THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2415, 31 December 1881, Page 3

THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

(" San Frano'soo Chroniole.") A few Russian Jews; the advance guard of a mighty host that have been driven from the Czar's domain, arrived at Ohioago on October 19th. They are, or were, well-to-do tradespeople. One of them stated that, at Kieff, tbe rabble surrounded and broke into the house of Solomon Drolozky, a wealthy distiller. The latter asked the orowd if it was money they desired. They answered, " No" ; but shortly afterwards asked how much money he bad. He handed tbe leader 4000 roubles (about 2200 dollars) in paper money, whereupon they tore it into pieces and scattered it to the winds. A piano was broken into pieces. The mob then invaded the Jews' warehouse, and threw sugar, liquors, and machinery of the establishments into the river. All houses in the Jewish settlement were wrecked, and furniture and beds broken into fragments and the ruins set on fire. M. Drolozky was worth 8,000,000 or 9,000,000 roubles, and from a millionaire beoame a pauper almost in a night. The houses of about 2000 Jewish families were burned or torn down. These outrages were committed while the corps of the Russian army was stationed at Kieff. The troops were not called upon to stop the rioters, and tbe Governor of Kieff only interposed at the last moment, to say, "There, boys; that's enough," but the command was not given till after several of the Jewish women had been outraged. The soenes at Kieff hardly furnish a parallel to what was done at other points. At Peryasloff, nine miles from Kieff, a city of 14000 inhabitants, of whom about 4000 were Jews, not a house was left standing that had been inhabited by a Jew, and the entire Israelitish population was compelled to leave. At this place the Cossacks attempted to help the Jews, but were driven off by the Russian peasantry, who were armed with eoythes, pruning hooks, &c. At Simla similar outrages occurred. At Sitomer everything belonging to the Jews was destroyed, the synagogue was burned down, and tbe Pentateuoh was burned in the publio square. These scenes were repeated in Northern as well as Southern Russia, and m the remotest borders of Poland. Crops were burned, stores and dwellings set on fire, and people driven into the streets, and out of the cities and towns, homeless, stripped of their earthly possessions, and terror-stricken. Attacks were made upon the entire people, and hundreds of thousands were compelled to flee for their lives. Tbe outbreak fell upon them with all the more force and effeot because by the laws of Russia they were prohibited from carrying arms, and they were thus powerless against their oppressors. Tens of thousands of families fled into Außtria, and in their flight households beoame separated. That the persecutions had the sanotion of the Russian authorities was evident from the fact not only that the peoplo would not have dared to attaok them if the authorities had been disposed to protect the Jews, but the further faot that the governors of several provinoes in whioh tho outrages occurred were afterwards promoted to higher posts by the Czar. The opinion of the Jews is that the peiseoutions were tolerated by the Czar with the hope that the vengeanoe of the peasantry might be wreaked on them, whioh would otherwise cast itself against tbe Government or seek relief in Nihilism. The Russian emigrants seen yesterday said that Nihilism was fast permeating the entire Empire, and embraced all classes, from nobles down through the police and army to the masses of the oommon people.