The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-03

ST Petersburg, November 1.-ThOUgn
today passed 10 comparative quie- in
St. Petersburg and Moscow, flood Of
dispatches from all parts Of the empire
report disorders in many cities with
a heavy total Of dead and wounded.
The people, while celebrating their
new freedom, were in many instances
set upon by CosSacks and police, while
sometimes the spirit of mob violence
broke forth and the lower elements
of the population gave themselves up
TO piilage and destruction.
The most serious disorders appar-
entity occurred az Odessa, where nun
dreds Of persons are reported to have
been killed or wounded, and where the
rio:ing is momcntarily expected to
flare olt, into a repetition of the
slaughter of last July, and at kase-
wan, where a three days reign Of ter
ror was ended only by the retirement
of all Cossacks 10 their barracks.
A deplorable feature of the ncWs
from the interior is that anti-Jewish
uprisings have occurred in many places
populdce vented it's hatred of the Jews
by sacking their stores and clubbing
the members of the race, in some cases
resOrtin2 to the torch.
The attacks on the crowds are 1e-
ported to be in most cases the work
of Cossacks who many times were ap-
parently let loose upon the people
without direction or authority.
Doff in accordance with his announce
ment Of last night prevented resump-
ton OF revolutionary demonstrations
by having the crowds dispersed wren
ever and wherever they gathered. Bal
zan Place and the Nevsky prospect
were several times cleared by the Cos
sacks and police, and the crowds were
driven from the vicinity of the univer-
sitv with whips and the flats Of sabrcs.
General Trepoff was aided by the
weather. which was cold and rainy,
and which kept many persons off the
streets.
Count Whites task in securing fair
trial for the new experiments IN con-
stitutionalism is a most difficult one.
He is disappointed at not securing the
support of the liberals on whose CO.
operation he counted. Many OF these
are holding aloof and seem rathe" to
enjoy the predicament in which the
new permier finds himself.
Meanwhile the socialists and revo,
lutionists who believe they have the
government starnpeded are bending
every effort to keep the movement go
ing. and to precipitate catastrophe,
from which they hope a soclallstlc le-
public will emerge. This is con-
summation as little to be desired by the
majority of liberals, especially the
zemstvofsts, as by the government IL
self, and therein lies the chlef nope
that the force gathering under the BAN
ner Of Count Witte is sutlcleutly
strong to make head against the reVo-
luton movement and the spirit OF uE-
rest throughout the country.
Count Witte is doing his utmost TO
meet the chief objections against the
new regime. In addition to the prom
ised amnesty for political prisoners
liberty of the press, has been granted
Count Witte offering to the deputa-
tions of editors which called on him
to demand the abolition of the censor
ship regulation, the amusing explana'
ton that in the hurry of writing me
manifesto the words liberty or the
press" were inadvertently omitted
and that the omission had not been
noticed until the complaint was mace.