The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-24
Foreign
Oai,e.

A political revolution could scarcely have
found adherents among the innumerable SER
wants so closely and additionally attached by
all their most vital interests to tho imperial
court, A palace revolution, planned by
some ambitious member of the imperial
family, has ut all times found, and
may still nowadays find, tools enough among
the court camarih willing to lend q hand to
u bloody deed with the prospect Of future re-
ward. Whatever the ultimate solution of
this problem may be, it is certain that the
event which has cast st. Petersburg, Russia
indeed, the whole of Europe-into a stu
por of wonder and dismay, shall remain UNI
parslleled in the history Of the struggles OF
the nations against the despotism of their
yovereigns.
THE ERA OF Discomfort
The Vienna correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says: Trustworthy accounts re-
ceiyed here within the last few days repre-
sent the interior condition of Russia as be-
coming daily more critical. One Of them
says that the return of the Empress to vt.
Petersburg, in spite of her precarious condi-
ton of health, was caused by the anxiety
she experienced as regards the position of the
| imperial family. The feature upon which
particular stress is laid, is the disaffec-
ton of certain number of superior
officers, some of them in high com.
mand. Those who failed TO obtain promo
ton and honors after the late war have, with
few exceptions, espoused the revolutionary
cause, and General Todleben's admonition to
the Odessa garrison some months ago does
not seem to have proved an effective barrier
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or men. The Russian army cannot be kept
inactive for any length of time with impuni-
ty. Nothing can be more dull and unenter-
tanning than the existence of Russian officers
at home outside st. Petersburg, Moscow and
o fow of the large towns. There is no scope
for intellectual culture or rational social re-
creation, and the only resources that are left
are gambling and politics. The former is
necessarily limited to the means of such as
indulge in it, and when once they are ex-
hausted nothing remains but politics. That
is comparatively an unexplored field for
the officers in the Cars service,
and the chiefs of the revolutinary movement
both in and out of Russia have for some
time past concentrated their efforts on
making it attractive. have seen specimens
Of Nihilist literature especially destined for
military consumption in which it is explained
that the revolution counts upon the oo-opera-
ton of the army, and that those officers who
throw in their lot with the people may rely
upon the peoples gratitude. Fame,
fortune and honors are in store for them, and
no matter what their rank may be, no matter
how obscure their origin, the reward is GER
tain. 1t is impossible to say how such sedi-
tious prose as this finds its way to the remote
parts of the Russian Empire, but there can
be no doubt that it does. Nor, in presence
of the accounts that have been received here,
is it possible to deny that it has had . deep
and widspreading influence upon. a large
number of those into whose hands 1t has fall
len."
AN EXCITING THREAT.
A st. Petersburg dispatch to the daily
Telegraph says General Gourko, Governor
General of 81. Petersburg; General Decor
teln, Chief of the Imperial Police, and
General Zouraf, Project Of Police of St.
Petersburg, have received notice from the
Nihilst command Informing them that they
need not trouble themselves TO make arrange
ments for an illumination on the occasion OF
the Cznr's anniversary, as the reyolutionists
are preparing for such an illumination as has
not Deen seen slnce Nero ourhcu homo'
WHO COMMITTED THE CRIME
St. Petersburg, Feb. 23.--An official mes
senper announces that the inquiry into the
Winter palace explosion has had the result
of rendering il TO some extent certain that
the crime was committed by a person who
passed as a workman, and that there is rea-
son to suspect there is a connection be-
tween this person and some individuals who
were arrested previous to the explosion.
THE GAR WANTS STATE OF SIEGE.
Berlin, Feb. ga dispatch says the Car
wishes that a state Of siege be proclaimed all
over Russia.
D1PTHERIA IN RUSSIA.
Vienna, Feb. 23.-The new Free Press
says diptheria is raging in Central Russia.