Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20
THE A CLOUD.


ally growing in sizs, and has now as
sumed such proportions that it threat
ems to burst in all the fury of war and
its attendant horrors. A dispatch from
circular note announcing that in the
interests Of humanity she feels bound
to march her troops into Bulgaria and
Armenia. I'm the interests of bu-
mainly, is good. While the Turks
have been guilty of great atrocities,
their attempted repression by Russia
only means horrors on horrors head
accumulated. The interference OF
Russia between Turkey and her re-
bellious dependencies can mean moth
ing else but a war involving II or
more of the Great Powers.
England can not, with either dignity
or safety to herself, look quietly on
and see the Turk driven out of East
ern Europe by the Russian Bear and
the control of the Mediterranean given
over to the Gar of all the Russias.
That she does not intend to permit
Turkey to be crushed is evident from
the preparations she is making for
warfare. There are rumors in Lon
don that an autumnal session of Par
Lament will be called. in consequence
of the grave and startling aspect which
this much-vexed Eastern question has
assumed, and orders have been given
to prepare for the transportation Of
troops. The Russian is not given to
making idle threats, and England's
history has been that she could not be
bluffed, but has ever stood ready to
defend with her sword what she o
ceived to he her rights. If Russia says
she will march her troops into Bull
garia and Armenia to protect the Bull
garians and A%rmenians from Turkish
murder, rapine and pillage, she means
what she says; and if she thus marches
them, England will fight, and only an
extended and bloody war can be the
result.
That England in such a war will
have any ally other than the Porte
does not now see seem probable.
France, so far as heard from, will take
no stock in the affair, the resignation
OF the Due de Casas as Minister OF
Foreign Affairs of the French Cabinet,
and the appointment of the Count de
Chandery in his stead, being taken as
an indication of the adoption of a pol
icy of non-interIerence. Germany will
probably also keep hands off; and
though Austria would be the natural
ally Of Russia, there is nothing yet tel
egraphed which goes to show that she
will be a party to the struggle. The
aspect of affairs, as we see it, Is that
there is no immediate prospect of a
general European war; but that war
between England and Turkey as allies
on the one side and Russia and the ie-
bellious Turkish provinces on the
other, is inevitable; and that further
diplomacy is powerless to avert it.
However, should Germany break from
a strict neutrality, the circumstance
would, in all probability, by taken adj
vantage of by France as a pre:ext for
wal with her sworn enemy, by which
she would hope to pay off the old score
she holds against Germany on account
of the Franco russian war. All the
first-class nations of Europe are or a
war footing and fully prepared for bat
tie; and if they want a general Euro
pean war there was a prettier
chance for its Inauguration, and the
| slightest fracture of neutrality by either
Germany or France in this little mat
ter between England and Russia will
be sure to precipitate it. If they are
spelling for a fight, there is, to use the
current slars, nobody holding them;'
and if they start the ball to rolling, the
result cannot in any way work to the
injury of the United States, but will
inure to our benefit by creating a
profitable market for our wheat, lead.
silver and other products. AS a disin'
terested outsider, Uncle Sam cries out,
"Let her flicker!"