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God, God nlnno is truth as million sparks
Spring from tha blazing fire, so living thing!",
All living things all life, proceeds from Him,
And unto Him r-Mnrns He, He alone
Is glorious, formless, pm feci, and unborn,
Pervading nil within, wiiliont. Nor life
Nor mind is His His purity divine
Towers over all existence: higher mill,
That even His own almighty energy,
The life, the mind, the sense, elher, air
Light, water, and l lie nll-coniaiuiiig earth,
Proceed from Him. His head the highest
heaven,
The sun and moon His eyes. His ears, the
pninls
All round the zodiac. In the voids His
speech,
His life iho air, His bosom nature's breadth,
His feet the earlh. The all-prevading He,
;Tns his perfection that created heat,
Whose fuel i.s the sun. The moon Ho
launched,
Rain lo engender rain to raise the corn,
Which feeda the Germinating source of life,
Whose impregnation animates the world.
He hnlh created gods and demigods,
Men, beasts, birds, vital airs, and corn, and
w heat ;
Tiuth, contemplation, veneration,
Thu claims of duty ami the riles of law.
He, the seven orifices of the head,
With their preceptive powers, the objects,
too,
Of iheir perception, and perception's self,
He formed, hnd seated in the heart that life
Which revels in the organs given to all.
Oceans and
Him ;
From Him all
food
mountains all proceed from
rivers flo Fiom Him all
Receives ils fl.tvois, and its strengthening
powers
'Tis Ho who to the body binds iho soul.
His peilect Deity is nil in all
Object of every holy thought, and aim
t M each divine observance. He, supreme !
Immortal He land O! beloved one!
If He be seated in thine inmost soul,
Soon wilt thou break the bonds of ignorance,
And glory in bright knowledge.
Frazcr's Magazine .
l.mt ami Mixn are here spoken nf ns cheated tiling,
and therefore ii'jt attributes of the divine nature.
Z Sljrillmg Skctcl).
.A NARRATIVE
OF THE SUFFERING'S OF MRS. JANK ADF.LIN'h:
WILSON, DURING HER. CAPTIVITY' AMONG
Tin: CAVAxnis Indians.
x was uom in ruion, Illinois, on the!
12:li day ol June, 1S37, and am, therefore, !
in the seventeenth year of my age. Aly !
faher's name was Wm. Smith ; my mother's j
maiden name was Jane Cox. 1 had five
brothers and fjur sisters. I think it was in
the year IS1G that we moved to Missouri, j
and settled at a boat landing or ferry call- j
ed Jamestown, on the North Grand Iliver.
My father kept the ferry. j
About eight years ago we moved from
this p.ace to Texas, and settled near Paris, !
in Lamar County. Here my father and '
mother died within one day of each other, '
leaving six orphan children behind them.
Three of my brothers had dieJ before the j
death of my parents. My eldest brother.
who was in a ranging company, now came considered useless were thrown into the
to settle my father's affairs and make pro-J fire. My clothing was taken away, ex
visions for our support, lie secured homes I cept barely enough to cover my person,
for us with different neighbors, but took the I In the distribution ol the captives, the eld
youngest sister, our pet, with him to place : rst boy, about 12 years of age, was claimed
her with one ol our aunts. I by the chief; I became the properly ol one
One day's journey from the place where ' of the others. I should have mentioned
he left us, he was attacked by the winter ! that one of our captors was a Mexican,
fever, and died in one week. I have three who had been stolen from the State of Chi
siaWrs older than myself. There names huahua when an infant. He was assavage
are Elizabeth, Cynthia and Caroline. My ; as the Indians, and claimed the youngest
brother James and sister Ellen are younger boy for his prize. The scalp of the Mexi
than myself. Ellen was four years old i can was stretched on a stick and dried by
when my parents died. Caroline is a the fire.
dwarf, and the neighbors thought that the ' After giving us some meat for our sup
medicine the doctors gave her stopped her ppr, the Indians began to secure us lor the
growth. She was a dear child, and we all night. The boys, with their arms tied
loved her because of her misfortune. Here tightly behind them, were taken under
Jane was unable to restrain her feelings, ' guard by two ol the savages. My feet
and burst into tears. I lived with several ' ere tied together, and I was obliged to lie
neighbors until last February, when I was between the other two. I did not sleep
married to Mr. James Wilson, a young ! any during tlie night fori was afraid ol
farmer, just beginning life with a little j being killed.
property, consisting in horses and cattle, j The next day we resumed our journey,
He was but nineteen years of age when we and traveled in the same direction. The
were married. We knew but little of life, boys were mounted on good animals, and
for I was not yet sixteen. I fear we were had bows and arrows. Their faces were
crazy in getting married while we were so ' painted Indian fishion, and they looked
young. Poor girl Iwhen her thoughts went
back to this period of her life, she wept as
it her heart would break.
We heard that people became rich very
fast in California, so we concluded to move
and commence life in that distant country.
We gathered together the little property
we possessed and joined a party of emi
grants consisting of filty-two men, twelve
women and several children. The father
and brothers of my husband were among
this number. There were in all twenty-two
wagons, and the whole company was
placed under the command ol Air. Henry
Hickman. We started from Hunt County
on the Cth of April last, and took the route
for 111 Paso. Wo arrived at the Uuadalupe
Mountains about (he 1st of June. Here
the Mescalero Apaches stole from us nine
teen head of cattle ; six men started in pur
suit, but were driven back by the Indians.
We went thence to L.I Paso. Aly husband
not being able to travel well with Mr.
Hickman's train, he determined to remain
at El Paso till the arrival of another party
of California emigrants. Five of Mr. II.'
men staid with us. While here, the Mex
icans stole nearly all the property we had,
and left us unable to proceed on our jour
ney. We could do nothing now except
make our way back to Texas.
About the last ot July we started on our
return, with the fragments of our property
which the thieves bad spared. Ou the
first day of August, my husband and his
lamer leu us, and fell into the bauds of
the Indians. I saw them no more after
SUN1JUlY' K0IlTIIUMlJJiIAXD COUXTY, PA., SATURDAY, FELIIUARY 18, lS'i,
this. I was tolJ that they had been mur
dered. You may perhaps b able to ima
gine my feelings when I found mysell thus
bereaved and destitute in a land of strangers.
My misfortune seemed greater than I could
bear, but I knew not that heavier trials
were in store for me.
Unable to continue my journey, I re
turned to ! Paso, where I remained until
September 8, when 1 started once more for
Texas with my three brothers in-law, in
company with a small party consisting of
five Americans and one Mexican. Mr.
Hart, who owned and commanded this
train, having some business in Texas which
required his immediate attention, tiaveled
very rapidly, and I hoped in a few more
days to be in the midst of my friends.
As we had seen only one Indian on the
route we flattered ourselves that we should
not be molested by any of the tribes which
infest this route. When near the borders
of Texas, some of our parly slole three
animals from Mr. Hut, and ran ofl. Mr.
Hart, anxious to overtake the thieves,
started in pursuit, taking with him my el
dest brother ir.-Kiw, a lad some fourteen
years of age, leaving myself, a Mexican,
and the two boys to follow as rapidly as
wo could. We were at this lime within
three days journey of a military post at
Phantom Hill, mid were considered out of
danger. A discharged soldier being unable
to keep tip with us was some distance be
hind, but I saw nothing 0 him alter this.
The day after Mr. Hart kit us, as we were
travelling, about noon, we saw two Ca
manche Indians charging us in from, and
at the same time two others were seen
driving up behind. We were all very
much frightened, and the Mexican jumped
out of the wagon and went toward the
Indians, in order, if possible, to gain their
friendship.
The mules of our wagon, four in number,
becoming frightened by the war-whoop of
the lavages, turned out of the road and
commenced running as fast as they could.
One of them fell down before we had gone
far, and the others were then obliged to
slop. The Indians now came upon us,
and ordered the Mexican to take the mules
out of the harness. While this was going
on, I got out of the wagon, and looked on
in breathless suspense. After the mules
were unharnessed, the Mexican was strip
ped of his clothing, his hands tied behind
his back, and ordered to sit down upon the
ground. One of them went behind him
and shot him with a gun, while another
stabbed him several times with a large
butcher knife. His sralp was cut ofT be
fore he was dead, and put into his own
hat ; the hat was then worn by one of his
murderers. I was stupefied with horror as
I gazed on this spectacle, and supposed
that my turn would come next, lint the
Indians having secured the plunder of the
wagon, mounted us on the mules and or
dered us to go with them.
As I left I looked back and saw the poor
Mexican weltering in his blood and est i 1 1
breathing.
We took a north-cast direction, and trav
eled slowly til sunset, when we encamp
ed. Here the plunder, consisting of blank
ets, bedding, clothing, bridles, and some
money which I had in my pocket, was di
vided among the Indians. Some articles
like young savages. i hey appeared to
enjoy this new mode of life, ami were nev
tr treated with excessive cruelty. I was
mounted on a gooJ horse, but being obliged
to sit astride the animal, the journey was
exceedingly painful.
1 had a fine head of hair, which I valued
very much, but the chief ordered it to be
cut ofF; I was not a little mortified in see
ing it decorating the heads of the heartless
savages. My head was thus left entirely
unprotected Irom the intensely hot rays of
the sun.
Nothing of interest occurred except re
peated acts of inhumanity toward me, until
the twelfth day after my capture. At this
lime we were joined by two Indian men
and a squaw. These were all the Indians
I saw till after my escape. Up to this
time my suffering had been so severe as to
take from me all desire to live, but now
they were greatly increased. The squaw,
from whom I might have expected some
compassion, was evidently the caused the
new ctuelties which I now began to expe
rience. My horse was taken from me, and I was
mounted on an unbroken tnule without a
bridle. I had a saddle, but it was worn
out and good for nothing except to torture
me. This animal would frequently top
me over ils head oi ils own accord, but not
being wild enough to gratify the malice of
Hie Indians, the chief would sometimes
shake the Mexican's scalp belore its eyes.
The beast would then rear and plunge in
the utmost fright, and I would be thrown
upon the ground with great violence. I
have ben tossed from Ibe mule's back as
many as half a dozen times a day, and once
1 was so stunned that 1 lay a considerable
time before my senses returned. My re
peated falls greatly amused the Indians,
whose horrid peals of laughter might have
been heard at a great distance,
I never saw them exhibit the first sign
of pily toward me. It made no difference
how badly I was hurt, if I did not rise im
mediately and mount the animal which
had just thrown me, they would apply
their riding whips, or gunslitks, or the end
of a lariat, to my unprotected body with
the greatest violence. The squaw would
also help me to rise by wounding mo with
the point of a spear which she carried.
You may understand one object the Indians
had in view in putting me upon this wild
animal and causing me to he thrown so of
ten, when I tell you 1 expected to be a
mother in a few weeks. They understood
my situation, but instead of soltenitig Iheir
hearts it only made them more inhuman,
and subjected me to greater stiff-rings.
1 was obliged lo work like a slave while
in camp ; while there was, any service to
perform I was not allowed a moment's rest.
I was compelled to carry large loads of
wood on my back, which being destitute of
sufficient clothing, was mangled till the
blood ran down lo my feet. I had to chase
the animals through !riars and bushes, till
what little clothing I had was torn into
ribbons. I brought the animals to camp in
the morning, and had to watch them till
they were ready to start, and if one more
wild than the rest ran off, I must chase and
bring him back, and then be knocked down
by tne savage chief for my want of skill.
When all were ready to start, I had lo
catch and saddle my own wiid mule with
out assistance. If the party did not start
immediately, I was compelled to pull at
the end ol a lariat which the Indians would
fasten lo a bush. Thev seemed lo study
every mothod of putting me to death by
piecemeal.
Exhausted by incersant toil and -suffer-ing,
and extreme anguish from my wounds,
I could not work as last as the Indians de
sired, and often when scarcely able lo
stand, and hardly knowing what I was do
ing, 1 have been required to do the work
of the strongest man. And because of my
inability lo accomplish my task satisfacto
rily, 1 have been whipped till my flesh was
raw. Large slones were thrown at me. I
was knocked down and stamped upon by
the ferocious chief, who seemed anxious to
crush me like a worm beneath his feet. I
My head sometimes fell under the horses,'
f'et, and then tlie Indians would try to
make the beasts kick me. After all was
ready for the day's journey, I was obliged
to travel as last as the others, riding some
times over rocks and through bushes, aching
and sore from head to loot, and exposed
alike to cold and hea', sunshine and storm.
1 have gone two days at a time without
tasting food. The Indians depended on
hunting for their subsistence, and some
times had nothing to eat themselves un
less there was an abundance of food, 1 re
ceived little or nothing when any game
was killed, the Indians would tear out the
heart, liver, and entrails and eat them raw.
1 suffered exceedingly from thirst ; 1 was
not allowed to drink, except while in camp.
We frequently crossed beautiful streams
during the day, and I would b-'g the
privilege of dismounting to quench my
thirst. But the Indians would always deny
my request with contempt. It was in vain
I pointed to my parched tongue and head
blistered in the rays of the sun. Nothing
could soften them into pity, and I ardently
desired death that my torments might come
to an end.
Every indignity was offered to my per
son which the imagination can conceive.
And I am at a loss to know how have
lived through the barbarous treatment
which was inflicted upon me. Frequent
ly my feelings were so outraged that 1 was
tempted to kill my inhuman masters. My
indignation burned particularly against the
chief, and I thought if I could only cut
him to pieces, I could die content.
We traveled cve.y day we usually
started about 10 o'clock in the morning,
and halted about four in the afternoon. The
Indians were accustomed to go to the tops
of the highest hills, and stand there gazing
in every diteclion. We always spent the
night on a hill and were thus exposed to
the cold autumn winds; we slept on the
ground, generally without covering. When
it rained the Indians made a tent of the
blankets and wagon sheet they had stolen
Irom ns; but I was not allowed to take
shelter in it I preferred sleeping outside
in the storm.
After my mule had become so gentle
that I could ride it without being thrown,
it was taken from me and I was obliged to
travel on foot. The road over which we
passed was often very rough and stony, and
full of thorns. My feet were wounded and
bruised till they were covered with blood
and greatly swollen. Hut still I was obli
ged to keep up with the rest of the party,
and if 1 fell behind I was beaten till I was
nearly senseless. The Indians often urged
me on by attempting to ride their horses
over me ; many a mile of that road is mark
ed with my blood, and many a hill there
has echoed to my useless ciies.
I traveled thus on foot some five or six
days. After the party were ready to start
in the morning, the direction of the route
was pointed out to me, and I was required
to go belore the others, in order not to
hinder them. They usually overtook me
before 1 had traveled fur. I had always
intended to make my escape as soon as 1
found an ppportunity. I never expected
to reach any friendly settlement, but 1 did
not wish to give the Indians the pleasure of
teeing me die. On the morning of the
twenty-fifth day after my capture, I was
sent on in advance as usual. 1 had eaten
uo breakfast, and was very weak, but the
defence an the gris.'ggrtcttltttrr. fflatftcts, amusements. c
hope of escape now supported me. I has
tened ou as fast as I could, nnd finding a
suilaMe. hiding-place I turned aside and
concealed myself in the bushes. After
this I saw nothing more of my captors. I
found afterwards by the tracks of the ani
mals, that they had searched for me ; they
probably thought 1 would die, and therefore
took lesa trouble to find me. I have no
doubt the next time they pass that way
they will look for my bones.
My situation was now distressing beyond
all description ; I was alone in an Indian
country, some hundred miles from the
nearest friendly settlements. I was without
food, without shelter, and almost without
clothing. My body was full of wounds
and bruises, and my feet were so swollen
that I could hardly stand. Wild beasts
were around me, and savages, more wild
than beasts, roamed on every hand. Win
ter was coming on, and death in its most
terrible forms stared me in the face 1 sat
down and thought of my lonely and expo
sed situation. 15ut I could not weep; my
heart was too full of woe. I remembered
the events of the few preceeriing weeks.
The husband of my choice had been mur
dered, and 1 was tint allowed the melan
choly privilege of closing his eyes, and
seeing his remains decently interred. My
liltle propei ty had been stolen, and when
within a few days' march of sympathizing
friends, I was captured by savages, and after
three weeks of indescribable sufferings,
found myself wandeting soliiary and desti
tnte in the midst of the wild prairies my
cup was filled lo overflowing, but I resolved
lo live in hope, if I died in despair.
After remaining three days in the place
where 1 first concealed mysell from the
Indians, I went to a grove about half a mile
distant and built a little house of bushes
and grass. Here I lived nine days. My
only food was the blackberries which grew
on the bushes around. 1 quenched my
thirst at a spring near by. My wounds
pained me exceedingly, and I wasted to a
mere skeleton lor want of jiroper nourish
ment. It rained upon me seven nights in
succession, and my little house was unable
to protec t me from the cold storms. More
than once I spent a sleepless night, perfect
ly drenched in rain ; while the wolves,
sometimes coming within five steps of me,
would make the woods ring with their
Irightful howling. They would also fol
low close behind me when 1 went to the
spring during the day ; 1 expected some
time to be devoured by them; but they
are great cowaids, and I could easily
frighten them away.
When I slept I would dream of seeing
tables spread with an abundance of every
kind ol lood, hut when I stretched forth
my hand to satisfy my hunger, the effort
would awaken me, and I would find my
self weeping bitterly.
When absent from my house on the Iweh lh
day tiller my escape, some New Mexican
traders p;is?ed by on Iheir way to the Ca-
main-lie settlements. Whdo standing on a
small hiil, looking after them in oidei to be
suie they were not Indians, I was dis;oveted
by some threo or four of iho party who hap
pened to be some distance behind. They
immediately come towards me nnd soon un
di-tstood my situation. They kindly odeied
lo h.ktf me wiih lhem, and I gladly bade
farewell to in y house in the woods. The
Mexicans put me upon a Itin o and gave mo
a blanket and some men's clothing in which
I dressed myself very comfortably.
Two or thieu days after this wo camo in
i-i-ht ol a baud of Cuuiunche., and as it was
t ot safe foi mo lo be seen by them, I was
left behind in a ravine, with tlie pioaiisii that
the Mexicans would it-turn for me at niyhl
As I lit' y did not lullill Iheir promise, I started
toward their camp; about midui-ht, v. hile
waudeiiuo anion" iho bushes, a Camanche
Indian passed wilhin twenty steps. I
thotiolit I was a captivo once more, but for
Innately the savago did not eceme. I threw
myself on the ground and wailed for day.
In I he morning 1 suited iiy.iin for Iho camp
of iho Mexicans, bul before 1 reached it, 1
was discovered by one of Iho trading party,
who was herding tlio animals. This man
is a IV-bU Indian, of San Ildefousu, and is
named Juan Joso. To him tnoro than lo
any man in Ihe parly, I owo my present free
do ui.
He told mo tlio camp was full of Canian
ehes, ami if ihey uw mu il would be impos.
sible fur Iho party lo save me. Ho nude mo
lie down on the. "round while ho covered
me vi:h dried grass. I lay heie all day, and
at uiuht eiepl forth to quench my almost in
lulerui.l thirst. Juan came and brought mo
somu bread, and told me not by any means
to leave my hiding place the next day-
Thai dragged slowly along, and 1 could hear
the dteaded Camanches passing and repas
sing, and shouting to each other ; at nighl
Juan returned, bringing another blanket and
several loaves of bread, and lold me that
must reniuin here for sever, or eijiht days
longer, as Ihe parly was obliged to go further
on, and could not lake me unless I was will
ing lo become a captive once more. 1 saw
the putty disappear Iho next day, and it
seemed as if my hope of rescue disappeared
wiih lhem. Hut I resolved lo wait till the
appoiated time was up.
In a ravino near by I found a laigo log
which had been left burning. This fire 1
kept alive day and night until tha Mexicans
returned and with out it I should piobably
have frozen to deaih, at Ihe -weather had
become verry cold I covered a hollow cot
ton wood stump wiih baik and leaves to keep
out Ihe cold wind. When I could endure the
cold no longer, I would leave my house and
run to the fire, but was afraid to stay there
long, lett the Indians should tee me. The
wolves soon found out my place of retreat,
and frequently while I was in the stump they
would coma mi l scratch around and on its
top. The blackberries were veiy scarce
here, and had it not been for tlio bread Juan
Joso pava me, I do not see how I could have
been kept from statving to death.
The eight days past slowly by, nnd
kne'v not wheiher lo give way to hope or de
spair. But on the eighth I heard several per
sons calling lo each other. I feared they
were Indians, but they belongs to the trading
party, and wero on their return to New Mex
ico. They hud lost the place where I was
concealed, and were shouting to each other
to attract my attention. I was so overjoyed
that I rushed lownrd lhem unmindful of bri
ars and soro feet. Juan gave mo a fine
horse to ride, and the whole p.nty treated
me with the utmost civility and kindness.
On the 31ih day of our return toward New
Mexico we reached the town of Pecos.
Here 1 met Major Catleton and Mrs. Adams,
of tho United Stales Army, who took the.
deepest interest in my comfort. Here I laid
umuu men s apparel, ami was furnished whh
a supply from Mrs. A.'a ward.obe. After
remaning at Pecos a few days, I was con
ducted to Santa Fo by ihu son of Gov, Meri-
welher.
To Gov. M , and also to Ihe Amorioan la-
lies ol this place, I cannot be too thankful
for Iheir friendly sympathies and uniform
kindness.
The past seems like a horrid dream. i
have related nothing but facts, and no bin.
guage that 1 uso can fully express the suffer
ings of mind and body which I have endured.
My two brothers-in-law are still captives, and
unless reclaimed, will become as savage
as tho Indians. The Mexicans saw ihom
with tho Camanches, but where unable lo
procure their freedom ; one is twelve years
old, the other ten, ami unless :he mron arm
of Government is lifted up for their redemp
tion, there is no hope for lhem.
THE ITAIXIAX PATRIOTS A SB T1IEP1.
PAL M IVCIO.
TheN ew orks papers publish the follew-
ing document adopted at a meeting of Italian
residents of New York. Our readers will
form their own conclusions as lo Ihe value of
ihe document. As this matter has assumed
such imparlance as to occasion an animated
lebate of four hour in tho Senate of tho
United States, in which the most eminent
men in tho country participated, it becomes
incumbent on l lie press lo place on record all
authentic statements connected w iih the char
ges or Iheir denial :
Adflrt-a of the Itull.lil Pntilots of cw Voili
to MontlKiiol- II. dlnl.
The disorders which have been occasioned
by you in this country have produced a great
scandel, and excitement lo such a degree,
that we, your countrymen, cannot and ought
not to remain indifferent spectators.
If we bavo not hitherto; if we have, in si
lence, followed the devolopement of the
drama, which tends to expose your deep de
ceit to the New World in all its horiible tin.
kednesi?, do not think we have done so be
cause, as your apologist, Mr. Carroll, has
said, wo feared the dagger ol the. nssassiu
No. We have hitherto been silent because
we believed that you, Monsignor Bedii.i,
would not carry audacity so far as to deny
what lias been jusily imputed to you.
Bul now we see that not only you, Mon
signor Bedini, attempt with hypocritical lan
guage to deny your horrid past deeds, which
cry to God for vengence; but also that many
journals in this too credulous Republic, and
several Senators of the Congress wish te rite
as your defenders, the time has come for us
lo raise a fatal veil fiom you. and mako
known to tho woild how sanguinary was
your soul, how saciiligiuus and barbarian was
your Caihuiic ministry, and how much you
deserve for that reason lo bo ranked wiih
Haynau and ltadetzky.
Yon, Monsignor Bedini, dared to enter Bo
logna in disguise, as a spy, and served us em.
issary of Pius IX, w hilu ho was in Gacla, in
order to corrupt I ho faithlessness which tho
Swiss troops, commanded by Gen. Lalour
had sworn to the then dominant Komau Re
public ; and in that ciime found your life in
danger, w hich was saved by the protection
of '.hat General in whoso house you were
secieted, and who obtained from tho Civil
Governor of Bologna means lo remove you
privately form tho popular fury which you
wore threatened.
You, Monsignor Bedini, entered Bologna,
in tho year 18 -If, at the bead of an Atisliiati
army, after bombarding il eight days; you
entered ititiiumph, amid the smoking of Aus
trian cannon, supported Croat bayonets, as
Extraordinary Pontifiiul Commissary of the
four Legations; yon arrived joyful and merry-making
among ihe ruins ol the burning
Bologna and Ihe blood of your countrymen,
at yeur sumptuous palace; you established,
in concert will) the Austrian commadanl' the
slate of siege ; yon published a proclamation,
which, to your sharno, is known to us, Ital
ians, and even lo Ihe Americans, because re
cently published here; you youisell, the
new Scylla, to( trifA your own hand the
lists of proscriptions, imprisonment and death ;
and you, yes you ! appioved the disconsoera
lion and siwoliiig cj tgo liassi, in Ihejiame
of the Pope.
It is impossible lo suppose that Ihe A us.
trian Military Commissioner coulj dispose of
he liberly and life, &o., of citizens subject
to your laws, wiih out jour having given
any explicit appiobalion to the bloody and
brutal sacrifice of that holy and biave patriot.
And even of that commission had been exe.
cnted independent of your iefluence, jet
your rank and titlo would have left you suf
ficient influence, benignant md chiisiian in-
OtD SERIES, VOL. 14, NO 22.
fluonco, to save the life of that victim of
Italian patriotism. At any raio Ihe Pontifi
cal Government, represented by you, was, in
Ihoso unhappy circumstances, tho principal
author of all tho legal misduuds; and tha
Austtians were merely the executioners.
We will not bring forward again lha
scandalous scenes of your private life, whieh
oover your name wiih infamy in Scingaglia,
your native place, and in Bologna. Wo
leave all 1 hat the unanimous testimony of
Italians, clearly expressed in a great number
of Ihe news-papers of that period ol wicked'
ness.
But wo c&nuot be silent concerning what
you feel in your hearts; and perhaps with'
out remorse, lhat during your goverment in
the four Legislations, so many patriots peN
ished ou the scaffold and in prisons. We
will hero, for the sake of brevity, only re-nii:-d
you of the unfortunate men, who
against you and the Goverment which you
represented, cry for vengeance to tho wralh
of God, viz ; those who fell in those execu
tions or were condemned to the galleys, in
Bologna alone, under your eyes; and in vour
lime, viz ; tho three months from September
to November.
Executed.
Signor liarzani and two brothers Govini.
Sr. Boesmi, and ton Tolunteer Republican
soldiers, shot on two occasions. Their
corpses were left a prey to tho dogs, being
denied buiial. Aiso, Signor Sante Mig'
nai.i.
CODEMNED TO THE GAI.LEV?.
Dimenico Roitdelli,
Giuseppe Miglini,
Miehele Rapi,
Co'lelli Agostinr,
I'avnjnli Gieseppe,
Andreghetli Carin,
Giuseppe Cordier,
Giuseppe Chiarnini,
TuuHi Pietro,
Gornaccini Piotro,
Salvioni Giuseppe,
Pessarini I.ingi,
Gabelli Giacomo.
Ten patriots, condemned on the
13th of
November, for possessing arms.
Nine others, on the 5ih of December, fur
the same.
The two brothers Pietro and Giovanni Pel
lerist, Pietro Berti and Giovanni Ballista Gi
berti. We omtt many other names whose sen.
tences of condemnation appeared in the of
ficial journals of your Government-
Bedim.! We, Italian exiles and wanderers;
for Ihe same cause for which Ugo Bassi and
the other patriots were eacraficed, intend
simply to do justice to the truth by denoun
cing and proclaiming you the instigator, to
opcrator and inhuman spectator of so many
good men massacred which, as we have
said, rf teas entirely in your power to mitigatt
or prevent.
The crimo of those brave youths was '.hat
of loving the same country which you be
trayed, and of delivering it from that re
lijjmis and political yoke of iron which you
fastened upon il, and which you are now en
deuvorbg lo extend over this Republic.
Bedini ! We never have thought of taking
your life. Our soul has always been very dif
ferent from yours. We well know that if you
were dead the heads of the Hydra repro
duce themselves. Live then, bul like Cain,
everywhere accompanied by the maledie'
lions of three generations: the past, the pre
sent, and ihe future.
Monsignor Bedini, denies explicitly any
participation in Ihe crimes now charged
against him by the address of the Italians, in
Iho following abstract of his letter to Bishop
Purcell.
1 deplore thu evil consequences of the at
rocious calumnies propagated wiih the most
hideous effrontery, and believed in spite of
the plainest and strongest remonstrances of
common sense, a if a puerile credulity
could liavo existed in a nation so enlightened
and so full of noblo sentiments; but the con
sequences of evil are only for him vr ho hsf-'
bois it in bis heart, or who seeks to propo
gate it. Wo know well that in our minis
try, pains, litnnilialions, injuries, are our por
tion; and 1 feel proud that your city has
given mo an occasion to experience lhem,
and lliat I have thus been mure worthily as
sociated in the lot of the saintly bishops of
this immeusu country. I can truly say that
feasts and outrages have honored a mission
of peace ; and that in Ihe midst of both, my
soul has always posted itself forth in bene
dictions and prayers.
AsiiLAsn Coal. We have received a box
of Coal from the Colliery opened by Col. J.
J. Connor, at that place, and tried it in our
Furnace yesterday. It is a hard White Ash,
of a very pure character, bums freely, makes
no clinker, and scarcely any ashes. Large
lumps, as toon as they become heated, crum
ble into pieced of about the size of Stove
Coal, nnd burn almost entitely up leaving
but litlle residuary matter. Tho vein from
w hich Ibis Coal was taken is about 33 feet
thick, w lion introduced. We are free lo say,
wo never used a belter Coa.Min. Jour.
Sir John Fhankun. The Biitish Adnil
rally have announced that if InlelligeiicB 6f
Sir John Franklin or his ships, F.rebut aud
Terror, and of the uffioei and crews being
alive, is tint received by tho 3lM of March
next, ihey will be considered as having dieil
in her Majesty's service.
The Locomotives for the Wf-jlera Road
w hich have been so Ion" in qH-arnnlino at
lluibor Creek, on Ihe Lak'rf Store Ko.nl, weru
passed on and thiouij'., Kj,e on the 3d lust ,
under the diiectio., ol Gov. UsgWr.
A good Locomotive Kuyiua csws front
9 9000 to 10.500, ami k would Iske liimj
men a whole yer to build one well, wiih "
Ihe machine r"er of ,he beil ",acb,ne
shop to aid lliein iu ibe woik.