The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-15

..{l t$e1 ~ Aend0R AfpQeotF.
The DarAanelles and the sound
II mas oaen thesfeien Of lAts yssm, II least in
the higher circles Of nglish society, 70 talk Of the
wisdom and moderation Of the EMPEROR of Russia.
and to regard him a. the man in whose hands Law
the destinics of Europe for peace or war and who.
upon the whole,l used tho boundless influence be-
longing to this situation in tie interests of peace
ana order. Inc Emperor OF Russia has, we believe,
raised this reputation for himself upon the some
what singular basis of the popular faar. distrust
suspicion, and dislike entertained by Englishmen
towards lis person and his policy; and, psradoxi
cal as the assertion may appear, the superstruc-
ture rises not unnaturally from the foundation.
Thare Is a marked disposition in cultivated men
to disbelieve in extremes of human character; the
GREATER tia 'exparencs of life, tho Lass such men
incline to credit the existence of monsters of rood
mess or badness--a tendency which finds homely
expression IN the Proverb, that the devil Is not 10
black as he is painted. The uninformsd public
did createipuch monster in the terrestrial Ncho-
Lass and the mere reaction against this feeling has
gone so far, that short time ago he might have
been called, without exaggeraton the most re-
spected monarch Of the continent Then again
the imaginations Of men have been impressed with
the reality Of this king-the seeming strong foun-
dations of his power-when all other symbols of
kingship and all manifestations of kngly strength
were palpably empty and unsound.
The Emperor Of Russia stood there believing in
himself, and believed in by others, no phantom
king, bat q leader of men, with resolute will and
profound sagacity It was patent to all that he
lieved that the policy Of Europe, except France
and England, was dictated from st. Petersburg;
and it is not without belief that the present AM
bassador of England in Turkey was prevented last
year from serving his Queen as Foreign Minister
by the declared opposition of Russia to the choice
man whose power was SO real, so various, SO
extensive, could not but impress the Imagination,
and we soon admire and do homage to whatever
strikes the imagination. And it cannot be denied
that, with all this power in his hands, the Empe-
ror of Russia has abstained from using openly to
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of himself, or to any material
alteration Of the existing arrangements Of Europe.
Cracow and Hungary are exceptional cases; and
criminal as is the Acknowledgement of guaranteed
republic and the forcible repression of victorious
people, other motives than selfish ambition might
be found for the conduct of Russia in both cases.
But the mask of moderation, worn SO long and
so successfully, has been suddenly thrown aside,
and all Europe is outraged by the insulting and
menacing tone adopted towards State whose
Independence is under the guarantee of the great
powers. A Russian army is concentrated near
Constantinople to give significance to the bully
ing attitude of the ambassador. If war be made,
it will have been made with less justification and
on more puerile pretext than, we are bold to
say, modern European history can furnish any
parallel. But whether the Emperor draw back or
not is little to the purpose. He has shown his
animus, and retraction will simply amount to
an avowal that he over-calculated the effect of
the causes of dsunion existing among the great
European powers, and probably long fomented by
his agents. Doubtless he did not imagine that,
even in presence of common peril to the digni-
ty and interest Of all three, England, Austria,
and France, could overcome recent motives of
suspicion, and cordially unite in policy and ac-
ton. He is mistaken; and he is between the diff
fculties Of proceeding against united Europe, or
OF offending, by disavowal of his ambassador 8
proceedings, of his most powerful subjects, or
Of backing out of his demands to the loss of per-
sonal dignity. But, end as it may, the ambition
and recklessness Of Russia again manifest to
the world; and the lesson to be impressed is the
renewal of the old distrust, and reawakening of
vigilance in all transactions in which we may be
concerned with Russia, in which our interests
and the interests of the European commun ity
may come into collision with Russian projects
No man who thinks at all can hesitate as to the
peril to which a Russian possession of Constanti-
nople would expose English interests, and the gem
eral balance OF European power; and we are GER
tainly deeply interested as any European State
in endeavoring to prevent, even by the last resort
such a contingency. But England is much more
interested in the power that is to hold the keys of
the Baltic, the mouth of the Elbe, and the harbor
of Kiel; and in the light of present events on the
Dardanelles, we cannot but regard future con-
tingencies in the Sound deserving of more at
tention than they have recently met with from the
English public, and as by no means satisfactorily
disposed Of by the answers Lord Beaumont OBJ
tanned last Friday, or by the treaty of the 9Th
May, 1852. H aS@ss
Public SPIRIT IN SAVANNAH, AND ITS RESULTS.
From official statements recently published we
CLEAN tho following interesting statistics. showing
what has been done by the city of Savannah in
the way of public improvements during the last
few years. and the effects produced thereby ON it's
own conditions, N i0ibas
'Tiat city has subscribed and paid to the va
rious railroad companies in the State Of Georgia
$3,77O 900, endorsed the bonds of another COM
pany to the amount of $4,000, and has also re-
Gently subscribed al ,0O0,0 900 to the Savannah
and Pensacola railroad, making an aggregate
for railroads alone of $4,845, 900. Besides this,
she has contributed $450,0O0 for steamships,
100000 for canal, 100000 for gas-works,
$25O, 900 for water-works, and very recently
$l60, 900 for the improvement of her harbor,
msnts Of q. Sos oS Fhis for city Of only
twenty thousand inhabitants speaks loudly for
their public spirit the effects Of which are us fol-
lows: When the Central railroad was commenced
the population of Savannah was but about seven
thousand; it is now twenty thousand In the
years 1841 and 1912 she shipped $40 bales Of cot
ton, As, 900 casks of rice, and 90 600 900 feet of
lumber. During the years 1851 and 1852 she
shipped 81 200 bales of cotton, rs, 500 casks of
rice, and 43,OOO,O0O feet Of lumber She has a
continuous railroad connexon with the Tennessee
line, distance of five hundred miles, to which
two hundred miles more will be added on the
completion Of the Nashville and Chattanooga
road. A connexon with Knoxville, Tennessee,
well as with Memphis, will soon be effected,
and another with the Mexican gulf, by the Grard
road when she will be the terminus of nearly
two thousand miles of railroad.'' .EA8
philadelphia Gazette
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