The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-23
Russian Alarm.

London, April pa dispatch from st.
Petersburg to the Times says: "St. Peters
burg is now invested by chain of Cossaok
patrols, with posts of guard officers and
police on all the high roads. There is no
means Of ingress or egress of nihilist
conspirators or pesceabe citizens. Ifspecisl
passports for this purpose are to be issued.
such an alleviating measure will follow later
@of secondary importance. AT present, or,
any rate, this morning, the various
entrances 10 the city were thronged
by troops of travellers or public
carriers of all kinds to whom re.
turn to the capital was positively forbidden.
The inconvenience to many townsmen, whose
business constantly calls them outside St.
Petersburg, can easily be imagined. The
Cossacks are instructed to send rybody
trying TO enter the town TO the superior Off
GERS stationed on tho highways, and here
the very strictest investigation is TO be made.
This is the first regulation established by
Tho newly-eected council Of twenty, five
members, all of whom have been presented
Today to his majesty the emperor. Not
outstanding the novelty, the suddenness, and
me faults and irregularities of the election
and on these points the various newspaper
editors have received hundreds Of written
Complaints--a very respectable choice
was somehow made. At least, judging
BY the many known names which & IRE on
The list Of the twenty f~N hua,iy vo,ed by
lhe Two hundred and elsIty.' ght deputies
there is not much 10 dAd fault with.
among others are tho venerable General
irepoil, formerly governor of st Peters
0u.g; Count Bobrin:ky, marshal Of nobility;
Voonel Frederieks, colonel of horse guards ;
NJ Lsmansly, governor Of the state bank,
and many others of good standing and To-
col reputation. The elected council met to-
Gay and appointed a sub .commi,te for elsb-
Grating the second measure of severity and
supervision, which is that all arrivals a. the
various railway termini shall be subjected
M'ough police agents and drosbky drivers,to
Spceflain system Of espionage and detection.
aVery traveller, on arriving at railway
@ion, will first have 10 give all particulars
y himself, and will then be furnished with
ue number of droshky II he wishes TO be
SSilven to his destination. Supposing him 10
nave taken droshky, the driver will have to
ee that his fare goes 10 tho place which
aegave 10 tho police officer as his destination
u 'he town, and II ho should 60 to any
v'aer the driver must Immediately inform
@epoce, who will then relieve the droshky.
man OF bis task. This is followed by q third
measure, which, however, the council al
present refused 10 sanction. This Ia that
Ss'.an members of tho body should take !,
" ufns 10 watch the streets through which
,s W. emperor may pass, thus incurring grave
s,usponsibility should anything untoward oc-
W.. WI What other steps Of this kind are to be
saca nobody knows, though everybody
,,ss's mat they will be extremely embarrass'
so The population at largo and Of it'll,
,'.Mais against nihilist plots. II woult
suo'tuo TO say. therefore, that tho meas
s. w. already referred to are unanimously
'pproved Of In 81. Petersburg.