The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-30
Ruman Russia.

Young Jewish Cabipet-makef named
Iguatius Eiehmuller, who aettled in; this
shop on Sixth avenue
He as+enef9etic aud entefprisinz, and
soon did oonsiderable busiuess. He ac.
oumalnted in three or,fonr years about
$40. 900, and in 1860 he became Citizen
OF the United States. he married q
young actress named Lean Rebecca
Thannheimer, who was attached to the
Stadt Theatre on the Bnwery, and was
respected by III! hia acqnai ainthnces. In
1862 Eicb muller became home-sick, aud
returned with bis wife to his native city
rest in Il large livery. stable and horse
year the Polish ,insurrection Of 1863
broke out, and among the numerous
persons who were urrested in Warsaw, as
accomplices Of the revolutionary leaders,
was Ignatjus EichmuIier. Iu tha dead
Of night, on the 17th Of January, 1863,
be was dragged from his bed, and, amid
tha heart.rending Lamentations OF his
young wife, takenip irons to the citadel
Next morning he was taken before the
military tribunal'ia 'iaud asked whether or
not he bad attended the olandestipe
meetings OF the oonspirators. He de.
MED it strsnuously, and did not waver in
his statements, even when the court
ordered the lash to be applied to him
He manfully bore The sixty laslles thut
were Inflicted upon. him by stalwart
.Cossack, and wher, on tho folio wing
day, he was confronted with o police spy
who pretended to have seen him among
the conspirators, he told the man TO his
face that be was either mistaken or u
wilfuI liar. notwithstanding his pro.
testatious OF innocence, the court martial
found him gni)ty OF high treason, with
extenuating, noes, and sentenced
him to transportation for life to Siberiu.
without hard labor, hnwevar, aud with
permission to engage in what business
he pleased ut the place of residence the
GoveruLnent would assign to him in it's
vast Asiatic territory. Eichmnl pro.
duoedl his ,Anerican naturalization papers
and sppealsd Tor proteotion to tue United
States Ambassador at st. Petersburg,
but without avail. Sp, almost with de
spair in his heart, aud accompanied by
his faithful yonug wife and two little
sons, the unfortnnath mnu, chained to
another convict. set out on foot on the
2i OF March, 1868. for 1rkutsk, where
be was TO reside, subject to the surveil-
lance Of the police. After long aud
weary rnarol. during which Eichmuller
and his family suffered untold hard ships,
and daring which his youugest child
died. they urrived in the middle Of June
ut their place Of destination. a log
cabin was given to them to live in, aud
Eichmuller was told he could do whit he
pleased, except that he must report every
day at noon to the military governor Of
the city, and must be Mt home at Z
- ~ n, tho L.;
house after that hour under any pretext
whatever.
Being an excellent cabinet maker, the
convict exile was not long in finding lu-
crative employment. The Military Go
vernon OF lrkutsk ut that time was au in
telligeut and humane man, General Iste.
vinoff, who gradually took considerable
interest in Eichmuller, and entrusted
him with several important Government
contracts, which the Israslite filed to his
entire satisfaction. Thus E!chmnller
lived nine years ut Irkutsk, and in 1872
he had acc cumulated considerable for
tune. He applied for pardon to the
Emperor Alexander II, aud General
Isteyipof, his patron promised to inter
cede warmly in his behalf. Unfortu-
nately for Eichm muller, the General died
very suddenly on the 81 of April, IN that
year, and his successor, General Ssnel-
nikoff, the new Governor of Irkutsk, WAS
a.widely different man. BE treated the
Polish exiles with the utmost harshnese,
and caused several OF them to be cruelty
logged for slight infractions OF the regn.
lations, Which had never been enforced
under his predecessor. Eich muller had
at that time a contract for the carpenter
work on the new theatre. then in course
of CON struction, and ono evening 10 No.
vemb sr last he came to the offisinl resi-.
depce OF the Governor, in order TO COM
plain of the dishonesty of some of tho
Government officials, who had to furnish
him with lumber. General Senelnikoff,
upon seeing the Jew, flew into pas.
sion.
"Unciean sooundre1, how dare you 10
be out after the usual hour of tho night ?"
he called out to him, in voice OF thuu-
der. Eiohmullsr wanted to explain, but
the Governor not only refused to listen
to him, but, seizing very heavy cane,
began to belabor him numerically with
it. He dealt him several terrible blows
in the face, and Echmuller, stung by
the pain and the brutality OF the punish