Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-05-30
From the Newark IN. J) Advertiser.
THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS, AND THE
RUSSIAN EMPIRE.

RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
The Emperor is now Al years old, and
for the last 20 years, his life has been one
Of constant enterprise and toll. The at
fairs of his overgrown Empires of which he
claims the title Of Father are all to be
kept under his immediate superintendent:
if courier arrives from Siberia, or War
saw, or from the Caspian, he must not
overlook the dispatch; if his grenadiers
are to parade, he must be present; even if
fire breaks out in hiss chapel, there he is,
putting, sweating and shouting with the
best Of them.
Those who have seen his Majesty des-
cribe his appearance as imposing in the
extreme. He is feet 2 inches in height,
finely formed, with great breadth Of shout
der and chest, great length and symmetry
of limb, with a large, blue, piercing eye.
Grecian nose-and every part of his frame
is in the same colossal proportion. At the
royal levee he is distinguished amid all the
jewelled and sabled princes, by his plain
dress and commanding figure, and he tow
ers above them all; like the first king Of Is
rael among the shepherd warriors that
surrounded him. He is the gigantic head
Of the most gigantic empire on earth.
Russia is certainly "a most wonderful
country. Stretching around three quarters
Of the glohe,i is already numbers 70, 200, 600
of inhabitants, in a century more may
number 100 millions! 1t embraces every
variety of soil, product and occupation,
from the stunted pines Of ArchangeI to the
blooming gardens Of the Crimea from the
hunters of bears on the ice hills Of Kam-
schatka, to the diggers Of salt in the mines
OF Cracow. The rich wheat fields on the
shores ofthe Black Sea pour their annual
produce into the granaries Of the Odessa,
the shepherd Of the interior pastures his
immense herds on the centeral steppes, and
at each returning fair, drives the firstlingS
Of his flock to the bazars Of Moscow;whle
from the frozen north. where life well nigh
goes out, the hardy forester floats down,
during his short-lived summer the furs
which he has taken beneath the light Of the
Aurora during his long wintry ght. All
this varied population and divided into two
classes.
First come the hcridetary nob'es-huge
sons Of Anak. purse proud, high spirited,
and for the most part Ignorant; rolling in
splendor and filth, covered with diamonds
and vermin-a set ofprincely desperadoes,
readv at any time for revel or muster,
a masquerade or a campaign. From these
rotous na5obs,t FOR three Of whom could
buy up the whole of Iowa at Government
prices there is but one step to the SERBS
in comparison with whom our southern
slaves are freemen indeed Herds ofthem
throng all the plantations Of the nobility,
working without pay, living on rye meal
and chopped straw until they can live no
longer, and then die, leaving wreatched
inheritance Of bondage to their children.
This immense empire, wth its great ter
ri'ory and its great diversity Of rank is
controlled by standing army Of 100000
inIiantry-10O,0 600 horse, and $4,000 ar
tillery men; and this army is controlled by
'the AutoCrat Of all the Russians OF this
army, the infantry are adm irably drilled,
we'll informed, highly expert in the use Of
the bayonet, and the hardest soldiers in
Europe. The cavalry are good, and the
are good, but the great strength |
IN defensive warfares lies in the CossACK |
HoRsEMEN. Who can read without adj /
and terror OF these wild cavaliers !
Of the desert-of their intense attachment
to their country-of their tiger-like cunning |
in laying in wait for their prey, and their |
ferocity in destroying it-and on their as
tonishlng powers Of endurance, sleeping |
on their horses and baking their meat
under the saddle. To see one Of these
troops Of marauders in their green jackets.
red breaches, and Jockey caps, with a
match lock slung over their hands. rise up
suddenly from the horizon like cloud
Of sand, and come securing over the plains
with 'whoop and halloo, must be fright
rul apparition to an invading army. Bona
parts Frenchmen saw it often to their
moon.
But what is the ambitious despot MIC
holas, with an ambitious, commissioning
people like he;Russians, to donext? It's
very easy to see what he would do, if it
we're not for the fleets Of England. Tur-
key would soon 60 into that capacious NAV
which has already allowed Poland, and a
great part Of Persia. without appearing to
be any nearer full than was the Slough Of
Depair after all the contributions Of stone
and rubbish from the Land of Destruction
The Empress Cattle rine long since saw
hat the possession of the Archipelago. was
he key Of the whole East, and therefore
she erected a column on the frontiers Of
he devoted country with this incr:ption:
That column is the guide post Of Russian
politics: and should another general war
break out, an army Of Russia might soon
De marching by it, liz triumph. bearing the
spois Of the Oldest capital in Europe to
city which $50 years ago was frozen
marsh.