New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-02
A STORY or RUSSIAN DISCIPLINE.
IrO1 lie Fi10rO.


One need not he surprised AT anything that hap
pens in Russia. The other evening while smoking
"a cigar with one OF my old friends, who mas seen,
read, and ira 'eiled great deal. was told OF an
incident that occurred some forty years ago AT
NOygOrOd, quite as sinister as that which recently
occurred at Smargon.
The colonel of a certain Russian regiment Zero
ciously tyTannical and lmay say mercless toward
his soldiers, the habit of treating this human
flock like PACK of brutes. lie disciplined with
the knOut sentencing men TO whlpplngs Tor having
one button lnsuifc,ently polished whipping non
commissioned officer for one stain on his CLOAK;
striking veterans vi BUrOdlno IN the lace LOT sa
uting 100 slowly sending poor wretches 10 siberia
for giving too free answer. In short during the
lapse of wears this colonel had made himself so
detested by his that he reaped frightiul ven
geance from seeds of hatred he had sown. -
One morning during parade he suddenly saw file
of from the regiment company OF soldiers bearing
instead OF muskets, those long rods which cut
deeply into the flesh at every blow.
Nevertheless, he had given no orders! There was
no soldier to chaStlSe.
Who is that for 7" he demanded.
A grenadier advanced from the ranks, and replied
with terrible Goodness:
The entire regiment, on-commssioned officers
and soldiers, in the plot. The whole
regiment was present at tine terrible spec
tacle The colonel was sulLed his uniform torn OIL,
he was tied down in wherlbafrOw and wheeled up
and down before the ranks of the grenadiers armed
with rods. all of whom struck and lnsulted nm.
The officers who attempted to aid their coroner
we're Immediately seized and bayOnets pointed at
their throats Some we've taken away; Others gar
roted Only one soldier attempted 10 take part
with them. Then sergeant, still pallld HON NE
effects of his last whipping with The knOut put MS
nusket to the soldiers temI lie ana Die" MS DIaihS
out 49,.
And all the regiment saw its colonel pass under
the rods. III
The colonel was lung into II. all bleeding together
with the officers who had ODeyed him. Ana when
the furnace was we'll fed the soldiers heated 1t
slowly. slowly-until at last that hIdeous. heavy
and re voting smell of burning flesh arose III Inc ar
which the savages OF the Russian frontier lhia'ed
some DAYS ago at IA Jewish cemetery at Sinargon
An imperial courier bore to the Gar the news oi
the mutIny. Nicholas listened. became Whlte, Dut
said nothing EXCEPT 10 order lOur oal'eIles vi
artillery to NovgOrOd. Ten days alter Wlte-
haired and gray-mOustacbed major general accom-
PANIED by "A single aide-de-camp, knocked at me
door of the barracks which t1e soldiers hau never
left since the murder of their chiefs.
The general gazed coldly upon those pale men
all neatly and fautlessly uniformed, Who gave MN
the military salute. -,
Not one Teproach-nOt one useless "oId' He ohlS
said 10 them . A., ...;,,,
will assemble III undfess UNIFORM ana without arms
at the Tartar camp, upon the Little square. Ofuer
OF the Car. - , a.,
narrow souare ali in ranks without arms. III their
long gray coats sergcants nj their usual pos =,
aI Ihc nous soldiers there i'll lines regular
a. If adjusted to "A string, wlth double line Ol
lance bearing COssacks before ana DehInd. inen
ali at once from every far spire all the great pens
began to toll The sCossack hoselnen Withdrew.
Only the unarmed nlanIry remained upon Tue
sanare, with folded arms waiting. linen theI9
came long low roll of drums, ana with IL from All
tine avenues leading into the square came VOleys vi
grape like Iron-haIl. -, ,,.
,f the cannon IN that city, otherwise silent ~ a
cemetery when men, women anu chiuIch'
kneelings before their holy images, were pray
ing for the soldiers they were shoOtlng uo"h III
the square. And during an interval III the can
nonade a HYMN rolled up from the square; Ior the
sodieIs were dying with the prayers OF their cnld-
hnod mon their lips. The cannon numbered Tor
hours Then all was silent. Powder ana IRON
rested awhile. The cannoneers entered the square
and recoiled at the sight OF those ranks OF men
Ynown down like wheat. From under the dead they
nnlled out few still breathing victims, able to live
" hat shall be done with them, General-shall
we mt them in the o ,ptal Z
-" Pint them under the knout"