Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-16

Not causelessly did Shakespeare, whose
poetry was practically philosophic, make
King Henry w. declare, in sad and
truthful soliloquy, sai1.Fo. 5< -
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"
Addedto,thecares and griefs, the trials
and troubles common to. humanity, are
sanxieties, and even perils, which ordi-
nary men wot not Of. Among these is
dread Of the assassin's blow. A school
ing thought to human pride it is to know
that, at the summit Of his power, in the
later years of his reign, when he was a
ruler more absolute than even any Of
the high. handed Tudors had been, Oliver
Cromwell so much dreaded assassination
that he wore bullet-proof chain-armor
under his ordinary attire by day, and
never rested in the same chamber two
nights running. It was not alone that
he could remember, himself being
schoolboy at the time, how Ra-
yaillac had assassinated Henry of Ma
varre in the streets of Paris, but that pro
sclamations from the banished Stuarts,
over the seas, invited men to kill him
Shy pistol, sword, or poison" and that
Louis XIV. and crafty Mazarin were
,privy to at least one plot thus to re-
move him, but that a terrible tract, at
tributed to one Colonial Titus, and enti-
tied /. killing no Murder" had found
its way into all parts of England, teach
ing the dreadful policy that the blow
which, in ordinary cases, would make a
man murderer, would earn the title of
patriot for him, if it struck the Protec-
tor to the grave. In later times, down
to the present, various rulers have mar
rowly escaped assassination. George HI.
and his granddaughter had their lives.
repeatedly attempted. Lonis Philippe
and Napoleon LII. were frequently
in the same danger. The present EN-
peror of Austria, King of Prussia, and
the Czar narrowly escaped more than
once.a Gustayus III. Of Sweden was
assassinated by Ankarstrom in 1899,
and our own President, Abraham Lin
coin, was brutally murdered by Booth,
in April, 1865. To this catalogue of
blood may now be; added the murder of
Michael I'LL, reigning Prince of Servia.
The crime was committed in public, and
the assassins, happily arrested, will be
dealt with BY the law, with just sever
itys The brutal deed is believed to
have been committed at the instigation
of a princely (D family, which, Michael
being childless, aimed at assuming SOW
ereign rule on his death !; but the Ser
yians have elected lad of fourteen as
their head, to be called Milan ". and
he has already been installed. with the
consent of Turkey and Austria, which
are politically and geographically inter-
ested in the affairs of Servia.
Although within the limits of Tur-
key, the principality of Servia is near.
ly independent of the Sublime Porte
Wallachia and Bulgaria bound it on the
East, Macedonia and Albania on the
South, Bosnia on the West. and Austria
on the North. Its area is 81, 900 square
miles its population about 1,12O,OOO.
Since 1915 it has been under the rule of
native princes, and was recognized as a
semi-independent State by the Treaty
of Paris, of March, 1856, but has to
pay to the Turkish Government an an
nual tribute of 4,600 purses, or $115,-
900. Its revenue is about $57 7,500,-
900 per annum. The late Prince,
Michael III, was only forty three years
when slain, and succeeded his father in
1860. Servia was. governed under
constitution. Its chief trade is with |
Turkey and Austria. 1t is a country i
in which, if it had good roads, immense
commercial advantages might readily be
developed. Its army consists of about |
four thousand men, but its national |
guard consists of nearly one hundred
and fifty thousand well drilled cavalry.
Situated as it is. Servia truly is bull
walk of Turkey-against the inroad
ther of Russia or Austria. Whether,