Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-04-30

L III F.
GOVERNORS DAUGHTER.
A Tale of the Last Polish Insureotion.
ny II. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS
TooNTINUED.1
CHAPTER XXVI.

The insurrection, crushed in very short
time at Wilkoyo, was highly successful at
Stantza, where, at the outset, there were
only Leonteft's twenty. five Cossacks-wth-
out Leonteif-to oppose it.
| When Melodiani heard, the day after
wards, of the rising at Stantza, from one of
the Cossacks who had witnessed it, and who
freely exaggerated Its importance, he said
to the governor: "Now, was ! right or
wrong in sending troops to Stanitza, and of
ficers who could report what was going on 7"
I" 1t is very awkward" answered the gov
ern0r. "a village belonging to Count Kon-
radin | should like to know where he is"
"Was lie not supposed to have some very
direct communication with the revolution
ary partya"
"Supposed! His name was on the list
supplied to me-a list supplied on good au-
thority, too. But he is one of the men
that the government does not wish to drive
into insurrection. lie has relations who are
closely connected with the imperial family,
and he is large proprietor, and he has the
reputation abroad, and even in Poland il
self, of being very moderate man. We
know, however, what their moderate men
are. This one, if he has not joined the in
surrection himself, has at least induced all
his Neighbours TO do so. That was one of
his neighbors stewards that your Captain
Lconteif arrested the other day"
"Ycs; the stewards, gardeners, day-la-
bourers, house-scrvants, and all who receive
money from the proprietors, take their side.
"While the PEASANTS" responded the
governor, "who have to pay them rent, Or
give them labour for nothing, are all against
them. don't think they like us, but they
certainly hate theM."
"But not SO at Stanitza, l am told There
numbers have joined the insurrcction
''rhat is because Konradn has corrupted
| them, persisted the governor. ''lIe cstab-
lishcd schools for them some time ago, and,
| without the permission of the government,
appointed his own teachers. And dare
say he has built things for them and forgiv-
en- them a portion of their rent. | know all
| their nanmuvres. There has been regu-
lar system Of Polish propngandism carried
on at Stanitza for some time past. | was
told of directly came. VIII you believe
il the countess used to go about to the
peasants huts, visiting their children, and
taking them things when they were i'll Oh!
she is very dangerous woman.
81 should think she was, said the caval-
rt, ali I a.
her husba.d has not committed the folly of
joining the insurgents; for my Cossacks-I
mean the troop sent on yestcrlay-will
make short work of them as soon as they
see them"
Konradin had not committed the folly of
taking part openly in the rising. He knew
that he could render much more important
service by remaining at his couniry-housc,
experimenting the preliminary arrange
mcnts, providing accommodation for a few
of the officers who were to arrive before
hand TO study the ground, and getting togclh-
er the horses and provisions which he in
tended to give up 10 his friend Jankowski,
the appointed leader of the band, on receiv-
ing from him written declaration that the
supplies in question had been furnished
under menace of death.
Fcrrari had, according TO telegraphic ap-
pointmcni, met all his London friends at
Cncow-at least all those who were to Join
actively and personally in the insurrection.
All the members of the London Committee
were there-especially the Black Man, who
boosted that he knew Galician frontier, and
all Poland from that frontier to Warsaw,
"likc books and who, not being much
given to reading, did himself an injustice in
making that comparison.
The Black Man was said, moreover, to
know every manor house, and the road
across country and even through the woods
from one manor-housc to another between
Cracow and Staniiza, and again between
Stanilza and Wilkovo
Jankowski, who, at Metz, had been lieu
tenant in company of cadets, was to com
mand the band which Konradin had posi-
lively promised should be formed ON his es-
tate. The Black Man was to act as as a
sort of aide-de-camp and guide; Ferral was
to be one of Jankowski's lieutenants and
the President of the Leicester Square coma
culum, who had seen some revolutionary
service in 1913, was to he kind OF second
captain, with the right of advising his chief.
Thus there were not more than three off
GERS who had any pretensions to the COM
mand of the band which was not yet formed
One of the ordinary members of the Lon
don Committee was to act as sergeant an
other as corporal.
Others, who would not accept appoint
ments as under-oflicers, Joined local bands,
of which several were being formed; or
tried to make arrangements with some
agents of the extreme party, who had just
arrived at Cracow in large numbers from
Paris.
Jankowski saw at once that the great diff
Guilty would be to get privates; but these, in
his case, were sure to be furnished by Kon-
radin. He could not find ont that there
was any one chief to whom he was to be re-
sponsiblc, or from whom he was to receive
orders. But he understood, from the YER
VA ihstiuStioho given W Iiul Dy fcrrarl, ON
the part Of the revolutionary committee, that
the first thing he had to do was to proceed,
with his aide-de-camp and guide, his second
captain, his lieutenant, and bis under Off
GERS, to Stanitza, where Konradin would be
waiting for him,
The Austrian government had, at this time,
no objection whatever to the Poles injuring
Russia at their own expense. 1t could not
consent to their establishing regular buse
of operations in Galcia; but IL threw no
serious impediments in the way of detacll-
ments being formed with the evident inten-
tion of entering the kingdom of Poland
Ferrari pointed out to Jankowsli that this
was good political sign; for that whether
the Austrians assisted the Poles this time or
not, it showed that circumstances might
some day arise in which II would suit them
to take the part of Poland against Russia
Jankowski did not think much of this OBJ