New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-15

ever elOsely packed upon the foors, but forced By
turns portion TO stand while the rect sought re-
pose. Everywhere were the republicans subjected
10 the fortunes of inqsisitord dungeons Ike these,
wet, cold. totally dark-in single one Of which
hundred and forty brave gentlemen were
crammed together like the victims IN asve-snip,
never allowed to take of their clothes for twenty
days at time, TIL most of them were raving 10
fevers, preyed on BY yermin and dying Of the itch.
What have reverend historians of the Abbott
school to say Of these acts Of wretch to glut his
vengeance on all who denied his right TO wear
crown Acts that sent to the tomb as many
a. did the guIotine in the Reign Of Terror, and
ssn. beside = hundred thousand to dungeons
and exile,
From the day of the coup f6sttill after the usurper
assumed the title of Napoleon Ill, for more than
a wear the innumerable arrests continued and the
prisons still were gorged. Never before, not even
under the empire of the first Bonaparte, had indi-
yidual liberty been so shamelessly abandoned 10
the caprice of the police. No man when he rose
q. morn could foretell whether he would sleep that
night in she bosom of his family or in the compan-
ionship Of elons in prison OF " the ssVlon Oh
society"
Soon after the corp dtiat decree signed by
PersiOny, St. Arnaud, and Abbatucci, of course
made without shadow of legal authority, was
published, constituting mixed commissions" 10
try political prisoners-the masses OF Republicans
then in Jail. BY this decree these mixed Commits
soners consisting of Protects, Sub-Preiects, Gene
rails. Colonies and District-Attorneys' were en-
uowered with absolute authority to condemn to
whichever of the following degrees of punishment
they thought fit. according to their conscience,
or to set at liberty all such prisoners.
Ito capital trial by the Council of War.
9-To transportation TO Cayenne.
ADMINISTRATION TO Algers.
TO exile from France. go
5-To temporary exile lhmiS
Ito an obligation To reside within prescribed
TO be sent before the Correctional Police
s-To be put under police surveillance.
The form of trial before these Commissioners
was brief. 1t usually consisted of three questions
TO the prisoner followed BY his sentence-or rather
two assertions and an interrogatory:
You took part in the outbreak ~
"You are member of a secret society,""
GLOW did YOU spend your time on the 2d, Sd AMI 4h
| OF December
There were generally no witnesses, and II the
answers of the accused showed he had committed
no act. then he was questioned to his opn-
IONS The noble patriotic Republicans of course
avowed their sentiments. This was enough to in
sure condemnation When sentenced to transport
alton their property was generally sequestrated
and the spoils of such robbery shared with the
church. Prisoners who would not answer these
questions and denounce their fellow-members wero
sometimes put to kind of torture, such as con-
finenent in totally dark, icy-cold, wet, and filthy
dungeons NJ. Guaunim a gentleman over o0
years of age, residing in the village Trevol, was
thus tortured Many died under these cruelties.
In ne prisons of Chartres, st. Armand, Clancy,
and Moulins, the prisoners were all subjected to
this kind of torture. The cruelties of the prison at
Joigny were such that fftyfour of the Republicans
had to be removed to the hospitals, only few days
after their incarceration commenced.
In all parts Of France the Republicans were
marched to and from prisons chained together like
robbers, or tied with ropes, and surrounded by
soldiers with fixed bayonets and loaded arms, who
urged on the sick and wounded with blows. In
the department of Var, sixty Republicans were
marched to the fort at ToulOn, not only with
their arms pinoned, but in couples bound with
slip nOOses about their necks in such manner that
any sudden jerk or attempt at escape would pro-
duce strsngulation. NJ NORM of BrignOes was
one Of these patriots. He is now in exile, and
preserves a relic the rope that bound his neck.
Prisoners were also marched in the department of
Nevre with cords about their necks in this man
ner. In many prisons the Republicans were con;
fined in chains.
Of the eighty-six Departments thirty-two were
under martial law. Drum-head court-martials
were the only courts Of first or last resort. Our
limits will Dot allow us to describe the mode in
which the military assassns dispensed justice or
to afford TRANSACTIONS of their infamous decrees-
such as that of Gen. Eynard made at Moulns, De-
cember 1e, 1851, confscating the property of the
republicans who had been arrested. Robberes TO
the amount of millions were perpetrated 10 all
quarters in this manner. Here is q couple of ex-
amples of the mode in which the robbers pursued
the busineas:
The Council of War at Aler condemned a re-
publican named Fagot to death. and his property
to "sequestration'-the mild term the robbers
habituslly employed. He made his escape out Of
France but his property, to the amount of over
500, coo francs, was seized by these protectors of
Religion, Family Property" and appropriatedto
| their own uses.
Doctor Lacheverie, Physician-in-C Chief Of the
Hospital at Clancy, a noted republican, hearing
he would be arrested, escaped out of France. His
| wife was turned out of bis house. which was Oc-