Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-12

NJ de la Grangerie is possessed of con-
siderable fortune and handsome house
in the Quarter st. German. In the
month OF September last he placed him
self, his possessions, and his energies at
the disposal of the Paris Press, then oc-
cupied in organizing that ambulance
system, the ramifcations of which were
legion, and whose flag might have been
seen floating in every quarter of the
town. The ambulance de la Presse were
the largest and most comprehensive in
the city, and M de la Grangerie was rec
ognized as the chief Of the committee.
When this unhappy civil war began al
most every private hospital had been
dismantled, and most of the doctors had
retired to their respective homes. M de
la Grangerie, however, called together
as many of his employees as could be
found, and unfurled the Geneva flag
once more. A few days back ne was
driving his little ponies without the walls,
going his rounds to see that the wagons
we're at their posts, and, being stopped
suddenly by band of national guards,
produced his card announcing himself as
the head of the Press amulances that had
come to be so well known during the
last eight months. Have you got a
pass from the communep asked one of
the men rudely, intimating that if he
failed to produce such document, he
would be arrested as a suspect. "Of
course haven't got one, and do not re-
quire one" retor.ed M de la Grangerie
take me to the nearest poste, and l
will Immediately establish my identity"
so you are NJ de la Grangerie, are your"
answered the other; "a legitimist noble
man; such canaille as you are better
under lock and key" A guard jumped
up on the box of the phaeton, while two
more took their seats behind, and the
unfortunate gentleman was conducted to
the conciergerie, to be locked up in
dark cell on no particular charge, in
spite of his assertions that he had nevor
been involved in politics. His mansion
in the Quarter St. German was quite
enough to insure detention, and in the
conciergerie he remained for days, hold
ing occasional communication with the
occupants of the two other cells in the
same passage old friends, as it happen
ed-the archbishop of Paris and the
cure of St. Sulpice After four days
incarceration he was removed to La
Roquette, where murderers are kept till
they pay the forfeit of their crimes upon
the scafold--a miserable prison, situate
in the filthiest qutrter of Paris; there he
was forced to 60 through the ceremony
of taking bath, and would have been
clothed in the felon's dress had there not
been difficulty as to fitting his corpu-
lent figure. Denied to his friends and
neglected by his guards, he on one oc-
casion narrowly escaped death by suffo-
cation from the charcoal in his stove,
while on another he well-nigh fell vic
tim to the explosion of a chassepot, the
bullet Of which, fred by mistake, pene-
trated the grating of his door and fat
tened against the wall opposite. A bon
vivant, fond of company and good din
ners, he lies there still, in spite of the
efforts of his relations, and it is quite
possible that his fate may be tragical
should the Versailles party force an en-
trance into town.--Letter to London
Times