2BIGBTFUL ATROCITIES. , A ;

Tuapeka Times, Issue 1, 15 February 1868, Page 3

2BIGBTFUL ATROCITIES. , A ;

Ihe "Tii%" gives an account ot certain acts *ekm t ly perpetrated by tlio inhabitants of £ tlol . Cj a £mall tcnVli in Calabria, abolition miles froiii Geraco. We defy the oft Voiced hisfcoiy of Hayti to produce anythV\ horrible than what the " '1 iines\ rc coHs. " The Dalian Government had denied" "W advisable to send a small detachnent of Wsaglieri to Ardore- to maintain yoivleivwhi,^ \ VM i been shaken by a cluHcra r<'\je, at the same time endeavoring; to au ;( l ase the people's hunger by supplies oj{< l( ' na . lllH i grain. A butcher of Ardore. xUitiii"- tlio neighboring hamlet of Bt. Niw>»loj\waß seized by the villagers and haivsWj .piivi .s as i\ poisoner in the very presimo bfJWju village authorities. The' inhaUtants ci?"' 1 - Ard<.re, hearing- of this act of blcjbd , fovilrwith attached the shop of rfln ir own |\pothecary and killed the mail and the •Vie of m,s family, as [veil as a }, of the National Ginrd named Uaz\ ue} W ] lO atte^jited to protect 'him. f -/r f n urnG^ tlleu> attention to ihii , iy, • 'ISaglieri stafioned in thotuv.n, killed thc\° tainj Losohiw,., woumlc-.i several pnva . Uld t]ien Bet fIW io thc .- r barracks. J-K bewagUeri, seei»g tliit their case was X^perate, madek sallj. and succeeded m i^ ting theil . ' m {K and m carrying off\ ein won ndla cpm\ rades. Jhe writer in k c V< Timei" rfiua says :— " The crowd, not\ viug t o pursuil them, rushed into the bm\ n g^^vixcks,} dragged out the breathing\>ody vf tho\ fallen capt-siin, toi'e him to pieces, with his still quivering lhubVpn ilw"\ points of their bayonets went \o.ihia \ house, laid hold of his mother and of two \ of his infant children, of his sister, mli two of her children, also of" tender :L;e, and a butchery ensued, enhanced by t^t; refinement of barbarism, by those initiations and outrages upon the bodies oJ the victims, with whiclt too long douieati-j cation .of brigandage k'\ sJincst -everyl vilfa^eJias.but too generally the Souili - Italian ■ people. Of '^Mid|M| Loscliiavo ; ajfamily his wife alone good ff rime to escape. Four hoir >', \A inmates, were Si^^^^B visi J/ ■." fire and slaughter ';^^^^H when, . ■ •• ritbrroiv, n reinforceme^^^^B tro >p-;, }'ni<'v Cautiuu l\ivlia,- mat^^^H imresls{ - t >\ ay inio -Ardore, they f^^^H the pla<'<- r imosfc deserted ; 2000 suuls^^H r.f 1 .: 1 " \,is its population — all but -. vi^d fled to^^^B - COj^^^^| . : „mch t|- „ ■hcir^|^^^^| part of- two' ana a niglit, ti^^^^^H bugles of, the bcrsaglidi'i ajiprised thein^^B the. avenger's ap[)r< auh." Vie venture ts^ ask wliethor the inhabitants of Ardore could have shown nior^/Vigor hcA tney been all reared in ytoney Gap or hnported.froiAfHayti, and wlieih.-r it is still possible to maintain that ignorant white men, -rchenj excited, cannof/oii a pinch, t be just di. ferocious r.,5 Vgnoiant uud" pej4' •> ■?.