Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-13
MADAME ADAM,
The French Reviewer and Friend OF the
Pan.Slayists, Argues that German
Influence in the Affairs
or Europe is Moral Leprosy, and that
German Pauperism, Like the Mi
crobes, Ruin all They Tot eh.


! Paris Letter to the New York Tribune.
Nine Adam, who has spent great part
| of the winter az St. Petersburg and associated
| with the foremost personages there, and more
! especially with those leading the Pan-Slavic
| party, Is accused by the German embassy
| here Of having received a heavy subvention
| from General Ignaiieff. In return for the
money, it il alleged by agents of Princes
| Bismarck and Hohenlohe that the talented
editress has placed her review at the disposal
| OF the Russian government. The allegation
may or may not be malicious falsehocd
| circulated to discredit Nine. Adam. This
! lady il impressioDsble and capable of warm
| enthusiasm, although an excellent woman of
] business, aud gifted with an eye which
rapidly sees where the main chance lies. Il
| is possible that when she was receiving the
mos. II STEERING attentions from Skobelef,
| IZnatief, Nine. Novikof' and other Pan
| Sisvists in ST.. Petersburg, and being abused
| and "cut into" By the Month German Gaztt'e,
| that her present lively and indeed intemper-
ale advocacy OF Pan-S!avism was antlcl-
| pated at Berlin and means taken to neutral
| ize it. Ii Nine. Adam is no longer a politi-
cal power of the first magnitude, she is still
influential because an agreeable and clever
woman. She not only strongly supports
Skobeleff and his clients lin whose tate her
compatriots do not take the slightest inter-
5stJ, tut is aimUst hostile to Austria. This
is 4 novel feature of her controversy. She
was on terms of the most cordial footing
with Audrassy and Heymerle when they
were prime ministers, and has been the inti-
mate friend Of Count Won Bust ever since
he came to represent the Emperor Franz
JOSEF here. In the course of the winter
Mime. Adam showed her
PRo-AUsTRIAN sYMPATHIEs
by getting up two fetsS 10 behalf of the families
OF those who perished at the Ring Thester
at Vienna. At another jete, having the same
charitable object, which was given at the
Austrian embassy, the place of honor was
reserved for Nine. Adam. She sat, in her
character of Lady Bountiful," on a line
with Queen Isabella. Counts Kalnocky and
Won Beust had agreed that size was to be
sent the much coveted insignia of the Noble
Ladies' Order of Marie ] herese-which, by
the by, che has not yet received. The public
was not therefore prepared 10 see her attack
ing violently the policy of Austria in Dal-
malta. "The Austrians," she says in COM
miserstipg tone, "shou'd be careful what
they do. Ii Prince NIkita and Prince Milan
are still able to hold in their subjects, they
will not long be able to do so. The least
provocation in the present state OF Europe
might be attended with the gravest results.
Cunt kslnocky, who has been obliged to
indorse the plumbers OF Haymerle, his prede-
cessor, should not slight the warnings sent
him from. f,4nt 81 4=. Aurtria wilt nud Mon
tcnegro hard nut to crack.
THE NoNTENEGRINs
know how to defend their liberties No
foreigner has ever been able to implant him
self among their hills; not even the Turks,
under the valiant Solomon. have been equal
to the feat. On road Of two miles, from
Nickisch to Spudz, they lost 5000 men,
Austria Is sending 10000 against the Dalma-
tian Sisvs, who are prepared to receive
them" Hatred OF Germany Nine. Adam
elevates to the dignity of religious creed.
At the Elysian ball last night her attack
upon the Germans and Prince Bismarck was
a topic OF conversation in the diplomatic
sa on. Prince Hohenlohs, who is usually re-
served, said that it might be accounted for
by feminine Plqae Nine. Adam went to
ST. Petersburg expecting to be welcomed by
The car and czarina. Nine. Novikoff
had gone there before her to emooth away
obstacles, in which she was zealously aided
by the Countess Beauharnais wife of the
duke of Leucbtenberg, who is a first cousin |
OF Alexander III. In consequence Of an |
article in the semi oficial North German |
Gdzete,
NINE. ADAM
had not an opportunity to pay her court TO |
the czarina, TO whom she was not SO much as |
presented. She was greatly irritated at the |
disappointment, and exhaled her anger in |
In Reeue NoureNs, in which she gives as |
authentic the report in Ii France of General |
Skobeleff's speech to the Servian students |
This report the philo-Slav general twice dis
avowed to the correspondent of the Daily |
News. On the occasion of his last disavowal |
he expressed anger and disgust at the reck- |
less mendscity of French journalism. The |
importance of state affair has been attached |
to her article at Berlin, where, it is taken |
for granted, she ia the mouthpiece of Igna-
tieff apd the other leading. Slavophiis. The
i L..
Is not only the enemy OF Russia and France,
but OF Austria, whom she is launching into |
the path of destruction, and of the minor
States Of Europe. At the EIysee last night
she argued that German influence s a moral
leprosy, and that German pauperism is
like those microbes that bring ruin TO the
finest organism. Their paupers on high fill
the thrones and courts of the world, ana their
paupers below do not leave a crust OF bread
Tor the struggling middliug classes in Eng
land or. in Russia. The courts of Russia and
England were peopled with German; and it
was owing to the fact of having a German
mother that French prince-le Comte d'Eu
obtained the hand of theyprince i'm peria1
OF Brazil. This is, for Nine. Adams Russian
friends, dangerous talk 10 indulge in.
THE GAR Is VERY JEALOUS OF GENERAL
sKoBELEFF,
and would be glad OF an opportunity to
''shelve" him. When he was in Paris the
hero of Plevna was much concerned to fird
that his imperial master had acce pied the
which Bismarck put upon his
speech to the Servian students. The car
chose to think that in attacking the German
eprosy-to use Nine. Adams words-he
attacked the reieDing family, which is Hol-
and not Romanoff, as vulgarly
Alexander's conclu sion is far
etched, and caused mental anguish to the he
-oic general, who blindly venerates czarism.
This veneration for Alexander, in a man OF
MS lofty intellect, can only be explained by
educational prejudice and a atropg heredi-
AIRY bent. Skobeleff's grandfather was a
nan of obscure origin, and no doubt
-eg arded Nicholas, in whose reign he was
advanced from the ranks to the grade OF
general, as the visible incarnation of divine
,ower in Holy Russia. |. is not unlikely
hat Bismarck will show himself an instru-
nent of fate in preparing the way for the
United States of Europe. He il fast under
mining the Czar in Russia and the kaiser ,
n Austria, and without intending it, is
endsring not only practicable but obligatory /
federation oil Slav States south Of the
danube. Some of None. Adams charges :
gainst him stand upon a solid basis of !
at. 1t is quite true that
GERMAN AGENTS IN RUSSIA 5
1ment revolutionary passions and excite c
terror. The cars position is '
ne OF Inc greatest danger anu Ollucuity. II T
e does not satisfy the phIlo Slavs, he and
ia dynasty will be crushed. II he puts d
imself at the head of a crusade, he will .
1me out of il Inundated and with dislo-
ated nation. \ Russian who belongs to the .
Durt circle and hiss come on a secret-service h
lission to the west, tells me that Alexander +,
III Is GtrH with fear and perplexity. He ;,
completely stulti6ed and knows not what :;
do. The cars hand is no longer visible a
the administration nor his person in i
le public places. II it were not for the 4
,lace which he finds in music he would be =
fit subject for mad-doctor. There is more Il
ian streak of hereditary insanity in his =
lmily. His great-grandfsther, the Emperor q
aul was a raging lunatic. Peter ii was A
4 idiot. Specialists who keep private asy- q
inns for the insane, and who make nervous W
seases their chief study, might refute the =,
legation that Alexander's mental balsnce =
shaken by dwelling upon mis- probity and q,
1od intentions. It is now favorite theory .,
mad-do that hereditary insanity and :,
oliquity go hand in hand. great histori- -
Il example may be cited against this view -
more honest or well-intentioned man han