THE POLISH INSURRECTION

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 9, 21 June 1864, Page 3

THE POLISH INSURRECTION

Telegrams frora Breslau report, that a strong detachment of insurgents recently crossed the frontier from G-allicia, and, after a protracted engagement with the Russians, succeeded in penetrating into the government of Lubin. Another engagement, described as still moro important, is represented as having taken place near Woochack, in the palatinate of Radom, and the result is stated to have been favorable to the insurgents. It is auirmed that the Austrian authorities- are expelling from G-allicia all the Polish refugee families ; and, in fact, only allow them 48 hours to leavo the province. All Cracow has been thrown into excitement by tho arreßt of two ladies, whose salons were among tho most elegant and frequented of that city. Ono of them, the Countess Ostrowska, was a lady who had taken temporary refuge . in Cracow from tho excesses of tho Russian soldiery, and tho other, a Countes3 "Wodzicka. Tho house of tho Countess Ostrowska was entered at 6 a.in. by the police, and minutoly searched from garret to cellar. At the expiration, qf eight hours a paper was found, from wliich it appeared that thb Countess Qstrowska belonged .to a society formed among tho ladies of Cracow for nursing the sick and wounded, &c. From thia ,' '.paper it , also appeared that tho Coimtbss 'Wodzieka'. was' provident of tho samo sociotyY Both ladies' woro arreatod on tho spot and carried off, at 10 p.m., to tho lock-up in tho Castle. '' Tlie QiUcial Dzionuik announces (ho nppcnrr ance of a new insurgont band of 100 men on tho

2Sth of March, opposite Kypin, in the palatinate of Plock ; and also of a large detachment in the village of Zabia, in tho palatinate of Ostrolenka, On the 10th of March an engagement, it adds, took place near Radora '.with the insurgents under Filipowski. A despatch from Breslau Btatcs that, an insurgent detachment of 500 infantry and 40 cavalry had crossed from Eastern Prussia into the kingdom of Poland, near Koachlau. It subsoquently had a sanguinary engagement with the Russians at Lapinbzka. 'Another band of Polish insurgents raised in the district of Ncidcnburg, in tho province of East Prussia, and consisting of sharpshooters and cavalry, had crossod the river Wolde, on the Polish •"frontier, and penetrated into the kingdom. A Warsaw letter says: — "A terriblo but authentic- piece of news has come to hand. In * the western portion ofthe government of Warsaw aro three villages, almost exclusively inhabited by Russian peasants, only a few families of Poles remaining thero. An official report states that all these latter have been massacred without cxcep-i tion by tho Bussian peasants, who also set fire to the houses of their victims. Tho cure of tho Catholic church, tho only ono remaining in the villages, shared tho fate of his parishoners, having . been thrown into tho (lames by the Russians."