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OURTH YEAR vendetta Behind the Throne of Despots and Persecutors. j POWER OF REFORM. „ ncitipq Os History—Fa- Cu X S vfctims of the Pri vate Revenge for Person al or Public W oigs. Assassins. When the First Consul of the French Republic rid himself of his form er rivals he made an excep tion in favor of Paul Barras, who ssMme.de Stael observes, had changed the fate of the world by being .harp-sighted enough to rec ognise the capacities of the weazen faced Corsican. Soen after the murder of Eng hien this same Barras had a pri vate interview with the young Dic tator. “Citizen Consul," he said, “I did not come to ask a favor, but to repay one. A ou do not need my political advice, and your sword will soon make you arbiter of the the Latin nations— qne dis je—of Europe, perhaps, and the territo ries of the old Roman Empire. But beware of private vengeance. It does not matter how many thou sands your battles and decrees send underground, but the way human beings are constituted they cannot forgive the individual who singles out individuals as the scapegoats of his wrath. It i« a curious fact that the neg lect ot that advice ruined the cause of the future Emperor in the strug gle for existence following the col lapse of the Russian enterprise. He might have held his own againet the armies of the Holy Alliance, and, indeed, gave them an unholy thrashing in the first three bat tles, but the scales were turned by the deadly enmity of Bernandotte, whe for years had been made the scapegoat of the Emperor’s bad humor. A relative of the exiled reformer Be.tujeff, is now kuowu to have engineered plot that cost the life sf Czar Alexander,and the re cently published confession ot Dr. George Foote of Warrenton,N. C., makes it probable that Abraham SM STARK 1 desire to inform my Friends and Patrons and the Public gen er ly, that my elegant line f new Fall and Winter WOOLENS Has been received, and are now open for n spection, And I willfur ther state that 1 am now better prepared than ever lo turn out FIRST class work AND JIRST CLASS GOODS, At Orices'never before heard of in Rome, s. M. STARK, merchant tailor 16 ARMSTRONG HOTEL THE HUSTLER OF ROME. Lincoln, too, owed his fate to the one quasi despotic act ot his patri. otic career. On the whole evinced an txtreme reluctance to the adoption of terro rism measures for Ihe suppression ot lhe rebellion, and rarely signed the death warrant ofja prisoner of war before the winter ot 1864,when he consented to the execution of Captain Harry Beall of the Con federate Army’ the leader of the St Albans raids who had been cap tured in one of his daring inroads and sentenced to death as a spy. The dread of seeing the last campaign of Lee’s regulars follow ed by a guerilla war may have had s imething to do with that decision but even impartial outsiders like Governor Andrew, of Massachu setts, admitted that Beal had been guilty of no offense that could not with the same plausibility be charg ed against Colonel Mosby and doz ens of Sherman’s and Sheridan’s cavalry officers. John Wilkes Booth, one of Beall’ many personal friends, is said to have pleaded for his life by throw ing himself at the feet of the Pres ident, who at last promised to re spite the prisoner and reconsider his case. But on the very night after that promice the post commander of Ft. Columbus removed a telegraphic order to hang Captain Beall, and executed the sentence at 10 o’clock the next morning. Booth, in the meantime, had communicated the glad tidings of the respite to Beall’s mother, after advising his friends o abandon the plan of the propos ed jail delivery, and on learnii g the details of what he considered a heartless breach of faith at once v<>wed to avenge ths fate of his friend. o o o Au exactly similar mistake or misunderstanding cost the life of Caliph Ottoman, one of the ablest and on the whole, most humane succa.sors of the prophet, A rebellion of his Egyptian Btadthoh • had been suppressed by th. execution of the ringleader., including a nephew of one of the former Caliphs, Otham himself, had been averse to that measure, but tue intriguing virags Ayesha forged a copy of an order signed by the commander of the laitbful and ojutnved 'o let it fall into the hands of ihe rebels. A relative of the condemned in surgent at once set out for Medi na, and, considering the supposed ukase a scand lo .8 breach of a personal promise, stabbed the ( a liph in his own palace the founder of the Turkoman Empire, was killed by conspirators who had personal rea sons to resent a gross abuse of his power, and private vendettashave, indeed, more than once proved the most efficient check on the excess es of absolutism, and even of fa naticism. At a time when the thought of the inquisition hung like a Damo cles sword over the peace es every household in Southern Europe the zeal of its terrible procurators was frequently’ moderated by the dread of blood avengers. O 0 o As early as 1285 Pedro de Plane dis was speard on hi. return from a provincial auto-da-fe, and two years after Pierre Castelran was clubbed to death in Toulouse. Ponce de Espira, a zealot who had been warned that conspirators were on his track, at last refused to admit strangers and never left | his residence without a bodyguard, I but had no objection to engaging the services of a cook who had in troduced himself with forged rec ommendation. of a former employe. A few day. after that the cook disappeared and his patron wa. found writhing on the floor of his bedchamber. Antidotes were ad ministered by the next convert < I Fl ROME GEORGIA. FRIDAY EVENING di’iiKgist.but he died in convulsions before the arrival of an alcalde. Innumerable arrests followed, but neither threats nor torture could fasten the guilt of the crime upon anv speaial survivors of the mar tyr’s victims, and as the advice of hissucc ssor all th* defendants were ultimately released Pietro de Verona, another in jqnisitor of that period, was stab i bed in his confessional, and Pedro ' Cadirebas (his first name seems to i have been almost an omen of mar tyrdom) was stoned to death in passing a village that had lost a benefactor by the indiscriminate zeal of his heretic What risks such expedients in volved in that age of ecclesiastic supremacy may be infered from the man hunts following the a.sassina of the Inquisitor Arbues. The re morseless activity of that official had culminate!? in a r.ign of terror, and when he transferred his head quarters to Saragossa nocturnal mass meeting, of the inhaditaut. warned his agents that trouble was brewing. A Navarrese abbot pro phesied that th. first auto-da-fe would be followed by th* murder of the Chief Inquisitor, and when that prediction had been fulfilled not only all the suspected member of the actual conspiracy, but even all the known participator, of tbose midnight assemblies, were at on e thrown into prison. The arrival of strong military detachment overawed the citizens, and for weeks the sky was black ened with the fumes of smolder ing corpses, and scores of prisoners were guarded in suburban camps, as the available dungeons were al ready overcrowded. Hundreds, however, had saved themselves by timely fight, and the Inquisitors next turned thei r attention to th.ir relatives and friends, who were suspected of hav ing aid.d their escape. Forty-six of th. citizens arrested on that lat ter charge were noblemen of the first rank, but could think them selves lucky if they got off with dislocated joints and splintered thumb bones. One Gtspar de Sant* Cruz had succeeded in getting across the Pyrenees, and being suspected o havii g taken refuge in Southern France, his son was compelled to make a,round trip of theFranch border towns and warn the author ities to keep a sharp lookout for the fugitive, or in case he should have died (of fatigue and extreme old age) to exhume and burn his bones. From the decision of the Moore ish Princess there was at first a chance of appeal to the Bagdad successor of the prophet, but ever after the rulers of Cordova had de clared free independence, on. of those potentates, the Caliph Al mostansir, became involved in a sort of Pollard scandal and was killed by the brother of the injur ed damsel. He had jailed the local Jere M il sons and scared the moral reform committees into silen.e, when on day a dust-covered horseman forced his way into the Castle park where the Caliph was feeding his Indian peacocKs. Somehow or other the au'o?rat guessed the purpose ot the intru der, and realizing the inability of an appeal to the office holders took to his heels, but was overtak* n and slain on the palace steps. The murderer galloped away,and would h ive escaped if his horse had not i-hied and thrown its rider in the 1 suburbs. I With better luck that desperado could have made his way across the Castilian border and abdjured the error of Islam, and the Moor ish Princes would never have sur rendered the slayer of a grand in quisitor, while an unsuccessful at tempt on the life pf a Roman Err. peror would have obliged the Htientatcr to get off the earth. Neither Africa nor Asia won d have off red a chance of escape from the bullies of the omnipresent, proconsuls, and in Roni* itself the spies of the despot wou d have fer reted him out <*f the darkest back alley, and he might as well have tried to hide in Benaresaf er kick ing a sacred ape, or in Pittsburg after playing a game of ball on S .inday. • But for »11 that, not lees than 11 of those world rulers were killed by the avengers of private grievances, the sense of personal wrongs hav ing proved a far more powerful stimulus than the wrath of out raged patriotism. The Vendetta Association that undertook to tackle the ogre Cali gula knew that they had to deal with a matchless expert in the art of refined torture, and that even 1 in the case of complete succe.s they would run the risk of being cut to pieces by the Pretonan guard, whom the crazy butcher had just sense enough to propitiate by fre quent presents. o o o Boabdil el Chico, the last Moor ish ruler of Southern Spain, guard ed his precious person too closely ■ to give his numerous enemies a ghost of a chance, but his pen chant for signing death warrants 1 cost him his throne. The mass execution of the Abe- Cerages, with all their kinsmen and retainers (on a eharge of dis loyalty ), deprived his kingdom of its ablest warriors, and a bosom friend of one of the murdered cav aliers succeeded in getting himself appointed Post Commander of Ft. Alhama .nd promptly surrender ed that is, and Gibraltar to the Christians. ‘•Ay. d mi Albania,,' “Woe be us, Alhama is-lost!' was the refrain of a Moorish dirge that recounts the fate of an old pa. tnot who gives King Boabdil a bit of bis mind in desperately plain language. “Where laws are not respected” he winds up his regi.ter of royal crimes, “there is a higher law which ordains general ruin.” That law finally ordained the end of the Moorish Empire. When constant assasinations could no longer moderate the tyarnny of the Caliphs. In Russia things al most seemed to have reached a similar crisis, when the death of Czar Alexander was followed by orgies of bureaucratic despotism, but the lesson of that historic March day has, after all, not been lost, if it is true that the rap id decline of the present autocrat’s health is a direct consequence of his dread of assassination. ‘Let her alone and she will soon pick quarrels with her new friends,” says BfcnjJohnson’s rustic phiiosopner us a vixen who marries just to spite one of her old neighbors ; and more than one absolute ruler carried bi g despotism to the imprudent lenght of bullying his own soldiers beyond the limit of human endurance. Ali Rashaw’was fired at repeatedly from ambush by his exasperated troopers, and t Charles XII , of Sweed en, was shot dead in his own trench es, either by the kinsman of a bru tally maltreated’recruit, or by|a stafl officer whom the King had insulted n the presence of his comrades, o o o Marecbal Veudome.a cynic in tie coursest pagan sense of the word but withal the idol of “the French Army, once made a speech warn ing some overbearing ’dandy offi cers not to treat armed men like galley slaves, incapabl. of taking the law in their own hands, and a historian of Queen Anne’s time plainly insinuates that Vendome’s great opponent the Duke of Marl borough would more then once have paid his military rigor and his avarice with his.life if the pa triotism of his soldiers and their . admiration of his strategic genius had n got the better of their ri - sentment. Und.r th* reign of Katherine 11. When Polish recruits were for the first tiini subjected to ths knout discipline of tbe Russian Army .the assissinVioii of martinet offijeis became ainriiiugly frequeu»,tiii the Muscovite Ministtr ot War ordered that t v ry suspected company reg intent or brigade should ue doub.e decimated .In other words /if a i unpopular officer had been killed by a bullet undoubtedly fired from the ranks of his own men, and H e assassin could not be identified, th- whole detachment of the sus pected fusilleere had to draw lots and every fifth man was lakeuout and shot without mercy. . o o o The Rhadamantic court of inqui ry which the Provost Marshal ot a modern European army convenes in mob case are not much more ageeable. but*’removals’’ of obnox ious officers recur, lhe latest sen sation < fjtbat sort being reported from Erloacti, Bavaria, where the Sixth .Regiment of the Bavarian Infantry had taken part in a sents of field maneuvers, Captain Tueo dore Kress, ot that regiment,hau the reputation ot being the stricf est disciplinarian of his army corps and was suspected of having stopped sevral formal complaint of his noncommissioned officers. He also slopped their extra allow ances on the slightest provocation but could not stop a rifle ball that hit him midways between the shoulders ou the morning of Sep tember 28 and caused his death by 1 recking his spine. .There is not the slightest clew to the basis of a personal indict nient, and it will be intereating to learn the decision of the Kriegs herr, th. Berlin War Lord, who only a few we.ks ago sent 188 graduate, of the Prussian Artil lery School to the military prison of Magdeburg for having joined in a disieepectful demonstration against one of tneir superior offi cers. JUST RECEIVED One of the most corr plete assortments o. TOILET SOAPS AND TOILET ARTICLES Ever brought to the city. See our line of fine IMPORTED TOOTH ES They have no superior on this or any other market SOLE AGENT CANDIES J. T CROUCH & CO. Medical Building. IO CENTS A WEEK TROUBLE The Well known Finn of Lanham t Sons ofThe 4th Ward. 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