The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-25

o Bots dc Bologne have disappeared, as well
4 as those that encircled the lake. Now il
] lies and shmmers in the broad sunlight
scarce n shrub left to reflect itself in IT.
waters but in the centre of the park the
forest remains comparatively intact.
drove TO what was, five years ago, the rag
pickers' street, narrow and dark, where
was concentrated all that was most squali1
and miserablc-now / find il n broad,
handsome avenue filled with sunshine.
There was the Goblin mandatory, and /
was glad to find II still existing-only the
show rooms with their accumulated treas
ures, the work of busy fingers for CEN
turtles, were destroyed. The workshops
and patterns were saved.
dropped into the historic Notre Dame,
which, although pillaged and threatened
with destruction, came off with only few
clean bullet holes through its superb
stained glass windows. Not so the Pam
theon--its massive bronze doors were
torn by pieces of bombs, and its cascade
speckled with bullet prints, as face pit
ted with smallpox marks. / noticed one
of its fine oil paintings ruthlessly cut in
several places, as with sabre, and very
sizeable pieccd bomb had gone
through one of its side domes.
Every thing belonging to the government
is marked in large black letters National
Property, Liberty, Equality and Frater-
nifty" which latter thought exceedingly
appropriate, particularly the Equality,
when went to Pere La Chaisc, but not
so, when passed that dark horrid prison,
La Rochet, that holds in despair, with
hope deferred that maketh the heart sick,
lis thousands Of victims, innocent and
guilty. 1t seems to me that of all barbar-
Gus cruelty, the most cruel, is the holding
of these poor creatures in those loathsome
dens, men as well as women, and thus sew
ering and running; families whose record,
all feel sure, is free from all Communist
complots OF the Communists, three wo-
men were, last week condemned to death.
Galignan in commenting upon their sem
tence, says that they were not found or
proven guilty Of the charges which were
necessary to condemn them. That only
the odious name-Petroteuses--
TO them, and convicted them, and under
the circumstances / do not believe that
they will be executed.
! cannot get any light upon the supposed
cause of the terrible plot to lay Paris in
ruins, neither how it was possible to have
carried on the work to SO near compile
ton connecting powder and petroleum
under all of the public buildings, without
its having been discovered. In two days,
all would have been ready to receive the
Nationals with fire and destruction. In
some way, it came to the knowledge OF
good man in the Commune service. Amid
the fire of both sides, he went forth bear
ing white hag-was saved to reach
the Nationals to tell them of
the plot and to tell them
where it was possible to enter Paris sooner
and thus saveit He was n poor man with
family, and we would suppose that graf
itude and patriotism would have united in
rcwarding him. He was praised and
blessed and finally some one suggested
starting a subscription to make him COM
Portable for life Two millioDaires were
called upon who also praised him, and
gave each ten francs Il Six months have
now passed and 100000 francs have been
subscribed for him. That illustrates, |
think, that it will have to be acknowledged
that the nation had grown into sordid
selfshness, and that there was no great
united heart among the people to throb as
one, in unision with patriotism.
Now, but for the ruins, and the street
windows filed with pictures illustrative Of
the horrid scenes so recently enacted, side
by side with scenes ludicrous and obscene,
one without very close observation would
scarcely think that anything had hap
pened here. The resorts upon the boule-
wards and cafes are thronged; the shops
are all busy; the markets are full, and it is
only when you speak to people of it, that
they tell you that they have suffered.
There is much less gas glare at night. In
many of the shop windows, those lOxl5
feet square panes of glass which were shat
tered, have not been replaced, and instead
of dozens of bright gas jets petroleum
lamp makes dim attempt at an illumina-
ton.
The relics of Imperial folly are still seen
in the red pants of the soldiers, some of
which have grown very thread-bare and
shabby; now and then stray Turco "a
leader: Of civilization, as the Germans
styled them,) is seen wandering about as
if the last Of his race. The policemen wear
red and white band around their caps,
and that is the only :change ! notice in
official dress.
have already written you long and
late and yet must add n word of st. Cloud,
visited to-day. 1t was II festival occasion,
such as ! witnessed there when here last
with A. when we received so gracious n
bowfrom the Emperor and Empress as they
drove from the palace. If wo had been
possessed cfprophecy then how madly alb