The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-18
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.sThe Emperes, himself il IN exceedingly
quiet looking persou. he ID no tesvelaheyt
Ike Bismark. Everything i epsA Aad good
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dences Of snapping nerves which mark r
cult for me to conceive where the resolution
s came from which Ne Babsrnf ess&ak1y had
to exercise in nndertakinethe dangerous re-
sponsibility Of enancipAAiag IN u0sfs. Bui
he has shown decision n chanActsr IN this .,
well rs in other tAines vh>re good vas to be
accomplished. In natural ability the Emper
or is favored somewhat aboyatho bod aver
age Of rnortals PhrenoioeicalIy he has !
smooth balanced head. But his countenance
is passive, with ! Kindly sentiment, ! should
say, always nearest TO the surface, evsr ready
to leap cut snder adverse cifcumstances. n
is the kind Of person that child would 90
out to ask the road. And n HOW much
more has be accomplished than many ! whole
line OF gifted people who lacked the magnetic
needle OF goodness Hawk nossa Aad eagle
eyes are all we'll enough in their way, but 4
calm eye and : humane sosl Gre better for
the convenience of those concerned, especiak
ly when the individual IL sovereign
Freedom of the presssis said to exist now
IN Russia, but | am inclined to the opinion
that We would scarcely call II BY thst name
freedom of speech never did exist until the
advent of Alex. H. Even to this day, in
telling you howmuch better things are in this
respect than formerly, people will look across
their shoulders aud shift their position once
or twice, from habit, - it would seem, to be
sure that no unknown spy shall be within
hearing, whose testimony on frivolous ~
mark formerly was sufficient to send man to
jail for month. Now you can say almost
what you hike. Only injudcious and bad
''Majestats- affront," however, would be
taken notice Of very quickly in Russia, as
well as almost any other European kingdom
As the king can do no wrong so ne are
not TO blackguard him. Bat with regard to
the press, what is freedom in Russia aad an
swers its purpose for the present, would real
ly delight The Dailr Nees for a subject to
hammer upon, if il could only have the priv
iiege Of demolishing things that in their ma.
ture do not even allow argument to ATTEMPT
it. am not finding fault, but only reminds
ing you that circumstances are very different
in Russia from the United States II would
scarcely do with US, tor example to have Sew
ard send on some Washington newspaperiaI
viding it with various sized brushes and ink.
rollers, with which to exercise censure Of the
press by backing over the Objectionable parts
of any book-as have seen it done here ina
new edition Of Carlyle's FREDERIC the
Great 'if you want to find out anything
about Russia, don't look for it here said
the bookseller who showed me some finely
done specimens of this blacking process II,
costly books OF his own, with every mark of
disgust Ii is great misfortune to Russia,
people tell me, that the attempt to assassi-
nate the Emperor was made in Russia 9 trans
sltion state, because Mouravieff, the Russian
Beast Butler, who suppressed the Poles
and merited a bad nome, as our brave old
Ben did not-is called back into power, and
is blocking the developments of liberality in
thousand ways
daylight stars with us late in St Peters
burg, and comes back in the morning hours
before the people think of getting done with
sleep. We are up to so degrees Of latitude
you Know, which is further than the South
end of Greenland. During last month it was
dark only G few hours. and not dark in one
sense. because the street lamps we're not lit
at all, aud yet you could read q newspaper
comfortably on the streets at any hour of the
night Nothing persuades me 20 effectually
that We are North of our Canadian boundary
as walk along the Neya, where are moored
scores Of fiat boats filed with irewood: and
what kind of wood do you think? Nothing
but lovely birch, with its smooth white bark,
which burns so brightly. Then it is pot diti-
cult to see in the sky Northern aspect and
) in the restless little breezes which stir over
the good cold water the delightful source of
healthy Northern elasticity