The New York herald., 1879-09-22
RETURNING COMMUNARDS.
How the Last Act of the Drama Of II
Was Played in Paris.
JOY IN THE EXILES HOMES.
No Further Danger TO the Government from
Agitators or the WOrkmen.

Drought by tho Picardic arrived i'll Paris this
morning at quarter past six. An i'm
mense crowd. estimated at ten thousand per-
sons. awaited with impatience the arrival of the
train conveying them. They were received with
shouts of "Vipe Ia Repu6hquef "Vice Ia France!"
but there was no political manifestation of any
kind. With Q few exceptions the majority OF the
amnestiel depo,1ss were in state Of the most COM
plete destitutiou. Tie general sympathy was at
traced to family in particular consisting OF the
father. mother and five children. the youngest of
which was only about two years old. crowd i'm
lnediatcly gathered round them, all anxious to offer
them assistance. delegate of the Committee OF As
ssance of which NJ Louis Blanc is president at once
took them in charge. and provided them with tenn
porary lodging in the Route dItalie until something
botter could be done for them. M. Louis Blanc
himself was present and took active part in the
distribution of the money subscribed for the relief
of the more necessitous. The sum of ten francs
was given to each In addition to good meal.
Among them were to be seen many crippled by the
loss OF arm or leg, or by chronic rheumatism
contracted in Noumea. All seemed prostrated by
fatigue. number Of tables plentifully pro-
vded with food had been set out for a portion
OF them on the Boulevard de PHopital, near
the sorte of the station by the care of rela-
tivcs aud friends. Some idea OF the number
Of spectators assembled may be formed from the
night GOO oaves pounds each and 5000 small
ones. Most Of those were, doubt, purchased with
the benevolent idea OF distributing them among the
dtportfs immediately on their arrival, and while
awaiting the substantial repast provided for
them by the degues of the different ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
who all assembled to receive them. Their gen.
eral condition pitable in the extreme The
great majority seemed i'll and suffering, and the
women and children appeared only half clad. AS in
the of the passengers by the VAR many Of them
brought back with them a curious collection Of pet
animals, such monkeys, parrots and cats.
UNIVERSAL SYMPATHY.
The conduct of the returned exiies was unexcep-
tonable They seemed in fact for the most part too
atigued and detected to respond to the cries
of "Vice Ia RspuJltque" "Vipe Ia France" by which
they acclaimed by the crowd. They did not the
less exhibit emotion at the character Of their
cepton and at the general sympathy manifested
toward them. The scene need not tell you
marked by many affecting incidents, the spectators
being almost much moved by them the exiles
themselves Among the arrivals in this second
batch the that perhaps attracted most interest
the "pere Joseph" deports upward of seventy
years of age, and NJ Roques,
Mayor and newly elected Municipal Councillor
Of Puteaux. In the centre Of groups of relatives
md friends assembled to receive them also to
be observed NJ. Falrot. ex-Captaine Adjutant Major
of the National Guard of Louis le Saulnier; Victor
Grcllier delegate at the Ministry of the Interior
during the Commune; Casimir Bouis. ex-editor OF
the i'dt'Ie Danger and the Ci du Peapie; Benoit
Benoist. compromised in the affair of the 31st OF
October. and Nine. Lemel. the friend aud companion
Train on Monday evening there were few arrivals
by special permission and for exceptional
of the Eleventh arrondisscment; Baile, ex-
captain OF the 24lst battalion of the National
women (the demoiseles Trlboulet). Gosset is suf-
tcring from incurablo disease and scarcely
walk. and Baie is in the same condition from
chronic rheumatism. They had both to be carried
10 the train. on which they obtained first class
places.
In conversing with the returned communards by
the Picardie could not fail to be struck by the
general complaints which they made OF bad treat
inent during the voyage. They stated that they
that the arrangements for sleeping were
OF tine most miserable description, the single
but fair to state that regards the food the officers
of the Picarde contest the truth OF tho charge of
bad and insufficient nourishnlent, and As regards
the arrangements for sleeping. they say tho best
had been done for them that could be phi shed
limited accommodations of the vessel. They add
which is very true, that no matter how well and
sons Of different temperaments aud degrees of edu-
cation aud intelligence, aud with so many subjects
OF moral discontentment to sour them, 1t would
have been materially impossible to please or satisfy
all.
PROSPECT TROUBLE.
AS regards the general disposition of mind in
which the exiles return to France happy say
that it offers prospect of trouble or dsquietude
to the authorities. 1 have conversed with great
many of them and they all appear to be impressed
with the same sentiments-a distrust OF politics and
political agitators, and q discrimination not to be
caught again the same trap into which they were
precipitated by the designing men who left them to
pay the penalty Of their msdssds BY either 1stray
GET. said one OF them to me yesterday, .'seeing q
fellow who had been melting us to acts of violence
md dns affna.
the costume of sergent dc Vile after its close.
Upon his evidence several of use were condemned"
made efforts to interview the leading. or should
say the better educated of tho exes, who returned
by the Pcardie and the Var, but / found among
them general disinclination to converse with
strangers. but more particularly Journalists, and q
desire to keep in the background AZ much pos
sible. To say that the returned communists repent
OF the part which they played would perhaps be
assuming too much; but found among them the
conviction that they had done and suffered enough
mination TO leave to others the risk of working
them out. Among the mass who in general
utterly uneducated j regretted to perceive that
they in degree ashamed Of. and.
on. on the contrary, rather gloricd In; their
the latter Is anything but comfortable or
becoming and has the stamp OF the penitentiary.
they unable to change for other clothing than
because 1t singles them out to public attention and
propaDly secures them sympathy-a feeling which
In their present condition IL Is necessary that they
should cultivate.
or course. in the exubcrancc Of their Joy being
released from restraint and ut finding themselves in
their own country again, 1T is not to be expected
that the more ignorant and unreasoning portion of
them should escape getting into scrapes and finding
themselves in difficulties with the authorities.
Thus. Monday last the Tribunal Correction
mel had to sentence to months i'm
prisonment for drunkenness and outrages
against the police three OF the anncsticd
lists who returned by the Var. One OF them. man
named Auguste Benoit. had been found sleeping on
bench In the Avenue de Maine. and grossly abused
the sergents de vio for interfering with him. When
brought before tho Commissary he made the follow
ing statement in reply to the questions put to
HIM
IL have been amnostied, and arrived in Paris this
morning at four O'Clock from Nouniea. On reach
ing the station several persons, unknown to me. adj
dressed me, and kept me drinking with them the
greater part of the day, and in the evening,
being without money and not knowing where
TO 60 I seated myself on public bench
where the police found me. received
two francs from the committee. but soon spent
It," One of the others treated the police in the
loftiest manner. Arrested at ten IN the evening In
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