New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-06-21
Neapolitan Barbarity.

The Paris correspondent Of the New York
Herald puts into the following shape certain ru-s
mors of eruelties practised by the Government of
King Bomba. 1t is rather difficult to credit such
raw-head-and- -bloody-bones statements:
The stories thathave been flying about Paris for
the last few days Of the dabole proceedings OF the
Neapolitan Government for some time past in re-
spect to Sicily well calculated to enlist popular
sympathy on the side Of the outraged ISLANDERS 1t
is asserted, on evidence which seems incontroYert
ible, that system of torture has been pursued to-
wards political prisoners that almost exceeds any
thing heard of in the Middle Ages. Thumb screw
ing, the rack ron-heated chains, drowning in sacks,
and subsequent restoration, simply for the purpose
of repeating the immersion, are only few Of the
cases put forward. 1t was only yesterday that
heard NJ Fould, neis duribHs assert, in the pres
ence of several gentlemen, that he had in his pos
session all the oorroborative evidence of case
which the annals of hell itself would blush to re-
cord a8 AaS
A lady, he said, had been dragged from her hus-
bands house when eacieate and threatened with
torture and death unless she instantly communi-
Gated facts relating to the place Of his conceal
ment and certain associations with which she was
supposed to be cognizant She was but nineteen
years of age, Of noble family and Of remarkable
beauty. The jaior, a hideous monster whose bloat-
ed yisage was revolving sight, declared that be
NIT any violence he pleased on her person unless
she instantly divulged to him her husbands pres.
ent abode. The brute seized her and threw her
on LLe HO0f, Wnen MS VlcLln, BnAtGnlng long pin
from her hair, drove it with frantic violence com
pletely through his throat. The man rolled over
in contortions unable to speak, but with sufficient
presence Of mind to spring species Of rattle that
hung at his girdle. The poor woman had already
rushed through the door and was Fastening up the
| corridor, she knew not whittier, when she was
feed to the ground by Of the assistant jailers
and carried back to her cell. sa
| The monster whose violence has brought upor
| him this fearful retaliation absolutely died from
the effects Of the wound. The circumstances
were forwarded to Naples, and the answer re-
| ceived was that +" no resource was to be left un
employed that might obtain the valuable informa
| ton the prisoner was in possession off, will moi
| 20 through all the details which have reached
| the said NJ. Feuld of this unhappy victims tor.
ture it is sufficient for me to state one, ard Il
broke down the poor creatures constancy.
monstrons ape was introduced into her cell, and
| at length, to protect herself against an abonina
ton for which she felt her own and her husbands
life might fairly be pledged, she indicated the spo
| of his concealment. It.was in cellar of his owr
house, but the moment his door was forced, know
| ing he had nothing to hope for, the husband beR
| his brains out. The wife was the following da,
seized with the pains of labor and died, and it i
from one of her jalers that these facts have beel
| elected. M. Foud said, 81 have the names 0
/ all the parties in my bureau 8