The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-02-05
EBENSDIRG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ). 1852

ces. The chief of her secret chancery intima-
ted the order with respect, and himself super
! intended its execution. The sad operation
being finished, the patient dismissed him, with
thanks, holding herself happy in being let of
at such price, and in having avoided Siberia.
Judge Of the horror of poor timid woman.
dragged from her palace, her voiuptuous ease,
ana her everlasting summer; perhaps thrown
at light intn -I-,-...Uu 4sv...
and rolled along some four or five thousand
miles, or perhaps, she who has hardly ever
walked, is forced to make this frightful and
begging journey foot, goaded on by the
whip, and receiving on her road some miserable
sustenance from the charity of serfs
In whatever way she may go, it is indeed,
a frightful torture for woman, leaving her
husband, her children, and all she loves in the
WIDE world, to wander alone and in the darkness
OF night, IN the north and in winter-aud in the
horror Of the unknown. To pass from Europe
into Siberia, Is like falling into chaos desert
OF men and desert of ideas; a vast nothing,
without history, without tradition. and without
religion (other than witchcraft, J so complete q
void, that even the religions viii ch have pene-
trated, such as the Mohammedauism of the
Tartars, lose their dogmas, their legends, and
their halo, and become pale, dim, and nothing
less, even as the invisible sun of Siberia.
Few can resist this destroying power of the
void. Lost in this immense waste, they are
stamped with its very image; and, losing all
personal identity, in their turn, also become
mere nonentities.
In a journal published at Wilma, under the
hussan censorship, in 1850, Madame Eve Fe-
hnska describes the deplorable condition in
which she beheld Polish colonel, at ToboIski.
Implicated in the transaction OF 1925, he had
been condemned by the Senate to three wears
Imprisonment, merely for non-reyelation. The
emperor paid not the slightest regard to this
sentence. he caused him to be transported to
the north OF Siberia, as far as the sixty-third
degree, from whence, in mercy, he was allowed
to return far as TObo.ski This unbonnv
man, who had been formerly one of the finest
men in the army, was no longer to be recognised
lie was lying back III an arm chair. for So weak
was me- that he could not stand his hair (al-
ready whlte,) though very thin, and combed
with care, fell upon his shoulders. and reached
as far as his elbows. His face WAS very male
and swollen, and his look vacant. HIS eyes and
lips tremb.ed with emotion. We could see that
he possessed tie wish, though not the DOVER
to speak. He mutioned Us with his hand =,
draw near, that he might salute us. For =
moment his mind Icgained its reason. but 50
affected was he, that he could, with diffcuitr
use his almost parayzed tongue Finding that
we were going TO Berezowa where he had once
resided ne wished US to take up our abode
thsre, with his former hostess All this con
versation proceeded with considerable dificuItv.
we were aimcst Obliged to guess his meaning.
Al length We perceiN ed that he had exhausted
the use OF his faculties, for lie Informed us that
we Should find at Derezowa melons. crupes and
other southern fruits, his mag ton, no doubt.
wandering to the borders OF the Tagus and the
Seine, winch he had known SO well. Win sor-
rowtui hearts, we shortened our visit. but he
sun sought to retain US by his gestures, yainly
cAdeavorlng to articU.ate the word: STAY"