The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-10
RUSSIA.


THE coNsPRAToRs AaAINsT THE LIFE OF THE czAB-
PUNISHMENT OF THE RAND.
Petersburg October 1s) Correspondence of the London
Morning Herald.
According to the report Of the trial OF the ao-
comphces OF Karakozof, and Of other members Of
the secret society called the Organization it ap-
pears that 80 early as 1863 many Of these Young
men men were in the habit of meeting, and that the
haa N sooasP thS @ ths
view they established mutual aid society. and and
began to found echouls and various associations
@ ior the employment Of mental and manual labor.
lranaators or both sexes were employed as we'll
as bookbinders, seamstreases, &c. They endeavored
to establish manutactory for cotton wool, and
sheE had the opportunity they tried to
class- BY degrees their views took wider range.
and they began to entertain revolutionary IDEAS.
a. and to devise plans for their execution But two
things were necessary. They wanted a chief and
they wanted funds. '--
For leader Tohernitchehsky was considered the
'gin by efecting his liberation, for he was in ex
H., Strsudel, one Of the leading members Of the
society, offered to go to Siberia for this purpose.
cured, not much difficulty was apprehonded on
that score ns the members of the Organization re-
solved not to be deferred from the execution Of
adopted as their motto that the end justifies the
means. Various plans were proposed, such as
pundering tradeamen by clerks attached to the he
Der, Victor Vedossief, even agreed to murder his
father, and to make over his Inheritance to the 3D.
aroa SrSy In aa she meantime an inner association
membeTs me- belonged, and It was her, ere, that hat
Ise Inebo9eiee question & or regioids was started by
Of the @ebors 81 she aad q ba last
as aons Sassu'GR sahoasns ssG"s
so sRspfGsssd nss e9sou 1s 1t sna
intention was only known to Ischoutine. Ermoloff
strapdsl de and Yo9rassoa who appeared to have
phshing bis designs. In their whole conduct there
| seems to have been no understanding amongst the
members OF ;either society, for whilst some were
chasing type for establishing secret presaes. cor
responding with tho Polish exiles in Siberia and
forging passports fol. those who had escaped from
honest means, and purchasing revolvers, others
were strongly opposed to the use Of physical force
and some poor and ignorant men had actually
joined the association under the impression that Il
was merely mutual aid society, and they had not
the slightest idea Of what was meant by socialism
mndism .,, and communism + came out on the
entirely ignorant Of tho existence Of tho He'll and
some Of those who knew Of it threatened to de-
nounce it to the authorities.
| It is impossible to imagine anythina more con-
tomptible than this association, which caused go
much alarm at the time Of It's discovery. The
MosUoiskid Vdldonosi expresses it's surprise that
Of age, should haVe started the idoa Of efecting
vast political and social revolution in Russia at
sence Of al political agitation, but in the midst of
demonstratons Of attachment and loyalty to the
Emperor, Of which history furnishes no example.
These foolish youths, corrupted by bad syssen Of
education, and by vicious example, shrank with
terror from the execution Of ftheirplans. The mem-
bers Of the association to which they had given
such o terrible name, endeavored to restrain the
hand Of their infatuated companion; straudel and
Ermoloff even followed KarakozoT to st. Peters,
burg; Ischoutine wrote him letter urging him to
return to Moscow, and, indeed, succeeded in per-
suading him to do so. But 1t appears that Kara
/ kozof again left Moscow unknown to his compan-
ions, and he either committed the crime for which