The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-02
War Scenes in France.

o1SaS
Mr.. Edward King writes to the Boston
Journal as to affairs in Paris:
Some of the results of the investment of
the town, small in comparison with 9TH
ers though they may be, are curious to
note. For instance, my correspondent
says one might fancy himself in Constan-
tiDople, there are so many ownerless and
pathetic-eyed ours wandering about the
streets, s%nufing every one TO see if they
can find their lost masters. The new Re-
public has had to occupy itself with q dog
ordinance, te beware of ''mad dogs
within the walls. The garbage heaps
begin to smell to heaven, as the
scavengers are all IN more important occu-
pations than their usual one, and the
health committee will soon ask the nom
combatants to drive dirt carts for q day or
two. Smoking in the street is prohibited,
fercely in certain sections, because pow
der wagons pass so frequently. Any one
who laughs in a loud voice, or talks en-
phatically and loudly. soon has an angry
crowd around him. The people seem to
think he is making fun of their sad situs-
ton. All the governmental subsidies to
the theatres have beer suspended. Sever
al restaurants were large numbers of peo-
pie dine regularly, are becoming store
houses of the future, as each diner gener.
ally puts aside the wine he would like to
drink, and the pioce of bread he needs,
'.for the women and children by and by"
The same writer says on the authority of
his Paris correspondent: 1.-The French
men are mining the great avenues that IA
diate from the TTiumphsl Arch, but do
not intend to blow them up OF course, un
til the Prussians get well on to them. The
Avenue Josephine, where so many Ameri-
cans have made their homes in the past,
has huge barricades built here and there
across it, and they are soon to be erected on
the Avenue de rImperatiice. The miningis
done by taking out small squares of earth
and macsdam in various places, and in
sorting the Illuminating substance, in some
cases, SO that the passage of a heavy body
over it will cause it to explode. What ef-
feet the thunder of the huge guns, like
the monster Krupp ami Others, will have,
he did not say"
He adds in another place: eat a town of
Armentieres a perfectly trustworthy eye
witness, recently returned from Rouen,
declares that he saw this sad spectacle.
Men, pale with rage, we're trying in vain to
extinguish the fires that were burning down
their houses; women, IN despair, had
thrown themselves on the ground, trying
to cover their screaming children with their
bodies, and huddling around them the frag-
ments of their wretched furniture which
they had dragged from the flames; one old
woman, 81 years old, was screaming TO be
taken out OF q burning house, and her son
tore his hair as he tried in vain to drag the
smouldering beams from her aged limbs;
and one villsger, q tremendous athlete,
was SO overcome with anxiety and SORROW
that he expired from apoplexy in the
midst of his four widowed children.
Meantime the hideous projectiles con-
tinued to fall-as by and by they will fall
on dear old Paris and all the familiar
haunts, to baptize in blood the new repub-
lie. One of the incidents of this avenging
bombardment had sinister consequences.
-Four men stood up together amid the ru-
irs of their burned and blackened houses
and swore each to kill a Prussian before
the next sunset. -Four lancers were found
dead near each other on the high road
from Armentieres to Hericourt the next
day. EEtrayagant as this may seem. it is
strictly true"