Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 April 1879 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1879-

WIDOW OLIVER has about concluded to go upon the lecture platform. It is not known wheter or not she will Reade.

FARMERS in the East are divided in opinion as to the merits of the English Sparrow, Some, and their number seems to be increacing, regard him as nuisance.

ARRANoa.Mr.XTs have been completed for permanently lighting the New York city post-oilier with electricity. A test of the machinery lias been made and iound eatufactorv.

IT is proposed by the municipality of Paris, Franc, to change the names of two streets from their present designations to Washington and Lincoln. The streets will O'-ver rue it.

Ir was a Vermont woman, who, in following the remains of her rather irregular husband tn the grave, afterward remarked that the hud one consolation, "she knew now where he slept o' nights.'

SEXATOR THIUMAX is now in the direct line of succession to the White Home. IfPiesident Hates and vicePresident Wheeler should Ruddcnly conclude to follow Hamlet's advicc to Ophelia ami get th to a nunnery. Mr Thurwian, having been eiccted President pro tempore of the Senate, would march to the ether end of the avenue without opposition.

FROM the t-tjmach of a iMasenchufietts man has been extracted an animal five inches Ion#, which the proprietor thinks ^allowed while drinking from a pool in£outli Caroljna during the war. ^Xt a conv.^pa. in Charleston, S. C., Benjamin .feu.other Massachusetts man, swallowed his conscience, but it was nQ.t inches long, and no body has ever taken the trouble to hunt for it

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Ir has been discovered that e*-Gover-nor Hubbard, ef Connecticut, who raided i«uch a row over the marriage of. hts daughter with his coachman wu8, in his youth a peddler of charcoal. Now charcoal peddling ib a' Very resectable business, and so is any other honest employment wherefy 1 man makes his !ivelih«od, but it occurs to us that a charcoal peddler Oughrndt to blacken the character and blast the reputation of a respective cbaehman. «t

F(iELo has apparently taken

-philoeophyas a means of enjoying her leiiuft' «$**« Ap* i^ilosophic ecreeds runs on after thisfaihlonif ft

sion means lUwuriglit earnestness. downright earnestru-ss mesas no end of feeling no end ot feeling means expression

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past few months there has been a great growth of sound *piniot| on the financial question. It could hardly be Otherwise, tnen beirur in any degree reasoning creature*.' Resumption was greatly dreaded, but ft his been tried. The predicted disasters do riot come on the contrary, the times are already better for everybody. The false theories which have made 10 much mischief have drawn most of their support from the biind desire to escape irom the severe stram of nettlenaent lor the debts of inilation. As

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th*t risk on ?»f| mt||iitfM«»i |jutfeu fcjaiS|Uqcieu ijgtoii "deserve" ftx litrrtimg peoples

a$fn#M fceiKl W*%«%ht in hfavjei* KLOIIOUH, VIF^L 1

lo^, vow me **p)*i? a crime b^titU.you

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if 'to he,

STORM is brcwi?(if»tlKt»^e«i't of the Ru&siah Empire which «(iU peoVe deadliet i^ihc dynJiitv ru]i^g that down? trod^n pet»pk than' |0ll^. the^ irihids ?o

the bloodScs

jfp rising of the people" known jnysn. The" fcutrage* tliat *hc«1Ei#en pcrpertfatcd on the people during a long f-crie* ofyears ha%e bee«i 63Cr uel an.4/0 caii^il^s'thSt Ihey havje Hrut|Mfeed

them.J When they» come

«aon as iru iit»c*l un,e th^y alvy^) do, U^the hHi'fttry whi^hj'^l l)e|^t Tab6rot«'^y ^beaten ittto thert tHfcmgh veart cf wrong wiand eppressio i^wiiloni^e t|»e

thfe hior% teri^e.*'51' 'f

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strain, is

lifted, men begin to recover" their' 'common sense. It is not possible that this reaction of public opinion should be arrested as long as times continue to improve and specie payments work without disaster or distress."

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Br the Fort Wkyne Sentinel it appears that one Reichelderfer, a Representative in the legislature from the rural district of that section, became so intoxicated with life at the capital, that what had heretofore been pleasing and satisfactory to his simple tastes, lost all its relish and even the wife of his bosom suffered by his elevation. After a short time at the capital, doubtless very much enjoying her husband's distraction, she Was shipped home on the plea of economy, but her place was soon supplied by another upon whom Mr. Reichelderfer lavished his affections during the leisure he enjoyed from legislation, and on returning to Fort Wayne even had the effrontVy to bring her there with him, scandalizing that village most shockingly. He did not, however, abandon her even then and return to his lawful wife, but is now reported to have gone to Cincinnati with his enslaver. Previous to his elevation, Mr. R. was a gentleman in good standing among- his neighbors, but seems to have been overcome and unbalanced by the hono's heaped upon him.

THE following item we clip Irons the Auburn, Ind., Courier. T. C. Mays, tne editor, wai chief clerk of the House of Kepiesentatives, when our candidate for mayor was a member of that bod), and he speaks from personal knowledge, ol Mr. Havens' course upon the repeal of the Baxter Bill:

We see by thedaily press that Hon. B. F. Havens, of Terre Haute, has been nominated by the democracy as a candidate for Mayor ot that city. We have no means of knowing of his personal popularity at home, but we do know that he possesses every qualification for the position W? which he aspires. While a member of the House of Representation of this etate in 1S75, he rendered splendid service in the interest of his constituency and the democracy generally all over the state. His indefatigable exertions brought about the repeal of the Baxter bill, and he is really the author of thenresent statute regulating the liquor traffic. It Was Only by brilliant parliamentary tactics that this was accomplished, and th^ regular session adjourned without |Assing an anprppriation bill, in to Bring On a special session that a last effort might be made for the repeal of said bill. Being clerk of the house at that time, I distinctly remember wiih what consumate 6kill and tact he triumphed,over a republican f-erinte, aftd wiped this failure from the statute book. Possessed of a keen perception, ready at grasping the situation, affable and courteous in manner, we cawnot conceive of better timber to occupy the highest position in this prosperous city, arid hundreds of friends outside will rejoice -to learn of his success.

.too and Australia both will hold interntttidhalliexhibitions next year. Officii announcements of both these fairs have already been made. On the 15th of January, i8$o, the Mexican World's fair will begin at the city of Mexico Aucttklia will not open here until the jist of October, 18S0, and the exhibition will last until the 31st Of March. It must be reMeinbered that, being eouth of the equator, these winter months to ut are lummer therf. 'Melbourne will of course be the place at which the exhibition will be held, It is confidently expected that both of these fairs will do much to attract the attention of the world to these "countries stimulating trade and diffusing Ifpong tlKiftr people a valuable knowledge of t^ prograu mad£ by other people in the aru.ai !»cie .-uec.

ah \ue pifkuht pr®WlMl(!fllUy

WeniLKU with j&offtics durinjg't^e .past |vr,enty no One |»as ixrne bcttoer reputation than Horitio 4jeymour, of

New 1^^|^|^|&*'lWdl»yj^he has* in a coinmunidation fo the jprc^l, given fpn-e^i^ JollowiCig ^w|ggh reference lo

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na^ch ibuslb cfa^s of

individtiaie called puliUcikiis are novels an| wfc say« "1. nearer low -th

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•ihsfe'' I) if Sst frfc 4Jg^by,s-ilrtfe« cft»t*Wbft the New York Tribune says: "Within the i-y

LtnV*political

ot power,

Cared panuuiarly for public pla#b. btit I al-wa*s liked pofttics^ and, what is »ore, I Hke politicians. They are a much-a^edjtfaM 11 ir thefashia4 to sneer atlpe^ but l! thpphe^Sfif^tter men a rule t^ian miychants and bankers aii| other? rqirdB^atjves of respectability. "They make Mb re sacrifices and do tnoie unselfish work for others than business men ever think of doing. They cultivate a certain chivalric sense

tyho are, 1^114 pally

corrupt1 win refuse the ftiOSt tWnrHitig bribes when the integrity of their party is involved. I h*ve-*etM* enough ot political life to satisfy, me that its influence is lH%ting arid not'Meg^dine. I would muth ratfief bfe fried bj* a jary' of

opponents "whd? %*ere *ic-

kn^wledged politicians, thah'tfy a jury qf respectable business trieh who laidrthat they took no particulkr interest in poli.

DEMOCRA'LIC FAIRNESS IN* THE SENATE. It is worth while noticing just now that the Democratic Senate of the United States iu acting with a fairness and impartiality in the regulation of affairs which, while it should put the Republicans to Mush, ought to serve as a valuable precedent to them, should it be their fortune in the future to again gain control of that bo.1y. It is especially to be desired that this noteworthy fact may be observed since the Democrats have been criticised because they matured in caucus such measures as they proposed to press to passage in the open session nf the Senate. Doubles* instances similar to the one in question will multiply during the period *f Democratic ascency. They ought to insure a prolongation of that control. In^the present instance the case to which we wish to call attention relates to the disputed title of Mr. Bell, appointed to a vacant Senatorship by the Governor of New Hampshire. Some facts and deductions therefrom are stated as follows by the Philadelphia Times: "It should not be a matter of surprise that the Senate has decided a claim to a seat in that, body on other than partisan considerations, ancfyet strictly partisan decisions have been so long the rule in both branches ot Congress that the new departure in the case nf Mr. Bell, is equally gratifying and surprising. For the Democrats to have rejected Mr. Bell, would have been quite in accord with Republican precedents in the Senate and Democratic as well as Republican precedents in the House, but they have chosen to set a better example in-waiving technicalities, the force of which made even such Republican lawpers as Conkling, Carpenter and Davis halt, and they will never have reason to regret. It was ouly necessary for some Democrat, whose integrity and party loyalty were beyond doubttoexpress emphatic dissent from the report of the majority of the committee. Mr. 'Bayard did Jo. and, to their credit be it said, hit, example was followed by McDonald, Gordon. Jones, of Florid*, Randolph, Vonrhees, Walker, Groome, Whvte and Williams. Considering that the New Hampshire senators have so often sought to deprive certain southern states of their representation in the Senate, in defiance of the letter and spirit of the constitution, the fact will not be overlooked that the rights of New Hampshire would not have been respected in this matter had not seven southern Senators taken her part. This looks very like heaping coals of fire on the head of the state which boasts the implacable south-hating William E. Chardler as her favorite son. Now that the Senate has turned yver a new leaf let us hope that it. will not look back to those disfigured by abject par* tisunry."

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A Russian novelist over whom 'the English and American literary authorities^are making a deal of fuss is Mr. Ivan TurgeniefF. Stories from his pen are seized with avidity by the publishers and praised inordinately, though not perhaps Unduly, by the critics. He is a prolific writer, and, without telegraphic information from him on the subject, it would be unwise for any one epeaking of any one of his works to call it |he last. Avoiding, therefore, this fouroe ot inaccuracy, wej .may speak of "Dimitri Roudine" as one of the latest of his novels. It is a charming book after its fashion, and contains startling pictures of Russian life. Late reports of the cruelty practiced towards political prisoners by the authorI ties in charge of them, serve to convince the reader that the descriptions it} this book of the barbaroue phases of Russian ife-are not over drawn. But it wa*s not his peculiarity to which we wished to referis5In i*» literary aspect tlie book reads very smoothly except when the reader comes to the Russian proper names of the characters, some of which art as follows:

Alexandra Pauldvria Lissina Sergius Pjoilovitch Volzinoff Cunslanline I)io-, midiich PandaJewski *Michael Michaelovitch LesctiEbieff Roxolan Mediarovitch Xandrina Nacalie Alexandrovna Lassounski, Dimitri Nieanaitch Roudine Africarius'Simeonovitch PigasofT —together with sundry Basistoffs Schu kapskis, etc., who, filling subordinate places, or being of subordinate rank, do not require to be so polycomially and polysyilabically designated as the principals in the romance. But when Sergiui Paulovitch Volzinq|f and Africanus Simeonovkch* Pigasoff and Michael Michaelovitdh Leschnieff all get bv the ears with Dimitri Nicolaitch Roudine and Dimitri Nicolaitch Roudin2,ia bimul taneously wooed by the three ladies Alexandra "Paulovna Lissina, Daria Michatlovna Lassounski and Natalie (or Natacha) Alexandrovna Lassoujjki her daughter, aiud Qoastantine Diomiditch Pandalew»I»Mn additiontohis capf 00s £oss?p of tofct Dsfrfa- Michaeloviich Hassoumkl h4d rerp^rked about Schukapski's o^iooiQn of African^ Simeonovitch P»gaeoflTerattack on Roxblam MediarbvltcH's -System' of politft^l economy, is led^fcjjis. jealousy of Madain DariaMichaelovitch Lag^ounski's favor to

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tics, but usually voted the Republican ticket. From them I should expect gross injustice and prejudice ten times as intense ns my avowed political opponents would dieplay. The man who serves a cause, if it is not a positively bad cause, is ennobled by the service. He learns to look at men as we)l as doctrines, from a higher standpoint than a mere personal selfishness. Hence I repeat that I like politicians as wci! as politics, but I do n^t like office."

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tell Madam Daria Michaelovitch Lassotnski and eke each member of the hostile trio, Sergius Paulovitch Volzinoff, Michael Midhaelovitch Leschnieflf and Africanus Simeonovitch PigasofT what lias passed between Dimitri Nicolaitch Roudine and Natalie Alexandrovna Lasrounkski—(five minutes for sneezing at this point)—then the nn-Sclavonic reader can tatily perceive that his proper realization of the dramatic situation will inevitably be hindered by the orthographic and orthocepic difficulties of the text. Wherefore wo suggest that the translator in performing his functions, should either simplify the names a little or else furnish his readers a key and- a quantity of jaw linimentA *£$ translate the names .** into Johnion, Dickinson, Thompson, Robinson, etc., or to designate them (for short) by their initials simply, would probably sacrifice the Russian flavor of the story but why not compromise the difficulty by resorting to the favorite modern system of nomenclature, viz., numerals, combined with the vitch and ovna lingo which distinguishes the caar's people, and name these heroes and heroines Vitch No. 1, Vitch No. 2, Ovna No. 1, Ovna No. 2, etc? If Turgenieff is the great novelist of the age, and his works are to be read in all languages (arid there are touches of nature in them which ought to make the whole world readers), something this sort ought to be devised as a humanitarian measure.

A NOTABLE COMMITTEE*. Yesterday Speaker Randall announced the standing committees, of the House. Considerable interest always attaches to these appointments because the businese of Congress is really translcted by them. It is not^often^that a measure perfected in a committee and|reportcd by it to .the House fails to pass. Sometimes |amendments are added in the debate, but if they are material and seriously change the tenor of the bill as at first reported, it is generally in the power of the committee to prevent its passage. And. an spokesman of the comoiittee, the chairman is the person in whose hands the greater portion of this authority is vested. It is, therefore, a matter of the first importance that the Speaker should make strong appointments to the chairmanship of the leading committees.

Among the committees, the Ways and Means has always been considered the most important, and the perron who held the chairmanship of that committee has usually been the Reader of the House. Of1 late the committee on Appropriations has,by reaRon of the growing importance of the interests confided to its care, contested the palm of tupremacy with the Ways and Means, but,all things considered, this latter is still the leading committee of the house." As appointed by Speaker Randall yesterday the whole committee is as follows: P'ernando Wood (Chairman), Tucker, Gibson, *Phelp Morrison, Mills, Carlisle, Felton, Garfield, Kelley, Conger, Frye and Dunnell,

The origin in Congress of the committee of Ways and Means, and the names of the eminent men who have been placed at the head of this important committee during o.ur national life, and the territorial or. sectional distribution of its chairmanship amoug the several states, or as between the North and South, present many points of interesting observation. The records of the House of Representatives exhibit the lollowing orders^ •fcv* I j'n&fc

Friday, July 34,17S9.—Ordered, That a Committee of Ways and Means, to consist of a member from eaeh State, be appointed. to which it' shall, be referred to consider the report of committee appointed to prepare an estimate of supplies requisite for the service of the United State* the current' year, and to report thereof hairman, Thomas. it ii an a

September 17, 1789.—Ordcrd, That the committee of Ways and Means be discharged from further proceeding on the business to them referred, and that it be referred to the Secretary ot the •Treasury of the United^States to consider and report thereon.

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vDecember 2t, 1793.—Ordered, That a standing Committee of Ways and Means be appointed, vyhoseduty it shall be to take into confideration all such reports of the Treasury Department and all such propositions relative to the revenue as may be referred to them by the House, to inquire into the state of the oubiic debt of the revenue and of the expenditurei, and t| report irom time to tim^ their opinion thereupon. Chairman Mr. William Smith,#5uth Carolina.^

December, 25, *795.—Ordeml, That the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied with the estimates of the snms necessary to be appropriated for the service of the year 1796, also states ments of the application of certain sumof money granted by iaw, be referred tip the Comntitteeof W'nye and Means.

December, t6,1796.—Resolved, That a standing. Committee of Ways and Meaif* be #ppOintt}, ho»e duly it shall le to iike into cohfVfritfto|/ all such re porta

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nil such prepoeitiens r*Jayve to the re4-

fcs'may be referred them by thje Houseftp ifiqui|i "irtte theHstate of the public debt, of 'the revenue ani£oClkftxpenditures, and to report from time to

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time their opinion thereon. Chairman, Mr. William Smith, South Carolina. It would seem from this record that Congress begin, in 'partial imitation of the House of Commons, by creating a committee of "supply," to which, probably, was referred the estimates coming from the President and Treasury and when this committee of supply reported their report was referred, in 17S9, to a Committee of Ways and.Means, consisting not, as now, of nine members, but of "a member from each state.'' And this business" »v ai», on September 17, 1789^ taken from the Ways and Means committee, and referred back to the Treasury for consideration and report. Under the English system, at that time, the House of Commons did not vote money unlets asked by the crown. The foundation of all taxes was the declaration of the crown that they were essential, but the crown had no concern in the nature or distribution of the taxes: Thus it was possibly, that the report of the Ways and Means committee went back to the executive for approval, since in England the crown (Demanded money, the commons granted and the lords assented to the grant

In 1795 it seeme that all the estimates of the treasury were sent directly to the Committee of Ways and Means, without any intervention of a Committee on Supply, and early in this century the present Ways and Means Committee had a permanent existence in each Congress as a select committee composed of nine members.

The records before us do not disclose clearly the constitution of the committee during the first, second and third Con. Igress, and indeed in those nearer our own day there is want of precision as to. dates ef resignation and filling vacancies, but the following li«t of names of those members who have been at the head of this committee is otherwise substantially cor. rect: 1 1

Year. Name. 8tate. 1789.'. —Th«t. Fitzlininons..Pennsylvania. 170% 7....Willi«r»8n»lta South Carolina. 1797-1801.Roberta. Hkrper..3r-uttt Carolina. —Roger UrUwold Connecticut. 1802-tt Job* Randolph....Virginia. I8UK-?—Joseph Clfcy Pennsylvania. 1W-D....Gea. W. Campbell.Tennessee. lfttK1l...lotaa W. Kpdee Virginia. 18I1-J2.. .Kzeklel Baron Maaaachusetts. I8IX-)8...IJ*BIPIOB Cberes....South uaroliua. 1M18-15.. ..John W. Eppe*. ... Virginia. 1X15-18... Will tarn Lowndee.. South Carolin a. 1818-K3....Samuel Smith lfarylund. 182H-"....IJOUIS ticLane. Delaware. 1^-S—Jehu Randolph Virgiaia. ISiW-fa.-.Gw. McDul&e South Onrolina-1HJ2-3 ...G. V. Vftrplaack...New York. lS)-5 ...James K. Polk Tenneaaee. jW5-8....C. C. Gambreliag..NeW York 1H80-40.. .John W. Jonee Virginia. 1841-8.... Ulllird Filrnore... .Hew Yor. 1H43-7....Jas. J. McKay North Oaroltas. 1847-1)....-J«uiuel F. Via ton .Ohio. 1819-61...Thog, H. Bay ley,. .Virginia. IHW-U....O00. H. Houston... AlaoAna. 1856-7. ..Lewis P. Campbeil.Ohio. J857-60... .J. tilancy Jones....Pennsylvania. 1881-3.-...John bherosnn Ohio. 18*3-5.. ..Thadifeaa Stevens. .Pennsylvania. 1809-7 Jusiin S. Morrill... Vermont. 1867-71...Robert C. Sobenck..Ohio. 187i-5....noiry L. lawes...Massachusetts. 1&75-7.... tVin.R. MorrUon..Illiaois. 1877-81...Fernando Wood...New York. I

From this atatemen it appears that the Southern States—known before the rebellion as the sla labor Stateshave had the chairmanship of the committee during more than half the period since the government has been in exiatenco under the constitution, and that Virginia and South Carolina have each had the office longer than any other State. Indiana has never had the chairmanship of this committee.*:

A RULER AT W A WITH HIS PEOPLE. Yesterday's GAZKTTE containedw,»a dispatcti from St. Petersburg announcing that at & o'clock yesterday morning an attempt had been made to assassinate the Czar. While he was out walking on the street a man met him and fired several shots at him from a, Revolver. In a very marvelous fashion^ he escaped even being wounded. We print here in this place later and fuller particulars of the affair. We give it position here in the editorial instead cf the news columns because we wish to place it in contrast with a dispatch, also fiom St. Petersburg, received and published last Saturday. We shall print first thi latest dispatch, ^giving the account in the Czar's life, and shall follow it with the earlier telegram, wherein is told a horrible story of heartless cruelty and fiendish wholesale murder, perpetrated by sone of the Gear's trusted officers on a l**ge number of political prisoners. The first dispatch is as follows:

St. Petersourg, April 14.—Toward 8 o'clock this morning, a* the emperor was taking his customary walk, a respectably dressed man, wearing a military cap with a cockade, advanced towards him and as the emperor approached nearer, drew a revolver from a pocket in his overcoit, and flrtd fbor sbofS at hlmi The assassin, before submitting to his captors, fired another shot, slightly wounding a person in the crowd. The great throng

Of people which had asslm*

bled enthusiastically cheered and conr gratulated the emperor, who thanked them for their proofs of fidelity, on such a painful occasion. ^He said he knew he had the support of all respectable people he hoped that God would grant that he might complete his lask, which consisted in promoting the welfare of Rus«ia. The emperor, after the foregoing speech^ drove 10 the palace without an escort. He ftfli hot Uuflfered the- least ill effect from ine attempt upon hii life. Afterwards he fftove^ still without esCott, to the tathedral, to return thtifiks fdr the preservationt)f his life. When receiving congratulations at noon

the

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overcome

bv his enthmiafticftfceptioft astobe una| 1 bie to speak ior so .Tie. On recovering 'from emotion he 6aid: "This is the

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third time God has saved me. supposed tha*. the emperor's assailant took poison befbre his' attempt, ae he vomited after hi* arrest. Poison was also found under his finger nails. Antidotes were administered. It ie thought that the man was an employe of the ministry of finance, and an a^ent of the intertional«. The Sultan and all European sovereigns telegraped their congratulations.

The emperor's assailant gives the name of Skolof. He is a retired functionary of the ministry of finance, and is about 30 years old. He fired at the emperor wiuiin two pace*. After the fir«t shot the emperor approached Skolof. who fired again and then ran. The various accounts given as to the exact number of shots fired are conflicting. An officer of the gendermerie with drawn sword pursued BKOlof. Three men joined in pursuit. Skolof fired at them, shattering the jaw of a 3 detective. Finally a gentleman knocked Skolof down and held him until he was secured by the officers. Eleven hundred 4 and forty revolutionists have been arrested in Russia within the last two weeks.

For assassination there is, we were ^rabout to say, no excuse whatever. Perhaps it would be well to defer the expredion of that sentiment. It may be that—well the other telegram to which 1 we wished to calf the attention of the reader, is as follows:

St. Petersburg, April 14.—The Kieff correspondent of the St. Petersburg Jour- S nal gives the following account of an outbreak among the political prisoners $ last month: Some persons under arrest in the Keiff prison resolved some time ago to tunnel under the walls and escape. The scheme was betrayed by one of the conspirator* The authorities al lowed the prisoners to continue the excavation. When the tunnel was completed and the prisoners had en-

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tered it one after another, intending to come up through the opening beyond the prison precinctsv soldiers previously posted at the opening shot the escaping prisoners as they cameup, when the bulk of the prisoners, terrified by the nwise of j* the firing, stopped and remained in the tunnel. Soldiers were sent in from behind, and the unfortunate wretches, caught between two ftres, were all shot down. This proceeding seemed to give the officials much amusement, and E the director of the Kieff prison was then* praised and decorated for having acted with such fi cleverness aad decision. The correspondent adds: Qjite in keeping with this is a statement published by the Russian chaplain in the central prison at Charkoff in the official Epaichaln Widomosti Diociasn Intelligence. He declares that of coo prisoner* detainedat the prison 200 died within four months, One ol the heaviest charges made by Nihilists against Russian official administration was the brutal treatment of vs prisoners, in consequence of which the 55 health ot most of them has broken down many dying and some being driven mad.

Here is an account of a horrible -i btftchery. It was wholesale assassination. It was as cowardly as brutal. And this dispatch says that this shooting of unarmed and defenceless prisoners "gave the officials much amusement." It further says that this comical director of v* the prison,to whom the murdering of prisoners is so mirth-provoking an affair that his hilarity becomes unrestrained, "was then praise land decorated for having acted with such cleverness and decision." It becomes an interesting matter of inquiry to know who it was praised and decorated him.* It becomes an interesting matter of inquiry to ascertain if she ,~ Czar had at the time, or. now has any knowledge of the fionny little episode at Kieff whether he knows that, somebody in authority praised the comical prison director and decorated him whether, when he learned of it,—assuming that it wsa not done with his knowledge and consent, or under his instruction—he promptly -took steps to amuse the- fun-loving authorities at 1 Kieff and their eulogists by having them esch and eferf one beheaded. Admitting that he knew of this atrocity at the time or that, learning of it afteawards, be did not punish, and with death too, every one connected with it, it does not occur to us that the Czar, notwithstanding his exalted title and his great power, is fit for any thing, but a target for his much abused and justly outraged subjects to practice firing at. If he fails to punish wUh death the monsters whom he has placed in authority at Kieff, who think it fuhay to shoOt down human beings. conrined there for pjlitical offline*, as iflh^^verfeVild anitnaU, and tho^e other tiionhtervin charge of the central prison at Charkoff who are ruining the health £of their prisoners hy brutual treatment if he

to punish them

we repeat, thenf he ""'is guilt/ horrible blasphemy when he answers the congratulations of the favpriog sycophants about him, over his escape by "hoping that God would grant that he might Complete his task, which consisted in promoting the welfare of Russia." If the welfare of Russia is to be promoted"*7 by2' butchering 5" 4efcnceje«s political prisoners, and ruining the health of others, by privation) then the test thing that can happen to the Russian people is to have their country disrupted and destroyed. If the Czar wants to have tlie day he is *h?t and ^killed, celebrated as a holiday he has but to permit the. practice of brutality timilar to this to go unpunished. With the^eaeralitpoi mankind the feel, ing is growing that a Czar's life is not fiufch r^iore (facred ffiifi thit of his hdmjjle#t,s suhjcctt aod vt^at the Czar who permits his subordinates to prftotice brutality is nwtirfng a demon in the hearts of his subjects which will fc destroy him and his as sure as fate.