Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-13

that cost him the labor of many months,
his only TOOL being the buckle ofhis waist
band.
Al Length a fortunate OVERLOOKING ofthe
Seine occasioned his removal to a room
in one of the towers not, however,
through any consideration for him, but
in %onsequenc of The rcmonsirances of
his iailer, who complained that he was
obliged 10 wade through the water when
he conveyed food 10 his prisoner. Al
though one of the worst apartments in
the Bastile, the new abode of Masers was
u palace to the dungeon he had left yet
he could not help regretting his separa.
lion from the friendly rats, by which his
weary hours had been beguiled. As a
substitute he succeeded in catching a pair
of pigeons that sometimes perched on his
window but just as he had effected u
good understanding between himself and
his captives, his brutal turnkey insisted
on killing them.
In April, 1854, the M%archioness Of
~Pompadour died, but her death brought
no mitigation to the sufferings Of the un-
fortunate Masers. Her heirs had infu-
ence enough 10 continue his imprison-
ment, instigated by fear that if he should
be released he would bring his action a.
gainst them and recover damages for his
wrongs. They found a willing instru-
ment in Monster de Sartine, who was
now lieutenant of police, and The impris-
onment of Masers continued as rigorous
as ever.
In August, 1894, he was again convey
ed TO V~incennes and thence he again
con'rived to escape fifteen months aiter-
ward. Within little more than Two
months he was again arrested, ~reconvey-
cd TO Vincennes, and there placed in a
horrible dungeon, only six feet square,
into which no ray of light entered, or
breath Of fresh air. ave when the door
was opened.
We have not room for an account Of
the crueliies here prac,ised upon him,
and of his ingenious devices to mitigate
their severity, the detail of which would
ill a volume. 1t was moi until after The
lapse Of eleven years that he was %releas-
ed, and even then he was conveyed to a
lunatic asylum, his enemies having i'm.
posed on the benevolent Malesherbee,
who was now minister, a false tale of
his insanity. Here he remained Two
years, and was then released, on condi-
lion that he should Immediately leave
Paris and take up his abode at Montag-
mac, his native place. Unfortunately his
compliance with this condition was not
so prompt as it should have been. He
fingered in Paris TO present a memorial
to the King, soliciting some. compensa-
ton for his sufferings, and The conse-
quence was that he was again afiesied,
and confined in the Bicetre, the yilest of
all criminal prisons in Paris, where he
remained nearly four years, suffering
dreadfully from disease, vermin and filth.
and reduced 10 such a state that he court
ed death as a release from torment.
At length the time Of his emancipation
arrived; and it was to the zeal and perse-
verance of a noble-hearted woman that
he owned it. A memorial which Ma
sers had written, a, the suggestion Of one
of the judges who had become interested
in his story, was dropped in the street by
a careless messenger TO whom it had
been intrusted, and was picked up by a
young female, Madame Legros, the wife
of a teacher, and herself carrying on
busin ess in u small way as a mercer
The envelope was torn by lying in the
wet, and Madame LeeroS read the paper
in which the sufferings Of Masers were
briefly set forth. Her feelings were
strongly excited by the narrative, and
from that m she devoted herself,
with an enthusiasm of benevolence that
wears the character of sublimily, TO the
task of rescuing the unhappy prisoner
from his dungeon. For three wears she
persisted, in the face of discouragements
such as might well overcome even a res.
olute spirit. She had to endure priva-
lions, losses, and atrocious calamities;
was reduced 10 sell her ornaments, and
part of her furniture, and to subsist on
hard and scaniy fare; yet she never pau
sed for q moment from the pursuit of
her object, nor was ever heard 10 utter a
regret that she had engaged in it. With.
out relations, fortune or assistance, she
undertook everything, and shrank from
no danger or fatigue. She forced her
way 10 the levees of ministers who alter
nately excited and extinguished her
hopes-received her kindly and drove
her away with rudeness-yet she never
ialtered, and at each repulse renewed
her efforts with additional vipor. When
within two months Of her confinement
she went from Paris to Versailles on
loot, in the depth of winter-returned ex-
hausted with disappointment;-worked
more than half the night to gain the
means of subsistence for the following
day. and then repaired again to Versailles,
win a toriiiude that no toll could weaken
and no denial overcome.
Al length her noble efforts were re.
warded with SUCCESS. AGe. ,hir,u-6un