The New York Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1871, Page 6

6 THE PAR'S MASSICR’ A Trail of Fire and Blood and a History of Horror. | HOW ThE #i09STAGES WERE SLAUGHTERED What It Takes to Satisfy, French Vergeance. FIRE, SWORD AND POISON. Details of the Terrible Scenes of the, Seven Days’ Struggle. THE BUTCHERY IN THE STREETS. Every Form of Horror and Every | Exaggeration of Cruelty, A MASS OF DEAD BODIES. .The Abbe Lamazon’s Story of the Es- cape from La Roquette. THE MURDER OF THE ARCH3!S..0P. A Tale of Misfortune Unprece- dented in History. Paris, May 29, 1871. Chased from pillar to post, the skunk has heen wounded and then killed. The civil war is ended, Over 40,000 msurgents have been killed, wounced or taxen prisoners during the seven days’ struggle, and probably more than 100,000 will be prisoners in the end. On both sides 1 estimate the losses as fol- Jows:—Killed, y in Pari 1,000,090,000 francs; loss of prop- to business and depreciation of credit, 800,000,000 | aud the restoration of peace. | Of the Fars | morning of a son of a colonel in the regular army | 000; wounded, 40,000; burning of | NEW YOKK de forgotten. Over ten thousand Ly onare a aloug the Boulevard to their destination— ste perhaps, todeath, So the end had come, aud git Out Immense crowds, Who Walked Up | and down the Bor rds, In the evening tne cafes were pen, sn ai me pts tin commeniorattol flags were brousht out in ree ouraals were | » streets, and you always hear the rin waboyseven Mit be mu the anterval | between coups Hes CANON. . tie HORRORS or 158 WARE poebesioe | isposed niauy people to, reflection aa 88, bi fume they moved. 1 Walked slong the Bouie- Yard and Watched the Curios groups talking and discussing. Each seemed to be suspicious Of the | otner; each knew not but the other might denounce, and each knew it would be hamiuating and dangerous, 1 heard this eried upon of Versailles Who was arrested near a barricade, and notwithstanding his protest and his innocence he was taken and shot as au insurgent. I under- stand this sad mi-take has disposed the authorities vo be more Careful, An English lord was taken while he was on @ barricade, being compelled to work. He was a major general in the British army, and though be exnibited his passport and prociaimed his standing, he was put in the convoy of prisoners aud marched bare-neaded to Versatiies with the | rest, J understand Unut an energetic note will be sent to the Foreign Oiilce asking for indemnity. I know a Dutch gentleman wilo always sits beside me ‘at the dinuer tate, He was taken on Monday last while in Is house, sitting wita his slippers on—not j aliowed to put on any boots—and was put in with @ | baich of miserables and marched to Versailles and | registered at the Camp of Satory. ‘There he was de- | ‘vained Jor three days, and by a fortunate circum. Blance Was release ‘Lis case is one in & huadred, Thus it goes ou. HORROR! HORROR! At Luxembourg, m the park of Mongeau, and in the square Tour St, Jaques, there are large trenches flied to the brink with buman bodies, many of nem only halt killed and yet waria with lite, Insur- gents—men and Women-—with hands ted bind the back, ate takeu to the brink. There ia & volley of Musketry, the sinoke clears away and the victims are enguted m the trenches, Horror! horror! And yet at Versailles they think that this summary Vengeance 18 not halt bloday enouga, THE CATALOGUE IS INTERMINABLE and always the same. Last night, at six o'clock, an American merchant of high reputation was arrested with ad his family. He resided at the Boulevard Hausswmand, aud a shot was fired from his house and wounded au oMecer of the line. An immeuse crowd immediately gathered around, and it soon grew to be au excited mov. The captain of the arrondissement immedtately put the house under requisition and searched Mt, and arrested a Polish geptieman residing therein, The American merctiant Was roagnly Nandied by the cowardly mob, but lortumateiy escaped any serious injury, Such is the condition of affairs to-day. What it may Oe te-morrew no one cad tell. 1 belteve a‘l is calming down and tat the moment of good feeling | 1s not sar disiaut; but 1 wish to empnasize this | whole letter by saying that the behavior of the Commune towards the hostages and of the army towards ihe prisoners Las been the most disgraceful that stands against the record of any people of the elyilized world, THROUGH THE STREETS. Yesterday circulation was allowed in nearly every partof te city, and bundreds moved sileatly along to witness the burned buildings, while workmen were busily employed i removing furniture and clearing (he sircets, others the barricades, not to | Ineniion the Dumper employed in removing the dead from the barricades. Photographers were busy king pootographs of the Hotel de Ville, Tutleries, kc, ‘Phe ouly way to know whatis burnea aud who 1s dead or prisoners 1s to go aud see for one’s self, The daily papers in this city give one thing to-day and anoiher to-morrow. I have visited tne follow- jug places and know them to be DESTROYED BY FIR! 4 oe frances. Thus France has not only lost 1,500,000,000 franes by direct subtraction, but the cost of her immense armies, the clogging of all departments of industry and the stopping of merchandise, the dim- cully of circulating by tie ratiroads ana the intense hostility manifested toward jorelgners, togetuer = with ferocity = and brutally shown in these streets—all must Induce the most terrible pational despair when France comes to deal practically with her difficulties. Over 1,800 Years since Christ, and the world has never seen such a week as the last one here, There been EVERY FORM OF TORTURE, every exaggeration of cruelty. Age, sex, sickness * or natura! deformity has kept none from the ruth- less bratality of a mad popuace, and tne cool savag- ery of undiseiplined soldiery, The Commune, the first to break last Sunday night, has been narrowing its circumference every day, and at the same tUme the chances of escape of the hostages remaining in its hands, and whom, too, it murdered and put to death. The Archbishop, the third of the last three who have died vivient deaths, has gone to his long sleep; and the curé of Madcieine, Jecker, of Mexican notoriety aud sixty-nme poor and worthy pri , Whose only crimes were their holy duties. THE TERRIBLE MURDERS OF THE MOsTAGES. The horrible news 1 sent you by telegraplr stailyg that the Archbishop of Paris, Bishop Maret, the Abo’ Deguerry, curé of the Madeleine; the Abbéx Ulivin, Descondray and Allard, and six- teen other priests: M. Bonjean, president of Cours de Cassartin; M. Jecker, banker; eleven nuns and about 1,200 men of order who would not fight for tne Commune, had been murdered in Paris on Wednesday Jast-—-is not only confirmed, but certain details of the imassacre are made public, which IT almost discredit on account of tueir Darbarity. If, however, they prove true, It makes the whole story perhans the most re- volting that ever was heard, even in revolutionary France. It 18 impossible for me to eater into par- ticulars; suMce it to say that the bodies of the unfortunate martyrs—for martyrs to the cause of order and religion they must in sober truth be called—were mutiiated in a manner which the savages of Patagonia would shudder at. Before shooting the priests eleven of them were stripped Stark naked and Ued each to a nun, who was in like imanner divested of every particle of dress, 1 dare not trust myself to comment upon these atrocities, batsimply state what i have heard from excellent authority trom an oMicer of standing wito was pre: at La Roquette when the bodies of the hos- tages were discovered, and who had the questioning me of the demons in haman form, wio not only conie-sed to what they had done, but boasted loudly of their devilish acts. After seeing thls is it to be wondered at if MacMahon has ordered no quarter to he given to those who may be found figuting with arms in their hands, or who w ted of throwing petroleum into the Paris he God be thanked, THE STRUGC NOW OVER, an? the revolution ts, tor the present at any rate, stamped oat. Its encroachments have ceased, and iis end has been swift and summa Pat, even if Killed to-morrow, I would not write one single line to deteud the horrid butcheries practised by the government troops, No man who is a man can sta d by and see women shot and children irom ten totourteen put to death and approve, 1t1s not neces sary lo wait twenty years to tell the trath of the seven days’ fighting and massacring In Paris, That truth must be known and told to-day. Even allowing that the leaders have been guilty of terrible, revoiting crimes, as they bave been, it forms no excuse for the terrible excesses of soldiers under the command of a great soldier and controled by the will of one of the tuost eminent of living statesmen. Let ie describe THE SYSTEM A woman is taken with arms in her hands, She is not went off for trial—she is not given a moment’s re- spite to prepare herself for ete: y, but, worse than tne felon Traupmann fared, sue ts torn from her children, divorced from her family, and in five Minutes is 4s lifeless as astone. Whois to blame for the children sacrificed? ‘To be sure they have been iad incendiaries and have commuted high crimes and misdemeanors. The mere boys have been caught dn the actor #18 FIRING HOUSES and in feeding burniug bulldings with But they knew not what they did. Vhey were wiid—they were crazed and set on by men who should be held responsible. Yet these boys have been Jed ont and shot. Many instances have peen repeated to m: J do not believe that im things could bave occured. fering terribiy from secing vieir grandest city’ and choicest works destroyed, would not at another ynoment perhaps have done what they have. J vlustt dor humanity When J write these facts, aud yet Hey ure too true, roleum, T moment 8) \* Fven Frenchmen, sut- THE MASSACRE ts avout over, and Uanyuulity 1 again pariialiy restored. We who have ween in Paris during the civil War as correspondents have been treated ton great deal of abuse because we lave tried Lo get all news, and for that reason have sustained «not compromising with the Commune, The Americans in some cases aye magnified, falsified and grossly exagwerated tiese relations, from what motive Lam unavie to understand, unless it I# from ® Gesire to gossip and be Joyful. ‘Two correspoud. ents of the HeralLp bave heen aleady arrested: but, thanks to the action of Mr, Wasbburne, th ere Lntnediately reieascd h apologies. If L felt Liberty to Cdudefan tyeik [Aik ANG Tossip against | HERALD © his it destrves 2 Bing | write @ histo; pleasant to record ov re But a great « intist be parioued tu this moment mingled exciiement, vengeance and exallaton, ad a great deal to anonymous accusers, Who are Masters of the joreigu 1001 Of delamation, A SAD SIGHT ‘iy Yesterday thére yas Wie cow's twas one mevee io 4 Palais Royal (not all), Tuilerie: coo t Ministere de Finances, Hotel de Vule, Palais Justice, Cuserae Napoleon IL, Caserne Prince Eugene, the Graiaery, tie Station de Chemin de Fer de Lyon. Churches (partiy destroyed)—St, Eustacne and St. Saipt theatres—the Oueon, the Lyrigue, the Porte St, Martin, elassements Comiques, and a por- tion of the Chatelet; the dry goods houses Boa Marche, Le Gagne Petit, Pygmalion, Le Jaunvre ‘whom tne eyes of the world have been riveted in frightened curtosity, whose figures have appeared uke giants moving in tne smoke and battle of this biovdy drama, will have passed away from the Stage forever, leaving behind them a trail of fire and | blood and A HISTORY OF HORROR at the memory of which future generations will shudder, Bergeret is dead; his charred remains have been found in the rams of some building he had probably firel—a violent, desperate man to the last; Dombrowski dead of nis wounds, with the words “C’es! pour Pologne” upon his lips; Cluseret, nobody knows where; Delescluze dead; Millitre dead; Raoul Rigault dead, after murdering Chandey, of the Siécle; Wobleski a prisoner; Rochefort a prisoner; some shot in the street, with the cry of “Vive la Commune” to the last, dying like heroes; others basely crawling in the mud, clasping the knees of their executioners and begging thas mercy they had refused to others. They have passed away in the smoke and roar of tie battle, leaving the gay and beautiful Paris litte better than a mass of smouldering ruins. lt is A TERRIBLE LESSON for the French people. Will thev profit by it? Will they not learn at least to lay aside their individuai egotism, their habitual intolerance, that personal arrogance which says, “I am right; you are candille and must be trampled down,” and learn to listen to an adversary, to reason with him, to hear his ideas at least, aud if he is wrong convince, but not to shoot him, Iv MIGHT HAVE BEEN AVERTED. Alitue concession on one side, a litle modera- tion on the otner and this difficulty could have been arranged and this war avoided and Paris saved. But neither party would compromise, neither would cede an inch from its original position, neither would consider that its opponents might have some show of justice, and that in any case they were all Frenchmen, having equat rights and should be listened to. And the destruction of Paris is the con+ seynence—Vandalism the more shameful, done, as it was, by Frenchmen. The great fauit in the French character 1s intolerance—that ts, egotism, Wall they ever learn to correct it? Will they not learn at last that in some case it may cost more to crush an opponent than to convince him? But even as I write news comes that the great collapse has at last taken place, TEN THOUSAND MEN, troops of the line, have just passed tne Boulevard des Capucins, the Boulevard dea Italians, past the Madeline and up the Champs Elys¢es, on their way to Versailles. They were hare-headed and carried their knapsacks, and Were guarded by two lines of cavalry, that marched on each side of them, with drawn sabres. They all looked broken and weary and frigntened, and marched along the boulevard with downcast eyes, followed by an insulting and hocting crowd. Tuey Were those that neld out at Believiile aud Pere la Chaise, and with them expires the last feebie effort at resistance against the overwhelming forces of the Versaules governmeat. But THE SADDEST PART OF THE SPECTACLE Was that which followed the solliers—women and children marching atong, guarded in the same tMaanner, some weeping, some laughing and defying their captors, all bare-headed, and nearly ali cloined in dirt and raga, There were old and young among them, children and grandmothers scarcely abie io Walk; little girls and boys of ten years old, Wao ougut to ve in schooi—all marching on like felons under the blows and threats of the so-called order men. 1 saw them ariven forward and pricked by the bayonets of their brutal captors, Chudren, remember—nabies |—because their fathers were Communists! Is there anything this beastly French people will not doy This is putting down a revoluiion, of course. Ahad tese cbildren = marched through the streets like Jean; the fine Btbuothique of the Louvre. There are reveral others but 1 give the ones I saw. The number of commerctal houses and private residences 18 enormous, but circulation 1s too much itierrapted to give all details, JEARFUR QOCURRENCES, Fourteen sewing girls, ¢hyployed tn the dressmak- ing estapiishment of ine well known Madame Roger, were sustocated in the cellar, where they Songnt retuge from shot and shell, and when the house was seton fire they perished. The bodies were found three days after. On the Rue Royal, hear the Faubourg St. Honore, was a louse where unlortunate women are cared for during childbirth ; the mnsurgents set it on Lire, and tw -nty-two of these Door creacares perished in she Names, most of thom With cniid, Some one was shot or kilied in every house in the vicinity of the Rue Royal. At No7 Bouevard Maiesherbes, the conciergte hid six federals, and when the “lime troops came she denied the charge,” and they took her on the street and shot her deal. Commander Bruner, of the Commane, was at the house of nis mistress on the Rue de la Palx. He was taken by the line troops and shot dead, as also was ; his mistress. ‘Iweaty-four hours afer the shooting some Ouicers returned to search the premises and scek to find papers, as his mistress was very in- timate with @ certain Prussian Minister. Their sus- picions were much aroused as they entered, They were siruck with astunishnent to see the unfor- tamate alive, thonga weltering ‘n her blood. was removed at once to au ambulance. NO MERCY has, so far, been shown to women; wherever they Dave been caught they have been treated with all ine cruelty imaginable, especialy during the first | turce days. M. CHANDEY, who was one of the editors of the S’éclr, when shot said, “Vive la République!” He lett a widow aud oue child, a boy of fourteen, to mourn his loss, Strange coincidence—the day he was shot was the fourteenth auntversary of the birth of his son and the filteeath of his marriage, He was a sincere re- | Puolican and lett hosts of warm frieuds. On San- day at three o'clock THE BODY OF DELESCLUZE was to be seen at the Place Gu Chateau d’Eaa. Sey- eral Americans were among the spectators at the terripie scene. The little garden of toe “Tour Si. Jaques,” on tie Boulevard Sebastopol, was A MASS OF DEAD BODIES awaiting burial, Tne omnibuses of L’Odeon and Batignoile were employed in removing them. The barricades in the vicinity were aiso tn @ areadfal state from the dead bodies, half covered, lying therein. This lite green square so fiiled with trees, flowers and shrubs a few days since is how turned iuvto a burial ground, Over one thousand arc already buried there. Large trenches are dug, and twenty bodies thrown into each trench; also quick lime m large quantites. Even the women and children killed ta the dvay are thrown in tese treuches toge her. THE JOURNALISTS. M. Edward Portaits was arrested and binprtsoned by the Versailles governments, and fis paper sup- pressed, lie wrote a letter to the editor of the Paris Journal, requesting him to explain certain things concerning fis arrest, bat the editor deciined, and said that Fortalis was all in f4 of the Commune, and that he held the “red fag” in his mgbt band wnd the tricolor ip his left Le Temps says:—"cer- tain Journalists at Versailles are anxtous to see Rochefort brought betore the court marnal. We iguore if Lnese same journalists have had courage to publish here their papers with violent arucies » Commune tiat Lene Rochefort did, and n his paper ceased to appear we were almost re it was suppressed by the Commune.’ La Po tigue, a paper Wat appeared durimg the Commune under the name of La Diseussion, is again published here, and in the number of May 29, says:—"Al @ when Bonaparte trickery is denounced on some persons ask If the army now mistress of Pavis 18 Lotln favor of an imperial restoration. ‘These suspicious fears are an injury to the army. IU1s aireauy Six niontus since all the officers pri- soners in Germany protested their respect and na- tional willingness, and repudiated with all 3oli- darity the empire. We give to-day the protesta- tions that have been unknown to Faris, They will condema tie alarming reports, and dissipate all these apprehensions without aay foun 7 This paper is ratuer Orleanist, and says mu praise of that family. THE FERLING TOWARDS THE GERMANS. 18 More hostile than ever. Some proofs and rumors tend to adinit shat the Prugsiaus have had anand in the civil war, I take the foliowing from the Paris Journal of May 2 ‘ne smoke Of our War with Prussia excited the desires of adventurers and brought all at once in our great and unfortunate Capital specimens of all European races, One conld see filing along our streets beiore our eyes Russians, Ttallaus, Greeks, Valaques, Belgians, Hollanders and «# few abandoned Lurks, but, above all, the Poies. Trajy we had the scum of Earope, and among them more than one friend of M. Bismarck and more than one agent of Bonapartism, and in neither case are they exempt froin being a Cour uiunist or an iucendiary.”” The same journat stat i p papers ef General Dombrowski have heen ed and contain. many things that Will interest the government and ‘bring to justice | several persons who bave been duptog the govern. ment. Jt says, ‘Victory ts gamed, but tne contest is not yet at an end.’ The Liberté, Le Sicciv, Pais, Journal, La Pottigue, Peit sour, are daily pub: lished here and at Versailies. IreMs. Fears are entertained that Rochefort wili be shot, One hundred and sixteen priesis have been doae away with. The namber of prisouers captured ts estimated at 88,000, Oourt marual 18 held in the Luxembourg and the Cuatelet. The Chamos de Mars is Oiled with aruiliery and cannon. Very little gas is sed In the etty, gud for eignt days very few streets have been lighted. All the churches are open, and the remaiuing priests go out in thelr clerieat robes, All the schools are opened, and tie streets hog Fepaired aud cleaned, Another Correspondents sceauut=Phe Scenes ia Parts and the Collapse of the Commune Processions of Frisencrs—A Siort! A Mort Fury of the Mob=Yreavh Veageance. Panis, May 28, 157 The insurrection is writtligin it aul agony, At Belleville and in the graveyard of Pore ta Chaise a Jey desperate men are sill defending tremseiyes like wild BéAsts at Day, pul the Insurrection ts yirty. i ereahed i the mamstnotk Yall WaT bate toes thrown aroundit, Abotheretfort, another tightening of the deadly coil, anotuer convulsive quiver, and the men who have raled Paris for two months, on common felons in the midst of a howling crowd of grown-up men and women, if you cau cal them such, to Versailies, through the mud and raia, bare- aded—for even they were compelled to throw down thew hte hats and caps—a distance of iilteen miles, oF until they fell from exhaustion. These nildren are expected to grow up good citizens and fo love their government and their country and be- come good members of society; and pie hold up their hands in holy horror aad talk of the perverse- ness of human nature when it turns out ower wise! And this is not an isolated case. THESE BRUTAL SCENES are witnessed every day by thisenlightened Parisian Population that looks on and applauds, These pro- cessions are seen going by in every street, and hundreds or children have been marched off in this cruel manner. And itis not the caxaiile of Paris, the brutes of Belleville, or the assassins of Mont- mMartre who are doing it. ‘That would astonish no- body. We should expect nothing better from them, But ft 1s done by orders of retined, educated, en- lightened, religious men. THIS INSURRECTION has been put down, but in these boys that will one day be men, In these little girls that will one day be mothers, are the seeds of another insurrection that must in its turn crush or be crashed. Rich, beautd- ful, gay Paris, that despised this Belleville population, this canaitie, instead of educating it; that trampled this people in the mud instead Of raising it; that loft the cuildren of twenty years ago. msurgeilts tu- day, in ignorance and Want instead of educating gud Obristianiziig them; that revelled on in luxury and wealth and pleasure while thousands were groping in Ignorance and darkness aid poverty and dirt—this Paris, in short. that sowed the wind, has at Jast reaped the whiriwin THE WORM HAS TURNED and stung her. There were some National Guards im this procession, and some women tn the same unlform—a strange and incongraous dress—they had not put aside their chignons, probably out of female vanity, Sometiing of the woman was still lett im thelr fallen and degraaed nature. As they passed the Rue Coumartio one of the prisoners, eltner through staboornness or weakness, refused to march, ana was most unmercifally beaten by the soldiers. They dragged bim atong by the hair of his head, kicked and trampied upon him. A well dressed man in the crowd expressed his indignation at such bratality and waa immediately set upon by the feroctoua crowd of spectators—Parisians, be it remembered—dragged about the streets amid cursea and imprecations, and what seems almost incredible, aciually beaten to death, thrown into a bread cart like a butchered hog, and carted off amid the cheers of the mob. What makes these scenes more disgraceful and savage Is that officers of the reawiar French army, tiat are supposed to be edncated gentlemen, not only do not try to pre- vent them, but actually take a part aad help on the mob, One ofticer, who bore’ at least the rank of colonel, and whose breast was covered with decora- tions, Was seen to drag this unfortunate victim of popular fury by the hair and to kick bim as weil as beat him with the pommel of his sword, Yet this man was probably at Sedan, and saved his life by surrendering to tae Prussians. There ls nobody the French fight s0 well a4 they do Frenchmen; nove towards whom they are more implacable; none Whose lives are less sacred than their own count, | Men ‘Mais que voutez vous.” What can be done with such a people? SHOUTING DOWN CHILDREN. Yesterday, near Mr. Washburne’s house, six chil- dren betweeu the ages of eight and ten years, taken in the act of setting tire to houses, were shot on tite spot, not by the mob this tae, bul by an oMlcer ot high rank, But the atr ts FULL OF SUCH HORRORS. Many of the soidiers have been welcomed ap- parently with joy by the people, and invited to eat | nod drink and rest alter their fatigues, and died of poison, J saw a captatu that had taken @ barricade near the Trinity church, aud Who narrowly escaped death in tne same way. He was welcomed with open arms by the inmates of a house near the captured barricade, “You have saved us from these assassins, we can never be too tin,’ sald they and offered him a good breakiast, But he had no sooner eaten his soup than he was taken with violent convulsions, and he oniy escaped death because they had given him so much poison that its effect was counteracted by the violence of its operation, The whole family were shot. Near the Madeleine a woman came to a post of soldiers, which had just been established, and demanded to see the ofMicer in command to ask his protection. When he appeared she drew a re- volver and shot him dead. His soldiers, of course, executed summary vengeance upon her. In another street, near the Boulevard Haussmann, a Woman was arrested In the middie of the fight for making signs to the Communisia to retire, because the; were on the point of being surrounded, When asked What she was foing, she repiied boldly that she was tnforming her friends of their danger. An vfficer ordered her to kiss the tricolor. She took it, spat upon It and trampled It under foot, and was immediately led out and shot. And although the insurrection 1s almost crushed these SCENES OF TERROR are still going on in every part ot the city, When the procession of prisoners of Witch 1 have previously spoken arrived peratrice General Gollifet selecting a certal had about one at the Avenue de i’lin- de along the lines, and number from each squad unul he undred, ordered them off to tne pola de voulogne. The poor wretches seemed to now what was coming, for many of them went off wringing their hanusa gnd uttering cries of despair. Ae were shot in the Bois de Boulogne. T v hefr intention of shooting every mau arms in his hands, Without stopping to inquire how a man can be taken alive as long as he continues to fignt, I would only infer from this that the reai slaughter of prison+ ers bas oniy just commenced. Ihave seen at least 10,000 of theta who had been forced to turn their coats, the mark by which they are designated for death, and there mugt be many more. Will French feveuge be equal to the occasion? Will 20,000 corpees Including those of the Archbishop and the sixty-niue priests shot with him, be enough to satiety & Freachman’s turst for blood? Timie and history alone will tell, The A ssination of the Archbisop of Puris aud Thirty Other Hoxtag (Paris (May 28) correspondence London standacd.) The murder of the Archbishop of Paris and most of the other companions of his captivity is fully con- firmed, although tag Yersailles paperg still think proper to deny lt. Futl particulars of this tradle af- fatr are Supplied by two eye witaesses, prisoners themselves, ‘Whose escape from the fate of the other “hostages” seems tittle less than miraculous, One Of (hese, a KVrard, « sergeant major in the National HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 down | | Guara, was arrested on the 3d of April, and after ,; Sundry previous removals from one prison to auother | Was, om the 22d inst., that 1s precisely a week ago, | transferred to La Roquette witn thirty-five otber prisoners, the Archbishop and Abb$ Deguerry being | amongthem. Mgr. Darvoy oceupte! cell No. 21, while M. Evrard was quartered a few doors off, at cell No. 26, With great diiticulty the reverend pre. late obtained the favor of having a table and a chair in bis room. On Wednesday, the 24th, at half-past | seven in the evening, tae governor of the prison, one Lefrangala, who was qualified for the post vy & , Bojourn ef six years at the hulks, entered that part ofthe jail where the hostages were confined at the head of National Guards, The celis were thea opened and the Archbishop, Frestdent Bonjean, Abbé Allard, Pere du Coudray, Pere Clore and AbbS Deguerry were called out and led to the broad eir- cular road that divides the building from the outer Wats of the prisoa. On their w; they had to pass ! between a doubie line of National Guards who heaped upon them threats and insults of the coarest Kind. companied by the clamor and hootings of tuese wretches the prisoners were taken to a court-yard close to the sick ward of the prison, where a firing i party had been stationed beioreband. Monsgigneur ar.oy advanced anil addressed a few feeling words of forgiveness and compassion to his executioners, and two of them actuaily knelt before him and im- plo! pardon, but the others rushed at them, and kicked and cuffed them, \d began insulting the prisoners so fearfully that their com der himself was shocked at it, and exclaimed, “Vous etes ici pour Fustlier cvs gens la, et non pas pour les enguculer,”” This silenced these ruftians, whe pro- ceeded to load their arms, ‘The prisoners were shot one ata time, ‘The first was Pere Al.ard, then Mon- seigneur Darboy, and go on to the end; the veneravle Abbé Deguerry was the !ast executed, and for one moment his firmness seemed to desert him, but tt was but ing quai, due more to his state of health and the impression produced upon him by the sight of his companions’ death than any un- manly tvar respecting his own, Alter the execution the bodies were placed in a joods wagon of thy Lyons Railway Company and en to Pere ia Chaise, and Sung pet mall nto & trench, without a handiu! of earth being thrown over them. On the 26th fifteen prisoners were put to death in the same way, among them @ young man of twenty, M. Seigneuray, the son of the principal of the Lycée of Lons-le-Sauinier; he was svudying for the Church at the Seminary of St. Suipice when arrested, M. Evrard continues bis letter thus:— (Saturday) Ferre; the member of the Commune who was placed at the head oi the Department of Pubit Safety, installed himseif at the office of the registrar of the Prion, He orJere: all the convicts detainea there ;ending thelr removal to the huiksto be brought before him. It ia, erhaps, n to add that they had been condemned be- fore the birt of the Commune. fe intormed them that they were ‘They were supplied with arms and uniforms, aud then an indiscriminate massacre of the hostages commeiced, There were six:y-six gondarmes among them; five more geudarmes were in the me ‘escaped. Seven on Saturday evening one of the keepers, & man named Langevin, whose firmness and discretion enavied nim to sare the lives of many prisoners, opened our ceils and told us to Tun away, but that we must make haste. We separated on the Place'de la Koquette and eventuaily got home. How a Number of the Hostages Escaped Death—A Generous Jailer—The Commune Driven from La Roquette by the Hostages— The Story ef Abbe Lamazon. The following is @ thrilling account written by the Abbé Lamazou, Vicar of the Madeleine, of tue es- cape of the prisoners from La Roquette:— PAuis, May 28, 1871, tf La Roquette this ‘mornin, We left the prisor to the number of ten ec ics, forty policemen and elghty-two toldiers, having death through imiracles ot boldness and wny (voile A prisoner of the Committee of Public Safety at the Conciergerle, at Mazas and La Roquette, 1 will be sover of detaila for the present as to the revoling facts which took place in this latter prison and which secure it Meneeforth high rank among the many spots celebrated in our history for the horrors pervetrated there. 1 will, however, mention one, A vicrive atthe Church of Notre: and myself spent haif an hour on + preparing to ve shot. It was only « and the agents of the Commune who were chi those amfabie invitations consoled those who were tavored ‘with them by assuring them that what took piace to-day Mouat inevitably come off to-morrow, | One of our neichbors was to be tried before a court marifal, sitting wiitin the pri- son walls, andwaich conmsted ot citizens conspicuous for their terocity or their brutish stupidity, After he atrocious execution of the Archbishop of Paris, of the Cure of the Madeleine, of President Honjean, of M. Allard, and the Jesuit Fathers Clair and du Coudray, which took place on the Mtb, without any pretext, any trial, in presence of a de.egate from the Commie, whose oniy war- Fant was the revolver in his fist, and a mobof National Guards, who manifested their feelings by revolting insults; without any respect for the bodies of those noble victims, who were stripped of their clothes and flung 1n@ trench ai Charonne, it was evident that the grotesque proceodings of the Commune were about to. be toliowed by desirnctive aud bloody deeds, and that the hostages who bad been taken from Mazas to La Roquette on the morrow of the entrance of the Versailles truops iuto Paris. were destined to undergo the same fate, a Friday, May 26, thirty-eight gendarmes and sixteeen is were taken to Pere la Chaise, to be shot there. On ‘ollowing day, as the army of Versailles was aitackiug the heights of Pere la Chaise, where that infernal battery was erected which wss toreduce to ashes the nobiest monuments in Paris, the order was given to shoot the priests, soldiers aud policemen who yet remained in the prison. the mem- bers of the Commune, who persisted in seeing thia bloody work carried through, ha, installed themseives in the o.tice of tue prison. I could watch thelr delfverations from my cell, and I can assert that nothing like their conduct could be seen in the lowest and most disreputable of wine suopa. “At haif-past three the purveyor of these exe: cutions iatimated to the inmates of the second and third floors that a4 must come down at once. Yielding to a generous und bumane impulse, one of the jailera, whose Nawe uld be made known to the public, Pin Hi open Hi the ond declaring tuat it was awful inen thus batebered by ignoble brigands; that ne wouid aa. ri- fice his life to save ours, and help us if we meant to offer a strenuous resistance. The proposal was received with enthu- finam ; we all improvised a Weapon out of x piece of Umber or f# bar of iron; two strong barricades erected at the e trance of the third floor; we made a hole trough the foo: ing to annonnoe our intention to the fumates o1 the story belo where the po'fveinen were contemplating a similar des! Under the direction of M. Pinet and an enterpriat the Eastern pavilion was turned into a regular fortres Commune, which was doomed to parody and even surpass the horriole and the grotesque of the Revolution of 17:3, turned into the courtyard that gnoble populace which only comes to the surtace in Paris at sinister times like thene, treat it to a repetition of the September massacres. Will this mob was belohi me des forth threats againat usth> National Guards appointed to shoot ax went up to the Yaird floor and informed us that ison Was about to be blown up, or set on fire by the terribie vattery in Pere In Chatse; they set fire to one of our barricades to stifle us with soon contrived to put the Gre out. omit. One of the individuals, who ‘was vrandishing his mus- ket in the most cynical manner, was one of the convicts under sentence of deato awaiting his execution at La Roguetts when the advent of the Commune made a free man of him. Our energetic resisiance frightened the people of the Com: mune, wi prison and ran away in the direo- tion of Bellevil'e and Charoane. The mob, impressed by this example, followed ity and the piison gates were cloned tunon them, We were nearly saved, thanks to the rout that fol- lowed; but a portion of tue mob which remained outside 1, Koquetie becan shouting, “Vive fa Ligne," and shouting th they wanted mereiy to release the prisoners, Four eccles ustics and eighicen soldiers allowed themscives to be tuken in by” these promises. They went out and Were immediately butchered, and the bodies of the four riests were placed on the top of an adjoining barricade 1a en of aandvage. During the night strict watch was kept, ‘and the threatening shouts outside alarmed nobody, At last, on Sunday, the 28th, at dawn, the file tiring of the Versailles troops, whose ruttle we listened to with feelings better an- derstood than described, announced the approach of our de- liverers. Ata quarter pust five the barricade opposite a Kowuette was carried at the first rush, and the marines took possession the most 0 the mos ie smoke, but we One detail I must not #lo at Pere La Chaise and Villctic. A correspondent of the London Dally Telegraph gives the following copy of a report by a “Volunteer of the Seine:"— The Brigade Pradiefof Ceneral Grenter's division, com- posed of volunteers of the Seine, the Tenth battalion of chas seurs and Filty-trat and Seventy-second of the ling, left their encampment at the Church Sts, Vincent de Pant at four A, M. on Saturday, occupied the Northern Rallway station, ex: amined their arms, breakfasted, left for La Chapelle, La Vil ette and Belleville, son afterwards arriving at the Pont de Flandre ami the large wlaushter-houses ani catsle mar- kets at La Villette, The Fitty-fonrth regiment of the First brigade had attacked barricades early in the mornt ‘They now took the helghts by assault, under a terrible fi Toe street pavement was pulled up. The strsete wern cov: red With mud, fur it was raining heavily. ifty insnrgenta, finnediatery the slangbter Hi ie then relieved the First brigade, jad 80 Drilliantly taken the Bellevilie heights, and con- the forward movement. As night was falling the pers of the Seine and chassetrs carried some positio in the front, established themselves snoceasfull ricades in the Rues de Bellevue, des Lilan, du de Romainville, de Paris, the Route Militaire, the Rue Belleville and the Piace des Fetes. The brigade took 640 risouers, ten red flags, several cangons ani mitrail- jours, innumerable rifles and @ large quantity of ammuni- tion.” Loss of the —Versaiilats ‘The captan of the third company of the teers, an oliver of the Legion of Honor, was killed at his men, At the barricade in. the Place des insurgent, wearing the uniform of the artilie National Guard, loat his way. Failing among the » tue captain of the Kecond company of torr of the Seine, “Our cannons cannot hold ou rille,”” The captain replied, “What a joke! W think you are!” “With the e on the other side.” “You deceive yourselt. We ar Verwailtats.” “Tn that case,” replied the ’artilleryman, “shoot me.” He was shot mmediately. Another t t apvrogchet the Vervaflinin, believing them to b isis, He cried ont. “Fools, you are fring on nw!” shot by a itentenont among the goverumeat (roops. Another Account of the Massacre of the Hostages. The Archbishop of Paris died with the serenc courage Of a martyr, In answer to the insults of his executioners he satd, “Do not profane the word liberty; it ts to us alone it belongs, for we shall die for liberty and faith.’ On Tuesday the Archbishop and his fellow captives were transferred from the Prison of Mazas to that of La Roquette, ‘The follow. jog ig the despatch of General Borei acquainting the government with the particulars a+ far as they have been ascertained: — Account of the persona of mark Wednesday evening, the 24th of Mi: their execution; -"Monalegneur President in Minne on respecting bishop oF hy ven ol he te hes we nen & a Jeauit father; Gaubert, « ney, estilt father’ Altvaint, @ Jenult Tather, under secretary ‘to the archbishop; Gard, a seminarist; Polanchin, a pries!; Sctgneray, seminariat; Houiilen, & missionary; Perny, a missionary ; Sabatier, enrate of Noire Damo de Lorette; and an Awertean (vic.), Another despat thd Banker Jac er. for WAbbe Surat, grand ie Paris, it is dowbttal srapthe or not he vas, as one vorsion Bi Ther ard, hemdes (hose named, three peraons whose ‘The iirst two pertons of distinction were shot ja pri and thetr bodles carried to the Matric of the Twentieth ari Gianoment. ‘The sixieen others, with & group of thirty-eight eudarmves, were taken to Pere ix Chaise at might, uader tuo preteat or ueing transferred to another place of coninement, and were thefl shot. Four others, whose names are un- known, were shot on Saturday. They forined part of the list of twenty names. The total thus Known comprixes sixty four victus. On Saturday the surviving prisoners wera aout to be suot by the Coramtne, whivir had estabitsbed tts 4, 1871.- QUADRUPLE SHEET, ! headquarters at the pri " staat cen ree of one of the retained In hie ofioo by ‘the Commune, they rebeled ani withdrew Into one lon of the prison, where they barricaded themselves, And where the insurgents tried vo burn thea alive, Te mat. ever, being of wool, preserved them, 80 that PIR swe cinies e artaces de 4 soldiers who had remained in the hands of t Commune when the barracks of Prince Eugene were eap- tured formed among themselves a very solid nucteus of re- wad at five Ociock on Saturiay: event the Com with a audden panic, fet, carryiog olf with hem the money chest, and directing their Might tothe Mairio Of the Twentieth arronitissement, There still at this moment must be remaiuing in this soldiers from the hospitals, &e., who had Tefused to take up arms at the command of the Couumune; ‘secondly, 15 eociesianti vrgens de ville by t j a ‘the director of tue prison, i was a Sleur Francoiu, redding in ths tee 2. LaF heey Aga’ tho Commune, ‘of La was the instigator of the plo" Vilotte, in the nlair of “Genera®’ Laden, PNP ers Major General BOREL. Lo General de Division, Cuer d'tat, MacMahou’s Proclamation—“Paris liverea.? INHABITANTS OF PARIS—Tho army-of France has come to save you. Paris is delivered. Our so.diers carried at four o’olock the last positions occupicd by the insurgents. To-day the contest 13 ended. Order, werk and security are about to revive, is De. The Marshal Commanding-in- HEADQUARTERS, May 28, 1871. RUNNING NOTES---POLITICAL AYD GEVERAL. The State Temperance Convention in Wisconsin was attended by ten persons of both sexes, two tom- cats and a littie yellow dog. It did not amount to much, A Southern paper says Jef Davis knows tho hearts of the people. It would be difficult for the People to know his, The Milwaukee Wisconsin calls Jeff Davis and Aleck Stephens “a brace of impudent knaves.”” Two knaves are rather a poor hand to hold ina big game of brag. P The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal, republican, says the “pot of local politics is boiling badly among the republicans in that State.” In other words, every- thing seems to be “going to pot.” Governor Ponder, of Delaware, has declined to convene the Legislature at the request of the Peach Growers’ Association. There 1s one ponderous mat- ter disposed of. Brt what 1s the matter with the Delaware peach crop that requires legislative ac- tion ? ‘the selection of Russell Erret as chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican State Central Committee 1s exciting some comment. He is Simon Cameron’s man, and when was Simon ever known to err it in political matters? It is regarded as a singular act of forgetfulness that no democratic paper, favorable to the new de- Parture, has yet quoted, in reference to Jem Davis, that he onght to have been “hung on @ sour apple tree,” as was sung during the rebellion by the Union boys in blue. Colonel J. R. Herbert, formerly commander of the Baltimore Fifth regiment, has been nominated for sheritf of Baltimore county. ‘The Elgin (Ill) Gazette thinks the democracy “have yet to be educated betore they iorget the train- ing of a litetime, and as a party, North and South, they will not accept thenew departure, and whe new departure will bave to die in its infancy.” If 80 soon I am to be done for 1 wonder what I was begun for. The amendment to the constitution of West Vir- ginta, which removes political disabilities and is popularly known as the “Flick amendment,’ has been adopted. Thomas A. Hendricks for President anda William T. Wallace, of Calitornta, for Vice President, are Mame in the Sacramento Reporter. dt isauthoritattvely announced that Chief Justice Chase fully endorses the Ohid democratic platform, and wiilvote for M’Cook and the entire democratic ticket. The Marton (Ill.) 7imes is out for General Logan asthe republican nominee for President in 1872. CALCUTTA, Mr. Seward, the Central American Ship Canal and Free Trade, To THE Eprtor oF THE Herat In aspeech delivered before the Byculla Club at Bombay by Mr. Seward, abouta month ago, reported in the HERALD of the 1st inst., he refers to the ship canal across Central America, and says, “It can hardly fatlto give new importance to queenly Cal- cutta.”’ Mr, Seward has certainly the advantage ot knowing the views of East India statesmen upon many matters, and what would be the probable ef- fect of waiting the Allantic and Pacttic Oceans via Central America has doubtless come under discus. sion between them, His remarks on this subject be- fore the Bycullas show evident deliberation and pur- pose, and are probanly in accord with public and official opinion in India, Mr. Seward appears to have been stndying the Central American canal question by the light of his observations of the result of free trade in Japan, Cina and Inata, and he jorecasts the influence of the interoceanic ship canal upon Calcutta from an elevated point of view, anticipating the time, now fast approaching, when the docirine of free trade will be as thoroughly American as it 3 now almost exclusively British, when a fair field In Asia will be open to our merchants by a route made the shortest by aship canal of our own via Nicaragua, as now seems probable, which will remove the disadvan- tage we now labor uuder in our intercours? with Asia of having to doable the Cape of Good Hope or else to cross the Atlantic and make use of the Suez Canal, which ts about the width of the Atlantic Ocean nearer to England than to us. With free trade we shall have products of our own industry, vessels to navigate the ocean, freighted with goods to sell at competing prices im the world’s markets; but we must also take the necessary steps to stand upon the most favorable teris as to distance in the race for national success, Mr. Seward says, “on his return home he will continue to devote his energies to hurry up the construction of the ship canal.” This 1s the prom- iuent point in his address, so far as this country is concerned; and, taking into consideration the un- usual experience and natural wisdom of @ traly patriotic statesman, aiso the peculiar responsibility under which Mr, Seward's speech was deilvered, before the ¢iife of India, as bis parting words to Asia, tt mast be conceded that iis counsel is preg- nant with consequences of the greatest import to Us, ne weil as to those to whom it was immediately addressed. To BE HUNG. History of « Murderer—Twice Convicted ang Sentenced. {From the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionattst, June 10.) In our yesterday's notice of U. ©. Reese, the mur- derer of Thomas Edwards, of Tallaferro county, we were necessarily compelled to be brief. Since then, however, we have obtained more full particulars, which we put before our readers this morning, In 1865 Reese, together with J. W. Brown, were placed in Richmond county jail by military authority for the murder of @ negro woman They were sentenced by & military commis- sion to be hung, but this sentence was alter- wards commuted to imprisonment for — life in Fort Pulaski. They remained at Pulaski for six or eight months and were then pardoned by Presi- dent Johnson, Brown afterwards died at home. One day in July, 1869, Reese was jn Crawfordville and amused himself by petty assauls upon the ne- groes who were upon the streets, Among the other negroes who fell vow! 8 to his imposition Was a for- mer servant of My, Edwards, When Edwards wit- nessedt this assault he expostulated with Reese ana advised him to desist. Reese Ca ee upon Ed. wards and wanted to know if he took up the uarrel, Hdwards answered that he wanted no imoulty with him fad was not Soe Reese then Hvepeane 19 shoot Edwards, who told him to shoot ie Wanted (0, Reese thereupon drew @ pistol and shot Edwards, who ded almost immediarely, Reese made fis cacape, wes afterwards cap- tured In Alabama afd faken to the Atianta jal!, die was brought to Augusta August 26, 1870, and conflned in the county prison, from whence he was vaken on the lat of last May to Crawiordvilte to be tried, Falling to procure # jury the yenne was changed to Hancock couniy, Where the jury brought jn a verdiet of guilty of murder, and Judge Andrews, the next day, passed the sentence that Reese be hung on Fritay, the stu oy, of August ae TSR PRE se nex! a im fhan named Ackers, who was the prosecnter in the case, informed Judge Andrews (so we learn from the sherif of Hancock counts) that his life was turentened by the relations of Reese, advised toarm himseit and be prepared. Just be- fore sentence Was passed Acker court room, Kaw the father and approaching bin at a rapid rate, When he at once levelled a denbdie-yarrelled shot gun at them, upon which they wiihdrew. Immediately after the sen- fence Reese was handenifed, pat on the train = and) =o brought — bac! to Augusta, le was at fest very spirited, And a parion, Yoasterday, sald that he was certain of however, he was quite subd jim was iying upon his paliet reading @ Catholic prayer book. He told us that he had given up alt ether hopes of earthiy pardon, that he bad sent for priest and now pul his (rast only la the mercy of Hew He rakt that he had been subject to fits of insanity sinee childhood, and that he as no more recollection of killing Rdwards, who was his best friend and as dear to him as a brother, than If it had never occurred. WH eves Wnt he was crazy at the time he committe murder and that he Ouglit not to Le held respousible. Reese is rather a pleasans looking mau of 1 tw helgit. and had wife and children, who was in the | Some time rothers of Reese | of the banks, was prostrated with the disease; JEFFERSON DAVIS. Comments in the South on His Atlanta Speech. The Sentiments Expressed by Jeff Repudiated= His Popularity on the Wane—His Speech the Best Radical Card—Jeff’s. Tnordinate Vanity. WILMINGTON, N. C., June 8, 1871, Great as was the sensation created at the North by the speech of Mr, Jeferson Davis, a full report of which appeared in the HERALD the day following its delivery at Atlanta, it was no leas great in the South. To say tnat the people here were surprised or astonishea would give only a faint idea of how this extraordinary speech was received when the Ume and the very peculiar circumstances of the Southern people are taken into consideration. They were shocked at the utterances of tie man wae of all others should have held his tongue and acted with the descretion of a man possessing or- | dinary common sense. However much the | people of the fonth sympathized wits Mr. Davis, and however much they may have approved of his sentiments as expressed Qt Atlanta, 1¢ 13 cortain beyond doubt that they never wished the opportunity and uever de- This Atlanta speech is the topic of conversation everywhere I go through the South, aud the expres- | sions of mingled astonishment and INDIGNATION , that genorally greet its mention is a proof that Mr, | Davis is nota representative Southern man of the | present day, and that the “situation” has been ac- cepted by nine-teuths of the people, ay, by nine | teen-twentleths of them, Some peopie say Jem js in bis dotage; others angrily remark | that he is “crazy as a bedbug,” and others, still more incensed, say that he has @ mania for working mischief to the South, and that bis madness has method whenever on tho eve of decisive elections, These and like expressions are to be heard in every direction since the publica> tion of Jeff's Atlanta speeeh, and in the discussions that take place itis easy to see that he is not’ the popular favorite at the South so generally be- leved at the North. Jeffs greatness begun after the war, through ¢he blindness of Mr, Stanton in making him a prisoner. Had he been allowed to go scot free his course during the war as President of the confederacy, which was disastrous to the “lost cause,” would have been severely criticised, and in all provability he would have been EXECRATED where he was idolized. This was the effect of the imprisonment and severity practised toward Jett Davis by the federal government at the close of the late War. This caused him to be looked upon as & martyr by the entire people of the South, and he wag 80 regarded until the present, when, under the in. spiration of the Atlanta speech, he comes to be viewed in an entirely new light. But with all his faults, bad judgment and inaiscretioa Jet Davis is Stull looked upou in the Soutn as its chief and leader— | Becond only to Genera! Lee—and 1s consequently en- titled to the sympathy and fmendship of the people, a8 far as they are able to bestow it. This, too, the more 80 because of his recent persecution on account of the prominent and active part he took in the rebellion. Imet to-day a former admirer of Mr. Davis, and ventured to ask his opinion of him since he spoke a6 Atlanta. This gentleman conversed very freely. “What do you think of Mr, Davis’ speech at At Tanta?’ Lasked, “Well, I really don’t Fnow what to think about It. It 18 most uofortunate that he should have made tat speech Just at this time, It1s tho BEST CARD for the radicals in the Presidential campaign that could have been gotten up.” “What could have been the object of Mr. Davis in making such a speech 1? “Lam confident he had no onject. But he is a man possessed of an extraordinary mind and @ splendid now of oratory, aud he cannot withstaud popular applause, With the first burst of enthusiasm he is completely carried away and his discretion vanisics belore the up-(urned multitude of faces, only too eager to applaud anything that comes froui his lips.!” “You do not think, then, he made that speech de- liberately, with the intenuoa of producing a certain eilect, Which Is just &s certain to lo}low itr’? “No, L do not. On the contrary, I am of the opinion that he was led away by the euthusiasm of tue moment, and, In all probaliuly, he bas since re- | greited tiat he ever made it.” “Will he continue to make stump speeches of this sort In the South? “No; I am certain that when he sees the manner in which it has been received by the Soutiern press, and the universal condemnation that nas been passed upon at he will never repeat tae same seuti- | Tents. lt may be his LAST PUBLIC SPEECH.” “You will admit that he was quite severe on the class of people that ‘accept the situation,’ one of whom, I believe, you are yourself?” “Yes; but I think that the best feature of his Speech, and its only redeeming one. Wien the peo- vie learn that he has denounced them as ‘cowards’ for eudeavoring by the only meaus left them to re- gain their lost liberties and ruined fortunes rer Will become aroused and incensed, and this will bring forth an expression of popular will in the next Presidential e.ection that otherwise might not have come out.” “The people, then, do accept the situation—that 4s, the thirteenth, tourteenth aud fifteenth amend- laents to the constitution f” “Undoubtedly they do, ana what 13 more, they are determined to ablde by them, no matter what Mr. Davis or any otber SOUTHERN SOREUEAD may say tothe contrary. It 1s their salvation. It Was accepting the situation that carried Virginia when Walker was elected, Tennessee when Senter was elected, Missouri when Gratz Brown was elected, and this State when the radicals were over- thrown last August.”? “Will the remainder of the Southern States adopt the same platform)? “Tam confident they will, They have aii virtually done so already, itis not from CHOICE THEY DO IT, but because it 18 the only resource left them, and, having accepted the situation, a3 it is cased, they will abide by it? ‘But Mr, Davis was enthuslastically applauded at ayta. How do you account for thats?” “Well, you know how these things are. The un- thinking Mass were carried awat by the orator In the persou of their former Presiaent, who had en- Gured the tortures of a bastile on ter account, just as the orator was carved away by tie mass, When ‘oth had time for calm, sobor reflection, 1am almost certata that regrets were mutual. “What 1s your opinon of the new departure of the Ui ie marked out by Mr. Vallundigham, of dhio “Lt will bo the salvation of the democratic party in the next Presidential campaign, and will be most heartily acquiesced in by all t Southern states, if the Northern democracy wilt only nominate popular candidate, whetver a soldier or a civilian. on such @ platform, the entire Southern vote wiil be cust for-nim in the electoral college.” “Suppose Mr, Davis makes a iew more speeches like that at Atlanta, what then /? “If he should ne wiil be politically dammed for- ever. As it stands now HE 18 REPUDIATED, and I am certain, as 1 said before, he Will make no more sorehéad speeches,” ‘The conversation ended here, and I can safely say this ts Ay outspoken sentiment of every enfran- chised chizen of the late confederacy, with a rare éxceptiou, and of many of the disahied class, thougit they have reason to be bitter stl, General amnesty would innke Davis gud all ike li as haymless a4 ables, we ay he # wer SMALLPOX IN NEWARK, ay The Disease Abating—"Muking Kigh of One Flesh of Another? —Yiow Canes Ace and Are Not Reported. If the fact that no new cases were reported to the Nowark authorities yesterday can be regarded as suillcient evidence then ts the dreaded disease, small- Pox, on (he decline in that city. Jt has been com- puted by professional gentlemer that not oue eveFy Toned caddis had been reported to the heaieti authorities as the law requires. ‘hore is a penalty for violating this law, but oWfiig to the lax and care- leas manner in which the sanitary affairs of tho city Ackers was | 4t¢ conducted this law is treated as a dead level’ by nearly all the doctors as well 4 ale people, Mr. Joun A. Kase, president of one bot it until case owas reported, and even then not unl considerable agitation had been cansed over Uhe matter, The attending physician ciaims tuat ne properly reported the case to one of the heaith in- spectore, but the latter demes that he did, A sim- Nar cage, in which a Mrs. Heath, of Broad street, was = not recently that the ued, and When We saw | Was the subject, Is yet fresh tn people's minds, aud itis declared that the making fish of one and ‘Nesh of another, on account of social standing, 18 two much carried on. ! ‘The new building adjacent tothe Almshonse is nearly completed. “The autuoriiies are now ally Their duties tn the premises and there is reasonal ground for Hoping that the disease will be rooted out ere long. ‘The drunken negro in charge of th old depurtinent at the Almshouse has been se abont his business and tne Overseer of Poor now keeps open tis office every day. A Mrs, Nolan and her two ables died from the disease receully, aud Gases ATO Peported al Naxt Orange, sired that he should be 80 foolish as to utter them.: