The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-03-13

lErom Regular Corespondcnt.l
PARIS, FRANCE, Feb. 80, 1880

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| the Rue de Seine, and, as ever since hi
flight from Russia, he had keptup con
slant communication with his friend
in that country, the Muscovite polio
had little difficulty in tracing hin
Ito his quarters. nj, ABdrieux, unwill
ing to secmto hesitate in the fultilmen
of the request of tlse Russian Enbas
sador, Immediately directed that Hart
imam should be arrested, and lis ORDER
were carried ont last Monday afternoo,
in the Champs Elysees, as the fellow
was walking about with four of hi.
friends. They all offereda desperate
resistance, blows were freely exchanged
but finally the Nihilist was captured
and IN the confusion that followed hi
allies effected their escape. The mar
first of all said that his name was May.
er, and that he WAS lPrnssian, then
that he was Swiss, but there does NOT
seem to be the slightest doubt as to his
identity. 1T is he who, with his mis-
5tress, rented and occupied the house
where the electric apparatus was found
that communicated by means Of wire
with the explosive material that wreck
ed the train which, by singular acct
dent, preceded instead of following
that of the Car.
Without attaching undue Importance
to the arrest made in Paris onlthe very
eve of the crime atthe Winter Palace
in st. Petersburg, tits, to saythelle least,
singular that some preparatory mixing
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 Jstcs of March
the Emperor would either have given a
constitution OF would have been assas-
sinated. We then heard that no meas
iures of clemcncy would mark the ami
vcrsary, and this announcement was
quickly followed by the news of the
deliberate attempt on the Imperial
family. We now hear nothing but
rnmors of the probable abdication of
the Gar. 1t is assumed that the En-
press cannot live long, and TINT when
she dies the Gar viii take the oppor-
tunity of resigning, on the plea thathe
must give way to his private grief II
am bound to say that all the best in
formed Russians scout these ideas as
absurd. A Russian official said to me
last night, "Why, the Emperor Would
not abdicate even in his tomb" Ifit
is so difficult TO believe in the posi-
bility of the Emperor's abdicatioh, it
is still less easy to have faithin the eff
cacy Of constitutional a Countrywide
Russia, where there is no middle class,
and where the machinery Of represent
ation is wanting. The actual agents
of the recent crimes are, for the most
part, educated men, while il is manifest
that in the official classes is fonnd the
greatest discomfort. A keen observer,
who was in the Italian campaign in
1889, and who then noticed that while
the higher and educated ranks looked (
onithe French as liberators, the com.
mon people scarcely concealed their
sympathy for the Austrian oppressors,
remarked to me last night that a like
phenomenon was TO be observed in
Russia at the present moment. Itnow
seems clear that Il former attempt to
nine the Winter Palace was discovered I
,arly in thismonth at st. Petersburg,
,nt the police kept their informationI
secret, forfear Of disturbing the En-
oeror. Observing that General Todlc- i
zen declared that little more dynam- Il
te wonld have destroyed the Winter
Palace, 4 may mention an observation /.
na'!c by 4 French military friend last h
hight. lleinferred that no engineer Off (
.ef could have been concerned inthc af- 1,
air, for he swould have better disposed ID
lis combdstible material. Had tl,cIft
eD,ployedf been otherwise used, II
he whole Palace must have fallen to 4
he ground. IItis needless to explain b
leplan, wl.ichmy iFrenchfriend would, 4
nder analogous circumstances, hayett
dopted h
"A STARTLlNGs0 Characterization publ H
cations have appeared il different Ii
arts, particularly insthe London pa II
ers, setting forth q proposed plan Of h
oodingth Desert Of Sahara, thereby, Ii
laiing 1t an ocean or inland sea. byIt