Year: 1878

Sail ON YosteTday's OunRrder-


What Is Thought Of the Affair aC


Washington.


The New York World of the
2Sth ult. says:


The Princess Souvaroff, accom-
panied by her nephew, Count Kol-
owvrat, and Mile Anna Michelini,
her travelling companion, sailed on
the Scythia, of the Cunard line,
yesterday morning. According to
a reporter, the princess "is utterly
crushed" by the blackmailing affair
in which her name has been
dragged and the painful publicity
that has been given to it, and IS
leaving the country solely on this
account. Her nephew, the count,
however, denies that her departure
has been hastened by the scandal,
unpleasant as it has been for them.
eve are not" he said to Graphic
reporter, just before leaving the
Windsor Hotel yesterday, "going
away from America on account Of
that scurrilous article published in
one Of your city newspapers,
although it in a remote way has
occasloned MS much modification.
The princess and our party had in
fact contemplated a trip South for
the benefit of her health, which
has been very bad, but all this
had to be revoked, as she but
recently received intelligence from
St Petersburg announcing the
illness of her father, who is
ninety-three years of age" The
count further said that they
should go by the way of Paris,
and hoped to be in st. Petersburg
within twenty days. GAS for my
SELF" he added, 81 will return to
this country after an absence of two
months, for l assure you that after
what has happened l could expect
to have but little pleasure in a
country where the private character
of people is held in such small eS-
teen by your newspapers. | am
satisfied that if there had been any
scandal attached to an American
lady the newspapers would rot have
dared to publish her name as they
have done in this instance. 1t is
an outrage, and would not have
been perpetrated in any other coun-
try. ! went TO the managing editor
of the offending paper last evening,
and, although he treated me courte-
ously, he declined to reveal the
identity of the person who wrote
the article, and, as l see by o.day's
paper, he did not publish the letter
reIuting the base columny. ! am
confident that this vile person will
yet be found, and in that event you
may rest assured that he will not
be suffered to 90 unpunished. From
all the circumstances connected
with the disgraceful affair I'm led
to believe that the matter emanated
from the pen Of an attache of GER
tain foreign newspaper published
in this city. Twenty-Five dollars
was a paltry sum for any man to
sell himself for. Inasmuch as his
blackmailing letter passed through
the postoffice, it now of necessity
becomes a government case, and
measures will be instituted that
will in all probability lead to yoar
government officials interesting
themselves SO far as to SECURE the
arrest of the offending party"


The search for an. Pierre de
Mokiski," the signer of the black
mailing letter, has been intrusted
to Detective Thompson, of the
Central Office, who will continue it
until instructions arrive from st.
Petersburg.


A great deal of sympathy has
been shown for the princess at the
hotel at which she has been stop.
ping and by the acquaintances she
has made since her arrival in New
York While breakfasting early
yesterday morning, prior to her de-
pArtnre for the Cunard wharf, many
cards were left for the titled lady,
but owing to her indisposition she
was able to see only q iow of those
who called. Among the ladies who
were accorded the privilege of a