Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01
Twen.y.slvo Yoar. an Emperor.

The Gar Of all the Russias has been
an Emperor for twenty-five years. He
assembled 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 en-
pire and where local Russians are
found throughout the world. In the
palace Of st. Petersburg the celebration
will be very quiet. ThRgEmpress is
sick-she has probably not great
while to live. The last attempt to as
sassinate the Emperor and family by
blowing up a portion of the Winter
Palace is only two weeks old. The
Emperor has just been compelled to
invest Gen. Louis Mclikoff with die
tatorial powers for the preservation Of
the peace of the imperial household.
His own nerves are unstrung, His life
has been far from regular, and indul-
gence has told upon him in the irrita-
bility which is the sure index of ner-
vous arrangement. An Emperor can
hardly be asked to be gay when Mill
lists are threatening to celebrate the
twenty-flfth anniversary of his access
sion to the throne by bonfire which is
to consume his capital.
The Emperor is now in the sixty
second year of his age. He was born
April 20 (O.S.17). 1918, and was nearly
thirty-seyen years Of age when he as
cended the throne. His reign has not
only been long buteventful. His coun-
try was engaged in the Crimean war,
when the death of his father devolved
the cares of the cares of the empire
upon him. In 1861, on the sixth an
niversary of hisaecession to the throne,
he declared the freedom of the serfs.
In 1868 there was an uprising in Po-
land, 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 Turkes-
tan. This conflict dragged along for
a couple of years. In 1867 the EmpOr-
or sold Russian America to the United
States. During the Franco-German
war the Car declared that he did not
consider himself bound by the limita-
tions 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 conqured by the
Russians. The recent war between
Russia and Turkey is fresh in every
ones recollection. Russia was victo-
rious in the field. but her diplomatists
lost all that her soldiers had won. Eu-
rope practically combined against Rus
sia after the treaty of San Stefano, and
in the treaty of Berlin compelled
the conqueror to part with her con-
quests for the aggrandizementof greedy
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 threaten
ed. After twenty-five years Of ex-
supreme power, he finds HIM
self in the presence of difficulties quite
as great as any he has hitherto sur
He probably desires rest,
but there is none for him this side of
abdication or the graye.-N. Y. Graphic.