The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-15

tE0m of MOedei-Martyrs to Liberal
Ideas i'm agapan-sOme Peculiar French
Crimes-A sample of Justice-EXp0si-
tom Notes. etc,
Especial Correspondence of the Democrat
PARIS. August %, 1878
Telegrams constantly arriving from Ger
many and the East show q very mixed con-
f1tion of affairs The execution Of Hoedel
created more profound sensation here than
even the assassination of Gen. Mezentzow,
Russian chief of Superior police.
Napoleon predicted that in fifty years
Europe woul be either
COssACK OR REPUBLICAN,.
A year since men held their breath while the
ever increasing and ever delaying powers
grappled with each other in the strength Of
an hereditary hatred. Bankruptcy and the
tsLion" spoiled the triumph Of the *'Bear."
The issue. which was but a commencement OF
the fultillment of the prophecy of the greatest
modern military genius left Turkey defeated,
divided and Inundated, and also left Russia
victorious, enlarged, but impoverished.
Turkey, deprived of all power save that of
annoying her ruthless despoilers. lends her
regular troops to assist the insurgents who
resist Austrian possession of the parceled-
ont provinces. She resolutely declines to fix
the Grecan boundaries according to stipula-
lion. And both forms. OF resistance to the in
eyitable will only end in her further humilia-
tion and possible future extinction as a ma
ton.
On Russia the sinister effects Of warfare al
ready rebound.
THE RECEDING TIDE OF BnooDsHED
has left behind the noxious vapor of disoon-
tent. From it looms the spectre of assassina-
ton.
August 1G Gen. Mezentzow, in uniform, was
walking out in company with Col. MarakOf,
who was dressed as q civilian. When they had
come to the corner of the Place Michael and
the "street of Italians" these gentlemen met
two well-dressed young men. One OF the lat
ter struck violently at Gen. Mezentzow with
a poinard, inflicting n deep wound in the LETT
side of his chest. Col. Marakoff threw him
self on the murderer to arrest him. but
one of the criminals discharged a revolver at
the colonel without wounding him. The two
young men then hurriedly threw themselves
In an elegant drojk which was waiting for
them, and, carried off by an excellent horse,
disappeared in the direction of Sadovaia.
There were no vehicles just at the moment
near at hand Was it by chance? or had the
elegant droiki of the two young men, sweep
ing up in grand style, frightened away all the
hacks? No one knows.
Gen. Mezentzow was in the habit of taking
a. walk every morning and of going to the
chapel Gostum-Dror. He went there August
16 as usual, listened to the prayers and was
In the act of returning to his home, when the
attempt, which proved fatal, was made on his
life, Almost at the. same hour Friday, Au-
gust 16.
HoEDAI, THE WOULD BE ASSASSIN OF Will
LIAM ",
Emperor of Germany, expiated his crime at
the hands of the executioner. The Rdppel
gives the following details Us official:
.tThe condemned prisoner walked with a
firm step to the foot of the scatfold, staring
boldly at the assembled public, which num-
bered about fifty persons.
The Judge of Instruction.. Holman. stood
at table in front of the scatfold and read the
death sentence. When he pronounced the
date the prisoner spat on the floor and cried
'sBravo!"
The Judge turned to the executoner, man
OF about thirty-four, tall and robust, in fine
linen, white cravat and black trousers, coat
and vest, and said:
II hand over to you the timer, Emile Hen.
ry Max Hoedel, that you may behead him.
"Come on then" said the eXecutioner tc
Hoedel The latter ran quickly up the three
steps Of the scaffold He took Off his coat
and vest. The knell sounded from the interior
of the prison. Hoedel looked towards the
bell with indesclibable impudence; the1
smiled ironically at the public. He re movee
his suspenders, but as he could not unbutto1
the bosom of his shirt one Of the assistants
OF the eXecutioner opened 1t suf1lclently x
leave his body stripped to the chest ne ~. ,,
ASh tAN
and feet, and placed his head on the scoopet
block turning his face eastward, by binding
q Ieathern strap, about as broad as the hand
across the Occiput in such manner as t.
prevent any movement on the part OF the con
den1ned
The executioner then opened a magniticen
case. bearing date 1878" in letters OF gold
He took from it the fatal blade and at on
blow severed Hoedel's head from his body
The body underwent convulsive movements
Nervous contractions were manifest in tn
head. The execution lasted scarcely thre
The Cossack hordes will not, for the pres
& ent prevail, consequently
THE FIRST PART OF NAPoLEoN's PRoPHEC
has failed, but do not the two tragic. event
reoounted above-the assassination OF one c
The representative chiefs of autocratlGS !; a ao
thority and the execution OF the poni ;na
prisoner who in another land fights aga aga 1s
IS That absolute power of rulers, seem but tn
. indIcation. dark and bloody ones It Is true