The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-04
POLAND.
Melancholy Condition OF

Mechanically Condition of the country
The Warsaw correspondent of the Lonuoh
Post writes as tollows:- -, c..,.,,,os hore
We have very melancholy OnrlsSuaas ~, r'ie. uvie
this wear. All classes have been SO lmpoVe-
rshed by the endless contributors heVIeu s, ~ 'e
Government that the shops usually 50 tul m az
ihis season. have had scarcely any GustoiueIs
tnr ong bnt their cb beapest goods, ana there IL
hardly a family in the capltal WnIcn ls Dot
mourning the loss of one or more oIlts memOers
nv exile or confscatou. Inc depreclatlon III
tbe value of landed property, both here and IN
other parts of Poland, Is almost incredible.
Fstates are sold every day at q third OF their
real value. Last week one OF the finest houses
in warsaw which cost l90, 900 roubles a few
wears ago was sold tor Al 900 roubles This de-
probation, which is mainly due to the general
impoyerishment of the country. is also in a Ger
tain degree to be accounted for by the arbitrary
measures of the government in regard to resi-
dence. Thus ukase decreed some time ago
that all landed proprietots in Llthusnla who
were "suspectedn OF having been concerned in
the late msurrection should sell their estates
and settle in the kingdom OF Poland. The result
of this decree was that o number Of the pro-
prletors in question bought estates in the
adjoining districts of the kingdom. They had
scarcely established themselves, however, in
their new homes when another regulation was
published ordering them to reside in the western
portion OF the kingdom viz, near the Prussian
nontler-so that they are now compelled again
to dispose OF their estates and move still further
to the south.
The Zamoyski Palace, which was sequestrated
by the Government in 1868 because bomb mad
been thrown out of ii by some unkuoW person
at Count Berg, has now been finally given over
to the corps of engineers. But though the Gov
ernment has taken possession OF the property it
refuses to pay Off the mortgages upon 1t. One
of these amounting to $50 900 roubles (G20, ,000),
was lett by the late Countess Zamoysk to her
children, being portion of the property which
was settled upon her at her marriage The
heirs have repeatedly urged their claim upon
the Government but tue latter refuses to pay
either principal or interest, on the plea that as
the palace was the property Of Count Tamoyski
and had been Condsca,ed, the share of his
children in the property must be con6scated
also. The heirs then attempted to bring the
matter into court OF law, but the dread of
offending the Government here ia such that they
could not get single lawyer 10 take up their
case.
The system of Russidcatiou is still being pur-
sued III all parts of Poland With unabated yigor.
General Potapoff, the Governor of Lithuania.
Poles to speak Polish, has issued a circular
changing the Polish names OF the principal
villages aud towns in his district into Russian
ones, and directing the officials to take no
notice OF any letters which are not addressed in
conformity with the new scheme, which is to
come into operation IRON the 1st of January.
Another decree just issued orders the Russian
calendar (old stylel to be adopted in Poland
instead of the GIegOrian calendar or ''new
stye.n This, as might have been expected, has
caused immense confusion in the commercial
and manufacturing districts, as the lst of Janu-
ary will this year be twelve days later in Poland
than before.
Joseph Siemaszk D. the head of the Russian
clergy in Lithuania, whose persecution OF the
United Greek Church in that country IN 1889,
when upwards of sixty nuns were fogged IN Il
single convent at Minsk, several Of them dying
under the lash, has made him an object OF uni
versal horror and detestation among the Poles,
has 6ied q wilma.