The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-07-12

HORRIBLE SCENE.-We have already
published ,elegraphic account of The execu
ton of Adams and Delisle, in New Orleans, on
the I'd. We take following details from the
Delta:
After the reading of the document, the mur.
derers stood up-the fatal moose was 6xed-and
Antoine DeIisie continued his passionate asse.
verok0ns.
II am innocent" he cried, but not in an ap
pealiug bu, rather in bullying, defiant s,raiu
IL am innocent OF the crime. | did not com.
nit the murder. | am punished unjustly. |
was seduced into the robbery, but / had no.
thing to do with the crime OF which | am &C
cused. | was born in America, but have
French blood in my veins"
Here the Priest approached, and whispered
some words of earnest remonstrance, but De-
Isle turned from him, and continued his extra
ordinary harangue.
81 am not afraid to die. | have nothing to
fear. But you are Furnishing the innocent.
will die like brave man since | die for the
honor of the French fagn'
Oh, Giory-idol of the grand nation" how
| many shapes dost thou assume! Thou art IA
very Proteus. and it is hand TO understand thy
metamorphoses. AT one time, thou art a god
dess with radiant brow-at another, prosti-
tute with murderers nature.
Adam, meanwhile was silent and depressed.
He had no word TO say, and sought not the
glory of murderer's eioquence, but let US
charitably hope. that ne prayed IN his heart.
All the while a black cloud hung in the
northwest, ominous, terrible dark. Ii moved
SLOWLY onwards, and mo, ed in the direction of
the scatfod. At length its edge rested over
the drop, Just as the doomed ones stood upon
it, as i, frowned for minute us if impatient of
delay, and then scattered in blaze of light
ming, accompanied by roll OF thunder which
shook the city. Read the omen as you will, it
| touched not the hearts OF the spectators With
fear. They stood their ground, and, unlike the
Parisians, even the heavy rain, which descend
ed IN torrents, did not cause them to leave the
scPne of such intense excitement.
| In the thick Ofthe storm the bolt was drawn
| ana the two miserable creatures descended at
II bound. And all was over? No, impatient
reader the moose was not fixed sk,ltuliy, and
| It slipped so that the two men were not killed
| bat only dashed 10 the earth, bruised. senseess
and bleeding Ii you read the fact with as
| much disgust, as we write il, we do not envy
| your sensations.
| What next?
The people rushed forward, not TO rescue the
! doomed, but TO see what the accident was.-
| The police charged Oh them with their glitter
ing crescents aud formidable baions, and all
was quiet again.
on. and restored to animation by various means.
Again they were brought out, after the lapse
of few minutes, and mounted the scufiold, as
before.
Delisle walked as fearlessly as ever. Adam
seemed to have his arm smashed. f'e for
n.er, noticing the blood on the shirt of ihe lat
ter. calnily turned to him and asked" How
comes the blood there y Adam answered
| not; and they stood upon the trap again.
A pause--a pust-a struggle, aud al last
they were in eternity.
And 50 closed the tragedy. The spectators
yawned, and most of tneai went to take a
drink" LII The curtain fall, aud let us restrain
our disgust, il We can.
! AsorHER TRAGEDY.-The Alexandra La
/ Democrat, states ihat Mr.. Samuel uisnli ana
| sioses Virgins, citizens OF Catalonia fafish'
| wrrr allied near trinity on the 2ist uil., Us
they "ere proceeding 10 thar placein buggy
! Thirteen shots were fired III Them by men &c.
crsied IN the high weeds. Glenn received
| three balls through the head, and fell out ol
the buggy dead. Virgins received shot
| which ranged along the breast, when he jump
| ed out and attempted to make. his escape by