Show our status Abro abroad fd we have called the attention of our olur readers to the ignorance of and indifference to us existing in europe thep the people there knowlin know little care less of the greatest nation and best government under tinder the sun it were well for us could this fact be realized separated by a wide ocean from the great civilized centers of the world we haye have no ambani means by which to measure ourselves and in this ignorance have cultivated gul gui a conceit that is not Q oui oni only ridiculous but largely in the way of 1 progress or reform until we can see our awn defects it is impossible for us to remedy them while there 1 is nothing so enervating anddess and destructive truc tive as the self seif praise in which we cufr ourselves we have been fed on F fourth of july orations until all healthy food is distasteful E european european nations absolutely know nothing of us and the one from which we claim descent the one speaking the same language with ourselves tinctures tinctured tures its ignorance with a contempt that would i j i t bo be charming could we fetch the fact home to our own knowledge how pleasant it is to have our president congratulate his constituents upon tho the influence our republic is exerting over the effete despotisms despotis ms of europe and their enslaved subjects when the ast enlightened of those far onn off notes lutts s iotes have only a dim knowledge of our exia existence tence coupled with dih the belief that we are a lawless people trying on the experiment of seir seif govern ment that sa so far has succeeded only in creating a clumsy machine where a mob rules through a cor eor iupe civil service could this humiliating truth obtain at home we might set abo about u t some reforms and beirn bearn that in f establishing stab t ab certain pet theordes theodies we have given up tip the substance of 0 good government for the mee me e form of a free government wj have lave the most extended and privilege of the ballot bailot free choals ch free speech and a free pre pres without any protection through 0 them teem to life liberty or property proper propel ty ui ot these wo we are robbed by the very government we hold up as a model to the world in all parts of 4 drope wo we find the material evidence evidences of american ingenuity ity the cottongin cotton gin and spin ning jenny jenns tile the sewing sewing machine the bhe telegraph the tile tramway way and a hundred other oilier results of american invention and discovery have won their way into hito general use but in no part do we find a knowledge of or an interest in our greatest achievement self government this is melancholy the live patriot shrinks and mourns but there is comfort in knowing that such information would only deepen contempt the noble american standing on london brids bridge who in emulation of the old roman man would draw himself up and exclaim 1 I am an american citizen woul dif noticed at all be regarded as an escaped lunatic and would be saluted by somo cockney with the cry of veil vell vot ov it we met a united states fates senator in eng EDg En glands lauds great political social and commercial lenter center we failed to recognize the article all the swell had been taken out of him se he was tile the humblest humble sty quietest and most individual in the he whole circle of our acquaintance ance anee he led us to a corner of the huge hotel and said sadly these benighted people know nothing of us sir positively nothing in the better classes drink gin an and wat barer erthe the lower orders drink hale as they call eail it 3 attempted to bo en ent eni ter erthe the tho gallery of the house of commons and I 1 was stopped by a myrmidon in calves attached I 1 to a long stick I 1 showed him my card eard sir card of a united states senator and the insolent creature thru thrust it t back upon me saying that it was not han ohan horden borden I 1 tried our minister general 15 chenck chenek and he said that admissions were few and very difficult to obtain he spoke as if it would exhaust his gigantic diplomatic iraln irain aget to get a united states senate admission to the gallery of the house houss sir I 1 am disgusted 5 and the poor collapsed senator benator smoked in a subdued manner manne that was pitiable A friend reading our article on this subject sends us s number of the he belgravia magazine with an article therein entitled rca ica A presidential election which further illustrates what we have been striving to impress upon our conceited compatriots now the belgravia magazine is not a leading monthly but it is respectable and from it we vve quote the closing paragraphs of this remarkable essay nead read and weep oh h proud american we may yet go a little farther the scene now changes to washington a sort of neutral ground for meeting after the battle where the victors can reca reea recapitulate til thi bulato th their vir pir triumphs and the vanquished mourn their miserable vod vectis de dei des s claring darlng that the glory bath hath departed from israel ll ashington washington lY capitol oct 25 i A paris dispatch says authentic information has been received there that russia is fully convinced that she will in the course of three or four years be en engaged I 1 aged in a desperate struggle witt with germany bismarck is determined to demand the restoration of the german provinces of russia and von moltke has already his bples aples li ii in 11 those provinces and it is said the proposed organ organization of the new now landet arin has bas a been decided upon in view of these possible events 1 au |