New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-29

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New York. April 25.- letters from Paris
to April 10 have been, received. The intense
hatred existing among the uneducated
cIasses acainst serReanfs de vile, police
men and the gems darmes Is beyond all de-
scriDtion. The feelings Of the bettor class
If citizens are quite different, and the turn
ing moment Of the fortunes Of Paris, and l
fear it's entire social dismemberment, is ap-
preaching.
lieutenant in the national guards returned
to the city in disgust, and declared that he
would gladly abandon the movement and
return to his business, but, he added, it Is
not possible. If / leave 1 am deserter, .
spy, and the commune will arrest me and
probably put mo to death in secret.
Many others are in the same fiJ, and men,
too, high in authority and influence in the
commune. Each man fears and distrusts
his neighbor, and hangs on, as it were, from
fear of being known as backslider or
branded as q traitor. believe that two
thirds of the men of the commune are now
serving against all convictions of their flu
ture safety, and only serve because they
hope for an easy egress.
Assy in prison, Flamens dead and Cluseret
rising to almost dictatorial power are GER
tainly not signs of the sweet communal
harmony growing ont OF such winners as
are now governing Paris. This ] mention
because it is the approach of terrorism.
Foreigners who have lived here for thirty
years tell me that Paris never saw what 1t
secs today.
There are indications that the Versailles
government has many emissaries in the
city, who are working secretly but
earnestly. l am told that there are shops
in Paris where one can 60 and buy Chas-
sepot for forty sous, provided he is recog-
1t is asserted that the government has
subsidized these places, and that the Bank
of France has advanced immense sums OF
money to equip those who will fight when
the guards are engaged outside of Paris.
1 am disposed to believe the ministry
will, by . strong movement toward Paris,
try to engage all the national guards and
draw them beyond the fortiications. when
ment and occupy all the positions Of the
reds. et
Svmptems of chaotic dissolution are al
ready appearing. This morning the women
OF the Faubourg St. Antoine began to fight
| among themselves. The wives of the guards
who march outside to fight the troops of the
government are exposing the men who stay
| at home, secreted from service. The wives
of those inundated through fear are there
| fore fighting their sisters, and we have an
Amazonian conflict, which, if not bloody, is
| at least noisy.
| Another letter SAYS there are five hundred
| prisoners IN the conciergerie. Among them
are Assy and six other members La Com
mune, Justice Bon Jean, the Archbishop oi
Paris. Bishop Of Jara, Able de Curry, and
maNy other eminent clergymen.
Persecution of clergymen. pillage Of
churches and parsOnages, contiscation of the
liberty of the press, DEGREES inviting and
threatening the executisa of hostages, have
weaned many adherents from the commune
The sedentary national guards and insnr
gents have not been paid for six days.
tits doubtful if the war. companies are
any better of. Newspaper after newspaper
is suspending public publication.
The Germans had advanced their lines
very far ON the northern side of Paris
Their position enables them to bOmbard
Montmartre, La Villette and Belleville.
The commune requires everybody leaving
Paris to procure q pass, which costs forty
cents. and must be renewed every day. II
is granted to none but women, children
men over forty-five and to foreigners
Strict orders are given to allow no valid
person to pass.
This morning at half-past eleven the rib
bon of people waiting to apply for passes
reached from the prefecture Of police across
Pont Neuf, and to the quay opposite tht
end of the Samartine baths.
The hospitals overflow with wounded
soldiers of the line, wounded in January
One of them said to me this morning
"You can not imagine the streets in Va
de Grace. believe should have been q
dead man had staid there twenty-foul
hours longer"
The prices of all descriptions of food arr
advancing. We have had no fish for three
days; milk is not to be had; charcoal il
getting scarce; wine is advancing in price
sugar has risen from twelve to seventeen
cents pound within five days. The han
fair usually attended by million tradesmen
is not attended by fifty now. The street,
are filled with drunken national guards.