Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-06-05

STORY OF THE COMMUNE.

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has arrived in New York, where he has
has given fresh account of some of the
horrible scenes in Paris during the days
OF the commune. He says revenges
allowed fulbplay, priests were shot, an
archbishop and journalist, and de
plore it. The Republicans Mere men Of
principle snd not men ofpassion they
had not the right to slaughter their
enemies under the pretext that their
enemies were slaughtering them; but
after all never were reprisals more ex'
cused by the terrible scenes which pro-
duced them. At the moment that these
disastrous things were being produced,
Paris, it is known now was literally
drowned with blood. Fifteen thousand
corpses of men, women and children
covered the sidewalks and the streets
On the evening of the death of the
Archbishop the greatest of the crimes
that history has yet had to chronicle had
been committed. One OF the elect of
Paris, representing the people in the Ma
tional Assembly, the citizen Miliere, had
been arrested at his father in-law's in
the midst of his family, brought by a
squadron of soldiers to the very steps of
the Pantheon, and there shot without a
a trial by certain Captain Garcin, act
ing under the orders of Gen. De Cissey.
This assassination remains as their eter-
nal condemnation, for it showed how
the conquerors of Paris treated that city
without a show Of law or the national
will, in the name o. which they pretend
to fight. In thus getting rid, without
precedent, of one of its members, the
National Assembly committed suicide,
for later on it legalized all the attacks
made against its authority.
During eight days sinister sound
filled the Laban Barracks, wrote the
immortal author L Anne Terrible. Hun
dreds of prisoners were taken in chains
and placed before the mitrailleuses and
blown to pieces. AT the Buttes Chau-
mont the ignoble Gallifet caused the
National Guard to dig immense graves,
at the sides of which he grouped entire
battalions, whom he fred on till they
fell in these improvised tombs. One of
our companions of captivity in the case
mates of Fort Boyard was brave Re-
publican, who had been but badly
slaughtered, and waited for the advent
of night to crawl out from am ng the
cddatores with which he was surrounded.
and to gain place of retreat, from
which he was not taken till several
months afterward.
Behind the prison walls of La Ro-
quette the butchery had been such that
burial had become impossible, and the
good health of the neighborhood was
much interfered with. The officers in
charge Of the execution had found, as
they thought, the solution of the mat
ter, by bringing into requisition large
number of wagons, into which they
pitched the dead, as they we're hunted
out, probably to give an interest to the
proceedings. They compelled the Ma.
tional Guards to put into carriages the
bodies of their dead brothers in arms
and each time that a prisoner had fin
ished the sinister task and the tumbri
was full, and he was preparing to de-
scend from it, a shot from gun stretch
ed him next to his companions, and the
cartmen carried to the same grave the
dead and the grave digger. In the de-
pot called Des Cantiers of Versailles the
female prisoners of the Commune, in.
stead of being guarded by women, as
the law and the proprieties demand
were obliged to sleep and to dress under
the impudent looks of soldiers, to whom
their chiefs gave themselves the pleasure
OF permitting everything. These un.
happy women, of whom seven-eighths
had committed no other crime than to
not have denounced the retreat of their
brethren, of their fathers or of their hus.
bands, were for the last breach of dis
cipline of pure fantasy deprived of theil
clothes and thrown thus before the guar
dams of the male PRISONERS under the
frozen pump of the large court of tn,
depot. Children of 10, IL or II year
we're arrested by hundreds under pre-
texts or accusations of the most fulfil
kind, and were huddled together awith
out beds and almost without food in tn
most pestilential atmosphere.
A lieutenant of dragons named Maj
serault was instructed to take charge q
this hell upon earth, and every day b
racked his ingenuity to invent some ne,
tortues for his prisoners. On the coldes
, days he bound naked men together an,
: then let them pass the night exposed t.
r the snow and hail, and occasionally h
If would go down and beat them with hi
n walking cane with an amount of ferocit