THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 37, 1 February 1864, Page 5

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

The Times Polish- corresp&ndent ob- ' serves respecting the work of .devastation which proceeds steadily under, the .hand of Russia : — . , ; . ; A. private letter from Wilna states thatpillage, executions, and transportation, to Liberia are carried on without intermissim. The two Mouravieffs, father and son, continue the work of devastation. They' have deprived all Poles of their civil employments arid replaced them by Russians and even by ■■ Cossao£s. A colonel of Cossacks was sent by the younger Mouravieff into the district of Russienie, with a mission to ascertain the feeling of the inhabitants, and to imprison the suspected. In the course of fifteen days the Cossack imprisoned 350 landed proprie- , tors, and laid waste the entire district. All the cattle were carried away and divided or sold to the first bidder. The wheat crop was destroyed under foot, and all furniture of any value was carried away for the colonel. The razzia was made under the protection of a strong body of troops, and the furniture : which could not be carried away was destroyed; Among other landed proj>rietors who suffered °is the ' Princess- Oginska, whose estate of Pretow ' '* was pillaged and laid waste, and those of . M. Hyssarow (of Jlussian descent) and the Count Plater were completely, plundered, and after the troops had their share the remainder were sold to the peasants. The Cossack colonel first made prisoners of all the servants on the several estates. The Russian officers are well supplied with the plate, carriages, and horses of the landed proprietors. The contribution of 10 per cent, imposed on the landed pioprietors is levied in the most unjust manner; some pay only fi ve per cent., while others have to give their entire income.' In the district of Rosfieni and government of Kowin* there was scarcely anything left for the tax collectors. A T o sooner was die 10 per cent, levied on the laud proprietors than they were called on to supply tile .Cossacks with 150 horses, said to have been stolen from them. It is furtner said that the landed proprietors are to be forced to pay for the aims and money captured by the insurgents. The accounts from Poland that reach me through travellers and other private channels continue to be most painful. Executions and assassinations succeed each other in rapid alternation. The former are carried on in a very wholesale and barbarous manner, 'often . as if they were intended as muc i for examples of terror as for fair measure of punishment dealt out to the guilty. Forty-one ladies were arrested in Warsaw on the 2nd of .November. Two convoys, with 530 prisoners, hare left the citadel of Warsaw on their way to Siberia. The exasperation of the population is extreme. ■' " , The ladie3 and young girls imprisoned in the citade., with 60 of the chief inhabitants of Warsaw, have been transported without sentence. Their place of banishment was' unknown. Advices received from St. Peters* burg announce that the Invalids Russa contains the news that the sisters Julia <tud Sophia Beuhowdka have beea aenenosd to be hanged in. Warsaw, and that this sentencahaa beau commuuicated to them, in the citadel. Ths attitude of Austria is still the ruling topic in Warsaw, Her opari hostility to ttxe Polish causa is no longer matter of doubt. Both here aud in Galicia alT is terrorism,, rigeur, and violence and lawlessness reduced , to a system. There is no exception to this ' state of things, which grovf vrorae evety'.ttey, ',% Hangings, shootings, J banishments, oaniw**, F tions continue a^befasp; ~''^^-\/:: \

successes. Tl.e t.-f. the palatinate o Lublin, under liucki aud Cwiek. have gained an important victory at Crelm, and a Russian magazino at Krasnystaw has been burnt by Rucki's cavalry. Prince Wittgenstein has bden again defeated in tho palatinate of Kalisz, and large reinforcements have been sent him. The news of the capture of n Russian convoy of 1400 cwt of salt is confirmed. The salt was afterwards sold by t^c Poles for 43,000 guldens. They have also captured a large quantity of tobacco belonging to the Russians. . These captures are very frequent, particularly in the palatinate of Lublin, whero numerous small patrols of Polish gendarmes are constantly scouring the country. A woman who has been sentenced to be transported with her five little children, one of whom was but two years old, has been impiisoned together with them in the oitadd of Zaiuose, because she had not sufficient property to keep herself and children in Asiatic Kussia. According to advices received on November 24, Chniielinski gained a victory over the Russians near Czarnocala, on November 20, in conscqueuce of which the insurgents occupied the town of Gora, on the Vistula.