New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-16

| The limited States were much descanted upon by
the lecturer. He rather liked the American system
| of interviewing" though he had Deeh us yIGtIln
| Not he said that word he had uttered had DeeH
ever misrepresented in America, or anything set
down to him which had not b ialle I5od h1H
| TO have to undergo the system OF auTlcul " con-
fesson which is in vogue IN the United states. ana
TO sec, few hours after reporter had coniesseI
him, a full, true and particular account Oh
| it all in a newspaper. - NJ: De LessepS u
in sympathy with the Ungd oI Stb cr @
| admiration Mt Inc perfect order which reigns ~
1 American cities, and the unlimited liberty to talk
and write and print and meet which cltlzens prac-
| tise French people gaped at him when he rapidly
sketched the principal incidents of his Journey ana
endea voIed to convey to them some idea OF AnrIt
| can power progress, activity freedom ahu-e0o'"
| LEssEps on THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
| To-day had the pleasure of an interview with
NJ. dc Lesscps at the Suez Canal Office Admiral
ROnciere do la NOury, Prince Aristarchl Bey, VINO
| had dined three days before with the Emperor
of Germany, and Abel de Lesseps from
Egypt came in when was there They
were all agog about the Panama Canal,
which it appears Prince Bismarck finds time
to think and talk good deal about LesScps is the
most cordially polite Frcnchman am acquainted
| with. All he does or says comes straight from the
| fountain-head. There is no regeneration, hest
| fancy. weakness, or cOncealment about him. HIS
black eye expresses the motive power locked up IN
Is whole mine of coal. l sought for line,
a trait, q wrinkle, which would prove him the kina-
Of the Empress Eug6me, but did not find IT. ST.
William NapeIs description of Marshal Soulrs Wig
orOus physiognomy often occurred to me III the
course of the interview. Whilst N. de Lesseps was
| explaining to me the engineering aspect of the
great work Of his old age an idea
presented itself to my mind. How the
constructor of the Suez Canal is Just the Hercules
to clear the Argean stables IN which the military
| strength of France perShed. We converSed some
| time about the Monroe Doctrine, which NJ. de Les
seps deems the sole obstacle OF importance
to his scheme of an intcroceanIc waterway. w MAJ
| is serious in it, he SAYS that Americans do moi
really understand it, Mr.. Monroe himself explained
! il to N. dc LeSscps when lac was Young diplomat.
1t meant that Europe, should not interfere to
! impose a monarchical government on any
| State on the American Continent which
wanted to live under republican institutions
| 1t was simply America for the Americans; but Presi-
| dent Monroe never dTeamL OF preaching that
! America was only for the United States. If the
States Of Central America chose to have, through
the lustrumenaty Of European engineers ana
! European capital, an interOceanlc canal made the
| Government of Washington would have no more
right to prevent them than Lord PalmerStOn had 10
stand in the way of the Surz scheme. IL Americans
generally understood the Monroe declarailon NJ. dc
| Iessepss mind would be quite easy. But their con-
ccptiOn oi the Monroe D"ctrne was vague hdhazy'
and because 1t was so II degcnerated into superSt
ton with which there was no arguing
If the Canadians appealed to European capital
lists to aid them in making canal through the DO
min:on, would the United States have the shadow
OF a right 20 go and hinder them in the name of
| President MonrOeH .
| in that maine the United States Government
were to take the future Nicaragua Canal
| under its protection. Shares in that enterprise
would, in consequence, go up of once As to the
| execution of the canal scheme II contract between
| NJ. de Lesseps and an engineering company Is nj
for the construction of machines. at the
! end of which time, if he finds the money to- pay
them for their labor, they will BEGIN to work. They
| IN
| dykes. entertainments and drains connected with II,
in six years Each working" year is to comprise
| $50 DAYS, and 5000 abOrers are to be employed
daily NJ. de Lesseps will place the financial manage
ment of the canal scheme III ne hands OF UNI
versal syndicate OF bankers 4O0O00,OOO francs
will be required, and he proposes 10 raise them by
| shares Of 800 francs each. Should America desire
! it, 200,000000 viii be reserved for her, which
| would give her the pnmacy ut the board OF man.
! agement,
III. de Lesseps was very, emphatic in say
ing that he desires above al things to execute
! the United States but that If they do not lend
themselves to 1t, nc VIII carry ont DIS plan
| of the world. He has hidden anlmus against
Transatlantic any other republics. be learned in
his recent journey through Central America aud the
United States that TepubliCanlsm Is q powerful in
| strument of human progress, and since he cam"
back 10 France he has rallied to the political insti
tutIons which have sprung mp within the last
ten years Madame dc Lesseps too, hs lost her anti
| Republican pref JUDGES i'll America. She went out
| there a heactiOnst she came back as Liberal as
! any member of tue Gladstone Cabinet, and re.
! solved not to bring her children up IN mar
row. Old-iasnOucd prCiudices. In speaking OF her
/ u. de Lesscps ran OFF at tangent TO equal rights
! and other American "nOtlOns" arising from them.
lie was pleased to say, and in all sincerity, that
! an intelligent woman is i'll most respects, the
| superior Of an intelligent man. Intellect, III
| her case, is served by divination. Her mind
is the most wonderful OF all COTS works NJ. de Les
| seps, l have doubt, would gladly become the
honorary president OF the Equal Rights Societies IN
the United States, If the fair members thereof
wOuld undertake to explain the Monroe Doctrine
! as interpreted by HIM.
Aristarch Bey here took occasion to speak OF tho
extraordinary respect in which the Americans hold
womanhOod. The fact of Madame do Lesseps aud
| her children having gone to the United
States gained. he was told, 90 per cont
] of those now in favor Of the Panama
| undertaking. And the children" asked " arc
they quito we'll after their long journeyp " In
| superb health" answered their fond father. and
| their minds ten times moro active than when they
started from st. Nazaire. The intellectual
stimulus they received in the United States
| astOnishes and. delights me, By-the-by.
have Won seen their pictures in the Hlastraton ~
| 1 owned had not. Ny nterlocutor off to fetch
number of this pictorial, but could not find one.
! Friends had plundered him of a whole pile that
| he had ordered. The licensees of the juveniles
| were perfect. ! took my leave. saying l
could procure the Itlstrdtton in kiosk This was,
| found, what could not do. hunted for num-
Der in several kOsks. and then went to the office Of
the paper, where l received the answer: All sold"
"Wby Tins great demand ~ MA fol! The portraits
of the de Lesseps children Paris is out OF its mind
for the moment about the Panama Canal and the
de Lesseps family"
NEW HOPE FOR LA ROCHELLE.
THE OLD SEAPORT WHICH RrCHELEU RUINED is
MAKING A NEW HARBoR-DE FREYCINET's USE