The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-22
GENERAL NEWS.


tails of scenes in Paris after its capture
have been received The accounts are
full of horrors One letter says
''The little garden of the Tour St. JAG
ques, on the Boulevard Sebastopol. was
mass of dead bodies, awaiting burial. The
omnibus and battinnaile were employed
in removing them The barricades in
the vicinity were also in dreadful state
from the dead bodies, half covered, lying
therein. This little green square, so fill
ed with trees, flowers. and shrubs few
days since, is turned into burial ground
Over thousand are already buried there.
Large trenches are dug and twenty bodies
thrown into each trench also quick lime
in large quantities. Women and children
are thrown in these trenches. No mercy
has, so far, been shown to women
Wherever they have been caught they
have. been treated with all the cruelty
imaginable, especially during the first
three days. Fourteen sewing girls, en-
ployed IN the dress making establishment
Of Madame Roger, were suifocated in the
cellar, where they sought refuge from
shot and shell and when the house was
set on fire they perished. The bodies
were found three days after. On the
Rue Royale near the Faubourg St Hon
ore, was house where women are cared
for during childbirth TIE insurgents
set it on fire, and twenty-five of these
poor creatures perished in the flames.
Some one was shot or killed in every
house in the vicinity of the Rue Royale.
Over 40. 600 insurgents have been killed,
wounded, or taken prisoners during the
seven days struggle. and probably more
than 100, 900 will be prisoners In the end.
On both sides I estimate the losses as
follows: Killed, $4,000; wounded, 49,,
600; loss by burning of property in Paris,
1000, 900, 900 francs loss of property
outside, 200, 900, 600 francs loss of rents,
injury to business, and depreciation of
credit, 800, 900, 900 francs. France has
never seen such week as the last one
here. There has been every form of tor
ture, every eXaggeration OF cruelty. Age,
sex, sickness, or natural deformity has
kept none from the ruthless brutality Of
mad populace and the cool savagry of
undisciplined soldiery. The prisoners
are taken down in patches to certain spe
cfed execution places. where firing par
ties are stationed, and deep trenches dug
beforehand. One of the places is the
EcoIe Militaire; another the Cdse7ne Ma
pozeo1a. Immediately behind the Hotel
De Vile. at the Caserne Napoleon, since
last night, 500 persons have been shot,
and the court yard is full of blood and
dead bodies. Tofhduce the prisoners to
march without resistance, they are told
that they are to be taken to Versailles
for trial. and it is only when they arrive
at the place of execution that the blood
and bodies before them make known to
them that their last hour has arrived
among them, and they scream. and cry,
and beg. for mercy, but are pushed for
ward and shot down. 1t is said that TO-,
900 persons have thus been executed.
trust that this Is a gross exaggeratlon.
The details of the destruction of the
Peruvian ship, Don Juan. by fire, at sea,
has been received at San Francisco. Five
hundred Coolies were roasted alive. only
fifty out of the whole cargo making their
escape.
Minister Washburne is intending to
avail himself of a permit to make short
visit at home this summer, if affairs in
France become sufficiently settled
Surveys recently made by Captain Shu-
feldt for government, on the Isthmus Of
Tehauntepec, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the feasibility Of constructing a
ship canal to connect the two oceans,
shows that on that route there is an ele-
vation of eight hundred feet to be over
come by locks and tunnel, and that the
expense of the proposed canal on that
route will be not less than one hundred
million dollars 1t is now proposed to
examine the Nicauraugua route, where
the elevation is said to be not more than
three hundred feet and with the aid of
| Lake Nicauraugua and the San j uan river
the work will not only be much lighter
but these fountains will be much better
and permanent feeder besides furnishing
slack water navigation for quite dis
tance of the route. This project is one
in which the commerce of the world is
interested and one which will be of spec
| ial value to the United States.
Russia is gradually pushing her con-
quests across Asia toward the British pos
, sessions in India She has recently ac-
cuired the control of a territory occunied
by two million inhabitants These peo-
pie are mostly nomads and much of their
territory, OF about one hundred and
eighty thousand square miles, desert.
Russia is determined to have coas. line
on the south of her possessions. If
Europe continues..to forbid her CONSTANT
nople she will force way through Persia
The yellow fever is raging with such
violence in Buenos Ayers that all who
are able to get away have left the city.