New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-08
yeapolEtan Tsarr,nrats.

q correspondents Of the London Times writing
from Naples, July I9th, sa7s:
among the many cases ii brutal and jIIeoal i,o-
pflsohFaent WHICH have been brof,ght has,.ssa ti
public during the last ten days nasa ~ 49, w
worse than that Of Francisco {asano5s' -
himself an American Ere was confnad Il; ~
Francisco and some Young men who fa ear,asrl,
been piaeea " thc same prison, though mt ID the
same room, remembering Bis case, went, 0u tI,e
amnesty being proclaimed, to deliver him, Ia
all but Naked and he could not leave urysIl II,
advocate, called Arene, who has acted with areat
benevolence sent him some clothes and has s,rsee
received him 10 his house and fed him.
Last night wentto see him, and cannot feff
yoa whether indignation against this most Christ
IAN Government or compassion for the victim was
sle han.s s's9ageSe . gais ,seg When he entered my
persons, for he was unable to walk. He looked
like ghost" Where am I?s he EXCLAIMED A
he looked confnsedly around; and well be mieht.
after six years and half confinement frar Mi in
tercourse With man. But | give yoa his own
description Of his sufferings as nearly as possible
IN his own words. promising merely that there
were Witnesses of all that I relate, in Arene him
self, a Neapoitan friend and foreign consul
" landed in Genoa from Boston some time in
1853, and wishing to the South Of Italy, tray
eaed till came near to Virterbo, where was can,
toned not to go TO Rome but still perseyered in
my intention Of doing so, when was arrested az
not having passport, and carried TO the Eternal
City, where was placed in the Carcere Nuoya
Not satisfied with the report gave of myself, i
was tortured for three months as follows: NY
hands and arms were bound together and then
by ropes tied-round the upper part Of the arms,
they were drawn back till my breast protruded
and my bones sounded, crick, crick.r There
was another species Of torture practiced upon
me, which was this: At night, while sleeping
the door Yves secretly opened and buckets Of
water were thrown over my body. How /
survived it ! cannot tell the keepers were
astonished, and said they never had such an
instance3 but yon viii never get out alive, was
all 7 raulip oil hat I ~
and prayed for the angel Of death to come. The
worst torture of all, however, was the prison itself
"a room into which 8 few rays Of light struggled
from above and the stencil of which was az bad al
| death. For three months suffered thus and then,
| without any reason assigned, was taken from II
and placed, always alone, in room called Salon
| del Preti,. large airy room, and was well fed
| and well treated for tWenty-one months more
was the prisoner Of the Cardinal Secretary Anton
elli. About the middle of 1855 again, without any
reason being given was sent off TO Naples, was
| placed first in the Vicaria and afterward in San
| Francisco, in q small close room, where was de-
| tanned for four years and half.
Il was questioned on several occasions, and a.
last refused TO answer, saying that my prosecutor
| already knew what had to say, that was I'm
Justly and Illegally confined, and nothing shouli
| compel me to utter another word. On anothe
/ occasion was called before Bianehini the Drec
tor Of Police, who interrogated me. appealed
against my suherngs, and all the reply receive,
was g Va bene, va bene,u from Christian ma
to one suffering as / was. ! have been aske
to send supplicaton for my liberation, but m,
inrariahle answer was, will die first never vii
ask anything of this government. When FIRST
arrived here had little money, which, for shor
time produced ME better food than prison fare
and then by degrees sold my Clothes
AT last sold ny black bread TO have little sal
to sprinkle over my beans, and sometimes to pro
cure some incense to relieve the horrid stencil D
my prison. As for water for purposes Of eleanli
ness it was never supplied me, and all that c0uli
do was to dip one Of my own rags in jug of drink
ing water and wash some portions Of my body
During The day | could repose but at night wa
covered with black beetles, fleas, lice and ever
conceivable species OF yermin. expected death
and desired and prayed for it as d relief, but
never came. My clothes were at last so reduce,
that was all hut naked, and so have passed fon
summers and winters, pacing up and down my mar
row chamber.
." will show you my prison dress,' said be
and going out he returned ID few moments. ii
might have stood as model for Lazarus risen irol
the tomb. The lower paft Of the bu1y was coyero
with thin pair Of linen drawers. nothing mort
On his feet was a pair of shoes, with soles aud nE
per feathers all in heles. He had no shirt hut owe
the upper paFt of his body was thrown o raj
something like common kitchen towel one col
ner of which lie had placed on his head, Us the Ion
Elfn locks, which had not been cnt fer many ysai
hung down over his neck and shoulders he ~
peared more like Il brute beast than Il Christa
man. See this rag,n said he, = how / hav
! botche1 i'll This was my dress, and SO clad
! marched up and down my solitary den.n
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