Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-01-30
STAUNTON, VA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1850.

He was very comfortably, nay, happily, settled,
with his whole family about him, sons-iu-law, bro
thor-H-law, and so on, and appeared to enjoy all
the luxuries and elegancies of polished life. 30 far
as The eye could Judge, General Davidof was no
more an exile than Governor Kapillof himself
At Udnisit, the principal inhabitant, the son of
an exilsd Jew of the name of Freeman, was said
10 be worth million and half Of dollars, partly
made by his father as dstiller, and partly by HIM
self as general trader. We had also The pleasure
seeing his daughter, celebrated not only as the
great beauty but the rich prize of the little world
of which Udinsk was the centre.
"The dwelling in which we breakfasted to day
at Kansk was that of person who had been sent
TO Siberia against his will. Finding that there was
only one way of mending his condition, he had
worked hard and behaved we'll He had now a
comfortable house and we'll cultivated farm, while
/ stout wife and'plenty of servants hustled about
the premises. His son had just arrived from Peters
burgh to visit his exed father, and had the pleas
ure of seeing him amid all the comforts of life, reap
ing an abundant harvest, with lao persons in his
pay.
"Along the river Tga we found many Of the SET
tiers to be convicts in whom change of residence
had not produced any essential change of character;
and in spite of all our caution and vigilance, seve-
raj things last evening stolen from our carr-
age at Zeminsky. On the contrary, the native pea
sanis though generally the descendants of convcts,
appeared TO be remarkably steady and obliging.-
They were strong and compact; and throughout
the district they were, as body, the largest race
Of men that had ever seen.
CAT Tubulsk considerable part of The civil bus-
ness appeared to be connected with the exiles, for
whom this city was said to be sort Of entrepot.-
Here these people, Of whom al certain seasons OF the
year about 800, on an average, arrive every week,
are distributed into different hand according to their
grade Of crime, and despatched to their several des
tina,ions. About one.siXth of those who come thus
far, are pardoned, and in Of tie, fEd their
way back TO their homes.
Russia has been indebted 10 Siberia for the "a
meuralion, both moral and political, of her own
condition. Through her system of deportation she
has made good citizens Of myTiads, who. in other
Countries would have been indirectly condemned,
on their first conviction, 10 a life of ignomy and
shame and thus she has virtually achieved the
miracle of reconciling the safety Of the innocent,
with the impunty, and even prosperity Of the gull
iy."
The immense region of Siberia is rising under
Russian rules TO high degree Of importance
Neither its climate nor its soil is forbidding as
has been supposed. 1t is capable of supporting ma
ny millions of inhabitants. who are already rapidly
increasing in numbers and wealth ;and IFS mines of
gold, and extensive commerce with China, Iarla-
ry, ard Russia, lend it further interest. We may
refer to it soon again--Sentinel Of Freedom, .Ne,c
ark, ~ ].