The mountain Democrat., 1863-09-12
ThS SSereG GOvernmeAt or enc RHO-
lisa Revelation.

written, the life and fate of the Nationa
Committee of the Polish revolution
There is no parallel to it in ancient OF
modern times. The Vehnie of the middle
ages-that mysterious and dark tribuna
which made Us shudder in our young days
Of romance reading into utter in
significance wheHcOwpared to it. An in
vinciblc, unknown power governs thC
mighty insurrection ot an outraged ma
ton, and leads it along the dark path ot
almost hopeless revolution. A power
which is Aelt, but not seen, something, il
il Is not irrevcrence to say so, akin tC
Providence, in its mysterious government
Of the moral world, hovers over the dark
and bloody fields Of despairing but des
perate people, and with firm, unerIing
hand, guides their revolutionary energy Ia
strike the deepest and surest blows. 1t is
something awful, ghOstlike. 1t is the bat
tie OF clumsy giant with Sombre phan.
tom.
On the one side, rough violence, bru.
tality, the murder Of prisoners, the viola.
ton Of women, the persecution OF rellI
gious intolerance, all the outragcs, in fine,
y
debuuched ariStocracy can devise On
the other, the sad, OminouS statue Of Nj.
ODE, shallow, n phantom no brutality,
but Intitxihlc justice, humanity for the
prisoners Of war, but the Ill, ut, stealthv
dagger Tor the traitor or the diSobcdicnt.
II is tragedy solemn and pOrttntnuS a.
no human genius ever conceived before,
aud yet it is but an everyday occurrence
IN this great and evcntful nineteenth cen
tury. Fiction has nothing that can be
compared to il, and it Is doubtful whether
the novel writer's Vi the future, for whom
I this rich and magnilic nj mine Oi romance
i'll be treasured up aud aid aside, will
hr able To ii" justice to it, grandeur. Du.
'ung all the months that this secret gov.
eminent has been III exiStlnc,, it has gov.
erhrd the Polish revolution With absolute
aud nndi>putrd SWAY. Tua hidden aSen-
cE, uLnlh"u> ia It's CoHctalmcIi, the entire
Polish ration ha>, by voluntary consent,
p,,dEtd OLc'!i nee, until il is now 30
,.'",g ,ha, neither Russian nor Pole,
! n,ItA.I nicnd uDr foe. dare dI>ubcv the
least "a ~ deer g.. Contrary to the usual
iie'i, / o; human ;,a;iiv, ii,c Polish ia.
u"h, IA II, last aI,l Gtcat. >t uprising, il -
.ut lJith ~ its IUjrv>enl3tIv", lis ,nbiru
nnt Typ, not "A \i>I5lr head. tut vcilrd
= wer. unknown to it-ei and to ali the
MuTii.
Aud Wor to those who still venture to
! treat its ciet Ur'lrTs with cuutempt =
he cut>c oi an vvIl action falls not more
swift nud rrltntlr>S than the knife uf the
Polish Government STRIKES the heart Ol
tie offender. Whether Russian II. bic or
/ Polish hcrd>inan. this wonderful tribunal,
whose members are unknown, whose cXiS.
tcnce Is myStery, whose officials have
never been proclaimed, knows how and
where to strike u TN, aud none of its sen.
fences ard puniS .incntS leave a trace by
which the julgc or ex.cutioner can be
discovered.
| In the populous city of Warsaw, where
the Scvercst Russian martial law rules,
under the very eyes Of the Russian Gov.
ernment aud the Russian police-which
| Russia has ordered the most celebrated OF
French and English detectives from Paris
and London to perfect in their melancholy
art-thiS committee has its headquarters,
its places OF meeting. its printing presses,
ITS secretaries, messengers and spies, and
not the firSt sign of clue has as yet been
discovered which might put the police on
their track. Even the most stubborn and
hostile have nov learned to know that
| they must obey. A German banker ia
Warsaw Was ordered to pay six thousand
rubles. Fearing that BY doing so he might
draw upon himself the suspicious of the
/ Russian Government, he went to Grand
Duke Constantine, to obtain his advice ;
but the Duke had none to give. Scarcely
returned hOtMe, he iOurd a second notice
advising him that his assessment had been
! raised TO twelve thousand rublcS on ac.
count 0f his delay aud delibcration, with
a note adding that the money must be
paid at once. He Immediately paid it.
I The Countess Wirlopwiski was assessed
much higher sum, and when she Shrugg.
ed her shoulders at il, she was asked to
look on the other side Of the paper She
then read something which induced her
at once to pay the amount. A railroad Of
iiccr, who had taken arms from the pa
triotS, received sentence of death. In
fear and terror he fed TO Prussia, where
he was found suspended to tree
/ The PruS>ian Secretary Ennch advised
/ the urand Duke, at a family dinner party
in the palace. TO send the Polish prisoners
10 Siberia. The several governments were
Immediately notified of this fact and s,nt
u note to Euoch, threatening him with
! inStat.t death if he p, rsi>ted in his course
\ Jewish merchant in Warsaw had
closed a contract with the Russian Gov
rrnment of some lo,ty thousand rubleS
lie received not. from the National CU,u-
inittcc Informing him that lie must at once
throw up the contract. lie irI'iie! III re
/ turn, bi the same u!rs>tuIcr. that tc s. aS
! poor and WAS 1n the eve II celebrating the
maI,agr oi hl> danghjyr ihi~ contract
: would cnable hi!u 10 iuake IL profit If ten
Thousand luhlr-, ami tn Civ lis daughte
an Hpprnprillc l0wry II offered the
committee oue.hali If the cXurcted profits
= Il thcy would nus,nt 70 hi, fulfilling the
contract. An hour after, he received the
congratulations Of the committee on the
t.,atIlag- of ms daughter; his petition was
ai'oA"d under the peculiar circumstances,
and bis offer accepted, hut he was strictly
cnjoincd To engage in no further cont acts
with the Russian Government. The I'M
plicit 0b, diehcc which is paid by Russians
aud Poles to the DEGREES Of the secret gov
ernWent is really wonderful. and can only
be Explained by the certainty with which
it infiicts punishment in every case of dis
obedience.
"A Russian officer, who refused to obey
decree Of the National Government, re-
ceived his death h-wArrant One morning,
as he was just leaving his house in one Of
the most populated streets in the city, ie
was stabbed through t6e heart and feff on
the floor. His wife hearing the noise Of
ell 4 L. Il