, 1890-03-20
FROM ALGERIA.
A Vast and Splendid
Winter Sanitarium.
THE BARBARY COAST.
A Night on a Mediterranean
Steamer.
AN INSPIRING MARINE view.
A Night Amid the Languorous
Tropio Airs Comes Before a
Morning in Algiers.
N INSPIRING MARINE VIEW.

Especial Correspondence of the REVIEW
Copyright 1890.
AIGIERs, Feb. 15.-Unless tn,
United States government shal
speedily do what should have beer
done any time during the past half
century, take or buy Cuba, and thu
provide vast and splendid wintel
sanltarlum for the American peopl,
and for hosts Of European idlers and
tmvelens, nothing can prevent the
Barbary States of North Africa, IN
general, and that Of Algiers, in par
ticular, from becoming the winter
resort OF the whole civilized world.
An outline Of Algerian history can
be given in few sentences. Algeria
became Roman province at the
close Of the Roman civil war. Com
merce and agriculture flourishcd,
and Christianity was In the ascend
ant Then, In the fifth century,
when the Vandals swept In con
quering hosts upon Roman
territory, Algicrs became the
scene of awful strife and con
stant change of rule. On the
incoming. OF the seventh century,
Algerlans, as well as the people of
nearly all North African states, bad
sunk into ferocious barbarism. This
was remedlcd to some extent during
the brief Algerian reign Of Ferdi-
nand, of Spain, from 1909 to 1919,
when Ferdinand died, and that
most famous of all pirates, Barossa,
graduating from n brilliant curricu-
luln OF Turkish horrors In piracy, ac-
quired Algerian rule by force and
diplomacy, and introduced that
system Of piracy and compulsory
tribute which, until rs late us 1880, n
period Of more than 800 years, was
not only merclless scourge to the
maritime interests of the whole
world, but carried with 1t the most
dia abolical outrages upon countless
enslaved Christians known to the
history Of man. Thirty thousand of
these sufferers labored under lash
and torture three years TO build the
great mole which protected AlgIers
from their own release by
the maritime powers; and IL
Is curious fact that the de
fiance OF this buigaboo Of the Med
iterranean, leading To the eventual
overthrow of the last stronghold Of
piracy on earth came from "Tan-
keen government and was effective
~ conveyed by II "Yankecn irigate
bold. | think II was in 1915, and
under Monroe's administration. that
our government decided TO curb Al
gerlan pretenslons Commodore
Decatur was sent to the MedlterrRn-
can TO serve notice on the then dcy
of Aigiers that from that time forth
the United States merchantmen and
battleships touching at the port of
Alglers should cease to pay tribute.
One refusal like this, as u precedent,
would ruin Algerian pirncies, and
the august dey parleyed with excel
lent diplomacy, finally agreeing to
accept from Decatur AN Insignificant
amount OF powder for the sake of
appearances. The answer of the
plucky commodore to- this was: 'If
you succeed In taking any pow
der you Will get the balls with
thcm@' And he kept his word.
He gave the town q hot lombard
ment, letting light galore into many
Il shadowy mosque, aud sailed calm
~ away. The spirited example
touched the pride of the English,
and gave them courage to oder the
bombardment of Algiers the follow
ing year, under Lord ENmouth.
But little came OF all this until
France took her turn at Algicr-.
This was eflectually done by the
landing Of "a large army on her
coast In 1880, followed by such
thorough work, that ON July 4 of
that year Alglen surrendered;
France took formal possession of the
country; waged unreienting, though
often unsuccessful, war upon the
savage interior tribes; finally effect
ed tho establishment of power
full Interior fortrcsses and splcn-
didly equipped Outposts, carry
Ing civilization and progress close to
the butt-end of u rifle; until, in 1871,
the powerful shoiks We're glad to sue
for Il permanent armisticc; military
rule was withdrawn; and now,
under wise and benellccnt rule,
the people of Algiers, territory as
great In area as that of France, have
IN less than two decades been re-
claimed from barharism to at least
conformity WIN clvii adininistra-
tion, anu put III the line OF such ele-
vation ana progress as VIII at no
distant day render this land of ta-
ditioh ana natural eheliantlnent the
most lovely garden spot OF the whole
w3rlu-ull'essi as have said, we