Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Beaten to Death. [ARTICLE]

Beaten to Death.

It is my painful duty to send you the report of a recent atrocity perpetrated by the Turkish Government in the capital itself. The young students Of the Military School presented a petition to the Porte denouncing Midhat’s banishment as unconstitutional, and soliciting his recall. The students were marshalled out into the school yard and bidden to reveal the author of the petition. One of them, Ali Nasmi, a most promising pupil, aged twenty-two, stepped forward and avowed himself guilty of the authorship. He was imprisoned and tried, and last week condemned to receive 200 blows with a stick on the soles of his feet. He died under the indiction, after receiving 105 blows. Other equally sad consequencesjof Midhat's disgrace are worth recording. Said Effendi, a writer in the ifueearak, is kept a prisoner, with a chain round his body and fetters on his feet, for denouncing the unconstitutionality of the Grand Vizier’s exile. With respect to Kemal Bey, it seems that the Palace insists on his being condemned, and the sentence will soon be pronounced. One wonders what becomes ot the liberty of the person, of opinion, of equal justice, and the trials with open doors. One wonders, above all things, what has become of the abolition of all inhuman bodily punishment, bastinado, etc., solemnly decreed in a hundred Imperial finnans.— London Timet' Pera Correspondence.

—Stonewall Jackson's widow says of him: “He was one of the most courteous men imaginable. He never passed a lady on the street, whether stranger or not, without raising his hat. One thing I remember of him: He never looked into a room that he happened to pass when the door was open—not even my own.” —A. fortune laid by in fraud somehow never stays put. ■ .