New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-15

taken fpitiyes aud the condemned of the council. o.
war"
Thus for defending the laws and Constitution OF
France against bloody usurper, were its purest
citizens condemned for life TO the galleys and sent
to Cayenne along with robbers and murderers, no
distinction whatever being made among them. OF
these victims, dressed in the felOn's rarb, were NJ.
Sousme one of the richest landholders of Loret.
and one of the most courageous and honorable of
men. There were others Of the same stamp, such
as Edward Mallet OF Bcnnsy. They flew to arms
and headed the people after the I'd December, and
were so scOurged for espousing the same cause IN
which Warren died and Washington triumphed.
The history of NJ. POrcheret is the history of
thousands of Republican exes. He was a worker
of metals living at Beaune universally respected
Being known as a Republican bis house was sur
rounded by soldiers on the night of the 9TH Dec
ember, who designed to arrest him. To escape he
leaped from a window, but injured his leg so
severely he could not move. The soldiers
dragged him along the ground to the prison. and
there left him in cell without attending to bis
wound. AT the end OF hundred days he was lib
Grated On condition Of leaving France. He was
still on crutches from his injuries, and in this state
was obliged TO leave bis wife and four children,
whose only means OfsuppOrt he had been. Arrived
at Brussels the Belgian authorities being in league
withthe Usurper of France, would not allow him
to remain moment, but under police surveillance
shipped him off 10 London. There suffering from
his wounds, unable to speak the language, and un-
able to obtain wOrk-the London market being
overstocked with workmen-he was living on the
charity of other exiles almost as destitute as himself
while his wife, whom he left in France, was main
tanning her children BY the severest labor The
crime for which NJ. POrcheret suffered WIS that
he held and expressed Republican sentiments.
The sufierings from cold in the dungeons of the
forts used as prisons were beyond belief The
weather was severe, and windows were openings
without glass. One hundred and thirty-eight were
in one dungeon at Bic6tre, most Of whom had
neither straw to lie upon, nor bedclOthes OF any
sort to cover them. Some of the number were
wounded, and some i'll with tevers.
The 9th Jan, 1852, at at night, under an escort
Of 1900 troops, with loaded arms, 400 prisoners,
without trial or condemnation, were taken out of
Fort Ivry, tied or manacled together, some even
shOeless, and marched off TO and through Paris on
their way to the Havre Railroad station, TO be
shipped thence like convicts to Cayenne and AL
giers Most of these were merely then imprisoned
for being republicans, and had been arrested Oh
the morning of I'd December, before the fighting
commenced. Almost all had been MADE to put on
wooden shoes for this march; but many gentlemen
who had never worn such things, could not keep
them on, aud had TO make this long journey on
Winter night and 60 to Havre barefoot In this
crowd of captives were number of children The
sick were made to leave the infirmary against the
doctors protest. Those who could not march were
carried. The doctor succeeded in getting back to
the nfrmary three who were in the ranks to march.
One had typhus fever. This was Mons. Legrand.
These 400 prisoners from Fort Ivry were at Havre
put with others on board the steamer Canada under
orders 10 be taken to Brest, there TO be put on
board the Duguesclin to be taken to Cayenne. On
the Canada they were fed like the vilest feons;
were devOured with burning fevers for want OF
water and slowed like sheep in a butchers cart
or slaves on a SLAYER Withoutlight and almost suf
located with foul air. they were huddled together
in cabins so close that, no matter how wedged to-
gether, all could not lie at once on the floor and
some were forced to stand up In this way, through
stormy weather which compelled the Canada
to put into Cherbourg and lilo there four
days, they were kept ten days till they
reached Brest And the men thus treated were
merchants, capitalists, lawyers, doctors, officers,
of fha aaaamblV
sayants. master.mechancs and the most intelligent
of workmen-men whose only reproach was their
love OF the Republic. Such were their safferings
that when they arrived at Brest the prisoners
looked like specters more than human beings.
To his honor be it said, one commander, Capt.
Basliere of the Bee-POue, threw up his COM
mission sooner than make his piratical transport
chip; but there were few like him. For forty days
on the Duguesclin, while she lay at Brest, the
brutal treatment of these prisoners continued and
they had to sleep in their clothes for want OF cover
ing. The orders TO the captains were to afford them
such food only as was given to galley-saves. The
Duguesclin lay at Brest till the 18th of March.
While lying there such were the sufferings of the
prisoners from bad food and the vermin which COW
cred them, that horrible species of itch broke out
and soon 200 were attacked; of these 30 were
taken to the marine hospital at Brest. The original
design of sending the Duguesclin to Cayenne was
abandoned, and she remained for several months a
receiving ship for these and hundreds more of re-
publican prisoners. Of this batch of 42O patriots,
of which We have been speaking, the greater part
were on the 10Th of March put on board the NIGGA
der and sent 10 Algers as felons.
In three only of the eighty-six departments
Var, Basse. Apes and Lot-et-Garonne, as appears
nv the official report of Louis BOnapartes mniOns,