The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-06-22
Awful Scenes in Paris.


A corresnondent of the London Times, writ
INC on the 26tb of MAY. saws ''The commun-
ISIS have done their work well. There is |
scarcely public building in the city, which
was said to be the falrest in the world, that has
not been battered or dsfigured by artillery or
consumed by fire. l took walk down the |
Rue Rivoli toward the Hotel de Vile, to Judge |
of the amount of damage done, and at the cor |
,er of the Rue Castiglione became aware of |
great crowd of people yelling and shaking their
fists The cortege was headed bv company of |
mounted cendarmes behind whom came two |
artillerymen dragging between them a soiled |
bundle of rags that tottered and struggled, and
fell down under the blows that were showereG |
upon it by all who were within reach. 1t was |
a 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 followed by a hootng mob, till
they reached the corner of the Louvre. and
there they pronped her ND against wall, al
ready half dead from the treatment she had re-
ceiyed. The crowd ranged itself in a circle.
and have never seen a 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 scarcely be kept from tearing her ia
pieces, who waved their arms, crying. "A Fean
a Veaur on one side barrcade. still strewn
with broken guns and hats--a dead national
guard lying in the fosse-behnd group of
mounted gendarmes, and then perspective of
| ruined streets and blaekened houses. culminat-
ing in the extreme distance in the still burning
Hotel de Vile. Presently two revolvers We're
discharged. and the bundle of rags fell forward
in pool of blood. The popular thirst for Ven
geance was satisfied and so the crowd dis
persed in search of further excitement else
where. | continued my walk along the Rue
! Rivoli. Not house was intact. Fragments
OF shutters lay crumpled by the heat across the
Il oh nOtbInp
was TO be seen; not a root or window sash
black, crumbing ruin everywhere. The road
was littere! with broken glass, uneNplode'
shells and bits OF shattered gun-carrlages In
| one place there was cab, or what had been
one, its four wheels blown away, and Its back
and top riddled with bullets; at intervals along
| the wall white sheets or blankets. dabbled in
| blood, from under which came legs and feet
and hands, showing where there had been sum
| mary executions. The place de 'Hotel lie HE
| was full of the unwary, who had strased thith-
er from curiosity, and had been pressed mo
the service as volunteer nfemen: lney lolleu
at what appeared 10 me WORK ilke Una. Vi tile
Danaldes, for the Hotel de VILE ls.already com
petely glltteu' ana ihe me lacade seems tottef
| ing to Its fall. Shells came swooplns over us,
| bursting harmlessly among the debftS, and we
could hear the rafting of musketry two or
| three streets farther on. | advanced with en-
| cumspeetion toward the barricade, within
! few yards of which party OF women and
/
| load and fire, as though there We're no such
| a thing AS 4 ricOchet bullet. The barricade-
| lighting has been by no means so awful
| a thing rs we have been led to expect.
| for windows have not been used to any
| great extent to fire from, and high wall OF
| sand-hagS is ample protection for "A dozen men.
On my return homeward | met many parties
| of prisoners being conducted to prson--t great
many of them well-dressed men, with silver
| headed walking-sticks and patent leather boots.
/ Il tho tIn
liz Paix that was of peculiar interest," calling
down even greater amount ofcurse> and Kisses
| than usually accompanies their progress. II
consisted of some twenty or thirty girls, well
machine . aSt.blisbne N.Y. who wore licensed Of
| having lhVelghed company OF soiulers Wl1Hih
| InJitbS If having noiSoneJ fbnm IN in The
| wine The Young ladies' trimmed along sur
| rounded Inv a Gordon Of Guards smilinq on fine
| crowd that was execratinp them. and marching
| payly TO the Place Vendome where they prol,-
| AMY were shot The women Of Paris have ol,-
reared late mon the scene. Int their appcar
| anrn was inevitable MANY have beer KILLED on
| lmrrica,les, some in opcn street comhats, but
the sneci, work h rs been the organization of
| The system of fires. which has. untort,lnately.
answered hut too wei Three hundred women.
| iressnd in National Guard uniform. have been
| taken down the Seine in boats md if is said
that MANY of the sham sailors who defended the
| Rme Rov3l 50 hrayelv were women in disguise.
| Neor he porr Monceau n melanchoIv cnisodc
| occnrred 4 husband ana wife were seized
| and ordered TO march forward towards The
| place Vendome. n distance of mile and half.
| They were both of them inyalids, and unable TO
| vail ca far The woman sat down on the
birthstone ana declined TO move n step. in snite
| Of her hushan,,s entreaties that she Woujd try.
! She ncrsisted in her refusal and they both knelt
| down together. begging tbe pendarmes who ac-
companied them to shoot them at once, if shot