pnaroan, aud ali that
| trust In hm' and with oratorical grandeur and
lyric suomity, extending Itself in GREATNESS, long
drawn sentences, the merry spirit OF Ezekiel unfolds
| It's coming DOOM "Woe worm the day; j Will
scatter the Egyptians among the natlons and will
disperse them through the countries, and there shall
| be no more prince In Egypt And now were these
prophecies fuinlledY Come hither, stranger, cast
1 thine eyes upon Egypt and listen TO tile story.
| Apres Pharaoh. Hoprah had his palace at BuDastes
| or the Pirbesetn OF scripture. The cruel lord did
| come-even Nebuchadne1zar-and what nc had LETT
undone Canbyses completed. The shouting OF their
hosts was heard at 1nebes, Memphis trenbled at the
sound Of their chariots. Heiopos shuddered at the
| nelghlng Of their strong ones. The cruel lords
came; their warriors devoured the land: they laid
| waste the cities, they leveed the temples and cut
| down the forests After these terrible kings lett
| Egypt langushcd for many years. The seven mouths
| oil the ryer which watered Ine land wandered away
from their former courses; the pools and the still
waters became vapor; the moisture OF the land was
turned into the drought OF summer, into parched
| ground, into bowling desert; the grass OF the
| green pastures shrlveled away, the trees
withered. the branches, IN whose foliage the
the dry heat aud discovered the nakedness OF the
| land the thirsty soil gaped in seams and painted IN
VAIN for the running brooks: the cry earth became
/ sand, The whirlwlnd caught 1t and whsxed it up
ward and the east wind came and carried 1t away,
| Arabia OF the wilderness Of Puran, OF the deserts
| beyond Edom, ana then the fertility Of land
buried under mountains OF Band-and 10 Is these
mountains fashioned Enthusiastically by the Khamsem,
these iar-streching scOrching seas that tell the tale
| how the word OF God was fulfilled.
But where are the cities and the people, Nebuchad
nezZar and Cambryses carried the people away cap
tive, and as after their death their empires were
| divided the captives were scattered among
| many nations. As for the clues, the IN
Inhabitants being taken away. the manufac-
carried into Babylon ana Persia. they fell into ruins.
Zoar Ia left dry ON the desert Pesusium Is forsakc.
the sediment OF the Nile Bubastes is desolate.
| Memphis stands forlorn under the shadow OF her
pyramids. Iheoes 10 out wonder 70 ths curious
stranger from afar. The granary OF Egypt. fruitful
Goshen, the major part OF II Is desert The Libian
sands encroach upon the fine pastures OF the Nile.
The river oi Egypt tWsdy Elerrish Is utterly dried
up. Memnon Is forever silent and no rings the
| morning alarum. Re ana Apis, all are atoms. On,
| Egypt venerable mother, how art thou TALENT Thy
high places are made low, Inv wonderful palaces
! have become rs naught, thy forts and towers are
dens Of robbers. The shouting for thy summer
| all gladness and JOY IL taken out OF thee
We may hope that Egypt has remained long
| enough under the seal, ana that now mas arrived
| the time when after lying SO long In dust she viii
awake and sing and again blossom and bud and
His anger WIN not last forever Christianity has
! dawned upon the land and already It has worked
1 wonders through its faithful minister's The oon-
merce of the Christian World is coming to her gates
to her centre; IL Is 70 pass through the country
Great changes cannot be expected quickly. Clviiz-
ing nation is not the work OF . moment. Trouplous
| was the journey OF CIVILIZATION westward; trOubous
must be It's return. That the civilization And Chris
thanking OF Egypt will be effected some day no
| man can douOt for civilization maxnetizes what
| ever It touches and in Egypt's case IL comes upon
| shock. 80 that tie efete honammedanism will soon
| be 0bterated by IT, Even now good Christian
King could change Egypt into second class Power.
Happy shall be the man who Shall renstate Egypt
| In her place under Christian rule.
Before returning to the object and purport q this
| letter, l should say a word relating TO the two
! sweet water canals-that which runs from Ismailla
10 Suez, and that which connects lsmaiA with the
Nile by way OF Zagaxig-I should also describe
perfectly smaila and It's future, but time will not
IN lefter a