The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-08
THE CONSPIRACY IN RUSSIA.
An Official Report.

An exceedingly long history of the Russian
assassin Korokozoff and his associates, puo-
lishcd by the Northern Post Of st. Petersburg,
and given in English by the Berlin correspou-
dent OF the London Times, contains some curl
Gus particulars. The revolutionary society
which was started in the year of the last Great
EXn bition of London, and which adopted for
its title Land and Liberty" determined, after
the failure OF the Polish insurrectlon and the
proved impossibrlity OF gaining any appreciable
amount OF Russian sympathy for the Poles,
ORGANIZATION" An adjunct TO this associa-
ton, entrusted with purely executive functions,
was appropriately enough called "Hell;' and
its members were charged with the duty of
punishlng those members of the larger society
who hesitated to commit theft, murder, and
other crimes declared necessary by the chiefs
OF the organization. ''ln case of necessity,
theft, murder, and embezZlement of property
were expressly enjoined for enlarging the
funds" The association counted especially upon
the assistance Of members of the University
and other literary PsSople" and its eXact0as
disseminated Dy the professors IN the various
public institutions"
The report AYERS that the following was the
programme of the association:
"The peasants were to be told that all landed
property was theirs, and that the noblemen and
the Government generally were their natural
enemies Elementary schools and small indus
trial associations ION the same model as those
so frequent in Russla) were 10 be established,
in order to graft socialistc doctrines upon the
pupils and members, and through them the
people generally. For the same purpose libra
ries were to be opened and lectures gratis to be
given in provincial towns, the whole organiza-
tion to be dependent upon the directions of the
Central Society at Moscow. Above all, the vii
Iage teachers we're to be gained over, and spe-
cal agitation was to be kept up along the banks
oftthe Volga, through the facilities offered by
the numerous steamers on that river. The
requisite pecuniary means were to be supplied
by Ine members and voluntary contributions TO
be collected among the public, under the pre-
text of charity.
There were two factions in the society, one
of hich proposed TO pave the way for revolu-
ton by the gradual spread of sociallstlc princi-
Piles. The other, more impatient, advocated
tended 10 resort to the extreme measure of
numbering the Car. Among the latter was
KOrokozoff, who offered to execute the terrible
crime at once. The idea of having recourse to
extremes was first mooted at the time of Koro-
koz, frs cousin, principal leader in the social
istic circles OF Moscow, returning from Journey
to ST. Petersburg to his usual residence. While
at ST. Petersburg he had made the acquaintance
of person of extreme revolutionary views who
had been abroad in 1865, and had lust come
back from Switzerland Korokozoff7s cousin no
sooner got home than he informed his political
friends OF the existence of q Central European
Revolutionary Committee, which had its scat
abroad, and which, he added, was willing to
aid the action of the society by supplying it
with arms, etc. He also said that murder OF
soVeTegns figured among the recognized tactics
Of the Central Committee, and that he proposed
to form an inner circle to promote the realiza-
tion OF that particular theory in Russia"