The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-16

| fdrlS uUpeS lO have SaSliSuL W lie LIEU VI
March, and without gas, civilization seems i'm
possible. They.managed somehow in the dark
ages by lamp and candle-llght, but to one who
walks about Paris. now, and remembers what
Paris was, ali the ante-gaseous period is a
mystery.
THE THEATRES.
Two or three out of thirty theatres open
Sunday. at 2 P. NJ, the Francois gave Beau
| marchaiss gay comedy OF the ''Marriage>of
| Figaro with the second act of "Tartuffe." }"
| On Sunday evening there was concert at the
| Opera, at the Sale Valentino, and one at the
Grand Hotel iu hoRor oil the committee Of the
| London gift of food to Paris. There are good
people who consider theatres and concerts on
occur to them that the defeat Of the French
has been punishment of this sin. 1t happens,
however, that the Germans are quite as much
addicted to Sunday concerts and theatres as
| the French.
CAUSES OF DEFEAT.
No; what has defeated France is ignorance,
| incapacity, luxury, vice, and, above all, dis.
| honesty The poor. brave, beaten soldiers OF
ba1e been eeE Eeeayed IS a
They have been defeated by the careiessness
and. incapacity Of generals, the strategy OF
demagogues; But still more by the rascality Of
their commissariat. II was this that delayed
and defeated the gallant Mcmahon at Sedan.
Faldherbe's army Of the north was left by the
miserable attendance without food, and bare
footed on the snow. And just now the army
Of Bourbaki was In still verse condition.
The men were three days at time without
food, the horses a week without forage. Men
and horses laid down by the roadside TO die of
hunger. In the intense cold of this bitter
winter, their shoddy clothing came to rags,
and the shoes of whole. divisions were lound
first rain or thaw these soles swelled, cameof
and lett the tired and hungry army barefoot.
And this was done by men appointed 0y Gam
betta-violent Republicans, men denouncinS
the vices of the Empire and OF royalty, VINO
have sold France and filed their pockets. No
wonder that Bourbaki, sent on this mad eXpe-
dItion, seeing his army 30 SACRIFICED, tried IN
fit of mad desperation to blow out his brains.
Dishonest greed has ruined France, first under
the Empire, and still worse under the Repuo-
lie. Every base Imperfalist hastens TO declare
himself Republican, and TO rob, and thereby
murder, his fellow-cltizens ana poor France,
in the name of Libe1te, Egalite, Frats,ntk.
STORIES OF SUFFERING.
It is pitiful to see the disarmed garrison Of
Paris. The poor Mobiles from the country are
everywhere in gatherings OF thousands, look
pg.like fiocks Of sheep, covering togetner IN
some great market-place, waiting TO De
slaughtered-as thousands OF them have been
lin the;sshambles outside the walls. They get
In the sunshine and crowd together TO Keep
warm, for there are no fires IN Paris. fancy
two months Of winter In New York without
fires Thousands Of families, even OF The
wealthy classes, had to gather IN small rooms.
put on extra clothing and iurs; and hover oyer
q few embers You can imagine the condition
of the poor, and you cannot be surprised at
the terrible mortality, especially OF the aged
and inlants-poor babes,. with no milk and no
fire The deaths last week were more IMAM
four Thousands And the difficulty OF getting
food, fuel, &C., in the minute quantities dis,
tributed, was great hardship. All Parls nad
to 60 and form in long lines ut the bakers tor
bread, the butchers iur meat, the wood and
coal dealers for few pounds of fuel. Men, and
still worse, women, went before light IN Tie
morning, however cold, and stood tor hours
ina bleak wind, or driving snow or rain,
chilled to the bone, with ieet wet aHd halt
frozen, waiting for the bit of horse meat, ana
the at last coarse and miserable BREAD Ihou-
sands died of this eXposure-needless expo
sure, for there were idle people enough TO
have distributed the ratlons to every family,
from-house to house. Only Yesterday saw
one of these hunger queues IN the cenlre OF
Paris; the sidewalk packed for near q quarter
Of a mile In lines four or five deep, advancing
at the rate OF step minute, to get poriions
of the provisions sent from London. have
seldom seen a more pa hetic eight The men,
ory OF those four or five thousand pale faces,
foUr-fiths of th.m women, brings tears to. my
ewes every time | thiAk of them-wailing
there with such patience for the little bundle
of food to carry home to their families: The
women go = mothers for their chlldren,
daughters for their parents, servants for the.
families they serve; for the rich have suffered,
and snfIer still, even more than the poor.
Thousands have beep so cut OF from all re.
sources that, but for the public rations and
charity, they must have died of starvation;
was show the houses of ladies. of rank who
have been SO kept alive.
THE LATs COMMANDMENT.
The accounts given me of the effects OF the
bombardment are very curious. A lady VINO
resides in the centre Of Paris, not far FROM the
Tuileries, tells me that for sixty hours, night
and day, the whole air was full vi thunder, ana
clouds OF smoke and the lightning Of cannon
were all around the horizon. Every WlndoW
was rattling, every vase, cup, glass, dancing
on the tables. The roar was perpetual They
could reckon the distance. of the artillery by
timing flash and report; shells came scream
ing through the air, burstint, Aedr with dull
explosions, and the whole din and tremor SO
affected the nervous system that when IL
ceased at last her whole body felt like limb
''dSleep. ollc COultl SGalSSiy iSSi hSiSSit ~
exist, seemed to walk on air. and was in doubt
whether SHE was any longer In her body.
DANGERS OF SPRING.
There is the apprehension now that as the
spring advances Paris may suffer more than
new from disease. There have been much,
smallpox and typhas and pulrld levers andi
dysentery. Ali round Paris thousands OF
bodies OF men and horses are scarcely covered
beneath the surface. The mortality in nearly
all the military hospitals has been appalling,
aud with the consent OF the German authorl-
ties, large trains OF wounded have just been
sent to The Province, where they will have
a better chance for recovery.
GERMAN .ExACTIoNs.
These German authorities are carrying mat
tiers with high and naughty hand. Before
they would consent TO tile reopening OF the
railways, even, 10 bring food to starving Paris,
they insisted upon having their full share OF
the profits OF traffic on each road through
the country they occupy. Every station is
full OF soldiers; every train Is inspected by
German officers, The whole army began to
study French as soon as they crossed the from
tier, and has made rapid progress. The young
ladies who were expelled from Paris as useless
mouths at the beginning of the siege, seem to
have engaged themselves as professors OF
French 10 the Germans, and become very USE
full mouths in that particular. 1t was quite
right that they should quarter on the enemy.
Some OF the towns conquered and occupied by
the Germans have suffered and are still suffer
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