The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-10


the Archbishop Of Paris, upon his leaving the cour
for the prison and afterwards says:
The door of the Conc;esgerie In the direction O,
the court was opened, and keeper passed, carry
ing under bis arm.a large bundle, containing
Fergers clothes Some minutes after q man app
peared bis face was pale and emsciated and be
wore the gray yellow prison dress. 1t was verger
lie looked detected and sad and those who saw
the convict at the Court of Assize could scarcely
recognise him. He crossed the small interior
court without speaking, and moved forward fol
lowed by his keepers, To the old entrance Of the
Conciergerie. There the prison van was drawn
up He entered the carriage, which concealed him
from all eyes, and the vehicle, escorted by gen
darmes moved off to the'prison of La Roauette
A copy OF the Indictment was presented to Ver-
ger previous to the trial, hRd made several correc
tions in it, and signed it With his initials, IL. W.
Among other alterations, he struck out the words
setting forth that the alton he used on strik
ing the Archbishop was n bas les deesses," and
insisted that it was Vi 6as les Genocetaias " (rhe
Genovefains are the ch4plains CT ST. Genevieve.)
in another place, where the copying clerk had
made the blunder of spelling outet (altar) hotel
eerger corrected the mistake asd wrote in the
margin "Ane" (assD
THE AssAssIN's PORTRAIT.
We are assured" says the assemble Natioany,,
TT "a the brother of Verger went on Friday to the
Oonelergerie with an artist and requested the di-
rector OF the prison to Allow biz to have The nor
trait OF the assassin taken. The permission rv
very properly refused, on which he cried out that
since the portrait of the Archbishop was sol every
"nere, ne could not understand why he should be
refused lermission to sell that OF his brother
THE PETITION TO THE EMPEROR
The petition which Verger has addressed to the
Emperor fills four pages, ard displays some lite
rary ability, but IL humble and suppiiant ia tone
1t, however. shows that the petitioner considers
himself different from the rest of mankind, and
believes in his own infabty He declares in
the course of it, that Christianity reouires reeene
ration, aud that the inferior clergy ought to be
enfranchised from the yoke of the higher He
declares. too, that he looks on himself as the Peter
the Hermit of new crusade; and that, being
determined to announce his mission BY coup d
etat, he had selected for his victim the bi-hest
dignitsry of the Church. He. however adds that
his condemnation to death has not surprised him
as great judicial manifestation was required for
80 ilustrious death, but that that bare manifes-
taton is sufficient satisfaction to social order and
that 10 go beyond it would be unjust and impol;tic
He therefore prays that instead of being pus to
death, he may be subjected to noble and hoaor-
able exile! He received the chaplain of the
koquette prison yesterday aad to-day, and con-
versed for some time with him. Though he still
wears the straig wasted coat as precauton ary
means against any attempt at self destruction, vet
every facility is given him to write whenever he
feels so disposed. H. writes a great deal. and
among other DOCKS which be wanted, be asked
o-day, for Latin Bible, which was mmediataly
given to him. Notwithstanding his calmpess he
gets animated, and even excited when the con
versation Is prolonged. His constant thought and
favorte topic of conversation is the result of his
appeal to the Court of Casa ion which will prs
baby be decided to morrow,
When the officer arrived at the prison of the
Conciergere to transfer the convict to the Roauette
Verger, in tears took leave of all his keepers He
wished, be said to embrace them all for their at,
tention to him. He had advanced towards the
door, when he returned again to the table and
asked that the four q1ires of paper which he had
written during his imprisonment might be placed
in his b lnds.
''ls Is mne;" said he, ''it is my property am al
liberty to bequeath it to whom pleas Twill
bequeath it to my brother Frederic. Some day or
other it will be worth more than GOO OOOf" One
of the registrar clerks WHO had written for him
under bis dictation siace his conviction, and to
whom he expressed his gratitude and regret that
he had nothing to offer him, asked him for an au l..
tograph. Verger took advantage of a moment
when his hands were free 20 allow lin to sign An
official paper, and wrote the followipg:-
II have several times seen N. r., who has had
the extreme kindness to visit me in my prison.
Il thank him for 1t, as well as for the amiable
and cOnsolatory words he has addressed me-
God never forgets good action, however tri.
fling it may be, and He regards that which ia done
for the least of His servants as favo- to Himself
Il. VERGER,
"Vinctus pro Xto (pro Christo)
"Conciergerie, 18th January, 1857"
INCIDENTS
After having taken leave of the keeper Verger
was preparing to leave, but at that moment he
manifested intense anxiety. He believed they
were concealing the truth, and he repeatedly asked
whether his removalfrom the Conciergere hs d not
some other motive than a change Of prison On
being answered that it had not he took courage,
but when he was ascending the vaA and saw a
crowd in the court, he cried, tThey are deceivinc
me; il is certain that am being removed for the
purpose of executing mel Oh, yesl 1 have no
doubt now but am about to be executed" " Me-
replied the officer, you are as you were already
told, to be taken to the prison of La Roquette."-
TIL reply did not appear to satisfy him. he was
ghsstly pale and it was with some difficulty he
could mount into the Vau, where he was placed
with an nfficer in the fore part The other CON .
partmeDts were occupied by other copvicts des
tined for the same prison. As soon us Yer ger was
seated the position drove off towards La koquette
During the entire drive Verger was pre.occu pied
with the idea that he as being led to execute n,
and incessantly demanded that the officer should
assure hlm il solemn manner that il was not SO.
Swear to me before God" said Verger tta.
you are not taking me to the guilotiue-that am
net about to be executed" He was answered
with the same affirmations. but he still thought
those answers were dictated by humanity, for he
added, Do not fear to afiict me- for the certainty
of my end would cause me less pain than to be in
doubt." 1t was wi this feeling that he arrived
in the courtyard of La Roquette at quarter to 5
O'Clock Having quilted the van, Verger cast a
i'ok TUuuu Qllil, anu UQQlng Wnat the Ofucer
said was true, he apologized for his incredulity,
and again took courage. He was then placed in
one of the three cells allotted to con vcts under
sentence of death 1t was last occupied by the as
sassin Dombey, and pre- viously by convict who
on hearing that his sentence was commuted was
attacked with congestion of the BRAIN and died a
few days after. On entering the cell, Verger ex
amined 1t carefully, and appeared in some degree
to recover his self possession.
He anxiously demanded whether he might pro
cure the same food as he Was accustomed to a. the
Conciergerie, and he again solicited the favor
which could not be granted of being freed from the
strait waistcoat please to request the Prefect o
Police TO grant me that favor" added he "be as.
sured that have no intention either to escape oi
to kill myself Moreover, am not 50 well guarded
that such an attempt would be impossible. Ii il
were known what a torture 1t is TO man like me
to whom continual labor is necessity, am Ger
tain that he would dispense with it. See my posi-
tion. am sentenced to death. In few days. per.
haps, the sentence will be executed but previou
to that have some preparations to make. l wsf
to make my will, to regulate the interests of N,
heirs &C., and cannot do so, because 1t is IMPOSE
BILE for me to write" He wss given to understand
that the regulators in that imperative
but that his request should be forwarded to the
proper quarter and this promise appeared to satisfy
him. However that may be, the detection whicl
has come over him since his conviction is far from
being dspelled, although he 7lept more TRANQUILITY
on Monday night, but again yesterday he becam,
much agiiated, and the preservation of his life ap
pears to occupy ali his thoughts
THE NEw ENGLISH TREATY.-The Washing