Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

the Discomfort with
AutOcracy.
Correspopdence of the New York Evening
Post.
vienna, AUSTRIA, May 10, 1878.
The verdict of the jury in the case
of the Russian Empire against
Wyera Sassulitsch is well known,
hut there are many facts and some
differences growing out of this trial
and verdict which will be interest
ing to your readers from one who
has Just left the land OF the Musco-
Vites.
THE EXCITEMENT IN RUSSIA.
The excitement in Russia is uni
versal strong and impulsive among
the students and young persons
generally, equally strong but more
calm among business men and CIV
iIians; impetuOus and fervid among
the editors. One newspaper, the
Golos, compares Wyera Sassulitsch
with Eliza Hessel, the heroine of a
somewhat similar occurrence years
ago in Berlin, another to Charlotte
COrday, "whO," says the editor,
"with her own sword Ovelthrew a
system" Rapp, editOr-in-chief OF
one newspaper, wrote in his leading
article: at is evident that the
freedom and peace private persons
with us is not secured alone by the
statute of 1854, but also by the mys-
ferrous acts of an administration
whose secret works are brought out
in bold relief by the deed of Wyera
SassuIitsch. BY the acquittal and
the sympathy shown for the ac-
quilted, society has exhibited It's
utter dissatisfaction with the inter-
ference of the administration IN the
business of the courts. Ofhclal deS-
nOtism has shattered our inner lie,
and shall we become habitually sub
iect to arbitrary power"
The NOwoje Wrenja published the
following: 1.-THE principles OF the
State are peace and justice, and
protection against arbitrariness and
bower. There are instances, how
ever, where a judgment according
to the evidence is not admissible.
Such cases have repeatedly occurred
in Europe and America, and have
not proved injurious; on the con-
trary rather useful. And in the ac-
quittal of Wyera Sassulitsch the
Jury have done a benefit to the State
and statutes" In another article
we read, "WhO draws the sword
must perish by the sword"
THE GOVERNMENTS COURSE.
The excitement has even reached
the imperial palace, it is reported,
and the Gar, fearing lest he toe
may fall a victim to a second SaSSu-
litsch, purposes leaving for a Ger,
man bath. Indeed, from all the
information which / can collect, ii
is questionable whether the cOnster-
nation is greater among the people
or at the court.
The Government has adopted Wig
orOus measures to suppress this tone
of the press and prevent further
riotous demonstrations, without
seeking to ascertain the cause or tC
introduce any reform, or to do any
thing else except to utter the threat
that ''the rights of the jury may be
abridged" An attempt to do thai
now, with the Imperial Guard in
San StefanO, would certainly pro.
duce an instruction. Two news
papers have been cOnfiscated, three
warned for the first time Offending
Journals usually receive three warn
ings) and five for the second time
and street circulation is prohibited
to nearly all others until further no
tice.
In st. Petersburg the discussion o
the trial on the street and in al
places of public resort is forbidden
Several students have been arrested
there for preparing an address tt
the attorney for the defence. IL
Kew and Moscow the forts have
been heavily garrisOned, and troops
patrol the city night and day. One
hundred and forty students have
been turned out of the University o
Kew, fifty of whom have not only
been expelled, in our sense of the
word, but have forever lost the
right cf attending any university
Several students have been trans
ported to distant places, with a los
of education privileges for nine
seven, five, four and three years re
spectively; and tonight, as L an
writing, the news reaches us thai
fifteen young men have been arrest
ed in Lemberg, and that if similar
revolt occurs at the University O
Kew, its doors shall be forever
closed as an institution of learning
INCENDIARY LITERATURE.
Connected with this daring ven
ture, vet emanating from a ditferen
source, though with common OBJ
iect, is another of still more start
ling character, namely, the circuia
ton all over the empire of revOlu
tionary pamphlets, summOning thu
people to arms to drive out the tyr
amy that Expresses them, ant
establish by n Constitution thei
rights and freedom. In Warsaw
secret organization, composed O
business men, women and ant
students chiefly, was discovered 70
prOpagating revolutionary lltera
ture. at the head of which was
woman, who escaped arrest only b.
flight at night. An associate com
mittee was found to exist in Lem
berg, and with them a "prOclams
ton to the people" was brought t
light. But the mystery is WheT
the prOclamatiOns were printed,
in Russia, and how they were SNUG
gled in, if elsewhere. The answe
is simple. Switzerland is the chic
center of Russian political eXiles, a
it was of the italian and Greek eN
lies. Hence there is the center {
Russian revolutionary literature
though the Government can seldom
trace it beyond Berlin, Paris or v
emma. The reason of this is obvious
l give the explanation substantial
rs a Russian gentleman from Swift
erland gave it to me. 1.-THE variOu
pamphlets, circulars, books, etc
are usually printed in Switzerland
then some one takes them to NieT
ma, Berlin or Paris, and they ar
shipped thence, or some peddle
smuggles them through the lines
the false bottom of the pack, an
then distributes them here an
there as opportunity offers. 1t
not infreqUently the case that
whole village in the morning is SUI
nrised with a pamphlet at eac
door" This Russian further sal
that he had just sent Il large pack
age to Lemberg, and n few day
after | read in the Free Press tina
"a large number of pamphlets ha
been discovered by the officers, cor
tanning a revolutionary address t
the people. 1t was supposed t
have been printed in Switzerland,
said the newspaper, "but was sen