The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-06-24


ber- babiesl-because their fathers were
emHunistsi Is there anything this
TfsHa aSaa a9gs @ sGs d des soIsi Tsi'
Aud these childten msynhed;through the
streets like cotgmon fStons 81 the htdst,
Of q bowling G{owd d grd%n-uN men
|aEd women, ifyou, cad calllahem Ssueh,
20 Versailles, Though the mud and rain,
Fhere.headed-for even they we're com.
PEELED to throw down their little hats and
|caps-a distance of tifteefi miles, or
until they fell from exhaustion. These
qhitdreH are expected to grow UP good
citizens, and to love their government
ana their Country and become good
members OF sooiety; and people hold up
their :hands in holy horror and talk OF
the perverseness of human nature when
i turns.oqt osherwiseI Il Aud this is not
.an iso1afed case. .c, N'is.
8 These .brtital ;,scsnes are Witnessed
every day by thfs. enlightened Pariaian
population. Tint looks ON o. nd applauds.
The proeessioDs are. aeen going by in
every street, and hundreds of children
have been marched off in this cruel man.
ner. And it is not the camille Of Paris,
the brutes OF Belleyiile, or tho nssassins
OF Montmartre who are doing it.. That
would astonish nobody. We should e1-
poet nothing better from them. But it
is done by orders OF refined. educated,
enlightened, religious men. This ins,r.
rection has been put down. but in thens
boys that will one day be men, in these
little girls that will ono day be mothers,
are the seeds OF another insurrection
Rich, beautiful, gay Paris, that despised
this GfcIfavilla ,,r,t,us,f;Dr kl,;.. oo,,-;J.
instead Of educating it; TINT trampled
this people in the mud instead Of raising
it; that left the children OF twenty years
ago, insurgents to-day, in ignorance
ind want instead OF educating aud Chris
tianizing them; that revelled on in luxu-
ry aud wealth and pleasure while thou.
sands were cropping in ignorance aud
darkness, and poverty and dirt-this
Paris, in short, that sowed the wind has
at last reaped the whirlwind. Tho worm
has turned and etung her. There were
some National Guards in this procession,
and some women in tho same uniform
a strange and homogeneous dress- they
bad not put aside their chignons, probn-
big ont of female vanity. Something OF
tue woman was still left in their fallen
and degraded nature. As they passed
the Rue Coumartin one of the prisoners,
either through stubbornness or weakness,
refused to march, and was most uumer-
cifully beaten by the soldiers. They
dragged him along by the hair Of his
head, kicked and trampled upon him.
A we'll dressed man in the crowd ex.
pressed his Indignation Mt such bru tality
and was Immediately set upon by the
ferocious crowd of spectutors-Pari-
|! Sims. be it MISUNDERSTANDING about
the streets anil curses and impreca-
tions, and. what seems almost iDcredi-
BILE, actually beaten to death, thrown
into bread cart like butchered hog,
and carted off amid the cheers of the
mob. What makes these scenes more
disgraceful and savage is TINT officers of
the regular french army. that are sup
posed to be educated gentlemen, not
only do not try to prevent them, but ac-
tually take n part and help on the mob
One officer, who bore at least the rank
Of colonel, and whose breast was cover
ed with decorations, was seen to drag
this unfortunate victim of popular fury
by the hair and to kick him, as we'll as
beat him with the pommel Of his sword
Yet this man was probably at Sedan. nnd
saved his life by surrendering to the
Prussians. There is nobody the French
hSHs oo WOA no Cd0y oo EtSuCAIu Iuou uOu0
toward whom they are more implacable;
none whose lives are Iess sacred than
their own conntrymen. ''Mais que uou-
lee vous." What can be done with su0l
u people?
Yesterday. near MIR. Wnshburne's
house. six children. between the ages Of
eight and ten years, taken in the act OF
setting IRE to houses. we're shot or .he
spot; not by the mob this time. but by
an officer of high rank. But the air is
full Of such horrors. Many of the sol.
diers have been welcomed apparently
with joy by tho people. and invited to
eat and drink and rest after their fatigue,
and died Of poison. 7 saw captain
that had taken barrioade near the Tri-
nifty church, and who narrowly escaped
death in the same way. He wns wei
con d with open arms by the inmates
of house near the captured barricade
"You have saved us from these assnssins;
VIC can never be too grateful" snid they
and offered him good breakfast But
he had no sooner eaten his soup than ho
was taken with violent couyulsions, and
he only escaped death because they had
given him so much poison that its effect
was counteracted by the violence of its