Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-01
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handA Of tbe Russians, and haYe been hanged. |
Others are now under arress and their fate
probably depends less upon That can be proved
arainst them than upoW tho necessity that
may be thought 10 exist for making fresh re-
prisals for acts Of violence aud bioodshed
committed in the streets OF Warsaw II was
generally reported the other day that young
lady who had been proved 70 have taken
most active part in circulating newspapers,
addresses, aud official correspondence Tor the
National Government, was about to be bo-
headed, but Il is said now that the sentence
has been commuted into exile to Siberia, and
it may be hoped that the atfooious intention
generally attributed TO the Government in re-
spect to this unhappy young girl was never
seriously entertained. In the meanwhile,
however. Young ladies are continually being
arrested. Fifty, for the most part girls Of
from ghteen TO nineteen years OF age--some
of them even younger-were taken one night
last week and are now shut up in,prison.-
Old and young, men and women, are all treat
ed alike in the matter of srrest and are in
variably seized in the mildle Of the night
These nocturnal visits may cause some un-
necessary alarm, but II is but the Russians
who feel IL and, on The other hand, the
scandal that would be ecsused by taking q
number Of innocent young girls through the
streets in the day time il the custody OF sol
diers is avoided. From ten at night until
four the next morning ae the Russian Official
hours for deeds that viii not bear the light Of
day Though nine is the regulation time for
| getting home, lew stagglers favored with
"permits' for stopping but later may be seen
here and there until ten. These permits
do not save you from being arrested and
marched to the nearest plst by patrol of
soldiers unable TO read, MOI from being knock
ed down II you do not KEEP sufficiently ''ou
| large' in passing a sentinel, who, however,
lis not obliged to know that you do not mean
TO assassnate him But tiler making all fair
allowances the fact remains that permits are
not safeguards and accordingly no one who
has not besides the "peImit' the far more
substantial protection Of a private carriage
stays out after nine, or ten at the very latest.
Then the arrests beginof which one hears
the next day from the, friends and relations
/, of those taken. Then, too, begins the march
ling off into exile, of which, perhaps, one does
; not hear at all, though 1t may be reported a
few days afterwards that such and such per
sons are already on their way TO Siberia. To
ward nine o'clock at night airing atthe bell viii
f produce in a private hpuse at Warsaw most
alarming effect Ii y too late for n visitor
and only little earlytor the police. No on'
il safe and II is easylto see every one feeli
the danger, though without shrinking from it
Thousands of men AMI women--sOme OF then
almost children-ardn not only in contlnua
danger of being arre1ed, for lately some O
the most unlikely pirsons in oil Poland Il
Q take part in a conspiracy have been seized
= but are daily exposing their lives by thei
I hazardous duties they undertake in the ser
b vice Of their country
: One would think il sufficient for the Rus
l. slams to conline their iursuit TO the men. Th
,, would give them mor9oecupation than enough
o for many a long mqlth to come, and they
@ surely cannot preteh that if they once de
n feated the conspiracy of men the women o.
y Poland alone could KEEP up the insurFection
10 But as long as they dake their blows felt it i
O. all the same to them where and whom they
Is strike They arc Ibt afraid OF dsgracin(
t. themselves all they bar is the continuance o
"a the insurrection Throughout the winter Ih
& Russians arrest thel victims in the dead o
le night, on the denundation OF spies question
and convict them bebre secret tribunals ant
8, do not even publish be sentences, unless tn
u the sentence be deah, and the execution I
ls TO take place in Wdsaw or wilma, All nc
u cusations in regard y torture are, oil course
rs met by them with fat denial and reques
oil for proof, when 1t isevident that no proof ca
~ ~ be given, Tor to menlon lhe name OF lGus .
70 worthy informant o1suc9 a supleGt woulu D
30 to point out him or per Ior hineu,at9 , alres
20 AS prisoners are ps anoweu W 'alN iree' .',
S'G en1a 'han .anpi =" excert in The pre
f. ence Of an Official Itdoes really appear diff
e., cult to know positively whether or net the
a are beaten Gas the Poles beloye to be oiee &c