The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-06-22
Paris Affer Capture.

report regarding the fate OF the per-
sons held as hostages
Tho Archbishop Of Paris and Judge
Bonjcan were shot in prison, aud their
bodies carried to tho Marie Of the
twentieth arropdisscmcnt. Sixteen
others, with group OF tbirty-eight
cendarmes, were taken to Pcrc La
Chaiso at night, under tho prctext
Of being transferred to another place
Of confinement, and were then shot.
Four others. whose names are un.
known, where shot on Saturday. The
total thus known comprises sixty-four
victims.
On Saturday the surviving prison.
ers were about 10 he shot by the COM
niue, which hal established its bead =
quarters at the prison, when. at the
instiga,ion Of Que Of the old staff, who
had been retained in his off ,e by the
Commune. they rebelled and with
drew into one portion Of the prison,
whcro they barricaded themselves,
and where the insurgents tried to
burn them alive, The mattrcs scs
however, being of wool, preserved
them, so that they were not much
burned. A hundred soldiers who had
remained 10 the hands of the Com
mune when the barracks OF Prince Eu-
gene was capturci, formed among
themselves very solid nucleus Of re.
sistapcc, and at o'clock on Saturday
evening the Commune, seized with a
positive pauc. fed, carrying of with
them the moncy-chcst, AID dlrectin.
their flight to the Marie Of the Twen-
tieth ACCOMPLISHMENT.
The inside of the Hotel Dc Vile
presents curious scene. tho solid
masses OF stone and limo of which the
rubbish is composed having fallen in
IN the form of crater, which fills up
the whole central place. Under this
mound are said to bc buried from
200 to 800 insurgents who were una.
ble to escape at the last moment, aud
thus fell the victims of the conaagra.
tion they had themselves originated
The mutllation Of tho ornamental
work of this magnificent specimen of
is simply Lideous there
is scarcely square inch of the facade
untouched by shot or shell, and tho
huge stone columns inside, splintcred
and defaced, support mere shell.
There is Il yellow, ghastly look in
the atmosphere so charged with the
smoke OF burning houses and public
buildings that the sun shines iecbly
through it. The Tnileries is a more
shell. The smoke from the Ministry
Of Finance and the magnificent pub
lie buildings ut the corner of the Rue
Royalc and he Rue dc Rvoli is still
rising from the ruins, and 10 the Gel.
ebrated bounet-maker's, Madame Dro-
nart, No. 3 Rue do Rivoli, well known
10 many o! your lady readers, a num-
ber Of yodDg women employed there
took refuge in the cellars, aud are now
'tihed beneath a pile Of rubbish
iwenty or thirty feet high. The Rue
Royalo, which could ouIy see por-
ion OF, is like Ninevitish mound OF
aud the FIRE is still extending
Turning back by the Boulevard
uaussman, reached the Grand Ope
"a, a mass OF barricades, aud too falI
,i soldiers to bo pleasant resort, es-
pecially as petroleum shells were fall
og on the Boulevard des Itaiens.
All those palaces which made Paris
he wonder and admiration Of modern
lines are heaps ofsmouldering ruins
ier fuest boulovards shattered, her
gardens laid waste, her cutters run
,ig with blood, and an awful pail set
ling down heavily over her dying
lgonies Us sho completes, 10 com
,liance with "thc cnexorable logic OF
acts" which has formed her only re-
igioo, her own suicide.
You have heard doubtless Of the
Of tho National battalions.
Who have marched brightly aud brave
y to the combat with tho corps, or
With the mon who claimed their wild
md more than half unwomanly dovo-
ION. One woman OF this class, straight
all, spleudidly set, with vigor 10 hor
ace and beauty 10 every limb-she
,ould not have been moro than TWEEN
y. ave, and she was Q woman perfect
: rnadc-I saw suffer q frishtful fate.