The Ouachita telegraph., 1871-06-03
THE MlsERlEs OF FRANCE.

THE MlsERlEs OF FRANCE.
The Communists Of Paris--the bias !
Dheming vandals Of that wicked city
nave been finally and shamefully de- |
'eated by the Versailles government, Of
which Thiers is President. The car
mage in Paris, during the closing scenes
of the fratricidal strife, is represented
to have been sickening in tho extreme,
added to which the insurgent torch had
lighted public and private buildings in
various portions of the city, the insur-
gents being resolved, it seemed, to rem
der their defeat u carnival OF death both
by fire and sword. Still greater was
their crime In executing the Archbishop
of Paris, together with sixty priests and
q number Of innocent people held as
hostages under the orders of the Com
mune, almost in the very hour OF the
final and merited overthrow OF the
Commune. But retribution appears to
have followed MS swift as the wings OF
fate, for we have the intelligence that
every member OF tho Commune, two
excepted, have either been executed, or
are now safely confined in prison.
The Versailles government is now in
possession of Paris, and it's sway is ac-
knowledged throughout France. And,
poor France! what q terrible punish
ment hers has been. Not one year ago
the glitter and gauze Of Empire, and
the prosperity and wealth OF u we'll
regulated government, however un-
popular it may have been, combined to
give her a position the envy OF all Eu-
rope: In an ill.advised moment, per-
haps urged on by the clamors OF the
very men who organized the Com
munc, Napoleon declared war upon
Prussia. Tho loss ofhis imperial crown,
in less than six weeks, foreshadowed
the final defeat OF France, since it was
impossible to organize Il now govern
ment at that juncture In the progress of
the war, which could retrieve the losses
and repair the damages incurred under
the dynasty Of Napoleon. France, a
republic, was born swiftly along the
same boiling, irresistible current that
swept away tho hopes and pretensions
OF the defunct Empire, until King Viii
liam, from the palace of v ersailles, die
tated to his prostratc rival his own
ter1ns of peace.
These terms OF peace involved not
only loss Of position among the first
powers OF Europe, but involved like
wise the loss OF territory and the pay.
nlent Of Il debt OF nearly five hundred
millions Of dollars, to secure the pay
ment of which, German troops, it wa
agreed, should occupy some Of the
strongest military positions in France
Exhausted, whipped, humiIiatc<I anc
distracted, the French nation had yc
to pass through the more bitter trial O
war between brethren and for tho
establishment Of a government whict
would save them from final cXtinctio,
as a nation at the hands of tho impcri
Gus Emperor of Germany. And thi.
unboly strife, further to embitter tn,
attiiction, took place in Paris, the pricl,
and boast of Frenchmen the world over
involving in ruin and dtssOiation man,
OF the chief architectural beauties of tn,
city and intenslfying the anxicties ant
distress which had only momentaril,
ceased after the successful siege of Kin.
William.
The annals of modern times furnish
no parallel to so great misfortuncs Il!
these Detailing il single nation in such {
brief space of time. And 1t may be thn
the labyrinth of trouble has only been
fairly entered. The clutches Of Bis.
nlarck's graspinE fingers are fastened
upon the throat of France. pretexts
may be found to dismember the Repub-
lie and to absorb the fairest portions for
the benefit Of the German Empire; and
Bismarck is not the diplomatist to neg
iect such Il glorious opportunity as that
to beat down n rival and add to the solid
glory and power of his own country.
Poor France. the future spreads out
dark before her yet.
Police Commissioners.
The following appointments have