The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-05-15 00:00:00

Farirtito.

LOLIS NAPOLSON.—He was the youngest of three
brotben; and he had many cousins—five in i•ne family
—who soood nearer to their uncles throne than him•
self. The eldest of his brothers died in infancy; but
till he was 23 he had an elder brother ; and his early
elanted ambition was altogether of • personal character.
He was not in the first rank of the lionapartesby birth;
he is unlike them in the whole out of his character and
quality of his genius, and he evidently uses his osten-
sible relationship to the first Emperor as • mere charm
over the imagination of his more noisy and excitable
subjects. It is for himself and by himself that lie has
been the Monarch-Adventurer ; and he has used the
Bonapartes generally, and the Emperor in particular, SA
helps to his purpose.—Osice a Week.
A MISHAP oN THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.-011
Saturday morning last • dray was driven to the office of
Adams's Express Company, Cherry-street, and • large
dry-goods but rolled out upon the pavement. The
box was addressed "Mrs. Margaret M. Thomp-
son, care of Leven Coffin, Cincinnati, Ohio."
The driver stated that he was ordered to de-
liver it to the agent of the company, and request
him to have it forwarded as addressed without delay.
He then collected the drayage, and informed the agent
that the person sending it would call round, pay carriage,
and get a receipt. The weight of the box was 2651 b.
The driver of the dray—or of the horse attached to the
dray - then very innocently remarked, "Master, dat's
de curiosest box I ever savr ; for every time I roll it over
the heavy sidetome down." The agent thought it •
curious box too ; but time was pressing, and he sent it
down to the dcpbt of the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, whence it departed on the first train. What could
it contain' What had Mrs. Thompson been getting in
Nashviile! Who could she be! And who was Mr.
Coffin? The swift-winged express did not wait to 'Lek
these questious. It bore the curious box slung towards
its destination, and in dime time landed it at Louisville.
Here it was hastened over to Jeffersonville and hurried
on to Seymour, At Seymour another change of cars was
nenssary, suit as the box was hastily rolled from the
Jeffersonville to the Cincinnati and tit. Louis train, the
top accidentally came off, and out popped—what ! For
the life of you you couldn't guess. A startled crowd
gathered around to see, and, to their surprise, it turned
out to be • full-grown negro HUH ! Hers was a discovery
in which there was something of the serious and a
little more of the ludicrous. The negro perspired hugely
—his eyes rolled up and down like one near the gate of
the hereafter—but the fresh air soon revived him. In
changing the box from the Louisville to the Jefferson•
vine cars it had been turned up so that be was head
downwards, and thus he made the trip from Jefferson.
ville to Seymour, nearly 50 miles. But for the mishap
at Seymour in • few hours he might have been delivered
in Cincinnati, probably to be buried—probably to take a
farther trip on the underground railroad Canada-ward.
The negro was taken beck to Louisville. He belongs to
Mr. Newton M'Clure, of this city, and was shipped by a
free negro named Nathan James. Whether James had
any accomplices or not we are not informed. The matter
will be thoroughly sifted, and we suspect some agent of
the negro stealers will be found to have had a hand
in it.

EIICUTION OF POLVIICAL 01,7[NDERS In Bt•LIN IT
ml G•ROTTZ.—The late insurrection in Spain has
made buy work for the executioner ; and had it not
been for the amnesty not only would the executions
have been military, such as the shooting of General
Ortega, but, in all probability, many of the more bum-
ble partisans in the movement would have ended their
, days by the garotte. In EnAland there is • large party ,
, who would do away with capital punishment as being a
disgusting exhibition, and calculated to have any other
effect upon those who witness it but the one intended.
But, alter all, our mode of disposing of criminals is not
by any means so repulsive as that employed by Spain.
The culprit is brought on to a raised platform, in the
centre of which rises a stake. A chair is Oao.W against
this, and the "patient* (if we may used the word) is
seated upon it. An iron collar is then passed round hie
neck to the back of the stake, and by means of a screw
tightened till the vertebralcohnlin is dislocated; aud all
this hideous performance without even so much as a
cap drarn over the sufferer's face to conceal the nosy
he aodaric