Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-18
YEARS, REGICmEs.
Attempts to Assassinafe SOver-
eisns Since Is5O-A Long and
bloody Record.
Manchester Examiner.l


A paper published at Berne has
compiled a list Of all the known at
tempts at assassination that have been
made since 1850, under the heading
Recent Regicides," a term which,
however expressive, is scarcely accu-
rate, inasmuch as a compilation in
cludes attempts on the lives of magis-
trates and statesmen, as well as the
lives OF princes and potentates. The
first crime recorded in this register is
the attempt made in May, 1850, by the
Westphalian, Safelage, to shoot the
king Of Prussia, to the cry OF Liberty
TO all" On June % of the same year,
Robert Pate, a retired lieutenant Of
huzzars, struck the queen Of England
with a cane-an assault certainly, but
not an assault with intent to kill. In
October, 1852, a conspiracy to blow up
Louis Napoleon with an internal ma
chine containing 1900 p~rojectiles, was
frustrated by the activity Of the police.
On February II, 1853, the emperor of
Austria was stabbed in the back by a
Hungarian shoemaker of the name Of
Libeny. On the 9th Of July following
a second attempt was made on the life
of Louis Napoleon on his way to the
Opera Comique. On March 20, 1854,
Ferdinand Charles III, duke of Par
ma, was stabbed by an unknown hand,
Part of the dagger remained in the
wound which it inflicted, and the duke
died after twenty-three hours of ter
rible suffering. The murderer escaped.
In 1855 the Italian, Planora, shot
twice at the French emperor in the
Tuileries garden. In March, 1856. a
Spaniard OF the name of RAYMOND
Fuemes was arrested just as he
was in the act Of firing a pistol at his
sovereign, and the execution of his
murderous design prevented. On
! December s, in the same year, Fer
dinand H., King of the two Sicilies,
was attacked at a review by one Of his
own soldiers, who wounded him with
his bayonet. In 1857, the Italian
conspiratOrs, Tibaldi, Bartoletti and
Grelli, arrived in Paris with the in
t%ention of numbering the emperor,
but fell into the hands of the police
before their design could be carried
into execution. On Jan. II, oil the
following year, 0rsini, Comes, Pieri
and Rudio made their famous at.
tempt to blow up the emperor and
empress with bomDshells on their way
to the opera. Their majesties esoap-
ed with some slight COMMISSIONS, but
more than one hundred persons of
their escort were killed and wounded.
In December, 1863, another attempt
on the life of Napoleon was made by q
band of Italian assassins. The at
tempt failed, and the would-be muir
derers were captured. The same year
the then Queen of Greece was wound
ed by a pistol shot fired by the stu.
dent Dosios. On the 18th of April,
1865, President Lincoln was murder
cd in Ford's theater at Washington,
and Secretary Seward dangerously
wounded by the actor, Booth "a
year later, almost to a day, the en-
peror of Russia was shot at by a man
of good position blythe name of Pc
trouik in the garden of his palace at
st. Petersburg. A peasant, who
struck up Petreuik's pistol, and so
turned the shot aside, and in all
probability saved the emperor's life,
was rewarded with a title of.
nobility and the commission Of
captain in the army. The month af.
terward, or, to be precise, in
May. 1866, Eugene Cohen fired five
shots at Bismarck while the latter was
walking Inter den Linden, in Berlin,
one of which struck and slightly
wounded the great minister. On
June 10, 1868, Prince Michel, of Ser
via, and a lady of his family were bru-
tally murdered in the park of Togei-
der. In 1872 Bismarck's life was
again attempted, this time by a man of
the name OF Western lie, aud in 1874
yet again, this time by Kallman, at
Kissengen. On August 6, 1873, the
president Of the republic of Ecuador,
Gabriel Garcia Moreno, was murdered
in the government house at Quito, and
in April, 1877, a similar fate befel the
president of the republic of Paraguay.
On May II, 1873, the German en-
peror was shot at by Hoedel. and on
June 2, less than a month later, by
Nobiling, receiving on the latter occa-
sion wounds by which his life was
seriously endangered. MODELLING killed
himself in prison. while Hoedel per-
ished on the scaffold. On October Is
Of the same year an attempt to assas-
sinate the king Of Spain was made by
the socialist Moncas, who, taken red
handed, paid with his life the penalty
Of his crime. Less than a month
thereafter, November II, the life of.
King Humbert, of Italy, was attempt
ed by Passanante, whose sentence Of
death was committed, at his msjesty's
own instance, to n OF perpetual i'm
%prlsonment. Last year, as will be
fresh in the memory of all, the en-
peror OF Russia had two narrow
escapes from death at the hands of his
nihilist subjects, and the closing day
Of the old year witnessed the latest
essay at regicide at present on record
the attempt Of 0tero to shoot the king
and queen Of Spain.
The City Of Mexico.
Editorial Cor. San Antonio EKpress.l
The city Of MexicOl What a pecu.
liar sensation comes over the weary
traveller as he stops amid the strange
scenes Of its streets; watches scenes Of
five centuries mingling with those
known only to the present day, and
realizes that If the stones could cry
out they could tell OF acts and deeds
unparalleled in the history Of the
world. A plain statement of histori.
cal facts connected with the founda-
tion and building of his c;ty .,d ;ts