The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-08-09

course, bringing Win IL many SIr1klnS |
changes. Afghanistan, convulsed by
war six months ago, is quiet again for
the present, and the weak ruler whose
vacillations precipitated the conflict has |
been removed by death. His brother |
Ameer of Bokhara had preceded him to |
the grave. The French Prince Imperial,
more fortunate than his father, has met |
the soldiers death which fate denied to |
the latter nine years ago, and the hopes
of the Imperialists are now concentrated !
upon Prince Jerome Bonaparte. France |
has acquired q new President, Germany
new tariff, Russis q new system Of
local administration. A friendlier feel
ing is beginning to replace Italy's for
mer evaporation against Austria, the
advocates of q crusade for the recon |
quest of the Tyrol and Trentino being
now limited to few enthusiasts of the
Garibaldi school. Turkey has passed
through the usual Ministerial crisis, with
the usual absence of any result what
ever, while the lavish and incapable
ruler of Egypt has been forced to yield to
his son the control of the State which
bis extravaganza has impoverished.
But although the civilized world has
happily been almost free from war dur
ing the current year, every other form
of calamity has descended upon it in
succession. Formidable inundations
have devastated Hungary and Northern
Italy; Sicily has been ravaged By a
frightful volcanic eruption; famine and
pestilence have made themselves terri
bly, felt in Russia, Egypt, and Northern
India; England has been visited by an
other season of commercial depression,
aggravated by several enormous failures
and more than one extensive strike.
The struggle in South Africa, though
now apparently nearing its close, has
already cost many valuable lives, while
the conflict between the Gillian and Pc
ruvian Republics is being still waged
with barbarity and q disregard of CIV
ilized usages which has called forth the
indignant protest of several European
powers. A revolutionary organization,
small in numbers, but formidable from
its ruthless energy and the ghostly
mystery which envelopes all its proceed
ipgs, has boldly defied the Russian Gov
eminent, taking the life of more than
one prominent native officer, and at
tempting that of the Gar himself.
| A similar influence for the Moslem
world, too, has q Nihilism Of its own
| is manifest in the fanatical outbreaks
which have recently convulsed Tunis,
Algeria, and Morocco. These tumults
are generally, and no doubt justly, as
cribed to the intrigues of the deposed
Khedive, acting through the famous
"secret societies - which are the main
strength of modern Islam, and whose
organization, so far as it Is yet known,
appears to rival that of their best Euro
pean counterparts. In Central Asia,
again, an experiment is being tried
1 which, if successful, will form q mo-
/ mentous chapter in the future history of
the East. The Oxus, diverted six GEN.
/ turies ago from the Caspian into tho
Aral Lake, is now being restored to its
ancient channel, and its course being
navigable to some distance beyond
Balkh, direct water communication
will thus be established between Afghan
istan and European Russia.
i But of all the phenomena of the pres
emit year, the most striking is the curious
fashion in which Absolutism and Re-
publicanism have suddenly exchanged
places, each asserting itself most mark
eddy in the very spot which was once the
center of the other. To find hot-head-
ed, impulsive France arresting withou
bloodshed, and almost without disturb.
ance, the advance OF arbitrary power,
by effecting an important change Of
! government, is q new thing indeed; but
not less amazing is the spectacle of
steady, self-contained, Unconditional Ger
many quietly lending herself to acts of
despotism as high-handed as those of
Louis XIV. Seventy three years ago,
the first Napoleon, BY establishing mar
tial law in Prussia, and shooting Ber-
lin bookseller ct his own door, aroused
the patriotic spirit which eliminated in
Leipsic and Waterloo; whereas now the
former liberators of Europe are pro-
claiming martial law in their turn, while
the former champions Of oppression are
figuring as the boldest apostles of free
dom. But this unparalleled contrast
must necessarily be short-lived.-Nes0
York Times.
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