Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-05-04

The Yankees and the rebels then i'r aa'H
4 A!,H, Were fighting breast to breast; III Il! S.
'Twas then Bob Lcerodeiuplhis lines, ~
BOD And, rising his saddle, p0f7u f.n'my
| He waved his sword and gave command B
E.ag To right face and skeddddle. ...,..,
!, rAssassinatiOns in History. ll
III 1.-THE early annals of the British monarch
are SO stained with the blood of Sovereigl
and of Princes, that we scarcely know whe
to begin, inselecting examples of assassin
ton. We pass in silence many violent death
by the dagger, by poisohs Or bysstaryationA
prison, and come down to the reign ,of Il
Second Edward, A. Dsl327, This weak fif
irresolute Prince fell upon violent times,
which. domestic rebellion. and foreign .ws
united to unsettle his kingdom. His ow
Queen, Isabella Of France, conspired again
him, and his choice Of Ministers and favorite
odious to the people by their tyranny, con
pletely aliefated the public mind from hi
cause Finally, his chief adherents being fir
murdered, an abdication was extorted fror
Edward, who was Imprisoned in Berkeley Cal
tie. There, AT the instigation of Mortime,
the Queen baramour tie King was crueli
assassinated, BY his two keepers, Mantraverr
and Sournay. The manner Of bis death wa
SO savage, irhuman and revolving, that tn
people, notwithstanding the barbarismtof th
age>and the Kings own unpopularity, com
PEELED his execptioners to quit the kingdom
to save theit1ives. 'll' - H.7
Richard T. was the next English Monarch
who died by Violence. He was starved Il
DEATH or otherwise murdered, in the Castle O
Pomfret, in 1899, after having been deposec
BY ParliamentT 1t was in his reign that the
insurrectionr of Wat. Tyler broke out; and
Shakespeare puts into the mouth OF this mon
arch, those memorable lines upon assassina
ton in in high places: 1, ., s,.f-'- .si III
/" For heaven 'srsake, let us sit upon the ground,
And tell sad stories Of the death of Kings; ~
How some have been deposed, some slain in war.
Some haunted by the ghosts they have dcposed
Some poisoned by their wives, some, sleeping,
1'u' killed, iIc q Ina i a.1fn.I :. .
All murderedti For within tho hollow drown,
That rounds the mortal temples of King,
Keeps death his court" -. ......,
The assassination of James l. of Scotland,
which took place in 1887, was an atrocious
murder avenged soon after by scarcely less
atrocious execution of the assassins 1t was
the fruit of conspiracy, set on foot bv Sir
Robert Graham, who had been banshed by
the King. He chose for its execution, q sea-
sou OF public festivity, which the King, sur
rounded by the aobles and beauties of the
Court, was celebrating at the Monastery of
BIacktriarsi in Perth. This magnificent edi-
lce, had been, the scene of gaiety for weeks,
Ind on the night fixed for the Kings murder,
he amusemeuts Of the Court were kept up
i'll long after midnight The gay and accom-
'lished monarch had joined in the dance, and
allied for the parting cup, and was Just re-
lred to his own apartment, where he was
tandlng before the fireplace in kind of un.
ress, gaily conversing with the Queen and
er ladies' Suddenly he heard loud noise
n the Court as of the clashing of armor, and
he gloomy flashing of torches glared from
nthont through the rooms. Heavy footsteps
'ere heard along the gallery A page in the
ct OF carrying some wine to the King and |
,aeen, first saw the conspirators in the pas.
age, and shouted out "Iraitors!' and was
lslantly stabbed to the heart by one of them
hey then rushed toward the Kings apart
lent with axes, swords, and other weapons.
ne of them rushed upon the King with a
agger, but James thoug h unarmed, grappled
i'm by the shoulders, and dashed him violent.
to the ground. A second assassin, the
ing seized by the neck and threw down So
rong was his grasp, fighting for his life, that
icy retained the marks Of the thp,tting they
I'd received, long after Yet in vain did
lnes attempt to wrest a dagger from either
raham, the Kings 'implacable enemy, now
tered the apartment, and with ferocious ex-
tahon. pointed his dagger at the King s I
art James, whose hands had been cut by
the daggers of the two other assassins, now
lplored for mercy, as further resistance was {
in. Graham was deafto his appeal, The I
happy monarch lP, then begged for confes- :
r. " No." said Graham, no confessor s
alt thou havelbIhIt this dagger" and thus say $
:, he plunged tie weapon into the King /
dy, who fell te,the floor, amid the shrieks of 8
: Queen and ether ladies, The remaining G
nsprators now rushed, with fiendish malig: t
y, to stab the, fallen, King, even after he t
S dead, SO that no fewer than sixteen mortal
unds were found in his breast alone. ~ a
Inc alarm was now given in the town and d
citizens, with the Kings servants, rushed o
Q the monastery, when too late, to defend Il
r sovereign, The red glare of torches, and Il
d threats OF, vengeance, burst upon the Il
1night regicides who, struck with dismay, A
! in all directions. The most furious in r.
nation was reused all, over the kingdom, tt
every baron, and chief in the Highlands d
TED in endeaSyoring to apprehend them Al
thin month after the assassination, they oI
e all taken, and no punishment was ever I'll
re summary and revolving than the series pl
exquisite tortures Which were devised to at
them to death. Even at this distance of ki
e, they excite an involuntary shudder. al
OF the criminals were bound naked o D
IS, and the executioner stood near them WI
iron pincers, twisting their limbs and sa
ingof their flesh in great pieces, After y,
hours OF this torture, they were carried M
ugh the city and suspended on gibbets; sy
r which they were drawn asunder by four, ed
les o, The Earl of Athol,i though, not an ab
rtbqt an instigator in the murder, and an m,
anrof seventy years, was bound to nil. an
and red-hot iron crown placed upon his lie
y He was afterward publicly tortured wa
hree days. his heart at last was cut out Th
burned, and his body beheaded and quar-. clio
!. ~ But the most horrible punishment was On
rved for the chief conspirator, Sir R. Ora. pos
AHe was nailed to a pole in state of ant
e nudity, his ,hand cnt of and burned be- bic
his taoe, and then drawn in q .cartthrouph No
own, with two executioners placed bY car
who continually cutland gnasbed his if
with hooked instruments and red hot tioi
!, the whole triisckfiis of his bndy," few
the Scottish hist6rfAn,g SIR Jhnsesi Balfoay Gus
ng cut'iH long slfts.@ This exeritiatine ma
re excited the fityi az tbs J,dbhItls,s, a. exc