6
FIESCHI AND THE lltFERWAL MACHINE.
During tnc Inst wtrk of the July of 1855,
France was full of vague, but deep and tinl
rcrsal apprehensions. On the 28th of July, the
fifth anniversary of the Revolutlou of 1830,
louts 1'htlippp, then growinor rapidly more
despotic and less popular, was to review the
National Uuard of the Seine and the troops of
the garrison of Paris.
Bnint Pelagle Trisun was full or republican
prisoners. A band of nearly one hundred
i,yonncse conspirators, amoni whem Rcvcrclion
was conspicuous, hirt lately defended them
selves before the Peers at the Luxembourg with
boldness and eloquence. Mad'llc Lenormand,
the labionable prophetess, had predicted a
political catHHtruphe about this time.
The.ie is a heat and oppression in the air bo
lore thunder, and also beiore the outburst of
political volcanoes: sisrns which alarm the
thoughtful. The DucheBS of Berry's lriends
wrro suspected of a wish to remove, the wily
king. Letters from Hamburg, Berlin, Coblentz,
Aix, Crmrabery, Turin, spoke vaguely ol myste
rious murmurs of danger. Now it was an am
buscade on the road to Neuilly, then an ex-
itlosive machine opposite the Ambiiru-Comiquc
'hcatre. Houses were searched, arrests made.
The bourgeo s urcaiieii the puimc anniversary
t tho Three Days, yet they scarcely kue why.
It was eenerally supposed that the Luxem
bmrs trials had dnven the more violent re
publicans into a howling frenzy tn;it mint
terminate in some insane act of violence,
iiiuibteis were auxious; the mouchurds (spies)
were restlessly watchinl; M. Thiers adjured the
king to be on his truard: the queen. Amelia,
besuuguthim not to tace. the danger. Tho king,
cool in juderment, unimaginative, crafty, bold
irave, and sell willed, turned a deaf ear to all
tnese random rumors, aud bantered those who
tried tt arou e his tVars.
On the 28. h. the citizen kin'.: positively refused
to allow any alteration in the place where tn.fi
review was to be held. lie was a ti n lile and
chatty as usual, did not mauifest the slightest
appreh' nsuon, nor ordered any precaution to be
taken; but it was secretly resolved to guard and
surround him as if he had been gom into an
cneaet meot. The only words that Louis Philippe
ottered, alluding to the review, were on the
night beiore, when.postponiua sjme work which
ne of his librarians wisued hiai to supervise,
he si.id:
"To morrow at least If I am not killed."
Lone impunity had given the king a belief In
the luiilitv of conspiracies. The Duke of Orleans
shared deeply in the general apprehension, and
aid to General Baudrand, his first aide-decamp:
"General, they threaten to fire at us. My
brothers aud 1 will keep constantly near the
king, and make a rampart for him with our
bodies. You and the other otlicers ol the cor
tece, on your part, on the least movement, must
draw close aud cover his Majesty."
Eveu that brave scarred old veteran, Mar
shal Mortier, the Duke of Trevlso, was ner
vous. Mortier had been in the retreat from
Russia, and, indeed, in all the great battles of
the Revolution and the Empire, and, having
pased through rains of fire and hailstorms of
bullets, had lorgotten what fear meant; but
still the rumor roused him. Although the old
soldier's health was so bad that only live
months beiore he had been obliged to surren
der the presidency of the council, he resisted
all the prayers and supplications of his family,
and determined to attend the anniversary re
tiew. "Yes," he said, with the old flx-bayonet look
"yes, I shall go. I am a big man, perhaps I
shall cover the king."
There Is no doubt that these alarms arose
from a consciousness of the feelings ot the
people. You heard the rumors at the mar
ble tables of the cafes, and round the
Tough deal Blabs in the poorest wineshons.
In 1833, there had, been emeulSfl at Sreno-
... . ,
"wle, Lybns, Chalons, Marseilles, and at a dozen
places, la 1834, two thousand persons were
neized or chased out ot France, one hundred
and sixty-four political prisoners tried, and four
thousand witnesses examined. The press
dreaded more chains; iustice was interfered
with. The prudence of the King in his foreign
relations tho old Napoleon party maliciously
construed into neglect of the dienily and glory
of France. Tolerant and wise men thought the
King too indiscriminate In his efforts to defend
his power lrom revolutionists.
He swept into his lawyer's net every sort of
opponent. He treated his enemies as if they
had been God's enemies. There were fears that
Justice was not merely to wear the bandage,
but also to have her eyes put out. Tho
press was to be gagged and throttled off
lrom truth; there were rumors that the
King was going to raise a body-guard, and so
dely the bourgeois soldier, who had burnt pow
der bravely ior him before Charles the Tenth
turned bis back on Paris. There was no true
liberty, then, alter all the lighting for it. King
Stork had unseated King Log.
The July morning came; the sky was blue and
burnlne, the heat was striking fiercely on the
walls ol the Tuileries and the paving-stoue3 of
the boulevards, and the leaves of tue trees in
the Luxembourg gardens were binguid with the
lieat. The quick, sharp "tam-tam'' of the drums
of the National Guard sounded every where iu
the soldierly city, from the Place of the Bnstillo
to the Arc de l'Ktoile. The measured tramp
ol the iniantry was heard in the Kue St.
Honore and rouud the Bourse; behind the
Madelaine and past the Louvre the lines of
bayonets flashed and trlittered; everywhere
there was marching. The cavalry, too, were
coming through the barriers; childipn laughed
and clapped their hands; grisettcs and baunes
smiled aud showed their white teeth; old sol
diers drew themselves up stilliy, and assumed a
critical air, now aud then perhaps passing their
Bands across their eyes with joy and pride when
a son or a nephew (decore) marched or rode
past among the "Premiere Legere" or the Cuiras
siers, and nodded shako or helmet to them as
they passed. The men of Austerlitz, t'- nieu of
Marengo were there, looking at the yc.!ia of
the last revolution, and brown-faced striplings
Iresh from Algiers.
1 There were many blanks iu the ranks of tho
Rational Guard, and that indicated mischief and
dislike. That keen observer, M. Louis Blanc,
Bays: "The ity was alarmed and weighed
down, and on every face there was a sort of
lialf-defiant apathy. People were siU-ut and
sullen."
At half-past 10 the mockery of the festival to
celebrate a restoration of liberty bad begun.
As the king passed through the gate of the
Tuileries. the erenadiers threw their muskets
forward and presented arms, stiff as statue of
Iron. The king beweu ana oowea, aua still
rode on bowing, to eucouraee the scauty
cheering. The staff was brilliant. The king
was followed by his three sobs, the Dukes
rinrWriR. Nemours, and Joluville. close to
and watchful of their lather. Then came old
Marshal Mortier, the ttrand Chancellor of the
Legion of Honor, against whom steel and lead
had hppn nowerless for sixty vesrs. He, too.
looked on the alert, and watched the populace
and the blouses suspiciously, ready to throw
himself beforp thp kins, on whom he wasted his
devotion. There were three other marshals
rode near him Count Lobau, the Marquis
Matson, Minister of War, and the Count flioiitor,
The National GuardB were cold and silent,
About half-past twelve the cortege reached the
boulevard of the Temple. An immense crowd
Of every age and both sexes crowded the road
ways and the. alleys, aud tilled every window,
Tho poorer the distnct the more eager and
numerous the crowd. Ormrwitn thp .lunlm
Turc, the space being large, the mob was enor
mous, ana many wuu-ures&ed women filled the
terrace.
At that moment, M. Bock, a grenadier of the
first battalion of the 8th Legion, advanced from
the ranks to present a petition. The 8th Legion
occupied the space between the Rue du Temple
and the Rue Saint Runae, the 7th Legion having
been just marched from there to face tbo
Chateau d'Eau.
M. Laborde, tho king's ald-de-camp, put ont
ais hand and received the petition. The
King was just passlDat a tree opposite the
last of block of buildings adjoining a
w-ttied cvje. Titer vaa notMiis leioaxka-
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY,
ble about the house; It was a small, menu strip
of building, three stories high, with a dirty
owning over the bottom shop, which was the
lowest order of cabaret. The last window but
one bad the usual Parisian outside shutters,
and lllo top windows were open, with a dingy
Venetian blind trailing .out and held up lrom
within half a foot of the bottom. The Interior
of siifh a house one could easily Imagine. Two
nien In blouses drinking glasses of iukr wine, a
grisette and her mother busy ar, Mop-work,
abovo, them some grimy gunsmith In swarthy
attire filing and scraping, busy by himself, or
with some chrery comrade, too industrious even
to throw up the blind and look out.
All at once, lrom no one leuows where, comes
a sound like a badly executed volley, mingled
with a sort of niu'llled report. In a moment
there is a teriible gap in the king's ecort, and
there arise cries of rage and terror, lor the
boulevard Is strewn with dead and dying men
and horses. Men have fallen behind anil rouud
the kine, but he nod his sons are unhurt. In
the lnne facing the houe, and under tho terrace
of the Turkish Garden, a rain of shot had in the
same way cut a path in the crowd. t
The excitement was almost maddening. The
spectators and the National Guards Hew in all di
rections, as if an ambuscade battery had openod
upon them and was about to tire agniu. A whirl
Wind of fear swept the boulevard. Had the earth
opened, or tire (alien from heaven? Nooneknew
what had happened. But there lay the heap of
torn and blecdnicr men. and thorp was thr wnft.
of smoke still drilling lrom the fatal window
where the blind was lifted for air. Lenorinand
had been right alter all; the popular terror bud
some foundation. This was the blow that w is
threatened. And what was to follow? In a
monieni the more resolute men, tho soldiers
especially, who are accustomed to any sudden
ness ol death, threw themselves upon the door
ot No. fin, lrom whoso top window tho smoke
still kept breaking out in thick whiffs.
The king was unh nrt.all but a graze on the fore
head from abullet. Tberaancof his horseba I also
been skimmed by a shot. The horse, starling,
bud strut k tho kiug's arm against the head of
the Due do Nemours' horse,;aud fora moment
Louis thought that he was hit. Tho horses of
the two princes, who rode forward eager for
their father's safety, were also grazed; but he
relieved their anxiety by a tew words. Then
with one look of deep grid at the caruatre
around him, the king rode forward, reassuring
the National Guards by his presence and hiB
words.
When the crowd of soldiers and citizens went
to raise the wounded, tbey lound forty-two
persons had been struck and nineteen mor
tally wounded. The nineteen included
the following: Poor old Marshal Mortier,
sixty-seven years old, struck by a ball
that had penetrated his left ear, traversed the
muscles of his neck, and fractured his second
cervical vertebra; Marquis Lachasse de Verigny,
aeed sixty, struck in the head by the bullet, and
his horse killed by five balls in the neck; the
marquis died that night. Colonel Ratl'e, of the
gendarmerie of the Seine, aged titty-six; be ex
pired in the night. Count Oscar de villette,
captain of artillery, thirty-four years old; skull
fractured by two slugs. Rienssec. a lieutenant
colonel ot the 8th legion of National Guards
a great sportsman aud proprietor of a horse
breeding establishment at Virolflny; killed
by three bullets. Labrouse, seventy-two
years old, a tax collector ot the 7th arrondisse
ment, struck in the right arm aud abdomen;
died two dajs alter. Leger, mathematical
instrument maker, and grenadier of the 8th
legion, Benettet, ebony carver, and grenadier of
the 8th leg'on; killed on the spot. Prudhomme,
marble cutter, and sergeant ot grenadiers; dead.
Ricard, wine merchant and grenadier; dead.
Brunot and Inglar, weavers; dead. Ardouin, a
journalist; dead. Madame Ledernet; shot in
the thigh, Madame Briosne; four wounds in the
thigh. Madame Langoray, a workwoman,
mother of four children, one of whom was in
her arms when she fell dead. Rose Alison, a
servant; wounded in the thigh. Louise Josephine
Remy, a little girl of fourteen, dead. Leclerc,
an apprentice of thirteen years old, died a
month afterwards.
The twenty-three wounded consisted of five
suDerior officers, eicht Nutionul Guards,
five workmen, three children, and five
women; there were all
ages and all classes,
geneials aud bakers,
and a dver. the son
a cnet a escaurou
of a mayor and a
street gamin ; a lady fell
beside her dying hus-
band and dead sister;
there were wounds of
every kind, in tne breast ana on tne neaa,
thighs and feet, hands and mouth. A hair
breadth of difference in the cle.vation of the
ambuscade battery, and more than two hundred
Dersons would have been mowed down by that
storm of slugs and bullets: a second sooner, and
the king'niu.st have fallen, riddled by shots.
Before the wounded and the dead
could be removed to the hospital of St.
Louis, or the neighboring bouses, No.
50 had been surrounded by a crowd
of enraged and shouting men, commissaries ot
police, police agents, National Guards, and
matideDed citizens. Ail tne doors were at, once
blocked up by the crowd; the ground floor aud
the first floor, where M. Durant's wine shop
was, was ransacked and searched in every part.
M. Jaquemin, a commissary of the polio", was
the first to ascend to the third floor. A kick or
two ot his toot, and the barricaded door fell
in, and M. Jaquemiu and three Municipal
Guurds, seven or eight National Guards, and M.
Bessas Lamcgie, Major of the 10th arron-
dissenient, rushed in. The first two rooms were
empty; in the third, -which was thick with
smoke, they lound at the open window a rough
frame-work, like a clumsy table with the top
removed; In this had been screwed twenty-five
gun-barrets; some oi tnese were split and shat
tered, almost all displaced by the terrible explo
sion. On the right-hand side was a fireplace, iu
which blazed a fire of straw and wood. The
police, suspecting some trap iu a fire too large
for a garret on a hot July day, at ouce scattered
and nut out the fagots.
As the men's eyes grew accustomed to
the thick, sulphurous smoke oozing from
hell ilselt, as it 6eemed to their excited
minds, they saw -that the room was empty,
but that there were 6mears of fresh blood
on the wall. On the floor, near the door,
lay a pierced grey hat, with pieces of torn gun
barrel near it. All at once M. Jacquemiu, cry
ing "They are here," springs on a door in the
wall facing the window, but it proved to beouly
a large cupboard-containing some straw and a
mattress. Returning through, the two rooms,
the soldiers and police found on the left band a
small kitchen, with a window looking out upon
the court-yard. Here also there was a hat
pureed with fragments of gun-barrels, and there
were prints ol fresh blood. There is a ladder in
one corner and a trap-door in the ceiliug. This
monster of evil, this last embodiment of Satan,
must be there. M. Jacquemin is mounting the
ladder, when Corporal Uautrep, of the MunicU
pal Guard, draws him back,
"if they are there," he says, "I am armed."
He mounts with sword drawn and pistol
ready. His comrades wait impatiently for his
cry for help ; but there is nothing there but a
portinunteau that has held gun-barrels, a ham
mer, a flask basket, and a sealed letter. Jast
then, a soldier, looking out at the window, finds
a rope hanging down into the court below. It
is covered in places with blood, and the oolice
at once feel sure that the assassius have escaped
In that direction.
Whilst all this was going on, Daudlu, a sharp
officer, who had run into the court ot the tatal
Maison Travant with some men of his bugade,
hears Leievre, one of his police agents, cry
ing: "I see a man dropping from a rope into the
next court. '
Lefevre and a comrade named Devlllers in
stantly climbed to the roof of the shed that
looked into the next yard, while Daudin went
round by another door to the doorot the Cafe
des Milles Colonnes, next door, when he was
arrested by mistake, and led off to the Chateau
d'Eau. In the meantime, the two agents had
come upon a short, stoutly built man. stagger
ing from a dreadful gaping wound in his temple,
and trying, with both hands, to press back tho
blood that was gushing down ovei his eyes.
He could make no resistance, and waa at once
led to the Chateau d'Eau with bayonets held to
his fareaet.
They found on biffl six franca flay centimes,
a packet of gunpowder, a knife with a born
Lmulle, a pair ofgreca spectacle! ft Tftbi a4
a life-preserver made of cord and weighted with
lead. In the confusion of numerous arrests,
the man contrived unobserved to throw a poig
nard with a silver handle under a camp-bed.
Taken buck to tho room where the infernal ma
chine was, and examined belo'e M. (iisquet.tho
prefect ol poiice,the procurcur-gencral.the king's
procureur, and the commissaries of police, the
man explained by signs that he was the aas
sin, and coulessed that his name was Girard,
the name lound on some receipts for rent which
had been discovered to belong to him. He was
then liandeo over to Dr. Marjolm and Dr. OIli
vier d'Augers, and about two o'clock taken to
the Conciergeric.
The mdUnntlon at, the h'deous fanaticism,
the bloodthirsty vanity of such a piitriot as
Girard, aud all who instigated or aidad him,
was deep and heartfelt. The people felt that
the king represented, however imperiectly,
peace, order, and prosperity, and that without
him anarchy and murder must relpn supreme.
The National Guards, who that very morning
had been so cold and sileut, were now loud aud
enthusiastic in their cheers, and as the king
rode mournfully back to the Tuiler1,'s, shakos
waved on thousands ot bayonets, and the "Vive
le Roil" ran deafening from street to street.
The Bourbonists, who had declared that the
Duke de Betry died stabbed by Guizot and De
caze's liberal ideas, were now told that the
Duchess do Berry's party had incited this mur
der. Party spirit, olten dishonest, was now
atrociously so. Each party tried by every mean
and dishonorable shift to throw tho odium of
the crime upon its adversaries. Jn a letter to
Marshal Lobau, the king spoko ominously of
the murder:
"Fienchmen," the king wrote, "the National
Guard and the army are mourning; Freuch
families aie sorrowing. A frighllul spectacle
has lacerated every heart. An old warrior, an
old Irlend, spared by the fire of a hundred bat
tles, has fallen by my side, struck by the blovs
that the assassin destined lor me. In their
desire to reach me, they have immolated glory,
honor, and patriotism, peacelul citizens,
women, and children; yes, Pans has seen ber
best bloud shed in the same spot and on the
same day on which It was porred five yenrs
ago to maintain the laws of the country." The
very day ol the attempt the Chamber of Peers
was organized as a court of iustice to try toe
conspirators, under the presidency of Baron
Pai-quicr.
Girard was twice examined the day of the
massacre, first at No. 60, then iu the Concier
geric At first faint and bleeding, he could
only feebly hold up his fingers in reply to the
questions. He implied that be was alone in the
plot; that he had been tor weeks making the
internal machine; that it was his own idea
alone. He then fell back fainting. No more
could at that time be got out of him.
In the evening, bandaged and slightly stronger,
he coulessed that he had had accomplices, but
declared that he alone held the bliudupand
fired the train. He was a republican. The
agony of his wounds then compelled the doctors
to lorbid the wretch being tortured by further
questions. The next morning tho man was
better, and could speak. He said his name was
Joseph Francis Girard, and his wife and child
were at Lodeve, near Montpellier. He was
thirty-nine years of age. The judge represent
ing the enormity of the crime, Girard cried,
with broken words:
"I am an unfortunate man. I am miserable.
I cau hope for nothing. I may render a service.
We shall see. I regret what I have done. I
may perhaps stop something. I will name no
one. I will sell no one. My crime has been too
much for my reason." He confessed that the
newspapers Lad excited him to the crime. He
spoke of the enieutes in the Rue Transnanaia
and at Lyons.
It was still doubtful whether Girard had really
had accomplices. One man declared he had seen
three persons at tho window,aud others imagined
they saw conspirators escaping over the roof
towards the Rue des Fosses du Temple. The
portmanteau that contained the gun-barrels
was the great clow upon which the police relied.
It had beeu brought to Girard three or four
days before the crime, and Girard said it
came trom his wife, and contained linen and
brandy. A waterman at the cabriolet stand in
the RueVendomc had carried it from the corner
ot the Rue Chariot to No. 60 in the Temple
boulevaid. It was a wooden trunk, four teet
long, covered with black skin, and very heavy.
A commissioner was also found who, on the
morning of the 28th. of July, had brought the
trunk back lrom No. 5 to the Place Vendome.
The cabman he had ordered to drive to the
Place Maubert ; but on the way he changed the
order to the Place aux Veaux, near the Port
aux Tuiles. A cooper's boy had helped him to
put the box on his shoulder, and ho walked
towui ds the Rue Saint Victor. There the clew
was lost, lor Girard himself refused to say
where he had taken the trunk; but it was dis
covered that he had taken the trunk to a marble-worker
named Nolland, No. 13 Rue de
Poissy. Girard, whom he had only seeu once,
came to him with the trunk, telling him if it
was not sent for in an hour not to give it up
without an order trom M. Morey, a harness
maker, No. 23, Rue St. Victor, who came lor it.
Here was another clew. Nolland, taken to
the Rue Croulebarbe, pointed to No. 10, at the
corner of the Kue de Chant de l'Alouctte. The
sc ent got hotter. The people there remembered
NolUnd's Iriend. a Corsican, named Fieschi. a
shoit man, wiih brown beard and hair, and a
southern pronuuciation. He had lived an in
famous lile with a woman named Petit, who
had a young daughter with one eye, since living
in the Salpetriere. He had been the terror of
the place, and used to boast of an iulamous con
demnation before a military tribuual. The
udge's eyes sparkled. This was the man. Nol
and, being taken to the prison, at once recognized
Girard as his old neighbor of the Rue Croule
baibe. Morey's porter identified the fourth
story iu No. ll in the Rue du Long Pont as the
place to which be had taken the trunk. The
ponce lound there a young girl with one eye,
named Nina Lassave, Fieschi's last mistress.
The trunk was found in the room: she haJ
just written on a scrap of paper her intention
or Kunng uersen, oiorey naving deserted her
after giving her sixty francs to go to Lyons aud
hide herself. The trunk had contained Fieschi's
clothes and account-books, which she had
pawned. The gun-barrels were ideutitied as
rejected Government barrels, purchased from
M. Bury, a gunsmith in No. 68 Kue do l'Arbre
Sec, aud a pupil in the Temple testified to Girard
and Morey buying the trunk found at Nina Las
save's. A woman, who had been with Nina to
the review, declared thatshe returned trembling
and detracted with grief, hearing that the
murderer was killed.
On the 6th of August. Nina confessed the
whole. On the 26rh, she went to see her
hideous lover, and found him at work at some
machine, as she thouolh, inthe ordinary wayof
his trade. Fieschi told her not to come to I'ari9
during tho fetes, as there would be disturbances;
ana, n sue came, ne said he would not receive
her. His manner seemed altered, and he looked
careworn. She, however, went the next day, aud
me purier ioiu uer mat nescin was tnen snui
up with his uncle, an old gentleman (Morey,)
ouu tney had given orders that thev would see no
one. Some minutes after, she satv Mnrpc and
Fieschi sittius too-ether ri riii bine htur iiinlur thtf
tent of a cate. Fipsnht. th
than ever, came up and told her he could not
receive her.
The next day, feeling sure the fire had come
lrom Fieschi's window at No. 60, she lost her
f0PImS ure that her only frieud was
oeao; and, packing up her few things at the
5mm rfui:ned t0 Prt to see the trieuds
whom Heschi had told her to consult on
emergencies She flr8t called on Pep in. a
ing him at home, she went, all in tears to
Morey, who said to her: '
"Well, what is the matter? It Wfta F(Pirhl
then, who fired tbethlu? Is h" dead iS He
afterwards, however, owned that he had been
with Fieschi on the Monday, and then took the
gist to a small wine-shop Outside thH?rrira
du Tjone, to talk to her more priyatelv B,trriere
. Nina said, "What a dreadful hln, '.n m.n,
IKS" ThCy 'fty eneral waTsS
i "He was canaille. like the mt
It was cruel to kill fifty persona t ret at
one. I, who am oaly a woman, tf I had Visaed
nlstols. Blld. after havintr firprl with rvno. I
should luve shot myself with the other."
"Hush I we snaii-t lose by watting ; and he'll
give ui his bodv-giiard. Fieschi is an imbecile;
he would load three of the guns himsclt, and tt
is just those that burst. I urged him to load
nis pisioi. nu uiikui io nave Jjlown out his
brnins. He la only a brasgart. He went and
told in several fdaees that something whs tiouu?
to happen on tho day of the review: that ras
wrong."
"But how did Fie?ehl, who whs an engineer,
construct a machine like that?"
"It was I who traced the nlan. I have only
just torn it up, or I would show It you. The
gUllS were iimufu ui;u wy inti iuev CO U III
not ntiss; uui ritiaiu uit-u too intr,
On his way to dinner outside tho barrier,
Morey had stopped at a paper maiuilncturer's to
return a passport to a man named Beacher,
which nescin nao oorrowuu. ruining oacK,
Morey stopped at the corner of ft wall to throw
away a bag of bullets be hod in his pocket.
I'epin, the grocer, was found in his shirt only,
hidden in a concealed cupboard at Magny. He
had with him two blouses lor disguise, nine
hundred and forty francs, and a volume ot tho
works of St. Just. Pepin had already been
under accusation for having, in 1832, permitted
the lusuigeuts to tire from bis windows In the
faubourg at the troops. The police also ar
rested Victor boireau, a tinman and a n ember
of the danperous Society of the Rights of Man.
It was he who, on one of Pepiu's horses, had
trotted and galloped past No. 6. in order th it
Fieschi and Morey might regulato the. gun
oarrels. Beschcr, a bookbinder, who had lent
his passport to Fieschi. was also arrested.
The trial took place before the Court of Peers,
under tne presidency of M. Pa-quior, on the
3()th of January. So great was the internet ex
cited in Paris that applications were made to
the grand referendary tor seventeen thousand
five hundred tickets.
Firscbi, now the blood was washed off, and
the plaster and poultices removed, appeared a
short muscular man, with a hieh, nariow fore
head, hollow eyes, livid face, and thin
pointed nose. Ills Corsican face gave him
a diabolical likeness to a degraded Napoleon.
His black hair was cut very short, and
shaved over the left temple, where the wounl
had exposed the brain; a second wound had
gashed his left eyebrow; a third splinter hail
ripped the left corner of his mouth, and
gave it a sardonic, grinning expression. His
left eye was closed, and seemed lower than tho
other. His little eyes were quick as those of a
rat, and much hidden by the brows. This mon
ster of bloodthlsty vanity, calling itself patriot
ism, wore a black satin waistcoat and black
cravat. He took snuff perpetually, and kept
arranging a portfolio of papers with gay and
smiling alacrity. He was never still a moment,
constantly rising up, sitting down, or turning
his hi ad lrom this side to that. He Bhook
hands with his counsel, offered snuff to his
guards, and seemed piqued at their refusal. He
assumed the air ot a great man, whose actions,
though mistaken, had been in pursuit of a grand
idea.
Morey, an old man on the point of dying from
a terrible disease, had a calm, fearless manner,
and was treated with consistent respect by
Fieschi, whose death, however, he had no doubt
planned by overloading three of the barrels.
Pepin, a mild, talkative, weak man, looked pale
and miserably apprehensive. Bescher was
careless; Boireau, a very young man, energetic,
eloquent, aud assured.
Fieschi, in some vague hopes of being re
ceived as evidence, confessed, in the course of
the trial, the whole progress ot the crime. It
was a plan struck out by Morey as earlv as 1821.
It was originally a mere soldier's scheme.
"I said to myself one day, 'If I was in a for
tress with five hundred men, and an epidemic
came and carried off halt of them, could I
defend the place with a few people left ?' I had
then an idea of mounting ninety muskets in a
row. With that, thought I, I can destroy a
whole regiment with a few men. Morey's wife
saw me at it, and told Morey, who came and
asked me what it was. I replied, a machine
that could demolish Charles tho Tenth and
all his family. It was too complicated, how
ever, being ranged In batteries, and made for
flint looks.
"I explained it to Morey, and he said, 'That
would do very well for Louis Philippe.' He put
the model in his pocket, but did not say what
he should do with it."
It was then arranged between Pepin, Morey,
and Fieschi, and the expense of the whole plot
coldly and carefully estimated at five hundred
fiancs. They met one day. after dinner, at
Pepin's appointment, in the cemetery of
Pere la Chaise, to make experiments as to
the best way of firing trains of powder.
Afraid of being seen there, they went up into
the vineyards. Morey drew out his "pear" (small
powder-horn) and spread the powder. Pepin
struck a light that went out. , Fieschi then
lighted the powder in the middle, and his com
rades seeing the good ellect, cried at once, "Ca
vabien!" "And certainly no way is quicker
and sharper than that," added the witness.
They afterwards drank together at a restaurant
at the Barriere de Montreuil.
The sums advanced to Fieschi were found in
Pepin's books entered as paid to "the Dauber,"
as Fieschi was nicknamed from his griininess at
his first interview with Madame Pepin. Boireau
lent tools to pierce the touch-holes of two of the
biurets. Morey had regretted he had not
money enough to carry out another project.
He had wanted to hire a house next the
Chamber of Deputies, aud blow up the king and
the princes the day ot the opening of the Cham
bers. He also said (he was a celebrated leader
at shooting-matches) that if he ouce got the
king at the cud of his gun, he'd take good care
not to miss him.
Fieschi especially insisted on his not being a
mere hired assassin.
"Ne," he said; "I worked, f gained my bread
even while I was about to nuke this attempt. I
shall pass in the eyes of the world as a great
criminal, not as an assassin. I do not deserve
the name of assassiu. An assassin is a mau who
kills to get money, but I I am a great criminal
un grand coiipable. I declare that I re
ceived nothing from anybody. They shsll never
say that 1 am a stabber. I had goods from
Pepin, but I paid lor them; they were only
sugar and trifles."
Fieschi mot the Prince de Rohan also at
Pepin's, who came, as Pepin said, to discuss
some new machine for decorticatmg vegetables,
but more probably for political purposes.
It was about rive o'clock in the afternoon of
the 27th when Morey arrived with the powder
aud bullets. The guns were loaded for the
most part by Morey. The mounting and load
ing took up till after six. Morey then went
out, keeping his handkerchief to his mouth.
He also took off his July decoration, and
turned his back to the people as much as pos
sible to prevent being recognized. The barrels
that burst were found to have beeu loaded with
intervals purposely left between the powder and
the bullets, so that they might explode and
Fieschi be destroyed. At eleven o'clock that
night, alter leaving Boireau and his experiment
of riding past, Fieschi went home and tried to
sleep, vexed and alarmed at Pepia's disclosures
to Boireau.
The next morning very early, Fieschi went to
a young Coisican, named Sorba, to ask him to
be his second in a duel. It was only a pretext to
obtain society; for Soroa was too young, and he
dared not couhde his fears to him. M. Sorba,
who evidently kue w ot the plot, said to him,
You have an unlucny hand."
At halt-past nine Fiesehl met Boireau again
on tho boulevards. Boireau left the friends with
whom be was, and eald to Heschi:
"We are all ready. You go to your work ; we
shall be atourpobts."
Fieschi then met Morey on the Rue Basse du
Rempart. Morey proposed, alter all was de
molished, to destroy the telegraphs, to set tire
to the barns in the baulleue, aud to attack the
National Guard when they came to put out the
f rMorey said that when the Government was
once tree, the world would be happy, and the
nation rich. Small fortunes were to be left
alone- but when a man had a million, all beyond
three' hundred thousand franca were to bo
thrown into the national funds. Pepin
clapped ' him on the back, and said, "Mon
brave, you shall be recompensed." But Fieschi
I replied, the Government was not to be shut
uplfleattfl-boi. There would U civil wars,
APRIL 18, 1807
and all he wished was to win g'ory at the head
ot one bundled or two hundred men. and chase
the stranger from tho Rlnne. and drive of the
( os'aeks, who were je.ilous of Franeo. Peotn
then declared that the hea ls of all suponrter.
of monarchy must roll along tho streets like
paving stone's. ..
On the 15th of February, the seventeenth
audience, the Court brought a verdict ol giultv
auainst all the prisoners but Bescher, who was
acquitted; Fieschi, Morey, aud Pepin were
condemned to death; Boireau to twenty
year' detention, and to bo for the rest
ot his lite under tho surveillance ol the police.
Morey heard his sentence with cairn lu
Oillercnce, Pepin with assurances of his inno
cence, Fieschi with vain and verbose assurances
of repentance. .
He had become a lion of the day, and keenly
relished the popularity he had acquired o
dearly. F-ven the peeis applauded some ot hn
Fallics. With distorted face and sardonic smila
he watchel eagerly tor his moments ol recrtini
naMon or seli-assertion.
The antecedents of Fieschi were soon un
ravelled. He was a Corsican of Genoese extrac
tion, born at Murato in 1TU0. His father, a con
demned criminal, had died in voluntary exile.
One of the assas-in's brothers fell atWagram;
his only sister was blind. A second btother, born
dumb, was so heartbroken wnh eriel at the news
of Fieschi's crime, that be reuiaiued two whole
dajs without taking lood.
Giuseppe FieBchi was originally a goatherd,
but, being quick and adventurous, soon to t
Corsica, enlisted In a regiment of light intaniry
nt Naples, and, displaying much zeal and cour
a"e, became regimental staii-sergcant by ths
tune he was nineteen. Entering Murat's Guards,
he distinguished himself by great courage in
the campaigns ot 1812 and 1814, and won fie
decoration of the Two Sicilies. In 1815
Fieschi deserted to tbo Austriaus, and h's in
formation, it is said, contributed to bis old mas
ter's deleat at Tdeutino. When Murat was at
Vescovato, Fieschi re)oined him, und was sent
on impirtant secret service to Naples. His
reports encouraged Murat to his ra-h and fatal
cxpedrlon. On landing at 1'izzo, Meschi re
quested leave to go first and reconnoitre, ai,d a
very snort time niter murat was snot oon oy
the penoaTtnes ot Monteicone.
Traitor or not, the man did not thrive. He
returned to Corsica a bet gar, to wrangle with
bis brother-in-law tor a share of the fraternal
heritage. Unable to obtain even a sou, Fieschi
took the law into his own hands, and, like a
true Corsican moss-trooper, drove on a cow be
longing to his brother, and sold it openly in the
market place, brought befoie a magistrate, he
produced lorged tapers to prove bis right, aud
was in consequence arrested and sent to Bastia.
Here he escaped to the mom, tains by leaping
lrom a window twenty leet irom the ground.
Iu 1816. when only twenty-six years old.
Fieschi wag condemned to ten years' imprison
ment at umhrun, aud to police supervision ior
lile. At Embrun ho learned the trade of a
cloth-maker; and when he was released, break
ing the ban, be went to Lodeve, aod practised
his trade. From there he went to the royal
manu'actory at Villelouvette, conducting him
self there well, and with a pretense ot religion.
Coning to Paris, he obtaiued help Irom his old
commander, and became porter at a newspaper
office abd a sd.v of the police.
It was at this time that he sought helo of
Morey, and described him sell as wretched as the
dog that looks tor food at a street corner. Most
men, be aiterwards said, in such misery, must
have gone mad or thrown themselves out ot the
window. It was in this poverty and despair that
men like Morey took advantage ot his cunning,
recklessness, and mora iu ate vanity, ice uov
ernment observing that a sort of boastful grati
tude was a leading point in his character, per
suaded him to disclose the plot to his old bene-
iacior, ai. iaovocar.
The king, in acknowledgment, forgave Fieschi
the pairic.de's penalty of wearing a black veil
on the scaffold, aud walking to the guillotine
with bare feet. While he was undergoing the
toilette, be merely said:
"Is it not heart-breaking that I should bo the
first executed for political causes since 1830? I
would rather have remained on the field at
Beresina."
Pepin was cruelly bound in the camisole.
While his hair was being cut off, he said to
Fieschi:
"I am your victim."
Fieschi was going lo reply, but his confessor
stopped him. Heschi then throw himself at
Pepin's leet, and begged him to tell the whole
truth, as he had done, that he might appear
before God without lear.
Pepin heaved a sigh and replied, "No, I can
say nothing. I will not compromise lathers of
families."
A 8 lor Morey, he was so weak that he had
to be lifted on lo the scaffold; but he said
calmly;
"It is not courage I want, but legs."
The scaffold hudonly been erected at a quar
ter before seven; at quarter past eight the
execution took place In the Place de Jacques,
beiore a vast crowd fhut filled every avenue.
Pepin was calm and resigned, and declared his
innocence to the last. "Since I must die, I will
die. I have nothing more to say," he replied to
the police agent, who, whi e he was being
strapped to the plank, still urged him to cou
letsion. He died first.
Morey then ascended, calm and Imperturba
ble; the plank went down, the old man's neck
was clipped by tho lunette a second head rolled
Into the sawdKst.
Heschi fcaid to the people that he had told
the truth, and died without fear. Fieschi left
his head to Nina Lassave, m order that she
might benefit by the sale of plaster-casts taken
from it. The doctor who had healed Fieschi's
wounds opened the skull to see how the cure
hud operated. The poor girl Nina was hired a
few days after as dame du comptoir in the Cafe
de la Renaissance, in the Place de la Bourse.
There, in flame-colored satin, and with rich
ornaments in her hair, the miserable creature
sat, at salary of oue thousand fraties a month.
The cafe was daily tluonged by unfeeling
idlers, who launched at her cruel sarcasms, re
proaches, and disgusting ribaldry, until Nina
often fainted, and was carried out of the room.
When she returned aud resumed her seat, she
used to pathetically entreat that sport might
not be made of her misfortunes. She is de
scribed as a rather pretty, mild, one-eyed girl,
with a vulgar expression, and with two fingers
eaten off her right hand by scofula.
The massive oak frame of the infernal ma
chine, with its split gun-barrels, may still be
seen at M'me Tassaud's, that indefatigable old
lady having instantly pounced on the relic ot a
remarkable crime.
The infernal machine was not an oiiglual
thought ot Fieschi's, for, in the year 1789, a
watchmaker named Brillou, being expelled from
the Arquebusters1 Company at Senlis, deter
mined on revenge. He fired a train of gun
bai rels at the procession as it passed his window,
shot a man who broke into his barricaded room,
aud then blew up the house with all who were
In it. The only man who escaped was tho sol
dier who tried to drag him out. and he had
twenty wounds, an eye knocked out, aud a knee
pan broken. All the Year Hound.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
pilANG'S SUPERB CHROMOS
11K1VAL, TO OIL, PAIKTIKCM.
Consisting of the Group ot Quails, Little Chickens,
, DucklliiK's, Victory, Winter Crowned Wreu, Kuby
V reu, yvt aud Mit-Ci Bikers, the A wakeniuif. I Lie
bisters, Amerlcau (Jem LttnUsc&iibH, )S klmla: Worlp
tare Texts. MotUues, etc.; Album uud huuday hk'hool
Cards, ben and Wood il oases, lSuuerlliiH. Autumn
l eaves, Hosts, etc. tic A splendid assortment fur
sale by
a. W..PITOIIE11,
Healer In Albums, Photographs, Pictures,
Aud Manufacturer of Frames of all stales,
826 1111
NO. SOU CHEMNi'T STREET
A II the Kfw Bookg on band as soon as Issued.
P1ITT.AT1FI PHTA O TT TJ (1 E n M
Wfr? BANDAtiK INbTlTllTK. No. 14 N
" NINTH Hireet. arutva Xliii-kt. K. C
EY KKKTT, after tlilrty years' practical eipeneno
Kiiaraultioa the sklllul adjustment of his Pruuilui
Patent Graduating l'reemire TruH, and variety i
other. hupporlera, Klastlc blockings, bhoulde
Brace, Cruuihea, buBuetulers, eio. Ladles' avail
muni oouUuvted by a lUy
DrtY GOODS.
pRICE i WOOD,,
N. W. tor. EIGHTH and FILREKT,
I1AVK JUfT OPENED
One lot of Plaid silk Poplins, m-ia a yard.
Fine Quality French Pen alea.
All-wool Delaines, choice sondes.
Melange Poplins, very cheap.
Black All-wool Delaines and Black Alpaca , .
Oros Gram Black Silks, cheap.
i'lald and Btnpe scotch Uluahams, ,
Black and White Baluiorul Skins.
M 1IITE UOOON t WHITE UOOIM I
Jus: opened, a large lot of P'lald tfaluaook Muslins.
Very clit'hp.
White l"l(ties, 50, so, s, S5. 7S, 800., and 11.
Bull Piques, 7S rent per yard.
Mint liuish CuUihrloa, Jaconets, Nainsook, Swiss
MuMliift, Vliturin I.nwns, and W lute l'arletaus.
A new lot of H iKUred Swiss Mulls, very cnettu,
W hlie Mamelile. and Hone) comb (4uiKs.
Colored Alhumbra Quilts.
EI MEN UOOlttt!
EI Si EN UOODHI
Table Mnins. Napkins, and Towels,
best makenMilrunif Linens.
Aprou lilrd-l!) e and ..Nursery Dinners
Linen iluukuliack, by uu yard.
DltHLINM!
BfRt makes Shlrtlug,
Mnslliix.
Pillow-case, and Sheeting
Juki opened, a Inrnelot of Ladies', Qonts'. and Chil
dren's Linen I umtirlc lldkls
Ladlen' Hull, White and Colored Borlln Oloves.
Cliiloren's Jtntl. White a .0 Colored Oloves.
Ladles' J-ng isu tsilk CJloves.
Jouvlus Kid tihjves.best quality Imported.
piuol: & Wood.
N. W. Corner EIGHTH and FILBERT Streets,
N. B.-Cloths suitable for Ladloa' Cloaks aud
A cneap lot o nil-wool Casslnieres.
Ladles' aud Children a liuup bkiris. loffl
229 FARIES & WARNER, 229
NORTH NINTH STUEKT,
ABOVE It ACE,
WILL OPEN TO-DAY
One case double width all wool Delaines, choice
colors, btst noons yet ollered, 6Sc. a yurd.
Black A Ipacas, 4n. 46, Mi, Su, 115, 70, sic, etc
Yurd wiue t-pmiK CUiuUt 8, i-'to.
Plum and Figured Percales, Mourning Chintzes, etc
bprlug Delaines, Plaid Poll ae Chevres, etc,
UO.TlK.STM.tt
at reduced prices.
2(Miu yards Bleached Muslin at 12!t'c, worth 15c, by
the case
Bleached Sheeting, 2'i yards wide, SOo.
Piilon-case Muslin, l' yard wide, Hoc
Heal W ater '1 wist Bleached Musllu, Mc
Best makes ol Bleached Muslins. .
One bule ol Rood Busnla Crash, 12c.
1 able Linens, Kapklus, Towels, etc.
Bullardvale Flannels, reduced prices
Best It cull wool Flannel ill cltv.
Yard wide Douiel Flauuel, 37.c.
Meltons, for boys' wear, Bsc.
bprlus Lalmoruls, (I 'S,
n llllE Uul)i WHITE tiOODMl
Marseilles Quilts, from auction, bargains,
Lare Plato ftalusooks, 5u, 65. to, aud s6c
Plaid Nainsooks, -5, 31, u7,'jC.. etc
Hue Victoria Lawns, 31, i.',, s, 50, and 80c.
Plain and birlpeU Nainsooks, bwlss Mulls, etc
bhirred Muslins. White Marseilles, etc
Aprou Bird-eve, Nurseiy Diaper, etc
Linen blurt i runts, so, i7a, 46, (O, M, 62),', and 75c,
Three-ply Linen Culls, lac
B0 doz. Misses' Linen HdklB.. 10c
Butcher Linen, 40 Indies wide, 54 and ffilic.
UeutB' boring uud bummer Underwear.
Cents' Neck-ties, busueuders liukls.,elc
Hosiery ai reduced prices.
Ladies' bluing Uloves, 2tic. up.
Hamburg LdiouKH aud Inserting.
O. F. elvet Bihbons. all widths.
aouo Linen Fans, at all prices, etc etc
FARIES & WARNER, ,
KO. 229 NORTH NINTH STREET,
AT
THORNLEY'S ! ! !
NEW GOODS,
HEAETirtTL CIOODS,
CAM MI ON A BEE HOODS,
DECIDEDLY CHEAP ClOODS
SIEK GOODS,
DUES GOODS.
UN EN GOODS,
DOMESTIC GOODS
WHITE GOODS.
GOODS FOB MEN,
GOODS FOR DOTS
GOODS FOB CUIEDUEN.
IN FACT,
THORNLEY'S,
N. E. CORNER EIGHTH AND KFRING
GARDEN STREETS,
Is a good place to buy DRY GOODS, because you are
sure to get the worth of your money, aud always a
large block lo select from.
"ONE PKICE CASH STORE." ,
THE FIVE BTORY WHITE BUILDING.
Established in 1803. fa lanmsp
No. 1101 CHE8NUT bireeu
KID GLOVES.
"ANGELE."
This Glove being cut by the
STSTEME JOSEPHINE,
WITHOUT BEAM ON 6IDE, renders it the
best fitting Glove Imported.
The extensive sale of it by Flrst-Class Re
tailers in New York, in competition with other
makes, la a guarantee or Its quality.
E. M. NEEDLES fit CO.,
M.YV. Corner le veutti and Chesnut
1B9J1H XflKKjtHO I0II 'OtJ
CI1KAP DRY GOO I 8, CARPETS, MATTIXGS,
OIL CLOTJib, AND WINDOW bHADris,
V E- ARCHAMBATJLT,
N. E. Corner ELEVKNTH and MARKET Streets,
opened this morning.f rom auction
Iiusraln Carpets, all wool, at 76c., 87c, II, $125. Jl'ST.
aud IPSO. Ingrain Carpels, wool filling, 40c, 60c.. and
62c. Fjigllsh Tapestry Brussels Carnets, only SP75.
Entry and btalr Carpels, Mo. to 76c Rag Carpets 4.5c.
iPj6c7I,,Hemp Carpew, 8oc to 62c. Floor Oil Cloths,
6oc. Window Hhades. tl to 3. Plain Window Hol
land, 60c. White Malting. 87c to 6uc Red Matting.
WO"" gussets. II to 110 biilr oil
Cloths, 25c. bprlng Chiuttes, iac to aoc. DeLaluea.
S6c. Muslins, lie to 26c '
r tP t. CHEAP 8TORE, r219m
N. E. Corner ELEVENTH and MARKET btreem.
J CHAMBERS, No. 819 AUCH STREET,
. Novelties Opening Dally
Meal Cluny Laces.
Black Guipure Laces.
Polute Appiiuue Laces,
Poinle de Gaze Laces.
Thread Veils lrom ,2'&o.
WHITE GOODS.
Mantel lies tor Dresses Bargains.
Bhi..-re".Cn.Wr,Blin,B' 2 ,ardB wWtJ. l B0 cents.
Bhirred anil Tucked Lace Musllu India Twilled
Long Cloth ; Plaid, blrlne. and Plain Nalimook soft
tinisL Cambric, 1 yartf wide: Cambric Edgings' and
Insertions, new dealgn vary cheap- t n'i
PROPOSALS.
O ,penksylia railroad com.
Proposal.' will iFSSSZTfrRfSS Vh.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, PhUadalnhli i.mil
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tory proposal .houfcJ be received inU SLnKd ,
Line of bteamSlup. llt
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tlon, will be .urnlih-e'd ZSSST
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ruhev win . - -
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