The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-05-10
legislators brlbed.
THE question of the title to the Sou
Carolina state offices was settled on the !
The Gar Alexander.

Alexander H., Emperor of Russia, who
succeeded on the death of his father,
Nicholas l., March 2, 1855, was born
April 30, 1918, in the reign of his uncle,
Alexander l., and is, consequently, en-
tering his 59th year He was carefully
educated by his father, who professed
tions of the true Russian spirit in his
son. At sixteen he was declared of age,
invested with a number of military
titles, and subjected to daily life of
maneuvering, reviewing, and military
parade, which at last seriously impaired
his health. He then travelled through
Germany to recruit his energies. He
next vigorously applied himself to his
duties as Chancellor of the University OF
Finland. He founded a chair of the
Finnish language on literature, and pro-
NOTED a number of scientific schemes
undertaken by Finnish savans, and sue
ceeded in winning the sympathies of the
Finish people, and weakening their love
of independence. In 1850 he travelled
torough Southern Russia, and is said to
have witnessed with regret his father at
titude toward Europe, and to have alto
gether disapproved of the Crimean war.
On his accession to the throne, March 2,
1890, he found himself i'll II critical posi-
ton. He had two parties to conciliate
at home-the old Muscovite, blindly
jealous for war; strong partlsans OF his
more warlike brother, the Grand Duke
Constantine, and the more peaceable and
intelligent portion of the nation, who
possessed his personal sympathies. He
pursued course calculated to encourage
| both; spoke Of adhering to the policy OF
his ancestors, and signed the treaty OF
peace as soon as he could do so with
honor and dignity. Since then he has
purged the internal administration of it:
! Impurities, rebuked and punished cor
/ ruption, and given honorable recognition
| to public instruction, free from military
discipline, and under his own supervision
His moderation has even stimulated th'
hopes of the Poles. By ukase of the
25th of May, 1856, he granted to al
repentant Polish exiles permission to re
turn home, but though desirous of pre-
serving the nationality of Poland h
would not assent to its separation from
its dominions. The grandest achieve
ment of Alexander's reign, withou
doubt, was his emancipation of $4,000,
600 serfs on certain conditions, March
1861. Three years afterward the sam
boon was conferred upon the Polish serf:
with a view to weaken the influence @
the nobility, who owned the greater paI
of the land, and were, consequently, al
powerful, which act seems to have ha
the desired effect. In March, 1867, h
sold the whole of Russian America to tn
United States for S7,000,000. Two a
, tempts have been made Oh the Gar
life, both of which proved futile, and r'
: suited in the arrest of the would-b
, assassins The Emperor married, Apr
l %, 1S4l, Mary Alexandrowna, Prince
: of Hesse Darmstadt, by whom he had
! large family. The Oldest of the prince
!. Nicholas, the late Czarowitch, born Sc
: tember 20, 1843, died prematurely
3 Nice, in 1865 Alexander, the presel
>, Crown Prince, born March 10, 1845, ma
ried November 9, 1866, the Princess Da
!, mar, daughter of the King of Denmar
Two Of the Emperor's sons, the Graz
4 Dukes Alexis and Constantine, are Nc
in New York, where a portion of t
), Russian feet has been stationed
some time.
= WHALERs say that whalers are
IS creasing in numbers very fast.