The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-03-27

Atrocities of the Russians -
The PFussian Intervention.
We CLEAN from our foreign files, by
the City of Baltimore, the following in.
cidents of the outbreak in Poland, show
ing the determined spirit which animates
the insurgents, the active aid rendered
to Russia by Prussia, and the atrocities
committed by the Russian troops:
LETTER FROM THE POLISH POET, MIoKIE.
The Opinion Nat5onaIe publishes
letter from the Polish poet Mickiewicz,
whose patriotic national songs are now
sung by the insurgents, 1t is dated
Warsaw, February 10, and contains these
ringing passages:
"Many Russian and foreign officials
do not understand by what an amount
of living despair we are animated; they
become indignant and disgusted at see
ing children hardly eight years old dis
charge revolvers at Russian soldiers,
and they never think of the towns and
villages which our tyrants have reduced
to cinders. All here. whether rich or
poor, before they know how to speak or
think, have in them the germ of an in
extinguiShable hatred Of foreign domin.
alton. Our fathers and grandfathers
suffered all that we suffer, although we
were born in the midst of hanging and
transportations to Siberia, and have all
our lives been prosecuted and hunted
down by the most Infamous men that
could be found in Russia.
y Il x "The insurgents are for
their country, disarmed, preferring death
to the lives they lead, and resolved in
any case not to fall into the hands OF
the Russians. The rumor circulates
that Langidwicz, having made the mis-
take of giving battle to the enemy at
Swito Krzy, has been destroyed. How
ever, it is but a rumor. The wounds Of
the Russians are mortal when the terri.
BILE scythes of the peasants reach them ;
the hospitals are full, the soldiers exas
perated, and the Cossacks avenge them
selves by killing all whom they come
across.
IA Jew of Linda has just arrived
here. He says that every where along
his route the landholders and peasants
thought of nothing but rising. The in
surgents have also taken his son and
whatever provisions he carried with him,
but he makes no complaint about either.
The Russians set fire to all the country,
and put all whom they metto the sword.
Up to the present we have been absurd
ly generous, for our people released both
officers and soldiers who fell into their
hands. Improyised soldiers, they had
not the hardness Of heart sufficient to
commit reprisals. A gentleman yester.
day entreated of the peasants not to
hang Cossack whom they had taken.
lie obtained this favor; and one of the
peasants, when unlooSing the captive
exclaimed, He's free now, but for all
that the devil will have him."
THE sCYTHEs AND WOODEN GUNS.
The scythes, which play so important
part in the hands of the insurgents
appear to be formidable weapons. They
may be described as q sort of hugh
double edged saber. The Cossacks car
do nothing against band of insurgents
whose front bristles with a line of thesC
truly 'murderous implements.
Your readers (says correspondent o.
the London Starr may have read in the
kilograms that the Russians have taken
several wooden cannon from the inSur.
gents. The value of this statement may
be gathered from the following fact: L
is well known that jim the Hungarian wa
General BEN, finding it impossible tt
get metal artillery, invented species o.
wooden gun which requires no great or
to manufacture. The guns were fxei
usually on an ordinary vehicle. stron@
enough to carry them. They can no
be fired more than FIVE or six times, ant
after being used are thrown away a
worthless. The Polish insurgents hav
provided themselves with a number o
guns of this sort Three of them, hav
ing been already cast aside. as useless
were found somewhere by the Russians
who 'of course Immediately trumpete'
forth to the world their capture of thre,
rahnl nonnnn
.r RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
Al Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Daily NeaOs, writing under date O
FebruarR 10, says:
"In Warsaw the terror of the Gov
ernment is very great, as any one il
whose house arms or insurgents may b
found will be tried by drumhead cour
martial and executed at once, and th
house is to be destroyed by cannon
Heartrending as we're few details re
specting the massacres by the Russian
at Tomasco on the. 9th inst, Team no
help recording some fresh ones, furnish
ed from a credible source.
"The brother of Colonel Dombrowsk
was barbarouslF murdered. A lad, Fl
teen years old, having run out of th
house at the roar Of thecannon, exclaiu
ed that it was the intervention of Prov
idence that kept the Russian bullet
from the Poles. An infuriated Cossacl
hearing this, seized the boy, and saying
'Let Provide ee now keep the bullet
from you, and killed him on the spot
One of the murdered Poles had spoo
in his pocket, with which the Russia
soldier took some blood out Of the Pole
wounds, and, placing II to othelips Of Ii