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An Exiled Count.The Antioch Ledger of the 24th instant contains the following story of an exiled Count at present residing in that city;Antioch has a genuine expelled Russian Count in her midst, whose history, for so young a man is some, what romantic. lie is twenty years ot age, by name Alexis de PerwinofT. Having with his-associates written and published a book setting forth defects in the political and educational departments of the Imperial Russian Government and in favor of the downtrodden classes of that extensive empire, he was informed one evening while attending the theatre at Moscow, that suspicion pointed to him as the principal writer of the work and that an order for his arrest had been issued. Hastily leaving the theatre, he mounted a horse, rode till the animal fell beneath him from exhaustion, secreted himself five days in the forest, cut the telegraph wires wherever he could do so, expended several thousand dollars in bribing the officers who passed him bc\*ond the Russian line, boarded an American vessel and sailed for the United States. During the sixteen months of his residence in this country, he has learned the English language and acquired the art of telegraphing, being now engaged in the office at this place. On Thursday last he received letters from the Russian Minister at Washington, which communicated to him the information that his case has been brought before Parliament ami this conclusion arrived at, which is submitted to hint as a proposition, namely: That if lie desires to return to Russia and divulge the names of his associates who assisted in publishing the work referred to, he will not be imprisoned, but kindly permitted to rusticate in Siberia, and alter having been on his good behavior for a period of twenty years, he shall be allowed the privilege of controlling his estate, valued at several hundred thousand dollars. This ofler the Count spurns with contempt and sent the following dispatch to the Russian Minister at Washington, yesterday: 44l prefer the climate of Antioch to that of Siberia, even though I toil for bread/a score c be name Shakspc his hold of humaw ill maltique.if eve upon tlChariest more th; non ball;city uni large am swept tl one ot t close of of the ci several n mill-s tonpie. At storm dlt; two hun lars. Tlthe wore the destr known a was the before th ent cond city, be : rebuilt, the moslooking lt;Cooper ; to Jamc Islands, and to tlmust, n» damage wall, for less thanThere vago. tlThey have a ” dreadful ’’ mean man in Iowa. lie gave the measles to a neighborlottcsvillc.gentlemanlottcsvillc loot with ; far. the 00 in the car Then cam “You are if you tnak out of the ma. 1 am was h ard and *crca:little Char The man ment, and their armsthe cavcri inttaad ©ft
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Hamilton Guidon
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 20, 1874
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