Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-14


, background, while Cairo fiourished
The discovery Of America 3nd th'
; way round Africa changed the
great highroads Of trade, and il
Importance rs a commercial cen
-trum was lost. The rule Of the
Turks, into whose hands Alexan.
dria fell Ia 1917, did the rest
Napoleon /. conceived the idea OF
annihilating the trade of England
on the Mediterranean and TO check
her progress in East India. In order
TO gain these projects he planned his
Egyptian expedition. On July LIST,
lTSS, his fleet appeared before Alex
andria, and the city fell the next
day into his hands. On went the
cOnqueror. Cairo fell, and from
1 Egypt he bent his way nOrthward
into Palestine Jafia was taken
March 9th, 1899, but against the
little fort Jean d. Arc, the invader,
could DO nothing. He was Gem
PEELED TO return 10 Egypt, and,
owing TO political intricacies at
home departed for France. The
French fleet was destroyed by
Nelson,and the expedition in Egypt,
by the united efforts Of the Eng
fish and the Turks. brought into
such hopeless situation that they
bad TO capitulate. On the End Sep
tember, 1893, Alexandria was taken
by the English, and the French
commander, with his remnant OF
troops, had 10 be transported back
to France on English ships.
The resurrection of Alexandria i
due chiefly tO MOhammed All, who
repaired its canals and expended
large sums on its restoration. But
its trials were not yet over.
a spirit of dissatisfaction had
taken possession Of the officers Of
the Egyptian army, who COM
planned that they could not get their
pay. and that foreign officers were
preferred to them IN the service.
One Of the officers, Arabi-Bey, who,
ON this account, had taken part in q
demonstration against the new
hhedive, Tewfik Pasha, had been
sentenced in q martial court, aud
resolved TO take revenge. He placed
himself at the head OF the dissaIis-
fed troops and compelled the khe-
dive 20 flee to Alexandria and inn
piore England for protection. The in
surrectiOn spread like Z prairie fire |
over the whole country, and no Chris
tan or Jew was safe in Egypt any |
more.All fled tOAlexandria or 10 Port |
said; but in the first named city |
Itself the instruction ragged. Many /
Europeans were murdered and their
houses burned by the fanaticsI fol-
lowers Of Arab. They had in the
taken possession OF the
and awaited already
the bomhardment OF the English |
leet, which was drawn up in the
harbor. On July Ilth, lSS2, the bonn
1aramentoommenced,a land the troops
were sooa landed. Arab fled, pur-
iued by the English, who, finally,
,ompietely beat his trOepsat Tel-el
hebir, where the bold insurgent
e2der was made captive ant, after
much deliberation, banished to the
sland Of Cyprus. Alexandria has
rot yet quite recovered from its last
hook.
AS the most noteworthy points OF
he city at present may be men,
Toned the so-called Place 5Iehemet-
Ali and the pillar Of Pompey. The
wo obelisks are, rs is well known, no i
1nger here. One adorns the fogyy i
hores OF the Thames. and the other
as been transplanted to American 4
oil. after the fashion of the old bar &
arian eonquerors, who used to drag
lcn Egyptian monuments to Rome
nd COnstantinOple. o
The Place Mehemet-Ali forms the :
entEum Of the European part of
alexandria. 1t is great square,
GROUNDED with magnificent build
lgs and ornamented with trees.
ower-beus and water fountains. In
ie midst thereof rises an IL m. high
atue Of Mohammed Ali, the
'ther OF the modern Egypt. / sup
'se that the Mohammedans who,
ON religious motives, hate all i'm
yes, must look upon this beautiful
atue with much the same feelings
We would have We're the Chinese
erect one Of their idols on n square
New York, or, still verse, San
Tancisco. No other proof that the
power is broken is
'eded than the presence of this
itue in one Of their chief cities.
Inc pillar Of ponipey is the only
lhque monument still lett In
lexandria in good condition. Its
round pillar hewn out Of n single
zee, 2O.4 m. high. Its diameter
NJ the top % m, at the basis 97
IL stands on n rude pedestal. -
Mt from fragments of an ancient -
nple, bearing in hieroglyphics
name Of Psametik [. IL il fin
ed with top piece IN Corintbian
le' anu presents ON its lofty emf
nee a grand, imposing view. The Il
pillar is made Of red Z
mite from Asuan, and is, in an. %
; m high. Round about the res
lar are stTewn fragments of Eqyn- :
2 statues, the presence Of which M
-hts place is one Of the enigInas Q
egyptian archaeology. Ct
here are two versions rs to the iss
ect Of the erection of this pillar
says II was reared by Penney WI
He oeSlnning OF the fourth cen
y In honor Of the Emperor Do
ian, and that \ statu. of this +.
peror originally covered IN. ton G,
/ Another version has il Tins. 20
eletian had besieged Alexan- NJ,
/ ior eight months. When the bU
at last fell into his hands he
lmanded the inhabitants 10 H. ali
sacred, and said he would not mn
&c to shed their blood until h n.
med the knee OF his horse. Rut
happened soon; for rs he rodc
Ut on the field of carnage his -
,e stumbled over a CORPSE. and a., y.
knees were soiled with the blood ~ ~.
seeing this, and rememberino w
word, the emperor comnancei
slaughter to cease, and the lid
ems erected the pillar with the =
he OF a horse on IL, ia remem- m
zee Of this event. ~
lpoleon /. is said TO have once
n his breakfast on the top OF
pillar.