Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-10-28
The Creat 1IarFIcades Of Paris.


i74S that Les Missrables becomes hineuiafIy
graphic and powerful Take this apscimsn,
wherein M. Hugo describes the
sAanoApR o. TaE TAUBoURG 81 AsroIEa N
l94S.
The barricade OF ST. Antoine was mon
strous; Il was three stories high and -sevsn.
hundred feet long. 1t barred from one corner
TO the other the vast month of the FauboufgS
that is 10 say, three streetsi rayined, jagged,
notched, abrupt, indented with an immense
rent, butiressed with moands fwhiehn we're
themselves bsstions, pushing out capes here
and there, strongly supported by the two great
promontories OF houses OF the Faubourg, it
rose like Cyclopean embankmert at the
foot OF the terrible square which saw the 4 4tA
of July Nineteen barricades stood at,inter-
walls along the streets in the rear of this
mother barricade. Merely from seeing it
you felt in the Faubourg the immense hgoniz-
! Ing suffering which had reached that extreme
moment when distress rushes into catastro-
phe. oq bra isrlsl3. ri, .l ylut Ia. i..,-,...,J,
Ofwbat was this barricade made? OF the
ruins of three six.story houses, torn down for
the purpose, said some Ofthe prodigy Of all
passions, said others. 1t had the woeful as
pect of all the works of hatred; ruin You.
might say who built thst2 You might also
say who destroyed that7 1t was the i'm
provisation of ebulltion. Here that door
that gratiugI that shed / that easement that
broken furnace that cracked potl Bring
ALL throw on all push roll, dig, gdismantle,
overturn, tear down all 1t was the collabora-
ton of the pavement, the pebble, the timber,
the iron bar, the chip, the broken square, the
stripped chait, the cabbage stump the scrap,
the rag and the malediction .H 3d 978da
II was great and it was little. 1t was the
botlomless pit parodied upon the spot by chaos
come again The mass with the atom; the
side wall thrown down and the broken dishya
menacing differentiation of all rubbish. Sissy
phus had cast in his rock and job his polished
Upon the whole, terrible. 1t was the acropo-
lis Of the ragamufins Carts overturned,
roughened the slope, an immense, dray was
displayed there, crosswise, the axle pointing
to the sky, and seemed a scar upon that trim-
ultous facade; an omnibus chesrily hoisted by
main strength to the very top of the pile, as If
the architects of that savagery would, add sau-
ciness to terror, presented its embarrassed
pole to unknown horses Of the air. An' 'l7@
This gigantic mass, the alluvium Of enc.
ute, brought before the mind on Ossa upon
Peon of all the revolutions; 93 upon 80, the
9th Thermidor upon. the 10th of August, the
18th Brumaire upon the 2lst of January
Vendemiaire upon Prairial, lS48 upon 1880
| The place deserved the palms, and that barri-
4 cade was worthy to appear on the very spot
where the Bastile had Disappeared Were the
ocean to make dykes it would build them
thus. The fury OF the flood was imprinted
upon that misshapen obstruction. What flood2
| The multitude. You would have thought you
heard upon that barricade, as if there they
had been upon their hive, the humming of the
enormous black bees of progress by force
Was it a thcket2 was it Bacchanal2 was it q
fortress2 Dizziness seemed TO have built it by
Aappings of its wing There was something
of the cloaca in this redoubt, and something
Of Olympia in this jumble 0si l00olaVU
. You saw there in n chaos full of despair,
rafters from roofs, patches from garets with
the wallpaper, window-sashes with all their
glass planted in the rubbish, awaiting artillery,
chimneys torn down, wardrobes, tables,
benches, bowling topsyturYy, and those
thousand beggarly things, the refuse even OF
the mendicant, which contain at once fury
and nothihgness. One would have said
u that it was the tatters Of q people, tat.
ters of wood, of iron, Of bronze, of stone
, and that Of Faubourg Saint Antoine had
/, | swept them there to its door by one colossal
sweep of the broom, making of its misery
its barricade Logs shaped like chopping
I BLOCKS, ulbiOcateu cnhlIb, WOOuen LfAuleb Will
il, brackets having the form Of gibbets, wheelt
; projecting horizontally from the rubbish
! amalgamated with this edi6ee Of anarchy, the
+ forbidding form of the old tortures suffered by
the people. q
}, Sfhe barricade Saint Antoine made weap
q on of everything all that civil war can throw
. at the head of suciety came from it, it wal
:. not battle, it was ,paroxysm; the carbinei
Q which defended That stronghold, among which
i we're some blunderbusses, scattered bits o
=, ldelftiware, knncllle bohes, even table castors
. dangerous proiectiles on account Of the cop
)f per. This barricade was furious; it threw ~
3. to the clouds an ilexpressible elamor; at Ger
tain moments, defying the army, 1t covered
y itself with multitude and with tempest
le mob Of flashing heads crowned Il swarm
IN ing filled IL; its crest was thorny muskets
with swords, with clubs, with axes, with pike
70 and with bayonets; huge red flag Auttered il
Is the wind, there were heard cries Of com
:. mand, songs Of attack, the roll of the drum
~ the sObs Of women, and the dark wild laugh
Is ter of the starving. 1t was huge and living
N and, as from the back of an electric beas
there came fromuit Q cracking Of thpnders
70 The spirit Of revolution covered with it
, cloud that summit wbereon gfowled this Voic
20 Of the people, which is like the voice of God
a strange majesty emanated from that Titan
It ie hodfull of refuse. Ii was q garbage hear
J. and. was Sinai IL.o = ILlE '
+ Married.
3 On tho 10th Of foolober 1909, Mr.. HHSRY KEsDALr
OF TawawR Springs, TO Miss MAHIA BARNETT, OF Me-
Orleans, Loliisiaa--ke9a T0Tchgh. l11h
The groom ia a yonng white man of resnaf