The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-06-28

EXECUTION or MURDsRERs.-The execution of Jas.
| Powers, in Washington, took place Saturday, he
having been respited until that day. The Star
| says:
s.um ten to half past eleven O'Clock, hopes were
entertained that the President would relent and
extend commu tation TO the prisoner: but at the
| after hour this expectation was abandoned no
only by the friends of the prisouer but all ihust
present. The mother and other female rela ives
who had been with him all the morning, bade him
A final adieu at the latter hour, and his brothet
| also followed their example a few minutes after
ward, leaving him alone with his spiritual ad
wiser.
Al II o'clock the marine guard, who had been oD
duty suce yesterday morning, were drawn up il
douule column in the yard near the scattOld. and
at Just twenty minutes after II the prisoner was
brought ont and taken on to the scatfJld. lie
walked along with q conposure of manner and
irmness Of step which would have prevented any
| one from recognizing in him the crIn4al who Was
50 soon to meet his death. He ascended The steps
of the .ifod without assistance, and preserved
his calnn un il the drop tell.
He was accomp paued ON the scaffod by Father
Urcole, Marshal Seltep, Deputy Marshal Phillips.
ex-Mayor Walter LenOx, and by Messrs. King,
Reilly, Robinson and wilson. After reaching The
platform, short prayer was recltsd by the priest,
and the prisoner counted praser on his rosary.
Marshal Selden the ad iressed him briefly on his
crime aud its consequences.
When the Marshal concluded, another prayer
recited by the priest, accompanied by the prI
soner, and on its conclusion he took his posilion
Oh the drop, when his arms aud legs were pioion
ed, aud bis head covered With white cap. A huai
Invocation to the great Father Of al then pIo
nouuced by the priest, after which the prisonel
was allowed a few moments time Tor commuDiou
with his Maker, whsn the block was remvyed bS
dr. Philips and the trap Was Immediately after
wards spruug by the Marshal.
The prisoner was dressed in black lustre pants
aud coat, aud wore white vest. LIS hair
dy colured, and his face very pae though eney
IpJ ed as he mad I'M.
medIately after the execution, the Marshal buried
from the sceUe, apparently overcome by kis ena-
ions The spectators geneIaiiy aeIe very much
affected, ahd several OF them could Lot refrain
from shedding tears. The most hrart-rending
scene, however, was that of the parting of til.
criminal with his afflicted mother aud sister. The
cries Of the latter AWAKE ned sympathy in the hard
est hearted of those present.
After the drop feii, the prisoner struggled vert
lltile aud died in afew moments, apparently with
pam. lie was allowed TO hang sbe usual tiMe
aud his body WAS then placed III a cciiiu ard sit
ivered to his friends by the Chters OF the jail 1t
will be taken to baltimore Tor intermenJ.
James Mctiee alias Mckee, was hung in the re-
| tunda Of the Jail, Boston, Friday, for the
der vi deputy Wal den uaien Walker, in the STATE
Prison, al oat eigh eeE months ago Ihree To fur
auudred persons witnessed tho exv cutIun. Mckee
Was attended by Rev. MIR. Snckuey, who offered
prayer and read the service of the kpiscopa
Chusch appropriate 10 tho occasion. hckee re
mainrd stolid and Indifferent he has be. a since
upon the trap. ehenf Clark read The death war
can't aud informed The culprit if he had Dytiins
to say, an opportunity was now offered. He rernaL-
cd silent. Ibe black cap wa- adjusted, the drcI
Tell, and he died without a struggle.
jean BaptIste Desforges aud Marie Ann Belisle
convicted Uf the murder OF Cathariue Provost, n
st. Jerome last wiuter, We're executed n front ui
the Jail, al 3ontIeat, Can ada West, FRIDAY, IN
the presence of an immense coucourse of p,"pie
The prisoners confessed Their guilt and tbowei
much calmuess. This is ths fist execution il
Montreal for twenty years.
WARNING TO THE ISTEaPER ,TE. Charles Lamb
tells his sad experience, as warnig TO young
men, in the following snguage:-
The waters have gone vyer me. But out of the
black depths, could te heard, would cry out Ia
all those who have set foot ia the perilous flood
Uould the youth, TO whom the favor ot the first
wue is delicious the opening of iiie the
sntering upon some newly discovered PARADISE look
into my desoiation, aDd be made to understand
xhat dreary thing it is when he shall feel him
self going down pre- pice with spea eyes and a
yassiye will; 10 see his destruction, aud have no
power to stop It, and yet fell il all the way ema-
eating frem himself to all godness emptied
out OF him, and yet rot sb TO rgsta m when 1t
was otherwis to bear ab u ,h3 ieeas spec &C 0
OF his oN uin; could he my feyeiej eye, lever
ish with the last nights drinking, and feverishiy
looking for to nights REP ettion OF the folly. could
he but feel the boo nf the death out OF which cry
aoury with feeble outcry 10 be delivered, IL were
enough TO make him dash the sparkling beverage
to the earth, In all the pride Of its mantlng temp
tatior." aA
| RErosa CosyksTls "A letter from Rut-
land. Vt, dated the 24th inst, says:
The great .Reform Convention commences
here tomorrow, and continues three days Mrs.
Francis D. Gage, Of Missouri, 10 lee'uring here
shis asantno. snhipct .MOthnfs Influence"