The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-05
PARIS LETTER.
Regular Correspondence.
PARIS, Sept. Goth. IS


France unpreoccupied by the rumors of
war which fix the attention OF many OF the
great Powers of Europe, undisturbed for
the moment at least by the plotting OF
rival forms of Government, and having
naurht but its internal arrangements to
modify or complete, has judged the mo-
ment opportune to develope abroad vast
commercial schemes of which the Suez
Canal is the most successful example. 1t
is true that the attempt to start company
for cutting the Isthmus of Darien has
failed. but did not Professor NordenskJold
fail SIX times before he accomplished the
North East Passage? NJ. Ferdinand de
Lessons is not q man to be daunted at the
outset, and he will try again next
wear. In the meanwhile he is devotng his
energy to another great project winch
at first sight appears wholly chimeElcai'
To construct q railway to the very centre
of Africa, and thence TO the French posses
sions on the west coast of the unknown
continent is not a project en- lair, but one IN
the hands Of engineers and travellers. y
subcommittee Of the Trans-Sahara Com
pany met yesterday, with NJ. de Lesseps IN
the char. The necessity of immediate ac-
ton was insisted upon and the resolution
that the Haoussa and Lake Tchaad, in the
very centre OF Africa, should be the points
towards which the railway should be laid,
was unanimously adopted, "All ideas
even of important commercial transactions
with the Soudan across the desert OF Sahara
would have TO be abandoned" said NJ. Say,
''if any other route were selected than the
one we have suggested. The whole of our
policy in Sahara must be the occupation,
first by diplomatic means and afterwards by
locomotive engines, of the salt rocks which
form the hating places OF the caravans
The salt-springs of the desert are the
keys of the Soudan.
So much of the "Marseillaise" has been
heard of late that NJ. Paul de CasSSnac,
weary of heavier subjects, has taken up the
National Anthem as the satire OF MS
song against the government Citizen
pontifs of the republic he exclaims into
nights Pays, change your national hymn
or let me whistle. have just dined COM
fortably, and am about to light my cigar.
suddenly hear the cry, TO your arms
citizens This shocks and alarms me, and
| hiss | know very well, however, that If
invited to take up arms they would quickly
decamp. In few moments come drunkards
declaring lnstentorian tones, that our wives
and our children are being slaughtered
Ii know that this is false news-l
whistle. have the right of so doing at
least. And so on during the evening. The
same drunkards state that the day of glory
has arrived which is VIGOROUSLY inaccu-
rate; that the blood-reeking standard has
been raised which is premature, to say
the least; and that it is
necessary to water our burrows with impure
blood, which will not improve our crops
this year, nor destroy the phylloxcra' II
exasperated by so absurd and idiotic asong,
protest against it, I shall be cashiered il
an officer, imprisoned if civilian; whilst
the returned convicts are exalted to the first
rank Of virtuous citizens" The Imperial.
lists" continues NJ. Paul de Cassagnac, "werc
inofensive when they repeated in chorus
the legend of the Beau Dunois, and, with
the exception of NJ. Jules Ferry, who was
married civilly, no one could be shocked
at hearing of "the bravest man and the fair
est damsel walking together to the alter o.
the Lord" The "Marseillaise,' away from
the battle field is but an executioner's or
| chestra; to its strains the heads waltzed int
, the basket. Attracted by its sound til,
crowds gathered around the guillotine.
is the hymn of discord, Of civil warit j
, the anthem of murderers.
A PRETTY TIL
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