The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-08


| Boulevard Malesherbes and that he saw with
| his own eyes the rebels lifting the butts of
their muskets in token of surrender, which
| caused the linesmen TO advance across the
barricade. No sooner did they approach
within a few PAGES than the muskets we're
suddenly reversed, and a plunging fire laid
some fifty of them writhing in heap. This
morning, while walking on the Rue des Petits
| Champs saw soldier fall, struck by bullet
| from an unseen hand. An officer who was
| passing told me that many men had lost their
| lives in this manner, and that the delinquents
were instantly shot. He also told me that
at the Batignolles barricRde yesterday a
woman went up to the officer in command to
ask a question: and that before he had COM
pleted his answer she had drawn a revolver
| and shot him through the head. The soldiers
were so infuriated that they forgot her sex
! and riddled her with bayonet thrusts.
! Among the 20 persons who were executed
this morning at the corner of the Rue Royale
two were women. l saw myself four men
taken possession of at 8 o'clock this morning
close to the Magasns du Louvre They were
kicked and cuffed until they reached the
Palas Royal gate, and there against the burn
ing house they had their hands tied, and we're
forced to kneel. woman rushed from the
crowd with a scream, and, clinging to one of
them, announced herself his sister. She was
ruthlessIy torn away and carried back to the
calmly shot them down; piece of torn carpet
was thrown over their remains, aud every
man went about his business as though
nothing unusual had occurred. Escorts with
prisoners are continually passing about the
streets followed by ieering mob, which
counts more women than msn among its
ranks-women who hoot and clap their hands,
and insult their victims to their hearts con-
tent. Verify, it was with truth that Votaire
fhof rIcio half
tiger and half monkey"
SUMMARY EXECUTION.
Versailles MAY 25) CorreS Of the London News.
I noticed that there were many old men
among the prisoners. Friends accounted for
this by explaining that the greybeards of the
Paris ateliers took up arms to stimulate the
young men. When the juniors showed a
tendency to take to their heels, they rushed
to the post of danger. They belong 1.-The
old-fashioned class of Paris emeutiers,>9ho,
at the bidding of the bourgeoisie, descended
into the streets, chased Charles X, and, pro-
voked by the same bourgeoise, threw up bar
ricades, from which they were dislodged by
General Cavsignac. The whole way to Sevres
the road was crowded with trains of wagons,
ambulance vans, policemen, and cavalry
escorting prisoners. To show the bitter
ness of feeling among military men at Yer
sailles, 1 may mention that when one
of four field officers in conversation ex-
pressed a wish to see the prisoners handed
over for the benefit of science to the
professors of vivisection, the other three ap-
plauded the idea. While talking young
officer entered the cafe to refresh himself
with glass of beer. He was in command of
convoy of prisoners going to Satory, and
said he had ridded his country of some of the
scoundrels. One from fatigue, one from
weakness, and two who were sulky had sat on
bank. He ordered them to get up directly
if they did not want to be shot. ''Shoot us"
replied one of the prisoners. 81 will. take you
at your word, my good fellow, the captain
answered, ''and shall consider those who do
not get up directly to be of the same mind as
YOU" No one moved. The firing party was
quickly told off, and the four men were
| corpses in another instant. The captain was
highly commended by his brother officers for
his firmness, and when he had gone all fell
to.praising him.
INDIsCRIMINATE SLAUGHTER.
Paris Correspondence of the London Times
A harmless citizen was calmly struck with
a bayonet in the Rue de la Paix for daring to
insinuate difference of opinion, and L N.Y.
self heard q quietly dressed maid servant
threatened with q similar fate for attempting
to reach a distant chemists shop in search of
medicine for her sick master. At the corner
of the Rue Lsfiitte saw a woman shot for
some imaginary offense, and recognized the
effects of the terror according to the golden
model of 49, Anxious to discover the state
of affairs about the Hotel de Vile, pene-
trated through the Rue st. Anne ane Marche
de- st. Honore, the latter of which was
strewed with plaster, brick, and glass, shat
tered down by the shells that clattered about
our ears at every turn. A few steps further
and was in the Rue de Rivoli, with an am
bulance friend and two young inJtrnetereS,
bent all of them on establishing a temporary
hospital in the neighborhood of the great
barricade, which has been bugbear TO
us so long, at the corner of Rue ST. Floren-
tin. We had not advanced many yards when
we perceived that shell and bullet were falling
fast around us, coming, as it seemed, from
some point above the Palais de fIndustrie.
We crawled along the wall under the arcade,
watching the dust fly up as bursting shell
fell upon the stones, when suddenly, without
previous warning, there was a tremendous
report close to our heads, followed by rat
tling down of masonry and a shower of glass
The shock was so great that l closed my eyes
for an instant aud on opening them per-
ceived my friend stretched upon the ground,
bathed in blood and half smothered in the
debris of clocks and watches, which had been
showered from shattered window-front. A
shell had burst against corner of the arcade,
the greater portion of it plungiAg into the
watchmakers shop, one unlucky fragment
striking my friend in the side and throwing
him on the ground, from which he was never
, again to rise alive.
INCIDENTS OF THE SECOND DAYS FIGHTING.
Paris May 2S) Correspondence of London Times.
} The Versaillais are closing surely round us
r The Boulevards are untenable; heavy guns
have opened fire from the Place de rOperi
A., lalas al halo tF