The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-05

and then proceeds:-"Three days were granted
TO them. 1t is the same time that intervenes
between sentence of death and its execution.
What could be arranged in so short a period?
Nothing. After one had obtained ones travel
ling papers under the existing difficulties, there
was just time enough hastily TO gather together
a few effects and to hasten to the station. In
the places of business the workshops and Che
dweiling-houses, everything had to be left as it
stood; they were locked and left to the care of
Providence, and we fled the country where Ger
mans were deprived of their rights and left with
out protection to the rage of q fanatical people.
1t will probably never be possible to determine
how great have been the money losses of the
Germans expelled from all parts of France by
this measure, but we may consider it perfectly
certain that ii is not much below millard. Is
this sum to be entirely lost to the German ma
tioD ? We, who address this petition to your
Majesty in the name of our feow-sufferers, aud
as their representatives, are fully convinced that
the men who now lead the policy of Germany
will not consent to this"
Treatment of French Peasants by the Ger
Of the treatment of the peasantry, and espe-
cially of the women by the victorious German
soldiery, Mr.. A. Seymour writes as follows to
the London telegraph of September 49,
The village of Bazellles, which was suburb
of 1000 Inhabitants, is now mass of smoking
ruins, although there was little or no fighting
there, and one house alone remains standing of
the once fourishing village. A gentleman there
to make litter for the horses and the furniture
in the chateaux was all wantonly destroyed
An English gentleman, long resident at Sedan,
told us he had seen the Chateau of Bellevue, be-
longing to NJ Amour, in which the
Emperor slept on the Friday night.
On the Saturday, the next day,
he went there, and finding that
the whole interior of the chateau was intact, he,
on his return to Sedan that evening" informed
the owner of the fact of his house not having
been injured. In consequence of this informa-
tion, the owner, NJ. Amour, applied for guard
to defend his property, which was granted him;
but on his arrival there in the forenoon of the
following day Sunday he found the whole
house ransacked, and what was not taken away
was destroyed. Much more could l tell you,
sir and the public, but | have occupied your
space sufficiently. One last statement, however,
/ must make-that there are the souls of many
innocent girls, debauched and then shot, cry
ing for retributon, if not for vengeance. At
Claire and at Bazeles heard of cases. Near
the latter place an eyewitness told me he saw
the corpse of peasant between two women,
propped up against the WALL where they had
been shot; not content with what may or may
not have been severe but so-called necessary
example, their executioners had fastened
them to the wall, and placed flower in each of
their mouths, making death more horrible by
such hideous meckery. These which / relate
are facts, not matters of opinion: and doubt
not that many of your readers will some day,
if not now, be able to confirm them.