Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-21
BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, JULY q, 1881.

is open Esplanade, at the end of the
Rue Saint Antoine /; there are such
Fore court, Cour avarice, Cour de
pOrme, arched gateway, where Louis
Tourney now fights; then new draw
bridges, dormant bridges, rampant bas-
tions, and the grim eight towers; a laby-
rinthic mass, high frowning there, Of all
ages from twenty years to four hundred
and twenty; beleaguered, in this it's last
hour, as we said, by mere Chaos come
again Ordinance of all calibres; throast
of all capacities; men of all plans, ev-
cry man his own engineer; seldom since
the war of Pygmes aud Cranes was
there seen so anomalous thing. Half
pay Ellie is home for suit of regimen
tails: no one would heed him in colored
clothes; half-pay Hulin is haranguing
Gardes Franchises in the place de Greve.
Frantic patriots pick up the grape shots;
bear them, still hot, or seemingly SO,
to the Hotel de Vile; Paris; you per-
ceive, is to be burnt. Flesselles is
pale to the very lips, for the roar of the
multitude grows deep. Paris wholly
is at the acme gifts frenzy; whifled all
ways, by panic madness. At every
street-barricadea there whirls simmer
ing, a minor whirlpool, strengthening
the barricade, since God knows what is
coming; and all minor whirlpools play
distractedly into that grand Sire Mahl-
strom which is lashing around the Bias
tile.
And SO it lashes and roars. Cholat
the wine merchant bas become an i'm
promptu cannoneer. See Georget, Of
the Marine service, fresh from Brest, ply
the King of Slams cannon. Singular.
if we were not 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 together, and discourse
eloquent music, For, hearing what
was toward, Georget 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 fat, firing comparatively at
their ease, from behind stone; hardly
through portfolios, show the tip Of a
nose. We fall, shot, and make no i'm
preston.
Let conflagration 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 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
tiful lady, seized in these outer courts,
and thought falsely to be de Launays
daughter, shall be burnt in de Launay's
sight; she swoOned on a paillasse; but
again patriot, it is brave Aubin Bon
nemere, the old soldier, dashes in, and
rescues her. Straw is burnt; three cart
loads Of it, hauled thither, 90 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 as 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 yield
till the accused stronghold fall. And
yet, alas, how fall The walls are SO
thick! Deputations, three in number,
arrive from the Hotel de Vile /; Able
Fauchet, who was of one, can say with
what almost superhuman courage Of
benevolence. These wave their town
flag in the arched gateway and stand
rolling their drum, but to no purpose.
In such Crack Of Doom, de Launay
cannot hear them, dare not believe
them; they return with justified rage,
the whew of lead still singing in their
ears. What to do! The fremen are
here, squirting with their fire pumps
upon the Invalides' cannon, toswet the
touch holes; they unfortunately cannot
squirt so high, but produce only clouds
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