The Worthington advance., 1882-02-23
RUSSIAN ALARM,
st. Petersburg Dispatch to tho L..-.<Ioo

st. Petersburg Dispatch to tho LS-sIou
Times.
st. Petersburg is now invested by chair
of Cossack patrols, with posts of guard
officers and police on the hign roads.
There is no means of ingress or egress for
nihilist consplrators or peaceablc citizens.
II special passports for this purpose are 70
be issued. such an alleviating measure Will
follow later as Of secondary importance.
At present, or 1T :ny rate, this morning. the
entrances to the city were thronged with
troops OF travellers or public carriers Of all
kinds to whom return to the capital was
positively forbidden. The Inconvenience
to many townsmen, whose business con-
stantly calls them outside St. Petersburg,
can easily be imagined. The Cossacks nre
instructed to send everybody trying to en-
ter the town to superior officers st:itionea
on the highways, and here the very strict
est investigation is to be made. This is
the first regulation established by the newly
elected council Of twenty-five members, all
Of whom have been presented o-day to his
majesty the emperor. Notwithstanding the
novelty, the suddeness, and the faults and
irregularities of the election-and on these
points the various newspaper editors have
received hundreds Of written complaints
q very respectable choice vas somehow
made. At least, Judging from the many
known names which figure on the list
of the twenty-five finally voted by
the two hundred and eighty eight deputies,
there is not much to find fault with. Among
others there are the venerable Gen. Trepoff,
formerly governor of st. Petersburg; Count
Bobrinsky, marshal Of nobility; Col. Fred
ericks, colonel Of horse guards; NJ. La
mansly, governor Of the state bank, and
many others of good standing and local
reputation. The elected counsel met to-
day and appointed sub committee for
elaborating the second Measure Of severity
anl supervision, which is that all arrivals
Mt tho various railway teimini shall be sub
jected, through police agents and droshky
drivers, toa certain system Of espionage
aud detection. Every traveller, ON arriving
at railway station, will first have to give
all particulars of himself. and will then be
furnished with the number Of q droshky if
he wishes to be driven to his destination.
Surprising him to have taken a droshky, the
driver will have to see that his fare goes to
the place which he gave to the police officer
as his destination in the town, and if he
should 80 to any other the driver must i'm
mediately inform the police, Who will then
relieve the droshky man of his task. This
is followed by third measure, which, how
ever, the council at present refused to
sanction. This is that certain members Of
the body should take it in turns to watch
the streets through which the emperor may
pass, thus mourning grave responsibility
should anything untoward occur. What
other steps of this kind are to be taken no.
body knows, though everybody fears that
they will be extremely embarrassing to the
population at large and of little real avail
against nihilist plots. 1t would DO untrue
to say, therefore, that the measures already
referred to are unanimously approved OF in
st. Petersburg