Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-10-10

Does Pain accompany ,Stransulation
Hanging by the neck. says the Boston
Evening Ledger, in public, is generally
considered TO be not very agreeable but
this7Hotfon. it Is likely is a. vulgar error
In one of the late British Quarterlies, a
writer who "takes the other side, i" says
''An acquaintance of Lord Bacon, who
meant to hang himself only partially, lost
his footing and was cut down in the last
extremity, having nearly paid for his GU
riosity with his life. He declared he felt
no pain, and that his only sensation y as
Of fire before his eyes which changed first
to black aud then to blue. These ;colors
are,even source of. pleasure. A Cap
tain Montognac. who was hung in France
during the religious wars, and rescued
from the gibbet at the intercession of Wis
count Fureuuei complained that, having
lost all pain in an instant, he had been
taken from a light IN which the charm de-
6edaeseriptiens { &aJv ~ wa
Another criminal, who escaped by the
breaking of the 6erd. d.1said that after Sc
cond OF suffering a. FIRE appeared. and
across it the most beautiful aVenuef Of
trees. Henry w. Of France, SEN" his
physicians to question him, and when
mention was made Of a pardon. the man
replied that it was not worth the asking.
The uniformity dEhedescription rem
ders it useless to multiply the instances ;
they till pages in every book Of medical
Jurisprudence. All agree that the unea-
siness is quite momentary-that a pleasu-
rable feeling Immediately succeeds-that
cOlors of,various hues start up before the
sight-and thar having been gazed on for
a trivial space the rest is oblivion. The
mind. averted from the reality OFF the sit
uation, islengageda in scenes. the most re.
mote from that which fills the eye of the
spectator-the vile ra6ble. the hideous
gallows, and the struggling form that
swings il aIis she {. wind p h b lnsIaa5rasg3
The last forfign Papsrs, give long and
particular account of a singular attempt
about month ago. to commit murder Sin
GeEmspy. Al, elderly sqd feeble, lady.
of some fortune. bad a favorite and long
tried waiting woman, in whom she had
Implicit confidence. One day the house in
which she resided was alarmed by occa-
sional half-smothered outcries of one evil
dently in great distress. Finally, after q
considerable time, some of the neighbor-
ing lodgers' rushed into the apartment Of
the lady, where they found the servant
understanding over her mistress. who was
in bed. trying to smother her with. pillows
and blankets. The maid as carried in
to the presence Of person who diSpenses
justice, and, after examination. she was
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.
She confessed her crime, and then it was
found that sheE hadE a. lover in another
town, and that, in order. to dmarry him,
she had resolved to commit murder and
carry of what gold and. other valuables
we're then in the possession of her, mis-
trPss. -II. La, 4., -.,-.s y .. ..s..- ...-
In this attempt at murder there is cor
roborstion Of the facts laid down, in the
above extract from the British Quarterly
While the mistress was struggling to re-
sist the wicked attempt Of her servant.
she felt no pain. but rather pleasure
Pleasant scenes crowded together without
regard to time, as in ordinary dreams,
flnted before her mental vision, and, alto
gether. she confessed that it was not un'
pleasant to be choked within hairs
breadth of death-and that she was SC
near as that to the door Of the inexorable
master of life. was testified to by all the
witnesses who saw her. and.