| Show A pluis FiVEN eess cens JOINS THE oneida on the morning of the ath of july last the tho circles of the highest aristocracy of st petersburg were thrown into the greatest excitement by the rumor that the president of the metropolitan police had ordered a lady belonging to the ancient russian nobility and noted not only for her extraordinary beauty but also for or her eminent talents as a lyric and dramatic poet to leave russia without delay and that the emperor alexander the second had ordered her estates to be confiscated upon inquiry the report proved to be well grounded the object of these vigorous measures on the part of the russian government it was found was none other than the princess alexan drewa nee koff at 11 on the preceding night n g lit two agents of the police of st petersburg P eters burg had demanded admittance to the splendid palace of the princess on then the ewski prospect dupon an ent tnt entering erIng the hallway hailway had ordered the affrighted servants to tell their mistress that she must rise from her bed and drive with them immediately to the central police office vainly did the princess after she bad been awakened and dressed herself inquire of the two police agents about the causes that had led to this exic emic extraordinary proceeding they refused to give h her any batis gatis satisfaction faction and took her in a carriage to the central police office and conducted her to the private room of count tolstoy the president of police the latter exhibited to the princess a lithographed lithographer litho graphed letter and asked her if she had written it the lady looked at it and then clenching her lips replied in the affirmative the president took a paper from the table and briefly informed her that she was forever exiled from the empire that her estates had been confiscated and that she would be at once transported to the german frontier the princess turned tamed very pale but regained her self possession in a minute or two she said sald inasmuch as I 1 was going to leave of my own accord st petersburg and russia forever and seek a home in the new now world you might have saved yourself the trouble of this insidious and cow eow ardly measure As a matter of course nothing remains for me but to obey allow me only to return to my palace and to take with me what I 1 have need of for my long journey late laate in the afternoon of the following day the princess accompanied compa nied by a female de chambre and a russian detective arrived at the railroad station of on the frontier of prussia the detective detects ive lve p politely 0 took leave of her there and she continued her journey to berlin upon reaching that city new troubles were in store for that unfortunate princess A superior police officer approached pro ached her as soon as the train thundered N into the depot of the northeastern railway and informed her that he had orders not to allow her to stop in berlin but that he would accompany her to hamburg or bre bremen men as she might prefer and not leave her until she embarked on board of a vessel for the united states vainly did sho she remonstrate and seeing that the officer was inexorable she finally said that she would go with hini hinl to bremen on the evening of the next day they reached that city and alighted at the hotel du nord where their arrival excited no little surprise now what was at the bottom of all these mysterious and rigorous proceedings on the part of the russian and garman german authorities toward the young and charming princess was this his beautiful woman whose Jun onlan form whose dreamy almond shaped eyes whose transparent complexion regular features and small hands and feet made her one of the fairest creatures on earth a dan erous arous political conspirator not at all 50 he had simply become a convert to the doctrines of free love and after studying the subject for a long time and reading the books and pamphlets that have appeared in regard to the so called oneida community in the united states she had opened a correspondence with the president of that community and his arguments had made so powerful an impression upon her mind that she resolved to join that community and bid forevermore farewell to her native country she had done still rill more having been for four years at the imperial female seminary at moscow she had made the acquaintance of at least or young ladies belonging to the first families of russia hussla to these friends of hers she addressed a secret litho graphed circular in which she had at length explained the motives and causes that had induced her to embrace the faith falth of the oneida onelda community and she had earnestly urged them to join her and painting to them the joys and bles bies blessings s of the life lire that awaited her in the united gilted states in the brightest colors she bhe had urged them to imitate her example and she even offered to send them money for the purpose of fleeing from russia to the united states for the abovementioned above mentioned purpose A st petersburg correspondent of the baltic gazette gazelle to whom we are indebted for the foregoing particulars says in regard to this J letter of t the he princess it is a truly atrocious production it says that the laws of ma matrimony are execrable ec Ce rable rabie and gives extracts from a revolting circular purporting to have been issued by ono one noyes who calls himself president of the oneida community in the state of new now york united states of america some of these circulars fell into the hands of the russian police they were submitted to the emperor alexander the second who ordered the arrest and expulsion of the princess troupes ch chaneff che ehe neni nenn on the ground of the following ukase issued by the czar alexander the second in the year 1822 the imperial government has tho the right to perpetually exile from all the dussias persons who try to subvert the fundamental laws of society the decree of expulsion involves the confiscation of the estates of the expelled person imperial clemency alone can revoke such a decree the princess casborn in 1838 and is now in her thirty fourth year although she looks much younger she was a daughter of general strat who was mortally wounded at the battle of inkermann already at an early age she displayed extraordinary talents and in accordance with the usages of the russian aristocracy she was most carefully educated during the four years which she passed at the tho imperial female seminary of moscow she became proficient in several foreign languages and at the age of twenty she published a volume of poetry which was favorably received by the critics and the public generally this success induced her to write whites a few novels which met with the same reception in 1861 she married the young prince inthe in the presence of nearly all the members of the imperial court the wedding ceremonies being performed at st isaacs cathedral in st petersburg the next two years a she e passe passed w with th her husband us an in paris aris where here her beauty and accomplishments pl ishmen ments were generally admired and where she wrote for the gymnast theater a short play which was greatly applauded plau ded unfortunately the prince troupes chene chaneff ch eneff fIr was an inveterate gambler and having one night lost nearly all his fortune at the carole imperial where ho he played baccarat at very high stakes he committed suicide at an early hour on the following morning in a thicket of the bois de boulogne the untimely end of her husband filled the young countess who had been devotedly attached to him with the most profound melancholy and ever since she was noted for her eccentric freaks she returned to russia russin and burled buried herself for several years in her small chateau on the shores of lake onega admitting ettin few or no visitors her relatives tried ta to prevail on her to return to st petersburg hoping that the gay jile jide of the russian capital would divert her troubled mind she steadfastly turned a deaf ear to their citations solicitations soli until she was visited one day at her lonesome retreat by home the celebrated spirit calist what occurred between her and home never became accurately known suffice it to say that she went back with him to st petersburg where she henceforth led a gay life strangely contrasting with the lonely years she had passed on lake onega |
