The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-26

the commission. On the day of the fire at
hebeteff, as Kodzlpo and Aegunovitch were
driving to that village on business, he told her
he intended to try and set fire to the place.
Leaving his horse at a coopeFs, in the out
skirts Of the town, Kodzk0 went away alone.
and returning In about quarter of an hour.
he drove Off with his companion across the
fields, but was soon stopped by, his pursuers.
/ Kodzko is known to have been one of the most
active revolutionary agents of the district dur
ing the late revolt. .xahHn
Euphrosyne Letgovskaia was another agent
Of the imcendiaries. This woman. who is for
.ty years of age, is the natural DAUGHTER tof@a
peasant, anu had been under theproteetion Of
the district marshal Of the nobility. who took
upon himself to give patent of nobility to
her and her sen, who from that time adopted
the name of Visotsky. hut the honor CON
ferred upon her could neither improve her so-s
cial position, nor keep her'from Starving. and
she was obliged to work for her daily bread.
Her employer, a small landed proprietor,
seems to have treated her kindly, and either
IN obedience to his orders, or from sympathy
with the cause OF the insurgents, she REGULAR
ty supplied them with food when they were
out in the forests in 1888. ItaappeaIs to have
taken some time to enlist this woman in the
cause, but the promise of house, piece Of
land, and some ready money, at length remoy-
led her Scruples, and she undertook to set fire
10 the towns of Malmiga and sSioboda. Her
master, however enjoiAed her not 10 betray
him, ordering her, If discovered, to throwqthe
blame on thechief officers of police, and the
military authorities.
! = asFo enable her telcarrys out her intention,
he supplied her with two5 chips, q which had
been c0veredsWith some chemical preparation,
and carefully buried in the earth.i,saQn reach
ling Sloboda she rubbed one Of the chips upon
the wall OF a shed in which quantity Of flax
and hempzwas stored.Is The building imfaedi-f
ateiy took fire, and she was so terrified, when
she say the flames burst forth, that she threw
the other chip, away, and abandoned the idea
sof firing Malmiga. -ca1l ~
zine confession of dyan Kanoustsirlski, who
wasia pupil in the progypnasum,isof Molall-
etchinsid, when the late insmrection broke
out, is remarkable as showing ghow liberalis tKci
'eonspiEators have the means of rewaFding thes
persons whom they employ to carry out their
netariots designs. Last Christmas a neigh
Dor, who lives about ten velsts from bis moth
erls estate, spoke to him in "a prophetie toI,es
about the fires which would soon take plaees
and on being asked whether there would real.
iy be any fires; he repeated that there would.
aud that 1,a those who applied the torch would
be well paid for their tfouble Having st5l,lsa
prepared the way, he afterwards told Kanoust- :
sinsh that ashe had taken nopart IN the rip-.,
surfectaof he was bound to do all that was re-
quircd Of him now, Otherwise he would be
punished. Partly intimidated by this threat,
andopartly seduced by the hope of gratuity
of four hundred roubles which he was prom
1sed, the young man, on the Both ofsMay last.
set lire to the town of fDolguinoffint two places.
Fortunately the fires were seen I'M time. and
they were both extinguished without doing
much damage, e iit s1A f' glat
= A letter from St. Petersburg saws:
"As the inquiry is still going, more informa-
ton may be expected but enough has hees
produced to show the existence OF conspir-
acy, composed partly Of Poles ana partly Of.
Russian mascontents. II would be unjust to \
bring charge of this nature against the Poles
as body, as it is well known that the moder-s
ate party have always disapproved of the 1ex-
treme measures adopted by the Red faction
who are now continuing the system of terror \
which they introduced in Poland during the
rising. But the irritation in Russia AGAINST.
the Poles, particularly amongst the unrefieet-
ing class, is too great to admit distinction
and the Polish name has become more odious
than it ever was before. The frequency Of
the fires which on an AVERAGE tlo not number
less than two hundred a week, the conviction
that they are not the result of accident and
the impnnity OF the incendiaries, are circura-
stances well calculated oshale fhesconfidence
ofithe people in the administration. and to |
cause the disaffection which it fs.fhe object
OF the censpirators to produce; bat the gov
ernnlent are fully aware ofthe danger. and the
energetic measures they have lately adopted To- /
discover the offenders and bring them to ius-
tce. will probably arrest the progress Of the
evil" T.. va ssl-