Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-10-04
Correspondence Of the Newark Daily Adver
Row, Aug. II, 1855.

l. hE1GN OF LEhhOh - NArLkS. uS
recent atrocities of the Neapolitsr
tyranny have awakened the adherence
of Europe, and one is almost as much
amazed by the franticness as the atroci-
ty of its conduct, so much more do its
proceedings resemble madness than the
cool calculation of assured reason. In
moment of apparent calm, with nc
sign in the sky, the poor cataleptie ma
ton speechless as death, the cowardly
sovereign seems suddenly smitten with
frightful visions, and forthwith the
country is startled with the desperate
old French watchword-Let terror be
the order of the dayl For nothing less
than this is the "Secret Circular
haply revealed through some official in
fidelity, though the betrayal of tyranny
is fealty to humanity, issued by the
chiefs of police to their subordinates
throughout the kingdom. Setting forth
in a wholly gratuitous preamble that
the "war in the East" with which Ma
pies, happy and tranquil, has nothing
to do, is stimulating demagogues TO
disturb the people with fallacious hopes
of political changes, it proceeds to de-
scribe a system of espionage and sum-
mary cruelty without parallel in our
day.
One poor fellow, a respectable shop
keeper, named Lorenzo, was violently
dragged before the Commissioner of the
Bastinado, the other day, for having
delayed half an hour to obey police
summons to give testimony in case, in
consequence of the momentary absence
of his clerk from the shop, and SEN
fenced to receive one hundred blows Of
the bastinado. Stretched half naked
upon the Cavalette, a sort of wooden
horse, in the open area in front of the
police Office, the blows were administer
ed, fresh blood starting at every repeti-
ton, until nature succumbed, and he
was hurried into the hospital for medi-
cal treatment, but was too far gone to
recover. The very next morning, seven
others received from thirty to fifty blows
in the same way for expressing their
sympathies. .-
During the evening these terrible ex-
cesses were naturally enough the sub
ject of a cautious deprecatory conver-
sation at the Marquis VS. weekly
soiree, in which hope and belief were
expressed that the King, just now in
the country, would not approve of them.
Some three or four gentlemen dissented,
remarking that the Court is tormented
with fears of the Bonaparte dynasty,
and the supposed design to restore the
Murat family in Naples, which the
Jesuits are believed to favor, and of
which long boards are alleged to be a
sign. This, it was replied, is one of
the tricks of hirellng menials, to secure
favor and promotion, by show Of loyal
ty, &c.
The four dissidents, gentlemen of
rank and family, were seized, on leav-
ing the house about midnight, imprison-
ed till morning. and then sent out of
the country by the steamer leaving for
the North, and they are now in this city.
The Marquis, who is the personal friend
of one of the kings brothers, was
warned to suspend bis soirees, and it
is quite probable that other gentlemen
present have been disciplined. For
some sixty members of the social circle
were brought before the police some
days before for attending the funeral of
a friend, SignOr Cesare, an accomplished
lawyer, and son of a distinguished
member of Parliament under the Con-
stituIion of l848.
The house of the afflicted family was
visited Immediately after the funeral by
a police committee, and the inmates of
it subjected to the most painful inquisi-
ton touching the conversations and cir
cumstanccs of the sick room, the friends
who were present from day to day, &C.,
without one word of political hersey be-
ing revealed. Nevertheless, two of
these who had watched with their dy-
ing friend, literary gentlemen, who,
since the fall of the constitution of '49,
have abstained wholly from politics,
were banished from the country, the
physicians who attended him, and six
young noblemen, whose carriages form
ed part of the funeral cortege, were
severally taken to different country set
Elements, and required TO keep within
their respective limits for three monthsl
One of these is son-in-law of Prince
Torella, who repaired Immediately to
the royal residence at Gaets for an ap-
peal to the King, but, for the first time
in his life, was refused an audience.