The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-10-04
Supplement to the Hawaiian Gazette Oct 4th 1882.
3awaiian Q5azrtte.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Isse.
a storr q Ru..inn pi,cIrIln,.

One need no. b surprised u anything that
happens In Russia. The other evening while
smoking cigar with one Of my old friends,
who has seen, read, and Travelled o Erea. deal,
was told Of an incident that occurred some
forty years ago at Noygorod, quite as sinister
AZ that which recently happened Ut Smarg0u.
The colonel Of certain Russian regiment
icrociously tyrannical and I may say mcrcilGss
towards his soldiers, was il ihc habit @. treat
ing this human flock ikea pack % b-utgs. He
disciplined with tie SHagt, ser -lne5u- men 90
whippings Tor hayIHE one Hgtigl sufficiently
polished whipping ug1-llrll- ssi.l5a officer
for one stain on his cloak. striking vaiCuus
Of Borodino in the face for slluuu- too slowly;
sending poor wretches 10 Siberia for giving
too free an answer IN short, during the lapse
Of years this colonel had made himself 50 de-
tested BY his men that be raapei q frightful
vengeance from the seeds OF hatred he had
sown,
One morning during parade be suddenly saw
fle Of from the regiment a company Of soldiers
bearing, instead Of muskgis, those long rods
which cut deeply into the flesh az every blow.
Nevertheless be had given 10 orders There
was no soldier TO chastisc.
Who is that Tor p be demanded
4 grenaiier advanced from the ranks and
/, replied with terrible GOODNESS, " For thee
The entire regiment, u0n-cgmmIssi1ued OH
Gers and oil, were in the plot The regiment
was present At the terrible spectacle. The
colonel was seized, his uniform torn Of, lie
was tied down in o wheelbarrov aud wheeled
/ up and down before tie ranks Of greuldicr
armed with rods, al of whom struck and IN
suited him,
The eficers who attempted 70 and their
colonel were Immediately seized aud blyuaC.s
pointed at their threats some were taken
away, others garoted. Only one soldier al
tempted 10 take part with them. Then a ser
geant, still pallid from the effects Of Lis last
whipping with the knout, put his muskCt to
the soldiers temple and blew his brains ont.
And all the regiment saw It's colonel pass
under the rods.
When It was all over they opened ar oven.
The colonel was flung into It, an bleeding, to-
zether with the officers who had nbey1d him.
When the furnace was we'll fed tle soldiers
heated it slowly, slowly until az last that
hideous, heavy and revolving smell of burning
flesh arose in the air, which the sayages q the
Russian frontier inhaled some days ago 90
Jewish cemetery at smargou.
An imperial courier bore to the Car the
news OF the mutiny. Nicholas listened, became
white, but said nothing except 10 order four
batteries OF artillery % NOvg0r0l. Ten days
after ! wlite-haired and gray-m0ustachod
usior-gereral, accompanied by q single aid
de-camp, knocked at the door Of the barracks,
which the soldiers had never left since the
murder Of their chiefs.
The general gazed coldly upon those pale
men, all neatly and faultlessly uniformed. who
gave him the military salute.
Not one Teproach-Hot one useless word.
He only said to them cat o'clock t0-uOr-
row moruing the Regiment viii assemble IN
undress uniform and without arms a. the Tar
tar camp upon the Little Square. Order Of the
Gar"
Not one voice replied. But the next day
upon the narrow square, all % ranks without
arms, in their long gray coats, their serseants
at their usual posts, al the mutinOus soldiers
Trre there, in lines regular as if adjusted 70
string, with a double line Of lancC-bcarinE
Cossacks before and behind. Then all az once
from every far spire all the great bells began
10 toll. The Cossack horssnsu withdrew. Ouly
the ed infantry remained upon the square
with folded arms, waiting Then there came
a long, low roll Of drums, and with lt from all I
the avenues leading into tho square came vol I
leys Of grape like iron hail.
Then nothing was heard but the thunder 4
der Of the cannon in that city, otherwise silent
as a cemctery, when men, women and children .
kneslinE before their belly images were pray I
ing for the soldiers they were shooting down 1
in the square. And during au interval ia the 4
cannonade hymn rolled mp from tie square, |
for the soldiers were dying with prayers Of /
their childhood upon their lips The cannon I
Numbered fol hours Then an was silent. |
Powder and iron rested awhile. The cannon
GERS entered the square and rocoilei at the
Sight Of those ranks Of men m1wn down ike
wheat. From under tie dead they pulled out
a few still breathing victims.
"What shall be done with them, General
shall We put them in the hospitals