New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-12-28

~. x,ei;sh X Ynd;a sre condemned for having re-
sryfss n cr,,e snd ,isnauM modes of punishment,
h = boS;r men ffon tie mouths 0f cannons, and
y icth Ts sy be very cruel mode Of punishing
nss 6rk 4 q 81 ID means an unusual one anywhere
fssx ~ IA E1phyatea Il is common ~ hanging IN
M w.. WdSnel,, suspected of not being more
3hishfsf their lords, ars thus punlshed, even IN
iS1Sncss, defending their conduct BY argument that
3Ss rs06ire IS have their minds vigorously i'm
ara that any mild form Of death would fail
d pr0iucs ~ desired cibce Perhaps they are
iisii III bst they hin il 10 ast thay lces ii the
M 80 people cf a. gallows the guillosine the
fnk IN ~ thS etahn and the peine forte et csye
ck he1x able 10 Soar tho thought Of any cfuelties
Win which custom has mot made them familiar.
Ena]ara should have had regard TO this occidental
SsSiEns Nj Ssvs sbclshed III forms q punishment
sre IA nr;snfSls fhst could NOT have been justified
81 hone ussces. Then iii would have hsen right,
ana ihe rnr6t have beau cruel ~ she pleased without
in tEe lest degree shocking European Of American
sansjhlitea IA Il 4. no doubt General Concha who
hsd ffv Amarcans shot at once feels his heart sink
within him a the thought OF men being blown from
NE months Of cannon.
Z Horrid forms uf pnnishment are tho rule In the
East ana so II has BEEN there from the beginning Of
ia kistorv a that anartor of the Qobe Offenders
An thrown beforc tigers or trampled to death By ele-
nhants or blown from cannon. OF brnyed in mortars,
s. MI isnoh frorn unh fr imDsled alive ar hung mn
n tSs M, - rasf and starv. r shot WITH arrows. or
0ffsrwise disnosed Of in waysthat shock the Western
mind. Il should seem that the lands that produce
fje ray,e and the eycest beasts Of prev where the
Sssl;asf ns6rs cy, Sshere nstnre e raukiy luxuri
ana rhs,e ia tiser and tha chyn arc fba tynes
n tbss nrnsn i've elsment are als the lands where
ts,s m3si ss Il a tha lowest stani1ard There the
;rs ~ tvrrnts nm riot rs avisinr forms OF torture
fron the spncation 81 which to their victims they
der;ve a exnuiste pleasure The horrors that were
nernatrafsd a Lahore. after the death Of Runieet
Sneh are probably racollected by many OF our read
ers Int ia msst reunarkable instance Of Eastern
crnsifv tlat ~ can now can to mind il the treat.
msnt ~ the family of Eheylspola. who had been first
AS3;vaar - tl,e King 81 Randy in Ceylon by that
K;ne and ~ which a narrative Il civers by Nj. Prd
ham, ir ia Account of Ceylon = vol L, Do. 1856
Aver mentioning some OF the atrocities that were
nersetrxte 81 lie royaI fiend, Mr. Prdham proceeds
e Nv ~ s = Ms 77.7 a7's
Reyoltinr al were these proceedings the SEQUEL fr
Eexceedcd fheIn in atrocitv Hurried along by the
oS of reyence. the tyrant Lost to every feeling q
hnmanitv 8 resolved "a pnnish Eheylapola. who lad
escared thronph hs family which remained in hif
,,osyer and Sentenced the cheSs wife and children
snS III brother Ana vile 10 death-the brother and
ch;iirsn tn "a heheaied and the females to he
rovne In frnnt ri Inc Oueen,s palace and between
the Nsts and Mahs Vishnn ,Dewale. a II to shocl
and jn,nt Inc rods as wen as the sex, the wife o
Ehevianoia and Ma children were brought from
nria1 where thew had heen in charge Of female iai
rrs Ard eliyere over to the executoners, The lady
ith creaf reaoluten nnaintained her own and hel
nnocence and not less her lords. and at The
sams fina Snhmittino ID The KINGS pIeasure. and
cSj0 ~ her Ovn ana her o0sDrin0s lives with The
fsryant hone that Her husbands fate would be bene