Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-03-31

Our European Letter.
RrptM Gnrmnnr MIR IL

BERLIN, Germany, Mar. IL, 1880.
The reichstag will, it has been decided,
adjourn on the 18Th. The committee OF
the reichstag. to whom was referred the
bill for the PRONUNCIATION of the law
against socialism, has decided to report in
favor of prolonging the operation OF the
law until the 50th of September, 1884,
instead of 1856, as proposed BY the gov
eminent. and also in favor of declaring
the law for the expulsion of members of
the reichstag and landtag from Berlin in
operative during the session. Prince Bis
marck has presented in the reichstag Il
paper on emigration from Germany during
1879, showing that 1892 persons, two
thirds of whom We're males, emigrated,
by far the greater number going TO the
United States and British North America.
The imperial budget fixes the revenue
and expenditure for the next fiscal year
1t $50, 252,640 marks each, and the ma
REGULATORY contributions of the different
states at total of S1.640,9jO marks. A
report is current that Herr Bitter has ten
dered his resignation as Prussian minister
of finance, owing to difference with
Prince Bismarck. Herr Won Bennigsen is
named rs his probable successor.
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria and his
father, Prince Alexander of Hesse, the
brother of the empress of Russia, are
coming to Berlin to participate in the cee-
bration of the eighty third birthday of the
Emperor William on the 22i instant.
There will also be present King Albert
md the crown prince of Saxony, the ducal
families of Baden, Anhalt, Mecklenburg-
Schwerin and Mecklenburg- Streliz and
numerous other distinguished persons.
Folks will say anything but their pray
ers, and it is just possible that for uttering
tsingle word concerning the late catas-
trophe at st. Petersburg that is not an
ejaculation of condemnation. some people
will call me nihilist What does rather
invite my contempt, however, is that in
good society it is not considered to be II
catastrophe at all, but IN escape from one
The blowing to pieces half score or so
Of faithful soldiery is accounted us
nothing. Not word about that appears
to be sung in the re Deunss, while the cir
cumstance that no one of royal descent
has been injured fills us I'LL with irrepressi-
Die gratitude. What is still more curious
is that some wisacreS in the press are de-
handing "strong repressive measures
FOR putting an end to nihlism. One would
think nobody has been sent to the scaffold;
and that hundreds and hundreds of young
men and young women were not every
week transported to Siberia for "sympa-
thy with Instruction" it would be some
time before | took to dynamite, but if
found myself in country where Justice
was not to be procured except by bribery;
where nobody was allowed to express his
opinions unless they We're in accordance
with those held by courlers and officers,
md where ones family were exposed to
the insoence and brutality of every Jack
in-olice, confess | should have II very
strong sympathy with instruction " my.
self. Soldiers and police have proved utter
failures to repress nhilism misery of
The offenders is too great; it is like the
tlderman's attempt to put down sui
;ide-and if my opinion were asked
(Which, strange to say, it has not been), by
the home minister of Russia, | should
say: Instead Of repression, which only
covers up the sore, aud does not heal it,
ry Il little justice" Illogical as nihilism
nay be, despotism is hardly less so. We
IRE assured by telegram that this last es-
cape has produced the deepest impress
sion on the emperor, and is interpreted by
nim as Il sign Of mission direct from
providence to cover society threatened |
with dssolution.n
There seems to be little reason to ques-
ion the truth of the statement that Prince |
eldest son of the crown prince
will soon be batrothed. The li.dy is Prin-
less Auguste Victoria eldest daughter of
he late Prince Frederick of Schlcswig |
MISUNDERSTANDING. Augustinborg, and
not Princess Caroline Mathilue, daughter
If the duke of Scheswig- Hol stein, as
previously reported.
LolIs.