The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-02
TIE RUSSIAN sITUATlON.
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N, Y, Times
A few trustworthy statistics would be o.
the greatest assistance in coming to any
conclusion as to the condition and pros
poets Of Russia just now, Anything really
Trustworthy Is in the nature OF the case
Impossible, for the Russian census Is very
faulty, and the rebellious classes are most
ly members OF secret society. Last year
however, there we're printed in the cores
pondPnCs OF London newspaper some
figures which are the best AttainRble, even
though they leave much 10 be desired
There are, then, or we're, in Russia about
|, 200, 900 noblemen and civil and military
officers, about 5000 900 soldiers, 600,'
600 merchants, 6.OO0, 900 artisans, 50,000,'
600 peasants and laborers, and 600,'
900 eCclesiastiCs. This includes in each
class women and children, and does moi
include %, 900, 900 Asiatic subjects OF Rus
sia, OF theee there could read and write
al The first class, 10000 Of the mer'
chants, (haIi the males, 800, 900 eCClesias'
iemaIes,) 100000 artisans, (One.third OF
the males, total, about $500 600 literates.
The only persons set down as interested
in politics were about 900, 900 OF the first
class, and a miscellaneous class consisting
OF about 100000 merchants, artisans, &c.
ClesiastiCs, and students, or about l 400, 900
politicians" 80 10 speak, In O nation Of
over S5,0O0000. Russia may be the worse
off for 30 email q proportion Of persona
interested In public affairs, but some other
countries are troubled In equal degree
with too many. Some two.thirds Of
these 100000 were thought 10 be NAL.
contents. That Is TO say, ACC 900 persons,
aided by the passive obedience Of So 000,.
900 mutes, ruled, against their wills, some
9S3 900 Of their equals, That Is to say,
the a0aolutistic rulers oil Russia are In o
small minority, not only compared to the
ruled, but In comparison TO their Corulers,
who object to tyranny over themselves,
although they are quite willing 10 join in
tyranny over others. From another
source 1t Ia learned that Of the Nihilists 26
per cent are gentlemen, 10 per cent are
sons Of priests, Is per cent are peasants,
(inCluding those OF the nobility whose
NihilistiC principles led them to enroll
themselves as peasants,) per cent are
shopkeepsrs, 8 per cent are merchants, 7
per cent are Jews, and only per cent are
soldiers, leaving % per cent unRC'
counted for. While on the subject
Of RatAtittIcs 1t may not be In
apt to notice some strange Condolences In
the time OF the assassination Of Alexander
II. He did, indeed, outlive The 90 years
which were once allotted TO the RomAnols,
a. the years OF st. Peter were to the Popes,
as the extreme OF their Expectation OF
life," to an insurance phrase. But his
death amply met the proverbial prophecy.
EVIL awaits the Gar OF % years" So II
was with Ivan, and Peter, and Alexander
l., and Nicholas; and now Alexander II.
loees bis vile In bis twenty fifth year,
and ia himself killed In his tWenty.sixth
year. Alexander Ill, 1t is safe to say,
will cease to be Gear In anything but name
in less than half that time, or else he will
cease to live. Revolutions seldom move
back, and the Rpsslan,- especially, Is not
one OF that kind.