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Southland Times, Issue 1051, 4 November 1868, Page 3

At Tamboff, in JBussia, south-east of Moscow, a young man named Gorski, a pupil in the college, and only 18 years old, who had been convicted of assassinating a whole family of seven persons, was lately led out for execution. He was conveyed on a cart, and guarded by a military escort. The gibbet — for the prisoner was to be hanged — was prepared, and a great crowd had assembled to witness the last act of the law. The judgment having been read, the criminal was clothed in a long white robe, the hood of which was placed over his head j he was then placed on a high stool, which was to be withdrawn from under his feet as soon as the rope was adjusted round his neck. But at that moment an official came forward and read an imperial decree commuting the penalty of death into one of hard labor for life. The criminal was immediately clothed in a convict dress and taken back to prison, whence he will shortly be sent to Siberia. The New York papers report that Mr P. T. Barnum ran a foot race on the 14th August, at the Profile-house, New Hampshire. He had several competitors, but distanced them all, after which he was borne from the field on the shoulders of the crowd. Several thousand spectators witnessed the race.