The New York herald., 1871-11-17


''e TAMnANY PRACTICES IN RUSSIA.
m one thing the Grand Duke can teach You some
Aing. Does not Tammany still cxtstf Is not that
yesore, that fostering wound, allowed still TO rob
81 ecay ca SnS mo anf So
be 10 contemplate? Still It holds up IT'S mead; but
u Russia II would not. You win he shown now
,erretrated Al Nizhnee Novgorod, in which millions
of pounds OF salt were stolen, IN which everybody
nent-in fact, second Tammany. Well IN Russia
The thing was not hushed up, but everv single nd
vaSs wno nad 40 mad any hand n was r@tnessy ss
ticc The moral is tnis that the salt robbery does
NO longer exist while fammany does.
PRODUCING POWER or RUSSIA.
Won viii hear wonders Of the producing power OF
Russia; YOU will be told OF those immense sleppes
oern-growing lands, where seed only has to be sown
10 be reaped without any Over-armng. you VIII %
cold Of lae treasures OF IRON which abound ~ - many
parts OF the empire only waiting the hanu oI man
to be made useful; OF the mountains OF maeneuo
iron In Blasonat, on the Ural Mountains; 10 tne
will have read TO you the accounts OF the workings
OF coal In many parts OF Russia; OF all sorts ana
descriptions, from the fine black gas coal, on the
boroer OF the Kama In the north Of the brown coal
IN the central governments; Of the anthracite on
ine border Of the sea Of Azof: OF the abundance OF
ie formation en- ,ne other side OF the Caspian 70 the
later discoveries IN the Crimea- You VIII near OF
the new copper PRODUCING country ~ E1sesm s0s
or Russla's productions OF malachlte, silver Ieao,
platinum You will be told OF new places where all
these are continually being found, and, at the same
time, told that many OF these are only waiting ior,
probably the go-ahead spirit or your people TO be
wonder and astonshmcnt o. the vastness OF some OF
the metalurgcai works OF the empire the NUMBER
OF nna h covereS nSs'~n Which, cS"v W even to the india
rubber mllds OF Americans, be be received Win
astonishment You VIII hear OF country the
whole length OF the Ural Mountains some hundred
miles broad and twelve hundred miles long, as
Astounding with gold. hot spot con be dug which
astonisied when you hear that tnis gold Is hardly
worked and when II Is very badly. What you ia
America and California think yourselves lucky IN
getting fifty cents Of gold ont OF, In Siberia the
washers want two dollars, and wages are four or
se 10 Siberia. M Tnis also Is country 'Ss Where @ even even
Americans should come to. ] always think, when
travelling amid these surroundings Of gold. Of the
difYerent sights i should see were some few nun
dreds oil 70 aheadS TO come there from your country
REMOVAL or TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS.
restrictions from travel IN Russia which formerly
annoyed every traveller, and which really made
used TO pe asked-Ior on railroads. on steamboats, on
cars on horses. IL was impossible to move without
pass stuck in your hat Now all is altered. A
man Can travel from one end Of the kingdom
without any let or hindrance. Nobody will bother
him, nobody ROB him; and ] believe may add,
language goes, your native Russian peasant is q
perfect wonder at understanding pantomime. II
Sentence and pantonime the others You viii GET on
very well. In no country that know OF can you
now travel more easily than Russia.
Don't be astcnished, therefore, II you have gwen
different ideas and views OF Russia than you had
before You @ VIII @ md that much which has been
simple numbug Visitors have stayed in Russia a
few months, visited Siberia, and perhaps travelled
''Toll Russia, which, instead OF helping anybody
TO understand the country, has only filed their
neous conclusions. Russia Is q dIfhcult country TO
understand In few weeks, ana the observer must
fore he is justified in giving the world his opinions
about whar, believe, nave been most unJustly
M as
astonishmenl; but It may be as well to note here,
once for all. that all the information contained
Information from books but the result OF continued
residence ana much study OF the people and their
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
The English people are always mixing up their
India with the Eastern, or IS prefer TO call IT the
Central Asian question: and are continually assert
ing that the Russian Cars have from time imme-
mortal persisted in following one polcy-one
was q greater falsenood than tins abatement. All
historical facts go TO negative this assertion:
that for all time the different Czars had but one
idea and that was 10 open up trade with india
conquering the savage horaes in the khannates OF
Khfvn Khokand and B0Khara. These brutes once
subdued tand suppose nobody wlll argue that they
to india was opened to the Russians. Russia could
thus obtain many things she needed such as drugs
cotton, ana She could IN exchange for these barter after
her manufactured goods. From force Of circum-
suitable TO Eastern trade. She the first country
TO manufacture exclusively many designs which
con could only be sold 70 Eastern peoples; consequently
and naturally looked 10 the East for her orders
Already she has derived much benefit from this
policy, and the trade very materially increases and
with il Russian influence over these savages; but
maintain that any idea Of Russia taxing India never
entered int2 any cars mead:
Americans win also learn with astontshment, and
perhaps i Will be in your columns that TINS truism
and England, the press Is freer IN Russia than In
ohsT country n Europe decidedly more
aSs Whose sfS SsFa sSsssss ai;ssssis s! eG
rcspcciahnity and importance. Formerly the press
"a, :.. o.. Tls has now changed ana examples OF
snc Ias' same Sn: are rare Indeed. - - ''p''' '
EDUCATING THE rE6hE.
Of the last defeat which the ancient retro
grade aristocratic party OF his country sui
iSTed oG a. e nan n" and % ne Mb
ledge OF modern languages and ali the Vices appcr-
tanning thereto, wished 10 content their children
The Iash,oIape world and displaying IN Intimate
acgua,nntanee with The secrets o. the Jockey Club
ignorance Of the history Of their own country.
The Minister Of Educauon saw the evn and
education Is men. The o!d-iashioned party went
against IT, and the Council by large majority OBJ.
Jected 10 The introdlction: but the Emperor went
against the majority ana declared In avor Of his
Minister, and now we may hope TO see young Russia
educated as other civilized nations educate their
Young men.
Tnis old arlsiocranc party have been the bane OF
Russia, and IL is 10 them that must be attributed
almost all that bad 10 the country. Luckily their
time Is run, and an eDese wornont and biass, ener
waited race of arrst0crais are now giving way 10
intellectual well-behayed, middle class OF citizens
who In time viii become the backbone OF the STATE
and whose liberal and enlightened opinion Will
raise Russ q TO thai pinnacle which she ought 10
ami Is able 10 attain.
THE MANuFAcTUREs OF TUE ENTIRE.
You may hear OF the vast improvements which
have taken place In the manufactures OF Russia, a
branch OF industry not yet nifty years old. and which
can now compete IN several articles with other
countries. Cotton goods are excellent both In
quality and design. Cloth Is made by Russians as
good as by Engishmen, and the English are
absolutely beaten out OF the led with this article
by the Russians IN the Chinese markets. The silver
works or the Russian empire has no equal In the
world and, while silk Is not good that made