The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-09-18
AristOcratic but lingo vGrilIc.

Moncure d. Conway, in n of his
readable letters to the Cincinnati CONF
mcrcial, gives the history Of a lady pris-
Oner which is extremely interesting !:
''The chief difficulties of the prison au-
thorities have always been with female
prisoners, since tlogging and various
other penal punishments are not per-
mittcd in the case of women. Butthere
was one young woman, the mention Of
whose name still blanches the cheek Of
the Millbank official. This was Julia
st. Clair Newman. Her prison career
was 50 revolutionary that she was dis
cussed in Parliament and referred to a
special Committee of the House of
Lords. She was-may vet be, for all
known Mt Millbank-a Creole, born in
the West Indies, Il lady by birth and
education, and accomplished rs artist
and musician. Nay, she wrote clever
poetry or any thing else she pleased.
Her guardian in Trinidad, having given
her mother and herself too small an al
lowance, they attempted to increase it
by the addition of their landlady'S sill
yer-plate. The mother died in Mill
bank soon after arrival, and this young
girl, whose sentence of transportation
had been committed because she was II
lady began to try and bride the
wardswomen. She afterwards, by the
skillful use of chalk, went into a swift
decline, deceiving the physicians. She
invented ink, eXtempOrized paper, and
smuggled letters in and out, despite all
vigilance. When caught in any INSIDE
meanOr she claSped peoples knees,
wept, and set all the wardcns and keep
ers to sobbing around her. Her acting
showed power enough to have made Il
fortune. She feigned insanity, and, IN
cient as the trick was, she deceived
every body until she took a within to try
something else. She sent the police
hunting up fictitious treasures buried in
a flower-pot, and fictitious criminals.
She wrote very clever lampoons of the
Chaplain, and an able paper on the
character of the Queen. She wrote this
impromptu on an ill-humored matron;
" What a pity helrs gates arenot kept by dame
King,
So surly a cur would let nobody in
"Her hands were so small that no
handouts could hold them. They sent
her to a dark cell, and she refused to
eat she was so near death that the
keepers had to yield. They sent her to
Bedlam, but the physicians there dis
covered she was %feigning, and she had
to be sent back to Millbank. She per-
petually tore up her clothes, and, to
keep her from p~arading in puris natur-
whole wardrobes of clothes had
to be sacrificed. Surgical instrument
makers took her exact measure 10 de-
wise some co~ntrivances that would hold
her; she beat them all. The greatest
manufacturer of restraints for the in
sane made "A pair of leather sleeves of
strength, and fitted them himself.
They came up TO her shoulders, were
strapped across, then also strapped
around her waist, and again below,
fastening her hands close TO her side.
Next morningthe task-mistress took the
to the Governor. In the night
Julia had extricated herself from them
md cut them into ribbons, using apiece I
If glass she had secreted.' A yet more 5
powerful traight-waistcoa was devised, l
md a collar put around her neck TO ,
,eep her from biting it with her teeth. I
NeXt morning she was free, as usual. !
the authorities of the prison no.
flied the Government that they had not {
he power to restrain or rule this Creole