Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-23

the barricade, since God knows what Is
coming; and all minor whirlpools play
distractedly into that grand Sire MRhl-
strom which Is lasbing around the Bas-
tile.
And SO it lashes and roars Cholat
the wine merchant has become an i'm
promptu canDoneer. See GeOrget, OF
the Marine service, fresh from Brest, ply
the King of Slams cannon. Singular.
If we were net used to the like; GeOrget
lay, last night, taking his ease at the
inn; the King of Slams cannon also lay,
knowing nothing of him, for hundred
years Yet now, at the right instant,
they have got to ether, and discourse
eloquent musia,sl For, hearing what
was toward, Gedfget sprang from the
Brest diligence, and ran. Gardes Fran
caises will also be there, with real ar
tillery; were not the walls so thick !.
Upwards from the Esplanade, horizon
tally from all neighboring roofs and
windows, flashes one irregular deluge
! of musketry without effect. The In
valides lie fiat, firing comparatively at
their ease, from behind stone; hardly
through portfolios, show the tip OF @
nose. We fall, shot, and make no i'm
preston.
Let conBagration rage, of whatsoever
is combustible. Guard rooms are burnt,
Invalides' mess rooms. A distracted
peruke maker with two fiery torches, is
for burning the saltpetres of the arsenal;
had not q woman run screaming; had not
q patriot, with some tincture of Natural
Philosophy, instantly struck the wind
out of him-buts of musket on pit OF
stomach--overturne barrels and stayed
the devouring element. Ayoung beau
tful lady, seized in these outer courts,
and thought falsely TO be do Launays
daughter, shall be burnt in dc Launays
sight; she swooned on q paillasse; but
again patriot, it brave Aubin Bon
nemere, the old soldier, dashes in, and
rescues her. Straw is burnt; three cart
loads of it, hauled thither, 80 up in
white smoke; almost to the choking OF
patriotism itself; so that Ellie had, with
: singed brows, to drag back one cart
and Reole, the gigantic haberdasher
another. Smoke as of Tophet; confu.
sion us of Babel noise as OF the Crack
, of Doom!
, Blood flows; the aliment Of new mad
+ ness. The wounded are carried into
houses of the Rue Cerisaie; the dying
leave their last mandate not to yielt
; till the accursed stronghold fall. Ant
f yet, alas, how fall! The walls are 81
8 thick! Populations, three in number
! arrive from the Hotel de Vile; Able
; Fauchet, who was of one, can say will
) what almost superhuman courage 0
l benevolence. These wave their tow
: flag in the arched gateway and stant
! rolling their drum, but to no purpose,
; In such Crack of Doom, dc Launa,
Q cannot hear them, dare not believe
: them; they return with justified rage
Q the whew of lead still singing in thei
ears. What to do! The firemen ar
e here, squirting with their fire pumps
] upon the Invalides' cannon, to wet tn
Q touch holes; they unfortunately canno
y squirt so high, but produce only cloud
/, of spray Individuals of classica
!! knowledge propose catapnlts. San
t terre, the sonorous brewer of the suburb
i Saint Antoine, advise rather that tn
+ place be fred, by mixture of phospho
i rus and oil of turpentne spouted NJ
e through forcing pumps. 0 Spinola San
q terre, hast thou the mixture ready
h Every man his own engineer! An
i still the fire deluge abates not; evel
: women are firing, and Turks; at least
:, one woman, with her sweetheart, AM
Il one Turk. Gardes Franchises hay
|, come; real cannon, real cannoneers
n Usher Maillard is busy half-pay Ellie
;" half-pay Hulm rage in the midst G
; thousands.
l. How the great Bastile clock ticks Cir
IS audible) in it's inner court there, at il
II ease, hour after hour; as If nothing spt
J, cial for it or the world, were passing
>, It tolled one when the firing began an
g is now pointing toward five, and stl
v the firing Stake not. Far down, in thei
10 vaults, the seven prisoners hear mufflc
din of earthquakes; their turkeys al
e, swer vaguely.
in Woe to thee, de Launay, with thy poo
at hundred Invalides Broglie is distan
f. and his ears heavy; Besenval hears, b,
ii can send no help. One poor troop
re- Hnssars has crept, accommodating, cal