The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-12-14
AN EGYPTIAN HORROR.
Seventy-fve Algerian Pilgrims Drowned
in,the HarbOr Of Alexandria.
Their Vessel Cut Down to tho Waters Edge
They Were Loaded Down with Gold and Sank
NATURALIZATION Of the Authorities
Public Sentiment Cannot tho Western
Powers Stop the Contagion Breedersi

Night before last seventy five Algerian pilgrims
were drowned IN this bay Differently from what
happens In other places. the disaster mas made NO
sensation In Alexandra. In the Levant and Rast
where thousands are slam day by day by the scourge
OF contagIon or famine, the loss OF seventy-1ve
lives. and those Arabian Calls forth no
signs or tears. Hence, a. far as there is any
Information on the subject one must rely upon the
external information OF those who witnessed the
sacrifice. Al eleven O'Clock on the evening OF the
22d The Assyrla arrived from Algiers, bringing
large body OF pilgrims bound for Mecca.
The grand movement toward the Mohametan
Jerusalem begins in the coming month, and thus the
whole Turkish empire Is animated with nomadic
enthusiasts. who make ready to perform the loftlest
devotion OF their regioo
SAD FATE, THESE PILGRIMAGES
are always ATTENDED with evil consequences. They
are breeecrs of cholera, contaglon, famine ana all
sorts OF fatal mustlness. They congregate at Mecca,
itself augean stable, Notwithstanding lis sacred
traditions, and there Is formed the fountain-nead
which feeds all Eastern maladies. No believer In
the progress of the East, IN the development OF
African or Asiatic tribes for o moment sanction
q policy when favors the absard meanderlng
Of these peoples They are substracted from indus
try; they take with them, upon their pilgrimage
large quantities Of coin, anc their evil and greedy
impulses often aroused they do crime as readily rs
the weakness OF the whole human race; for
making pilgrimage to Mecca Is the measure
OF Arabian caste. He who has panto-
mined before the ruins OF the Prophet
is regarded upon his return home as already ele-
waited to one Of the minor heavens. He has place
In Immortality from when no Papal bull can dis
possess him or where no missionary can ind his
way. In fact one OF the delights OF the
future Mohammedan state must be in
%hnt rhnu rnf thnrn hnu In ronlnv
choly refrains OF Deacon Watts, or be bothered by
the emssares Of opuient tract societies. Whatever
the most loatnesome contempt. In these words
am uttering no blaspnemy against the Koran. but
thrive upon ldoIatrous missions Happily, Jerusalem
which any reasonable observer detracts from and
does not add TO the religious ASPIRATION is no longer
approached upon the knees but upon the heathiest
horses that can be found, and the city Is longer
relic to be worshipped but curiosity to be seen.
The same should apply to Mecca
THE WESTERN POWERS SHOULD STOP THIS Pill
GRIMAGE BUSINESS
as q sanitary measure, or at least without doing
violence to the Mohammedon faith, should modify
1t IN the interests Of civilization. The unhappy
cSronio fatality ALT Hundreds are lost and
are never heard from; The press is shent
because with all IFS appliances Il does not yet
are disasters like this one that they are In mems
mouths one moment and are then forgotten. II Is
the Knedive VIII indemnify some one, and that is
oil. Grand juries are not yet known in Egypt
ference. Lest it should be suspected that have
been trIing to write homily ! WIN simply state
nights ago 10 settle dispute; used guns-one was
Killed. the other badly wounded, and no one
knew IL the Scandal Of the "t town. ana
perhaps, the man who drives tho
BONES bones An European can sc sonndiy oS an
Arab, and ten francs pays the reckoning, though
Angio-saxon race mere often addicted to the trial
OF their early training. L cannot be imagined that
our outlaws, that much sorrow was expended on
the seventy-1ve corpse5 OF the poor Agonians. At
nave learned the news. How dliierent, thought,
Is American Journalism, where bodies OF the dead
would be more than duplicated by those Of che re,
merchant yesterday afternoon he said. "Have you
head the news?"
"No; whatr'
oSeventy five AlgeTIans have been drowned. I
in a graphic manner proceeded to describe the dis.
aster At the entrance to the harbor the vessels In
Health Onicor the Assyra, Just in from
Algeria, was naturally, regarded with sus-
anS at point beyond the city for the consus
General had entered an emphatic protest against
allowing them TO pass rsrn ae city ana the
say, have more power or command higher respect
than the Consul General OF the United States.
much American soil as New York Or Boston; be-
cause from the treaty OF 1853 ex-terrtoria rights
HITLER early discovered that westward the star OF
empire taxes Its way, ne assumes that original On
deed supertor) jurisdiction comes from the direction
OF the setting sun. After the protest had been
tered the Algerians could not be sent TO Alexandria
dSsSy WERE with their the
lighters and prepared to be towed ashore. They
doubtless all felt melancholy satisfaction In having
to every creed and religion as it has been
theatre or all species OF crime and barbariy. AS
the lighter was being towed ashore another passed
Of tn same character. struck her nearly amidshp,
and cut her down to the waters edge. The Arabs
did have time to realize their situation To be
drowned within sight Of one OF most popu0us
OF the Mediterranean ports did not enter
watermen and boatmen every appliance In sight
ana no storm-tne confidence Of man Is very strong
that he ca ana sS n5oMn OF THE SHOCK.
Yet the loaded lighter was no sooner struck man
s Ter mme IN passed S ' ssa sns s@s
gone forever. The suddenness Of the
aea the Sat attaches % h exr
ordinary pilgrimage, together with the fact-more
tan aha !, eaen pilgrim was was Loaded
his waist, conspired 10 make each body rest AT It's
fatal anchorage None came up; none were saved
the last sad moments OF THIS devoted band; but as
far as we know here they exhioMed the same
much s aHu', the same n as the CHRISTIAN regards
alone shs 'ew ssGaass the reves
lions OF Mohammed as Judaism does Christianity.
yesterday the authorities were engaged tnr0u9nOut
the day IN fishing out the bodies and burylng them
ashore Had they not persisted as They dld the
party would have gone by rail TO Cairo, and there
awaited the vice-rega signal for Arabia. AS 1t was
when stopped by the protest Of the Consul General
they demanded protection OF the French Consul on
the ground OF being subjects OF France.
THE END OF THE PILGRIMAGE.
Thus ended one Of the beginnings of the pilgrim
ago to Mecca for the year 1871. repeat IL Is also
but the beginning or It's accidents and scourges.
The entire East e restless before the rapid move
ments OF the cholera. Cyprus has been attacked
Vessels coming from Gambia are quarantlned, and
the coast OF syria Is threatened. Only emphatic
demand by the Western World can prevent this
great highway to aud from India from dspers.
Ing cholera eastward ana westward around
the earth. stitch In time saves nine
The Turks here, as elsewhere, are observing
Ramnszan, the Mahommedan Lent; but
with more reason than in former years. when II was
the custom stop all business and last by day and
rl,at hy nj nneu. the lrapQ-