Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-03-25
From the Saturday Evening Mail.
War and Conspiracy in Europe.

tier-beyond the imposing preparations
in M ENGLAND and France-tho recruiting,
III the chartering of ships, tho embarkations
If osI troops, the note Of Louis Napoleon, the
words W Of Lord John Russell Of the Noat-
teur, accompanied by the ssesaw and spas
,uadI modie movements Of bresdstuffs, cottons,
stocks stocks aud consols, dancing their agitated
onadrille, there are two things that, jus.
1ow .eem to stand out from that compli-
catea nue business with most signifcancs-to
wit: Wit Austria and the Greek conspiracy
Wa Wa are pretty sure Of everything else:
the Car will make fight, England and
France will send troops, bombardments
will come, and Turks and Russians will
90 On. fighting ffulrtiously with the Danube
between them. But what will Austria
doP Austria and Prussia went with En-.
pland and France when it was an affair of
1aper bullets. Now that he gems deplamc
ars pre ordered to rear, they hold Off-will 60
M farther in company. There are no
-Four Powers now. q The Teuton pair say
they will look on, which does not satisfy
any Of the others. InSthe House of Com
mons. Lord John Russell has snecrsd at
Austria and Prussia for their subserviency
to Russia; and that speaks volumes. 1t
Is also announced by the British ministers
that there is no agreement or concert be-
tween the Western and the German pow
ers.. The French organs of opinion init
mate the same. The Moaitetr, (that is
tho Emperor Napoleon, says that if the
ilars Of France and Austria shallbe united
in The East, they are found together DO.
yond the Alps, thatis, in Italy; leavingit
t. to be Inferred that if they shall not be SO
ioined on the Danube, Austria need not
hope for French assistance in any Lon-
bard insurrection. The german powers
desire to be neutral. Butt must be a
curious sort Of neutrality-rather an lr'se
sort Of neutrality-which, as we perceive,
is to set two huge armies on foot and keep l;!'
them marching and ready to march This
dream Of neutrality will be .dissipated, the
moment the household cavalry;of England
and the French eagles comein sight Of the
Danube. Austria will not dare oppose the
Gar; but will be obliged to, fight never
thelcss; and SO will the sly, mild Frede-
rick William. Prussia is a rather COM
pact nationality and will, doubtless, xea.h.
or the storm; but Austria may be utterly
wrecked and annihilated. Franz Joseph
is g a king! Of shreds and patches es"-of an
Iill.cemcnted, sprawling monarchy, to which
a general war will probably be fatal.
The Greek conspiracy exhibits the pc.
culiar strategy Of the Gar and the resour-
ces on which he most steadily relies for
the success of his vast projects. He is the
hereditary head Of the Greek Church in
his own dominions, and, with the Patri-
arch Of Moscow under one arm and the
shrunken Armenian Patriarch Of Eshmi.
adzin1i under the other, this terrible old
Papa, strides piously down to put the 9th
er patriarch-him Of Constantinople-in
his pocket. He knows that there is moth
ing like o community of religion for bind
ing together any confcderacy of the child
rem Of men, and therefore undermines the
whole Ottoman empire with slow, steady,
subtle conspiracy Of creed. One of his
emissaries, Father Athanasius, was detect
ed the other day at Widdin. This subter-
ralean missionary had travelled widely in
his vocaticn-through Macedonia, Alba
MIA, Thesssly, Montenegro, Bulgaria, the
kingdom of Greece, and tho Moldo- -Wala-
chan provinces; andit is said he had been
wandering as far as Jerusalem, to complete
the ramifcations Of the plot. Some parts
of that train are exploding. The Epiro-
tese are up in arms against their old enc
emies, the Turks; and in southern Alba
mia, where the Greek exceeds the Ottoman
population, a large force ofinsurgents have
besieged Arta, on the Gulf Of Ambracia-
.E5.iif a where once was lost
The world for woman-loyely, harmless thing
The Klep1ts are also taking to their
long guns in Thessaly and suli-so fercely
renowned-and some signs Of insurrection
have even shown themselves under the
shadow of the British flag in the Ionian
Islands There were also disturbances a.
mong the Greek Christians Of Asia Minor,
and fighting has taken place at Augura,
Kutayah and other places. In Greece
proper, or Otho's kingdom, the signs of
the Cars secret influence are as visible as
any where else. The Greeks Of that mis-.
erable monarchy sympathisc with their fel.
in the Turkish provinces and
dream of some extended and united Greece
-=they might as we'll hope for the Ephori
and Aroopagus. But they are ready to
lend hand against the Sultan, in any
quarrel. Should Otho, however, be won
over to the cause Of the Gar, or show HIM
self incapable of restraining his subjects,
he will have an English man.of.war ma.
king noise at tho Pirnus-psrhaps some
congreve rockets flying about his ears on
the Acropolis. Tho ominous S61O may
become the licac Tckel Of his wall, and he
himself be sent home to take care Of the
Betarinn Valhalla on the bank of tho Dan.
ubo.r Tho Greek pasquinades are very
fond Of chalking the above four figures on