The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-11 00:00:00

A OLIORMI OF JOT!

I .peat yesterday at low. which Is tete meet Interesting of
all the forts around Paris. The misery of the people who
remained in the hens°, under the works and at Suresnes
in a for Index, I presume, of the wretchednees of the people
of Paris, with which they were in commuoication by the
Pont de Neuiily. There was cow man creeping up the ramp
towards the gate, as if ho were in quest of scrap, from the
soldiers, whose aspect was awful. tie was tall and power-
fully built, but his clothes hang on his limbs as If they were
on poles ; his cheeks were Lenten, his oyes bright, and as
ho answered a question about the road his very speech
seemed siTected. ''Jr suis en bonne sanh', mem:, Cl si
pads trouser quelytte show it nianger—."Further on stood
two men in the road tootles wistfully at the new occupants
of the walls. The elder, • well-dreasdl WWI, Kicked, "Ifor
God's sake, If I had anything to eat?" Say compaction
offered him moony. 'Money, I don't want that. I. want
food. See" Ile pulled his hand out of his pocket and
showed it tilled with live-franc pieces. "What is the uss of
money when there is nothing to buy I' That man was the
picture of starvation, and his comptnion of despair. We
told them to coma In to Vera/Ones. "They will not let us."
"Have you tried I" "No. We know they willnit"" But
try." They had not the end y lett, I fear. Next day, how.
ever, help was sent oat to Mom> poor creatures, and I never
shell forget the chorus of joy of a group 01 men, women, and
children at the assurance that they would receive some
bread awl meat in the next twenty four hoar._ They gave
no a Mimeo( bread ou which they had been living for wok.
—lb it and a few potatoes, new all gene, and horsefleoh—
was ea " . ettauftres chases" It like fragment of • "mud pie"
. . . . . . . . . .

to look at, and certainly did not Invite one to taste It And
we pay dear for It tw, " I would not bare offered It to a
dog.—Correspondent of Tete Ti.,.,.

GARIBALDI'S OPINIONS OC TSB OBI:MANS.

Garibaldi, in a second general order, issued to Ws Stoops
bolero evacuating Olen, pays a warm tribute to the memory
of the Poll-11 thmoral Beesack, who lost his Iffe whiff, con-
ducting a Croons alssance on the 21st. " This Demi WA of
modern times," he sips, "so beloved hy nth •111 in the
future be erratic g to the democracy of the earth, to whose
rut st or lent eh 'deplane be belonged ; he will be mimed
shove all by his noble country. May the Republic adopt
as their own fi natty the children and Chow of this
hero !' lle charges the throw s with having In their
unsucoeseful attack on ',don hasten out the brains of
some wounded prisoners, el tughtercd physichscs, enl
Omit on 1311rat011s and on sol.:fers holonglog to the am-
bulances. A Franc.lireur captain, he says, was bound hand
and foot In the chateau of Pouilly, aril burnt alive, Ids body
being afterwards discovered almost entirely consumed,
except these portions where the fetters had been applied
" Black tools of tyraany," he c..ntinnes, 'your empire comea,
the empire of the funeral pile. Yoar favourite period, the
Middle Ages again appear., and your fallen hero c.f Soden,
with Satan's smile OR his ; yon tura your viper's even to
the mos Emperor, sullied by blood Shit torture. Tha trln.
{Wrath/II of the I.l.uid mc mi.ataute of the It, piddle has reels
to a pikh. I shall do my utmost to prevent them resorting
to reprisal.s. I hope, however, that Europe and the whole
world clii recogbir, the upright sad nissmailimous coucluet
of the WWI of tho Republic., and will take note of the bestial
demeanour and Infamy of the soldiers of a despot."