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We do not for one moment subscribe to the sentiment, Vox popnli, ror Dei; for while the law of God most unequivocally asserts the lex Udionis, that the penalty of murder is death to the murderer, the vox populi has, for the last several years, invested the murderer with a species of tender, sentimental romance that thoroughly serves, in some portion of the way between the deed ot blood aud the expiation of the gallows-tree, to arrest the course of justice, aud in many eases to let the murderer once more loose upon society, that he may commit more crime, encouraged by the ease with which the consequences of the last outrage were evaded. For the well-being of society it is hoped, and with good reason, that all this has come to an end—that hereafter justice will assert her sway, and the offender against law will undergo the penalty which law assigns to crime. We cannot resist the lonclusiou that such is the reaction of public sentiment in regard to visiting the crime of murder with the extreme penalty ot the law—death ; such is the feeling that society must take thoroughly efficacious means to protect itself, that hereafter murderers will find it as difficult to evade the law. as they have for years past found it easy to escape the consequences of bloodshed. The execution of Bayonna and Abriel, which took place yesterday morning between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock, we confidently hope, the inauguratory indication that hereafter murder and bloodshed will not stalk abroad with impunity. We suppose that the public of New Orleans will remember the circumstances of the crime for which Bayonna aud Abriel suffered the extreme penalty of the law yesterday morning. There was nothing of the romantic about it, nothing to remind one of " Rinaldo Rtnaldo," the assassin who attempted to guild foul crime with the dignity of danger. It was a very commonplace murder, as much so as the act of a butcher who sticks a pig or cuts the throat of a steer for a consideration. They simply assailed a Milanese sailor named Ambrose, assailed him in a most cowardly manner— two to one—and while one held him (helpless in his surprise) the other inflicted a number of murderous stabs, and then they threw him in the river. For this murder they were arrested, arraigned. tried, convicted anil sentenced to death, and yesterday, in pursuance of the rather tardy guliernatorial death-warrant, they suffered punishment on the gallows for their crime. The consideration fer which these miscreants committed awful murder was less than fifteen dollars. All the imagination with which Cooper iuvested his "Red Roer" or Byron gilded his resplendent cutthroats could jjot invest with dignity the crime, as mean as wicked, for which these unmitigated assassins were hung by the neck until they were dead. As soon as the death warrant had been announced, a large interest was excited in the men whose lives were thus to be cut short by the course of law, aud visitors, alj who could obtain admittance, were by no means few and far between. We have already reported the incidents of interviews with the condemned men, what they said, aud how they looked: and we have also noted the gallows, so often described. It is not necessary to repeat all this. We arrived at the Parish Prison a few minutes after 9 A. M. There had been very numerous applications for admission to see the sight. The majority of these had been necessarily rejected, but still there were a large number of spectators present, enough to rill the courtyard in which the executiou took place. We suppose that, besides the officials, there were at least three hundred persons present. During the previous night a large portion of the time had been occupied in the offices of devotion. The Sisters of Mercy had been there—tender, delicate, refined women. but who. at the call of religious duty, subdued the natural feminine shrinking from the terrible, and performed the sad office of preparing fer the grave those whose crimes had brought them to a violent death. There had been a solemn mass performed at eight o'clock on Friday evening, and after that the devotional exercises were carried on by several pious gentlemen, members of the Society ot St. Vincent de Paul, who have devoted a portion of the time that God had allotted to them ou earth to visiting the prison and succoring the sick and ''"distressed. These gentlemen, whose names we withhold in deference to their wishes, passed the night in the condemned eell. The Rev. Father Eberhardt and Rev. Father Smulders were also with the prisoners almost unremittingly, and at a later hour they were joined by Father Colonel, another member of the Order of Redemptorists. The prisoners were also indebted to the kind offices of Madame Marie Laveaux, an aged woman who, with her grand children, provided the chapel adjoining the condemned cell with the appropriate symbols appertaining to the altar of the Catholic Church. This good Christian woman, who lias beeu erroneously described by a portion of the press as a " Voudou priestess," is iu reality a devout aud acceptable member of the Catholic communion, and lias for forty years devoted herself to Christian ministrations for those whom the law has condemned to die. There was also a German lady present, a resident in the neighborhood, whose kind heart leads her to pity sin and sympathize with suffering. She prepared refreshments for those who were passing the night in devout exorcises with the prisoners. All these Christian people remained with the condemned until the very last, the clergymen accompanying them to the scaffold, and remaining there until life had departed, while the members of the Christian Society and the devout women remained in the chapel engaged in prayers fer the departing. During the whole of the morning previous to execution, the condemned men, when not kneeling at the altar in devotion, were walking about. The larger man, Abriel, although he constantly moved about, smoked cigars incessantly; but we observed that although he lighted one after another, he threw each away before he had smoked more than the tenth part of it. It seemed as if he lighted it in forgetfulness of his situs, tion. with a sense of anticipated enjoyment. Suddenly he acen«4 to xffiBeinbcr and the unsmoked ei'gar was throw* over into the yard among the crowd assembled l>el»w. As each cigar fell among the crowd it was eagerly snatched up by somebody; did they want it for a relic? ' Ten o'clock. The death sentence was to be consummated at eleven. The prisoners walked about incessantly smoking. Abriel paced to and fro in his cell, iu company with a gentleman of the Christian Society Who spoke Spanish, and who read to him from the "Catismo de la Doetrina CrUtiana Explieado y Adaptado a la Capaeidad de las Minos." The book, we thought, was well adapted to the occasion, for surely these dying men, veterans in crime as their antecedents show, were children in religion. Fifteen minutes after ten o'clock. The reverend Fathers Eberhardt and Smulders, the brothers of St. Vincent de Paul, Madame Leveaux and Madame Spira, who had both attended the prisoners with such Christian kindness, all kneeled down once more to join in devotion. In twenty minutes the services ended. Abriel was quiet and oom posed. He said little, but still smoked incessantly. His conquiniou, Uayonna, exhibited a degree of cheerful fortitude that was absolutely marvelous. It seemed, indeed, appalling to the spectator to see a man who, in one half hour's time, would cease to be among the living, exhibit a degree of cheeriulness amounting to exhilaration, even as swift approaching death casts his dark shadow over him. The day was beautifully bright, aud as tlie time went on the condemned men east anxious glances at the door. As it opened from rime to time, looks of eager expectation, wistful, anxious, indescribably so, were cast toward it. Was all this cheerful demeanor, this manly resignation, merely the result of latent, unconfessed hope? Time after time the door opened, but no pardon, no commutation, no respite came. We thought of Wilson's tale of the " Forgers," " No pardon dropped down from those lively skies." As well might the men left fer execution have looked there as to that ever-opening door, which, opening so often, brought no hope ; no hope ; no hope. Something came at last. Twelve minutes before eleven. Something at last, two of the parish officials carrying the cord with which to bind the arms of the prisoners for the final scene. They sit down and employ themselves in arranging the cord, while once more, fer the last time, the dying - men kneel in the chapel to partake in the service fer the dying. Six minutes to eleven. The devotions are ended. Each prisoner is seated in a chair, and his arms are bound firmly behind his back, above the elbows, so that in the agony of death he can not move them. Then was put on the fatal cap, white as snow, but hideous from its associations, and so they were prepared to move to the drop, accompanied by the clergy. Aud now, for the first time, hope appeared to forsake them and its effect was peculiar, especially on Bayonna. He talked louder and louder— wilder and wilder. "Give me a eigaretta, make it of brown paper : give me the paper and let me make one more before 1 die. Put on the cap—Lully." He reached the scaffold. Abriel, composed, seated himself, followed by Bayonna Once more prayer was said by the clergy. Then tlie hangman began his office. He was disguised iu a blaek domino, with a mask of the same color. His hands had beeu stained to resemble a mulatto, but those near enough saw that he was a white man. One minute past eleven. The rope has been adjusted. Each criminal is seated beneath the fatal beam, and all is ready "Give me drink!" cried BayonDa, and tlie request was complied with. Aud now Abriel arose, aud standing firmly, said with a loud, deep voice: "Yo muero inocente. No se nada del crimen del cual me ban acusado. Asi perdono a nadie. Adios." ("I die innocent. T have not committed the crime of which I am accused: therefore I pardon none. Good-bye." The last words of Bayonna evidently showed that in him insanity had taken the place of lost hope: "Espanoles earajo! soy Espanole; s—n of a b—h." The caps were adjusted; quick as thought the drop fell, and the dying men swung iu mid-air. Abriel evidently died at once. Bayonna, at the moment the drop was about to fall, twisted himself in such a manner as to remove the knot of the noose from a proper position, and he showed symptoms of life longer thau his companion. Iu about half an h#ur both bodies were cut down. A post mortem examination was afterward made by the City Physician. Dr. Cooper, assisted by the adjunct City Physician. Dr. Avila, and Drs. Knapp, Delcry, Debron, Bezan, Jackson and Finney. Then the bodies were consigned to their coffins, carted away to the paupers' burial ground, and then the tragedv was at an endThird Ward Republican Club.— The Republicans of this club had an extraordinary meeting last evening, tlie large hall proving too small to hold all who wished to attend. Lieutenant Governor Duun presided, being the president of the club. The speakers who had been invited failed to respond, when Mr. Salomon Moses was called for. He was williug, and spoke half an hour, edifying his hearers with hits of hard sense, sending forth some startling truths. He was followed by Mr. Jervis, who kept the floor until lie had unburdened his mind of some singular sentiments, such as tlie members generally applauded. If he is not a radical Republican, then there is none in the land. He, too, gave vent to home truths, urging his followers to forsake had habits, save their money, aud buy a farm, in order that they might become independent voters, independent of capitalists. His speech contained much sensible advice, which told well. Mr. Home, a gentleman from Texas, was called to the floor, and informed his hearers on several subjects, receiving applause. A resolution was adopted making it an invariable rule that when a member presents a resolution he stall sign his name and residence. This contains an intimation that there are stray sheep iu the fold. The meeting was harmonious, and the members apparently mean work. The Philadelphia Press says, in its mysterious way, that Bismarck is not fat where a German ought to he tat. Will not the Press be a little more explicit? A testimonial to the skill of a chiropodist, published in an English paper, testifies that " four or live years ago he successfully extracted several corns from my feet without pain, as also a member of my family, which have not returned since that time." 1). ( F. a to and fr to elc<* Forrest This r. progress
