, 1864-12-30

blood renders her as excited as wild beast,
She Eas the wife Of the famous bfisard Non
AGO, Of the Albanian village of Spezzano. who
! was killed in an encounter with the Italian
Maria was also wounded, but she continued
to discharge her musket, knecling at thedead
body OF her husband, with firnness and
conrage which even commanded the admir-
| ation oi her opponents. Having at last been
struck in the right lee, she fell into the hands
OF 1he troops, and, brought before d court
martial at Cattanzaro, WAS condemned to be
shot. The sentence Was, however, COM
ntutcd to thirty years Of penal scr
vitude. While she was explalinr her
crimes in the prison Of Cattanzaro the j.il-
er fell desperately in lore with her.. Tho
cunning woman pretended to feel an equal
that while she was With her husband she had
concealed in certain place near Rossauo q
large sum Of money which had been paid for
the ransom Of rich farmer. The jailer went
quickly to the spot, and found the money.
The tact had naturally the effect OF making
his love for Maria still more ardent, so that
she had no difficulty in convincing hin that
tender affections are better manifested in
freedom than within the four wallis Of dun
geon+ Before; however, making their escape,
Maria succeeded In ending word to her
brothers, who are brigauds, tint on certain
ese e1een,ng 9g t1c e you'd be at an appointed spot
clothes, together with her delivcrer. Maria
was punctually at The rendezvous, and her
brothers also. The unfnithfa1 turnkey was
killed out Of hand, and the money be had
found replaced in Aaria's pocket. Once
FREE, this woman organized a band Of brig
Of mountains which lie between The river
Cratt and Cattanzaro. The barbarities since
prTpetra1cd BY Maria are almost incredible.
The villages Of splnelll, Cotzenei, and Belye-
de1e have been liter:::'5 sacked by the band
she commands. Thc cad which the name
population Of Cattan 40 is so great that the
Italian government b. been obliged to s4nd
two bat ttalions Of the :; e to pursue tbs cruel
fury. While the band I'D By this woman is,
desolating the country OF Cattanzaro, we
hear from Rionero that bcrsaglieri have suc-
gand Sacchitiello, together with the two stil1
famous n,istresses Of the brigands Crocco and
Schlnvoue- The strangest thing about the
capture OF Sacchitfello and Of the Two women
is tlat they were taken to the house Of the
captain Of the national guard Of the village,
month of July! This 4act shows how dill
cult tt is to get rid Of the Eeapolitan brigauds
SINCE In certain cases the commanders 1T the |
national guard give them safe shelter in Their |
very houses. -
MULLERIsN AT BERLIN. i
4 letter from Berlin, dated the 4th, gays: |
Last night public lecture Was delivered be-.
lore crowded audience, in fashionable as.
sembly room, unter den Linden, the subject
Of which vas 1.-THE Recent Judicial Murder
Of Franz Muller" If Englishmen think this |
subject has yet been forgotten In Germany,
Germana. Not day has passed for the last |
lortnight hut the most respectable organs Of /
the press in all parts Of Germany have pub. +
lished something Or other on this topic, ema-
mating either from the Gcrman-Lesal Protec-
lion Society or from some German resident in
London. Extrayagnnt statements and un-
guaranteed assertions Of anonymous cores
pondcnts are being published day after day
On this topic, and everything thus published
ls written By people who are laboriug under
The flrmcst conviction Of Mul1cr's Innocence.
The ignorant public. without any indie
thus laid before them, accepts iii as
That Mullcr's execution was a judicial mur-
der. The Ko'nisehs Zcilung but day back
had upward Of three columns more matter On
Ehis topic: 10 dag it again comes forward !
1lth another erItlque, ending with the ex-
If Muller was piece Of brutality, which was,
2eshaps, only possible In England" The
hkine Reak7iondr, the would-be comic paper
u the Feudal party, has two cartoons, head
ID Abion's Satisfaction" in one Of which
lonn bu!l ts looking with Indignation over
.hc North Sea at Austria aud Prussia engaged
y killing the Danes, while in the other plate
John Bull is represented as Il hangman stand.
ng on the platform Of the gallows, from
Which large capital letter " M issuspended
'ver the heads Of d drunken, riotous crowd
below. I never fully realized the full signif1- |
:ance Of what the Frcnchman means when he
peaks ofa Qtert0e TdNenonls until had
the manner in which the Muller
question has been treated in this country.