The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-18
Twenty-Five Years an Emperor.

The Gear of all the Russias has been
an Emperor for twenty-five years. He
ascended the throne on the death of his
father, Nicholas, on the I'd of March,
(old style February 49, 1855. To-day
he, therefore, enters upon the twenty
sixth year of his reign, and the event
will be celebrated throughout the empire
and where loyal Russians are found
throughout the world. In the palace of
St. Petersburg the celebration will be
very quiet. The Empress is sick-she
has probably not a great while to live.
The last attempt to assassinate the EN-
peror and family by blowing up portion
of the Winter Palace is only two weeks
old. The Emperor has just been COM
PEELED to invest Gen. Louis Melikoff with
dictatorial powers for the preservation of
the peace of the imperial household.
has been far from regular, and indulgence
has told upon him in the irritability
which is the sure index of nervous de-
rangement. An Emperor can hardly be
asked to be gay when Nihilists are
threatening to celebrate the twenty-6fth
anniversary of his accession to the throne
by a bonfire which is to consume his
capital.
The Emperor is now in the sixty-sec-
ond year Of his age. He was born April
20, 70. S. IT, 1878, and was nearly thir-
ty.seven years of age when he ascended
the throne. His reign has not only been
long but eVentful. His country was en-
gagged in the Crimea war when the death
of his father devolved the cares of the
empire upon him. In 1861, on the sixth
anniversary of his accession to the
throne, he declared the freedom of the
serfs. In 1868 there was an uprising in
Poland, and in 1864 the Car, in order to
weaken the influence of the great mobiles,
liberated the Polish serfs.
Toward the close of 1866 war was
concocted between Russia and Turkestan.
This conflict dragged along for couple
of years. In 1867 the Emperor sold
Russian America to the United States.
During the Franco German war the Car
declared that he did not consider himself
bound by the limitations in regard to his
use of the Black Sea placed upon him by
the treaty of Paris in 1856. In 1871 a
conference was held in London, which
modified the treaty in accordance with
his desires.
In 1873 Khiva was conquered by the
Russians. The recent war between Rus
sia and Turkey is fresh in every ones
recollection. Russia was victorious in
the field, but her diplomatists lost all
that her soldiers had won. Europe prac-
tically combined against Russia after the
treaty of San Stefano, and in the treaty
of Berlin compelled the conqueror to
part with her conquests for the aggran-
dizement of greedy neighbors.
Russia is, of course, dissatisfied with
her position. Germany anticipates war
in the near future. Official declarations
are made in favor of peace, but acts are
against its being maintained.
On the whole, the future must look
gloomy to the Emperor. Insurrection at
home and foreign war are threatened.
After twenty-five years of experience in
exercising supreme power, he finds him
self in the presence of difficulties quite AZ
great as any he has hitherto surmountcd.
He probably desires rest, but there is
none for him this side of abdication or
the grave.-New York Graphic.