THE END OF THE POLISH INSUREECTION.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 80, 6 December 1864, Page 3

THE END OF THE POLISH INSUREECTION.

(From the . Times) 'Warsaw, Aug. 5. The final scene of a melancholy drama was played to an end to-day. The last chief of. the celebrated Polish National government' and four"' of its membersdied this mornirig upon the gallows. The unfortunate victims were Komauld Trangutt, a discharged Russian Coloriel | Krajewski, an architect ; Joseph Toczyski, a book-keeper ; Zulinski, a teacher at the Gymnasium ; and Johann Jezioranski, a tax-collector; all young men, none over 30 years of age. , Originally 22 men and four women were sentenced to death by the military tribunals, but the Viceroy pardonedt 17 of the men aud all the. women. It must not be imagined, however, that the objects of Coune Berg's "clemency have much reason to congratulate themselves, for their sentences have been commuted partly into many years of labor in the Siberian mines, partly to shorter periods of confinement in fortresses in the same bleak and. inhospitable couutry. The official " Dziennik " of yesterday gives a detailed account of the whole prosecution, and furnishes many interesting particulars of the manner in which tho insurrectionary government was carried on. The following are extracts : — -a*-. •, " Owing to the discoveries made by the Alihtary Investigation Committee, and the increased activitv'of the Warsaw pol ; ce, numbers of -persons concerned m "the revolutionary organisation ware arrested at the beginning of the year, and an extensive revolutionary correspondence was seized. Upon inspection of the documents and examination of the prisoners/further arrests were undertaken, which, combined with information already obtained, rendered it possible to gain possession of the chiefs of the insurrection. The investigation which then took place brought to b>ht the main details of the organisation, and tho action of the secret society, or, so-called, National Government, standing at the head of the movement." " The National Government operated by means of a special central organisation in vVarsaw, and of local administrations in tho eight woywodeslnps into which the rebels had divided the kmgdom of Poland. Up to the 10th, 1863, the Government was composed of only a small council, the composition ana arrangement of which was veiled in the deepest mystery. After that date an entire change took place, one chief being recognised as the fmmediate and independent leader of the entire resolution. This chief was the discharged Lieutenant- Colonel Eomauld Tradgutt,_ formerly leader of an insurgent corps in Lithuania. After iht dispersion of his followers he lied to Cracow, whence he went to Warsaw, ostensibly as traveller for a mercantile firm under the assumed name of Michael Czarneche. _ t "The Warsaw central organisation, as chief or»an of the revolutionary Government, was com-, posed of six departmauts, under different heads — Interior, War, Treasury, Foreign affair?, Public Press, and Police. In addition to its chief, each department had a certain number of subordinate officials and a secretary.' •-Fo.Uo.wing' out the principle adopted in the entire organisation, the members of which each department was composed were unknown to. its chief, and of the chiefs themselves most were 'strangers, to each other.: The local administrations in the woywodeships, whose members were known through the various decrees distributed among the people, coneisted, 1, of commissioners possessmg certain powers ; 2, °t the civil chiefs of the ' woywodeships ; 3, of .chiefs of circles, towns, andeommunes.'V&c.- „, - The Dziennik then gives in some detail a resume of the operations of the National Government to the 10th of Oct., 1863, the date of Trangutt assuming the chief direction of affairs and continues : ' ■ ' "From this period several heads of departments came into personal communication with Trangutt, whom they visited at his lodgings in the house of Helene Kirko w, in Smolna-afcreot. Traugutt also frequently went to tho officials to make arrangements with them. These meetings of the ohiefß ceased in January, 1884, after the. capture of various members. Thenceforth the communication between the different diplomatists was carried on through female agents. "The investigation proved that, besides Trangutt, the chief personages of the revolutionary organization were -the following :— l. Secretary; of ; State, the 'architect Janowski. 2. The Heads of Departments j Interior, Kaphaol Krajewski, noble, aged 29 \ his Secretaries,* Thomas .Jjurzynski and q-ustav Paproi&i ; Treasury, Joseph Toczyski, a book-keeper, formerly bauishod, -aged 87 ; his ■Secretaries. Ilmiki, a noble, aged 50, and Summeki,, noble: aged 19; War, Galpzowski, falsely called 'Golkowicz, Euseiau, a military man ; Foreign Affairs, Dunagoweki, pastor of St. John's Church 5 his Secretary, Woly nski, ' also a clergyman ; Public Press, Waclaw Prybylski, formerly teacher ajt the Wologodzei Gymnasium ; his sGi'Votary, Bofiuslawski, a noble, aged 25 3 Police, Pinkowyki, teacher at the Gymnasium; Wozkowski,' town, daptain, the son of a Warsaw citizen. 3. The Head of tlie Publication Department, Soman Zulinski ;" his secretaries and assistants, August Krzki a noble? aged 25 s ' '. r Eomah jFrankpweki, student at the Warsaw High School, a noble, aged 24 ; Edward Trzebseeki a noble, aged 25 ; Oashmr Hantai, of /Warsaw, 'aged 20. 4. . :■ Iho Commissions* of Ways and Boftdfi, JoUunn 1.-"). :■■■•■ ...-". ■•■*■. „,. - ■'-.'■■■::

Jezioranski, a noble,' aged 30. - s;' Mary on Dobiecki, a ; , noble, aged , 26,: teacher- at, the 3rd District- School in _Warsaw. • ... ■. ■ . y,. " These persons,, with^several culpablb/' in a less degree, had incurred thd penalty of death, but his Excellency confined the/sentence to that., effect , passed by the court-martial only in the cases of the condemned menTranguttjEj'ajewskijToczyski, Zulmski, and Jezioranski. The. sentences of the other prisoners were commuted by his Excellency, by virtue, of the authority placed in his hands,' in Ilmiki's case to 15 year 3 hard labor in theminoa, Dyborcki to 12 years, and eight of the others to 10 years' confinement in Siberian fortresesses, each -prisoner incurring the loss of all civil rights." "The court-martial also found Johann Mucklanowicz, ; Helua Kirkow, .the Emilia and Barbara Gazawska,. arid Anna .Wrbblewska, guilty " of haviiig illegally aided and abetted the rebels. For this; /offence,, Madame KirkoW Mecklanowicz and the Gazawskas were condemned to loss Of civil rights and hard labour in the factories, the former Tor eight years, the others for 'six. Anna 'Wrbblewska, also , losing- her civil (rights, was sentenced to transportation to Siberia. The present j and' future property of the crmripals- was also cdrifiacated to" the use of the State.". ' " " " ! . The five persons condemned to death : wo:-« .executed upon the glacis., of the fortress this morning, although a pardori'was hoped for -to the jlastf moment. They stepped upon the scaflbld firmly, and underwent their fate .--; with perfect resignation ' and compos*ure, in px-esence of an immense crowd of excited spectators. Thus perished the latest victims of the ill-judged arid ill-fated: Polish risirig- of 1863. ./ : ; .// .'/,;. /;//-.