The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-03-17
PARIS LErrE8.
(From our regular oorresponient.)
PARIS, Mar. 8, 1880

| Ahle, VI 6E. Jt IOOV.
A few days ago the Russian Em
bassy informed the prefect Of police
that the man who had attempted to
wreck the Czsr's train st Moscow
was staying in Paris. This man
whose name is Hsrtmsun, was indsed
living at hotel in the Rue de Seine,
aud, IS ever since his flight from
Russia, be had kept up constant COM
munication with his friends in that
country, the Muscovite police had lit-
tie difficulty in tracing him to bis
quarters.
NJ. Andrieux, unwilling to seem to
hesitate in the fulfllment of the re-
quest of the Russian Embssssdor,
Immediately directed that Hartmann
should be arrested, and his orders
were carried out last Monday after
noon in the Champs Elysees, as the
fellow was walking about with four
Of his friends. They ali offered des-
perate resistance blows were freely
exchanged. but finally the Nihilist
was captured, and in the confusion
that followed his allies effected their
escape.
The man, FIRST of all, said that his
name was NJ yer, q ID that he was q
Prussian, then that he was Swiss,
but there does not seem to De the
slightest d Jubt as to his idsatity. II
is be, who, with bis mistress, rented
and occupied the house where the
electric apparatus was found that
communicated by means uf wire
with the explosive material that
wrecked the train which, by siogu
lar accident, preceded instead of fol-
lowing that of the Gear.
Without attaching undue import
ance to the arrest made in Paris on
the very eve of the crime ct the Win
ter Palace in St Petersburg, it is, to
say the least, singular that some pre-
paratory inkling of the conspiracy
seems to have reached this place
Within the past two or three weeks
it has been said by men who are not
in the habit of speaking lightly that
before the fetes Of March the Enpe-
ror would either have given consIi-
tuition or would have been assassins
ted. We then heard that no meas
ures of clemency would mark the
anniversary, and this announcement
was quickly followed by the news of
the deliberate atterpt on the Imperi.
al family.
We now hear nothing but rumors
of the probable abdicstion of the
Gar. Ii ia assured that the En-
press cannot live long, and that when
she dies the Gear will take the oppor.
tuoity of resigoing, on the plea that
be must give way to his private grief.
| am bound to say that all the best
informed Russians scout these ideas
a. absurd. A Russian official said to
me last night:
why, the Emperor would not sb
dicate even in his tomb"
If it is 80 difficult to believe 10 the
possibility of the Emperor's sbdica-
ton, it is still less easy to have faith
10 the efficacy of q constitution in q
country like Russia, where there il
no middle class and where the ma
cbinery Of representation is wanting.
The actual agents Of the recent crimes
are, for the most part, educated men,
while it is manifest that 10 the official
c'asses is found great discomfort.
A keen observer, who was in the
Italian campaign in 1853, and who
then noticed that while the higher
and educated ranks looked on the
French as lioerstors, the common
people scarcely concealed their sym.
patby for the Austrian oppressurs,
remarked to me lsst night that q like
phenomenon was to be observed 10
Russia at the present moment.
1t now seems clear that 9 former
attempt to mine the Winter Palace
vas discovered early in this month
1t st Petersburg, but the police kept
their Information secret, for fear OF
disturbing the Emperor. Observing
hat General Todleben declared that
, little more dynamite would have
destroyed the Winter Palace, / may
mention an observation made by
French military friend last night
lie Inferred that no engineer officer
could have been concerned in the af.
lair, for be would have better dispos.
ed his combustible material. Hsd
The quantity employed been other
wise used, the whole palace must
have fallen to the ground.
IL is needless to explain the plan
which my French friend would, uu-
Ter analogous circumstances, have
adopted. C A. s. !