The Placer herald., 1866-06-30
[From the "Pall Mall Gazette of May l4th.
The Treaties of 1915.

be made the stalking horse of Bonapartist
amh'1on, 1t may be interesting to the gen.
eral reader who is more learned in present
politics than in past history, to be reminded
what that famous treaty really was. In the
first place, it was signed by a larger nun.
Der of States than had ever before united in
settlement of European affairs, including
Austria, France, Eng land, Russia Prussia,
Spain, Portugal and Sweden Coming up
Immediately after the widespread shattering
OF old land marks consequent upon French
conquests, the Encouragement OF territories
amounted almost to a recons' ruction. This
reconstruction was based almost exclusively
on dynastic considerations, :be real welfare
Of nations and the tendencies Of what are
now called "nationalities' being scarcely
thought of. Everywhere were nations, or
fragments of nations, placed under foreign
sovere gnties
England's gain indeed was fully equaled
by her loss in the new plan. She kept
Malta, which WAS essential TO her position in
the Mediterranean, and where her rule was
not unwecome; for the sake Of Europe gen.
orally she undertook the protectorate of the
royal prejudices, she also preserved the
kingdom Of Hanover, now also got rid Of.
10 Italy, Milan and Venice were given to
Austria, aud Sardinia was confirmed to Pied
mont; while the Duehes ofTuscany, Parma,
Modena and Placenlia were recognised as
sham independent soveregntes, governed
by collateral branches of the Austrian Uaps.
burgs. Austria still further obtained posses
sion Of the Tyrol, llyria and Dalmata.
6 Prussia's gains were enormous, and, uu'
like many of the Austrian, were acquisitions
OF rea power. With half of Saxony, nearly
all Westphalia, Swedish Pomerania, and
almost all the Lower Rhine provinces, she
started afresh as a rival Of Austria far more
formidable than before.
In the north Of Europe, Russia received
Finland fron Sweden; as a compensation for
which Sweden received Norway, which was
taken from Denmark; and Denmark, who
was not represented in the congress, got
nothing in return.
AS to Poland, the three great paritoners
made some fresh rectification of boundaries.
The innumerable small German States
which had existed before the FAench revolu.
tion, and which had been what diplomstists
called medatized, or, as plain people call it,
swamped, at the setting up of the Bonapart.
| Confederation of the Rhne-these all re-
mained swallowed up by their powerful
neighbors.
! Holland having ceded her German pos.
sessions was consoled with the Belgian pro.
vlnces and became kingdom; and Switzer.
land remains much as BEFORE
In the same year. 1915, political pharis-
aism accomplished its mas serpece, the "Holy
Alliance" between Austria, Russia and Prus.
sia, by which they bound themselves to act
for the future on Christian principles only
and Immediately proceeded to euforce the
absolute supremacy of kings as the one
great principle of Christianity. All Europe
acqniesced in the announcement, with three
notable exceptions - the Sultan, whose
opinion was not asked, and England and the
Pope, who both declined to have anything
to do with the imposlure.
A letter from Alexander H. Stephens,
Esq, dated Charlottesville, 18TH, says: 81
found all things in Washington, upon the
than | expected have not, from the be.
ginning, looked for anything from this Con.
gress. My only hope for the country is in
the next fall elections at the North. Should
the Presidents policy be sustained in these,
all may yet be we'll. If not to me the pros.
pect of the future of this country both North
and South is gloomy indeed. But from
what saw and heard at Washington, my
hopes for a change next fall were greatly
stimulated. am still hopeful in this view
but far from being sanguue. Constitutional
liberty will, in my opinion. in a great meas
ure, depend upon the result"
| NEy-k ,nop vvas f,nnl Ia.J o,o
morning, with bis skull broken, lying in the
woods somewhere in Indiana. He had been
seen the night before considerably intoxca-
ted. The body was frozen. An inquest was
held before noon the same day. The Jury
formed a hollow square, the body in the cen.
ter. Coroner: "Gentlemen of the inquest,
there are three things to be considered when
man commits suicide by killing his neigh
bor First, did he come to his death by IN
ciaence? Second, Did he come to his death
by accidences Third, Did he come to his
death by the hands of the i,seendiary9 Look
at that body, gentlemen, and return your
verdict" The jury counselsd nearly five
minutes. "We, the jury, find that the de.
ceased came to bis death by incidence, hav'
ing put too much water in his whskey, caus-
ing him to freeze last night"
| INDIAN DEPREDATIoNs.-The SusanviIe,
(Lassen county,, Sage Brush says:
George Long has just arrived from Sill
yer City, and reports that the Indians in
that section still continue to commit depre-
dations upon the Cinnamon travelling to the
northern mines, and that ninetyitwo vera
murdered and left scattered along the road,
within the distance of thirty miles"
Plaster, IN invaluable fertilizer, has been
discovered in inexhanetbie quantities in