The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-22
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very agreeably surprised at its regular
meetiPg Pa setyBs,yl May<13sh. BY re-
.ceiying g valuable paper Forwarded
through the medium Of Julius Horain,
.one OF its members, esitten -5y Colonel
.Zeltndr, of Hoeoken; N. J.,f an octogc.
MARIAN, and a peraonel friend aud com
panion OF 'Thaddeus Kosciusko, the brave
who fought soEnohaga fpfthe liberties OF
this country at the eide So va hiBjRton.
and afterward The well-known hero OF
Poland. Inasmuch as that paper relates
some interesting sreihihiseenSes and mo
mentoes by one who 10 perhaps the sole
surviving eyewitness Of the last moments
sda of sAd aAf BE- ssSs|9pss ; g.
contained in the encyclopedias, it will
have general interest. While being read
before the society eOlemn silence and
awe xaa, produced, end deep emotion
parvadedi all present. III indeed, it runs
something like voics from another
Ss7'ds wGIld:s g!94nel 4 A zel'netb relqP'iape is as
.I.Has "a intimate friend of -Koseiusko.
although was only youth when he
lived id my fathers house in Solothurn,
Switzerland. He had the front Taabli dn
the 8, cond floor apd ! occupied q rear
room. ,H.lkaa- -bhrnlin ~ 95s in Iugano,
in the district afterward known as the
Canton Tessin, of which my father was
GsSsraaorcapd :fg a q allteEynTa RI yes promoted to
canton Of Solothurn, whose capital city
has the same name. Soon after my
fathers instailment in Solothurn he was
fent to Paris as Envoy Extraordinary OF
the Swiss Confe Iteration. In the house
of his brother, the Swiss Minister pleni.
pctentiary, Ey father met Koaciusko.
who had been living several years with
soSn aasSed sR essh oSel Hsa
Kosciuslke Iyyas- -then,in feeble kealth and
desirous Of seeking a fetifed, peaceful
home, wherein he eight pass the renAtu.
der of his life.a Often he expressed q
desire to live in my fathers houae, and
rs frequently my father gave hihf q c6y-
dial Internationally father -was .aazsous
to obtain likeness of Kosciuako, but
the latter 'declined sto peyrhiE pne TO be
made, saying. ttatS he Mas aYeTsa to ie,
and had always been resolved that none
should ever exist. Hearing that Eggen-
schwiller, the celebrated, eculptor Of his
time, native of Swit5srlahd. was in
Paris, slytfather vfsitsd hiAN They ar.
ranged that my father should take Kosci.
usko to the theatre and that Eggen.
schwilief, seated in the adjoining box,
should make q drawing of Kosciusko in
the course of the performance. In this
way very good portrait was obtained.
Soon it happened that Kosciusko, in
company with my father, visited the stu.
dio Of the sculptor. There Koeciuskos eve
fell upon three marble bus.s of himself.
Very excited, he welded bis heavy cane
and .shivered, two, Of them. Before the
third the inaplofing sculptor threw him
self, promising solemnly not 10 duplicate
it. Turning to my father, Kosciusko
said: accept this bust, dea. friend, as O
preof of my unlimited esteem. To you
alone make an exception TO rule that
itpyh never before bean induced ITO de-
part taEGnl. EThst bust the only faithful
one or KOsciuSko that exiata. is presently
in possession of Colonel Zeltner, at Ho-
boken besides, he; possesses some other
relicS of the Polish patriot, as fnr instahcs
some wearing apparel, two Da..ascus
razors and campaigning mirror. With
those razois; ard before that glass, Kssci-
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struggle, under his lesdership, with Rus
In the battle of Maciejowice, fought
on the 10th of October, 1894, Kcsciusko
was severely wounded and captured by
the Russians, and the Poles were unfoT-
tunataly defeated. goaciuslc and :.:s
sid-de-camp, the well-known poet, Nieui-
cewiez, were hurried to St. Petersburg
and thrown in prison. When Paul ]. as
cended the thf6ne,s made vacant by the
Empress GATHERINGS death, he liberated
kosciusko and NiemcewieZ, and gener-
ously restored their k5gorda.; l.A,N 6lfer of
considerable sum of money v.:S refused
by both. Kosciusko was conveyed in an
imperial Russian ship to England and
was there informed by the Emperor
Paul's financial agent that tho money
rendered to him by the Emperor in Rus
sla was at his disposal. Kcsciueko again
declined it politely. But twenty years
later, some years after Kosciusko's init
macy. with The Governor c! Sc!c.hr.n,
the, Emperor Alexander I, the uncle OF
the now reigning Emperor of Russia,
Paul ], son and successor, visiting Paris
at the time of Napoleon rs downfall,
called on Kosciusko and said General,
do not insult my fathers memory by
longer refusing his g;ft. In return for
your acceptance of it, I will grant any
invor that you may eBk.p Kosciusko,
having accepted the money, amounting
to nearly 100000 francs, asked chat the
family o., Ga6Aer ,A9ighe Ita awarded fas
its Hospitality. To- him Thile q poverty
strlcken exile: Tie Emperor summoned
his private Secretary and commanded
ninA ees heTegeA .2atate in Poland weld.