New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-08

d 10, show him Tie Of hfy men gittered in he cold
moonlight and descended on his Ss& s9 SheP ne
and uTs found IN the added drunken madness TO the
The Teyoed ser dancing wildly round the dying ebers Of
had lately been the Stewards house offices stables ana
nchted heads They had recovered the money and
deal more they had Toasted 70 safety the rich stores Of the
best Of all they had killed their enemy they would
Ain wolf But consequences not slow 10 cry
Of Soders raised Surprised they this way TO be
other yoey Dead and wounded fen like rotten sheep The
taPore were thrown down the peasants fen upon their knees
screaming for mercy, and surrendered at discretion
There are some peculiarities of Russian law which
our author Justly characterises terribly foolish
and inhuman." "A dead body or person in jeopardy
Of life must not be touched helped except by the
police If any one inteneres, and the man dies, that
interference brings after it of trouble and ex.
peuse past calculation, beside danger Of punishment
The author three men drowned in the Neva py tne
upsetting Of boat: every means OF assistance was
close at hand but burst interfere and no rescue
was attempted He saw man lying IN the road Ter
riby bruised in the head. The officer of police had
been informed, but though the spot was only han
mile from his house, he did not appear on the scene
until four hours had elapsed and be had been thrce
sent for. Meanwhile, no one yentured 10 gave tne
wounded man any assistance, and the poor wretch
died soon after the police removed him TO the hospital
drowning man was pulled out oil river ny an En-
gish companion Of our authors, but ater no was
brought to land none of his countrymen Wond toacn
HIM for fear of getting themselves into trouble ana ne
QleQ OIL cold ana exposure on INC JAIN "liiiV
thor attending to his exhausted friend. IL is the
same thing with fires. The police ENJOY the exclusive
privilege Of putting them out and the consequence ID
that they never are put out. ,
The author ooncuis with almost all other travellers
in representing the Russian priesthood as especially
degraded and without the slightest hold upon the re-
sDect or affection of the people. He tells at least one
story about them which has strong flavor OF anu
Quity although as he gives it on the authority Oh
Scottish resident in Russia, we dare say mat ne tens
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ever illustrative of the vitality OF Russian religion,
which we do not remember to have seen before:
There is mandatory St. Petersburg at which about
o Thousand hands used be employed On week previous
TO certain Faster Sunday while confession was going on IN
order to take as little time from MammOn possible the ma
cbucry was stopped sections and the people were permitted
70 90 IN patches according to tho nnture work at which
they employed Weayers confessed together az oe .
spinuers another and Connected WITH ana aos
these works the church where confession TOOK place n
private passage led from the works 10 the church Y "a.
pentents passed into She church having ~ &
into the by the main church entrance 10 70 w.
in Russia al vorkpeope are strictly Searched n c
male searcheTs they pass out from theiI Ilce ol
INF in eonfng season when these particular workpope went
direct TO the church by the private way 70 SOes T,
in the lump right Of search had never been enforced u
on certain day the director Of this factory received INIT con
ennr this omission and took his measures accordingly Az
O'Clock large batch uonr hundred IN sp OF Women !os
and married girls and old wives left Their various posts anu
70 The private entrance where they admitted usual
filing the stairs and passages When al were INSIDE me o
tom door was boted and guarded Means Of escape being thus
eur off the front rank approaching the door OF comnunc
ton with the church. found halfndozen searchers backed
ID
stpe of large quantity Of valuable material secreted under
their clothes in their b0On fact wherever they c0u SLOW
IT, Each had great weight of plumber as she could possibly
The work of searching went on but the mass OF WONT
the searchers The word passed peculiar sound was
heard Of persons dressing and undressing ana ~ w
minutes all standing innocent as lambs ana
as harmless their knees IN material taued Hc
cOrdng RereOnpuato al five hnnefed POUNDS
We have not space to follow our author IN ms $40
res of official yenality-they say you can buy any
country magistrate in Russia for % cents; his anus
! ing narrative Of his perplexites and suhenngs al
housekeeping; his great hunting party on the estate
of Prince Pomerin where, If he did not perform the
prodiges of valor which might have been expected oil
him. another Englishmau saved the Princes LIE under
very startling circumstances his difficulties with the
police; bis experience in the clutches OF Russian
tradesmen; the adventures OF his . handy-man
Harry, who is forever knocking somebody down, IN
true English fashion; the excellent trick be played
upon smuggler who pressed him as pilot; and ms
very good story of the way in which an unjust steward
was nearly murdered by seris and only saved rom
death by the joint intervention of Harry and sort oil
deus er mGchind in the shape of banlshed lord, VINO
returns from Siberia in magnificent sleigh, just IN
time TO resume his inheritance, to save the steward
from being drowned in pond like blind puppy, TO
wrest from him bis l-goten gains, and TO announce
to his Joyous and astOnished peasantry their mmedi-
ate elevation TO the rank Of freemen II is all so good
that we cannot help thinking it never happened.
There is dearth Of positive information in the book
about the results of emancipation and there nothing
about the the resources or statistics Of the empire.
The volume is simply what its title impes-a collec
ton of skeches;b and SO long expect no more
from il than il promises 10 give we shall md 1t ex-
! tremely readable and interesting.