Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-03-05

..'} nv. IL.
terv.l., sleeping heavily, and when not
sleeping, silently breeding over. what was to
come or talking aloud, in dis6rdered speech,
of his wronts, Of bis friends, Of his home,
and Of Z saSss q he loved, with confused min
1S this piisbls condition, the K1th and
lat morning dawned upon Vivenxio, Il dawn
it might be called-the dim obscure light
which family struggled through the pNE soL-
i1A1y window Of his dungeon. He could
hardly be said to notice The melancholy token,
And yet he did notice IL; for As hs raised hib
eyes and saw the portentous sign, there was
slight convulsive distortion Of his countenance.
But what did attract his notice, and II the
sight Of which bib agitation was excessive,
was the change bis iron bed had undergone.
It was bed no longer. 1t stood before him.
the visible semblancs Of a foneral couch Or
bier! When he bsheld this. he started from
the ground; and, in raiaine himself, suddenly
struck his head against the roof, which, was
now 90 low that he could no longer stand up:
right. Goods will be done" was all he
said, as he crouched his body, and placed his
hand upon his bier for such it was. The
i,on bsdstead had been SO contrived, by the
mechanical art of Ludovico Sforza, that al
the advancing walls came ID contact with its
head and fact, a pressure was produced Upon
concealed springs, which when made to play
set in motion a very simple though ingshi-
ously contrived machinery. that effected the
transformation. The object was, Of course, 10
heighten, in the closing scene Of this horrible
drama, all the feelings Of despair and anguish
which the preceding ones had aroused. Fof
the same reason, the last window was so made
as to admit only y shaaowy kind Of gloom
rather than light, that the wretched captive
might be surrounded, a. it were, with every
seeming preparation for approaching death.
Vivensio seated himself on his bier. Then
he knelt aud prayed feryeMtly; and sometimes
tears would gush from, him. The aif seemed
thick. and he breathsd with difficulty;
or it might be that he fahcied it was go, from
the hot and narrow limits Of his dungeon;
which were now so diminished that he could
neither stand rip nor lie down at his full
length. But his wasted spirits and oppressed
mind no longer struggled within him. Hs
was past hope, and fear shook him ND more:
Happy If thus revenge had struck it's fatal
blow for he would have fallen beneath it al:
most unconscious of pang. But such d
lethergy Of the soul. after an intense exeite-
ment Of its fiercest passions, had entered into
the diabolical calculations OF Toli and the
fell artificer of his designs had imagined 4
countrracting device To pfoloug the torture.
The tolling of an enormous bell struck upon
the ears of Vivenzio. He stated. It beat
but once. The sound was so close and stun:
ming thst it seemed to shatter his very hrain,
while it echoed through the rocky passages
like reverberating pcals ofthNnder. This wac
followed by sudden crash Of the roof and
walls, as if they were about to fall upon and
close around him at once. Vivenzio screaus-
ed, and instinctively spread forth his arms;
as though hs had i giants strength to hold
them back. They had moved. nearer to him,
and were now motiouless. Vivenzi6 looked
up. and saw the root almost touching his head,
even as he sat covering beneath il; and he
felt that a further contraction Of but few
inches only must commence the frightfhl'op:
Grafton.
Agitated as he had been. be now gaspsd
for breath. His body shook violently y-hs
was bent nearly double. His hands rested
upon either wall. and his-f feet were drawn
uu0er nun 10 aVOs0 the pressure ~ TOuc
Thus he remained for .nore than an hoqr,
whsn that deafehihg bell beSt again, aid again
there came tho crash Of horrid death. But
the concussion was now - great that II struck
Vivensio down. A. he lay, gathered up in
lesssned bulk, the bell beat loud and frequent
crash succeeded erash-arid on, ana on;
and On came the thysterious engine Of death;
<ill Vivensio's smothered grones were heard
no more! He was horribly Crushed by tho
ponderous roof aud colapsing aides-ana sbs
Hattened bier was his Iron Shr0xd. ... ,.
~ A ns~spapef Published at Sligt. Irea
land, says that The lrisf in the United States
are making innumerable remittance n their
friends ia ireland. and that the emigration to
this country was never so draining ireland %
now. The reports Of high wages have changed
the channel Of femigration. Few nowgo to Au-
stralia>-ths DRIFT is al to the United State~
- The woman who was divorced from
Aaron Burr in 1882, IN account Of his in6del.
iiy. some time sines put in claim to the Rev:
olutionary peusien to which. as his wife, she
has conceived herself to By entitled. The
Attorney General recently decided adversely