Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — A Young Girl Outraged by a Prince The Czar Avenges her Wrongs. [ARTICLE]

A Young Girl Outraged by a Prince The Czar Avenges her Wrongs.

Last December n officer in the elegani uniform of the Chevalier Guards gaHopped alo -g one of the most crowded and fashionable streets in Petersburg. Passing a magasin de modes he saw a charmingyoung girl enter. He followed her, and was struck by her cheerful but modest grace, and the free’.inoss and tenderness which distinguished her. On her retiring he learned tb'i she was the daughter of a poor cA, (civilian;) that the shop-people w .’orked f or her at a lew rate from admiration of her youth and character, and the* she would return at six. That officer, with two of his fri nds, indulged in a sumptuous dinner, inflaming his passions with mostly champagne. But exactly at six a large and gorgeous troika (a double-seated sledge) stopped near the magasin, harnessed with three splendid horses. The poor Olga advanced, was instantly half stifled in a fur cloak, lifted into the troika, curried on to Czarsko Zelo, where a convenient and lonely house of entertainment awaited them, and was there brutally ravished, after indignantly rejecting every kind of bribe. But her resistance was so violent uiat she disfigured the faces o her assailants. On her return her father appealed to the hated police, but in vain. The police-mas-ter assured him that the criminals could not be identified. On this, her brother, an officer in the country regiment, was writen to. He was indefa igable in his inquiries, discovering that three officers had suddenly announced themselves sick to hide the scars in their faces, wrote a petition to the Emperor, and succeeded in awakening his sympathy. The police-master was summoned, and the Czar charged him instantly to procure a true report of what had passed. This was done. The criminal was Prince Galitzin. But mark the punishment. The Czar instantly compelled him to marry the sufferer, endowed her on the spot with half his worldly goods, making her at once very wealthy, and then immediately issued a ukas of divorce, leaving her entirely free. All the three officers were transported to a coun’ry regiment, deep in the heart of Russia, and were refused any rise in military rank. Never was poetical justice more rapid and more complete. The sentence does honor to the Emperor, and almost makes us long, in certain cases, for an omnipotent despot. But this is not the only instance in which Alexander IJ has given proof of a good heart and great vigor. The circumstance has excited an immense sensation in the Russian capital, and will doubtless have good results.