The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-06-17

time chlOrOfOrIned and robbed any
passenger who were unluclzy enough tC
travel with him by night alone"
The History, Science, and Art of Whip
ping.
a very curious book has made its ap-
fpearance bearing the following title
! g 'FLAGELLATTON AND FLAGELLANTS.
A History of the Rod in all Countries
from the Earliest Period to the Present
Time. By the Rev. VIM. Cooper, B.
A. London: John Camden Hotten,
Piccadilly."
The Rev. Mr.. Cooper commences
with the Jews and Romans, and tells
US how the scourge was used in public
and private among the people of these
! nations. The Roman ladies must have
! been pleasant women to serve He
says:
at was quite a sufficient excuse
among the Roman ladies to whip a
slave, if as Juvenal expresses it, their
nose displeased them ~ in other words,
if they were not satisfied with the state
of their charms. Their WantOnness of
power was carried still further. It was
a customary thing with some of them,
when they proposed having their bar
dressed with both nicely and peu1-
ton, to have the dressing maid Stripped
to the waist, ready for dagellatiOn,
should she be guilty of any fault or
mistake in performing her task. The
fair termagants at last carried these
eruelties to such pitch that in the be-
ginning of the empire it was found ne
ceSsarY to restrain their license.
During the reign of the Emperor
Adrain, q lady was banished for five
years for in1icting undue cruelties on
her female slaves. The smallest faults,
such as breaking glasses or over-seasOn-
ing dishes, exposed these Wretched serfs
to grievOus Whippings, which are some
times inflicted in presence of guests who
happened to be entertained at the table,
as a means of affording little diver
sion. The following is a literal trans
lation of a passage from JuYenal, in
which he describes the way an angry
woman treats her slaves upon an Occa-
sion when her husband has slighted
her: Woe to her waiting wOmeni the
dressing maids lay down their tunics,
the eTrand slave is charged with hav-
ing returned too late, the straps break
on the back of some, others redden I'M
der the lash of the leather scourge, and
others of the twisted parchment"
The author writes at length of the
discipline practiced in converts, and
gives a long description of a religious
sect called tie "Flagellants," whose
religioIEz insisted in fOgging and self
torture, Ind whose practices, though
curious, were extremely unpleasant to
hear of. Under the head of penal fla
COLLATION. there are one or two curious
anecdotes:
"Cowper, in letter to his friend
John Newton, relates a droll incident
which he witnessed at Olney. a young
fellow, having been caught thieving,
was ordered to be flogged through town.
AS he performed this penal pilgrimage
at the cart's-tail, the ruddy stripes up
on his back stirred the compassion,
while the fortitude with W re
them excited the admire Sne
spectators.
" But it turned out that if was an i'm
positiOn on the public. The beadle,
- was the executiOner, welded his
d the utmost tenderness, sand
Every stroll crew the lash
his LEFT hal9l lich was fIled
{t,s skin it left an
cash. A con-
ceit, applied his
of the beadIe by
lIm 70 do his duty. A
s, plying the pitiful beadle,
asssssed-Sne pitilesS constable. Thus
the b9adle thrashed the thief; the con-
stable,4 the beadle; and the lady the
constable; and the thief was the only
person concerned who suffered moth
ing.
A young man, sentenced for some
slight misdemeanOr hto be whipped
through the streets of Glasgow, turned
out, on being stripped, to be a female
She was identified at the time, by q
mark on her shoulder, to be a daughter
of a highly respectable merchant, who
had run awa17fsHIn her home at a very
early age, anu lost sight of for a
great many years. 4aSter leaving her
home she made her way POrt-(1la
gov, and became cabin-bOy\ - West
Indian sugar vessel. AS her s
a town councillor at the time, -
pardoned the public exposure bycs
Lord Provost Of the period, on conditioE
Ofsubmitting to be whipped by the ma
trOn of the gaOl."
The author gives an old magazine
as the authority for the above story.
"The last whipping through the
streets of Glasgow by the hangman
took place OH the 8th of May, 1922. On
that day at twelve o'clock, a strong de-
tachment of the 4th Dragon Guards
paraded in front of the gaol, and at the
same time a large party of police and
civil officers attended, under the diTec-
ton of the superintendent of police.
Soon afterwards the culprit-a man
sentenced to be flogged at the cart's-taiI
for assisting and aging q riot
was brOugIFsG-AS4s- by the
north door, and bound to the cart,
which was in waiting. Parties of the
dragons were placed in front and rear
to keep off the crowd; and when all
was ready, the cavaIcade moved round
to the area of the south side OF the gaOl,
where the culprit's back was laid bare
by the hangman, who then gave him
his first twenty lashes with q fOrmid-
able cat-'O-nine-tails. The like punish
ment was repeated at the foot Of the
Stockwell, and also at the head of the
Stockwell; but the last twenty Iashes,
making eighty in all, were given by
Thomas Young, the hangman, at the
crowded Cross of Glasgow, the prisoner
all the time grOaning and laHlenting
his fate. This example, says a com
mentatOr, had the most salutary effect;
it taught the mob that there was pow
er over them after all, and there was an
end of Tioting.'"
In treating of the use rod in Eastern
nations, the author takes occasion to
speak of its absence in the Japanese
schools. A ladies' school among the
subjects OF the Tycoon must be pleas
ant place:
b." a Japanese female finishing estab~
lishment has the following among 9TH
er pecuIiarities-name all the mas
ters pay for the privilege of teaching,
instead of, as is the case with us, being
paid for their lessons. This makes the
instruction a labor of love. Then,
again, to a certain extent, a japanese
young lady is allowed considerable
freedom as to the selection of her in
structors-she generally prefers the best
looking. A lady principal of one of
our English finishing establishments
for young ladies would not be a little
surprised, if she could be suddenly