New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-16

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1N6aNukRHeR EXTRAORDINARY.
rsus B,ys,ry II ths War Of 1885,
I have been confined in this room, No.
10, Olas4aor e., Above VI, fer fifteen
mosths and cine d11s., The surgeona
who were dastands enough to, sign the
lettrs de eachet pretended that was suffer-
ing from insanity, supervening. upon .
stroke Of thA sun while Engaged in
veying for new feeders for the Suez canal
on the ridge beyond the Bitter Lakes.
The fact is, am imprisoned through the
influence Of NJ. Ferdinsnd De LessepRon
account of o memoir which I presented
to the British government exposing under
. thin vail of fiction, the nefarioqs designs
of that ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS en-
gineer, a man who is Wiling to destroy
half the -human. race if so be he can ac-
complish his 'veogeanc&v L an myself
half Bngish, born il Languedoss q an
English mother, ny fathers name and
myQnm being Papin.treI was educated as
civil engineer, and / have aided NJ de
Lesseps in q great many of his undertake
ings, becoming in. this way fully &C.
quaintsd with kis desikdk As could not
approve these, but felt hoond 10 repudiate
them Tor barba9uus inhumanity and in
coadeisable destructiveness, Idetermi1s6
both to master all the details of his
gigantic pl9tna and to spprise the startled
world Of tie desperate = Undertakings 4. be
This is the tue history Of the follows
ing memoir, which ! addressed to the
Britain Minister Disraeli rip May, 1874,
and which feel sure had much to do in
actuating the Suez canal purchase, and
many other acts Of the British ministry.
may state that MI. De Lesseps's hosiil-
ity to England dates from the period VIXEN
he found that the government and capital
lists Of that toantry not only wlnld not
subscribe to his canal aproject, but de-
cidedly opposed ituIn 1873 he was very
full of building railroad from Astrakhan
and Ekaterinburg across the continent to
Port St.aVlaaimir, with branch to Cabool
and Peshauwur, and another through
Ourga to Peking-the completion of which,
he felt sure, would lead to the fall of
British India. The practical bankruptcy
of the Russian government, however,
turned his attention from this plan toward
the Sahara, thesubmergence of which has
since been his favorite project may
odd that III the details embodied below
have been gathered from, conversations
with De Lesseps, and are what really
constitute his dream:
speeVully Submitted 10 the Brush GOO
ernnseht. By a. Papin, civil engfneer.l
When the wal broke oft on September
10, ass, NJ. de Lesseps and his ~orkmen
had already been Angage6 for five years
upon their tremendous undertaking. No
onaknew hoy extensive the works were,
for none were admitted ta them who we're
capable Of reporting UPON the subjec!,
but the new American excavatof was said
to be the most astounding machine in ex-
istence, and the 200, 600 lsborers employed
to wait upon it composed very busy
city. There was a flying camp of so 900.
Tuartgs who covered the approaches to
the several works, and il was now known
not only that the plague had ceased its raw
ages among these people, but that also NJ de
Lesseps was hailed as their. savior and
was in intimate confidential relations with
all the hostile tribes a for as the heart of
Soudan. In August, when the war be-
came certain, it was. known that couriers
had been dispatched to all these tribes;
that immensa gatherings of Wild people
monaced the highlands Of Morocco. OAR
foor and Senegambia, and that incursions
upon Khartoon had forced the Egyptian
army to retreat, and the eKhedive to call
upon England for q contingent of troops.
Itwas supposed from u this that the ex-
cavationS we're nearly completed, and the
desert tribes, duly warned, had begun
their fitting. To,
At this time the waf that was to change
the map of Europe and Asia broke with
the suddenness Of waterspout. Upon
the one side was arrayed the great West
ern alliance, comprising Germany, Great
Britain, .Portugak Sweden and Norway,
with Turkey, Egypt and Italy. Upon the
other side appeared Russia, France, Aus
tria and Spain, together with Holland,
Belgium and Denmark. The armies Of
the former alliance compfehended ,0O0,-
900 Of disciplined troops, With the strong
est fleet in the world. The opposing all
lance Commanded Z, oOO, 600 soldiers
with O feet only. inferior toaits antago-
mist. The jealousies of Germany and
Russia has eliminated after the death of
the two Emperors, and both Germany
and England found THAT some u their
natural and geographical allies were in
~the hostileranks'i pursuit ct revenges.
Thus, Spain, mot hostile to Germany,
was at war against her in order to regain
possession Of Gibraltar from che English;
and Denmark, the Netherlands and Bel
gidm, friendly toEngland, had sought the
Franco Russian alliance in order to de-
fend themselves against the known pur-
pose of Germany to annex them.
The war began with series of brilliant
coups de main. The Anglo Prussian fleet
entered the Baltic, destroyed Riga and
Revel, defeated and sunk the Russian
feet in the Gulf of Finland, and efectu-
ally completed the destruction of Cron:
stadt.. Under cover of these operations
the Scandinavian army landed and took
Copenhagen, oveEran Denmark end united
with the German, AMY Of the Elbe. The
Italian feet took Trieste, and the Italian.
Egyptian and Turkish armies defeated
the Austro- Servian troops 1t widin and
drove them into BelgIade fO0h Ne other
Ind the uaitua Fre1lA Dutch md Bel
gian forces, crossing Tie Rhine and stup-
ing the heeviet Russian fpztressea, eccu-
pied Gottipgen,s Hanover and BremN,
and opposed what seemed 70 be an ire
sis6bls front 20 ths Scandinayian and