AGONIES OF SIBERIAN EXILE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3172, 29 August 1881, Page 4

AGONIES OF SIBERIAN EXILE.

We find the following in the New York Tribune, which credits it to the Kooski Courier of Moscow :—

" A common convict knows what he i? transported for ; his term of impiusonmenf is told him by his gaoler. These wretched political prisoners know nothing. They are left in dark anxiety and despair. These are not the only sufferers. From KirensV ■writes a political prisoner : 'We are nin< here—all exiles; one of our number bm just been cent away. His wife. MdmrBelieff, remain? in hospital, mad. The pxil of her huaband further into tlie wilds of Siberia drove her nut of mind.' From another place, a political exile writes : ' The arrival of a fresh exile from Russia lo flay lias completely unhinged me. 1 work as a smith, receiving a shilling a day When 1 earn nothing I live on potatoes and onions. When I work in the field I often think of the luxurious days of my child hood, when I had no thought of labor.' At Balagansk an exile, who was once secretary to the Odessa Corporation, keeps himself from starvation by carrying about water at so much the bucket. His wife is B.t Ekatprinoslaff, and his children are eeattered about Kussia. 'Everywhere at Halagansk,' one writes, ' may be seen anguish, and what is worse, almost actual starvation. At Popitch the exiles have no money to live on. At Belsk there is a student glad to earn fifteen shillings a month. At Verknoyarsk twelve exiles live huddled together in a tent. Ihessare often without food. "