HORRORS OF SIBERIAN EXILE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1881, Page 4

HORRORS OF SIBERIAN EXILE.

The Rnoski Courier lately received from Moscow publishes v.he following intflhV.fflce from V?. O f anisic, a town in tnid-Sibpri* :— " • A pain political exilee are arriving, 1 i 8 fhp WO rd in everyone's mouth. Nidb havejusf, airived joftiusc six were exiled from Moscow by Count -aloedineky, and are under orders to proceed further inland. For the tnoment they are exposed to our murderous climate. 'We have no mercy to expect — we are forgotten/ th6y soy to, the people. Having lost all hopes of returning to Rueoia they are in a moat despondent state. Only yeaterday a girl attempted the third fjme to commit suicide by eating locifer matches. She was caved by a prompt, application of remedies ; but tvill rescue always be Bfc hand ? We Siberians have seen noany exiles daring our life, but we have never seen euch such tenre, such hopelessness, bs preseutod by these niDQ exiles, who do net know their crime, who do not know how long tlu-y are exiled for, nn-J where their destination lies, nnd who must not write p. word in their letters about their condition. A common convict knows what he is transported for ; his term of imprisonment 19 fold him by his gaoler. These wretched political prisoners know nothing. They ore left in diuk anxiety and despair. Th?se a»e not the ocl^ suff j rere. From Ki-^cek writes p political prisoner : 'Wn are niae [ur< —all exiles ; one of our numr-pr hutjust been scut «wny. Oh wile, Mime Brluff, rtm>»io3 in ho-pit.l ma. The exile of hsr husbami itmSser into thWild? of Siberia i-ro?? her our. of her roind.' From anoibcf place, n polhif.tti exile wtitea • — ' .i"m<. i»mvai of a fresl* exile from Russio h-.s completely uuhinped me, I work tie a snai h, receiving a shilling a day. When I e^rn nothing I live on potatoes an.s onions When I work in the field I often think of tbe luxurious riaya of my childhood, •when I had no thought of labc.' Ai Balegansk an exile, who was odcf secretary to the Odet-Ba Corporation, keeps himself from starvation by carry ing about water at so much the bucket. His wife is at Ekaterinoskff, and bitchildren are scattered nb.out Russia. •Everywhere at Balagaosk,' one writee, * may be seen anguish, and what U worse, almoßt actual starvation. At Popitch tbe exiles have no money to live on, Al Belek tbero is a studeDt glad to earn 153 a month. At Verknoyarek twelve exiles live huddled together in a tent. These are often without food.' "