New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-21
European, Lett en-.
Irregular Correspondence

Irregular Correspondence
st. Petersburg, Russia, Dec. Path, 70.
The recent attack upon the Gar
has brought the Russian police sys.
tenn once more to the front. In the
virtue of tact, the real Russian de.
tective can teach a lesson to his con-
f,eres of London or Paris. He is not
permitted to indulge in intoxicants,
nor is he, as a rule, a married man.
He appears in all places where his
credentials as a gentleman or his
curiosity in rougher circles permit
or induce him to enter, though the
latter has never yet reached that
dignity or degradation. But he is
always salaried man. AS a rule,
however, he is real Russian, of
liberal lingual education and good
personal presence, more or less cos
mopolitan. He reports to one au-
thority only, and yet that authority
has a shadow" to this detective,
who reports him, on the principal of
setting thief to catch thief. Few
of us have a very clear idea of the
personal or the modus of the Russian
detective system. To the present
Imperial Chancellor, more than to
any one else, is Russia indebted for a
complete chain of detectives, as well
as Gordon of diplomatists. He has
initiated and perfected these two
systems so thorough ly that there is
not capital of Europe without one
Of these "lookers. on" In Vienna
they assume various shapes, male
and female and enter into the walks
Of high and low life, as circumstan-
ces may demand. In London there
is large corporals guard of these
detectives, and frequently they ex-
change notes at Scotland Yard,
where, as rule, they are officially
introduced. The Russian detective
is not necessarily Sclav--he may
be Partisan or even a Coc-
kney.
After the recent attempt upon the
life of the Gear, and on the very day
Of his return to his capital, the Re.
volutionary Committee issued the
following most violent proclamation,
which was distributed day after day,
and IN which they avow that the
late diabolical attempt was made by
their order. The following is an ex-
tract:
''On the 10Th of this month,
on the Moscow and Kursk Rail-
way, 10y order of the executive
Committee, an attempt was made eli
the life of Alexander II by means of
an explosion. The attempt failed.
We do not find it convenient to pub.
lish at the present time the reason
of the failure. We are convinced
that our agent and our party will not
be dishea1 tened at the failure Of the
attempt, but will gain from it new
experience, lesson of precaution,
and at the same time fresh conscious.
ness of their own power and of the
possibility of successful issue. Adj
dressing ourselves to all honest Rus
sian citizens who value liberty, to
whom the national will and the ma
tional interests are sacred, we once
again point to Alexander II as the
personifcation of despicable
depotism, of all that is cowardly and
sanguinary. The reign of Alexan.
der II, from beginning to end, is a
lie, in which the famous emanci pa
ton of the serfs ends with Makeotf' $
circular. From the commencement
to the end it has been dev oted to the
consolidation of the classes hostile
to the people, and the destruction OF
everything by which the people lived
and wished to live. Alexander II.
is the usurper or the nations right,
the main pillar Of reaction, the chief
author of the judicial assass'nations.
Fourteen executions weigh on his
conscience. Hundreds Of sufferers
cry for vengeance. He deserves tc
die for all the blood he has split, for
all the suffering he has inAicted.''
It is now stated that in orde tc
prevent the Gar from becoming the
victim of another incident similar
to the Moscow attempt, three more
trains LETT Moscow for St. Peters
burg, almost simultaneously will
the one in which His Majesty trav
elled. On the way the Emperor re
peatedly changed his carriage.