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12 LA LANTERNE + Va CONTINUED FROM FIFTH PAGE, Me reconnalssant a son bord qu’ll opérait mon sauvetage ct loin de sveffrayer de la @uergiquement sa promesse de nous protéger et | @enous défendre. La nuit que nous passdmes a | Jona de caie fut des plus tourmentées. Un retard | @oiie demi-journce dans Vappareiiiage fixe a | sept heures du matin, c'étalt notre mort. | Bangin apres deux heures dun calme que | nous avions tous les droits dappeler le calme ef frayant, i! sleva un vent si exceptionnellement favorable qu’en moins de sept jours nous étions a Sydney, traversée qui demande souvent vingt-cing tours et plus. Nous revoyons la lumigre apres trois mor- telies années de silence pass¢es au fond @un-sépuicre. appelaient démotisseurs et perturoateurs ont eu le champ hbre, Nous n’étions plus 1a pour contre- carrer cos légisiateurs que notre opposition avait jongtemps désorientés, Us ont tenu a Joisir la Frauce dans leurs mains durant notre ensevelis- | sement, ON pevt voir ce qu'tis en ont fait. MACMAHON ET SES GENERAUX. Robespierre a dit A la Convention: “Je serat tou- | jours en principe contre la sucrre parceque une Victoire peut metire Ja nation, entre les mains | @ on général heurenx et que je préiere ja liberté a | Ja gloire.” Jamais le patriotisme si jnslement alarmé @u grand citoyen, maurait supposé ce qui arrive, anjourd’im a dire que non pas Je victoire mais la honte et la defaite pouvaient @imstaNer & la té'e de la nation. L*imforsuné MacMahon ce giorieux blessé dout on n’ a jamais pu découvrir ni la gioire nila biessure n’& méme pas compris ce qu'il y avait de sangiant pour lui dans ce titre de gouvernement de combat dont on @ décoré sa Présidence. C’est contre la Prasse mon contre la France, qu’ll avait mission de com- battre, mais Vassembiée rurale qui avait mis tant de nate a signer la paix que vous savez, semble avoir youlu récompenser par la magistrature supreme, celui qui avait imévitabie. Ha sami d’avoir révé la résistance pour devenir Yennemi de ces fanteurs @invaston, | Jus vomissent sur Gambetta parceyqu’ll a lutte! Apres avoir fusillé Rosse) quia cherché A sauver Metz ils font & Vodteux Bazaine qu'il a livré une wiliégiatare caressante et feurie sous le pilus deau climat du monde. Nous avons subi dans nos €preuves ce sureroit | de malhear de nous trouver presque toujoars en | face de queique svldat traitre & son pays. Ladmirauit qui gouverne Paris qu’ a ¢gorgé était A Metz, Cissey, Garcin les deux assassins dn Deputé Milli¢re étaient a Metz. Merlin le Préal- gent du Conseil de guerre qui & condamné & mort le Capitaine Rosse! ¢iait& Metz, Vinoy qui a tué Duval et Flourens était A Paris, mais ia fagon dont ii Va défendn donne la mesure des prodiges qu’il aurait accomplis ailleurs. quand ces genus-lA ont été trop désbonorés pour continuer leur métier de soldats qu’on leur a confié des roles de bourreanx. Tels sont nos maitres au-dessus des queis plane et rayonne je sabre ébrécué du Maréchal MacMahon. Que! nuwud gordien ce sabre a-t-il tranché jus. gwici? Quel Probléme a-t-il résoiu? Quelle Tor- mule a-t-li inaugurée’ Le Premier acte de ces Tégenérateurs a ¢t¢ un honteux marchandage propose a la Presse et lorsque le jour s'est fait ir cet honnete complot. is ont demande des lois | PSs bone aoe ee nae contre elle. Quand “ia presse se taira sur Jeor imcapacité en seront iis plus jntelligents’ ls wennevt aux vieux clichés politiques dont la Ppremitre Restauration ne voulait pas et dont la sevonde est morte. MacMahon se croit Presi- @ent dune Répubitque, ji est en realité un simple Commandant d’Etat de siege. Un de ses pius oriliants exploits a Gté d’envoyer @¢s le 26 Mal, c’est a dire deux jours apres son avenement ordre au Gouverneur de ‘@e St. Martin de Ké de faire poser des grilles dans Je parioir dela prison afin de m’empécher d’em- brasser mes enfants avec qui je communiquais ‘@peu pres librement depuis deux ans. Vous le | Voyez ce Maréchal de France est doublé d'un Vapi- Saine de Sergents de Ville. L7AMI D’HENRI CINQ. Ce peaple irancais si délicat, st nerveux, si ime | Pressionnable, quel chefae vote d'une assemblée expirante juia-t-il donné? Un vienx soidat d’a- ,Srique qui ne connait de notre pays que ce qu’ll en | ” @appris dans jes gourbis algériens ot il a us¢ qua- -Faute ans de sa vie; wn conducteur de védouins quise croit chez nous dans up burean arabe et “traite nos libertés sacrées et nos droits impres- eriptibles comme si le gouvernement de la France @tait une Expédition en Kabylie. Et cette antique monstache a la prétention de mous tenir sept ans sous sa dragonne, et ce pro- duit exotique s’imagine etre autre chose qu'un ‘ouclier MOmentané contre ja dissoiution ¢ Heu- reusement Je bouclier va rentrer dans sa pano- ple, car la dissolution pour jamais est iproche, et la dissolution c’est lavenement définitif de ia République. Les margutl- Hers et les zovaves Pontificaux ont beau smgiter dans le lointam le panache blanc d’Henri IV, c'est A qui refusera de s’y allier, A commencer par Henri V, qui restera d’autant plus longtemps “eandidat a la couronne qu'il cherchera constam- ment des prétextes pour i'écarter de sa tete. Je »@onpconne ce monarque in partibus de posséder beancoup mieux que ses conseiilers le sens de ta s@ituation. J’ai lien de croire qu'il préfere—et je Ven {@licite—la royauté de nom dont ii joint depuis longtemps & Ja royanté de fait dont on le débar- Farserait si vite s'il commettait la taute de Pace cepter. Au tond de la sécurité princitre que les révoia- tions Jui ont iaites il se rappelie son grand oncie eur )¢chafaud, sou grand-pere en Suite, son cousin vombant d’un palais dans un fiacre, 1] peut aller a Lonares s’agenouilier devant les cierges que fait brdaier ’ex-impératrice au succes de l’expédition -@e Boulogne que Napoiéon IV nous ré- ferve. 11 voit les princes en déroute; les Tuileries en cendres, et ii se dit probablement, -quapres avoir mis cinquante-deux ans a monter e@ur le trone, il ne resterait pas trois mois sans fen descendre. @est de tontes ces impossibilités, que se com- pose ia nécessité de la République, et la volonté mationale va Vimposer défnitivement aceux qui sintitnient les hommes d’ordre, et que nous appe- Tons, nous, les agitaveurs et les révolutionnaires. West Fox qui V’a dit, Fox, qui avait étudié la politi- | que ailleurs gu’an milien des tribos arabes pire des Révolutions, c’est une restauration.” HENRI ROCHEFORT, TRANSLATION. ‘La Grexp CENTRAL Horet, May To rhe Epson or THE HEka Napoleon the Third, m the extremity of nis un- Popularity, seewmg himeelf in urgent necessity of wsecking « foreign war asa means of setting aside the increasing anger of public opinion, resolved one day to have 000 men Killed in order to ‘have the right to exile 500, We, who had divined mis game, cried out against it The police » ten came to destroy the presses of our journals, {amd the newspapers 0, 1874, of the imperial) man- {aon declared us to be in the pay of Pras: ‘eia. When six months aiterwaras the cleri- eal assembly of Bordeaux, fai of the recoliece (Bons of the invasion of 1815, coneiuded in threes rGuarters of an hour a treaty of peace @xiles would certainly net have sigvea, we became ‘‘mdignans, and the same men who had called us | bad Frenchmen when we were opposing the war calle uf bad Fremchmen when we reiused to ac cept peace, Tne instinct, so lucid of the French people, had revealed to them that we would ve beaten, and had demwnstrated, at the same time, ‘that m risking the desperate stake of a levee en masse, ali the defections aud ail the shames could be ‘Washed out in one day. THE REPURLIC IN DANGER. From this double deception were born all our troubies. I donot wish to know to what extent the movement of the isth of March was legiti- Mate, What I aMrm is this, that it was inevitable, and thai mm @ certaig measure it way necessary, | Pendant trois ans ceux qui nous | after tne reception given to the member Gart- | feast 91 eatam: . ds the most fantastic baldi by the Assembly, after the peace of the | ¥' Pro! and I had the special taken for sor the dried tomb, which it Dad seemed to seek, there | fruit of the chronisic and the sale irut ol the Was no further doubt on its monarchtcal inten- \ ieuilieton au the mosquitooe of low Journalism, e ol antechamber an: bons tions. It needs to be very decided to give one’s | Ti scional rer che: es at one blow from self away to a king to surrender to the stranger | aj) the vores mews vani ‘which my with such naste. The people of Paris | gig By aometraes infictea upon hem } Or ol Lanterne e - understood that the Republic was in danger. } ber of the gove ent of “Nations De- What has taken place since and what | fence, the Deputy of Paris, disappeared to make responsabilité | meres place actually demonstrates that if they | place to! qu pouveit encourir, 1 uous renouvela plus | fatied in patience they were not wanting in penetra- | bs tion, M, Thiers, in the speech which preceded his | fall, pronounced these imprudent words if they were not premeditated, How can you suppose that I, an old monarchist, dia not hesitate long before deciding for the Republic? But numerous Delegates from the Departments came to warn me that if I aid not make formal engagements in this sense they would imitate Paris and organize in Comnidnes. Now, as i had not 40,000 men to detach from the siege of the capital to march against the | province if it revetled, I ought to make such promises which to-day it would be impossible for | me to withdraw.” THE MOVEMENT OP THE 18TH OF MARCH. They could not state more clearly that the move- ment of the 18th of March, in retaining the troops vefore Paris, had contributed fo the ecnsolidation of the Repuvite, The Commune, which followed it, was, like all the power brought about by an in- | surrection, a government de facto. I then thought | it my duty to go and shut myself up in Paris, ) after my resignation was given, following upon the abandonment of one or two provinces, I, there- which had chosen me the first, and when, even | whom the public and private life had been but @ series infamous actions. f was letting my children starve to death; 1 hada little killed father. * * * The Parisian pubtic, which lor a little while be- lieved in my disinterestednese, vad learned all ab once that I had been arrested, turnisned with 600,000 francs taken by force from the bank, and with several expensive watches of which the origin conid not be doubtful, A perquisition, se- cretly durected, had brought about the discovery in my apartment of allthe bronzes oi M. Thiers, an Louvre. THE BANKRUPT VILLEMESSANT. | whose papers, found in the ‘Tulleries after the 4th of September, had revealed the political probity, had naturally taken the command of this crusade, and you must know that nobody was better able | to carry it on toa good end. One is not chiel of | the guiter press for nothing—the first villain of Franuce—something hke the tour d'Auvergne of the objection. This man, who has on his con- science two failures from which he haa not yet re- | covered, wno called himself successively Cartier, then Delauney, ti en Villemessant, who called him- | welf all the names of all the fatiers who refused to | recognize nim—such a man pardons with dimcalty | those who have the right to the name they bear aud to the money they make. One asks why itis the republicans whom he spat at by preference, for I mysell have seen him ten with a stick by a Bonapartist Depaty, struck in the face by @ Legitimist, well Kuown and ornamented by an NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHERT, don’t know what beast of Cévandau, | ‘of a notable quantity oi pictures from the | te of the Prassians, seemed to consider | Australian Medical mission were bound to | RY a eral insult every testimoutal of bravery. | confirm this terrible pty of and gave in- | There 1s actually on the Peninsula of Ducos dn | formatior ne Wspapers, | exile namea Leridon, it whom no other | crime conid be trumped up other than that he remained in the National Guard without Saving | any rank. When I expressed my astonishment t him because of the extreme severity that had | been displayed towards nim, he said to me, with a | great deal of donhomie, as he showed me his oot deformed by @ bullet :— “QONDEMNED TO EXILE”? “My lawyer assured me that I would be acquitted, | | bat when it was ascertained that T had received | | this wound at Buzenval the President said to | me:— | | “Ah! you were of those who believed that the | National Guard could save France; that’s sufi- | | clent. | “And the Couneil condemned me to transporta- | tion, to be confined in a fortified place,” ‘This new Way oi dispensing justice was allied, besides, to such an ignorance of tie laws that were applicable to cases dealt with, that one asks one’s | | self if these scrubs of mugistrates have the | entire responsibility of the judicial inanities | whtch they have Inaugurated. condemnation | | meted out to me is parneners & sample of them, | 1 Was accused of outrages by the voice ol the press be.ore She snerahiy of Versatlies. Now, the law | | formaliy declares that no newspaper article at- tacking the Assembly can be considered by the | courts unless it has previously given due authority tor a prosecution. Now, no vote has been brought out Uy this. If Tl abused the Assembly, which Ido | not deny, the members of my conncil of war out. | | raged it & great deal more seriously in disregard. | ing its prerogatives, which did not permit them to judge me without consulting it, IN THE PRISON OF ST, MARTIN. One of my fellow prisoners in the Prison of St, Martin one day entered my ceil with an extract from iis order of condemuation in his hand, “citizen Rochefort,” said ne, “Ihave come to consult you on @ totally nove! question. I have been condemned to undergo an nnpowente punish- ment, Read for yoursell.” And I read the order overnment made an epte response. “Never,” declared Le Journal Opiciel, “never aid the traneport L’Orne have 420 cases of seurvy on othing but malice could have prompted this false uews, It is true that there are cases of seurvy on the transport in question, bat at no one time were there ever more than 360 Whenever one of these funeral convoys entered the port of Noumea word was invariably sent by telegraph to Europe that the health of all on board Was satisiactory, so far as those were COn+ cerned who were still on their way. Striking with their dead brows hidden rocks, Says the poet, they have taken good care Ww make ho mention. The telegraph told no Hes; there were ewer cases of sickness on our arrival | because there were more DEATHS ON THE PASSAGE, | had remained more’ than two years in the foun- artes of Penineula Dacos, will be able to give you ap idea of the life that is led there and of the death that is submittea to. ‘they will say how far the deportation that a minister sympathetically called “exile in & colony” is in reality linprison- ment in underground cells, and how the best workmen o1 all the trades of Paris, for waut of customers, tools and resources, are condemned to perpetual forced idieness, ‘The stroke of fortune which, scarcely three months after my embarkation, Snatched me from this abominable existence, not permitting me to undergo these Most distasteful ordeals. That which I can absolutely aflirm is that the adminis- tration which pretended to treat the colonists well in fact had but mere skeletons. ‘The formidable sums which were spent in watch- ing expenses, in installation of fuitctiouaries, in emoluments to guardians of all orders, would have saved the lives of two-tnirds of the departed if they had been employed in the purchase of in- struments of work or objects of culture. They ‘Those who, like my feilow laborer, Olivier Pain, | officer of franc-tireurs with @ spat in the lace, the fore, remained morally the representative. I have only decoration it is allowed him to carry. , of y: given in my journals advice, certammly not to the Tus okt reprobate, who. tfies to shake on our Commune, for they would not have listened to it, | wives and even on our children a portion of the but to the people of Paris, who knew me and had | contempt which bears him down, has, in the stil} retamed confidence in me. | darkness of his past, sinister secrets, which are y ignored, but which should be known. Hie leit his What I then did I would do again if an analogous Rother and his sister im such misery that they state of events were to happen once more. I also _ syed he oo = mae ae gent at, Lge ing on their death bed a letter of malediction add that if ali the oficial representatives of Paris é man—tue parricide and the fratricide at the had acted as 1 did—viz., to bave the Assembly at | same time—who went and lost in low resorts the | Versailles to calm the agitated feclings or consult | Breen wate the 7 sakea ii for. aa ines eka cess rr ay, same Cartier, | thelr electors, the struggle would Rave taken s | same Villemessant 1s received “with open arms by different character, and the democracy would not | the dukes who govern us. Itis true that on the | have lost 35,000 of its best warriors who were | 24th of May M. de Broglie pressed to his heart the rendu ia capitulation | crest | Citadelle | which the | massacred in the name of the Republic by those who at the presentdo not attempt to conceal | their aspirations towards a monarchical form of government. But, I ask, what could do alone to calm the exasperated feelings of the people in a bombarded city? | that the torch of the incendiary and the scaffoid burned on the Boulevard Voitaire was not merely @ public ceremony. So long as punishment by death shall remain certain executions will be necessary, like that of Maximilian, the Jocrisse of power, villain who was history will certainly consider an accomplice. But the dead who are not formidable ex- r: les become useless, and consequently dan- ous. |! have therefore regretted, in a political and humane point of view, the executions which compromised the honor of the last days of the struggle. But can we exact from the vanquished, riddled with mitraillenses, strangled, bombarded, the sang Jroid and the covlness which were so totally wanting in the conquerors? PARIS SUBMERGED IN BLOOD, | Yes, revenges were allowed foil Bi priests were shot, an archbishop gnd a journal ist, and I de- ploreit, The repubi songs, are men Of principie and | BOL Men of passion; they had not the right to slaughter their enemies under the pretext that their enemies were slaughtering them; but alter all never were reprisals more excused by the terribié From the first I insisted in Le Mot @ordre | luke that of Bazaine, the atrocious | saved by @ friend whom | | assassins, who, on the 2d of December, arrested | and three-quarters strangled his fatner, which is another variety of parricide, | and bere are the moralists who accuse us of working at the vase of the family—we who have never lived but for our country and jor our chil- | dren; we who only tried the stroke of despair, | of an evasion when pushed by to go and embrace them, ly friend Oliver Paue knows it well. When we both promenaded in this sterile plain = which seems tO have been chosen to make us regret aving escaped from deata, ‘Could you,’ asked I, “lve thus 6.000 leagues away from your chiidren?? | He answered me “No!” It is, then, to our children, | to these beings who are 80 Mdispensabie to us, that we owe, in reality, our liberty; for i! we had | less profoundly ioved them we should not thus have risked death to see them again. While the papers, the accusers, were charging us } with crimes the most ‘antastical, we learned in the | deptns of our ceils that the Versaillist soldiers @ (oolish wish | haa, under color of domiciliary search, | pillaged our houses, ariment of tne xtue de Chauteandan ha received — the visit of a detachment of the army of Marshal Mac- | Mahon, and there was not leit a single piece of | porcelain, nor a stiver dish, hor a clock. My iamtly | Papers, my parchments, my titles, my bed cover- ing anc the saddle of my horse—all became the prey ol these defenders of property. ‘he slavish — | Rewspapers then were right In saying tuat paint- ings and bronzes were carried away, Their error | consisted in not iaving aaded that they were taken | out of my collection and never put back, These | | facts, which are common to almost al] those who } re held With their mouths closed in ihe depths of | of condemnation, which provided that the poor man had been condemned to transportation and to five years of surveillance. Now, the transporta- tion being perpetual, this good man was naturally curious to know at what period this surveillance would commence, which could not take place until alter the liberation of the condemned. ay “Rest assured,” I contented myself in saying to himas areply, ‘4fany one in this affair needy to | undergo surveiliance it will not be you, but those who delivered such sentences,”” Yo these exceptional courts, under ali circum- stances, it was deemed a duty to add auotier tribunal not less sinister, which arrogated to itself, romeally, without doubt, the Commission of Pardons, and the numerous executions ordered by that body _— it the name among the trans- portea men o! ‘HE DEATH-BLOW COMMISSION. ’? The history of the exploits of this body of croco- diles would fill the datly journals. This institu- tion, which was of a stripe with the court mar- tial, wa8 vothing but a decoy or trap neid out to the misery of the prisoners, In ‘the different prisons in which we have ; Swept away vermin the chiefs of the place | have always held out inToscate hues the advisa- bility of making an appeal jor pardon. A letter, | not even showing any signs of repentance, but | simply one of excuse, should have sufficed to ob- tain for the prisoners permission to return to their | homes and their labor. All, or- nearly all, refused | for along time any compromise with their honor; but then eame the solicitations of wives and | mothers, the recital of sutferings of children, | thrown almost naked into ghe streets and starving | | by the landlords who had failed to receive their | rent. Hearing this, the prisoners thought the lives | of so many loved ones were surely worth makin; an effort to save, and from what they had heard | | they looked torward with certitude to the | | successiul result of their appication. Some of | the men decided for these reasone, not for their | own sakes, but for those dear to them, and when the Commission of Pardons had received these sup- | | plications, given under these conditions, they joy- inily refused the prisoner any comimutation of his sentence and ordered that it should be carried out to the joot of the law. We others, who since a long time had carefully | traced out our line oi duty, and who had refused with disdain to hold any | convergation with these gallows assist- | ants, Wé should have liked to have seen that c ch provok m. At the moment tl | Oceanica, ention to give an idea of the good | this line of conduct had been general, and that, oe Neanseaae cata. er} being neoducen, | a cnwinch is ated the stories which we have | Owing to no petitions being made to Parg, it is known Now, erayy f g with 4 #! fead, To taki be post the man that bas | the Commission of Pardons, their office | bloot ‘teen thous a Mes et AeaAsa with | een rifled is what Robey Macaire would cail the might become ‘a humiliating sinecnre. | and ‘children covered the sidewalks and the | CTOWDIDg Of the edifice. But in presence of so many people treets, On the eye of the death of the Arch- | ll PILLAGE. | strack down by misery and their Jamilies reduced bishop the greatest of the crimeg that history has | _ From the aay, that pales de MacMahon had | to beggary, whe of us would have dared to bave et NA 10 Chron nn Seth One of | authorized pillage the lutormer beci taken the responsibility to dissuade any of our the elect of Paris, representing the people in the National Assembly, the citizen Milliére, had been arrested at tei eran ean of his | Jaya Q { by 4 squadron of soidiers to the | very hale thé Pititheon and there shot without trial by a certain Captain Garcin, acting under the | orders of General de Cissey, This outrage against universal suffrage is ab- solutely unique. ‘The royalists can hereatter at their ease insult the great works of the first Revo- lution. They can yoga the pretended drownings of Nantes, the fusillades of Lyons, the Con- vention decimating itself. We answer that the Girondins had been judged; that Louis XV! had been judged; and the Heber! had been judged; but Deputh, Yee of his word, seized and upon the inviolability murdered upon the street by an interior oMeer of | the army, is a monstrosity without name, without | precedent. Had Millitre taken a part with the | preponderating acts of the Commune his summary execution would have been unjustifiable. One | rests stupefiea to thing that his rdle bad been confined to articles written in a certain journal. which were of such @ nature as to bring aboat its suppression by Raoul Regault. THE DEATH OF MILLIERE, The executioners endeavored later on to explain | that assessination, The shooting of Milliere had occurred through an error, they pretended, im coniounding Millitre, Chief of ion, with the Paris Deputy, and who, be it understood, it has been mpossible to find again. The death, however, of the journalist Milliere served the disgraceful interests of a man who hitherto bad been almost all-powerful so evi- dently that no doubt existed as to its premedita- tion. ‘they floundered around in making their ex- Ppiauations, as Jater on they foundered around in the blood of their fellow citizens. This assassina- tlon remains as their eternal condemnation, for they showed how the conquerors of Paris treated that city, without a show of law and the national will, in the pame of which they pretended to ngnt. In thus getting rid without precedent of one of its members the National As- sembly committed suicide; for later on it legalized all the attacks made against its au- | tol nomy. “Daring eight days A SINISTER SOUND filled the Labau barracks,’ wrote the immortal author of “L’Année Terrible.” Hundreds of pris- taken in chains and placed before the mitrailieuses and piown to pleces. At tne Buttes Chaumont the ignoble Galiifet caused the National Guards to dig immense graves, at the sides of which he grouped entire battalions, whom he fired on till they feli in these improvised tombs. One of Our companions of captivity In the case- mates of Fort lican, who had been but Badly slaughtered, Waited for the advent of night to crawl out Tounded and to gain a place of retreat, from which he was not taken till several months alterwards, BEHIND THE PRISON WALLS of La Roquetie the butchery had been such that burtal had become impossible and the good health of the neighborhood Was much interfered with. The officers in charge of the execution had found, as they thought, the solution of tne matter by bringing into requisition a large number of wagons, mio which they pitched the dead as they were handed out. Provably to give an interest to the proceedings they compelled the National Guards to ‘put into carriages the bodies | of their dead brothers i arms, and each time that @ prisoner had finished his | sinister task, that the tumoril was full and that he | Was preparing to descend trom it, a shot trom & un etrete! he cartman catried to the same grave the dead and their gravedigger. These recitals seem im- printed with exaggeration. Weil, I affirm they | are still very jar from the reality. We can only mention some episodes, and itis the multiplicity of like events which augment tneir horror, A MYSTERIOUS YOUNG MAN, | Isaw every day for one year, walking in the | courtyard of the citadel of st. Martin de R¢, a young man whose bame and protession I could never learn. He was walking constantly, his eyes wide open and fixed on something horribie, absolutely silent and forgetting the meals which | his comrades served him, and which he took me- | chanically and without jeaving his frightii con- vemplation. This uplortunate Was one 0! the rare prisoners who, taken to throw the dead into the carts, had escaped by a miracie, or rather by the fatigue of the asgassins, from the end which awated him, Another, 48 @ consequence of this lugubrious work, had not faileu imto insanity like the other, but m the midst of the most unimportant conver- | sation he would become pale all at once and would precipitately and several times pass nis hands al) along his body, as if to make the blood | run off, which he thougnt Was perpetually dropping on his clothes, , I have known, and my companions in the escape have known like myself, at Fort Boyard, a con- demnea man, who, wounded In the leg by a hand grenade at the beginning of the fignt, had been shot in his ped in the Hospital of St. Sulpice, where | he had entered. The ball had gone through him, completely through, and had even broken one of the bars of the bed, He had nevertheless resisted to this new assault, and we jound him in the midstyof as nearly recovered his victim of the fury the most hiageous that everT sotied @ civil war—I know him, I could name him; but this dead alive is actually tn Caledonia, in the power of those who, after having shot him a first and 4 second time, would make no scrupie about shooting hima third time, wach would probably be the last, THE FEAST OF CALUMNY. When it was well established that the 36,000 dead of the batcle would no more wake up; when ail the vessels of the Freneh navy had been called | Upon to loage the 40,000 spared by the bayonets; When Paria, of which we dreamt of making & Seregoms against the Prussians had become a b “aw; when the Minotaure of the order had de- ee even to the tribune and the newapa; where a few courageous yoices mgt asked for accounts—when, in the end, the con- werore could all speak, as the alone had the v—Ihen commenced whet we Hjwht name the) Ml Boyard was a brave repub- / froin amoug the cadavres with which he was sur- | ed him next to nis companions, and | a trade. | Militére snot La Lulye and was arrested. This adair | has made too much noise already for us to | trouble ourselves about it here. What we alone | have known in the secrecy of the prisons tue site ister vendettas on the pontoons pelfoiis, whi were entirely jree irom any participation in the | | Revolution of the 18th of March. My ‘friend Onvier, who has fathomed the mys- | | teries of Sartory where 4,000 men were lying | in the mud without a mattress and without cover- ing. My friend Olivier Pain nad ior a companion, | not of prison, but o1 tered apd ir, & young xculpto! | named Lambert, arrested withou§ apy plausible | motive. He was retarhing ffOfi Gertiany, where | pe bad been callea to execute a work ofart. He ad remained absolutely a stranger to the events \of the times. He firmly beleved that he | Was Arrested because of the similitude of |; ames, and yet ali his reclamations were leit un- answered until the day when everything was ex- | plained and sopisined too much. Lieutempnt | Beane, who Was Charged with the investigation gf the affair, much perplexed at the staud taken bi the accused, returned the papers concerning the | case which had been sent to him and ended b, | discovering a letter which had been imprudent left among them, and which read as follows:- My DEAR GAILLARD—AS thy functions authorize | thee to cause the arrest of whom you please, thou wouldst be very amiabie in getting me rid | of a certain Lambert, sculptor, whose pres- ence is annoying to me, more than apy- | thiog I can explain to thee in writing. roe fhe letter was signed ‘‘Marquis de Mar- erie. Colonel! Gaillard was at that time Chief of Mili- | tary Justice, a sort of Laubardemont in epaulettes, who presided over executions and over arrests. He hurried to render to his friend the service asked | for. Now you would never guess of what nature was the troubie given to the Marquis ae Marguerite by bed gray’ artist. This person bad been recently noticed by ayoung and charming lady to whom the Marquis had vainly made his court, and tue | noble lover haa determined to get rid of an annoy- | | Ing rival by having him trausported to Caledonia | if it were possible. We ought to say it and we are happy to again | make the acquaintance of Lieutenant Seane—we | Dame the personages in the drama, Lieutenant | Seane was overcome with indignation on reading | this letter; and, in order that the weight of the re- | Spomsibiiity should fall where it properly belonged, | he dictated to the young sculptor some answers | Wherein the name ot the miserable Marguerie 13 constantly 1ound mixed up. When the report which | concluded when the arraigned was given bis liberty came to Colonel Gaillard, that devoted friend immediately took the part of the destroyer, ordering Lieutenant seane to redirect anothe: where the name of M. de Marguerie would not mentioned. The decided refusal of the Lieutenant was tendered, who was then broken, and he was replaced by Captain Héryé¢ as reporter of the affair. .§ the Citef of Military Justice had taken the pre- | new choice was not more happy for the two ac- | cused. Captain Héryé, witn aloyaity which honors | him, declarvd that he would never lend himseli | to the pervecration of such an infamous act, and | signed a document to that effect, which bad the | effect of causing M. Lambert to be given back to | the woman he loved, and who had not discon. tinued her visits to him during bis captivity at | Satory. 1 leave the reader to decide whether such | men have the right to reproach the Communists for the arbitrary arrésts which they made at a | period in the strife when all people were suspected | who refused to espouse their cause, | REVELATIONS. | Thave on analogous subjects, my hands full of revelations. Tabstain from iear of alarming the modest, of the reader, to know that in the depot called des Chantiers of Versailles, the female pris- | | oners of the Commune instead of being guarded by women, as the law and the proprieties demand, weres obliged to sleep and to dress under the im: | padent ivoks of soldiers, to whom their chiefs gave themselves the pleasure of permitting everything. ‘These unhappy women, of whom seven-eighths had committed no other crime than to hot have denounced the retreat of their brethren, of their fathers, or of their husbands, were for the least breach of a discipline of pure fantasy deprived of their ciothes and thrown thus before the guardians and the male prisoners under the frozen pump of the large court of the depot. Children of ten, eleven, or twelve years, arrested by hundreds under pretexts or accusa- tions of the most futile kind, were bnddied together without beds and al- most without food in the most pea tilential atmosphere. A leutenant of are: goons, named Marserault, was vo take charge of tms hell upon earth, and every day he racked his mgenuity to invent some lew tortures for his prisoners. On the cold- est days he bound naked men together, and then | let them pass tne night exposed to snow and hall, and occasionady he would go down and veat them | with his walking cane, with an amount of | ferocity only to be equalled by a@ man. ‘These atrocities were carried | Sach an extent, that protests were made and two Deputies of the Leit went to the place in question to investigate the conduct of this wretch and of bis treatment of his victims, Marserault lost nothing of lis cynicism. He made the terroft he had spread among the prisoners profitable to himself and by nenaces he gained over two or three, who declared pubticly that there wag really no ground for serious complaint against Lieutenant Marserau It is useless to a that this campaign obtained for him a captaincy. THE RESENTMENTS OF MILITARISM. It was in the decisions of the councils of war that appeared tn its fullest light the implacable hatreds of militarism, which had grounded arme velore we invasion, agaiost the civil power which sought to combat it to the death. A brilliant ac tion during the first siege, an extract trom an or- der of the day was for it @ new opportunity for condemnation, The exiles counted among them an extraordinary number of chevaiiers of the Legion of Honor decorated for their bravery in the face of the enemy. The Bona- jist §=«Oofcers, who after imving trailed heir swords for aga | yeara over ali the pavements of France, threw them into the im order to rup al the faster once they wo caution to suppress the letter of his friend, the | fduber from the commission of an act which might have procured him liberty and new life for his famuy. FATHER SENBCHAI. | | | . We knewa man sentenced to deportation named Sénéchal, who was the father of eight children, who Were leit entirely without the means of sub- | sistence when their father was put into prison. In addition to this his wile had died through Ja- tigue and a broken heart upon the same occasion, a ees of such distress we went to néchar id ked him he thought considering the sean jon of his chil- dren, he ought to reéi 0 address a Petition, which, if successful, woula gave nine people. ' The man had played an unimportant Pots during the confict, and Was forgotten. condemned for having borne arms and fe was aving held of the ierocity of the reactionist party, I could not suppose that such s distressing state o! things | Would fail to be appreciated, even by those hearts of parchment. Senechal hesi- tated. We offered to dictate to him a petition, showing the Jearful state of penury of his eight children. The unhappy father did not have to wait long before receiving an answer. A | month afterwards the order arrived for him to em- vark on the transport stip Orne for New Caledo- nia, where he is at the present moment unless he | Was Carried cif by a scorbutic attack on the voyage out. As to the clilldren, I heard o1 the death of two Ol their number, and it is safe to say that the | others would not long delay to follow their exam- ple, as it was the only act of grace or clemency they could hope tor in this world, I must state, however, that in one case the im- | placable Commission allowed itsell to be moliitied, | a circumstance which js not, Bet bars, unique, but which deserves to be arked. A YOUNG ACTRESS OF PARIS, Well Known irom her habit of taking from the city the roles she played at the theatre, wrote to me to the Citadel o1 St. Martin du Pré ior the purpose of consulting me about the means of liberating her | brother, who was condemned to simpie deporta- | tion. ‘nis amiable artiste had played in my pieces | at the time when I made a prelude Ms @ comedy to the drama of my political lite. I replied to herthat these gentlemen of the Commission of Pardons ilies who came to ask back their fusbands or chil- dren, but chat I did not doubt that a personal visit on her part to one of these imfexible men would bring about a different result. Three days alter this advice that! believed I should not refuse to give, the pretty comédienne wrote to me with a trembling hand:—-A thousand thanks; I have seen the President of the Commis- sion a@{ obtained from him for my brother, not a mitigation of bis punishment, but a full and com- plete pardon.”” ‘was restored to liberty, while our Jriend, Sénéchal, who was the tather of eight children, but who had not a sister on the stage, sailed ior the Isle des Pins. In this way, what whole fami- lies in misery had solicited in tears, a woman who Jrequented the restaurants obtained by a single smile. This is what under the “moral order’! is called morality. When these men of order had got through with enough of sentences so that the de- | Partures could take place, tiey hastily | got the ships ready and crammed as Many prisoners as the lower batteries could | occupied solely in moving the condemned, and it @ new war bad broken out @ descent upon our shores would have been easy on the part of ) joreigners, all our vesseis being engaged to trans- port the French. If sailors could have been found quespe would have certainly refused, we | should remember that @ great number of naval officers tried to extenua' by the manner in which they fulfilled their duty a great deai of the rigors called for. Unhappily the orders irom i the high powers left but little margin tor their | benevolence. After a visit from the doctor they | embarked the sick, the Insane and almost the ‘ aying. Napoleon {1I. considered Cayenne as a country limited enough that he could send tifere in ail security the victims of his misdoings. The Assembly at Versailies did not think itself out of pent but until after naving chosen at 6,000 leagues | from ite gates, a desolate island in the recesses | of the ocean, where its enemies would have as much trouble to return from as to get there. Six hundred and eighty men were sent off in a single transport without air, without light, with | Salt lard and biscuit for nourishment during a voy- age of five months. One o! my i‘riends, Corcelles, instructed | formerly Administrator under the Empire, oi the | was known it was stifled and the men journal La Marsellaise, which | founded, had con- sumption, which had reached in a short time its last period. We endeavored to persuade the aoctor of Fort Boyard, where Corcelles was shut up in the same Casemate as myself, that ls professional honor forbid him to let go in these conditions a maa at least as much condemned by scieuce as by the connsels of war, Nothing wouid do, Corcelles in spite of our protestations, was not embarked, but carried to the hold of the frigate La Guer- ritre, starting for New Caledonia. Fifteen days after he was dead, ‘ ANOTHER LODGED for three months in the infirmary of Fort Boyard ‘Was dragged from his ved to be pianged in the } cellars of this transport, the Guerritre; but favor- | ized, more tavorized, I shoula say, than our poor Corcelles, he died in the prison itself on the stairs, which he was endeavoring to descend, I forget the name of this unfortunate, bat tne fact will ol ee ET bi fod ae wile of our comrade to J lew kind of murder speci n> vented lor her husbana. pe These sanitary proceedings produced the effect foreseen. Six iundred and eighty men, deprived of light and pure air, at the bottom of a damp cell, was simply a deflance of nature, transport, L'Orne, 420 cases broke out at the end of two mouths ‘This fact, like #0 many others, would have been denied or allowed to pass in silence by the men in charge of the transported, if the Com- mander of the L’Orne had not been obliged by the lack of provisions to go back to Melbourng, The of scurvy worn a uniform. Whatever opinion I might have | Were inaccessible to the prayers of mothers of fam- | That very day, im fact, our fellow prisoner | | to contain. During a year the French navy were | | to solicit a mission that Jean Burt and Du- | tracted under the snow of the Pontoons a con- | not be denied, for 1 was charged by my prisoner | On the only | were separated like pestifential people in a quar- antine—the ones at the Isle of Pines, the others to the Ducos Peninsula—interdicting them ver: nearly all communication with tae great laod, and they were told, “We sent you here to co!onize; why dont you colonize ?? It is about as if England pretended having sent Napoleon to St. Helena to colonize, It sufiices, in any case, to superficially stnay this land ot Caledonia, of which the most fantas- tically seductive pictures have been published, Lo | get the certitude thatitcan never be but a big | prison, The Governor, Gauthier de la Richerie, named some time since to the direction of the | Prison of Cayenne, 1s nothing but a galley’s | crew keeper—a little more gold laced and a ilittle less scrupulous than others, Placed aiter the 2d of December in charge of the dirty work required by the tmperiai government, he glorified in organizing new tortures for respect- abie citizens deported alter the coup @état, The | crimes of this torturer are remembered well in the annals of tie democracy. | friend Rane, the Deputy of Lyons, has published the lists in the République Fran- aise, When I took part in the National efence Idrew up an order dismissing this fellow Irom ofice, Uniortunately, city by the Versaiilists and the 6,500 leagues which separated us protected him. The reactionary element triumphed, and those who had slaughtered tne republicans in Paris still hold in office the man who had massacred them at Cayenne. THE GOVERNOR OF NEW CALEDONIA, Under a Governor, of whom the French sailors sole avert with horror and. loathing, New Caie- do} can only develop into what she is—viz., a refuge for adventurers and men of bad repute, who have been compelled to fly from justice in the me- tropolis of France. Every year were sent to expire on the Caledonian rocks iunctionaries whom 2 scandal, too public, cased from their place, oM- | cets of vhe army and navy, dismissed trom their corps at the end of somé factious notoriety. All the fifteen cent sina of the administration and of the army are sent there to repent their misdo- ings. You can divine the examples that the storms of honor give to thé rine 9 insurrections, They finished by forming among tfémMselves societies tor the exploration of Imaginary. mines, Which recall to mina the exploits of the Robert Macaires of the Empire. The gold mines tyrned out a joke. The copper mines sumewhat more seriously, for they took the character of roguery. ‘he companies were formed and shares issued, wii lt was established that the enormous onstacles the way ol transporting the mineral by reason of the nature of the soil, the absence of roads und the distance, devoured in ireight six times the vaiue of the smaillodes recently discovered. But as it had been begun the Governor, who took part in every act, these affairs have taken a development so rapid that parts | Worth 500 irancs one year ago are to-day called at 25,000 irancs, while we are waiting for the Cor- rectional Police to show that they have never been worth anything. In fact, at the present time there is not consujned Meat, there is not a piece of clotmng which does not come from Australia. lao- dustry is null, the productions an iliusion. | 1 ignore what the future reserves jor | this volcanic land. I know only that until this | day the government has been able to make of tu | rth natty a gus, into which wil) be swallowed 1/000), | year, * | "qh¢ incommensurable distance which separates Caledonja frgm France makes of the Governor of whom I Speak not only @ pro-congul or a viceroy, | without concrol. The inhabitants of the Noumea, whom his abuses Of power exuasperate, | do not cease to demand a Colonia! counsel charged with verifying the accounts. ‘The honest | Gauthier de la Richerle, who does not care in any way for this verification, evades them pitilessly. | A merchant o/ the island paid us one day a clan- destine visit on the Peninsula of Ducos. plained bitterly of the discouragement into which the Cwesarian way of domg business was throwing the colony. your reclamations heard in France?” “THE VOYAGE 18 SO LONG,” replied he, ‘the government will be changed be- fore our petition would arrive. An unhcard of, almost fabulous circumstance, which almost passes beuel, as I myself refused to put any credenc2 in it, althougn 1 had read in a pamphiet publisned and seized at Noumea the facts in detail; a circumstance which the actual government, mis- erable as it is, is ignorant of Iam sure roe ap end 10 1 do it the honor of supposing | that it will become an Seige Rk ia un- worthy hands. Cuptain of the Navy Gauthier de la Richerie and Commandey of the Legion of Honor | 1s engaged in the slave trade. ARRIVAL OF CARGOES OF SLAVES, Hardly @ month arrives but that corsairs boldly come to an anchor in the port of Nonnes With @ cargo of siaves, taken from fre | Fiji, Lifon or New Hebrides Islands, ‘the slave ships call at these spots and organize on board, either on the shore a festivel, which at- | tracts the natives, and under the pretext of dis- tributing glass ornaments from Europe, thus Make them descend in a barred between decks and bordered. with cannon, where they go but to | be sold in the Isles of Oceanica or m the | Philippines. . The English pitilessly fight this kind of trafic | and actively hunt tuese traders in men woom | they hang on the highest yardarm when they | capture them, Well, the pirate finds an asylum, a protection and an advantageous market for his | cargo with the Governor oi Caledonia, About | three months ago the Robert Bruce, Captain Fowler, carrying elgity-eight of the natives of Lirou, | only escaped wf Knglish vessel of war by taking refuge in tne French waters of New Caledonia, | He remained several weeks without daring to | | leave the anchorage at Noumea, and to put tie | enemy off the scent the Captain had the an- | mouncement made in the of colony o! the sale of his vessel. course, fictitious, and some s alter tne | Robert Brace completely repainted anew, away again under another name and with another physiognomy to spread the scope of | their maritime exploits, As to the cighty- | eight natives they nad been sold inthe colony | at prices comparatively moderate, considering tne exceptional circumstances whic controllea the | market. For that matter, this tramMc is s0 public that the putting up tor sale 0: negroes nad at one | time been public, at the same time as the publica- | tion of the sale of the ship in the government jour- nal, The cynicism of this announcement appeared ‘The sale was of so strange to me that f had it at | from the official gazette and sent It to a Deputy of | the Lett, In order to cover up these revolung op- | erations these sunpletous are treated as though | they came on boara the ship of their own free will | seeking engagements for work. On landing at | Noumea an interpreter, who has never interpreted anything but the intentions of the government, pretends to ask them if they came voluntarily to | Caledonia and also makes belleve, naturally, that their reply is always iu the affirmative, | Unhappily, this comedy has some time since | given place to a singular play. Two slaves, witi- | Out apparent provocation, fired their master’s house, ‘ter having three-quarters killed nim. ‘The affair was criminaion the part of the leader | and entafled capital punishment. As soon as it punished with eight days’ unprisonment jor an offence which was qualified as a night brawl, we | two prisoners declaring betore the judge that they | | were natives of Fijt; that they were brought away as slaves two months previously; taken from the flelds which they were cultivating and sold {n Caledonia, However, to obtain circumstanual information with regard to this abominable traMc described, Olivier sain avd myself iegned an intention to | | buy a negro asaservant. ‘the medium price of & slave varies from 200 to 260 francs, It is stipulated | in the treaty, for tue purpose of concealing the | sale, that this sale is a simple agreement to work | tor two years, alter which the negro is given back | to the vender, whose duty it 1s vo send hum back to his home, Novody can fall to see the vaiue of this clauze:—First, the native does not receive any payment for the bogus engagement; second, when the two years of service have expired he is surrendered to Mus masier—you can iancy what takes piace then, The corsair again receives on | board stip his human mercnandise and goes te | dispose of him elsewhere—so in reality the unfor- | tunate slave does not change lis condition, but | simply changes his muster, all of which helps to | make this genius trader more cruel and rapacious | than ever. . We have made the observation that the contract was made with @ third person, the negro bein; held for nothing in the matter, and that he coul | leave us one aay or another, We were told that | ‘it? belonged to us, and that the government | guaranteed the property to us; that we had the Tight of bastinadoing him to death in our hand, and that with ail the coloajsts apd with Nuba Joubert | iwacting Our | the capture of thé | a single pound of | but an autocrat, decreeing without discussion and | He com- | I said to him, ‘Why do you not have | | | | | | | | this | Reb notably, ‘of the most Important planters of the colony, there was a tree in the middie of the ard serving as a post where the blacks guilt) Infractions of the rules of the house were and that, in fact, the convention relating to the two yeara was nearly always delusive, 1t being une dersi that the siaver was often hung by the English before being able to reciaim bs prizes. LAND GUARDS AMD SHARKS. in) the infection of this dishonored mediur became us insupportabie, ‘The Minister Marine, M. de Dompierre @’Homoy, with the hig geographical knowledge which distinguished our officers in the last war, had declared that the safe keeping of the banished was assured, the sharks would binder any escape by way of the sea and the Kanachs would keep order on the land side. This ingenious idea of placing us between the jaws of men and those of fish produced, even among the Rignt, tne most joyous approbation. We were, happily, xed according to the intelf- gence of the stguers of the peace at Bordeaux, and, as they considered escape as Impossible, we immediately concluded that it was practicable. From this moment the desire to revisit Kurope haunted us day and pi. Olivier Pain, ENG Grousset and myself lived upon a hill in & hub somewhat Isolated, where We nad leisure to cone cert together avour ease. Our plan was to leave by sea, and toswim to some ship of which the captain would consent to take us. SiUDYING SWIMMING, We had heard it said that the sharks im their | hunger assembled ordinarily in tne neighvorhos of the slaugnter houses, which are situated not fa; jrom the peninsula, and that feeding plentifully: upon the refuse irom the butchery it seldom o¢~ ovurred that they would attack man, Olivier Pain, who was ignorant of the first principles of swimming, went energetically to work, and in one month aiter my arrival became one oi the best swimmers of the peninsula. We then tamiliarized ourselves with danger by swimming in tne sea for two or three hours each day. cannot give all the particulars without compromising certain brave people who lent us their assistance. ‘rhe fact is that, thanks to those three prisoners, simp! residents of the place—Achille Balliere, Jourd and Bastien Granthille—negotiated with the Per Captain Law, of the three-masted bark Pp. C. 1. . Tois,excellent man Law, iuly understand, ing the importance of the prisoners Whom he was to take on board, consented to receive us and en- gaged to conduct us to Australia. But the peninsula ‘Was guarded much too strictly to permit him 10 ap- proach it, and all that he dared promise us was to reeeive us if we had some means of boarding his ship, which was at the end of the roads of New Caledonia, that 1s to say, more than three hours. from our fortified piace. THE VOYAGE TO NEWCASTLE, Tne journey to the Snglish ship was a dramatio episode of our escape, and we should cortainly | have succumbed to iatigue if our iriends of New Caledonia had not saved us the longest part of the journey in coming up to us ona dark night in a whale boat, which took usin naked and all tora. by waves and rocks which cat like a razor, The intrepid Captain Law knew only on recog- nizing me on board that he had operated to save ine, and, lar from Leing astounded at tie responsie bility whicb be had undertaken, he renewed more energetically his promise to protect and to defend us. The night we passed im Uié hold was the most tormenting. A delay of half a day over the time fixed jor our sailing, which was seven Q'clock, was nearly our deatn. How- ever, after two hours of & Gp) which we bad every right to ca!l the calm frightiul, @ wind rose that was so exceptionably favorable that in less. than seven days we were in Sydney, a voyage that often takes twenty-five aays or more, We saw the light once more after three mortal Years of silence passed in the gloom of a sepulchre, ‘During three years those who called us disturberd hada clear ileld. We were no longer thereto check the legislators whom our opposition had kept Within bounds, They held France at their ease in their hands, 1tcan be seen what they have done with her, MACMAIION AMD HIS GENERALS, 3 Robespierre said in the Convention, “1 shall al- Ways be in principle opposed to war, because a victory might place the nation into the hands of pate neg for I preier liberty to glory.’? e pati sn thus alarmed of the great citizen could ne Dayg imagined what has arrived in the present day—Viz., that it is not victory, bat shame and degradation, which is seated at the head of the nation. The untortunate ns raver? “this glorious woundea veteran,” whose bravel or whose wounds have mever yet been discovere has never realized what a sanguinary signification there was in his being the head of the govern- ment. I maintain therefore that tho Presidential office is offered him for’ this, It Prussia, and not Mission was to fight; bly which was jn such a hurry to sign the peace, appeared to think it their duty ta reward, with the oitice of Chief Magistrate, the map who had rendered the capitulation inevit~ able. It sufficed to dream of resistance to bring» about the enmity of ths pack of opponents to the invasion of Germany. They vomited upon Gam- betta because he resisted. After having ied | Rosgel, who tried to. save Metz, it was handed ove! to the odious Bazaine, who sarrendcred one of the most charming places in Woa’s earth to the enemy. We have Suitered in our misfoitunes this: additional degradation to find ourselves in front of some goldier traitor to his country. L’Admi- rauit, who governs Paris, which he strangled, it Cissey and Garcin, the two assassing ity mintere, were aI80 at Metz. Mor- lin, the President of the Coungqil of War, who condemned to death the Captain, Rossel, was at Nicks. Vinoy, who killed Duval and Fiourens, was in Paris; but the fashion in whica he defended 16 Fe the measure of the prodigies which he would, ave accomplished elsewhere. It is when these people have been too much dishonored to continue their work of soldiers that they have confided to them roves of executioners, such as our . above whom rest and brightens the notched swol of Marshal MacManon, nat Gordian knot has this sword cut until now ? What problem has 16 resolved? What formula has it imangurated & The first act of these regenerators was @ shameful bargain proposed to the press, and = wien the day came on this honest company ane asked for laws against her. en the Press becomes: silent on their incapacity, will they be more intelli- gent? Tnéy came to the Old political tricks which the first Restoration would have no more of and of which thé second is dead. M. Mac- hon thinks himself President of 4 Republic; ha Med in reality, a simple commander of a state of ry ‘die of his most prilliant exploits was to serd on the 26th of May, thats to say, two days aftur big. accession to power, the order to the Governor the Citadel of St. Martin de Ré¢ to have iron rail- ings placed in the parlor of the prison in order to prevent me from embracing my children, with whom I had been able to communicate pretty freely for about two years. You see, them, that larshal of France has big double in 4 captaim of police. LAMI D'NENRI CINQUE. This French people—so deticate, so nervous, 80 impressionable—what chief did the vote an ! expiring Assembly givethem? An old soldier of Africa, who knows of our country but what he | learned in the hencoops of Algeria, where he ex« cial journal of the | went | | HENRI ROCHEFORT. simpiy | Bs | Consumption, Guropic oO | pended forty rea of nis life; a leader of Bedouin who imagined himeelf in an Arab bureau, an | treated our imprescriptable rights as if the govern- ment of France was a KabyHe expedition. AND THAT ANTIQUATED MUSTACHE has the pretension to hold us seven years under the sword hilt, and this exotic product imagines: | Dimself to be other than a momentary shield | Qgainst dissolution! Happily the shield will again | return to tts pancply; for the final dissolution ap- proaches, and the dissolution is the definite avow- ment of the Republic. The Church wardens and the Pontifical Zouaves to well to shake in the dis- tance the white feather or Henry [V., who will re- | fase tojoin himself to it; tocommence with Henry IV., who remains all the longer candidate to the crown that he may flnd pretexts for putting it | away from his head, I Lear this monarch | partidus of possessing much better than his coun- sellors the sense of the situation. I have reasom to believe that he prefers—and I telicitate him | Upon it—the royalty of name which he enjoys | long time to the eh! fact of which t i$ | would dispossess so quickly if he committed the fault to accept it. At the bottom of the princely bitterness which the revolutions made for him ‘he remembers his ena uncle on the scaffold, his grandfather in ight, his cousin falling from’a palace to a cab. He can go to London to kneel before the candles which the ex-Empress burns to the success of the expedition of Boulogne, which Napoleon IV, reserves for us. 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