Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-29


became ne sfsse aud Decnisr r.:ision.
| Uctier ;hs M5sgoi c,lqisss r,ti It's
! lsFscsice ana r;iaai bec.ms Tsry N l II coz.
truptcd
| 10 1856 tn, Patriarch Neon attempted
10 restore tns 3, zi3t.ns i,taggy snd COZ
Tecs lie oooks. great schiam occurred.
| UaGer Peter the Great the "old faith
ssciariss" we're csst cut as heretics
They have rfnsi2ed legally so ever since,
/ though MT always Treated with sn equsi
eegree OF hsrshuess. This Is the f.ith
| aud practice OF the vaet msjorify OF the
artisans and merchants Cf Russia, Of
bodies OF Coasacks, snd Il Is extensively
adhered 10 among the peesanie, although
the orthodox secular or white clergy are
neerset-to them. All bodies OF The peo-
ole hate and fear the "oiscb" or mon
astic clsrgy. who monopolizs all the
DO wer, "a ;ss and wealth Of the Russian
chusca, winch, 10, indeed, very We sithy.
The old ihitn sscssries are divided into
niersrchicsl or priest having and the
prisstless bodies. Tee center OF power Of
both divisions Is MOSCOW, w1ile the
head prizes, or patriarch OF tbs hiersrchi-
col or priest -havIng crieT Is net In Rus
sla 81 81, but in the Austrian BuSoyins,
sS tie goat monastery Ct By lccriutz.
Bukovlra is tbs .xIeTs northeast pro-
y!sce CT deEsrtnaut If Austria Hungary.
IL Is In the valley 81 the Pruth, ana runs
cOtermiro usly with Russian Bsssarsbia.
TIE monastery LaneG is ss isrge With Its
buildings Ss smzN city, and contains
several Thousand monks .s its inhabitants.
For number 81 years from 1910 to 1864,
II WAS the siMoat unknown center Of great
movements sGd intrlgues that seriously
shresrened the Cz.f's power. After the
Po ish revolution CT 1881, the leaders ex-
ilsd il Paris and London had their stten.
lien drawn hy Gall ci.n c mpatiiots to
TIE Russian monk OF toe BlsovIAa In
the course CT si vsrsl yeats Pole named
FrEykovtki, Who entered the services OF
Turkey IS soldier, rominaily termed
Mussulmsr, aud became Gnowr as Sadik
Pashs: carried on 6 loug AID never known
(till alter his dsatt nspirscy agslnsS
Ru ssis, drawing II tee SuSovias mopks
to q considerable extent, II obi CT was
20 induce the leaders there to &C
capt MS selection Of patriarch, 1ho
should secretly exercise authority in Rus
81. ever bis fellow secretaries ind b. &C.
kuowledged as having cpl cop2l power.
Through suca en- agent he sought to SOW
dis seneioas and disloyslir, and to s cer-
tain exten! ne succeeded. To the Co.'S
sacks Ct the Don TIE Old idea OF their
military democracy Vas revived. AS the
seat CO powtr wss outside Russia, this
programme Was carried en- till at last old
PriLcs Metternicb, st the solicitation Of
the Russian government, put an end to
il, placed the patriarch in honorable ex-
lie aad shnt up the monastery Of By
clec-iniz. After while was reopened.
Ia the early eix.ies the Russian revolus
tIcnsry leader, Alexander HsIvep, tried
TO DO rs Tzsykovski hsd done ia part.
He tailed. But the Buk1vin; monks only
concentrated iheif power Ga sacer otsl
interests, aud n dcing SO Fave consoli--
dated is. In the past twenty years they
have been ve-y silent exterioriy. But
they still claim the episcopal control
over Russian an C1ss,cs, ana have had
large ipfaeDce also in tns Austrian and
Turkish empires. Tee PAa-Siavonisp
propagsndists have 81 various times
assumed ta os sole TO ass this singular
body but this is considered doubtful, So
OF late years the persecution sgsirst the
sec'aJiss, SQ,0CO,000 gtrong, has been
resumed In Russia i German writer
esys OF them ard their presence in
Austria:
"a religious community, more numer-
ous then the who.e population Of many
of ;he states Of Europe; holoi ing views
which are ruggeoiy, lf-ecercil shly OPP
posed to modern circumstances, Russian
as well as non Russian, fIom wnicn every
cultivated man IS, as O. matter of course,
excluded, ssd which is led and ruled over
in the most unlimited manner by secret
superiors, WAC pass for harmless mer.
chants snd artisans; which extends IT.
rSmifca:ions from thu Mediterranean t..
the Black Sea, aud from the deserts OF
Siberia to the streets OF Constsntinople
and which Is scarcely yet known by name
A more dangerous c0mbustiole materis.
than such s1 association can scarcely be
pointed out in any other European
state"
Russian sdvices per frontier post de-
clare that the BuKovins monks, as well IS
their home sdherents, are exceedingly dis
contented with the present order of Things
In "Hoiy Rlssia," and that revolution
sTy movement from be!ow-:lat Is, of
those described by De Ecksrdt - has
not been deemed unlikely or Improbable;
indeed, as enc this. int Nlnilists are ready
to take advantage Of.
All these things poi0i 20 wsr on the
part OF the Gar. Ii viii be singular Ii
monsstic Communities should take 30
leading psrt in it "a Is possible.