The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-09-06

same writer, one does not knnE what
% say. His empress turned Greek in
4 day 10 marry him I; and this-to him.
no doubt. seemed all right aud nztsraI.
But when he wanted his. DAsghter o.
"a 10 marry the Archdske Stephen. be
offered thst she shaald fsrn. Romish IN
a dsy-should embrace the faith 81
those nuns Of Minsk. who were so very
dispIeasing 10 his orthodoxy. IL is
probably IN his.czse the mirt1re af Ia,
naticism and taxity which is so dis
gushing in the history Of all churches
at any time dominant. and involved
with the State.
ItisfaEther said that his faithful sile.
Who has borne with .nsneh ssron him.
partly because there was nsaeipinghis
passions, and partly because he carried
on his attention TO her through all his
ragaries, has been wearing out Tor many
a dreary year under the fatigues Of the
life Of empty amusement. which he
imposes on all his family. One favorite
daughter is dead another is the widow
of the Dnc de .Iseuchtenberg and the
Youngest Is Princess Royal of wur-
temberg. The, eldest sons are A.
ways quaFrelins The yaanger Of the
two, who is described as Nuscnsite
savage, Of the Moscow party, il con-
stantly endeavoring TO supplant his
more mild but consumptise and fast
failing brother in the succession to the
throne. The Car has so far been en-
abled to suppress their feud; but il has
finally, like his other misfortunes, be-
come too much for him. and the scan
dial is fully avowed. tits now openly
limited, that IL the reign of Nicholas
should come 10 a violent end with his
life. tkat,ihis- NAV not be the, snly roy-
al blood shed on the occasion. Such
hints are significant, especially when
coming. frnm y, country where assassi-
nation is the rule. and quiet and
natural departure from this sihe the
exception. at least when the rulers
have been called open 10 render up
their final accounts. For nine years
Of his life did Alexander move about
among his subjects. perfectly conscious
that the fearful ghost Of conspiracy and
mpr,lcr was stalking close al his heels.
Il Asior Nicholas, his Iilty-eighih birth.
lhay. found him. sitting, amsng'thr wreck
Of all his idols; they are Of clay, aud his
own iionwill has shivered them all. On
entering his tifiy-Hinth year--I now
quote the exact words OF the Daily
News--the naughty Car finds that
"lnstead Of achieving territorial ex.
tension, he has apparently brought on
the .honr Of forcible ACKNOWLEDGMENT ol
his empire. Instead Of court gaiety,
his childish vanity has created only
} the miFth which breaks the heart and
4 anderinincs the life. Instead of Sc.
curing family peace by the compress.
sive power Of his viii, he has made
his SONS the slaves, instead or himself
: the lord, Of their passions. Hated BY
his mobiles; liked only by those VIII,
can give him no aid, and receive n,
good from him drawn in by his own
passions to sacrifice them in heca,
: tombs, while they fix their eyes on him
as their only hope tricked by his ser.
! wants all over the empire disappoinf-
ell ia his army aud its officers; afraid
to leave his capital, because 1t would
be laid waste as soon AS his back
was turned; cursed in all direction,
|, for the debts Of his mobiles, the bank,
ruptcy of trade, and the hunger Of bis
people; conscious Of the Reproduction Of
Enslandand France, whose rcprobalion
could be no Indifferent matter to Luci.
fer himself; finding himself out in his
, connt about Austria, and about every.
body but his dcspise,l brothers of prus-
STA aud Gas an after lhnughD Naples
and actually humbled before the Turk;
what a position for man whose birth
day once seemed to be an event in the
calendar of the universe y
Y Aitcrpatiiug such doleful summin.
up as this, il is difficult TO call up any
other emotions than those Of pity tor
the poor Gar. Not few men in Flu.
rope, and they deemed among the wis.
est, do not believe that he will live To
; see his fifty.ninth birthday.
Youis, &c., G. w. X.