The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-22
AN INTERESTING PERSONAL HISTORY.
The ROumanian Revolution and M RO-
setti-A JOurnRIist, Politician, and
ReVOIutiontst.


RevOIutionIst.
The Pau MAI Gazette of the 9Th instant has the
folio owlng;-
IN. Rosetti, described by Mr.. Reuters agent
at Bucharest as "a journalist who has several
times been imprisoned by order OF Prince Couza,'
and who appears to have been at the head OF the
secret organization which succeeded in de-
throning that monarch, has, before now, played
an important part IN the affairs OF his natiye
land. 1t was Rosetti who directed the democratic
revolution whicn took place at Bucharest on the
23d OF June l94S aud which led to the occupa-
tIon OF the Guy by the Turks. On that Occa.
sion Rosetti old not demand the abdication of
the Hospodar; he thought it sufficient to make
HIM sign one OF tht sc charters to which so omuch
importance used to be attached eighteen years
ago, and to appoint a new ministry, of VIII lCh he
himself together with M. GalescO, now one OF
the members OF the Leutenancy, formed part
The shortlived ministry of lS48 consisted of
lawyers, professors, and writers; and the great
watchword of the movement was the Liberation
OF the peasantry from various servltudes, and
the absolute Cesslon to them OF the land Tor
which they had previously been required to per-
form task-W ork This was the emlnently nemo-
crauc reform which Prince COuZa afterwards
carried out in so decisive manner and
with so little regard to the interest OF
the landed pIoprletors. BY so doing he
may be said, almost literally, to have
cut the ground - the peasants ground
IRON under the feet Of the extreme Liberals;
and this time it was only by means OF al arlsto-
cratic combination, or at least combination
with preponderance OF the arlstocrauc element
in it, that there was any possibility of unseating
the ruler Such families as those OF Ghika aud
Cantacuceno both OF which are represented in
the Romanian ministry just established (the lat-
ter'by one, the foImer by two members), we're
not consulted at all IN connection with the
movement OF 1S49, which, indeed, was opposed
to their interests. The fact that the new Gov
ernment includes botn Liberals and Conserva.
tves would seem 10 show that the deposition OF
Prince CouZa has not been merely the work of
faction. and that the anatlOnnH character claimed
for the revolution by Its principal leauers really
belongs TO it.
"The nsurrection of ls4S having been followed
by counterreVolutOnS supported chiefly by the
amy, Rosetti WAS arrested ami thrown into
prison. But a popular rising took place, the
prison was broken open, and Rosetti was set
tree. Then came the entry OF the Turks under
the actual command OF the Russian Gene
raj Duhame who accompanied the Turkish
army in the ostensiOle character of Commits
sioner. Rosetu was haranguing an immense
mass of peasantry, who had assembled on plain
near Bucharest when he was invited to the
Turkish camp, where the Pasha protessed great
anxiety to hear from his own lips an exact ac-
count of the state of affairs. Rosetti, however,
found not only the Pasha, but also General Du-
hamel, waiting to receive him; and, after what
Prince GortschakoH would call an Interchange
OF ideas with that officer he again arrested,
and this time ordered to leave the country under
q Turkish escort.
'Rosetti was much aided in his revolutionary
enterprise by his wife, an English woman or
rather ScOtchwoman, by parentage, daughter OF
Captain Grant, an officer in her Majesty's SER
vice. When the revolution first broke out
Madame Rosetti was on the point of being con-
fined, and the popular leader left his wite's bed
side after kissing his frstborn-a young lady
who afterwards received the appropriate name
of Liberty-to proceed to the palace and force
the Hospodar to abdicate or sign constitution.
But for Rosetti and his intervention both the
Prince and his Prime Minister would have lost
their lives, and popular indignation was for
moment turned against Rosetti when it was
found that it was he who had aided the
Minister to escape. The courage, how
ever, with which he took the whole re-
spoIsibillty on himself and denounced as
towards those who would have shed the
fallen courtiers blood, soon gained the
people over to his view; and the only lives sacri
feed in the Rumanian revolution of lS49 were
those of some two hundred municipal guards
who in disobedience of orders, opposed the
entry of the Turkish troops. Rosetti and his
wife had in the first instance been told that they
were to be conveyed across the Austrian from
tier, and set at liberty; but they learned from
one of the guards that they were to be consigned
to Turkish fortress in Bosnia. They therefore
resolved to make their escape, aud in passing
through a village on the Hungarian border con
triVed first to lead the Turkish escort on to
Austrian territory, and secondly to make every
member OF 1t intoxicated
"Rosetti, Madame Rosetti, and little Liberty
went wandering through the Banat. and through
Hungary proper, amid perils OF all kinds-tor the
country was in arms, and Hungarians, Croa-
tians, and Wallachians, were engaged in a sort
OF triangular civil war-and arrived IN Vienna the
day after its bombardment. From Austria the
Rosetti family proceeded to France, and remained
in Paris until after the Crimean war.
M Rosetti is not only well known as Jour
nalst and politician, he is also one OF the most
distinguished and one of the most popular OF the
modern Roumanian poets. In his 'Tu mi dceai
odate: ah! al meu iubite' QUOTED by M. de
6eIando, in his work on Transylvanla), there is
mixture of pathos and irony worthy of Heine,
while the music of the verse is more melo-
dious than Heine's, in proportion as the Italian
like language OF Roumania is softer than that OF
Germany.
IN. R0setti occupies in the new Government
the post of Minister of Public Worship, whose
functions include these OF Minister of Public In
struction."