THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 105, 23 October 1863, Page 7

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

. The i No?d siys that the Teplies of the three Powers to the notes of the Russian Government were- delivered to Prince Gortshakpff on t Angust 19,- the Vise-Chan-cellor having/gone to St. Petersburg; to receive, the r -Ambassadors. Although nothing Las transpired as to the contents of these: diplomatic communications it is certain, according to the -information of .iihe Nord, that they do hot imply an) ultimatum, and still less a diplomatic rupture. • A' telegram from Cracow of August 25 says— >' Railway and telegraphic commit ■ nicafions between this city and Warsaw j -have been interrupted. A rising- of -the ; peasantry has taken place in the -palatinate! Vf Sandbmir. ' The first engagement be- ! tween them and the> Russian forces is said to have already taken place at jfedlna, in! lie •vieTm^V"' of" K adorn. Ihsurgenr 3e lacfcments Ttin&er Eminowicc i and* CwiSk i •are hastening- with reirifer<femeht^¥rotn| iifee G«ver«n*ent.©f Lublin." f ■?■*%s ,; : ; :; ■''•■'} The latest iate]lig«nce fram Lillipanai aonounces that the detachment coromanded; by MticWewiczr lias' gaioed a victory jpfyeri a superior Russian foree i The Prejse-atates that ah engagement' un-l favorable t© the Russians has t«Jjer£ placel at ObifechoWjlh the palatinate'of Cracow.j Ten thousand Russians ha ve^beea' sent intotile palalin^Ub^f Lublin. • % ' rj i At the begißning, of th« preienit mon^hl General Moufavieff confiscated 102 estates in tlie palatinate of^Wilha; Sinbeitheif he has Jssued a decree fp.t^hp AQn.fiscai.tign' of J93 more. The landed proprietors i ..are' , forced to sell their cattle,,their carnages, and even tHeir furnhuw, to pay the cxi traordinary r iax of -10 p^r'.cerii. levied :byi the governor of ' Wilna.^ The property^of onel«ay-d^arge l&rt^^^s jjew^conesi cated befcfti||^ne ibl^(BrjsojM^M^d|ihj6|i insurgents, Monß^t&MSo' ™ Clßrs^? n i^*'^Sssian ar^iyf TheX^S^of August 21 contains some pjirticularßl»ffiF;the recent engagements* :~,' In-^combptJiear the Czer rncbp^f^ on the 16th, the' peasants of the vicinity 1 *"'';!!! :V :T' n ! : ''£pfj*j^'i;li.^:bc'c'itpit.rl : the ; :"^wood,.^^arid u catfl^red attempting to -aicape in that ( directiohi ' Tlfe^irrsonew plundered^ by the peasants, and several killed. - Ths second national band which assembled at Szyce, immediately afte*r passing^he ; frontier, had three engagements with the Russians, under Prince' Czachbwskoi— viz.; aifc;Piekowa Skala, at Glanow, "and at Ibrambwicas. Near' Glan'ow .the battle was concentrated around the house of the land - holder Rutkowski, "which & the insurgents had occupied and 'barricaded. - Rutkowski himself took an 'active part in the fight against the Russians, and "fell pierced by several l)ulle^';upb'n ;: his' i: *dvn'^th'reshold.; The house was bo rnt to the ground, but the wife and children of the owner were rescued .from, the flames by ordejPof.-Cza-chowskoi and brouglit'tp a' place '^pf safety. The prince; wlibse;^ humafiity is*- acknowledged /ey&a i ! by . 'tire V^oies,*alsp iprqvid^d for attendance upon the^wounded. The following intelligence has been received fibra the Pojlisli frphtier relative bined bodies of /insurgents, numbei ing in the agregate about $QpO mea] wef c tolally

defeated at _Chi;Qmak^w, injthe ; nient of 'Piock. V .Their losses were 200 killed and 3& prisoners, witha yery large' number of arms of every description. < On . the 12th August, a .detachment of Russian. jtroops ttfldefY the command of Bog^owout encountered^ at Magnhszew, a 'body.'of-^OO insurgents, . under Jasinski ; the flatter. again 3 suffered- a total .defeat, leaving many killed and wounded on the {fields ' A not ncr detachment of insurgents^ numbering abou»6o men, under Boqhszhas, "has also been, defeated, on August, 13, near^ Chrobrze.''.' Pn .lbre;l,4th > , near -Obech'ow, another detachment,- numbering 500 men, and commanded by . Chine linski, was put to-flight,'notwitPtstanding the strong position they had Jtakep, up. c .Thei insurgents' ion this occasion lost most of their ammunition and baggage."