Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-09


even now, their senses are being
forced upon them at the point of the
bayonet. The Communists have
been finally defeated. Paris is in
the hands of the Vcrsaillists. Those
Of the insurgents most prominent
for their acts Of Dissertation and
blood-thirstiness are being execu'
ted. and the others are to be sent to
the seaboard for Imprisonment in
the hulks. To quicken the work Of
getting rid of those doomed to death
wholesale executions have been or
dercd by the military authorities.
and in some instances, men and wO'
men are shot together. Thirty-three
Communists, among them seven wo'
men, were shot in body by com
pany of soldiers in the plaza in front
of the Hotel de Vile, a few days
ago. Theirs, at the head of the
Versaillists is endeavoring TO re-or-
ganize the government, and get ii
once more on a basis of decency and
order. y
No other country in the world
presents history so full! Of dis
| gushing and horrifyfing detail IN
France we have the strange speeta-
clelof "a country without national
pride; a. people that hold nothing
venerable, or sacred. The land
narks.,of the glory and beauty of
other days they tramples under foot
in sheermadncss. ...:..
a. The tickieness of the French as a
people is beyond comprehension.
They build up, tear down, exalt, de-
base, and revel in blood, in a man
ner that is burlesque on humanity.
One dynasty after another topples
and falls. Comparison they have
erased in detail. The "Man Of Dcs-
tiny" is no longer dreamed Of as a
hero and a god, the relics of him are
spurned to the dust. His nephew,
shallow wcakling, is an exile, and
the Column Vendome, the last, and
noblest monument Of his achieve
ments, has been destroyed, while
every palace and imperial resort in
Paris, has been ransacked and pro.
famed by the mob. And now what
next, Heaven only knows.
There is an evident lack of sta
bility in the French character.
Sprightly, versatile and clever, they
excel in the lighter pursuits Of life,
and in the fine arts, but there is
want of those qualities Of sober
depth-that iron mould Of charac-
ter, which fits men and nations for
enterprises requiring strength and
endurance.
France is humbled, she has has
tened and added to her own abase-
ment. Her future seems almost
without hope. The scenes which
have been enacted in Paris during
the past few weeks, will for
ever be stain upon her history.
That the olive branch of peace
should be extended over such
seething pot of hell as Paris, seems
almost impossible. To calm the
contentious and hatred which pre-
vail in every district of the country,
will require more earnestness and
patriotism of spirit than the great
masses Of the French people are
possessed of, we think. Ifunity and
peace do not speedily come to the
French, armed Intervention will be
made by adjoining nations, under
the cloak of humanity, and France
will ultimately be dismembered.
We append a history of some of
the palaces which have been des-
troyed during the recent riots and
burnings in Paris:
"Volumes Of romances, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, mi ht be writ
ten on the scenes which have been
witnessed inside and out of the Tu-
iIeries and the Louvre, the Palais
Royal and the Palace of the Luxem-
bourg, now detroyed. The build
ings, which were the pride Of the
great capital Of Europe, are gone;
they can, of course, be restored to-
their ancient splcndor, but it will
never again be possible to sax.s'in
this room slept Catharice de Medi 4
ci;" "out Of this window Charles TX
fired on the 'Huguenots;" this. Is tlc
balcony em.which Louis XVI stood
to show himsclfto the enraged mob;"
sthese are tire apartments wherein
the Regent Orleans carried on his
orgies.,,', The reality is gone; ira
dition alone remains. What his
tory clusters round these venerable
edifices. -,
The Ledger gives an interesting
history of the two palaces, from
which we CLEAN some interesting
facts. The origin of the Louvre-is
involved in obscurity. twas roy
al hunting seat in the days of the
Merovingian Kings, and it stood in
the midst of an immense forest 1900
years ago. 1t is supposed that it
derived it's name from the wolves
(louvres) which swarmed around it.
There, then, was building which
was coeval with the commencement
of the history Of the Franks. In the
year 1904 Philip Augustus made a
fortress Of it. In l541 Francis l.
pulled down the greatest part of the |
old fortress, and built a palace on
its site, in the Venetian style, after
the designs Of Pierre Lescot, and