The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-07-16

louise (June 23) telegram to the London
Times says:
Nothing can present greater contrast
than the North and South sides of the
river at Toulouse-the one with it's usual
aspect undisturbed, and its inhabitants
pursuing their ordinary vocntions; the
other, like place which has been bom-
barded. The Faubourg st. Cyprien is,
IN fact, town of itself, and is to the
upper part of Toulouse what tho Surrey
side of the Thames is to the Middlesex
shore: The quarter is densely peopled,
or rather had rs, 600 inhabitants, most of
them of the working classes, though out
side the town wallsare villas and cottages
belonging to wealthier people. Through
the quarter run avenues of trees. and
around it are fields Of corn and market
gardens; in short, under ordinary cir
cumstances, it must be pleasant enough
place to live in.
10 describe what st. Cyprien is now is
almost impossible It is town of ruins.
The Gnronne is now running in it's ma
tural bed, but NIL over the inundated
quarter are pools Of water and rank river
mud; trees are uprooted, gardens are
mere swamps, and streets half dried
water courses, with here and there great
cracks and yawning gaps. In some
places the houses are heaps Of rubbish,
IN others the walls are left standing,
with pictures or articles of attire hang
ing on them. In one street through
which passed only three houses were
standing, and this is probably the case
IN dozen other thoroughfares. Every
where gangs of soldiers were Mt work de-
molishing walls, collecting furniture. and
making the roads passnble, while the
owners of the ruins were, some helping
With sort of resolutc fury, others sit
tlngon beds or mattresses gazing vaguely
1T the rubbish which represented their
homes. Some of the more energetic
families were pic-nicking and cooking
their midday menls in the desolate car.
dens, the women bright, if not cheerful
the children playing about MS if nothing
had happened. The Respondent were
Just the contrary, the women sitting with
their faces buried in their hands, and
the boys and girls lying huddled togc-
ther among the broken beams and heaps
of plaster. The rond-sides were lined
with nil kinds of articles, from four-post
bed-steads down to blankets and bon
nets, and in several places the small
shop-keepers were drying, or rnther at
tempting to dry, their stock in trade in
the sun. Outside the barriers the scene
Is the same, with the addition of large
swamps, which were once vineyards and
corn-felds, and of little piles of railv
painted boards, once forming portions of
summer-houses.
Marshal MacAIahon, Gen. de Cissey
and Al: Buffet, with their suites, spent nil
Sunday afternoon in visiting the Quarters
OF the st. Cyprien and st. Michel, where
they talked freely with the sufferers. /
hear the Marshal said it would be better
to burn all the ruins of st. Cyprien, for
the odor from the refuse, and also from
the many undiscovered dead bodies, is
even now scarcely tolerable. The Mar
shal said, moreover, that he had no idea
OF the destruction, and would do every
thing In his power to alleviate the dis
tress. He afterwnrd visited the Hospitnl
st. jacques, the military hospital, and
the tobhcco manufactory. Evcrywherc
he was enthusiastically cheered, with
cries OF Piue Jfac .Mhon!" He especially
complimcnted the Baronnc de Sandrans.
wife of the Prefect, the Comtessc de
tenelon, and other ladies for their excr
tions, and publicly thanked Snur Pcllc-
grin Tor her lnbors. At half-pnst 6 yes
terday morning, tho Marshal attended
mass, and immediately after left for
tenoulllet, where only one house and
turn here he distributed decorations to
Gen. du Bessol and other officers and
privates The way in which the soldiers
have worked and nre working is the
theme of general admiration. To-day, q
large body Of engineers is expected. In
the evening, there was reception at the
Forfeiture, and Mt 6 this morning. the
Marshal and his companions left for
Iarbes in carriages, the railway commu-
nlcatlon being interrupted.
At Muret, in the Hnutc Garonnc. the
Suspension Bridge has been destsoyed,
and many houses wrecked. Uouues and
Pinsn9uel, two villages near, are masses
oo,fruins. In the Ariege, Mt ST. Lizicr,
three parts of the town have been
flooded. At Moulis, in the Tarn and
Garonnc, the church has fallen. At
Goltcch, only four houses and the church
are standing. At Lamngistere, many
houses have fallen and tho bridge has
been carried awny. In the Hauto
pyrenees, at Tarbos and other places on
the Adour, houses have fallen and nll
the crops are destroyed At Sarpinnet.
all the houses were inundated, several
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