The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-09-22

oak bark; and while he is paying enor
|mous bread bills, his soldiers are perish
| ing undera bran and slraw diet. These
are facts, every one Of them; the once
powerful Gar finds himself powerless.
| or bis lanaticism, continues the same
writer, one docs not know WIN, 10 say
His empress turned Greek in u day tt
marry him; and this TO him, no doub,
seemed all right and natural. Blu, wher
he wanted his daughter Olga to mar;
the Archduke Stephen, he offered thai
she should turn Romish in day--should
embrace the faith of,hose nuns Of Minsk
who were so very displeasing to his or.
thodoxy. 1, is probably in his case the
mixture Of fanoticism and laxiiy which il
fsa disgusting in the history Of all church
es atany time dominant, aud involved
with the State.
II is further said that his faithful wife
who has borne with much from him, par,
tally because there ives no helping bis
passions, and partly because he carried
on his attention to her through all his va
garies, has been wearing ont for many a
dleary year under the fa,igues Of The life
Of empty amusement, which he imposes
on oil his family. One favorite daughter
is dead; another is the widow Of the Due
de Leuch'enberg; and the youngest 10
PricssS>Rcyal Of Wurembere. The two
eldest SONS are always quarreling. the
youngest Of the two, who is described as
q MuscoviIe savage, ofthe Moscow party.
is constantly endeayotiug to supplans his
more mild but consump,ive and fastfaiing
brother in The succession 10 the throne.
The Car has so far been enabled TO sup
press their feud; but it has finally, like
his other msfor,unes, become too much
for him, and the scandal is fully avOwed.
II is now openly hin,ed, that il the reign
of Nicholas should come TO violent end
with bis life. iha. This may not be the
only royal blood shed on the occasion.--
Such hints are significant, especially
when coming from county where as
sossination 10 the rule, and quiet aud
natural departure from this life the excep.
lion, at least when the rulers have been
called upon 10 render up their FINAL &C,
counts. For nine years Of his life did
Alexander move about among his SUBJ
jects, perfectly conscious tina, tho fearful
ghost Of conspiracy and murder. was
stalking close al his heels.
AS fo' Nicholas, his fify-eight birth.
day found him sitting among tho wreck
of all his idola; they are Of clay, and his
own iron will has shivered them all. On
entering his fifty>ninii yeaT--I now quote
the exact words OF the Daily Nexs-,he
haugh.y Czar finds that
''lnssead of achieving territorial AK
tension, he has apparently brought on the
hour of forcible dismemberment of his
empire. Instead Of court gaiety, his
childish vanity has created only the mirsh
which breaks the heart and undePmines
the life. Instead ofsecuring family peace
by the compulsise power Of his will. lie
has made kis sons the slaves, instead Of
himself the lord, Of their passions. EIa-
ted BY his mobiles; liked only by those who
can give him no aid, and receive no good
from him; dawn in by his own passions
10 sacrifice them in heca,ombs, while
they fix their eyes on him as they only
hope; lricked by his servants oil over the
empire; disappointed in his and Its offi-
GERS; afraid TO leave his capital, because
it would be laid waste as soon as his back
was turned; cursed in all directions for
the debts Of his mobiles, the bankruptcy
Of trade, and the hunger Of his people !;
conscious Of the reprobation OF England
and France, whose reprobalion could be
no Indifferent matter to Lucifer himself,
finding himaelf out in his coun. about
Ausiria, and about everybody but his de-
spsed broihers Of Prussia and (as an af-
ter-ihoughi) Naples; and actually hum>
bled before the Turk; what a position for
man whose birthday once seemed TO
be an event in The calendar of tho uni-
verse!"
After reading such doleful summing
up as this, it is difficult 10 call up any
othes. emotions than those ofpi,y for the
poor Gar. Not few men in Europe,
and they deemed among tho wisess, do
not believe that he will live to see his
ifiy>nin.h bir.h.day.
Yours. &C., G. w. X.
ARREST OF A MuRDERER.-The Locks