The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-15

,een taken to the scaffoid next day. He lived
|, ntil lsl4, overwhelmed with shame. and re.
morse, and driven, at times, to the Verse u
madness by the curiosity which his name suo
weak, but most amiable and most kino-
hearted person, and to have led lie on h sna,
BILE and exemplary piety Certain IL -, " ~
his object in suggesting dinerent ino"r ne
purely benevolent. 1t seems from the state
ment OF DU BoIs-who has written t.1
reliable account of these matters-'n nanaadino
LorIN got his first notion OF a DeSe" nnr
from the halifax Giooet nol
the Scottish Maiden-but from an anonyn ms
hook Of travels in Italy and Switzeiianu, in
which the author describes the execuuom on, Va Sc.
certain Count BozELLi, at Milan, ni ~
This seems, indeed, to have been the coninJu
method of executing great criminals III.
out the continent in the 18th century. Une "a
RICBELIEu's victims, the Marshai ns HoN
MopENCI. was beheaded by similar one d,
Toulouse in the year 1882. IL mas peeh eoiu
mai the Jews and Romans employed the same
means to punish offenders; na. OF rn an,s 'neie
ia no authentic proof, so far as we know.
The first establishment of the guiilotine al
fords curious illustration Of the mercantile
maxim that demand and supply are Always
co-relative. While LOUIS ana the Na.io1ai
Assembly were debating the matter, the de-
mand for heads became so imperious at Stras-
burgh that the tribunal was under the necessi-
ty Of employing a craftsman to draw pian
for machine, ana tniS pfdH was ouI
by one SCHMIDT, piano forte maker. When
the Assembly had adopted the plan OF LOUIS,
RogDERER applied to one 9UIDoN, who had a
contract TO supply the timber for gibbets ana
scatfolds, to make the machine; GUiDoN
charged $500 francs. He was told that his
charge was excessive. He replied That MS
workmen were SO averse TO working on such
lob that they could only be induced to touch
it by enormous wages. RoRDERsR repiied tha'
that was true, but that ne had offers from 9TH
er persons on condition that they were not 10
sign contracts and that their names were not
10 be exposed. This repugnance offers strong
commentary upon the remarks OF the apie
Able MAURY, before alluded to. So powerful,
| in March, 1892, was the prejudice, that IL was
difficult to get anyb body TO have any concerh
even in making a guiliotine. In less than d
wear crowds OF victims were sent to II every
| day, and the people had become so hardepe ed
| that they attended in vast muititudes, as
| though it were high festival. Persons OF all
| ranks thropged the streets-the windows OF
the adjacent houses were crowded-prices al
most fabulous were given for convenient spots
from which to witness the spec tacle. The
| most horrible levity prevailed on these occa
sions. There was never any truer line thar
| that in Chitds Harold, with regard to these
| horrible saturnalia OF murder.
France got drunk with blood to vomIt crime.
| The whole nation seemed laboring under
terrible delirium. The guillotine became tn
| nonular idol. They absolu tely canonized IL
calling it La Sainte Guilloline. But we anu
RoEpERRR and GUIDoN, not being able t
agree about the price, the former dropped tn
! negotiation, and engaged SCHMIDT, the Stras
burgh no table, for $50 francs, (Sl9J Wnen
| was finished ROEDERER discovered that he ha
| hepn cheated and objected to paying more tina
350 francs, about $40. He told SCHMIDT, b.
way of satisfying him, that he should hav
| the contract for eighty-three instruments
coTresnouding with the number of depart
| mants into which France was then divided
SCHMIDT however, would not be put OH !
| this vay. He threatened TO take out patef
| for his machine, but four days aIter ne mao
| his threat came on the 10Th of August, az
, | cnmplete anarchy ensued, so that all right {
, | property-even that in the invention OF IL
| suiilotine-was lost. In all these transaction
| CIIILLOTIE is not once alluded TO, ana In
MACHINE when it made its first exhibition
! was called in the journals or the day tl
! | Iou;sou after NJ. LOUIS, who laid 20 claim
| the invention, ana VINO oIeo month aiteI.
| The first victim was one PELLETIkR, VINO ma
| hsen convicted of street robbery hVe month
before, and had been reserved Tor the mrs e.
, | neri,nent He was executed the 25tn Apr
1882. 1t is proper 10 say tnat hu aael s e.
, nerirnents had been made upon sheep dogs an
. dead bodies of men, previously to trying Il
= virtues of the machine ON living man
| was at first kept in store, and only Droug
4 ont 10 be used, when it was returned, Ike u
q common gibbet. An experiment, made on Il
| 9TH of July. upon an obscure maletacto
= proved unsatisfactory, from the sWelling
t the grooves. They were therefore, llned WI
|
n | reform had hardly been made, when the
q | strument was brought into prodlglous a
q | tIyity. The 10Th of August came-thousah
r. of political prisoners were murdereo IN tne
a | calis-Paris was knee deep In blood-the
y rondists and the Jacobins both claimed
q merit of that glorious exploit-ano Wniie IN
d were ready. each, TO assert thelr Grains
e living at the throats OF the olherS lhey unit
r | ia tahlishing a tribunal to try and punl
n | the Royalists for instigating those very mt
II ders for which they claimed SO mucn creo
!. | This was the first Revolutionary trIbuh
Of which was dissolved on the lst OF December
70 | tha two parties being engaged at that time II
a, | dasnerate struggle, and both, 1t is presumed,
ir ing quite willing to suppress that tormida
~ | institution as long as the result was douptI
n In January, 1898, however, LOUIS At1.
a. Condemned and beheaded, the Girondists ha
10 inc haen compelled, under the influence
o. fear. to vote for his death. The Jacobins I
ad lowed 10 their advan tagp, and on the 10Th
e. March, under terror OF generai massacre,
n tanned the re. establishment OF the Rovolutlf
no | arv Tribunal This second Tribunal was
Sc genuine simon pure-the real irlouhai-ti
cd nerpetrated those murders which, even nc
ch 1t makes the blood run colo 10 tnink Oh
u possessed unlimited powers, and It's Ere
nd dent FoUoUIER TINvILLE, was the m
o.. cold. biooded monster Of those dreadful TN,
Mt Nobody who was denounced ever escaped
cd On his trial, it was proved that Que NUM- u,
OF | and sixty persons, OF all ages ana st Xes, w
n tried upon a charge totally visionary, for
n | possible crimes-that forty-hve OF tnem "
n | tUare entirely unknown to each other. w
nd | tried and condemned in twenty minutes-a
al that the whole one hundred and sixty were
let ecuted The MARQUISE DE tUQulEREs, al
If of high birth, was brought before tne trioui
n The only evidence against her was Pac
% | which had been left at her seat IN the couh
TO- | EououIKR TINyILLE sent - servant Tor l
nm The maj. obtained ii, fastened oacK, ana W
he arrived, found she had been executed
it hour before! There was not par Ecie
SEES | evidence against her. On the day that ROE
of PIERRE fell "A batch OF forty nine prisoners
till about to proceed to the guillotine, Wnere
ch executioner, hearing some faint rumor OF W
10. had Happened, addressed FOUQUiER IlNFil
ra- | who was passing through the courtyard
of the couciergerie Just as the vehicle was at
1T | IN drive off. and asked him if it would no
a better to put Oft the execution "The
its | must take its course" SAID the sanguin
he | monster. and went on to dinner with
Nv | naighbor while his victims went to death.
be For several months after the death of LIZ
DIS, XVI. which happened on the 2lst Janu
600 1898, the guiilotine cut no great Inquire as a
NV. ilicaI engine. At length, on the 9TH OF Al
on. l1g3. it was removed from the Place de Is
il. olution to the Carrousel, and there CONNER
ere that series Of murders, which have no pari
will in the history OF mankind: On the otn OF
the il was moved back TO the Place de la Rev
will tion where it continued until the 9th }
be 1894 during which time ,235 persons
ath executed for political offences Among q
will were MARIE ANToINETrk the Princess
and aBErH. CHARLOTTE CORDAY, Madame
hey | LAND. AMI DANToN, the best Of that infe
,me triumverate which ruled France at that
ING At last the people in the neighborhooo
lere gan to grow tired of these spec tacles. I
lot- | complained that after these wholesale eX
rhe tions, the blood Of the criminals remaine
the uooIs. that the dogs came and drank it up,
om- that crowds of men fed their eyes on the s
,m- tacle, which, naturally, had tendenc,
the harden their hearts, and lnstigate them I
in rocity and blOodsheo. On one OCCASION, gu
aias a procession of the Convention, the G.
eri- which drew the vehicles absolutely refuse
,ver pass the blood saturated spot, and mel
mi blows nor coaxing could overcome incl