The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-25

water danced ana rippled In opalne wavelets 70 ms
dying spendor As he passed down behind the CLOUDS
and hills the moon. already risen. was shedding her
mid refugence on the baimy air. and the stars
peeped out In twOs and thrces, while the unsightli-
or the liehtship was lost In the mistness, out
OF which shone her two large beacon eyes. The
ship WITHIN was high In its postprandial happiness;
the Olcers laughing and chatting In the ward.
rooms or smoking and telling yarns on the gun
deck. The crew were amusing themselves forward,
as crews always amuse themselves-some singing
some nddIing, some dancing. some reading. the
literary sailor on the gun deck forward was at MS
station by the fixed light, reading aloud to large
circle OF admrinG aud interested shipmates. 1t is
the story Of
LOVELY GIRL IN PRESSING DANGER
at the hands OF an aged profigate. and rescued
from her perils by gallant young tar, on whom she
bestows her nand. Many are the odd commentaries
made by his mixed audience; the aged profagate, to
say the least, Is at an immense discount The re-
c0rdng angel mas q supply OF tears on hand TO
erase oil mild oaths in the cause Of virtue The gal
liant tar Ii looked fortunate. The lovely girl Is
regarded species OF lottery prize, and does not
awaken much sentiment, except when she dis
covers her affection for the sailor AFTER
having made out hostile cruiser on the starboard
bow. "Seven bells'' sounds and walk aft 10 where
the acute officer of the deck and the midshipman OF
the watch with his neat uniform, dellcate musache
and pretty face pace elsurey TO and fro. the first
to the starboard, the second to the port. The Adj
mira aud Captain are below enjoying their state as
easily as captains and admirals may. so pursue my
way aft, and leaning on the great rlfed sixty
FOUNDER, look cut over the expanse of waters.
1t is curious enough, this squadron OF a young
republic waiting down here to espy, as
FAR OF as possible the representative of the most
absolute government, perhaps, In the world and
then fire Off oud-tongued cannon and spread bant-
ing from masthead to rail- and man yardsto wei.
come him. and then sail IN stately escort till ne Is
surrendered to the greetings OF the citizens OF our
great metropolis. 1t Is tiresome to follow this re.
ceptlon business farther than the limits OF the sea,
but 1t peases my fancy to let out across the waves
through which
THE STOUT FRIGATE SHETLAND
and her consorts are plOughng their way. 1t can
not rest even there, but bures itself In the mist Of
centuries and looks back aye. thousand years, to
the time when Rurik the Great led out his rude and
hardy varanglans from the shores Of the Baltic Sea
and gave Russia Its name and capital at NOvgorod.
Spreading out the boundaries OF Its empire next
see Oleg, the Regent, fix the site OF the capital at
Kief proof OF the rapidity aud extent OF the con-
quest and rude aggregation attained In the stretch
OF two lives. Next we see the bold
barbarians hurting themselves In their two thou
sand galleys into the port and against the very
walls OF ByZantinm, from which, through all their
intestine divisions and scenes OF blood and rapine
that made populous districts into bowling wilder.
nesses; through subiugaton by the Tarars, through
triumph and conquest they have never since
averted their eyes. Constantly In this story Of the
phase is repealed OF all OF good learned
by the Russians being thrust upon them
by their inleX XII eo masters as men IN delirium
ing eyes that we follow Vladimir and his innumera-
BILE army at the end OF the tenth century TO the gates
hnv,n it,% Trin I'm ASnIya M
coming Christian. The barbarian commences by
laying siege to the town, ana wnen he has taken it,
chalces images and SANITY relics; he has himself
baptized, marrles the sister OF the Greek Emperor
more formallty than conveyed in the sword edge
and lance point or his unruly soldiers. Again the
seat OF the empire is drawn back to The north and
set at Vladimir. History now moves across the
Russian steppes amid the horrors OF civil war;
assassinatlons, plunderlngs and rapine.
THE HORDES OF GENGHiS KHAN
and Tamerlane, from the still wilder steppes OF
Tartary, make Russia their prey, dictate to Its
people, names its monarchs ana reduce it to an
rise from Its ruins with Moscow as its
a m s @ or sne eaGe o.
under the bold nmitri ponskoi, It springs at the
Tartar throat, and Russia Is Tree from foreign rule
forever more. Now on the foundation OF its au-
tonomy its autocracy In the form OF the most
insidious iron despotsm the world mad ever seen,
which was formed and perfected by Ivan the Great,
and perverted into terror, beside which all others
pale under the remorseless savagery Of
With the rise OF Russia as an integer we mark the
fall ofthe small but thriving republics OF the NORTH
those OF Novgoro1 and Pohkof At length the race
through phantom or its name the false Dmtri.
and the house OF Romanofr first steps into the arena
of the Cars in the commencement Of the seven
teenlh CYCLE The second prince OF the house that
stood upon the dizzy height Of empire was Alexis
and blood to the shores OF land which IN 1918 was
only the merest cradle Of the free and mighty nation
nj toll m mo ram rlnb In
than all his predecessors
PETER TIE GREAT
genius lifted Russia out OF its brutal ignorance with
the same rude force as that by which Vladimir had
the Emperor Alexander Is on his way to visit was
stu unbalanced except In very small degree.
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from y. the swamps o. d the Neys IKE dream;
across the stage OF memory another young
Alexis is seen dying in q dungeon because his
think worthy to carry out his Ideas OF Russia's
future We turn, sickened, away from this, and see
nn laid aow by 81
the traditions Of its rule are clustered more
tales Of wriggng diplomacy than almost
at variance with what one might think the policy
oil powerful and united nation that spreads It's
LIKE SHAGGY COLOSSUS,
powerful enough by reason alone OF Its width OF
dreary territory ana TIE rlgOr OF us climate TO crush
the greatest solder OF modern times in his mighty
attempt TO subdue her. when his retreat through the
Moscow. or late, indeed. Russia, under Alex.
ander seems TO have shaken OF some Of
OF her serrs has taken the true road to
a national enlightenment which no human ukase
can call forth. The operations Of the human mind
are best developed in the process OF induction and
as the people find themselves free so they will
hunger after the intelligence OF freemen. 1t Is
sign OF the times that, under an absolute govern
ment the same cure should be applied to weak
ness In government as in our own republic when ut
things that were. II means that one thing has
become patent namely, that the State Is safest ana
strongest which counts Its force In the nina as
we'll as In the body. And so, symbocal
OF the bent OF the new Russia comes young Alexis.
10 see in our midst the work which freedom, full, II
not perfect has worked in I'VE years short Of cen.
tury and then look back from the
PROMISING EMPIRE OF THE GAR
OF to- day over centuries OF strife and struggle to