The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1871-07-19


des Vicloir was accompanied by peculiar
atrocities The Guards appeared there at 4
o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Their first act
was to expe with various insults and foul abuse
the numbers of people who were saying their
prayers; then they arrested the clergy and some
of the 1eighbOriug inhabitants who came in to
protest. The doors were shst and the prisoners
were Informed by an officer, in pompous speech,
that the object of the visit was to seek for
corpses in the name of high morality" The stone
pavement was pulled up; the treasure of the
church, which was very considerable, including
gifts of precious objects and votive offerings
worth more than 100000, was soon discovered
IN a cellar; but the search for corpses" was
less productive 1t was not till late in the even
ing, when the dggers got down deep into the old
burial ground, that skeletons were found During
the night the Guards of course got drunk in
the intervals Of their work they put on the vest
ments of the clergy, and executed dances and
sang obscene songs before their prisoners-telling
them that they had just dug up the fresh bodies
of women slaughted by the priests" but refusing
to allow doctor, who was incarcerated with the
Others, to verify the accusation. Citizen lie
Moussu, Chief Commissaire de Police. presided
over the proceedings. He was lined at next
morning by POTTER u member Of the Commune.
who. on his arrival violently attacked the i'm
prlsOned priests, screaming to them, Miserables,
combien avez vOus de femmes ?" but who finally
softened down and said that everybody should he
released if no charge could be substantated. At
the same moment priest arrived from the Church
of st. Augustin, which had been seized and closed
two hours before, to ask permission from Citizen
LIE Mouss1 to perform the burial service in the
crypt of his church, urging that several funerals
were awaiting his return. In reply, he was in
stantly arrested with the organist oi st. Augustin
who had accompanied him, and the funerals were
left to themselves. All day the prisoners we're
kept, great orgie going on around them. They
saw the church polluted in a way which can not
be described they saw the cash-box emptied. the
boxes for voluntary gifts forced open and their
contents Sc zed they saw the National Guards
receive their pay out of the money thus obtained,
and become drnnker and drunken they saw the
lnstres. the lamps, the bronze ornaments. and
everything else of vane, pulled down and packed
into cases. which, with the treasure, were carried
off in four large vans. Then the obscene insults
recommended n cdHtiniere being remarkable,
even among those drunken brutes, in the incred
lille fOulness of her Imagination and her language.
AT last. at on Thursday evening. after deten-
tion of 26 hours. the prisoners, save one priest.
told they might 90 home. Such is the ac-
count given to me by one OF the released. |
have heard many other odious details, hut do not
mention them because they were not included IN
the statements Of eyewitnesses, and may be
exaggerations
The Commune in its supreme wisdom, has
found out that the small fathers" their grand
sons, and great grandsOns have been using Louis |
Treize's church as a murderer's, not robbers |
cave and it has now determined to get at the |
truth. The Nationals go about tapping the walls |
aud if there is hollow sound. out they come in /
force, swords and guns, pickaxes, pioneers and |
ALL" and break open that which was probably |
monastic family vault If a bone remains un-
moudered, they shake their fists and call the !
murderer of the individual of which it was once
a component member any name except saint or
gentleman. AT present they have dug up sixty /
skulls and bodies, more or less to match. The |
skulls are stacked up like cannon shot in Wool
wich yard, aud the limbs ranged in & semi
circle round them 1t is horrible spectacle.
but it draws great houses and that is what the
20 I'd 20 Al
atomcal skill is trying to fit the bones to the
bodies, and the hodies to the skulls while other
Professors endeavoring to find the date and
the time of death OF these victims to mOnksh
evil passions. who must have been dead at least
220 years. You National Guard take up
a bone, and playfuly bit bis Captain; drummer
trying thighbone on his parchment ; ano her
man holding up an arm to a lady as if he we're
going to lecture on it, or beg her acceptance Of
the triae. Beyond, are two gallant youths playing
catch-ball with a skull
Ascenson Day, need hardly say, is one of
the great religious festivals in this city and so.
early on Thursday, large number of women of
all classes, dressed in the deepest mourning, ap
pCdlSu ~ bhC EotCo VI WIS ShuiSh NaN NVhahuOu !
admttance. They we're told that there we're no
longer religion, or churches, or " Our Ladies" so
they had better go home quietly. Then ensued
a regular religious row, and one lady struck
National in the face. The more serious however
retired to the corner of the Rue des VICTORIES
and knelt by the rails in the street. No sooner
was this seen, than more than usually rufianly
National called frsm the mob ten Of the dirtiest
bows he could find, and caused them to kneel in
front of the great entrance then be re-entered
the sacred ediice and returning IN few seconds
told them, literally to shut their eyes, open their
mouths, and see what Our Lady" would send
them. A perfect thrill Of horror ran through the
square peopled though it was by the worst mass
in Paris, when they saw the rudiau put into each
gaping mouth-the consecrated wafer His !
brother officers and men roared with indecent 4
laughter, and the gGnlins grinned but the crowd
vas silent and the kneeling women wept. Not
content with this, the Nationals then rushed
n, got some hundreds of these waters, and threw
hem among the mob as for scramble The 9
,ious worshippers tried to buy them up for all l.
ba a. sonsr they had with them in an instant. c