The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-19

all very i'll Some have died others have received the
seeds of consumption. Their parents relatives and
friends forbidden to communicate with them.
secret cells OF the PeterPaul fortress is hundred
times worse than those who are suffering in the
Manege Hail. II is said that by virtue OF the recent
ukase the students will be tried and sentenced by
martial law for their resistance to the authorities.
Even this is possible in Russia.
MUzZLED EDITORS
On the day after this dreadful butchery all the
editors and managers Of newspapers and magazines
were invited" to the Third Section Palace, where
they received special order neither to mention nor
to speak word about the troubles with the students
This order has been strictly executed. Not word
has been said by press. Even the students petit
ton to the Czarevitch has not been mentioned. The
authorities of the Medico Surgical College assembled
in council within the walls of the college, discuss
and protest against the violence of Zoorov with his
Cossacks and gendarmes, but the Third Section
ordered them to be silent and dispense But ali the
measures of the Third Section to conceal the truth
and deceive the public were powcrless to eface these
terrible misdeeds. because they were done in plain
day and were witnessed by many hundreds. The
Cossacks and gendarmes moreover insolenty boosted
OF their exploits when drinking In inns and saloons
spread throughout st. Petersburg. The most I'M
favorable public opinion was created on account of
General Zoorovs bntchery The most timid citizens
even became indignant and excited In order to calm
the public mind the government used its ordinary
intentional violation of the truth"
GOVERNMENT FALsEHooD AND DECEIT
ON the re-. day following in December the official
brief official communication. There not wcrd
in this OF the concerning the petition
to the Czarevtch. the promises of Zoorov, &C. This
report only stated as folows:-
Yesterday the Students to the number Of 300 crowded
s BY yssy s to s on 5s Of
but they roughly aud in unciv answered
half fn
OF to The s
persons were arrested for disorderly condue, The
the Of ss n
bosdan1ysky 1.-TWO hired iarso Who by order of
most careful examination they failed dad my Of
a sy only Learned do , am o run
egsone the knee aud the other the coils.
DOES THE EMPEROR KNOW THE TRUTH?
This is the entire official communication to the pub
lie concerning the most outrageous and dreadful
butchery ever perpetrated ON unfortunate young
full truth about the numerous misdeeds of the ex-
ecutors of his orders. We believe also that he does
circumstances we have described. He can only know
what is told him by the Third Section and his cour-
tiers: Remember, we have no representatives.
sible persons: All our authorities act in
the name of His Imperial Majesty and
de and de ure the Autocrat and Emperor of
the Great, Small and White Russias King of Poland
Grand Duke Of Finland, &C.. &c. This is the Cars
official title He is the actual head OF the Grnco-
Russian Church. He unites in his person alone the
sole legislative. executive and judicial powers He.
and he alone, is responsible for all laws enacted for
by his officers. Yes only he the Autocrat and En-
peror is responsible for all the branches and OF
the government. There is nothing but silence in
Russia There are thirtyone per cent lliterate peo
pie and they reduced to the position of donos-
tic animals. living they do in the most profound
ignorance in the utmost poverty and starvation.
There more than million soldiers and the
whole Empire is in a perpetual state of siege.
PICTURE REvERsRD.
There are large number Of splendid palaces with
magnificent gardens. for the imperial family and the
Emperor's numerous mistresees There are the
hOu andr fbarho if,11
for the enjoyment of the imperial family. There is
State treasury which yields yearly 100000
penses In addition to this there His Majesty's
private silver and gold mines in Siberia, and there
are many so-ealled imperial domains and peasantry
yearly about thirty millions of roubes His Majesty.
moreover. has the autocratic and beautiful right to
spend the public money as he pleases, without ac.
count or responsibility and as much as the Shah Of
Persia and the Sultan Of Turkey do and
always have done And His I'M
tender heart are fully occupied in contrivances for
the best way Of relieving the woes grefs sufferings
and mseries OF the subjects of another Imperial
Majesty, his brother er-oco the Sultan Of all Tur-
key, and what kind of constitution is the most de-
His Majesty is very busy with Count shoovalov 1.-THE
great Russian spy, as he is called by the Engish) in
lence of proud England. the only rival of the Rus
sian government Asia II is obvious that these and
other like political problems very difficult and
exhaust all the intellectual FACULTIES of His Majesty
in resolving them. Being exhausted by such labors
he naturally needs rest and His Majestys wife being
old lady he passes the hours his leisure in the
company Of young and beautiful women.
These chosen for the purpose by
the Minister of the Imperial Court. Count
Adlerberg, among the women of socalled high lite.
Russia to be sure. ought only to enjoy herself look
ing on at the pleasures of her great autocrat and
master with her beautiful daughters. This for the
reason that after while Russia receives the real
fruits OF His Majestys pastmes first in the shape OF
beautiful children. and then i'll due time these chill
dren become, as is usually the case, the most i'm
portant public officers AZ ministers, ambassadors.
governors generals courtiers, and chiefly the most
active members of the Third Section Certainly this
is all right but such order OF things has fully
changed the place and balance of the autocratic
power. Dealing with Turkey Afghanistan and hand
some women, His Majesty has no time at all TO pay
any attention to the affairs OF mis- Empire and of
his subjects. He has. therefore, de facto. given up
all fs autocratic irresponsible powers to the Third
Section
NOBLE WORK OF THE THIRD SECTION.
The Third Section tan asscmblage of men like Count
Shoovalov Zoorov, Trepov, Mesenzow, &c.-the
toi fo fully underst ,nds its position. 1t
very we'll appreciates the value of Irresponsible,
tocratic power. 1t has undertaken and enforced
series of splendid measures for the welfare the
whole Empire and glory or their sovereign master
Among these measures the most prominent arc--
1. TO silence all honest and patriotic men by i'm
prisonments and transportation into Siberia without
legal trial. 'administiatvely ~ it is termed. and
represent them as the most dangerous enemies of
the Carbon.
2. To chain the press and all printing so tightly
by the censors as to make it quite deaf. mute
and disfigured''
3. To increase the force of gendarmerie and police
by adding To them COssackS and soldiers; giving
them power to enter any private, suspected house,
to search they please, and thus to maintain per-
petual state OF siege in the whole country.
4. To increase the taxation of manual labor and
property of our already exhausted peasantry and
laboring people
5. 10 take the public bullion from the Treasury
and to spend 1t in autocratc manner-that Is, as
much as they please without account response
bility.
g. To keep the Emperor always in ignorance of the
true state of things in his enormous Empire, by mis-
representing to him the true causes of perpetual
troubles among the students and peasantry. and
misleading him so As to force him to enact the most
absurd disastrous and painful laws and measures to
the country.
BY these and other similar measures the Third Sec
ton has made the white terror in Russia which is
much more dreadful than any red one.
We do not know how long such state of things
will continue, but feel acutely that dreadful
crisis of the absolute and irresponsible power and
too barbarous despotism is approaching. Then
hope to have. instead o. Carbon, the freedom which
We have long deserved by sufcrings.
THE PARENTS OF THE UNFORTUNATE STU
DENTS, RESIDENTS OF ST. PETERSBURG.