New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-01
FRENCH TOPTCS.
TIE LAST PARTISAN REVOLT.


GEN. APPERI'- REPORT Oh THE CoN1UNE-srATis-
TICS OF TIE sANGUINL.Y CONI'. @r-IHE BONA
PARTIsr HulANGUE Al BLLIEFuIE GAM
BErUNs sAGACIIY AID r.I> ONAL IADErGNp-
ENCE.
lrHoM THE REGULAR cOFRrsrpNpEsI oF Uis THmrNE.l
PARIS Nov. 2S.-A history Of be Commune daily
complete ana prOpor;ioued as record col rs events.
with portraits ot the actors in Them neither Hat
tered nor distorted ont Of likeness 10 tine originals.
aud with some to!crably comprehensive and rational
consideration of the manifold originating and
moving causes, is not likely 10 bee written in our
time. 70 the mass Of publications relating o. the
subject that have appeared within thrpa~ five yoaw
not al worthless hut, except tAose OF purely doc
umcntary nature the work of pas onaie d.tractors
or dtfcuders-a really valuable contribution j. a'ided
IN the report just furnished 20 the assembly by
Gen. AIpcrt In that portion Of thi youmiuoUs
report in which he prctends 10 rnTrlte and describe
some Of the principal events and scene of the Com
mune period, you VIII find more Interesting, better
composed and written, and on the whole, less III
complete and partial account Of the CO'umunc than
any prepared by Tie many hostile writer's that |
have met with. This should naturally bee the case
for two reasons-thc Generals intellectual supe-
riority TO many Of these writers and tie longer time
now somewhat removed from the din and smoke Of
notwithstanding which. with the opportunities
Of his Office he has given to stndy Of certain sides
of his subject. Gen. Appert AT lie bead Of the
military commissions or cOuuci'. Of wnr before
which The insurgents Of the Commune were brought
to trial. The second part of THIS report the repcrt
proper is on the operations of these COUNCILS. From
it / extract some facts and figures worth noting.
Between the Sd Of april and the goth Of Nay 1871,
ia the course Of the fighting between the National
and Commune soldiers, $500 Of the after were
taken prisoners From che - To the 2S6h of May
IL in Itffa- Z !.
prisoner, were seized and ma-e.,l 10 Versailles. In
june and July 1000 other arrest, were made by the
military authority and lis ageuts. From August,
1871 tG May, 1872, numerous others were arrested
BY the civil police in Paris and the departments,
and for the most part gradually forwarded 20 Yer
sailles o. fast as the iucumhcred pri,o. room there
was vacated. Tie number of persons arrested in
consequence Of the Instruction was about
Is COO Of whom 5000 were soldiers, $50 women,
aud $50 children OF 10 years ard Imdsr. The
councils Of war had 30 decide on the fate OF
472l3 persons (Or the names Of them, Of
whom s7I were women and Jll children.
OF this mes 1850 have h"en condemned
To hard labor, transportation, baui-hm,nt
or confinement iG various kinds of prisons fer yari-
ops terms But Of tb So AZ. 100. nearly one
fourih-tlat Is, 3,213, having fec the country, or
life perhaps NJ least ARE "ere condemned PR con-
hi,aace, "a Plalonic p nolty, SO {. speak. Among
other cor tumaCiOus persons aro 10 cond' nnci 10
Death Les QJeen ont tort iu the ce Of Justice, and
ecta NORMALLY soyeror penalty thon they woaid
really catch had they appeared in pc som before tho
tr,innal There were o. ooudeurat.Gns 10 d'ath
pronounced against prisoners in hand. but OF these
only uino were pushed 30 bloody execution GA the
plain OF SartoTy. The rest bad THEN ponaties COM
muted to hard labor or imprisonment Tor ME- to
Transportation, etc. No one vas executed merely
for having been an hsui-"nb however
active. or even n member Of The insureent
government. Rossel. with anothers1ldiu, was shot,
not as MI Eyarts said 40 the Bcochcr tia', and az
many other well informed persons supp'se " by
Judgment for having executed thc Chief Justice OK
Frauce' iwelI enough 10 observe in passing that no
magisteral Office in France gives TO She holder OF 1t
The title of Chief Justice and that NJ. Bonjcsh Was
not tho first or presiding judge of the C1rt OF Gas
sation), aud the Archbishop of Paris, with whose
execution Rossel had nothing whatever to DO but as
military deserter. Others Of the nine were executed
az urdeIers for the part they took ia the killing OF
the hostages or other persons. To resume; lt ap-
pears from the utterly Trustworthy report
of Gen. Appert that of 1878 PERSONS OF
their names, furnished for trial 10 the conn
ellis Of war, but 1880 less than cDe-lbir0, were