Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-10-28

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will not be accepted.-[Delaware
Herald, 21st inst.
Massacre OF st. Bartholomew
Eve.
The clock of the church Of st
German PAuxerrois sounded ovel
silent Paris. Its ominous pea
awoke an awful clamor, such as the
earth had never witnessed before
A ella g of bells responded from
every tower and bellry, the adhe
rents of the pope seized their arms,
rushed to the houses of the Huge.
nots, and murdered every inmate,
from the sleeping infant to the gray.
haired grandsire and the helpless
maid. The city had been suddenly
illuminated, and from every Cath
olic house the blaze of torches
lighted up the labor of death. Be-
meath their rays were seen women
unsexed, and children endowed with
an unnatural malice, torturing and
treating with strange malignity the
dying and the dead. 1t is impossi-
BILE, indeed, to narrate the details of
this awful event, over which Catho-
lie kings and priests rejoiced, and
for which the infallible pope. at
Rome gave public thanks to God.
Within the palace of the Louvre
itself, where few days before every
saloon had rung with festivity, and
where mask and dance and throngs
of gallant nights and maidens had
greeted the nuptials Of Henry and
Marguerite, now echoed the groans
of the dying Huguenots, and the
shrieks of the terrified queen. In the
evening Marguerite had been driven
by her enraged mother from her
presence and from the arms of her
sister Claude, who would have de
tanned her, and was forced to go
trembling to the apartment of her
husband, lest her absence might ex-
cite suspicion. She lay awake all
night, filled with a sense of impend-
ing danger; she pretends she knew
nothing of the approaching event.
Henry's rooms were filed with his
companions in arms, who passed
the night in uttering vain threats
against the Guises, and planning
projects OF revenge Toward morn
ing they all went out in company
with the king; and Marguerite,
weary with watching, sank into a
brief slumber She was aroused by
a loud cry without of Navarro I!
Navarro 70 and a knocking at the
door. 1t was thrown open, man
wounded and bleeding, pursuid by
four soldiers, rushed into the room,
ard threw his arms around the
queen. He clung to her, begging
for life. She screamed in her ter
ror; the captain of the guard came
in and drove off the soldiers, and
the wounded Hugenot was allowed
to Hide himself in her closet. Mar
gueritefed hastily across the halls
of the Louvre to her sisters room,
and, as she passed amidst the scene
that had so lately rung with the
masks and revels of her wedding
night, she saw another Huguenot
pierced by the spear of his pursuer,
and heard the clamor of the general
massacre. Faint and trembling, she
went to her mother and the king,
threw herself at their feet, and beg
ged the lives of two other husbands
retainers.
Meantime, when Henry of Ma
varre had left his room in the
morning, lie had been arrested, and
carried to the kings chamber; but
of the throng of Huguenots who
had attended him in the night only
a few escaped. Each man, IS he
passed ou t into the court, between
two lines of Swiss guards, was stab
bed without mercy. Two hundred
of the noblest and purest reformers
of France lay piled in a huge heap
before the windows of the Louvre;
Charles TX, Catherine, and her in
famous train of maids of honor, in
spected and deritled them as they
lay dead. All through that fearful
Sabbath day, the feast of st. Bar
tholomew, and for two succeeding
days. the murders went on; the
whole city was in arms; every hat
or cap was marked with white
cross, and every Catholic was con
yerted into an assassin. Charles.
raging lunatic. rode through the
streets laughing and jesting over
the fallen; the streets were filed
with corpscs; the Seine was turned
to blood many Catholics grew rich
by the plunder of the Huguenots;
and it was believed that the King
and his brother, Anjou, shared the
spoils OF opulent merchants and
skillful goldsmiths. The papal
nuncio, Salviati, overjoyed at the
spectacle, wrote to the pope that
nothing was to be seen in toe streets
but white crosses, producing fine
effect; he did not see the heaps of
dead, nor the scenes OF inexplicable
crime. Charles TX, shot at the