New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-29
SIBERIA AKp ITS HxIIxa.
CUHIocs FAeTs.

freezes the shermometeT and sa brsstf II co
gs5tsd into ics e son AZ f Isayss M aeg and hags
breathing through the bsar-skin ID which he
vrapPsd up-snd where even the randy that he
body Is often eardted with the Geld and not sssty
nsosss ssnssrssa .s ine as e ssd spr
Bot yet he doeg live there, and laughs jokes, and
too and makes love, and Marries and chill
afsn g, z inherit bis ratrimony s
XII Mo aTws The Es1uimaux the GraenIandera north
f waTa lney srs not exes Thsy have chosen voiun-
tbev sss sadsnss e ieaa they may retreat
understand the sot ef te sie,ents and ter
experience is useful 70 hraBsty and mot robasy Is
ony pioneering the way tothss s5prams deainion bieh
Y promised 70 man and vssh can not b. cornpets 70
long az he Is mastered by frost sesw 4as57s sf
The inhabitants Siberia aeeta 10 bssrv,n ters f
an average about ten tbousand exes etributed an
nualiy among its dreary wastes. Most pahabty the
ret the sites upon which Moscow ard s. Psfefs5arsh
stand alniost inbopahie certain eassssof
the To native Of This country exposure to lie
climate q Moscow would beas dreadful exposure 70
That Of Siberia to native Of Moscow The natives Of
siberia mot endure the degree Of warmth in which
the exes indulge, The human body accommodates itsef
aave esdenty the eject of aineioratng the climate
county, aho knoEs bus ers long y ts creeping
.and may be as veil peopled the neighborhood Of
what il most remarkable II rsr.. i. e,,,sta =
siberia Ia that It should very cold In atitudas no
farther north than that ef London In he same aSitas
% the middle counties Of England, hus ts higher
than Montreal and Quebec mercury freeze in sihs-
ria in winter Moscov not farther north than
gov aad Edinburgh; and in the Orkney Isanis which
farther north than Toboski, the climate Is 10 very
mi IN winter that many seasons pass without supplying
ice sufficiently strong admit of the paste skatsps
sbie In Toboski tina cold very intense that
falls In your apartment you merely open the window
and let in the cold aior the air appears be o4ep
lie said by tbs people 10 be and BY increasing It's
temperature its vapor becomes The Of this
diherenes lies In the which, being generally OF
pretty equal Temperature throughout the year makes all
Islands and especially small ones nsensle the vsrga
lions Of eontnenta climates Il is pot the uortbern lat
ude Of Siberia that deseates with cold the
immense Of and-and this land gives it
advantage Of the short season q ot weather. The nhab.
provide themselves abundance for the winter
and even contriye to lead life Of idenes and merry
making e, Il sg5s5 la ,55-{
l. Theft houses are built in such msnner ii Ia mako
them very during the cold weather that
4ong bed in Siberia pleasant in january
han often Is In epuntryor every house has
large Of stone brick In the center, and all the
built round 1t and this is constantly sup
piled with hot without fame smoke, and wsn
shu keeps every in tbs house a. any Agreeable
temperature that reqursd that may 81 bed
4 in winter at comfortable summer heat Rich people
place and the neabsrs II poor families take ths charge
Vi theirs in tnrnz Aad thus, if family has plentiful
" supply provisions for the winter and also
spacious houae they very jolly and comforts
be life and the errangemsnt Of society are such as in
rssr to afford the poorest the means Of accomplishing
700 There esscra great corDpsnsations ade ths
,oa Tn tie summer time ssys M 3 Hill via has
lately England from the farhsss regions oi
200 Eastern Siberia Tomsk is deserted by its
,os aen who seek occupation chiefly the mines ths
Yenessei The labor ct the mines generally begns
later in june accofdng to the and lasts uut
ief September before which the poprie-
Obliged by discharge all wcrkmen and la.
their ahos during saort period they
all they is usually enough to mantain them with
little effort during the rest Of the Thus the
town Is filed during with fdlers who
praetced in every sort of vice The strong indeed
Law able to keep them from than
Nj disgrace humanity among mere savages,'i
Mr.. Hill to think there ia too much liberty ia
Russa-the liberty Of doing mischief The upper and
approval remark made to him in Irkputsk, when
the character Of the man There's more ALARM, said
the Swiss at the report Of the new governor having
done, contemplated doing act of justice or hu
manty on the road, than doubtless thers wouid be
nts had arrived that tyrant his
ce bis unlicensed erusitie and to license opprssor
Of Others They afraid of justice than Of iu
pen Justice for they suffer more from It The good SUITE
de- rom injustice the bad from justice.
on There are, however, many nice. agreeable people Il
Siberia people also fond Of their country ths the
could not bear to live any where else Nix Hill met Wit
ote bsautifai youaeady in Irkoutsk daughter
officer in the mining establishment who spoke Frenc
the we'll and had read Dus Of France ana Eagana and e
at the same time she declared that she could mot
6as e IL aaeps ID s 9ss ss and fs
- paia thsrcorn def5s orchards parks, groves
nix green meadows of which ahs delighted to talk, might
oo reality before her eyes he might mot be tempted
,ont her native Hkoutsk and friends and HON
she declared her attachment to the pacs Of her birth
at that hsrdy knew whether her fshs
tho called to live Russia she could endure absenc
yh koutsk for ak monthsH Her heart was there
,aht doubt and she felt it enough to defy the ice
in the snow that surrounded her. {.
nsrs Mr. Hill gave very different account of the eondo
q is the exiles from what is generally believed be tt
truth But travellers 20 much in their reports sh
an il Is difficult to distinguish the true from the false ID the
ike narratives It may be that all rueone happehir
Of tine side of the hl the other not In Ir
mu outsk Mr. Hl saw many political exes who had bes
mill to labor for s in the mines Of Nsrtehins
into these abodes of the worst criminals they
en- - asoF % Which ~. she5 iss 9a
ecu which not Vigorously enforced the chief OF wh
was grinding in large hand mills They
in a uTIs a
10 gloomy and wreehed though il did not long
main = happened and It rejects iastlng homer on =
were fortunate to have them followed the fortuH
Of their husbands ysis frst act after their arrival
m to petition the Imperial Government that there might
windows pierced in the prison. and that few cenfo
ked which their husbands were then without might be &c
,arf csded and the prayer q their petition was granite
tiuued daily employed at the work above mentioned
xeu der superintepdenca mild that no more labor
exaced from them than they themselves found it ex
STILL dent to perform and which was Indeed 70
ahge the weariness of the time and give them appees
end Of this period they were released from prison
st. permitted live in the VILLAGES in the vicinity VII
hose most OF them rssasa lor r,ss ysass las y.
eetlY giving permission to choose village within
with same which they would prefer to sett
this They generally chose such were not far
me. vaton II land But finally at the Of I'VE
Ade- years they allowed to settle in this OF
nj of Mr l vas in the habit Of visiting in the house.
the exes, and there he met officers, merchants.
l
Ill persons belonging to all CLASSES did the police
ng it pear to lay an nterdos upon the greatest
a | denly abandoned them. and that when new g
vests srnor WAS on pent of arfivBg but
but the known to be Of ndulganee than
wives they all came and renewed thes former
ed at hussaa maeu M = H. ~ ~ M,
had there ia less absolute than the individual 81 -
ne to After reading Mr.. Hills Travels in siherian
taste not SO horrihed wn me idea q siberian e1e
s, hnefhants. There balls and coacerts; and tho
he exes do not usually attend them 1t il rather
then obedience rule of equette observed among tf
opose selves lnan my osnsr plsssn @ ME- s
there be order 10 reconcile the app&rs
conflicting narratives that circulate In the press
ae the sssursd il Mr Hs description OF sioerian ezl
" In the main it Is by means the monster q
for he N omsk ia Eastern Siberia Mr. Hill met the al
who was exhibited In London about twenty -hve or Il
solilo ysara ago His parents made % q nun, s
D ana is wine merchant in Tomsk and became au
tway subject in himself from ruin In SOM
1ice in fortunate commercial transaction He Is wei
ana fu man and speaks languages With great
= -, and huency He goes by the name Of Albnes snd s
IL iest in the ef Tosk heing great reader
trl possessed of great knowledge He Of the
eeted executions Fngshmsn transferring their aegan
the Russian autoerat But perhaps he is better us
Russia, where they do make show, but town-s
coior cior OF him. He voluntary exile, Only thiak
sn't it Holbprn parish, in London voluntarily
~ din iennng himself exile in Siberia 80 far