New-York tribune., 1870-09-30

many pretty chalet or elegant villa 10 wllch lno nuee
are being communicated Inc essiinapio ' u0 ,,,
messant who for his heahs sake now finds II expede
70 remain I'm the country and NJ. Emile dc Grardin VINO
was thought he at Florence with his renus Du VINO
ia IN the flesh at Limoges with olivier ana Pion fion'
must inevitably suffer from the vast conagraton 10 inc
north OF Paris But who can pity them II their suinptu
ou country houses licked up by the flames TINS mo
,t ra cling round these abodes OF uxuryi They were
Tho foremost men in supporting the bands orgazeu ny
NJ Piotri to cry Berlin last July.
The chateau of the Princess Mathllde also seems des
tined TO be thrown into tho cruciDe. Inc ROADS anu
copses OF tho ST. Prlx, St. Gratan, ana Montmorency
have been fired by means of petroleum and gas tar
which 1t would have been dangerous to have ln city
that in few days may exposed to the terrific hre OF
bonbardment Dealers in these combustlDles rece'eo
notice a few days back that they must surrender 10
the Committee of National Defense what they eouiu
not take TO a seaport out of the reach OF PRUSSIA
The firing of that part of Bondy visible from Montmr
@ AZ II o'clock last night was a still awful specta
Gle than those have just witnessed from the leads
overhead The perfectly dry so that oil ana
petroleum which split about in the brushwood had
no obstacle contend with Isolated columns OF hame ana
clouds Of smoke suddenly rose, and before half an hour
were lost in one general blaze which stood out like fiery
wall against the sky In the light of this vast furnace
hideous objects were last night rendered visible on the
Martyrs Hllyawning graves dug to hold three or four
hundred persons reminded the lockers on OF the impend
ing destruction OF human life These common bitches,
into which women ana cnlldrcn, siam Dy
balls be thrown intrudo themselves into the re-
served buryng places purchased permanently by fami-
lies rich enough to indulge in grief for dead relations
War is repecter Of property OF persons OF sacred
spots or Of holy places. 1t slays the young 1t pulls
down the roOf-tTee which shelters age and infancy
destroys the woods in which poets and painters seek 10
TO commune with what is best in nature and tears OF the
vail OF earth with which try to hide the pestilent
horrors of mortality from sight. From the mounds
clay surrounding those hdeous trenches which now
intersect aho sMartyrs HILL skulls grin out, remains
Of smashed collins obrude themselves, or rags OF black
clothonce the undertakers pride-decare the vanity
| of all human respecabity which has not
| an upright conscience for It's substratum. 1t
/ seems TO that have lived moro in
the last 4s hours and gained deeper insight into lie
aud its objects than in all the years have lived and all
the books have taken to read Those shin bones, thigh
bones arm bones and vertebrG, that were buried for
ever but which mixed up with mounds OF loose
earth; those fragments Of monuments which were un-
scrupuousy knocked down TO make way for steel can
non fabricated for the Imperial Navy, and that blaze
which for miles up the country in front OF us, are
| the most striking sermons that know Of
The smoke and fame ascend, a chifoner with an eye
to business or possibly from force Of habit hooks up the
Osuary remains of past generations. He is blind, un
fortunate wretch TO the moral or the picturesque side
OF the narrowing spectacle He does not see the submy
! Of the judgment which is overtaIdng the delcatey
| nurtured and the sOthfu, and the muck-rakes
| who stopped their ears for forty years and up
|
| ward TO the cries of tho poor and needy.
! Iamartne and Victor Hugo warned modern society
about the abyss which II danced and feasted with
cruel Indifference needless Of the cries OF agony which
were uttered from the depths below. The chonier be-
longs to modern society, which, like him. will need
great deal more whipping before its conscience VIII
from state Of torpor or its eyes he opened 10
see what passing around DO not think that my palette
IA purpoely charged with garsh nts to catch the eye
| OF the ignorant I tell in sober earnest, and
| deefr 70 Urlp mn he Of
sickened night when they looked the burning for
est and screamed with terror when they saw at their
feet the wde-open Of death, Iavening for human
esh and set round in lien OF teeth with the brokenup
skeletons OF buried bourgeois. The reflections which
heard last night amid the tombs the Martyrs Hin,
whore should say about 800 citizens had gathered to
witness burning of the forest to the last widely
different from "Herberts Medtations," or "Young's
Night Thoughts" It's the way Of the Frenchmen, to
meet the cruel irony OF destiny with gbes. And as there
can be no more cruel irony than that which spurs
to seek glory in making their brothers. Jests
were freely uttered by bouSes and pdietos The female
element sighed out that it sad to have all this loss
on account Of two But the males were too de-
fant indulge in sighs The mocking devil was
aroused, and they allowed him the fullest swing
in the face Of that blazing forest and that yawnng
into which many OF those who tainted, screamed
wcpt gbed made speeches on its brink last night may
be thrown before the week is 1t was by order OF
the Hygenic Council the ylcePresident of which is NJ
Hin are opened, that putre1ed cOrpses
during the siege may not poison the air OF
Paris Some Of the who stood round those
charnehouses were loud in their professions OF
mock admiration Of the foresight the sage prevoyance,
the zeal for the preservation OF public health of which
such wholesale receptaces Of mortality evil
dence. But would it not he better, urged stability
dressed citizen II NJ Jules Ferry could persuade his col
leagues that there is glory in war; and that favor
able peace, however fools might think IL dshOnorabe,
would hygenc purposes better than those skee-
ton garnshed trenches
man in threadbare paetot (for the light Of burning
the and stackyards of La Brie reveals the
condition Of bis garmens) and high collars, which but
for their limpness would be'ke GARNER Pages makes
little discourse the results of human beauty
Can he be a schOOlmaster in distressed circumstances
| who seeks for an opening to posei edndidd
| titre to the constituent, can IL be some en-
lghtened philosopher who has failed to make his
way in life because of the brutishness Of manindl He
too given irony, which must say would be the bet
| ter Of "a squeeze Of wit As preliminary 10 holding
forth ne kicks lightly a skull aside picks up an abnor
nay curved shin bone on which he proceeds to expa
tiate a Darwinian strain. do not know what disci-
pies Darwin may hive in America but here, thanks to
| the Review OF Public Instruction." NJ.
! Duruy and Mile Clemence Rogers transla-
| tions, his followers numerous in France.
student caused diversion by proposing TO the ct
zens who gliding out Of sheer bitterness OF SOUL on
the brink Of the monster grave 10 adjourn to the tomb
OF AphOnse Baudin The proposal was enthusiastically
adopted Unfortunately, like many other things, Bau-
dn's tomb has disappeared within the last fortnight
1t was IN vain that the student and the other citizens
looked for the grassy mound and marking grave
from which the germs Of this revolution started
November 1868. sappers and miners navyies and
! TONS employed by military and hygIenic committees,
havo swept both away. But this did the less pre-.
vent the delivery Of fiery Oratons, in which mon
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