The Hawaiian gazette., 1871-07-05

and finest public buildings in Paris are heap oil
smoking ruins On the Heights of Ia villette and
BelleviIle the fight stiIl RACES and the cannouade
rings 10 sur ears. Troops of tsttered, begrimed
prisoners are constantly passing through the Streets
accompanied by soldiers with loaded rifles on their
shoulders and they only too ready to use their
Chassepots. Yesterday, saw troop Of prisoners,
4 with many women among them, conducted up the
Rne Tromelet just behind the Madelaine. An I'M
fortunate woman, exhausted by fatigue, dropped
half faiuting on the ground Get up" said an
officer ~ cannot" she replied. The officer then
drew his revolver and shot her through the heart
Scenes of a similar kind are of daily occurrence
Yesterday, close to my own house, poor old man,
who has been an inhabiaut Of my quarter for years.
was denounced BY woman in the street He was
arrested by soldier and taken to the Marie. This
morning heard, to my horror, that he had been
shot He leaves four children and English wife.
The brutality of the officers is only equaed by their
ignorance A friend Of mine, an Englshman, had
placed the red ensign of Great Britain in his door
way, and the Communists had respected the house
as that of & foreigner. A Lieutenant of Marines
came yesterday, to make a search in the house.
a What is that flags he asked of its owner. John
Bull got angry, and answered that French sailors
ought TO know it we'll for it had scared above the
tri-eolor in many bloody fight
The Louvre, the National Gallery and the Lux
embourg have escaped the flames. But the most
frightful disaster is the burning of the Mont de
Pieie During the last eight months, people by hun
dreds Of thousands have put valuables into that in
sttution for safety Fancy their desolation at the
destruction. One can not understand what drove
the insurgents TO SO terrible step for the working
men have even more to lose If il be possible by the
destruction of the Mont de Piete, than the rich.
The Horrors of VIctory-DesPerate Acts OF the
Female Insurgents
Paris (dAy az Correspondents Of the London Times.
took 4 walk down the Rue Rivoli. toward the
Hotel de Vile, to judge of the amount of damage
done, and at the corner Of the Rue Castiglione be-
came aware of the approach of great crowd Of
people, yelling and shaking their fists The eortegs
was headed by company of mounted gendarmes,
behind whom came two artilleEymeu dragging be-
tween them q soiled bundle of rags that tottered
and struggled, and fell down under the blows that
were showered upon it by all who were within reach
II was s woman who had been caught in the act of
spreading petroleum. Her face was bleeding, and
her hair streaming down her back, from which her
clothing had been torn. On they dragged her, fol-
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OF the Louvre and there they propped herup against
wall, already half dead from the treatment she had
received The crowd ranged itself in circle, and
have never picture more perfect and complete
in its details than was presented BY that scene The
gasping, shrinking figure in the centre, surrounded
by crowd who could scarce be kept from tearing
her in pieces, who waved their arms CRYING Drown
heri drown hertz on one side barricsde, still
strown with broken hats and guns-a dead National
Guard lying in the fosse-behind group of mounted
gendarnes then perspective Of ruined streets and
blackend houses, eliminating in the extreme dis
lance in the still burning Hotel de Vile. Presently
TWO reyolyers were discharged, and the bundle of
rags fell forward in pool of blood. The popular
thirst for vengeance was satisfied, and the crowd
dispersed in search of further excitement else
where
How the Palaces and Private Residences were
fired.
Paris May q } Correspondence Of the London News
Paris shall not exist, if Paris does not belong TO
the Commune. Such was their hellish resolve, and
they proceeded to carry out their threat of destroy
ing the capital which they could not retain. They
set 10 work in three distinct ways IL the palaces
and public Offices which they commanded they dis
posed at regular intervals sometimes bottles
times pots, of petroleum. When the vessels Of
petroleum arranged at proper distances, of
them would be overturned and ignited; the flames
would rapidly spread, and the whole building would
soon be past salvation 1t was in this way that the
Tuileries the Palais Royal the Hotel de VILE the
Palace Of the Legion OF Honor and other celebrated
public edfceS were set in flames This arrangement
was also made in the Ministry of Marine, but the
wretches engaged in the work of destruction had TO
fly before they could set FIRE TO the pots of petroleum
which they had planted in the most likely corridors
There was second method adopted for the destruc-
ton of private houses. When it became necessary
TO retire from particular barricade the Guards tore
pieces the beds which formed part of the bsrri-
cades; took the tow out Of the beds, dipped it in
petroleum, and loaded their guns whit Then they
fred the tow into the windows of the houses. 1t
was in this way that the block of houses 10 the Rue
Royal facing the Madeleine, was fred.
SIN third method: Men and women were going
about Paris with bottles Of petroleum in their peck
cts, or hid about their dresses They threw these
bottles down into the ground floors of every dwell
ing they could get at If there was no room to get
the bottle through, the neck of the bottle could be
got into eerisin ar-holes which belong to the con-
siTuetion OF French houses; the liquid would be
poured in, and lighted match sent in after it. In
this way, many private houses were set in flames;
and many hundreds Of women were taken in the act
all day-sOme of them shot upon the spot. an day,
zoo, the inhabitants, spprsed Of what going on
were engaged in stopping up al the sky-lights,
gratings and ar-hoes which connected their ground
Hoors with the pavement Wherever you turned
in every street-you the inhabitants busy plas-
terng, breking, or shutting up with panks, the two
feet Of their houses next TO the pavement Not only
were women taken, but the hreuden also in great
numbers were arrested. The fact is, that many sd-
herents Of the Commune entered The ranks of the
hremen partly 10 disguise themselves and partly to
spread the fire instead Of extinguishing it
The Extent OF The slaughter.
Paris Csay - COTePo5dsnos q the Loodoa Times.
The executions of the insurgents are wholesale
Il is estimated that upwards of 1000 persons have
been shot already on the e bank of the Seine alone
evidently s small proportion Of the total number
Wherever women and children are to be Observed /
leaning over the pArspet of the Seine intenily re-
garding some object below, one may be sure that /
the attraction is s group Of hideousy mutilated /
corpses Of men who have been brought down TO the I
river side and then with their backs 10 the wall I
have met their doom On the sloPing roads leading
down from the Quay to the river, may also be seen /
inequalities where the road has been recently dis
turbed and where the freshyturned earth indicates
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