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At 8 in. thel '3hot g the ,nrifoitt
shall knocked iti. the outeritd'dor which Coin-
municated with her . tsuite of opsrtmente.
It was locked and no one answered, and
lie wenn back- in some trepidation lest the
fears might prove true which had been en-
, tertained the reseeding ,evening. ,Oar , its
r' t l hriff ho env' t i few
returning', iii, u' Q .,
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minutes later,"tile door was open, and they
were confronted with the tall majestic figure
of Mary Stuart standing before them in
splendour. The plain grey dress had been
exchanged for a robe of black satin ; her
jacket was of blucl1 satin _ also, looped - and
slashed and trimmed wish velvet. Her
false hair was arranged studiously with a
coif, and over her head .and falling down
over her back was a white veil of delicate
lawn. A. crucifix of gold Ming from her
neek. In her hand she held .a ,crucifix. 'of.
ivory, <and : a number sof jewelled :pater..
nosters was attacaed to her girdle. Led by
two of Pauler's gentleman, the:Sheriff walk-
ing before her, she .,paiases1 to Ithe ;c. hamber
of presence in which `.she had been tried,
where Shrewsbury, Kent, Pa'alet, Drury,
and others, were waiting to receive her.
Andrew Melville, Sir Robert's brother, who
had been master of her hcusehold, was
kneeling in tears. 3` D elville/1 she said,
"you should ratherrejoice than weep that
the end of my. trouble is come. Tell
My friends I die a true Catholic. Com-
mend me to my son. Tell him I have done
nothing to prejudice his kingdom of
Scotland, and so, good Melville, farewell."
She kissed him, and turning asked for her
Chaplain Du Preau. He was not present.
There had been a fear of some religious
melodrama which it ,was thought 'well to
avoid. Her ladies, who had attempted .to
follow her, had been kept .hack t also. : She
could not afford to: leave ithe ;account of her
death, to be reported by enemies and Puri-
tans, and she required"' assistance for the
scene which she Meditated. Missing them
she asked the reason. of their:, absence, 'and
said she wished them to see; her; die. ; Kent:,
said he feared they might scream . or faint,.
or attempt perhapsF to dip their, handker-
chiefs in her blood: She Undertook dertook that
they should be quiet and obedient. The
Queen," she said,, "would never deny her
so slight a request ;" and when Kent still
hesitated, she added with tears, "You know
I am cousin, to the Queen, of the blood of
Henry the Seventh, a manied Queen of
France, and anointed Queen of Scotland."-
_.,
It was impossible* to' refuse. She was.
allowed to take six of hey own people with
her, and select herself. she,.. chose her phy-
sician Burgoyne, Andrew Melville, the
apotochary Gorion, and her Surgeon, with
two ladies, Elizabeth Kennedy and Curie's
young wife Barbara Mowbray whose child
she had baptized. . - -
"�lllons crone,";she then said—'Let ut go,'
and passing out attended by the earls': and
leaning on the arm of, an, officer of the
guard, she dtcended the great staircase :to
the hall.` `The news had spread•fa through
the country Tlicusands`°of people had col-
lected outside the walls. . About three hun-
dred knights and gentlemen. of the country
had been admitted to witness the execution.
The tallies and forms had been removed, and
a, great wood fire,was` blazing i.ntthe chim-
ney. About the' upper end .of the hall,.
above the fire -place, but near it, stood the
scaffold, twelve feet square and two feet and
a half high. It was covered with black
cloth ; a low rail ran round it covered with
black cloth also, and the Sheriff's guard of
halberdiers: were ranged on the floor be-
low onthe four sides to keep off the crowd.
On the scaffold wad the block, black like the
rest ; a square black cushion was placed be-
hind it, and behind the cushion a black
chair ; on the right were two other chairs
for the earls. The axe leant against the
rail,, and two masked figures . stood like
mutes on. the :either side at the back. The
Queen of Scots as she swept in seemed as if
coming to take a part in some solemn page -
an -. Not a muscle of her face could be seen
to quiver ; she ascended the scaffold with
absolute composure, looked round her smil
ing, and sat dawn. `.Shrewsbury and Kent -
followed and took their places, the .Sheriff
stood at her left hand, and Beale _then
mounted a platform and readithe warrant
aloud. .
In all the assembly Mary Stuart appeared
the person Ie tat;, . intererted.i.n the words,
which were consignipg her to death.
"M-edar," said Lord ..Shrewsbury to
her, when the treading was en4 ddj ." you
hear what were -commanded tb. do: . '
"You will do your duty," she answered,
and rose as if to kneel and pray. •
The Dean of Peterborough, Dr. Flet-
cher, approached the. rail, " Madam," he
began, with a low obeisance, " the queen's
most excellent Majesty "-thrice he com-
mencedhis sentence, wanting words to
pursue it. When • he. repea1ed the words a
fourth time she cut him short. I . .
"Mr. Dean," she said, "I am, a Catholic,
and mt}at die,a-catholic. It is useless to
attempt 'to move me, and your prayers will
avail me but little."
"Change your opinion,. Madam," said
Shrewsbury, "to see you so addicted to
Popery."
"That image of Christ you hold there,*
said Kent, "will , doff iprefit -you, if He be
ars `
not engraved in yoinilieart„ ' - -
She did not reply, and turning her back
on . Fletcher, knelt fother sewn devotions.”
He had evidently been instructed to im-
pair the Catholic complexion of the scene,
and the Queen of Scot zs determined -that
he should not succeed. When she knelt
he commenced an' extempore prayer in
which the ,asstinaVy joined. As Ms voice
sounded out in the hail she raised her own -
reciting with.pov erful,_ deep_ €sheat d, tones.,
the penitents,- l•-Pssltns`i i let ,sutroduc-
ing English sentences at interva,lst .that the
sago yn wan especial vs m 1 or
tieroft-FirOPtt
From time to tune.with conspicious: ve-
hemence,.jie struck the cracifixA' x1nst
her ''bos ti ,:�. ; �.
anis then,as the =�ean have up
theiitrugglo, fel vi . her4Lat ilr `she; Pr ed
in Allah[ t4,.Soli 3SitiIi`dletti aiid1oiid h f
pray%d fcn<t.hitrhtFiahtheehs►rllben
ready to betray, for her son, whom hh heti-
disinherited, for the Queen whom she 'had
endeavoured to nialxder. 8be: fomite ,her
enemies, whom she had invited Philip not
to forget, and .then, praying to the saints to
intercede for her with Christ, and kissing
the crueiflte ;aut1 tossing bei bre, t.:- '4Even
as thy amid, oh Jesus, she cried, "were
spread upon the cross, so receive me into
thy mercy, and l forgive my sins."
With these words . she rose, the black
mutes stepped. forward, tnd in the usual
form begged her forgiveness.
¢' "1 forgive you," she said, " for now I
hope you shall end all my troubles." They
offered her help in arranging her dress.
"Truly, my lords," she said with a smile to
the earls, a I nevem had -such grooms wait-
ing on me before." Her ladies were
ahowed to come upon the scaffold and assist
her; for the work to be done was consider-
able, and had been prepared with no corn-,
mon thought.
She laid her crucifix on her chair. The
chief executioner took it as a perquisite, but
was ordered instantly to lay it down.. The
lawn veil was, lifted carefully, off, not
to disturb the hair, and was hung upon the
rail. The black robe was next removed.
Below it was a petticoat of crimson velvet.
The [black jacket followed, and under the
jacket was a body of crimson satin. ' One
of the ladies handed;her a pair of crimson
sleeves, with which she hastily covered her
arms; and thus slie stood on the black scat
fold with the blaclz figures all around her
blood -red from head to foot.
Her reason for adopting so .extraordinary
a costume must be left to conjecture.It is
only certain that it muss; have been care-
fuhy studied, and that the pictorial effect
must have been appaling.
The 'von,'` whose firmness had hitherto
borne the trial, began now to gine way,
spasmodic sobs bursting forth from them
which they.. could not check. "Ne criez
vous," :"j'ay promis pour vous." Struggling
bravely, they crossed -their breasts again
and again, she crossing them in turn and
bidding them pray for her. Then she
knelt on the cushion, Barbara Mowbray
bound her eyes with `a hundkerchief.
«Adieu, " she said smiling for the last time
and waving her hand to them, " Adieu,
au revoir. " They stepped bacx from off the
scaffold and left her alone. On her knees
she repeated the Psalm, -in the Domino con-
fido; "In thee, eh, Totd,`, 'have f put . my
trust." Tier shoulders being exposed, two
scars became visible, one on either side, and
the Earls being now a l;ttle behind her,
Kent pointed to them with his white wand
and looking_: inquiringly at his ' companion.
Shrewsbury whispered they were the re-
mains !of two abscesses she had suffered while
living with him at Sheffield.
When the psalm was finished she felt for
the block, and laying down her head mut-
tered :-"In manus Domine tuas, commen-
do, animam meam." The hard wood seemed
to hurt her, for she placed her hands under.
her neck. The executioneer gently removed
them, least they should deaden the blow,
and'then one of them, holding her slightly,
the other raised the axe and struck. The
scene had been too trying even for the
practised headsman of .the Tower. . -His arm
wandered. The• slow fell on the knot of
the handkechief, and scarcely broke the.
skin. She neither spoke.npr : moved. He
sti uck again, this time effectively. The
head hung by a Mead of skin, : which. he,.
divided without withdrawing the axe, and
at once a metamorphosis was witnessed,
ta$trange. as was ' ever wrought by wand of
fabled enchanter. The coif fell off and the
false plaits. The laboured illusion vanished.
The la ly who had knelt before the -block
was in the maturity of grace and loveliness.
The executioner, when he raised the head,.
as usual, to show it to the crowd, exposed
the withered features of a grizzled, wrinkled.
old woman. 4
.
" So perish- all enemies Of. the Qneen, "
said the Dean of Peterborough. A loud
Amen rose over the hall. " Such end,
,said the Earl of Kent, rising and standing
'over the body,, , ."to- -the Queen's ,and the
Gospels's en'enies.—Treaders history o
A'ngland.
The Executioner INN -
The of Paris.
it seems the 'famous Sampsons, who have
been -from father to son for many genera-
tions the executioners in the department of
the Senate, including Paris, have died out
and that. a German, or a man of German
origin, by _the,, name_of Tieidenreicb, now
occupies.thd-puaitititi Which -is regarded by
Europeans in general as the most horrible.
business in the world... The recollection of
the butcheries which, in the name of the
law, ;or whatraluringv ttre` great revolutiion
west:, cal`ieii the law, were performed, by
the executioner, surrounded the name and
position of the executioner of Paris with a
peculiar horror. He *as regarded as the
man of bloods -1v preference..,. ls., presen
executic$ner bf �Paivs Illeindi nieich -ia oftbii
interviewed' by the journalists of the French
capital. They describe him uniformily as
a well informed man, whose utterances in-
spire much sympathy. A short time ago,
four or five -of the French journalists called
on Heidenreich, who lives in the vicinity of
Enghien, about four English miles from the
centre city. They were received with great
cordiality. They took coffee from him and
smoked ,, igarti€) -4-e Am j t ac -
9 terftwith his sbn---a �ad`o of urteen
years= -who, he said, had not the least idea
of the terrible functionsfoam", Tr..
special ,trirttrq, . d.,t cy..c ,theirs ace
!tetra .$f the!i visitWithE ilio' reipark "hit;
they left -H tdenreieh with` -sen i inelits of the`
highest - = .t;,"$ J
Heidenr tris itt' man of forty' years cig
ge, and of a very determined character.
'At certain intervals, a messenger brings to
b heuise&a 4411 bag of'yelloiorIei}tit r.` 1t
_ ives 'his` receipt, and at once prepares the
axe for a. ane x execution, bygrinding the
edge as sharp 118,a razor.,' It Weighs eighty
pounds, and is of triangular shape. He
leaves his house in company with two As-
sistants, and Superintends during' thc night
the erection of the scaffold On the Place de
la Raciuette ` Before davlight- he .aisoende
the scaffold, fastens the ,axe to the block
with his own 'hands, tries' wl ether it Moves
easily through the pulleys, leaves the 'terri-
ble instrument in charge of one of his as-
sistants, and preceedig to t1e ti prison. The
keeper of the prison conducts; hub in 1person
to the cell of the culprit. Heidenreich asks
the•name of the 'man who is designated, and
when he ascertains that he is in te presence
of his victim, he lays Ms band upon his
shoulder and says : " Thou . belengeet to
me."
The executioner then gives a receipt to
the director of the prison, and from this
moment the culprit is called' the patient,
whom nobody is permitted to touch except
the executioner. Ile ties the hands of the
patient behind hiir back, puts a short chain
on his feet, which peri„its the culprit to
make only every short steps and connects the.
chain to. the hands by a rope of the exact
length required. We pass the rest-- it has
been ,so often described. After the execu-
tion is accomplished our Parisian interviews
say that Heidenreich returns home with his
heart .broken; and all the symptoms of des
pair upon his csuntenance. Hecleans his
axe as soon as he can, hides it in the ward-
robe, and then attempts to find comfort in
sweet talk with his boy, who tries also to
dispel the glcomy thoughts " of his father;
of the Origin of which the poor child is
supposed to be ignorant.
The Origin of the Astore.
A. correspondent writing from New York
to the Georgetown, D. C. Courier, tells
'the following good story, for the truth of
which, he says, the best vouchers are ready.
About fifty years since, one of our eminent
lawyers was employed to examine the title
to a lot on Roosevelt street, New York, on
which .remained the relics of a dilapidated
shanty, which none of the inhabitants in
the neighborhood. Loa. even " the oldest reel -
dent,' could remember -;when erected, or
who vers: the owner. The Record office
could throw no light on the subject, and
the legal gentleman wee in despair, when
an old deed written do l archment was dis-
covered, signed "Henry Ashdors," which
deed, not having been acknowledged could
not be recorded. Here was a puzzle, as no
one by that name could -be recalled to mem=
ory, but it having a German, of Dutch
sound, some one recommended the lawyer
to call on Henry Astor, brother of Jacob
Astor, the former a retired butcher, then
residing in the `Bowery. Taking the ad-
vice, he proceeded to that : fashioncble and
classical part of the city, and knocking with
his cane at the door, bells not having been
introduced in that section. Henry Astor
appeared, and introduced him into his par-
lor, where sat his wife Dolly, the " Pink
of the Bowery," as he " used to •call her.
The lawyer presented the deed, and in-
quiredif he knew a person of that name.
Mr. Astor examined it carefully and ex-
claimed, " Mine Got ! dat ish my name ;
when, turning to his wife he observed,
"Dolly, you remember when I used to kill
the sheeps in Rosevell street, and sell the
mutton to de heles." All that was then
necessary was for the retired butcher to
acknowledge the deed, -which he did, sigh-
ing it Henry Ashdore, sometimes called
Astor. Thus.it seems that Astor is an as-
sumed name, and John Jacob should have
retained that of his ancestors, still adhered
to by his brother.
. I MUST STOP MY PAPER.—A-canvasser
for a club of subscribers . in Dereham says
the Ingersoll New8, rear his list will fall
short this winter, as several he has called
on to renew say that " grain is so low I
must stop my paper this year ; I like it,
and would be glad to continue it, but think
it not expedient." not that a mistaken
policy 4 Is the paper the first thing to be
dispensed with 1 This paper, for example
is edited by a goodly number of practical
men, who themselves feel , and appreciate
the present circumstances, and they are, all
the while on the Took -out' for any item f ant:
any hint or 'suRgeation that will help them-
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that they should not gather and .give_ to
their readers information that .will., help
them faf'L ndre,tban: the cost,of subscription
for the paper, which, by the way, is little
above the cost of the white paper it is print-
ed on. - Advertisers pay all the expenses
of printing °, elle work, 'etc: 1#, is next
to impossible that the hints received through
this paper during the whole year, and the
thO hts awakened;:, should.fail to increase • tlre-product, or aid in economizing far more
than the paper; costs. Ninety-nine men°in.
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to the family -Air& amusement offered to
the young. fob Ought :not altogether 7fii 'be
lost sight of . -
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