The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-06-21
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The criminals were brought in gangs. If
;hey werN able to walk, or if they could
not walk. in chairs and in baskets. the lat
ter Of 4 kind in which usually hogs ara
carried, the basket being attached 10 two
poles and thus carried or the shoulders of
two men When the culprits reach the
execution ground they were tumbcd out
ot their chairs and baskets down upon the
pavement, with as little care and sympathy
As ;hon5h they had been loads OF pumpkins
or potatoes. The cXecutioners then AZ
ranged them ~ rows. three usually, when
there VAS large number "a bc despatched
rs my friend Informed me, one executioner
taking his place at the head of each row.
and gtSiug each victim blow on the back
side Of the head to push it forward aud lay
it convenient for the sword. rs MI knot
aud awaited tbe fatal moment.
When all things We're thus arranged the
'ieath w-rrant -a"'a; 1t a banner and
n s'ou a. 1t waved in >isht. without any
verbal order being given. the headsn,en
toEan their worl, OF death There was
rapid Succession ot dull. cruuchiug sounds
chop, chop, chop, and down dropped the
head-. whic the bodies fell forward, and
streams a. blood were sho; into the air like
jets of water from irc-engine The
friend who was my guide, rs We stood on
the very pavement by the wall on one side
at the street where these rows If victims
weIc drawn up, told me he had been
obliged. as others aiso had been. to step
back Of these wretchei kncelne men when
the work commenced, lest the blood, if they
were IA front, should strear across the
street and fall uron them No second
bow was ever gwen. for these dexterous
men are slaycrs educated for their work
for until they are able. with their heavy
swords, which are IN part butchers cleavers
rs well as swords, to slice great bulbous
, vegetable as thin as We slice cucumhers,
thew are no; eligible to this office.
Three seconds are sufficient for each
man. In one minute five cSecutioners
= clear of one hundred heads 1t took ra-
ther longer for the assistants to pick up the
heads and bodies aud pack them up ia
rough collins, preparatory TO their being
; carried away into the fields and hills out
side the walls for intermcnt Nor were
they at All careful tha. the old companion
ship Of head and body shvuld he continued
but they often thrust head and body into
coffin which bad never met before As
hundreds were sometimes executed al "A
time, occasionally coming up To five hun
> dre6, while these scenes We're Of constant
occurrence, the whole area swan in blood
If not "to the horses brides" yet al.
most over the shoes and up to the ankles
The earth does not contain So horrible an
! Aceldama, 50 true I,rd Of Blood -
Hong h0nc Car. ot \ n PdirIof
4 rpT!: Nrs UiNt3 UT .,r!ES.
I Since th. fim.iy an1 Fortunate demise vi
J George - ". Nuliaad, uo Sovereign has
died IN Europe oy,r Who's. royal obscquies
= - general feeling of thankfllncs7 that
= the world is rid Of 4 disgraceiu sconrge,
aud that man made dio,ic by fattery and
i power, has been taken away from the IL
7 cense Of self-dcgradation. has been raised,
u as must have already gone MP over the
, grave Of Ferdinand III. Of Naples This
= prince, in himself a bigot and "A Bourbon
K had Of late years intensified all his evil
u qualities, aS a ruler, by suucndcring him
self to the guilanco of his queen. an Aus
! trian princess, The daughter Of tie Arch
:, duke Charles who devoted herself 10 bring
q ing Naples perfectly within the scope d
= the Austrian policy in Italy. The las
months Of the Kings lic were a kind o
" living death, in which be tasted such agon
ID les. both physical and mental, as the bitter
= est Of his enemies aud the most injured q
g those whom he had oppressed must have
~ regarded rs an expiation Of tho wrongs the.
ef had suffered at his hands But during al
&c this time the Queen Maria Theresa an'
III her adhcrents Were constantly a: work &
secure the succession t. the crown for he
% own eldest son, the Count De Trani, 20 th
Is exclusion Of the lawful Lcir, the Prince
VA Royal, Duke of Calabria, s)a Of the Kin
nc by his first wife, Il Princes OF Sardinia -
Do Had the intrigue. Of the cabal succeeded
Oh it might have been difficult to prevent tn
o. Joy Of Naples over the death of Ferdnan
." IL from breaking out into positive rebel
ion against the whole reiCning dybast,
~, They have, however failed; aud the DuE
au Of Calabra has ascendcd the throne. ;
Tvs Francis H. The new sovereign IS uEde
stood to be more Italian and more liber'
1'' IN his tendencies than any member OF II
- royal family except his uncle the Count
'ef Syracuse. But he is a very young maj
having been born in 1886 aud he b;
:" Just been married to n Bayarian Princes
whose synpathios are. Of course, strong
iP- Austrian.
i5e 1t IL, therefore by no means certain wb
ns direction the new Government will give
lol the policy Of Naples. though there can
ne' little doubt that decidedly Austrian bel
on their part, with a few more victories
me M0ntebello 10 the North would bring Il
req reign Of Francis II 10 a sudden and pc
VII emptory close The future policy Of y
an pies j one of the most interesting Of Il
oth many uncertainties which darkeD the pre-
en- ent aspect of Italian affairs-N Y. Ttme
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y PARIS correspondent OF the Bost'
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