Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 April 1858 — Page 1

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-WE¥ SERIES--VOL. IX, NO. 38.

Four—A Scottish Melody

Font little lrongry months tob« fed Four little prayers to be beard at night v! Four little babes in a nursery bed vit-i

Foar little voices at morning light. c/ Sarnie, my laddie, a sailor would be

Charlie, the poet, would sing in his sleep ^Xdith would aew for tiio household with Jearfe would stray to the wolds^itb the sheep

Tout little graves in the church-yard are green Four little bodies are wrapt in a pall: Four little spirits, by mortals unseen,

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Through the dim glooming of mystery call

Yesterday night was a twelve month agone Sine* my last bairnie was stricken and fell. Waefnl I sit, with my heart like a stone,

Lone in the bird's nest that holds but a shell.

Waoful I sit in the poverty chill/. Liko the last leaf on the Lammermas tree, .. v' fjoon I shall sleep at the foot of the hill,

Where my lost gudeman is waiting for me.

Four little bodies are down in the mold Four littlo angels aro smiling above, Clad in their garments of midsummer gold,

Fair aa the morning r.nd sunny noon.

Charles Kingsley, the author of the book ".Two Years ago," bids his daughter good bye, in the following lines: "My faircstcliild, I liave no songto givo you

No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray Yet ere we part, onolesson I enn leave you, -v For every day.

.Bo good, sweet maid, and let who will bo clcver Do noble things, not dream them, all day long And so make life, death, and that vast forever,

Ono .grand, sweet song."

THE OTGHT ATTACK.

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It was in the beginningof December 18wc were sitting down to dinner alter a capital day's flock-shooting—besides myself, there were Lord Cloetarf, Colonel Mohun, and Kate, my wife—when we were disturbed by a perfect hail of knocks at the tiall door. Old Dan Tucker or the specter horseman never clamored more loudly for admittance.' •.

Frits Mohun'sold Austrian servant went down to «e« what was up, and on opening the door was instantly borne down by the tumultuous rush of Michael Kcllcy, gentleman, agent to half a dozen estates, and attorney at law. In the two last capacities

had given, it seems, great umbrage to the neighboring peasantry, and they had caught him that nightas he returned home, intending to put him to death witli that ingenuity of torture for which the fine warm-hearted fellows arc justly celebrated.

They did not wish to hurry over the entcrtainmout, so confined him in an upper chamber, while they called their friends and neighbors to rejoice with them, enrousing meantime jovially below.

The victim contrived to let himself down from the window, and ran for his life to the nearest house, which, unluckily, happened to be the Lodge. Two boys, however, saw and recognized him as lie entered the demesne, and raised a whoop, to showthat they knew where the fox had gone to ground.

This was made out from a string of incoherent interjections and then he lay pantingand comforting himself in an agony of fear.

Mohun sat on the hall table swinging his foot aud regarding the speetaele with the indolent curiosity that one might exhibit towards the gambols of some ugly new importation of tiic Zoological Society when the story was told lie pointed coolly at the door.

The shriek that the miserable creature Fctupon seeing that gesture I shall never forget "l)o you think I shall turn my house into a refuge for destitute attorneys?" said Ralph, answering my look of inquiry. "If there were no other reason I would risk it with your wife under my roof. A night attack in tho west is no child's play."

Kate had come out and was leaning over the gallery. She heard the last words and spoke flushing scarlet with anger. "If I thought that my presence prevented an act of common humanity 1 would leave your house this instant, Colonel Mohun."

Ralph smiled slightly, as lie bent his head iu courteous acknowledgment of her interruption. "Don't be indignant, Mrs. Carew. If von have a fancy for such an excitement, I shall be too happy to indulge you. It is settled then. We back the attorney.— Don't lie there, sir, looking so much like a whipped hound. You are safe for the present." He had hardly finished, when there coipe a rustling of feet outside, then hurried whispers, then a knock and a summons. f^' We'd like to spake wid the curnel, av ye plase." "I am here—whatdo you want?" Mohun growled. "We want the 'torncy. We know that he's widin," "Then I am afraid you'll be disappointed.. It's not my fancy to give him.up. I wouldn't turn out a badger to you, let alone a man."

You sec that he took the high moral ground now.

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"Then we'll have him out in spite of ye*," two or three voices criedouttogethcr. "Try it!" Ralph said. "Meantime I am going to dine, good night."

A voice that had not yet 'spoken wu heard with a shrill gibing accent: Ah! then the bist of appetite tbyc, curnel, and make haste over yer! dinner. It's Pierce Delanev that'll give ye yer supper."

Then they went off. "The saia Delaney is a huge quarryman," Ralph observed. "He represents the physical element of terror hereabouts, aa

believe Ido the moral. We shall have warm work tiefbre morning. He does not like me. Friti, send Council up ho is below, somewhere."

The keeper, came, looking very much jiirprised. He had been in the stables, ana had only just heard of the disturb* •nee- '.u "Qtt the rifles and guns ready, with $0Mtoand buckshot," his master said.— to be attacked, it seema."

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The man's bold face fell frankly. "By the powers, yer honor, I haven't the value of an ounce of powther in the house. I meant to get some the morrow morning afore ye were up."

Mohun shrugged his shoulders, whistling softly. "Man proposes," he gravely said. "It's almost a pity we found so many cocks in the lower copse this afternoon. I have fifteen charges or so in my pistol case.—* We must make that do, loading the rifles light."

Then he went to a window, whence he could see down the road the moon was shining brightly.

I thought so they have got scouts posted already. The barbarians know something of skirmishing, after all. Maddox, come here."

The groom was a strong English boy, very much afraid of his master, but of nothing else on earth/

Saddle 'Sunbeam' andgo out by the back gates, keeping well under the shadow of the trees. When you clear them, ride straight at the rails at the end of the paddock. You will get over at a scramble, I think. Keep fast hold of his head you musn't fall. Then make the best of your way to A and tell Col. Harding, with my compliments, that I will be glad if lie will send over a troop as quick as possible. They ought to be here in two hours. And mind, don't spare the horse going but bring him back easy. You will be no use here and I won't have him lamed if I can help it. You'll have to risk a bullet or two as you get into the road but they can't shoot It's odds against their hitting you. Now g°-"

The groom pulled his forelock, as if the most ordinary commission had been given him, and vanished. "Conncll," Ralph went on, "go and saw the ladders that are in tho yard half through. They will hardly try the barricaded windows, but it looks more workmanlike to take all precautions. Then come back and help Fritz to pile chairs all up in the staircase and about the hall near

Line the gallery with mattresses, two feet deep, leaving spaces to fire through.— Light all the lamps, and get more candles to fix about: we shall not see very clearly after the smoke of the first dozen shots.— When you arc done come to me. Now, shall we go to dinner?"

I am not ashamed to own I had little appetite nevertheless, I sat down. Kate had gone to her room. If her courage was failing, she did not wish to show it.

Suddenly our host got up and went to the window. Ilis practised ear had caught the tread of the horse, which Maddox was taking out as quietly as possible. We watched him stealing along under the trees until their shelter failed him. Then lie put 'Sunbeam' to speed.and rode boldly at the rails. A yell went up from the road, and wc saw dark figures running then came a shot, as the horse was rising at the fcnce. lie hit it hard, and the splinters flew up white in the moonlight but lie was over. We held our breath while several flashes told of dropping shots after the fugitive. They did not stop him, however, and to our great relief we heard the wild rush of the frightened horse subside into a long, stretching gallop, and the wiud brought hack a cheery halloo—"Foor'ard, foor'ard away!" "So far, so good," said Ralph Mohun, as lie sat down again, and went on steadily eating a woodcock "Don't hurry yourselves, gentlemen. We have three quarters of an hour yet they will take that time to muster. Clontarf, some hock?"

The boy to whom he spoke held out his glass with a pleasant smile. The coming peril had not altered a tint upon his fresh, beardless cheek—rosy and clear as a page's in one of Boucher's pictures.

A good contrast he made with the attor1103-, who had followed us, uninvited—it. seemed lie 011'y felt safe in our presence— and who was crouching in accruer, his lank hair plastered around his livid, convulsed face with the sweat of mortal fear.

It struck Mohun I think: he laid his hand 011 Clontarf shoulder, and spoke with a kindness of voice and manner most unusual to him: "•We'll quel! the savage m.)n:it.iitu:r

As tlieir 1'iiK-licll cows tli3 g:ime They come as fleet as forest ileor, We'll drive lliera back us tame."' Even at that anxious moment I could not help laughing at the idea of Ralph quoting poetry—of that grim Saul among the prophets.

I went in to keep up Kate's spirits.— She bore up gallantly, poor child, and I left her tolerably calm. She believed in me as "plunger" to an enormous extent, and in Mohun still more. When I returned my companions were in the gallery.— This ran round two sides of the hall, which went up to the roof. The only access to the upper part of the house was by a stone staircasc of a single flight. The kitchen and officcs were 011 the ground floor otherwise it was uninhabited.

Ralph had his pistols with him, and his cavalry sword, long and heavy, but admirably poised, lay within his reach. "I have settled it," lie said. "You and Council are to take the guns. Smooth bores are the quickest loaded, and will do for this short distance. Clontarf, who is not quite so sure at the trigger, is to have the post of honor, and guard the staircase with his saber. Throw another bucket of water over it. Connell—is it thoroughly drenched? And draw the window up—" (these did not reach to within ten feet of the floor)—"we shall be stifled else. But there will be a thorough draft when the door is down, there's one comfort. One word with you, Carew."

He drew me aside and spoke almost in a whisper, while his face was very grave and stern. ". ''V'r "You will do me this justice, whatever happens. Unless it had been, forced upon me, I wouW not have risked a hair of your wife's head to save all the attorneys that are patronized by the father of lies. But mark me, if it comes to the worst, keep a bullet, for her! Don't leave her to .the mercy of those savage devils. I know them. She had better die ten tithes over than fall into their brutal hands. You must use you ownj discretion though. I 'shall not be able to advise you then. Not a man of them will be in this'gallery till lam

past praying for. Nevertheless, I hope and believe all will be right. Don't trouble yourself to re-load Fritz will do that for you. I have given him his orders.— •Aim vefy coolly, too we must not waste a bullet. You can choose your own sword there are several behind you. Ah! I hear them coming up Now men to your posts."

There was a tramp of many feet, and the surging of a crowd about and against the hall door. Then a harsh, loud voice spoke. "Onst for all, will ye give him up, or shall we take him, and serve the rest of yes as bad? Ye've got women there

I will not add the rest of the threat^ for very shame. I know it made me more wolfish than ever I thought it could possible to feel, for I am a good natured man in the main. Mohun, who is not, bit his mustache furiously, and his voice shook a little as he answered— "Do you ever say a prayer, Pierce Delaney? You need one now. If you live to see to-morrow's sun set, I wish my rtglit hand may wither at the wrist."

irregular discharge of musketry, and the clear part of the hall was crowded with enemies.

I can't tell cxactlj* what ensued. I know they retreated several times, for the barricade was impassible and while their shots fell harmlessly on'the mattresses, every one of ours told—nothing makes a maji shoot straight like being short of powder—but they came 011 again cach time with added ferocity.

I heard Mohun mutter more than once, in a dissatisfied tone, "Why does not that scoundrel show himself? I can't make out Delaney." All at once I heard a stifled cry on my right, and to my horror saw Clontarf dragged over the balustrade in the grip of a giant, whom I at once guessed wo had looked for so long. Under the cover of the smoke he had SWUIIEC himself

low and savagely in his board, as he stepped one pace forward to meet his enemy. A blow that looked as if it might have felled Behemoth was warded dextcriously by the sabre, and by a quick turn of the wrist its edge laid the Rapparec's face open in a bright scarlet gash, extending from eyebrow to chin.

His comrades rushed over his body, furious, though somewhat disheartened at seeing their champion conic to grief but they had to deal with a blade that had kept half a dozen Hungarian swordsmen at bay, and with point or edge it met them everywhere magically. They were drawing back when Delaney, recovering from the first effects of his fearful wound, crawled forward gasping out curses that seemed floating on the torrent of his rushing blood and tried to grasp Mohun by the knees and drag him down.

Pali! it was a sight to haunt one's dreams. Ralph looked down on him and laughed again his saber whirled round once and

the floor. I tell you I heard the steel plainly as it grated 011 the stone. There was a convulsion of all the limbs, and then the huge mass lay quite still.

Then came a lull for several moments. The Irish cowered back to the door like penned sheep. Their ammunition was exhausted, and none dared cross the hideous barrier that now was raised between them and the terrible cuirassier.

All this took about half the time to act that it does to tell. I was hesitating whether to descend or stay where my duty called me—near my wife. Frits knelt behind me silent and motionless he had got his orders to stay by me to the.last but the sturdy keeper rose to his feet. "Faix," he said, "I'm a poor hand at swording, but I must help my master anyhow:" aud he. began climbing over the breastwork. The Colonel's quick glance caught the movement, and his brief imperious tones, rang over the hubbub of voices loud and clear: "Don't stir, Connell stay where you are. lean finish with these hounds alone."

As he spoke he dashed in upon them with lowered head and uplifted sword. I don't wonder: that they all recoiled.— His whole face and form' was fcaruflly transfigured every hair on-his bushy head was bristling with jrage, and .the. incarnate devil of murder gleamed redly in his

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up by the balustrade of the staircase, and were sitting down to supper, which Fritz grasping the poor boy's collar as he looked out incautiously from his shelter, dropped back in the hall, carrying his victim with him.

With a roar of exultation, the wild beasts closed round their pray. Before I had time to think of what could be done, I heard closc to my car a blasphemy so awful that it made me start even at that critical moment. It was Ralph's voice, but I hardly knew it—lioarse and guttural, aud indistinct with passion. Without hesitating an instant, lie swung himself over the balustrade, and lighted on his feet in the midst of the crowd. They were half drunk with whiskey, and maddened by the smell of blood but so great was the terror-of!

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CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTYf INDIANA, AP1UL~10, 1858.

Just then there was a wild cry from 'without, answered by a shriek from my wife, who bad been quiet till now. At first I thought some fellow's had: scaled the win dows but I soon distinguished-the accents of great joy. My poor Kate! She had roughed it in barracks too lo?g not to know the rattle of steel scabbards.

When the dragoons came up at a hard gallop there was nothing left in the court yard but the dead and dying. Mohun had followed ,the flying to get a stroke at the hindmost. We clambered down Into the hall, and just as we reached the door we saw a miserable, crippled being clinginf around his knees, crying for quarter. He might as well have asked it from a famished jungle tiger. The arm that had fallen so often that night, and never in vain, came down orice more the piteous appeal ended in a death yell and as we reached him Mohun was coolly wiping his dripping sabre it had no more work to do.

I could not help shuddering as I took his offered hand, and I saw Connell tremble for the first time as he made the sign of the cross.

A shrill howl pealed out from the assailants and then the stout oak door cracked and quivered under the strokes of a heavy battering beam. In. a hundred seconds the hinges yielded, and it came clattering in. Over it leaped three wild figures, bearing torches and pikes, but their chief, Delaney, was not of them. "The left hand man is yours, Carew Connell take the middle one," said Ralph, as coolly as if wc had sprung upon a pack of grouse. While lie spoke his pistol cracked, and the right hand intruder dropped across the threshold without a or a stagger, shot through the brain. The keeper and I were nearly as fortunate.— Then there was a pause from without, an shall never forget that I have to thank you

The dragoons were returning from the pursuit they had only made two prisoners the darkness and broken ground prevented their doing more. Ralph went to the officcr in command. "IIow very good of you to come yourself, Harding, when I only asked you for a troop. Come in you shall have some supper in half an hour, and Fritz will take care of your men. Throw all that carrion out," he went on, as wc entered the hall strewed with corpses. "We'll give them a truce to take up their dead."

Clontarf came to meet us: he had only been stunned and bruised by the fall.—• His pale face flushed up as he said: "I

for my life "It's not worth mentioning," Mohun replied carelessly. "I hope that you are not much worse for the tumble. Gad! it was a near thing, though. The quarryman's arms were a rough necklace."

At that moment they were carrying by the disfigured remains of .the dead Colossus. His slayer stopped them, and bent over the hideous face with a grim satisfaction. "My good friend Delaney," he muttered, "you'll own that I have kept my Word. If ever wo meet again I think I shall know you.

revoi/'/" and he passed on,

I need not go through the congratulatory scene, nor describe how Kate blushed as they complimented her on her nerve.—Fortunately, for she had seen nothing, though she had heard all. Just as we

prepared with his usual stolid coolness, and when Kate was about to leave us, for she needed rest, we remarked the attorney hovering about us with an exultation on his face yet more servile and repulsive than its late abject terror. "Mrs.• Carew," said Mohun, "if you have quite done with your protege I think we'll send him down stairs. Give him something to cat, Fritz—not with the soldiers, though and let some one take him home as soon as it'.? light. If you say one word, sir, I'll have you turned out«rw."

Mr. Kelly crept out of the room, almost as frightened as lie had been two hours before.

Mohun's name, all recoiled when they saw dinner, though there wfts a certain conliiiu thus face to face, his sword bare and jstraint 011 the party, who were not all so his eyes blazing. The momentary panic seasoned as their host. He was in unsual saved Clontarf. In a second Ralph had spirits so much so that Clontarf confided thrown him under the arch of a deep door- to a cornet, his particular friend, that it way, and placed himself between the was a pity the Colonel could not have such senseless body and its assailants. Two or a bear fight once a fortnight, it put him in three shots were fired at him without af- such a charming humor. feet—it was difficult to take aim in such aj We had nearly finished, when, from the tossing chaos—then one man, Delaney, road outside, there came a prolonged, earsprung out at him with a clubbed musket, 'piercing wail that made the window panes "At last!" we hoard Mohun say, laughing tremble. I have never heard any earthly sound at onc-e so expressive of utter despair, and so appealing to heaven or hell

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for vengeance. Yve all started and set down our glasses but Mohun finished his slowly, savoring like a connosseur, the rich Burgundy. "It was the wild Irish women weeping over the dead." ho remarked, with perfect unconcern. "They'll have more to howl for before I have (lone with them. I shall go round with the police to-morrow and pick up the stragglers. Your men arc too good for such work Harding. There are several too hard hit to go far, and my hand writing is pretty legible."

The stout soldier to whom he spoke bopt his head in assent, but rather with a queer expression upon his honest face. "Gad!" lie said, "you do your work cleanly Mohun." :i "It is the best way and the shortest way in the end," was the reply, and so the matter ended.

The dragoons left before da}--break

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ly, Ralph was in the saddle scouring the country, with what success the next assizes could tell. J-

I go there again this'winter for the cock shooting, but I don't much think Kate will accompany me.

tf&'We hear of the revival in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, and almost all the other large cities except Washington, where it i3 probably needed more than any place in the country. A prayer meeting at which Kcitt and Grow were the "leaders" would be an edifying spectacle. Will it ever be witnessed?

MAPLE SUGAR.—The season has been unfavorable in Iowa and other North-west-ern States, while in western Massachusetts the farmers haye had to keep their campfires going night and day to boil down the unusual exuberance of sap. -y,-

•®"The sun is called masculine, from its supporting and sustaining the moon, and finding her the wherewithal to shine always as she does of a night, and from his being obliged to keep such a family of stars. The moon is feminine, because she is constantly changing. The church is feminine, because she is married to the stale and time is masculine because he is trifled by the ladies.—Punch, l--~ 2

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.EXECUTION OF ORSIMI AND PIF.ItRI THEIR COVDl/CT AT TUE SCAf-

The Pans correspondent of -the London Titnes furnishes a fall account of the exe-, cution of Orsini and Pierri, who.were convicted of, an attempt to take the life Of the Emperoov The following extracts aro irrteresting. ,B0'.

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Abput fifteen paces from the gate of tho prison the scaffold was erected, and on it rose the instrument of death, the name of which recalls so many terrible assoc'ations. There it stood.on its platform, like a ladder without steps the block, with the hole for the head to enter, at. the lower end at the upper, the heavy knife of a triangular shape, with its edge like a razor's hard by it the shell for the body after decapitation and infront, the basket for the head the cord by which the blade is kept suspended the frajjie-work, painted a dull red, jiist discerned in the dismal glimmering of a winter's morning, all presented a most hideous spectacle.

THE MILITARY NEJ'RBXSFRAFIOXI'' At five o'clock the sound of bugles and drums was heard in all the passages issuing on the Place do la Roquettc. In a few minutes several squadrons of cavalry were heard advancing, the men wrapped in their blue or white cloaks, and the dragoons hemlct gleaming in the lamplight.— The whole of the Third Hussars, two squadrons of heavy horse, two squadrons ot mounted Gendarmerie, issued from the side streets 011 the square. They then wheeled round, and, separating into several detachments, swept the Place and the streets close to it, and quietly, but firmly compelled the multitude to fall back to the north side of the Rue St. Maur, and the south of the Rues Popincourt and Basfroid, where they were kept at a respectful distance by two battallions of infantry, supported by divers sections of cavalry and squads of scrgent-dc-ville. The place of execution was occupied by cavalry, as well as the space which runs around both prisons. In less than half an hour numerous dotachments of infantry, preceded by squads of. sergens-de-villc to clear the way, took poscssions of all tho points of Faubourg St. Antoine, issuing on the Roquettc, and whoever chanced to pass in that direction was obliged to show satisfactorily that he was going on his lawful occupation. The armed force called into requisition on this occasion Avas calculated at over five thousand men they were under the immediate command of a General of Brigade,

PREPARING TIIE PRISONERS. There were two assistant Executioners one from Rouen, tho other from Caen—besides hi 111 of Paris. These lost no time in preparing the convicts for the scaffold.— During the dreadful operation Orsini remained calm and, though he was not so loud or contradictory as during his trial, Pierri was somewhat excited, The straitwaistcoat interferred with his gesticulations, but he hardly ceased talking for a moment. When the executioner was pinioning him he asked that the fastenings should not be drawn too tight, as lie had 110 intention of escaping. The cold touch of the steel on his neck, when the scissors cut off his hair, so as not to interfere with the guillotine, for an instant appeared to thrill through him but he recovered himself when he found that his beard was lut't untouched, lie thanked the executioner for letting him die with his face as became a man. When the hood to which the vail which covers the features of the parricide is suspended was not put over his head, he is said to have laughed, and attempted a joke about the figure lie must cut. At this moment he turned his head and perceived Orsini he saluted him gaily, a:ul asked how he was getting 011. ^.i' lie was interrupted by Orsini, who was himself undergoing the same operation with the same sang fmirf as if lie were under the hands of a valet dressing for a party, with the words, "Bo calm, be calm, my friend." Pierri's tongue ran on, however. The assistant proceeded to strip him of his shoes, for, in pursuance of tho sentence, they were to proceed to the scaffold barefooted. The man appeared to hesitate, but Pierri encouraged liiiu to proceed, and assisted him as much as he could, still talking. The operation being over, and the toilet complete, he turned toward the turnkey, and asked to be allowed to embrace him. This request was complied with. The moment of moving now came, and the Abbe Hugon cried out "Courage!" "Oh. I am not afraid—I am not afraid," lie said "we arc going to Calvary," and in a sort of feverish excitement, he repeated to himself, "Calvary. Calvary."

Orsini, was, on the other hand,"as calm and tranquil as his fellow convict was excited. lie spoke little but when the Governor of the prison and some of the officers approached him. he bade them, in a low tone of voice, farewell. The turnkey of bis cell announced to him, in a tone of regret, that his last moment was come. Orsini thanked him for his sympathy. His hair was also cut away from his neck, but he underwent the operation without flinching. At the moment when the hood was put on his head, his face, which up to that moment was cillm and impassible, became flushed for a moment and his eye lighted Up.

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Th'e prison clock struck seven before the last sound died away the door leading to the scaffold opened as of itself. The Abbe Hugon entreated Pierri to profit by the few moments still left to collect his thoughts and assume a calmer attitude.— He promised to be calm, and said he should chant a patriotic lijmn and it is said that he aetuaily began to sing the well-known Hloiirir pour la Patric. Leaning on the Abbe Hugon, he mounted fifteen steps of the scaffold, still repeating the verses of the song.

Orini was supported by the chaplain of the Conciergerie, and his calmness never abandoned him

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intended addressing' itheni, but]-they'were too far off.r The grefficr then dirccted Uic usher to read the sentence of the Coxtrt, condemning the prisoners to the death of parricides. The usher, who was an old man over sixty, .was evidently much moved at having to perform this duty, and he trembled as much from emotion as from cold, as lie read the document, which no one listened to.

After this formality was terminated, Or--sini and Pierri embraced their spiritual attendants, and pressed their lips 011 the crucifix offered to them. They then gave themselves up to the headsman. He was executed first. The moment his vail was raised, and before his head was laid on the block. it is affirmed I10 cried, Vive Vitalid—frivcla lbpiibii/ucr' .i

Orsini was then taken in. hand. Ilis vail was raised, and his countenance still betrayed no emotion. Before lie was is--tened to the plank, he turned in tho direction of the distant crowd, and, it is said, cried, "Vive la Franco!" It was but five minutes past seven when the seeoud head fell into the basket. A cold shudder ran among those whose attention was fixed upon what was passing upon the scaffold, and for an instant there WJIS a deep silence. It passed off, however, very soon, ..

When all was over, men went to their work, and parties who bad gone together to the spot from distant quarters of the town hastened home to breakfast. The morning was becoming clearer every moment. The troops began to move as if about to leave the ground. The guillotine was lowered and taken off. The crowds gradually thinned some few groups still lingered about the spot, but the cold was bitter, and the snow began to fall, and in a few hours the place was deserted."

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From the Covington Friend.

CONTESTED ELECTION. DECISION OF

HON. Wm. P. BRYANT.

PETER MURPHY, vs. THOMAS LYONS,

Contest of Election.

Come now the said parties and the Court being sufficiently advised in the priniises to find. 1st. That as to the specification that illegal votes were given and counted for said contestcc, Thomas Lyons, as follows: That is to say, that the said Thomas Lyons, John Adamson, Octavius Crowley, David S. French, Francis J. Schiller, C. V. Jones and divert others, evil disposed persons, did conspire, unite, combine, and unlawfully act together to cause to be brought into said county, at the October general election held in said county 011 the I4th day of October, A, D. 1850, divers persons to vote the Republican ticket for county and State officers then and there to be elected from places beyond and outside the jurisdiction of said county to illegally and fraudulently vote in said county for the said Thomas Lyons, as Sheriff of said county, and others his associates, nominated by said party, and running with him 011 the same ticket for county and other officcs, then and there to be elected, and that the said Thomas Lyons and others, his associates and party as aforesaid, and that certain persons did come into said county and fraudulently and unlawfully vote therein for said Lyons, as Sheriff as aforesaid, and other officers so associated with him as aforesaid, that is to say:

looking out for the crowd, and probably inspection of the Board, and swearing up- the plunder to his-own craw-e

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At the Township of Mill Creek votes. A he to of an re At the Township of Shawnee 10 .. At the Township of Richland At the the Towndiip of l/igan ID At the Township of Davis S s-? At the Township of Troy 2 At the Township of Wabash 1

And that the said Board refused four legal votes which should have been taken and counted for (.ilasscock, tho competitor for said ofii -e. And so to the said specification in I ho said matter alleged, that the board of election in the Township of Logan and others, were guilty of ma!-.".in-duct in the perfomance of their official duties in taking the legal votes of said Township of Logan, and find from the evidence of the inspector and judges of said election, that they, the said Hoard, did knowingly and willingly, and before tho said Hoard had met to perforin their duties a? such Board in taking the votes of such Township, resolve and determine, tha1 they wonld in respect to a certain class of persons who had a right to vote at said poll, and who had a right to present to the said Board their claims to the privilege of exercising the elective franchise in pursuance of the constitution and laws of this State, that iu respect to said class of pursous aud class of legal voters, the law of the State in such cases made aud provided should not prevail. And that the said

Board were guilty as charged, of mal-con- and activity in the pursuit ot flavors. duct in the administration of their duties

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on the cross without respect to whether that mode of swearing was roorffii accordance with the conscientious views of the voter or hot And that a number of persons, legal voters, who had papers duly issued, but had not brought them, tQ /die jiolla with them, or had lost them, the said Board would not suffer to take tho colfch prescribed by law and vote or decide upon that oretb the right of such voters in the premises.

The Court therefore find that the said vote so taken at the election held in said Loran township, .by the said-Board is null and.void in.law. But, because thxr Cuurt also find that the said Thomas Lyons received a less number of legal votes at said election, in said county, including .said vote so taken at the snid township of Logan than was given to his competitor, Geo, Glasscock,.and that tlc (in «l result in the present cuse would be the. same. We shall state the accounts thus:

Votes given by the-canvassers to Thomas Lyons, Illegal votes counted to said Lyons, .. ru-r.orF/.TK

Doductcd, leave said Lyon's vote And the vote of said Geo. Glass-} coek ns counted bysaid canvassers,

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And four votes to be added.

Makes the said vote of Glasscock, 1029 Wliioh said vote of said Lyons taken from said vote of said Glasscock will give to said Glascock twenty votes majority iu said county.

It is therefore declarcil by the Court that the_ legatl vote of said county, at the October election in the said county of Foun-': tain, A. D. 1856, for George Glasscock, is sixteen hundred and twenty-nine votes and that the legal vote of said county given' for Thomas Lyons is sixteen hundred and nine votes. And that the said Georgo Glasscock having received a majority of all the legal votes given, is duly declared elected Sheriff of said county at the said election, which is ordered to be certified to *. the Secretary of State without, delay. :r

WM, P. BRYANT.

FATAL UK N'CON It K-TKII It IDLK I FKillT WiTII FISTOI.S AND IIOWIK KNIVES.

Wc copy the following from the Louisville Courier this morning: O11 Saturday evening one of the bloodiest and most desperate encounters ever recorded even in the annals of Kentucky, took place in Springfield, Washington county, between Ben. Palmer and W. Mack Booker. The former was instantly killed and the latter is not expected to survive his wounds. There had beensomo ill feeling between the two, arising from the election of Booker to the command of a company that had been raised in that county to go to Utah.

The particulars of the desperate affray are these: Tho parties met in the barroom of a tavern in Springfield, and an altercation instantly ensued, one $r tho other first using his fists. Each then drew a revolver and fired four shot apiece iu rapid succession, three of Palmer's hitting Booker—one in the left hand, a second in his leg, and a third in the left breast. Tho first shot fired by Boker struck Palmer in the groin, .penetrating the bladder—a mortal wound, lie was also wounded in tho leg. After exhausting his shots, Palmer hurled his pistol with all of his strength against Booker, who, thinking himself mortally wounded, seized tin other with his left hand by the coat collar, and throwing away his pistol, drew a bowic knife and stabbed the unfortunate Palmer nine times in the breast and body. The latter fell dead in his tracks, his body streaming blood at every pore. Hooker may possibly survive his wounds, though 'tis thought th'j shot in the breast will prove fatal.

Booker is the son of Judge Paul Booker, for many years a District Judge in tho State. Palmer is a son of the Hon. R. C. Palmer, ex-Senator from Washington county, and a grandson of the late Ben. Hardin, of Bardstown.

UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH TO UTAH.— The Washington correspondent of the New York Evening <Post> says a proposition is before the Committee on Military Affairs, in the Senate, to lay a telegraph wire unground, from some point of existing telegraphic communication in Missouri to the head-quarters, of the army in Utah, and to be continued to Salt Lake City as speedily as the army moves in that direction. The parties propose to lay such wires in one hundred days for the sum of $500,000. The work can be executed, with the aid of a machine, it is said, as fast as a common ox team can travel. The committee of the Senate are divided—three for it and three against it—but have agreed to report the facts to the Senate, and allow that body to take such action in the mattcr as they please. -----

Board did then adopt ceriain rules for the government of such Board in, taking the said vote at the said poll at Attica, in said Township of Logan, and that the said Board did not hold the said election equally free and open to all the legal voters of said Township. But 011 the contrary held the said election aud required certain electors to give their votes, if they voted at all, on terms unequal, unjust and oppressive to divers electors in said township who had a right to vote at said poll. By reason whereof, divers electors were repulsed and driven from the polls of the said township. And that the Court further find istie, even if it is contemptible.—Chicago a others, that the said Henry Lightv, in said

Pj-vrrv CHAIUUTKRISTIO.—The Cinc'nnati Enquirer, .speaking of the Chicago Times, says that it is "so devoted to the fortunes of one individual as to induce it to be governed by them rather than by the interests of the party." Considering that this was written by an oltl abolitionist—one who spat on the Nebraska platform—and who became an edit to get the post office, ihe impudence of the above i-i character-

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Township, at the said election, protested to BRITISH STK.V.H US CKUISING FOR SI.Athe said inspector against the said oppres- VKUS.—dt .-qr.enrs, by a paragraph in the sive rules of the said Board, and declared Falmouth (-Jamaica) Post, that for some to him, that if it were persisted in, that he, time past three British screw steamships the said Henry Lighty, would prosecute have been cruising on the Cuba Coast, on the said inspector. Whereupon the said the look-out for slave vessels, and that four inspector replied to said Henry Lighty:— more are expccted on tho coast to be en"Prosecute and be damned, we have made (gaged in like manucr. The British carry a law of our own, and wc intend to stick all the captured negroes to their colonics to it," or words to that effect. From this to supply their demands for laborers, whero testimony, and from other testimony in thev'become slaves under tho apprenticcthe cause, the Court find that the said ship system. This

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as such Board. And the Court do further watching the king-fisher of the wchteruj find that one of the said rules so establish' rivers dropping down upon the finny tribe ed by the Board, was that persons of for-1 for his dinner. He is allowed to perform eign birth, should not vote without pro- the act, but Mr Hawk, as soon as he risca3^ dueing. their naturalization papers for the from the water, i* very sufe to approprijto* as-*" '?ff'

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