The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-02
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Tbe Ru..ian Reirn or Terror

RSBUR0-IHE INSECURITY DAILY IN.
cREAsING-TnE N1HrLIsrs BECOMING AG-
GREssIyE-TR0oPS KEPT CONSTANTLY US.
DER ARMS, &C.
COLOGNE, May 1.-The Cologne Gazettc's
St. Petersburg letter, dated April 22d. says:
"A universal feeling OF gloom prevails.
One feels he must be prepared for the worst.
The rigorous police regulations already in
force respecting the watching OF the entrance
Of house-visits and searches by night and so
on are to be rendered still more stringent,
After O'Clock in the evening nobody will
be at liberty TO show himself in the street
without certificate, upon which must be
written and sttested the place from which
the bearer comes and to which be is going.
IL this ordinance, which was planned bv
General Gourko, the Governor General, is
promulgated, then we shall have nothing TO
do but quietly squat down in our chambers
in the evening, for how are we going 10
get such certificate and attestation after that
hour? Soon it vii! be necessary to light
candle before haf-past O'Clock. and yet
at 8 O'Clock, Just as in the barracks, every
light must be put out. The measures are
certainly stringent, but at the same time
the insecurity at st. Petersburg is daily on
the increase. Every day we hear Of grenadcs
exploded in the streets. Happily there
have not been serious consequences.
For the present the intention OF the
Nihilists is believed to he to keep the police
in state OF constant excitement, and at
last tire them ont or lull them to sleep with
the idea that the danger has been exagge-
rated. They also reckon on the harsh mea-
sures and arrests producing discomfort
among many people, who, when the time
comes for a grand attack on the Govern
ment, would join the revolutionists. In
the night between Friday and Saturday
scditious placards were found stuck up
in the vicinity OF the theatres and
at the corners Of the business streets.
and although the city police and the
detectives at once hurried upand tore down
the nanilcstoes, they nevertheless an
peared anew, as though conjured forth
from the wall by cnchantmerl. Pass.
ers by stopped to read the bills,
and in this one night the police arrested w.
wards Of one hundred and fifty persons.
Among AL those taken The police failed to
find in 4 single case rs much as Il scrap Of
paper which appeared 10 have anything 10
do with the proclamation. The mysterious
bill-sticker, on the other band, went on with
his work indefatiSably, and the police could
not succeed in discovering him. The alarm
ut last became so great that two companies,
marched out and were posted at the en-.
frances to a number Of houses and in the
street. When the guard had its attention
called to the right bills were posted UP on
the left, and after th:y had been torn down
on the left, then on the right again
appeared the manifestoes OF The men
Of the revolution. Since the attempt
on the life OF the Gar troops have been held
in readiness day and night. In every reci-
mcnt two companies in marching orders,
equipped with ball cartridges and ali acccS
series requisite for active operations, are
kept constantly under arms. Batteries stand
ready horscd and mounted in the barrack-
yards, squadron Of cavalry stands in con-
slant readiness TO mount, ard day aid
night divisions OF CossackS patrol the
streets. On the 10th 4 peasant was ar
rested, in whose pockets were found
dispositions for revolutionary troops.
According to this document active opc-
rati0nS were TO commence on the night
between the 10th and 18th. instantly the
Government made the most extensive pre-
parations for defence. The Grand Duke
Nicholas took up his quarters, with his en-
tire staff, in the Offices OF the general
staff, opposite the Winter Palace. In
the Riding School Of the guards the regi-
ment OF UussarS of the guards were quar-
tered, while the barracks OF the Pavlotf and
Prcobauicnk>k regiments were cramned
full Of troops, and the whole artillery OF
the guards received orders to hold Itself in
readiness for immediate action. The troops
continued several days and nights in the
places assigned them, but the revolution
did not break. Probably the whole story
OF an intended outbreak was an Intentional
justification"
Imperial Movements.
BERLIN, May 1.-Empcror william will
return to this city on the Sth instant. The
grand military review has been postponed
TO the 2Sh instant. The Gar OF Russia
will come here to attend the Emperor's
golden wedding, direct from Layidia 10y
way OF Warsaw. He will return to St. Pc
tersburg on the 18th Of June. He will pass
the summer at Pelershon, the Imperial resi-
dence, and return to Layidia in autumn.
Another isitatIon at szcgctiin.
PEsTH, May IA violent hurricane at
Szcgcdin yesterday destroyed the works
prepared for restoring the railway and fill
ing the breaches in the dams. The bargeS
filled with building mater ial and earth were
mostly sunk. The storm caused extensive
fresh breaches in the railway embankment,
and The laborers are in great danger.
The Great Fire at Orenburg, Ru- sin.
ORESBURG, May 1.-The great fire in this
city is attributed 70 carelessncss. Nine
hundred and folty-nine dwellings were
burned, together with Que mosque, four
mills, 292 shops, several tar, coal, and fire.
wood stores, timber markets and other pub
lie buildings.
Opening of tho Berlin Industrial Ex-
R,sI
BERLIN, May 1.-The Industrial Exhlbi.
ton was formally opened here in the pres
ence of the ministers and other distin-
guished pefsonages, together with the prin-
cipal municipal authorities aud i large num-
Der OF the leading inhabitants.
Movement OF the CHILEAN Fleet.
LONDON, May IA telegram to LIoyds
states that the Gillian fleet has retired from
the Peruvian coast TO protect Valparaiso
and other ChiIian ports now threatened by
the Peruvian feet.
The Peruvian Nation Called to Arms.
LONDON, May IA 1eleSraphic dispatch
from Valparaiso ria Lisbon announces that
the Peruvian Government has called the Ia
ton to arms.
West Indies.
HAVANA, May 1.-Well-informed NOR
chants still estimate The sugar crop at Co.,
600 tons, notwithstanding the recent con-
flagrution in the cane-teldS.
In the elections on the Island OF Porto
Rico the majority OF the deputies elected 10
the Cor,es were Liberal Conservatives.
Grant in China.
Hone KONG, MAY 1.-General Grant las