Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-09
TO THE CAUCASUS.
NINE. Tchebrikova Exiled for
Writing a Letter to the Gar.
The Latter's Rage and Dlsmay
Over the Uprislngs.

ienoe, and There is Hut Little Personal
Sympathy for Him-A Colossal Crisis
Slowly Maturing In Russia-RefOrms In
the German Army.
LONDON, April 9.--Madame Tchebri-
kova, who was reported to have been
exiled for her letter to the czar, is now
at Penza, in Caucasus, under a strong
police watch. She was conveyed thither
hurriedly in a carriage without win
dows. No halt was made except in the
open air. Her food was abominable.
She was constantly guarded by
gendarmes and'not allowed to speak to
any one,
A correspondent has the following to
say about the situation in Russia:
All sorts of rumors are circulating in
st. Petersburg as to trial of Nihilists
said to be proceeding somewhere in that
city-no one caIA find out where-and
also about disturbances in various parts
of the empire. There seems to be no
doubt that in the government of Riazan
the infuriated peasants rose in a body
and beat nearly to death the tyrannical
young district governor whom the car
had sent down to rule the place. Sinis-
ter importance attaches to this news, be-
cause it is the first time in Russian his
tory that rural political riot has oc-
cured.
Heretofore the strength of the auto
cracy has been in the fact that the
country people were stolidly loyal. 1t
can easily be seen that the tidings now
of rustic revolt created deep excite
ment. The czar himself is nearly fit to
die, what with his state of rage, terror
and genuine dismay at the Titanic mud
die he has got things into His illness
is ascribed, publicly, to a recurrence of
the grip, from which he suffer ed good
deal during the winter, but there are a
great number of reports furtively spread
about his having been poisoned, and
others profess to know that his nerves
and mental balance have completely
collapsed under the strain.
He did not this year go to Gatschlna
for Easter, with his family. and this
departure from his invarlable rule at
tracts great attention. OF course it is
taken to mean that he did not dare to
leave Winter Palace, and this in itself
is enough to fill the public mind with
the terror of new and desperate out
break of murderous attempts by the
Nihilists. This time, however, there is
very little personal sympathy with the
czar. He has had nine years of trial
now and it is impossible to name sim
gle particular in which Russia is not
worse off than when he began. People
have grown tired of saying in eXtenua-
ton that after all he is a personally de-
voted and well-iptentioned man. an eX-
cellent husband and sincere patriot.
These things are all very well, but
they do not alter the fact that his gov
ernment is the meanest, stupidest and
worst that Russia has known in this
century, and that wherever he has per-
sonally interfered the effect has been to
increase and intensity its evil character.
In TRUTH he is a thick-headed, obstinate,
unintelligent fanatic, without ability or
tact enough to manage carpenters
shop. Things have been 80 wantonly
and persistently mismanaged every
where that society is falling to pieces
about his ears. lie knows no way of
meeting the universal convulsion save
by the knout, the gallows, torture and
by exile.
The worse the situation grows the
more crudely and unwisely does he use
his weapons of repression. But they no
longer repress. The tide of irritation
and dislike is rising higher daily all
all about him. BY comparison with
him people look back upon his father rs
an ideal liberal ruler, and they began
with so much significance to call him IA
martyr to political liberty that his son
l., III 10 ,,rAhih,t ,,a,,n1 10
monstrations in honor of his emancipa-
ton of the serfs.
All efforts to bring Russia back into
the barbaric despotism of Nicholas have
ignominiously failed, and at last the
czar is face to face with an openly hos
tile nation. What remains of his career
may be full of strange surprises. He
may turn in despair to the dreadful de-
vice of great European war. More
likely he will carry on his single handed
fight with revolution doggedly to the
end, and be overwhelmed by it, so to
speak, with his boots on; but it is clear
that the contest is too uneven to last
much longer.
All Europe is watching to see his
assassination or his fight lost mean
while in a maze of wonder and appre-
hension as to what will follow. Only
events of the first magnitude will now
divert attention away from the colosssl
crisis maturing in Russia, and just now
there are no signs of these events.
The Grand Duke Michael Michaelo-
witch, second son of the Grand Duke
Michael, and aid-de-camp of the czar,
has been ordered to the Caucasus for
three years. This is due to the opposi-
ton of the car to the projected mar
riage between his cousin and daughter
of Count Ignatieff.
sportsmen Reproached by Stanley.
LONDON, April "a dispatch to The
Times from Alexandria says: Stanley
reproaches the British East Africa com