Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-19

served in the Russian army, where the gov
erAment had fancied they would acquire
ideas of order and discipline but where, as
matter of fact, their hatred of everything
Russian had only become intensified.
Many of these ultra -revolutionist applied
the arguments which they had learned to
use against the Russian Government every
where The ruling power seemed TO them
in all countries sort of ''king of the cas-
tle," whom it should be the business of the
''dirty rascals" constituting the people TO
overturn. Some dozen of these men wish
ed to bring about an appeal 10 arms as soon
as possible-fearing that if it were not made
soon il might never be made at all and Fer
rari was told, on the 9th Of january, that
he would probably have to send his long
meditatcd telegram to London-'No adj
vices; send letters"-on the following day.
Late, however,o on the evening of the 27th,
while Ferrari was sitting and conversing
with the conspirator, his son Thaddcus, and
his daughter Thecla, heavy tramp--the
sound of which was well known to all the
Wilenski famiy-was heard on tho stair.
case.
| '.They have come to arrest you," whis-
pered the conspirator. Hurry out at the
other entrance; will meet you in an hour,
under the porch of the cathedral
Ferrari took up his cap, and rushed down
stairs to the door at the back, and nearly
fell upon the bayonets of n guard of soldiers,
who rendered all egrcss impossible on this
side.
$50 back !" cried the sergeant. "No
one passes here!''
"Where am to so p asked Ferrari.
81 do not live here. | was just going
home"
"You cannot pass" persisted the SER
gcant.
Ferrari slipped five-rouble note into the
sergeants hand, and repeated that he want
ed to go home.
The sergeant kept the money but also
maintained the blockade. He did not ar
rest Ferrari, however. All he did was to
tell him once more, and this time very per-
emptorily, to so back. my positive or
ders,' he said, "are to let no one come
out.
g am caught in trap said Ferrari to
himself. But it seemed to him that the best
thing to do was, in the first place to with
draw from the danger that Immediately
faced him. Indeed, as to this point the at
titude of the sergeant left him no option.
Accordingly Ferrari retired into the interior
of the house.
On the first floor, whence he had ius
come down, he heard great disturbance
going on. The conspirator was calling ou
on one side the officer in command on TIL,
other, while u favorite little poodle of Wi
lemski's [named "Jan in honour Of Subj
csl.il kept up continual barking.
"Whcre is he ?" asked the officer.
~ do not know" answered the conspira
tor.
"You must know" said the officer.
But do not, replied the conpsirator
'sIIis name is on my list, and must tax,
him." repeated the officer.
"Then find him." the conspirator re
spondcd; "but you will not be able to d,
so for he is not in the house"
In the corridor where Fcrrari was nov
standing was large cupboard for linen
Hearing the soldiers come downstairs he go
into ii, and held the door to, scarcely hoping
however, that they would not stop 10 searcl
for Kim.
"Shall l break into this cupboard? y in
quired soldier.
Certainly, if you cannot open it with
! out, !" answered the officer. But the officer
at the same moment, took hold of the handl
: and opened it easily enough.
"Vous !" he exclaimed, when he was Fer
rari. "Quc diable done faites vous lei =
g l might well ask you the same ques
ton, replied Ferrari, also in the Frenc
language. Considering where it was tina
first saw you, your present position
, stranger even than mine.''
The Russian officer was one of thos
; whom Ferrari had met in London at tn
house of Siegfried the Revoutionist.
sAh,' he said, sit is all very well t
u talk folly to act it is different thing Br
my soldiers are looking astonishcd. w
must speak Russian. And como out ofth;
cupboard we arc not looking for go,
: "Where," he asked, in the Russian lai
. guage, lis the youth, Wilenski? 1t is i
II that we are seeking"
"Wilenski is perfectly harmless" sal
% : Ferrari. ''He is a studious young man, ,an
: does not occupy himself with politics
all"
;. That is not the question" answered u
~ officer. "He is marked down as n rccru
:. and must take him."
= Ferrari then understood that the forct
N recruitment-the arbitrary CONSUMPTION
u "proscription"-wth which the revolutio
u ary party in Warsaw had long been threa
r ened, was at last being executed. The Ru
4" SLAMS were seizing all the yDung men whoi
" from their associations and general habits
> life, they suspected of active participant,
in the prepa. ations for the medita.cd inst
" " rection. At night they felt sure of catchil
~ most of them at home; and this plan
a, taking the birds in the nest was carried o
~ with great success. EtIectual resistance W
impossible, and between ten in the event
and two the next morning some two tho
~ sand young men were arrested, and carri
IL off to be enrolled in the Russian army.
Ill Here and there the victims designed |
u forehand struggled uselessly against th'
u fate. But the surprise was SO comple
'ts the number of the Russians were so ov,
powering, and the unarmed Poles were
re entirely defenceless, that in the great II
IN jority of cases the unhappy conscripts 81
10 fered themselves to be led away with t
eir tranquility of utter despondency.
of The officer of liberal opinions who, at t
n last moment, had found it imprudent, a
ch even ridiculous, to give up a regular prof
-ly sion for the sake Of what might after
turn out to be mere chimera, would nj
he gladly have left Wilenski's house, and p
ari mitted the young Wilenski to remain