New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-06
ORLEANS SATURDAY g. 1871
THE SITUATION AT PARIS.
Anarchy and License Run Riot.

We copy the following special to the Gin
cinnati Gazette:
New YORK, May IA letter from Paris,
April IA. saws: Arrests increase in number
IAeyery day. One can not walk half an
hour on any street without seeing three or
four The majority of the prisoners seem
to be able bodied men who refuse to serve
in the insurgent army. Every house is
visited, and every man from nineteen to
forty Is taken to barracks, unless he be
hunchbacked, lame, deaf or blind. At
Ternes, the quarter of Paris abutting on
Neuilly, every house and all the lodgings
abandoned by their tenants are broken
open, searched and sometimes pillaged by
the national guards. Three priests were
arrested last night. The sacred silver YES
sci, worth $4,000, in the convent of the
Greres de Ecoles Chretiennes, was seized
yesterday by La Commune, and Friar
Calixte was arrested. All the churches of
Paris have been spoliated in some way.
La FTGnchi, one of the semi-official Or
gans of la Commune says: The reactiODary
newspapers continue their stupid calumnies.
They announce the churches have been pill
laged The real truth is this: all the gold
and silver found in the churches and all the
silver plate in the ministries, have been sent
to the mint to make gold and silver coin,
which, placed in circulation, will be much
therefore, change of use which the city of
Paris has made its property undergo
La Commune is in complete possession of
the Bank of France. LIE Citoyen Beslay is
governor of the bank. Serious fears are
everywhere entertained that France will be
visited by famine next winter. Everybody
is under arms; nobody is in the fields; all
the poorer butchers of Paris have closed
their stalls. No butcher is able to carry on
h.. la hao
to buy cattle at Faissey, to bring them to
Paris and have them slaughtered. The
great cattle market La Villette is closed.
The diminution in the consumption of -four
shows that 100000 persons have quilted
Paris. Their absence inficts a greater loss
upon the laboring population of Paris than
the total amount of the money paid the
national guards and their wives and chill
dren. Some of the national guards have
been five days at the outposts. They COM
plain bitterly at not being relieved, as they
are exhausted. The bills posted by the
Ligne de fUnion Republican, which is
doing its utmost to conciliate Versailles and
La Commune, have been torn down by
order of La Commune. La Commune is
contriving to reach all the fugitives from
Paris by heavy tax. There had been no
auction sales Of furniture, etc., since Sep
tember. The first took place Yesterday.
There are rumors of grave dissensions be
tween La Commune and the central com
mittee. 1t is by no means impossible the
central committee may order the national
guard to exclude La Commune from the
Hotel de Vile. La Commune has a navy of
fourteen gunboats, commanded by lie CT
toyen Lappy, skipper of a merchantmen.
The French government has ordered a
fleet of gunbOats from Cherbourg.
lie journal O6iciel says: "While the COM
mander of the Hotel de Vile was inspecting
the cellars of the building he discovered IL
small dungeon on whose walls the traces of
bloody hands could be seen. An examina-
tion into the matter has been ordered.
Arrests of foreigners to make them serve
in the inSurgent troops continue to be
made in the streets and in houses. There
is no law, no tribunal to redress griev-
ances. The prisons have been opened and
all the criminals liberated. In their cells
priests and patriots have been incar-
cerated.
LIE Pengeur, Felix Pyat's organ, demands
the blood of all enemies of La Commune.
All the priests at MOntmartre were ar
rested yesterday, and this extraordinary
proclamation was posted on the door of
st. Pierre church: Whereas, Priests are
banditti, and churches are dens where they
have morally assassinated the masses by
making France crouch under the claws of
infamous Bonaparte, Favre and TrOchu, the
civil delegate of Les COniers to the eX-
prefecture of police, orders the church of
St. Pierre Montmatre shall be closed, and
decrees the arrest of priests and ig
norantirs."