The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-21
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Icy Empire Warmed Up by
the RevoIutiOnists.
The Prominent Cities Of Russia Do
CIared to bs Under Martial Law.
An Empire Turned Into an Aslatic
s.a DespOtlsm.
England Thinks She is On the Verge
Of a Great lJphsayal.
RussIA.

SERIOUS TROUBLES,
ST.. PErERsBuRs, April 10. ~The ukas
ordering the appointment OF Governor
General for six'of the most populous dis
triCts, with perfectly despotic bowers, be
gins by stating that recent events hav,
shown there exists In Russia a band q
criminals, who, though not numerous. ar
very determined, and ain TO undermining
the State. After referring to recent mur
derous attacks upon higher officials, ant
the attempted assassination Of the En-
peror, the ukase continues: These crime
have made necessary the proyisiUna
adoption Of exceptional measures to per
init OF exemplary punishment Of guilt,
persons, and provide Government official,
with necessary powers for maintaining
order" The ukase proceeds To announce
the provisional appointment OF Governor
General OF st. Petersburg, Charkof and
Odessa, invested with extended and extra
ordinary powers. Similar powers I are con, n
terred upon the Governors General oi
Moscow, Kietf and Warsaw. The civil ad.
ninistration In the mentioned districts /.
placed under control Of Governors Gen.
eral In the same manner as they are sub.
ordinate to the @ mllander.in.C .Chiefof the
army In time Of war in districts where
martial.law has been proclaimed. The
control Of fall educational establishments a
vested In the Governors General, who are
also empowered TO send before military
tribunals all civilians in the districts over
which they preside. The Governors Gen.
eral are further authorized to summarily
remove from their Respective districts ali
persons whose continued residence may
be considered dangerous; to order the ar.
rest OF any person whatsoever on their
own Judgment aud Responsibility; to sup.
press temporarily or permanently any
newspapers or periodicals should they az.
pear to follow subvesive tendencies, and
generally TO adopt such measures as thew
may consider necessary for the preserya.
ton of the public peace.
LONDON, April l0.-Adyices from St
Petersburg aud Moscow during the past
twenty-four hours have been Of q most
alarming nature. The authorities OF these
cities have imposed an additionally severe
censorship upon the telegraph, But thew
permitted a number Of dispatches describ.
ing the situation to pass and several others
have been received in cipher. It is not at
all exaggerating the situstion to say that
the repressive measures proposed BY the
Government in consequence OF the at.
tempt on the life Of the tzar are being met
in anticipation by most violent resistance
and selt-assertion on the part ofthe peo.
pie. A state OF civil war may almost be
said to exist throughout the entire En-.
pire. The outbreak At RostofF is only one
Of similar revolts that have secured with.
in a short time. Rostof Is town OF
about six thousand inhabitants, and a
very ancient town being mentioned in
history nearly one thousand years ago. A
great tair is held there every year, which
Is attended by forty.Gve or fifty thousand
persons. The town is situated on Lake
Nevo, and has cathedral several con.
vents and a seminary, The outbreak was
caused by an attempt on the part OF the
police to arrest certain students who were
suspected OF having some knowledge Of
the recent affair at st. Petersburg. The
whole populace arose in resistance, and a
desperate atfray followed, in which two
policemen were killed and many persons
wounded. Finally a squadron Of Cossacks
arrived, and succeeded. at the cost n M
llttle bloodshed, in dispensing the people.
Iaking all the news together, there is rea.
son 10 fear that Russia is on the brink of
q revolution. 57
LONDON, Aprill9.-The Pail Mail Ga.ette
commenting ON the internal affairs Of Rus.
sia, and the provisions Contained In
ukase says: Six military officials are 10
have the privilege OF impriSoning for an
Indefinite time all Suspicious persons
transporting to Siberia without trial, as
many as they choose and Of executing In
with the sentence passed those
they may happen to regard as guilty. Nor
are these powers confined TO political criEr.
Inals, regular procedure appears to have
been altogether Suspended. Ordinary
Offenders not even suspected OF plotting
against the State are 70 be made
subject to the martial law. Moreover the
lkase Is retrospective. The Governors
General are expressly empow wel ed totry NE
prisoners arrested 6eiore the issue OF tLs
decree, y provision designed apparently TO
authorize the holding q y sort Of bloody
assize on prisoners, variOusly estimated al
between 5000 and 10000, who have been
recently Imprisoned in the mutiuouG dls.
tricts. Unless the Car aud his ministers
are guilty OF the most sweeping aud reck.
they cannot believe themselves
goniTOnted with small but de, erlnined
band Of evil doers, nor even witha larue
aud determined band OF evil dOers, II
their account OF the euemies oi the State
were in anY degree like the truth, this
suspension Of law by the 0utthroat agents
Of u lawlcss terruriSm would be simply in.
famous. VI course their account OF the
matter IL not true one. The nleasu ros
they have resolved on make us aware AZ
what in their view really IL the eEemv
they have 10 combat They sub;ec. \ Vrss.
part o! tne SopntFy 10 dragoonaie, which at
the sAlae time threatens the rest. They are
convinced that revolutionary dangers cor.
front them over the whole area of their
intended operations, The tremendous
agencies OF suppression, already in their
hands, have long since been known 10
have talled, and to have become In per.
sons ot large numbers OF police, them.
selves agent or well.wishers, oi terror.
lzed on-loOkers OF revolution. Nothing Ia
left for the Russian Government but a "a. q.
sort to the methods OF Asiatit des.
potisln It they are to face reyoiu.
ton and trample it down. And that
they know this, .one secs when we Look
to that te ible order under which the
jails are TO be visited by the Emperor
own military terrorists aud thousards ~
people, swept into them by n9nlo Stricken
officials, doom 70 9s dealt with olfhand
ls not less than the wickedness Of the s ss'
sassins who have SO thoroughly terrorize'l
the imperial family and their oflicerS '
Il this ukase is carried out we shall saa n
! political Or Quasi.aSsassin on on one Sac
answered BY o political ASSASSINATION on
the Others Tor one such crime on one aide
and q Hundred on the other and these ss lasi
inflicted on'men and women, innocent .Ioi ~
the ottense whatever. 'Itistruly an awfSi
state ot things, nor Is II possible 70 ioresee
Thssths end may be. S'SS wv
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