Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-03-04
PARTICULARS OF TIE REVOLT.
From the Warsaw correspondence of t

PARTICULARS OF TIE REVOLT.
From the Warsaw correspondence of the
Berlin National Zeitung. Jan. 25.1
1 can only confirm my account of yes
terday, that the country is in complete
revolt. According to the arrangements
of the revolutionary party, the outbreak
was not take place until May, but the
government themselves have hastened the
catastrophe by the unhappy recruiting
movement From all parts of the country
come bad reports, one following the other
In kiele and in Siedlic provisionary gov
ernments are established. Fighting has
taken place at many points with varied
results All the telegraph lines are bro
ken, and on the Warsaw and St Peters
burg and the Warsaw and Vienna rail
ways the rails are torn up and carried off.
On the Warsaw and St. Petersburg line
the insurgents have burnt bridge All
the lines have become insecure, and it
will cost the government much. trouble TO
become master of the movement The
insurgents seem 10 be about to carry on a
guerrilla warfare. Already great part
OF the Warsaw garrison have left the CITY
Here all rs still quiet, but who can say for
how long? The express post from Sicdlic
arrived here yesterday, and brought the
entraiis of Gen. Tscherkassof, who was
killed by the rebels on the road hither
from Seidiitt- The conductor reported
that some miles from Siedlic, not far from
Biala, a column of about 1000 men.
armed with pixies and rcvolvers, showed
themselves and called ON him to stop. As
he obeyed the summons, they demanded
his list of passengers. When they saw
the name of Gen Tschcrkassof. they cried
| out ''This is the man we want They
then opened the door and announced to
| the General, who was sitting within the
| carriage, that he was sentenced TO die bv
! the national committee, and Immediately
one Of them fired his revolver at the Cen
eral. The bal crashed through his head
They then dragged the body from the
coach, cut out the stomach, tore out the
entrails, threw them into the coach, and
said to the conductor: s.Take these to
/ Prince Constantine, but we will keep The
| body 10 show our chief Ihat we have faith
| fully carried out their orders" | can
| only add that General Tschcrkassof was
nominated by the Prince TO serve on the
court-martial on the men accused of the
murder at Che!m, and that hc signed the
sentence of death upon them. Such
evnents occur daily. On the other hand,
the general intendant of the army, Gencr-
al Sinelniskoff, who had 100000 roubcls
with him, was met by the rebels, who fell
upon him and sadly ili-used him They
disarmed the General. requested him 10
deliver the money, and gave him 4 receipt
signed by the National Committee. So
far the rebels; but more important is ii
for the extension of the revolt that all the
landlords have declared to their peasants
that thoy desire no rent from them, and
that all the ground they hold is given &c
them for The future. The country people
now begin to waver, and at many places
they already make common cause witt
the rebels. Altogether it is estimated thai
100000 rebels are in the country. There
has been fighting in the streets at Plock
and over night the Poles had taken pos
session of the town. In the morning
however, the surprised troops took courage
and seized number of the revolters
Their leader. an advocate named Zegrzda
, shot himself At Czenstochau the rebel
met an escort of Cossacks, who had ter
, prisoners, disarmcd them and released tn
prisoners The Cossacks stripped then
! and let them 90.
From the London Tines, Jan. so.
Everything that reaches us from Polan
t shows that the Importance of the insur
5 rection has not been exaggerated. Tha
it may be put down by overwhelming mil
d itarv force we do not pretend to deny
e But it will be not the less the furious ri
: sing of people maddened by oppressio
: against government which, besides bein
d that of the stranger, has carried into ou
If reflective and humane age the policy
which fifty years ago it was thought Il
ls climate TO overawe and exhaust discor
Ie tented provinces. The facts, as given b
At telegraph, shows that this is no mere loc;
/ disturbance, the offspring of some i'm;
1t gined grievance, or, as the Emperor won
,e have it, the effect of revolutionary preacl
a ING among the more hotheaded of the PEI
J. ple. simultaneously, from one end
the country to the other, there has been
m rising against Russian authority, and Il
ne fighting has been such as TO prove that Il
ID insurgents, though they may despair
10 victory, are determined on revenge. II
" DISPATCHES which IT must be rememb.-,