East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-09-16
The Polish National Committee.

ITS history shall have been written, the
life and fate of the national committee
of the Polish revolution. There is no
parallel TO it in anceint or modern
times. The VeIinie of the middle ages
that MYSTERIOUS and dark tribunal,
which made us shudder in our young
days Of romance reading-sinks into
insignificance when compared to it.
Fiction has nothing that can be COM
pared TO il, and it is doubtful whether
the novel writers of the future for
which this romance will be treasured
up and laid aside, will be able to do
justice to its grandeur During all
the months that this secret government
has been in existence, il has covered
the Polish revolution with absolute
and undisputed sway. To a hidden
agency, ominous in its concealment
the entire Polish nation has by volun-
tary consent pledged obedience, until
it is now so strong that neither Russian
nor Pole, neither friend nor foe, dare
disobey the least of its decrees.-
Whether Russian noble or Polish
herdsman, this wonderful tribunal,
whose members are unknown, whose
existence is a mystery, whose officials
have never been proclaimed, knows
how and where 10 strike them, and
none of its sentences leaves trace
whereby the Judge or executioner
can bc discovered. In the populous
city of Warsaw, where the severest
Russian martial law prevails, under
the very eyes of the Russian govern
ment and The Russian police-which
Russia has ordered the most celebra-
ted French and English detectives
from Paris and London TO perfect 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 yet been discovered
which might put the police on their
track. Even the most stubborn and
hostile have now learned to know that
they must obey.
The Countess Wielopwiski was as
sessed sum, and, when she shrugged
her shoulders at it, she was asked to
look on the other side of the paper
She then read something which in
duced her at once to pay tho amount.
A railroad officer, who had taken arms
from the patriots, received u sentence
of death. In fear and terror he fled
to Prussia, where he was found sus-
pended to tree.
II is of course matter of self pro-
lection to the committee, that their
hand should never falter, and never
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every attempt to discover their identi-
ty, and iniiicting that penalty without
moments hesitation, could they have
kept their mystery concealed so long,
Only by allowing no oilense against
her decrees, no neglect of their instruc-
tions to pass unnoticed and unpun-
ishcd, could they have made them
selves so terrible and so feared that
neither Pole nor Russian dares to dis
obey; that their slightest command is
complied with as no despots orders
never were before, and that even the
Grand Duke Constantine has been as
sessed by this government which he
is. there to subdne by all the rigors of
military barbarism.
Indeed every action of every official
of the Russian government, in War
saw seems to be known to the secret
government, whose spies must he in
every department of the Russian ad-
ministration, to make such minute and
speedy reports. Thirty-two hundred
thousand rubles vanished from the
government Treasury in Warsaw, and
when an investigation was ordered,
four department officers We're found
missing, and a receipt from the secret
government for the full amount was
found on the floor Of the vault. a
country squire, who had been playing
the spy for the Russians, was con-
demned by the National Committee to
receive one hundred lashes, of which
fifty were given by four masked per-
sons, with instructions to report to the
Mayor as soon as he felt strong enough
to receive the rest. He did report;
for had he not done so, or endeavored
to make the matter known to the po-
lice, he knew it would have resulted in
losing his life.
At festival in Warsaw, band of
musicians performed some dances and
lively airs, when young man brought
in letter to the director, and left
The director opened the note, read it,
and refused to touch tho instruments
again. The music was stopped, and
nothing could induce the musicians to
commence again.
A Russian cngraver who had coun-
terfcitod the seal and tax receipts OF
the secret government, received his
death warrant, which was soon after
wards executed. The Warsaw Peters
burg and the Warsaw Vienna Rail.
roads have been compelled to stoI
running trains on their roads, because
the National Government has com.
manded all the employees of the road
to resign their positions. The Russian
detective police has been especially IN
trusted to hunt up the secret press o.
the National Committee, and a reward
of three thousand silver rubles had
been proclaimed if the printing Offices
were discovered within specified
time. This of course brought the en-
ergies of the police into play, bu
again in vain. Soon afterwards
printer in the employ of the commit
the appeared at the police office an'
offered to bctray the place fthe prom
ised reward was given HIM. After tn
three thousand iubles and secur
pass to the interior of Russia had beel
secured to him, he desianatcd tn,