The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-09

in which new returns were ordered.
II was suppressed afteI his death. To
the Princess the Emperor said: 81
have just signed a certain paper,
which ! hope will make q good i'm
preston and demonstrate to Russia
that / grant everything that is pos.
sible." Then. crossing himself, he
continued: Tomorrow the papers
will publish the document. / have
already given orders to that effect"
The nature OF the reforms contem.
plated is not mentioned by the Prin.
cess, and will, perhaps, never be
known.
THE FATAL RIDE.
As the Emperor took bis leave the
Princess besought him not to Cross
the Nevsky Prospect, but to drive
along the Catharine canal. Intent
only upon the security of her hus-
uand, she counseled him to take the
very road on which the assassins were
awaiting their victim. Herein, per-
haps, is to be found reason for the
vehemence with which she accuses
the suite OF the Emperor of negli-
eence and derelic,iOn CT duty. In
her remarks there is great deal
that is true. Il would have been the
RIOS; Dstursl thing after the ex-
p.osion Of the first bomb to clea- the
street and close it, and 10 gather the
entire escort around the Emperor.
Captain Koch, who was responsible
for the personal safety OF the Gar
held RysakoW instead OF farming him
over to the soldiers aud seeing for
himself that no suepicious-looking
character fingered in the neighbor-
hood. With a little circumspection
The Princess Gays Koch could not
have failed to notice the man who,
t. leaning against the railing of the
canal, awaited with defiant look the
approaching Gar. Colonel Dwor-
schitzki had busted himself around
the broken sleigh instead of keeping
back the crowd. though the Cossack
who drove the Emperor's sleigh drew
his attention to the.necessity of doing
so, We are not able to decide
whether these accusations are we'll
founded or not; one thing certainly
seems incredible, that no one thought
of bandsging the torn limbs of the
Emperor when struck by the second
bomb. The Princess seems to be
justified 10 saying that Il common
soldier, wounded on the battlefield,
never received less care than did the
Gar of Russia.
AT THE CARS DEATHBED.
The Princess describes in detail the
scenes around the deathbed, and the
funeral ceremonies, taking care at
the same time to point out that the
imperial family and the entire no.
bility never failed to express for her
the greatest sympathy for her sfflic-
ton. After she Cars death there
&ss found in his last will and tesla.
ment B. sealed letter addressed to bis
wife,. OF the contents the Princess
only says that he thanked her for the
Happiness be had enjoyed at her side,
adding: Know that above / shall
not cease TO love you as l loved you
here on earth" She mentions also
that he frequently said to her: my
crown weighs heavily upon me, bat
you help me bear it," The Princess
cannot be said 70 have Jared very
veil in the will of the Emperor. Ha
left her only 5000. 600 roubIes. This
will be considered very little, espe-
ciaIly as We are told that Alexander
II. saved during bis reign the enorm-
Gus sum of Sc 900, 900 roubles. In.
deed, better business than that OF
Emperor of all the Russias cannot
we'll be imagined. Only, the trade
is little dangerous. His sou and
successor has presented to the Prin-
cess the small marble palace, until
then the property of the Grand Duke
Constantine, and has given her q
yearly pension of 100000 roubles.
THE AMBITION OF ALEXANDER.
"Alexander's policy" the Priv
cess centuries to say, "was not
prompted by love of conquest, but
it was his desire to give back to Rus
ala before bis death its early posses
sions in their integrity, and secure to
it at the came time predominating
place in the Eurcpesn concert as q
power of the first rank" This is
indeed, valuable statement, which
puts in Its true light the Cars much
tslked-of love for peace. 10 the
light OF this statement one easily un-
derstands the declaration OF war in
1877. It is true that the Princess re-
| pestedly quotes letters from the seat
Of war, in which the Gar expressed
bis longing for speedy peace. Thus
be writes shortly before the outbreak
OF hostilities: Nobody knows what
passes within me ct the prospect OF a
war which | wished so much to
avoid" And after some hsavy en-
counters, DE says: My heart bleeds
at the losses which my troops have
sustained; it costs me an effort to
keep bacK my tears" But the Gar
seems altogether unable to under.
stand that peace would be secured
through him alone. When. on
March q, 1877, the dispatch was re-
ceived from Count 3ohuwalow. an
| nauncin0 that the Porte. sunoovted