Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-04
Foreign Gossip.

The greatest Seventies Of the Russian gov
ernmsnt are nov directed against the women
Of Poland. About Que hundred women linger
in the prisons of wilma alone, from mere
children like Julia Misewiez, who is barely
fourteen, TO venerable matrous like the mother
Of the 'ate insnrgent chief Narbuti, who Is
sixty-nine years old Among others, Theola
kwiatkowska, q young lady OF twenty, belong
ing to wealthy and distinguished iamiIy,was
seized vt night on the estate Of one of her re-
ations, taken to wilma under escort and shut
up in the station house with the scum of the
town. Il was only after much interest had
been used on her behalf that she was removed
to another prison, but she had scarcely been
there three days when she was sent of alone
to Siberia
The fate of Theola Kwatkowska has been
also that Of Idalia Lopacinska, Miehelin Coun-
tess Platter, Adels and Idalia Hordkerska,
Miehelin Richter and other ladies' ..
Although masses Of the prescribed are sent
out Of wilma on these Fridays (the train of
the Sd October alone contained three hdndi ed
eyiles) all the prisons and many Of the mon
asteries and private houses which are turned
into prisons are overcrowded. In the town
Of Wilma alone there are about two thousand
six hundred prisoners in that Of Grodno eight
hundred in the palatinate Of Kowno two
thousand five hundred, and the casemates of
Dunaburg Minsk, Brzese, and other places,
are equally full Not only is the food given
to the prisoners disgusting, but the air in
which they live is utterly poisoned, for fifteen
or twenty persons are huddled together on the
bare boards in narrow cells, Many have per-
ished under their sufferngs; others have be-
comeinsane. Among this crowd Of prisoners
is Count Victor Starzyniski, whose fate ap-
pears not yet to have been decided on He
will, it is said, be sentenced TO twelve years
hard labor. You will, perhaps, remember that
during the last two years. before the outbreak
of the insurrection, he had lubored with the
most loyal intentions to effect a reconciliation
between the government and the Lithuanian
provinces.
The son of Mouravieff, who has been ap-
pointed Governor of Kowno, does not yield to
his father in cruelty, and even exceeds him in
petty atrocities, He draws up the programme
Of the executions himself, and has placed the
gibbet which WAS formerly outside the town,
in the very midst of Kowno. After the priests,
Raczkowski was executed,a wreath of fmplor.
telIes was found on the spot, which it appear
ed had been placed there by girl OF eighteen
named Imehennik. That very day her whole
family was thrown into prison, and two days
alter, the glri, her father Ia small house pro-
prletor Of kowno, her mother and her sx
sisters we're sent by young Mouravieif to ST.
IBERIA. short time ago he ordered village
of sixty houses, named Ibiany, to be burned
and leveled with the ground, and its inhabi-
tants, with their wives and children, to be
sent to the Ural. The land was divided among
the Russians of the old faith (raskolnilSs,) }
who before the insurrection had been highway
robbers, but have now been provided with arms
by the government, and have distinguished
themselves by terrible acts of pilage and false
denunciations Other villages Of Lithuana,
such as Szezuki, Jaworoke, Ssumy, Klaryszk
Szylany, have met with the same fate.