Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-05-28

for which these fearful punisbments
were inflicted with systematic fero.
city were, many Of them, of the
most trivial nature. Fer example,
the bastinado was applied to all
; those detected in wearing a velvet
coat, a hat of peculiar form or a
peculiar cravat. Sixty strokes OF
the bastinado none survived, and
few lived through forty The son
Of a councillor being too young to
be shot with his father and elder
brother, was sentenced to be basti-
nadod, and expired at the sixteenth
! blow. a man was shot at Milan
because an old bayonet was found
in his house.
In October 1848, a priest, Able
Pulcina, was shot at Brescia, and
one at Mantua IN the following
month, for having spoken too freely
in. their pulpits. They were shot
without any forms Of trial, and in
their surplices. The police were
frequently disguised as Hungarians,
and II this way would endeavor to
seduce men into their supposed
cause only to turn and betray them.
In one instance, three fathers of
families were shot who responded
tavorably IT, such advances. They
left seventeen fatherless children.
A young man at Venice who at
tempted to prot ,ctshis mother from
outrage at the handsof an Austrian
official, was apprehended, tortured
and shot. Near Mantua, a man
was suspected of having weapons
aboutzhis premises. Several police
were ordered to disguise themselves
as robbers and attack his house in
the night, and when hasattempted
to defend his family, other police
men, rushed upon and carried him
off. He was forthwith shot. At
Verona, an edict was issued on one
occasion that the proprietor of eve
Iry house on which a handbill should
be found posted should be respon-
sible for it. Hence, any man on
whose Premises such a poster might
be found upon any morning was
liable to be shot instanter. Sing
ing patiotic songs was visited with
the bastinado. At Milan. on the
-tete Of the Emperor's birthday, a
courtezan suspended from her bal
cony an Austrian flag, whereupon
some of the people hisscd it. For
this terrible crime the Austrian Off
GERS rushed to the scene and arrest
ed large number of persons both
men and women, and their punishs
mcnt was thus chronicled in the
official Gazette of Milan, August
oath, 1S49:
l. Angelo Negroni, of Padua,
aged 80, proprietor, 30 strokes Of
tie rod.
2. John Maz1chctt, of Milan, law
yer, age "a, 20 strokes. =
3. Charles Rossi, matchmaker, 40
strokes. -: =, =
4. Paul Lodi, of Menza, age 81,
student, 80 strokes. .....- 49,:
5. Bonaetti, Of Milan, lithograph-
er, a ge "a, 50 strokes. -
6. Moretti, Of Milan, age 26, SER
want, 50.strokes.
Z. Cesana, age 80, artist painter,
40 strokes.
8. Scott, of Monza, merchant, 50
strokes.
8. Vigorelli, of Milan, proprietor,
50 strokes.
10. Garavaglia, of Novara, aged
80, 80 strokes. -
II. Joseph Tandea, Of #, Milan, age
40. 25 strokes.
-. Rossi, Milan, student, 80 stro's
13. Carabel]i, mechanic 40 strokes. |
IA. Joseph Berbusconi, so strokes.
Is. Ferroudi: bookseller, 80 strokeal
Is. Ernesti Gailli, OF G'enpo,ss,aa,1 s,a
cn1atatrice, age 30, 40 strokes. |
II. Maria Couti, OF Florence, ca1,-
tat1'ice, age IS, 80 strokes.
18. Albrizzi, of Lodi, landowner, a
month in irons. -: 49, =. .:~~
49,. Irabattini, forwarder, a month
in irons, and four days upon bread
and water. ... -. ...
Ten others are condemned to i'm
prisonment, and to bread and water
during two Or three days Of each