Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-02-20
The New Reign OF Terror In France.

| The little Napoleon who now rules France,
! though he seems quite as big liar as his uncle.
has none of his magnanimity. When the grea-
ter Napoleon seized the reins, the world and his
adveTsarleS were surprised at his lenency. But
! the pusilIanimous hypocrite who is now aping
the usurpaiion does no, even ape the clemency.
Witness the following news By the last arrival ;
"There arc at present more than 10000 per
sons imprisoned in Pa:is. More than 10000 are
still incarcerated IN the easements Of the forts,
with nothing bat straw 20 lie on. The rest have
been shot or butchered
Demosthenes Olivier, ex.Toprescntatiye, still
in prison at Mazas. he's related to a !sdy who
gained access to him, the following monsrosi-
ty
During three successive nights they ava
kened us N nl1Ssc telling us that we were to be
shot. They then ordered us to descend INTO the
squsro, whore, after an hour of frghtful ankle
i, they ordered US 10 return 10 our cells, telling
Us that the execution was not to take place hist
night but that it would probably DO 20 the next
They thus made US thrice suffer the terrible
throes of dealh'
Il can easily be conceived that, after such re-
hned cTueltes, no others were spared. A NO.
man during six days refused 70 tell the whcrea-
bouts Of her husband; they therefore took her
ly six years old. and shutting them up in her
room, dragged the mother to the prefecture de
police. Your children" said they, "shall not
eat until you reveal where your husband So
Horribly tortured between the p8ngs of a wife
and mother. she remained during twenty four
hours without saying a word. after twenty-four
honrs had elapsed they reminded her of her
children not having eaten. She still preserved
silence and it was only about noon-viz: af-
ter the lapse Of thiry-sx hours--that the tho't
OF her children not having partaken of any food
drove her mad; she then revealed the abude-o!
her husband
The military laws authorize every enemy tn
ken, with arms in hand, to be shot but here, in
Paris, thousands Of people have been arrested
since the 9Th, when the pretended hosuljtics
were over. All the men des ignated republicans
in their quarters, wore seized and thrown into
prisons, in which many were massacred. On
the first day they were shot d. tie prefecture de
police, but as the iuslading was too noisy they
substituted on the following days the axe and
the sabre to accomplish their bloody work. 1t
was 4 Sergent de rifle who himself related the
lugubrlous drama. Met by one of his old friends,
ne was asked why he was in plain dress. 81 can
endure 1t no longer he answered. 1--WE have
been, during four days employed at the prefec-
tu!C NC p''iCC ~ lu4>C lIlC '>Nc anu Alt SdtIt
gainsy the people, and could not stand it any
longer, so left. Several scrgcnts de Vile have
become insane We were sweltering in blood
up TO our knees; at lergth was seized with
terror And, indeed the sergents de vile,
once so arrogant can no longer look ony one in
the face, 50 utterly do they feel themselves de-
based. Al the prison of Mazas, many prison.
ers were shot. The scenes of tho ID Of Sep
TENDER, 1892, were renewed. The prisoners
were brought to tho spot of execution, and were
ordered to 90 the right or to the left. Those
who went out through The door to the right were
shot, the others not.
The plan of all these unheard Of crueltes is
to annihlate all those in the Republican party,
capable Of taking the initiative, or of melting the
masses. The plan is carried out with an infer
al calculation. The most innocent people are
implicated in the vague accusation of having
participated in plot.