Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-01-25

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pear TO me good counsel; for knew that
should | be stopped by the Croats, the.
would ransack and turn inside out ever.
thing likely to contain food my letter
would thus be discovered, and myself in
evitably put TO death. / had determined
to make the journey in peasants cart, a
it would expose me to fewer inquiries ant
Storpages than a vehicle of more imposing
| appearance. caused one of the planks o
the cart to be followed out at the end
without breaking the surface of the side
and placed all my letters in the space thus
formed. The plank was then replaced
and the joining at the end rubbed over with
clay. [ now felt perfectly certain that
they could not be discovered by even the
prving Croats.
On the evening of December the 9th,
left Presburg, and soon reached Woisthal,
where Jellachich's corps was posted. AS
usual, I was seized at the outposts, and sub
ieCted to a rigid examination. In anticipa-
ton of such an event, ] had provided my
self with papers from a well-known fruit
warehouse at Presburg, and represented
myself as an agent of that house going TO
Vienna, to collect in some debts. In spite
OF all my precautions, however, ] was pla-
ced under military surveillance as far as
Sommering. | was stopped and examined
siX-and-twenty times, but in all cases my
papers proved a sufficient passport. AT
length, early on the 9th, the cupoas and
towers of the once gay, but now humbled
and mourning, city Of Kaisers appeared IN
view.
I entered Vienna. 1t appeared TO my
Imagination invested with a sombre and
tragic hue, and the ruins which marked the
ferceness Of the recent struggle against ty
ranny seemed iraught with solemn admoni-
ton 10 all despotIc rulers. The figure of
my slaughtered husband came before my
mind but the thronging memories which
accompanied It | cannot, even did | desire
10, depict. 1t was now exactly a month
since had left the city, but the exciting
events which | had passed through made it
appear a much longer period. | repaired
to the Hotel of the Embassy, where |
was received with the greatest attention,
and an immediate answer promised TO Kos
suth's despatch. From thence ] proceeded
to Schonbrun, with the letter to Prince
Windlschgratz; but was informed that he
was gone to Jellachich to the Imperial
Court at Olmutz, and would not return till
the next day. His nephew, Count Wind
Shgratz, whom | saw soon after with Count
Thun and Prince Lichtenstein, confirmed
this information. returned, therefore, TO
Vienna, and occupied myself in delivering
the various letters with which I was char
ged. In the evening | received the promi-
sed answers of the - Ambassador to
kossuth's letter.
On the next day | again visited Schon-
brun, and was admitted TO an interview
with WindiSchgratz and Jellachich-the
two pillars OF the House of Hapsburg.-
They received me with distinguished court
psy. Could they have OWNED the thoughts
hat filled my heart, how different would
have been my reception ! handed my
letter TO WIndischgratz; he read it, and
seemed struck with terror at its contents.
confess it was not without a secret feel
ing of satisfaction | saw this man taste some
Of the bitterness of that misery into which,
with a remorselesS hand, he had plunged
myriadS OF his own, and Of my countrymen.
He went into his cabinet to write an an
swer to Motoschitzy, and Jellachich re-
mained standing in the presence of his
deadly enemy. l now looked, for the
first time, upon the calumnator of Hunga-
rian honor-the plunderer and destroyer o!
Vienna. ! could scarcely refrain from Civ
ing utterance TO the feelings of disgust and
3corn that swelled within me; but | could
serve my country more eiiectually and was
silent. lie questioned me as to the num-
Der and condition of the Hungarian troops.
represented them as double their actual
orce. Upon which he said, with apparent
carelessness, that those divisions which |
had not seen were probably still stronger.
His drift was evidently to draw from me
some information respecting the position
Of the various corps, but | defeated it by
taking refuge in the general ignorance of
my sex upon such matters. Windisch-
gratz now returned with his written an
swer to Notoschtzy. He thanked me
again for the trouble | had taken on his
account, and, what pleased me much more,
he directed Count Thun to make out an Or
der, giving me liberty to pass, wherever
| chose, unmoested by the Austrian troops,
to which he appended his own Signature
| took my leave my object was accom-
plshed, and the two great generals-the
OF Prague and Vienna-were
outwitted by woman.
In such dangerous expeditions as these
in fact as a spy-when death would have
followed on detection, did this
and brave woman pass the en-
tire time, with scarcely few weeks rest,
from November, 1913, to the end of 1S49.
So extraordinary an instance of passionate
devotion 10 cause, and of perfect indiffer-
ence TO danger when a service could be
rendered, we scarcely recolect to have
heard or read OF. Certainly it has never
been surpassed.
During this anxious and busy period the
Baroness Won Beck passed repeatedly
through the very midst of the Austrian and
Russian armies. Some half dozen times
she penetrated into Vienna itself. She was
present at two great battles, those of Moor