Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-01
WE TAKE IT ALL BACK.

Northern citizens by the slave mobs,
Lynch Committees, and murderous
banditti which rules in some of the South
ern states, we have said that the, infer
nal atrocities could not be equaled in
any of the Despotisms of Europe. In
this, it seems we were mistaken. Des-
potism is the same everywhere, and
Georgia, Alabama and other Democratic
States in America, are fully matched by
their European parallels in Sicily, as
will be seen from the following, the
truth of which is fully vouched for, by
the correspondent Of the London Morn
iing Chronicle. We give a few, speci-
mems that our readers may see how such
transactions look when committed abroad.
INFAMOUS TREATMENT OF HOSTAGES.
The police Of Palermo, desiring to Law
their hands on a certain Casimir Cusi
mano, who, being suspected of patriot
ism, had taken to fight, arrested as hos
tages, threw into filthy dungeons, and
put to the torture, his old mother, his
wife and his sons and daughters Ele-
onora, the youngest of the latter, a
charming and beautiful girl, lately mar
red to a respectable citizen, underwent
treatment that moved the whole capital
to pity. Madam 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 vcitim to her own
house, becoming answerable for her APP
pearance. AT the present moment Ele-
onora Cusimano is residing at the coun-
try seat of the Countess Ronchibile,
where she is slowly recovering. Her
relatives are still in prison.
THE CHAIR OF TORTURE.
AS regards the torture, each commits
sary, each jailor, has his own way of ap-
plying it. The details would probably
be revolving, but they are but too true,
and can be established by official docu-
ments and the reports of the medical
officers. The famous Pontillo owes his
reputation to the kind of torture he ap-
plies in the very Office of his commissary-
ship-making the patient sit down on a
chair with an openwork seat, furnished
with razor blades, and having under
meath chafng dish of burning coal
THE ANGELIC INSTRUMENT.
Inspector Louis Maniscalco, name
sake of the Director General, applies iron
manacles to the accused, which are made
to grip tighter and tighter if the sufferer
is stubborn. In the slang of the sbirri,
this is called 1.-The angelic instrument" "
TYING THE HEAD BETWEEN THE LEGS.
Jailor Bruno, in the commissaryship
of the odious Careca, (there is a prison
to each commissary's district strips his
prisoner. Of his clothing, and then ties
his head between his legs.
RI THE GROWING INFAMY.
But the one of the satellites of the
is evidently the famous Captain Chemici,
born a peasant Of the village of Bel
monte, once a robber by profession, and
now an officer of police and rich pro-
prietor. Sent by Maniscalco to the town
of Nicosia to find out the assassin of a
certain Gorgone-a government official
killed out Of an incident arising from an
exhibition on his part of an incredible
transport of fury-out of thirty individ-
uals thrown into prison on the most in
definite suspicion of being implicated in
the crime. Chemici chose two at hap
hazard, to make an example of, and to
assuage his thirst for torment. The two
unfortunates-Rosario Chimera, Of the
Vale d'Olmo, and Pizzolo-underwe
the most horrible treatment, such as the
''cap of silence" the ''angelical instru-
ment," starvation, beating to deaths
door, ETC., without being brought to con
fess to an act they had never committed
This police functionary then seized OF
the wife Of Chimera, young and hand
some woman After having perpetrated
on her the most abominable violence, he
had her tied naked on bench, and
gave her up to the brutality of his sbirri
She remained three days in that state
without solid food, until half dead the
poor creature deposed that "her husband
had said formerly that he should like tc
kill Captain Gorgone."
The testimony, so obtained, was i'm
mediately taken down by an officer o.
Justice brought for the purpose; anc
Chemici, rejoiced at having an inkling O.
proof, returned to the dungeon of the
prisoners to inform them that Chrimera'
wife had confessed. They still presisted
in their denial, and he then had recourse
to mode of torture of such monstrous
obscenity that description is impossible
The sufferers at last yielded, and con
fessed whatever was reuqired. Chemic
had them then taken, with all the dis
play possible, to the place where thu
, crime was committed, so that they NIGH
repeat before magistrate, and IN pres
ence of the assembled crowd, both thu
avowal of their guilt and the exact spo
in which they had placed themselves t.
fire the fatal shot When, however, the.
.. we're prought out into the light and al
; of heaven, and into the presence of thei
fellow citizens, breath of energy re
vived the martyrs, they raised thei
heads, and with feeble but firm voice
proclaimed themselves to be innocent
and denounced the Infamous means EN-
ployed against them, A cry of horro
arose from the assembled crowd, and tn
sbirri hastily surrounded them and car
ried them back to prison gagged TIL
y former tortures were again applied
= Chimera and Pizzolo ageiD sank nnde
it and, confirming their first avowal o
:, guilt, were taken to Cantana, the chic
town of the province, to be tried. Th
i, Criminal Court, finding evident marks @
the tortures they had endured, admitte
> their explanations, ordered that the
= should be visited by medical commits
' sion-who were bold enough to admi
g the truth at the risk of getting them
= selves into trouble with the police an
a nulled the cofession made by the pre-