The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-30
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Warsaw. in Poiand. to this a6puEsrysSad
young Jewish cahipet :msEAr n1hiSA1
ISaatius Eiehuullers Whst aSssssle3 :7H. .this11
bitysA shop 6H Sixth Ayenpfs]
!He MassGnef8 8etic aud entSEprisihg, aud
;Soont did 'cop1iderabla balileSk : He ~.
.cumnlnted i'll three orfoGFj ysats, about
$4,000, andin 1850 he became q Citizen
Of the United States. He; married e.
young actress named Lean Rebecca
Thannheimer. who was attached to the
Staqt Theatre on the Bowery, and was
respected by all his acqunintanoes. In
1862 Eichmuller became homeisick, and
returned with bis wife to his native city
in Poland, where lie purchased gu iute.
rest in u large livery. stable and horse
dealing establishment. In The following
year the Polish cinsurreetion, of 1868
broke out, and -ahong the Numerous
persons who were arrested in WARSAW, an
accomplices Of the revolutionary leaders.
was Ignatius Eiohmuller. In the dead
Of night. on the 17th Of January, 1868.
he vas dragged from his bed, and, amid
the lheart.repdins lamentations OF his
Nonng wife, takeaip irons to the citadel.
Next morning he; was taken before the
military tribunalsiand asked whether or
not he had attended the olandestine
| 14SSbioSo VI Ndo C0uSPlkobuld. LIZ u6-
MED it strsnuously, and did not waver in
his statements, even when the court
ordered the lash to be applied to him
Hd manfully bore the sixty laslies thu.
were Inflicted upon. him by u stulwart
!Cossack, and wher, on the follow
day, he was confronted with police spy
who pretended to have sesn him among
the conspirators, he told the mau to his
lace that be was either mistaken or u
wilful liar. Notwithstanding his pro.
testations OF Innocence, the court martial
found him guilty OF high :treason, with
extenuating,o ,oirc4 instances, and senteuced
him to transportation for life to Siberiu.
without hard labor, ilowevar, and with
permission to engage in What business
be pleased at the place of residence the
Government would assign to him in it's
vast Asiatic territory tEichmnller pro-
duoed MsAnefican naturalization papers
and .sppealad for prottGtion to the Uoited
States Ambassador lat st. Z Petersburg,
but. without avail. So. almost with de.
spair in his heart, iand conpauied by
his faithful young wife and two little
sons, The untortuuata' min, chained to
another, convict. set out on foot on the
2t OF March, 1868, for 1rkutsk, where
he wns to reside. subject to the survei-
lance OF the police. After loug aud
weary march, during which Eichmuller
and his family suffered untold hard ships,
and during which his youngest child
died they arrived in the middle OF June
at their place of destinstior. a log
cabin was given to them to live 10, and
Eichmuller was told he could do what he
pleased, except that he must report every
day at noon to the military governor of
the city. and must be at home at Z
o'clock in the evening, and not leave his
honse after that hour under any pretext
whatever.
convict exile was not long in finding iu-
crative employment The Military Go
vernon OF 1rkutsk ut that time was au in
telligent and humane man, General Iste.
vinoff. who gradually took considerable
interest in Eichmuiler, and entrusted
him with several important Government
contracts, which the Israe!ite filed to his
entire satisfaction. Thus Eichmuller
lived nine years ut Irkutsk, and in 1872
he had accumulated considerable for
tune. He applied for q pardon to the
Emperor Alexander II. aud General
Istevinof, bis patron, promi.ed to inter
cede warmly in his behalf. Unfortu-
nateiy for Eiohmuller, the General died
very suddenly on the I'd of April, in that
year, and his successor, General Senel-
nikoff, the new Governor Of Irkutsk, WAS
a.widely different man. He treated the
Polish exiles with the utmost harshnese,
and caused several of them TO be cruelty
aogged for slight infrnctions of the regn-
lntions. which had never been enforced
under bis predecessor. Eichnuller had
at that time contract for the carpenter
work on the new theatre, then in oourae
Of construction, and one evening in No.
vemb .r last he came to the official resi-
dence OF the Governor, in order TO COM
plain Of the dishonesty of some of the
Government officials, who had to furnish
him with lumber. General Senelnikoff,
upon seeing the Jew, dew into q pas
sion.
"Unclean sooundrs, how dare you TO
be out after the usual hour of the night?"
he called out to him, in q voics OF thun-
der. Eichmuller wanted to explain, but
the Governor not only refused to listen
to him, but, seizing very heavy cane,
began to beIabor him numerically with
it. He dealt him several terrible blows
in the face, and Eichmuller. stung By
the pain and the brutality OF the punish
ment, Bnatched the cane from the hand