The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-11-11
NO. A..
Another war Cloud ia Europe.

Another war Cloud In Europe.
The political barometer in Europe has
! been for some time in a very disturbed
state. The indications summed up mean
/ imminent war Various nations are en-
ereetically reorganizing and increasing
their armies. aud the activity in this di
rection is very marked in Russia, France
and Great Britain Germany does not
appear in the least inclined to reduce her
! forces to peace footing Turkey has
determined upon approPriating the rev
/ enues of the mosques. Austria has
made strenuous efforts to concIliate the
people Of her provinces, and has intro
duced measures which will, in tie absence
i Of untoward circumstances, ultimately
cause a more intimate anna gamation. To
/ fear of the IRterHdtionGie has been at
/ tributed many of these measures, but
/ the preparations are on too gigantic a
scale TO be adequately accounted for by
/ the standing Of that society. At pres
ent the httcrHdtiORate numbers-takiDg
published figures-about three millions,
I necessarily scattered, and mostly vain
demagogues and penniless. impractica Bile
Z 51atcontents- As OrlgtBators OF strIkos
and political demonstrations, they NAV
/ do much to disturb trade and the peace
and safety Of communities. and compli
cate the problems of national home gov
erumeut but they are not sufficiently
formidable to produce general arming
Of the great continental powers. In
Great Britain, the headquarters of the
society, Notwithstanding the fact that il
has had every opportunity to propagate
e. i =
essary to place any restriction upon the
citizens who become volunteers" each
member of which is permitted TO have
government arms and ammunition IN his /
own house.
Russia, however, has made lately
large accession to her empire in the East /
Year by year she has been slowly sliding (
her icy grasp upon the frontiers Of Brit /
l-h India Her lynx eye has never been I
diverted either from the Sick Man pos /
sessions. The Suez canal has been fin
ished, and weakened France could, per /
haps, offer but little resistance 10 the 7.
possession by the Gar of that avenue to /
the wealthiest portion of Asia Russia's I
desire to hold England in check by /
means of an impending rupture with the
y
Tested. Catacazy, the Russian Minister
az Washington, was no doubt acting un
der the orders of his master when he l
endeavored to prevent the cousummation
Of the Washington treaty.
The telegraph has been teeming with
very significant paragraphs by cable No
fewer than Eve cabinent meetings were
held by the advisers of Queen Victoria
during the past week. The foreign re
lations of Great Britain were the ubject
submitted by Gladstone to their earnest
attention. Throughout the United King
dom preparations that are never institu-
ted save Ia the event Of approaching war
were, we are told. in satisfactory pro
gress. Gortchakof, that most Russian
of Russians, has taken the trouble to go
to Berlin to bold interview with Emperor
William. who. it seems, referred him TO
Prince Bismarck. with whom he has been I.
also eloseted. The subject Of the con-
yersatious has been kept secret II is
some thing more weighty han has vet
transpired which has brought, in his ad-
vauced age. the skillful dplomafist from
his Russian home; and it will be mat
ter Of little surprise TO fnd in a few
weeks war openly declared.
There may be only display of the
ability aud temper Of European nations
for war, and then growing subsistence
into a peaceful attitude but as the
weather report would say. "the probabil
tiles are not favorable for this" and
should war break out, it will be one of
the most extended character-it will no
doubt range from Cathay to Scandinavia