The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-11-20
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Washington Correspondence .of the Chicago
Tribune
The late Consul General of the
United States at Cairo-George But
ler-is in Washington, and l have
derived some fresh and interesting
information from him. Said Pasha
ls described by Mr.. Butler as a per-
son OF culture, speaking French with
ease and English little ; fully edu-
Gated at the Polytechnic School in
Paris, and wearing the dress of
Christian people. He is a shrewd and
rich merchant, and not soldier by
propensity ; and his income and the
luxury of his court exceed the
tales of Haroun or Raschild's
splendor. He has an income
of $110,0OO,O0o per annum,
or more than half as much as the
whole annual expense of the United
Ssates Government, inclusive of the
cost of the public debt. To keep
our 1000 or 10000 office holders,
our army, our navy, do the public
building, &C., g., requires S17,0oo,-
900 q month. And said Pasha, who
has no more subjects than there are
citizens of New York State, has, by
Mr.. Buffers careful estimation, be-
tween $9,OOO,OO0 and $lO,OOO,OOo a
month, or above $300,o00 day. He
has twenty.seven palaces, all the cor
porate propsrty-or that which with
us would be controlled as corpora
tions-in the country, and no laws
whatever but what he can think of
or will from day to day. He has
four wives and a vast harem, and,
being an unwise husband. does not
know all his own children, yet he is
temperate and prudent, and still he
is not happy. He wants to be a
king but the domination of Turkey
sits upon his dreams like gobbler on
a full boy after Christmas dinner.
Turkey is put above him by Euro
pean treaty which dates back to 1910,
and from the treaties Of Europe
Whatever link you stride,
Tenth or tenth thousandth breaks the chain
alike.
To neutralize Turkey, the Khedive
has been for long time conciliating
Europe, and the power he sits most
store by is Russia. The consuls Gen.
eral a. Cairo are men of the first
class and greatest astuteness, being
really Foreign Ministers without the
name, as the Khedlve is only vice.
roy. Mr.. Butler says he could have
had absolute power, under this vice.
roy, over the life of any American in
Egypt. He was on such intimate
terms with the Khedive that some of
the complainers wrote to Mr.. Fish
that he was in the rich barberians
pay. "But ALL" says Butler, "that
he ever did for me, was to give me
steamers, yachts, troop of horses,
&C., when / wanted to entertain my
visiting friends"
An instance of Said Pasha's wealth,
Mr.. Butler relates that the Empress
of France said to him in Paris:
"Viceroy, l should like very much
to visit your Pyramids but I cannot
ride on camel, and I suppose can
not 60 there by any road"
"Your Majesty can go either by
railway or highway, as you like"
said the Viceroy.
When she went there, at the open
ing of the Suez Canal, the Empress
found road made, twelve miles
long, across the desert, lighted with
gas, shaded all the way with trans.
planted trees ; and half way on was
palace for her repose, and asecond
palace to entertain her at the Pyra-
mids-all especially made for this
one tourney. Aud yet, such US kin
ship of the times, that, when the
Khedive attempted to renovate
Cairo, by taking stones from the
Pyramids, he felt that the rsbuke of
the press and voice of Europe could
not be withstood, and he ceased to
disturb these useless conundrums.
He is building an iron bridge across
the Nile, English work, which will
cost $12,0 100000. The Suez canal
cost him 100, 100000, and is only
partial success, as it fills up as soon
as neglected, and the screw fleet to
pass through it yet small. Lssseps,
its executor, Mr.. Butler believes to
be one of the noblest men in the
world, and never with less than from
half million or million of money
lying upon deposit. The Viceroy
is the owner of a narrow-gaugs rail-
road from Cairo to Suez, seventy-six
miles, and from Alexander to Cairo,
one hundred and thirty miles. He is
now building up the Nile from Cairo
two or three hundred miles. He has
navy, but his people are wretched
sailors. He and his father have made
vast sums Of money in the slave
trade, and his eunuchs for the har-
EN- come from the Blue Nile. Su-
gar, indigo, tobacco and cotton are
are the great staples of Egypt, and
the people have no conception to the
right of property, liberty, or life.
"How many piasters do you pay
the khedive ?" is the remark often
addressed to donkey conductor or
a mule driver.
$50 many"
"Dont you hate to give him all