Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-03-21
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 81, 1863. p

of insurgents whose front bristles with q
line of these truly murderous implements.
Your readers (says a correspondent of the
London StaDmay have read in the telegrams
that the Russians eaTe taken several wooden
cannon from the Insurgents The value OF
this statement mag DC gathered from the
following fact: 1t is well known that in the
Hungarian war General BEN, finding it i'm
possible to get mental artillery, invented
species of wooden gun which requires no
great art to manufacture. The guns were
fixed usually on any ordinary vehicle strong
enough to carry them, They cannot be fred
more than five or siesimes, and after being
used are thrown arsy as worthless. Tho
Polish insurgents have provided themselves
with number of g,9is of this sort. Three
of thcm having been already cast aside as
useless were found somewhere by the Rus
slams, who of course Immediately trumpetcd
forth to the world their capture of three
rebel cannon.
ARREST OF POLES IN BERLIN.
A despatch dated at Warsaw, says: The
Prussan authorities do not merely insure a
free passage to the Russian troops, but they
arrest travellers who appear suspicious
Three young Poles, pupils at French schools
who recently quilted Paris for Poland, have
been arrested at Thorn, and handed over to
the Russians. One Of the Young men, named
NJ. Kopercynski, was pupil Of the military
school of St. Cyr
At Berlin, February q, the police seized
three hundred hand grenades in the posses
sion Of Polish inhabitants Of that capital
These persons have been arrested, and the
public prosecutor received instructions at
noon to commence the judicial inquiry.
1t is now certain that the Prussian authori-
ties not only arrested three young Poles who
had set out from Paris to join their country
men, but have actually given them up to
the vengeance of the Russian. Another
party of young men, who had followed the
example, were seized when they found them
selves in Prussian territory, and in all hkcli-
hood these also have been given up to their
enemy. The following letter from one OF
them has been received in Paris:
"LrsBAcK. February Is.
you will pardon me, dear sir, for not
having written to you before this. On our
journey hither we had no time to do So
Now, alas, we have but too much leisure,
not well knowing what to do amid the
calamities which have belallen u.s. We ar
rived safe at Lisback, but since then every
thing has changed. On the 18Th several OF
us mel together for the purpose of passing
the frontier and proceeding to join the stan
dard Of liberty. | know not whctherit was
through treacnery or want Of precaution on
our part, JW 3"e i'tG SurrCgHded by PyRysiat
gc"darmes anil .fre of us arrested. On the
l4th we were conducted to BrOdmin. and !
received q gunshot wound in the leg We
had our passports, it is true, but cised by the
Prussian Legation. We hope tha' the Cor
cign Consul will Interfere in our behalf.
! can write you only few lines, as | am re,
duced to state of great weakness by los,
! Of blood. Among Others arrested with ne
are MN. Taroui, Stawlerski and Machalski
PAUL SERwISsAG.n
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
\ Berlin correspondent Of the Londor
Daily Ns,rs, writing under date Of February
10, says:
In WGrsnw the terror Of the government
is very great, as any one in whose houst
arms or insurgents may be found will bt
tried by drum-head court-martial and eX
ccuted at once, and the house is to be de
stroyed by cannon. Heart rendering u
were few details respecting the massacre
| by the Russians at Tomasco on the 5th inst
l cannot help recording some fresh ones
furnished from credible source.
The brother of Colonel Dombrowski wa
! barbarously murdered; lad, Is years old
having run out of the house at the roar o
the cannons, exclaimed that it was the in
teryention of Providence that kept the Rus
sian bullets from the Poles. An inturiate,
| Cossack, hearing this, seized the boy, an,
saying, Let Providence now keep the buI
lets from you killed him on the spot. On
| lnf in
pocket, with which the Russian soldier too
some blood out of the Poles wounds, anC
placing it TO the lips of the corpse, shoute
out, Drink some Of this punch
"Nothing can describe the degree c
atrocity which marks this Russian campaign
The whole of the offices of the imncns
property of Count Zamoyski at ZwicrrynicC
containing papers, deeds, accounts, dc
have been DESTROYED, and the beautitr
country palace Klemensoy, and anothc
estate, Badaczoy, have been made Il heap c
ruins.
"The town Of ErzcsZoy was on the lat
February occupied by the Russians an
lcVeled 10 the ground, the greater part G
the inhabitants imprisoned, among them tn
curate LukaszwicZ, who, moreover, wa
beaten with sticks numerically. The II
swgents having been met near that town
offered gallant resistance, and had sewers
wounded, among whom was priest. The
then rctreatod into the forests of ksiezopo
GLOW long this sangWnary war,will las
and where it will end, is known TO heayc
alone The Poles on hearing that the ltu'
sian troops will come TO the assistance Of th
Russians, are more than ever determined (
shed the last drop of their blood, and a
ready signs OF tho peasants being iarur.hl
10 the movement arc numerous. They nu
only, rs in LitLuauia, join the ranks Of "a
insurgents, but everywhere give them he'll
shelter and information about 'hc moy,
acnts of the enemy, The mobiles, likewis,
fght, aud spare no means to support ia
Insurgents
SEIZgRE oF CoSTRAnASD GOODS ~ PM
ADELrniA--A large quantity of yaluabI
go6ds, about "a he smuggled south, ",
seized at Philadelphia on sunday, III
Isguir,r saws: