Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-12-31
4 NuapOiStan Dungeon.

Englishmen will not have forgotten the of Baron
Nicotera who took possession of the Cagar and land
ed with handful Of men at Sapri, and fellow
prisoner with our cOuntrymen Watt and Park. The
following letter gives details Of his fate -" The
King spared the life of Nicotera (says the writer for
no other purpose than to make him die by degrees ter
rble death. The cNecutoner would have taken him
from suffering in d moment but he would have rescued
him too rapidly from his er0cOus taOns he wished feed
upon his agones, and appointed him as the victim of
slow and fearful death. Instead of mprisonng him in
the Ergastoo of San Stefano whittier the law consigned
him. he shut him up in the worst dungeon OF the Vicar
ial at Naples afterwards he threw him into the A
byss Of the fearful Coumbaja of Trapani and lately
that is to say at the beginning of Octoberhe shut him
up in the sepulchral caverns OF Favgnana But in des
cribng that den my hand becomes paraysed and terror
takes complete possession of me- yet to the best of my
power will describe it. In past times the fort was re-
served place of confinement for prisoners of state
but out OF respect for advancing civilization it clos
ed oW again 1t has been opened, and there is buried
noble living being, capable of every sesacrice every
sefdena whose only fault that Of having loved his
country and having offered himself up for its redemption
In part of the fort called the Fossa just over the
gate may be read this legend 81 enra UUo q esse
morto One enters it living and leaves it dead -Four
hundred steps lead from the top of the mountain down
below the level of the seato the internal where
lives the unfortunate NiCOtera guarded at sight by
sentines without being able to the sky and scarcely
to breathe the scany air which passes In by the holes
cannot be doubted from its being the very bowels Of
the EARTH and from the fact that the very clothes of the
prisoner become almost rotten in few days. Imagine
how he grieves his existence. Such is paternal
trait of a religious and clement Government, which
visits continually the sanctuary and which deudes this
superstitious and ignorant people with its bigotry MAX
ing of the most holy religion Of Crist as an nstru-
ment of unbridled tyranny."-1fmes Correspondence.
SOUND VIEWs.-Ihe South Carolnian has been per
mtted by venerable ex-senator of that State to pub
fish the following extract of private letter from high
ly distinguished source in Pennsylvania
You desire to repeat the points relative to the
defeat of the party in Pennsylvania in October last 1t
combination outside of all the Republicans Know
Nothings and Ant-Lecompton Democrats to strike at
the Administration but this would not take inside the
State and hence they raised the tariff question The
people were out of employment-the banks generally
under the control of the iron interest pressed these who
were neutrality-suspicious. openly demanded. The
tariff of 1851 it alleged had taken effect st July and
the hard times began August following In this way the
unemployed abOrers were carried over under the de-
sion that President Buchanan had the power-and Clan
cy Jones Chairman of the Committee of Waus and
Means and would not to their relief &C., &c In
all the counties in which anti-N ebraska hurt us in 1856
gained in 1853 but lost largely in the manufac-
turing DISTRICTS which conservative and with us in
1856. We will always be subject to sudden revusons
in our laborng population, dependent mineral re-
sources in hard times until the tariff humbug idea is
entirely exploded. The times will improve now, and
| this will cure the evil again.