OHIO, FREDERIC LOUIS. 



607 



i aiv nowhere taken ; thousands of 

 and this indiis- 

 . Kl a handsome 

 amply repay tin)-.' engaged in it. 



common M-liools diU'crs but lit- 

 .:u tliatiu the Ka-.teni States, hut <>\\ i 

 of tin- population, its advai/ 

 :uv mainly pro-port ive. Tin- (i.'in-i-al Gk) 



. liberal tlonations ol' land tor cdu- 



il purposes by setting apart every six- 



i thirty-sixth Motion, to lv devoted 



-upjiort i.f <( 1:1111011 schools, thus laying 



tlu- fiiu:n;ation ot' an ample fund tor future 



institutions. The Willamette 



I'Mfy at Salem (being the oldest), and the 



: versity at Forest Grove, being the 



rineipal seats of collegiate discipline, are 



;-irni:ig out tbeir graduates, who will do 



much in giving character to tbe Pacific States. 



1 hiring the year tbe Indians in the southern 



of tbe State perpetrated many outr 

 but tbeir hostility was soon checked by tbe 

 us action of the troops sent against them. 

 Oregon is divided into twenty-two counties, 

 and lias a population of 70,000. 



No election for State officers or members of 

 the Legi.-lature was bold in tbe State during 

 tbe \ 



OT IIO, FiifiDfinic Loos, ex-King of Greece, 

 ID Salt/burg, Bavaria, June 1. 1815; died 

 .aicli, Bavaria, July 26, 18G7. He was 

 nn 1 -.in of Louis I., King of Bavaria. 

 lie had hardly completed his studies when, in 

 nub year, he was invited by tbe 

 .bad then recently achieved tbeir 

 independence, to occupy the throne of the 

 newly-created kingdom. The proposition being 

 approved by the Governments of Great Britain, 

 ', and Russia, in a treaty concluded in 

 London in May, 1832, and soon after ratified 

 by (lie King of Bavaria, was accepted by the 

 - prince, and on the 25th of January, 

 1833, lie made his formal entrance into Nauplia, 

 accompanied by several officers of state, who 

 appointed a regency to exercise supreme 

 authority until ho became of age. On the 1st 

 of June, 1835, he assumed personally the reins 

 of government, under circumstances of great 

 difficulty tbe Bavarian regents having ren- 

 dered themselves extremely unpopular while in 

 office. Not only had they suffered the state to 

 become the prey of public plunderers, but they 

 bad done violence to the national sentiment by 

 nominating foreigners to many civil and mili- 

 tary employments. Unfortunately tbe acces- 

 sion of the young King produced no change in 

 tbe policy of the administration, and soon the 

 di-conteiit of the people was so intensified by 

 the elevation of the Count d'Armansperg, one 

 of the ex-regents, to the arch-chancellorship 

 and the presidency of the Council, that an 

 open iv\ olt took place in Messeniaand some of 

 the adjoining provinces. Tbe revolt was sup- 

 1, but the discontent which bad given 

 ill siirvived. On the 22d of Septem- 

 ber, 1836, Otho espoused the Princess Frederica 



daughter <.f tho Grand-duke of Olden- 

 burg, and the day of their landing at the I'intus 



i February, 1837 was signal!/ 

 i"i;inicnf two royal decree-, onedepr 



Tg of the obnoxious <i!lir<-, and 



another proclaiming Greek, in-tead !' ( I. niian, 



'cial language of the state. These COD- 



ce inns >ati-lied to a certain extent public 



opinion, hi; (inch-needed changes 



and the adoption of some beneficial measures, 

 tbe abuses of the interior administration con- 

 tinued to i .111 day to day, and with 

 them tbe popular excitement, until at length 

 the demand became universal for tho banish- 

 ment of foreigners and the establishment of the 

 il ution whi i originally promised 

 by the King and tho thre -\vers. 

 Tin; government continuing to be a despotic 

 one, and Otho manifesting a reluctance to com- 

 ply with the popular demands, in September, 

 18*43, the Greeks, despairing of procuring in 

 any other way the constitution, which they 

 bad been induced to expect from the King, 

 surrounded the palace with an armed force and 

 compelled him to accept the national pro- 

 gramme, which bound him to form a new 

 cabinet under the presidency of M. A. Metaxas, 

 and to convoke within a month a National 

 Assembly, whose duty it would be to frame a 

 constitution for tbe kingdom. The Assembly 

 was convened by the King on the 20th of No- 

 vember, and the new constitution was pro- 

 mulgated in tbe following March ; the Bavarian 

 ministers were sent home, and an auspicious 

 era seemed about to dawn 'upon Greece. But 

 these prospects were soon blighted by the 

 reactionary tendencies of the King and his 

 advisers, and tbe ancient abuses began to reap- 

 pear. Attempts were made to remodel or 

 abridge the concessions granted to the people, 

 which the latter naturally resisted. Factions 

 arose, whose violence increased the general 

 discontent, which the constant changes of 

 ministers could not allay. Thus matters were 

 constantly growing worse, and tbe instabil- 

 ity of power which resulted from such com- 

 motions rendered all internal peace impos- 

 sible, while tbe complications of tbe Greek 

 Government with France and England during 

 the Crimean War tended still more to under- 

 mine tho authority of Otho. At last the 

 long-pending crisis arrived. In the autumn of 

 1861 the King again visited Germany, and on 

 returning found himself environed by military 

 conspiracies. No sooner was one outbreak 

 suppressed, than another burst forth; but that 

 which decided his fate was the emcute which 

 occurred in bi> capital in October, 18C>2, during 

 tbe absence of himself and his Queen on n 

 voyage to the Peloponnesus. Then it was that 

 the popular leaders organized a provisional 

 government, and decreed the dethronement of 

 the Bavarian monarch, who, after protesting 

 in vain against this act. retired to his native 

 Germany with his consort, and there passed in 

 obscurity the residue of his days. 



