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P'S Apo@oor"n, )On those of the Apostolic Chancery
ana General Curia (Curia Generdlis) in Monte
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cesiastical dignity; their testimony shall be rc-
ceivable in every place and in everv countrv. as
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shall be valid as if they were presented nd de-
livered personally. Dated at st. Peters Rome
under the ring of the Fishers, 26th day of March
lSGO in the fourteenth year of our Popedom.
PIUs p p. IX
In the year of our Lord I8G0 Indict ILL.,. the
29th day of March, the fourteenth year of the
PPopedom of our most Holy Lord and Father in
Christ, Plus IN, the present apostolic letter was
published and affixed on the doors of the Lateran
and Vatican churches, the Apostolic Chancery, the
great church OF lnnocencia, and at the top of the
Held OF Flora, by
Alloys SERAFGNA, Apostolic Cursor.
PHILIrPus OsSANI, Magister Cursor
ATROCITIES IN SICILY.
The correspondent the London Morning Cbyou-
icie vouches for the truth of the following almost
incredulous statement. The later news from
Sicily informs us of the natural result of such
barbarities:
The police of Palermo, desiring to Law their
hands on certain Casmir CuisamO, who, being
suspected of patriotism, had taken to fight arrest
ed as hostages, threw into filthy dungeons and mt
to the torture, hts old mother, his rife and his sons
and daughters. Eleonora, the Youngest of the lat
ter, charming and beautiful girl, lately married
to respectable citizen, underwent treatment that
moved the whole capital to pity, Madame Catalano
the wife of the celebrated advocate of that name,
made such entreaties to the Director Maniscalco
that she obtained leave to take the poor Young vic
tim to her own house, becoming answerable for her
appearance. At the present moment Eleonora
Cuisamo is residing at the country seat of the
Countess ROnchbile, where she is slowly recover
ing Her relatives still in prison. As regards
the torture, each commissary, each jaer, has his
own way of applying it. The details would proba-
bly, be revolving, but they are but too true and
can be established by official documents and the re
ports OF the medical officers. The famous PontiIlo
owes his reputation to the kind of torture he ap-
plies in the very Office of his commissarvship-
making the patient sit down on a chair with an
open work seat, furnished with razor blades and
having underneath chatting dish of burning coal
But the one OF the satellites Of the Director Gener-
al that excels all others is evidently the famous
captain Chemci, born peasant of the village of
BelmOnte, once robber bv profession, and now an
oicer OF police and rich proprietor. Sent by Man
lscaco to the town of Ncosia to find out the assas
SIN OF certain Gorgonc-a government official
Killed out OF an incident arising from an exhibition
on his part of an incredible transport of lury-out
of thirty individuals thrown into prison on the most
crime. Chemci chose two at haphazard to make
an example of, and to assuage his thirst for tor
ment. The two uniOrtunatCS-RoSarioC Chimera, of
the allie dOlmo and PiZZolo, underwent the most
horrible treatment, such the ''cap of silence,''
the "angelica Instrument starvation, beat
ing to deaths door, &c., without being brought to
confess to an act they had never committed
lhls police tunctionary then seized on the wife of
Chimera, young and handsome woman After
having perpctrated on her the most abominabIe
violence, he had her tied naked on a bench and
gave her up to the brutality of his sbirri She re-
NAMED three days in that state, without solid food,
until, half dead, the poor creature deposed that
cher husband had said formerly that he should like
to kill Captain GOrgone." This testimony so OBJ
tanned, was Immediately taken down by an officer
oil justice brought for the purpose; and Chemici,
rejoced at having inkling OF proof, returned to
the dungeon of the prisoners to inform them that
Chimeras wife had confessed They still persisted
In their denial, and he then had recourse to mode
of torture of such monsrous obscenty that de-
scriptiOn is impossible The sufferers at last WELD
ed, and confessed whatever was required. Che
mici had them then taken, with all the display pos
sible, to the place where the crime was committed
so that they might repeat before a magistrate, and
in the presence of the assembled crowd, both the
ayowaI of their guilt and fthe exact spot in which
they had placed themselves to fire the fatal shot
When, however, they brought out into the
light and air of heaven, and into the presence of
their tellow-citiZens, a breath of energy revived
the martyrs. They raised their heads, and with
feeble but firm voice proclaimed themselves to be
innocent, and denounced the infamous means EN-
ployed against them. A cry of horror arose from
the assembled crowd, and the sbirri hastily sur
rounded them carried them back to prison.
gagged. The former torture was again applied
Chimera and PizZolo again sank under it; and, con
trming their first avowal of guilt, were taken to
Catana the chief town Of the province, to be tried
The High Criminal Court finding evident marks of
the tortures they had endured admitted their ex-
plantations, ordered that they should be visited by
a medical commissiOn-who were bold enough to
report the truth at the risk of themselves getting
into trouble with the polce-annulled the confes-
sion made by the pretended culprits and proceed
ing to fresh and more regular inquiry, by iudg
ment OF the 10th of November, 1859, deciared the
t,oo accused innocent and ordered that they should
be immediately set at liberty. Notwithstanding
this solemn verdict, the unhappy men are still in
prison, by the pleasure of Director Maniscalco.-
The police can do no wrong.
To sum up, death struggle has begun between
the victims and their executioners. We shall
see whether the latter will always have the upper
hand.
THE SICILIAN INSURRECTION.