New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-28

evidently he was unable to vent his emotion
in words. But when he stepped toward
and grasped the hand of Captain Swain in
both OF his, and pressed his lips to tnat
the action, more eloquent than words.
The reprieved prisoner was wonderfully
composed and self equipoised under all the
strain his feelings mad undergone. In
few moments he spoke, ferventiy thanking
his Almighty Maker, invoking blessings on
the head of Governor WarmOth, expressing
his sense of the kindness of Captain Swain
and the prison officials, and the general
sympathy of those that stood around MIN.
Presently he entered into recital OF the
circumstances that resulted in the death OF
the man for whose murder he had been con-
demned. Barring the upper part OF his per-
son, he exhibited three cicatriZed scars,
which, to all appearance, must have been
serious cuts. The largest was on the lelt
breast. just over the region OF the heare
This wound, he said, frequently panied him
greatly, particularly at night, 90 as 20
hinder him from sleeping. Another wound
is on the right side of the neck, near the
jugular vein, which must have had mar
row escape. The third wound is over the
right shoulder blade, and must have been
painfully inconvenient. Bazaar told MS au-
dience that these wounds were lnnlctec Dy
the deceased at their last contest, and When
his antagonists hand. and IN turn ln1icttd
q wound which unhappily had proved
fatal.
After short time spent in congratula-
tions by his friends and countrymen, the
prisoner was left to repose, which he must
have needed much, after the intense mental
tension he had undergone. for an official
stated that he had Immediately fa'len lhto a
deep sleep. Meanwhile the company had
descended into the yard below. The para
phernalia of death still remained there, out
somehow, prison though it was, a portion
of its gloom had gone. There was more
cheerful reflex upon the faces of the prlso-
ners, for the dolorOus abode had been glao.o
dened by good deed, by judiclous act or
mercy. Governor Warmoth Will never
learn 1.-THE of the blessings upon his heac
which that reprieve called forth-Dat
"blessed are the mercitul."
And now, although the news OF the re-
prieve, spreading rapidly among the throng-
ing crowd outside, made it certain That no
execution would take place, still the crowd
fingered, 10th to depart from the scene OF
fascinating terror.
"While there is life there is hope" seems
strongly illustrated by the circumstances OF
the present case. Bazaar had lndulsed IN
vivid hope while chance for hope re-
NAMED: but at last his reason told HIM that
hope was vain, and that but few hours
| interviewed between him and the grave. He
prepared himself by penitence and devotion
| to meet his doom. Ii his own expressions
of feeling can be trusted. he felt that his
penitence WAS accepted, and it was per-
mitted to him to look forward to salvation
| in the world to come; yet the Instructive
| love of life was paramount Wltnln MIN.
| He prepared to meet his fate like Christ
| ian, but he could not go down into the
darkness of death, ''nOr cast one longing,
lingering look behind"
His questions about ne,CS to our reporter
| show that latent hope mingled with all his
| devotional preparation, with all his efforts
| at resignation. 1t is too much to say that
had the sentence been carried out. the dying
man would have continued to hope, yea,
even as the fatal platform fell beneath his
| feet.
| Instances have been cited of men con-
demned to die and saved at the galloWs
foot, who, at their supposed last moments.
| had made audible prayers and addresses
coherent, ineligible, and evincng the Ut
| most command of mind, but all of when,
| with their accompanying actions, they
| could not in the least remember afterWaru'
| These cases certainly differ greatly IRON
| that of Bizar. His conduct after the news
| of the reprieve reached him shows this. Ht
might have said with Rebecca at the stake
| ''my pulse and senses keep touch and time.
| His senses were never benum bed or oedazeo
| but he more resembled brave mind anne
] the dancers of battle; conscious OF peril, pu
| prepared to meet ali ext gences.