Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-11-26

This liberated galley-slage felt the pulse,
made his diagnosis drew bic conclusions, and
the, physician meanwhile waited in tn room
Of the governor for the report Of the attendant,
aud, according to the character Of that report,
prescribed remedies Tor the patients whom
he bad never seen. representation on re-
presentation was necessary before the PnpaI
government could be Induced to abandon this
singular mode of proceeding aud il was only
HftAr some time that the physical obtliue
permission 10 approach the bed ofhis pauena
but e%yeutheu, only in the company OF TIM
turkeys, who were placed az spies over his
movements, his words, and the very eXpres7
/ sion Of pity, which his cOuntehance might
be.ray. one OF the patients, a certain NJ
Of Bologna begged 10 see tie governor, 10
implore in The name of his compaRions, the
permission TO have the period tor exercise ex-
tended fer half an hour The only reply he
received was an order that he should be put
in chains weighing eighty pounds, and
thrown into the tower. The tower stands in
the centre Of tie citadel, Land ia the most horrible
Of prisous-damp, isoat.d with an 0peRing
at the r00t leaving the prisoner exposed To-
all the i%nclemency Ofthe weather. Be it SUM
mex Or winter, the inmate Of the tower has
Q III ~ EaFEa hAAA WIZ AAUnAA- H. AbNNAAAA
save his own apparel-no food save bread
and water. When ] left the tort to be con-
veyed as an exile across tie frontier, a poor
prisoner had just died in consequence Of ill
ness caused by the re EDITION Of this punish
ment from which more than one prisoner had
died, whom the government perhaps, wished
to get out of the way A certain p Of
AscOliou returning from the chapelto MS owl
cell, happened, when he reached the court
yard Of the fortress to salute a condemned
prisoner belonging TO anJher section, who was
looking through the grating. For that offence,
the head jailor, after beating him, had the
usual chains put on and sent him 10 the
tower 1t was March, on an Easter Sunday
After three days Of suffering he WIS found
stretched out almost frozen, on the ground.
Then he was removed to the hospital, and
thanks to a Strong constitution, after some
time he recovered. Many among the poiiti-
cal prisoners, in consequence OF the treatment
they hid received, from the moral and physi-
cal t]ortures endured, haze become insane
They howl in their prisons, Sometimes ming
ling with the other victims, at other times
alone, but without any difference Of treat
meat. one Of these Wretched maniacs COM
mitted one day an insane act. The head
+. lailer beat him so cruelty as to leave him
almost l%ifeless on the ground. Young c.,
r who was in the same cell, indignant at the
Z outrage, called out that they were numbering
> the man. ThereupoD the jailer departed, bu.
immediately returned with a band Of turn
keys, who at once fell rpon the youth, re
moved him to another prison, and there, viii
I sticks and ropes, mercilessly belabored him.
Another poor fellow, whose intellect wa
, temporarily wandering, A NJ" having
? made some complaint about his food, va.
kicked and thTashed back to his old cell
] there LEFT without attendance, without the
!, visit of the physician, and with the coasres
diet. He recovered from his mental illness
? bui now; owing to the length OF imprison
e ment of the suferings endured, and to tn.
+ treatment to which he has been subjected, hi
D health has suffered to such an extent that hi
r friends have no hope OF ever seeing him agail
On this side of the grave.