The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-25 00:00:00

TURKEY.

THE oholera is spreading at Constantinonl.. The total
number of oases that have proved fatal is 32 in the naval
hospital and 11 in the city. Strict sanitary measures
have been adopted.

EGYPT.

A DVICES from Alexandria to the 14th inst. show a
decided decrease in the mortality resulting from
cholera. Advices from Corfu announce that the island
is perfectly healthy, and that there are no sick even in the
Laazaretto. A quarantine of two days will be imposed
upon all an ivals from &pima and Constantinople.

SWITZERLAND.
Farm, ACCIDENT TO TOURISTB.—OD the 14th July a
party of five persons ascended Mont Cervin, or Matter-
horn, successfully. While descending, however, one
of them made a false step and fell, drawing two others
of the party and the guide after him. All four persons
immediately rolled down ehe side of the mountain,
mid fell over a precipice 4,000 feet deep. The names
of the unfortunate gentlemen who have perished are
Lord Francis Douglas 19 years old, Mr. Haddo, and
Mr. Charles Hudson, of the London Alpine Club. The
name of the guide is Cron The bodies have not yet
been recovered.

PRUSSIA.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —A colli,ion took plsoe at
Buckan on Sunday nightsbetween a passenger train and
a goods train. The locomotive, tender, and six paa.
conger carriages were shattered to pieces. Thirteen
persons were killed and many wounded.

AMERICA.
THIS EXICCITIO)

THE last act of the terrible tragedy, whose opening
st,ne convulsed the nation and shocked the world on
the 14th of April last, has closed. Four of the con-
spirators are in their nameless graves, three on their
way to • life-long imprisonment, and one has breathed
the free air for the last time in six years. The findings
and sentence of the court-martial were forwarded to the
President on June 27; his approval thereof was given
to the public, and communicated to the prisoners on
Thursday, July 6, and the sentence was carried into
effect next day. At 2 o'clock, July 7, Mary E. Surratt,
Lewis Thornton Powell, David E. Harold, and George
A. Adzerodt were hanged in the court-yard of the Old
Penitentiary at Washington.
Of
(or Pay.
question.

. the custice of the. sentence as concerned Powell
Payne,) Harold, and Adzerodt, there can be no
union. As it oonoerned that.iridow Surratt, there is
strongest reason for doubt Of the extraordinary
d shocking inhumanity 4 hurrying these wretched
,eople to the grave, with barely 24 hours' warning,
there cannot be two opinione
Much es they had conducted themselves in the pri-
soners' box they conducted themselves upon the scaffold.
In their long and weary trial they had displayed the
marked features of their characters •, and one knew well
enough how they would die. Mrs. Surratt gave way he
tears, and sobbed with womanly sobs when told of her
fate. She dal not make vain appeals for mercy, nor did
she seek to avert the dreadful punishment; all she asked
for was four days' time in which to prepare for death.
Powell (or Payne) received the blow without a quiver.
He had fully expected it, sod it had no power to move
him. Harold wept and groaned, and assumed an
ephemeral dignity and then broke down again and
showed himself then, BO theretofore, a weak and silly
boy. Adzerodt diwulayedthe cringing craven, whining
and crouching, and begging fog mercy. He was a pitiful
wretch, steeped with cowerdiee, possessed of firmness
of no sort—a mere wet towel of a man.
The eight before the execution was passed by the
condemned in the company of their relatives and
spiritual attendants. All had messages to send—last
words to say ; all had sins to confess. None dept, not
even the mysterOns Powell; he remained all night with
the clergyman of his choice. The most affecting scenes
were witnessed in the cell of Mrs. Surratt. Hcr
daughter, Annie, was with her almost constantly, and
the cries and slim of the two wretched women marked
all the hours of that weary darknen. Between mother
and daughter an unusual effeotion existed. Although
' Barrett is 22 years of age, it is evident from her
so not during her examinstion before the military ,
mission, and since, that ake-,was as dependent upon
her Mother as A lisping child. She was, beyond doubt,
ihIS mother's pet—the spoiled child of the family. With
earls dawn she left her mother's cell and proceeded to
the White House. Finding it impossible to communicate
with the President or Mrs. Johnson, or Mrs. Patterson,
. the daughter of the President, she asked, finally, for
liberty to °outer with the President's military seeretary,
Chime al Unsay, and this request was sooeded to. With
lairs streaming down her face, and in heart-broken ac-
cents, she entreated the Feneral to intercede for the life
of her mother. "She is innocent! she is innocent!
I know she i 8 innocent! she is too good a woman to
commit such a crime !" exclaimed the poor girl. Of
wary., the officer was powerless to help her, anti told
her, as gently as possible, that all such efforts were me.
les;. . MIMI Serrate at last obtained access to the Beet.
roan of the White House, where she sat several hours
begging of every coiner to speak for her to the President.
Finely, she returned to her mother's cell, and there
, remained for an hour and more, after which she again
drove to the White House and repeated her vain at-
tempts to gain a respite for the condemned woman.
Finding all her tears, lamentations, and entreaties of
no avail, she flung herself at lest upon the stone door-
steps, and there sobbed and sobbed In the agonies of her
despair. Here she remained prone upon the marble
slabs for some moments • when suddenly recollecting that
,that the hour of her motlier's death had well-nigh arrived,
. obe hastened back to Mrs. Serrates cell, and there re-
mained until the condemned woman was pinioned and
taken to the scaffold. She kissed her mother through
the dusky veil for the last time, and then sank upon the
ground to fill the dungeon with only such cries as a
heart lacerated by such hitter wounds could give. Mrs.
Surratt's last message to a gentleman who visPed her in
her cell was, "Good-bye: take care of Annie."
The two sisters of young Harold strove with equal
pertinacity to secure a respite; but their efforts were
perfectly unavailing. Then they devoted themselves to
tender ministrations to their wretched brother, and were
with him until be was marched out to die.

Pe*
th,