The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-12

what the author of ''Wallenstein' called the
valleys fruitful windings,' and specially
avoided what he described as the straighter
but less righteous course of the "cannon ball.
1t meandered about every place of calculable
SIZE and by great circuit came to its end
But the Emperor designed that his road should
make new cities, instead of taking in old ones;
so he took up q ruler and drew a straight line
from point to point ''Build me that, said
the Gar, and we presume that the road was
built straightway
Because the Gear has taken into his head
that new capital in the south OF Russia
would be a more central and convenient seat
for his wide and increasing empire, we are
disposed to give more than usual respect to
the report that the city of Kiev has been
chosen for that capital. Kiev is trimontane
CITY, situated go miles south of st. Petersburg,
and 40 miles southwest of Moscow, and has
at this time above one hundred thousand IN
habitants. 1t is placed at junction OF the
small river Desna with the Dnieper, and is
within easy reach by water and land OF the
railroad leading from the capital to Odessa, on
the Black Sea, from which it is less than two
hundred and fifty miles distant in direct
line. Kiev would be as convenient in point of
situation to Moscow as st. Petersburg is now,
and is hundreds of miles nearer than the latter
to the capital of Poland, whence must arise
any conspiracy formidable enough to threaten
rumors of conspiracy in Polish and Slavonian
quarters hint an argument for the choice Of the
new imperial seat and the recent uprising
among the Don Cossacks and in the Khrgiz
country give us another. st. Petersburg
being sufficiently loyal for all imperial pur-
poses, the new capital would be recommended
for its greater convenience as base of sup
plies against the centres of disatfection. Add
to this the important consideration that the
Of,
! brought himself nearer by some six hundred
miles to the Austrian dominion, and as many
| nearer to Asia and to Turkey. The tradi-
| tional policy of the Czardom with respect to
| the possessions of the Sultanate has not, we
fear, been abandoned; and although the Gov
| ernor-General of Turkestan announces that
! the period of Russian conquest in Asia is
| ended, we consider it safe to doubt any eX-
| pressed programme of Imperial policy which
Omits the national Russian idea of enormous
| absorption. The new capital will have fair
merits of size and numbers and defense aud
| great merits of position. 1t has large clthe-
! drals and palaces, and numerous churches,
manufactures Of leather, and pottery, and
! confectionery, and holds an annual fair The
| best proof of its antiquity and Importance
| exists in the fact that its lbarry contains
30, 900 volumes, that it's university had So
professors and 1910 students, and that it was
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Two countries of the world take the lions
shares of its growth, namely, Russia aud
America. The former grows by a brute, blind
instinct of absorption, fattening its power on
| all sides, from elements of the rudeSt races
and civilizations. The same inevitable ten
dency to acquire new properties is true of the
United States. But the American people are
still only an evidence of the natural power Of
attraction, and not, as i'll the case of Russia
a conquering and aggressive force. Euro
pean publicists are specializing when it will
be necessary for the Emperor of Austria to
change the seat of his dominion to Pesth. He
will probably think the matter well over by
the time the Gar removes to Kiev.