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Special imlui i'iii tit n tofiaitli Buyer.
My luoilii, "A nimble Sipeiic ! hetlr,
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Pittsboro'. N. Carolina.
H. A. LONDON, Jr.,
Attorney at Law,
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PITTSBORO', N. C,
fraatlMa la lha Couria or Chatham, H.ru.ll,
l oar mi oraafa, aa4 la tha Hayraoia aud Vadwai
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All klndi of Plows and Coatinrs, Bogjy
KaUrials, Tnrnlt r, sU.
riTTMHOKO. W. CAR.
BETTER THAN GOLD.
lienor than frratidt-ur. iM'ttrr than K'ld.
Than rank iiiid tlilt-a tli'iisuiul fihl,
Is a healthy biHly, a inlniliit i-asf.
Ami simple iliumirt' that ulway picas' ;
a lit'ai t that ran f'l for a iiriyhhor's wnt
Ami hIiuiv IiIh Ji with K'til;il k'ow.
1 1 It vin'ittlili.s larK' I'lM'iiijjh to t'utuhl
All un'ii us hriitluTN lt lwtter than RiM.
Itettrr than gnhl lit a coiim-Ichcc rte.ir.
Though tnlllng ft r hrt'Hl hi an ImiiiMe SiIihic :
liniiy iiltfbi with l uiitfiit ami licaltli,
1' nt lit--1 l.y ttii' liiot uf i.iri't. or wealth.
I, oy ItvliiRaml Inftj thoiiKht
Al"iii ami cmiohli' a (mhii- niuii'ft cot ;
hui man ami nmrals, tr naturi'it plan.
An thi' Ri'initnu tvi t a Kf'Ofinati,
Itattfi tlmu irl(t t?i llu'sit re mi
iM thtMHiHir toll when thrlr lalMiscluM1;
It.'ttt r than K"ll the pnir man's ulivp.
Ami tin- l.iltn thai tlrs ui h hhunliciH ihfp.
ItllliK sleeping lt ;iiIKlits In t lit hWliT ''il.
hrrt liiMir pillows Ills ai-liltiK ht-atl :
III. Mlmph r opiate tah -r ilot'mit
4 .,"itu-r r'al tt the l.iii'l of ilreaii).
ItctliT than Kohl t: a thinking uihitl
That In the realm of hook ran hud
A treaoiire MirpasliiK AiMralUu ore.
Ami lle w Ith the Kieat ami K'h.I tf yr
Tin' aifel lore ami tin poet la ,
I h- !' lei of einplrr- p.ivTil away,
I lo worlr Kit at tliama w III thiiM enf.tM
AihI lehl a pli-aMire ttetlcr than K"h1.
Itetter than K"hl ! a pearernl home.
here all the hi.M-le li;u ith-N eome:
I he spring ol loveaml the heaven of Hie.
I1.iII-wimI hy inoititr, ot sUter, or wife.
iloniT hmiihli the home may ',
Or ti lel h) hoiiuw with Heavtn's iterretf.
The I ile I !! that itei-rwfie InmikIK r ot.
r. him' tlo if, uiv iH'tter than K"l'l-
PARIS UNDcR THE COMMUNE.
A VI if NO (1HL' KXl'Kltlli.NCK.
'I in (.'niiimuiiL' luiil Krird piHtsi'fsiiin if
I itr ui tin- lili ol .M m cli over the ilrml
li.lii- ul (iiMii l'.ils Tliuiiius unit LiTniiitL'.
M 'l llil'lh llUll I'c lilCll to N'l'ISllilich, llllil II
giivcriillli'tlt r-1 1 i 1 1 i 1 1 tl'nlll tile lowest
orilel's ul" Mii irty iiil;tllt'd iluell ol' its ow u
iiuilinrity in the plai t aliumlnneii hy the
liiflilivin. A a was to have been expected,
I lie liisl lew Weeks ol this reign ul' Seiim
w ere jmssed in Mpialilili s of every kind.
'I'he walls were, coveied w ili new laws,
new onlinaiiees of every ileheiipiion, mid
e.-ii'eially willi pruiiilutions: nothing was
lieurd but the drum und tile, and every
tiling and evi ryhoilv not of. or belonging
to, the National (iiiuid was suspeeted ol'
1 reason and t rented iiceonlingly. The
l'liryiiiu eui was everywhere seen, and
the red thg hpreud its dishonoring folds
over the public edilices.
Al this lime--about tlie'ilst of March
our landlord renewed the imtice he had
given us during (lie tticge, to vacate our
tijijiaittMt 't. In our jMJverty and sick
ness to do so at oik e w as impossible, und
1 1 1: fused: he invoked his rights before the
law, bill 1 knew be had rented the rooms
lo .t Prussian, mid dealings with that haled
nice would, if known, he his ruin. I
played upon hia fears by thri'iiteuiiig to
denounce him, and thus gained time to
seek tor other quarters t soon as my
monthly pension fell due. 1 found three
rooms fn the Hue dtl (.'iiaieau d'Kau, and
on the 15lli of April we were to change
our present abode. I received my hun
dred and twenty francs, but, alas! our
debts to tlie baker and the lillteher ab
sorbed nearly the w hole of it, and with
such scanty iiii'iius we were put to our
wits' ends to inaiiagc the moving of our
luinilure. To hire vans was out of the
question: my lumber was sb k and help
less, my bioi hers were but children, and
Ibr myself, my strength was well nigliex
haustid by sull'eiing anil the privations I
had undergone, iiul necessity knows no
law. My brother hired a hand cart, and
we set bravely to work: the concierge
liccd, and with iuliiiitu trouble we got
our bulky articles to the street and upon
l he carl ; then, he w heeling and I pushing,
w e made our lilst journey. It was an her
culean task to get the articles up the stairs
to our new home, but neighbors were
kind, we worked with a will, and, drip
ping w ith perspiraliuu, wo returned for a
new load.
Fourteen times did my brother und I
trundle that handcart back and forth,
w heeling burdens far beyond our strength.
At last our weary journeys were over, our
household goods were settled, and at dark
my mother und the children followed us
to our new home -home, h las! only In
name, for we had no food, niv money was
gone and the larder empty. I paw ned the
clock from the mantelpiece for fifteen
francs, which supplied our wants fur three
days.
i hue passed on, and our only change
w as from bad to worse. Our last resource,
with our meagre means, was lo be in
scribed ut the en n tin'. There, for a few
sous, we were entitled to receive an al
lowaticc which consisted chiefly of horri
ble beans mixed w ith dirt and of salt her
rings so old and musty as to be often
utterly uneatable. The bread, however,
was white and clean, and, as the weather
was mild und spring like, we could have
borne the trials and hardships of our daily
lite had not the dreadful deeds of the
Commune tilled our souls with terror
May had come, and the bombarding of
the devoted city was incessant and terri
hie. Kvcry night the booming of the guns
from the surrounding foris and the ruitle
of musketry aroused us from our slumbers
und drove us w ild with fear. Kvcry day
at the barracks of the Chateau d'Kau, one
of the chief centres of the insurrection, we
w i re doomed lo w itness hideous scenes of
cruelty which were sullicient toexcitethe
horror of the most callous. Many times,
indeed, we nearly fell victims to l lie popu
lar craze, for with the utmost prudence
one could hurdly at nil times relrain from
a burst of heartfelt indignation.
1 remember one morning seeing a bat
talion of the FeiUres as they returned
from the front at Neiiilly. They had lost
perhaps twenty men, and, mad with
drink, they were reeling through the
street, exhaling their cowardly rage in
yells and songs, each nian shouting to the
crowd that lined the sidewalk his marvel
lous exploits and deeds ot prowess. By
their tale thousands of Versaillais had
fallen before thein, and they waved on
high with tierce gesticulation the trophy
of their mighty valor, the only witness,
alas! of their cowardly lies. This trophy
was the coat of a gendarme pierced by
twenty bullets and borne upon the staff of
the red rag that answered for their Hag:
this uniform of some brave, til starred
soldier was soaked in blood, large drops
were falling still, and as the drunken
standard-bearer Haunted it In the faces ol
the crowd they spattered the ground at our
feet. "Oh, what wretches! ' I cried iu
voluntarily, and, earied away by indig
nation, I hardly know w hat I might have
added had nut a hand been roughly
clapped upon my li and aa old man at
my tid whispwad in my aar, "ForUod's
sake, be silent or they'll cut n in pieces!"
The advice was good, and I followed it.
but I could stay no lotiuer. and hastened
home, heartsick ami weeping w ith shame
and despair.
Iay by day the effervescing madness ol
the limb' increased, Arrests were being
constantly made. Every individual who
refused to serve the Commune was seized
und marched off to the lorts: there before
the enemy he was placed in the front rank
when the ridiculous sham sorties were at
tempted, and the balls of our ow n soldiers
struck down the unhappy wretch thus
forced to tight against his will, audio pay
with bis lile's blood for his honest pa
triotism.
I was in the habit of going to St. Lau
rent's for my devotions, but theilmi-ch
was closed and tin ned into a guardhouse
for tin- hordes of the Commune, w ho
itmused themselves with knocking oV the
heads of tiiu statues, and took the altar
and tin- picluivs as targets for their inns
kel practice. 1 remember well one inci
dent that moved my very soul. A Inner il
Was passing up llie Uuuleviird de Stras
bourg: it was that of a young girl, whom
her father and some friends were aei iun
panyinir to her last home The hearse
was draped in white und the eollin was
covered w iih (lowers. Suddenly a band
of National liuards stopped the sad pro
cession and insisted thai the poor child's
eollin should be shrouded in the reil tlag
the father resisted, but he was knoi k"d
down and trampled under fool, and Un
bloody emblem of disorder and crime w as
ullixed lo the four corners of die bier
When thev came to the church it was
closed, anil instead of sacred chants ol
priests the air was full of indecent son us
of u ribald soldiery. The unhappy parent,
disregarding the bayonets which threat
ened him, knelt on "the stones before tie
iron gates: healing his breast and weep
ing as if his heart would break, he ivci:cd
the prayers for the dead and begired .oil's
pardon and mercy fr his child, whom
lie saw deprived of Christian burial and
tbi! Church's holy benediction. It wan
heartrending, and ui ide me ill lor days.
Vou must ext use, my friend, the in
coherence of my narration: 1 write just as
my memory recalls the incident, with
out any pretence of order. Seven years
h ive passed, but my mind is still so
strongly impressed that all the varied de
tails are fresh in my recollection, all hough
I may not, in this terrible whole, recall
them in regular sequence. What I re
late I have suffered, felt or seen, and I
give you the exact truth us it runs from
my jen.
We had reached 1he most critical period
the heujlit, so to speak of the rule ot
the Commune. Although us women we
were exempt from any call to inililary
service, our situation on that account wa
none the less terrible. The riilliuily
hordes who held I'arisia their grasp were
subject to no law, no restraint, save thai j
of their ow n caprice, an 1 they gave fi.il ,
vein to their passions w it ti daily renewed
delight. If any woman were good lo.ik j
ing. they hesitated at noihiiiL' lo sali-l
their brutal lu-t. if any one seemed rich or j
well-to-do, they simply decreed w hat they !
wished to take'and illatfed w ithout ci re- I
niony. Mow many homes were plun- I
dcreil and burned, prisoners shot, wo j
men ruined by these bloody miscre Hits'
Hut 1 will ('online myself to inv own e j
perience. One afternoon, af'er a day i
passed without food, I went to seek asit I
ance from a sister w hose husband w asi in
iilnvcil at the Inipriinerie Nationale. Sic .
lived in the Hue Vieille dll Temple, but,
as I'aris was full of barricades. I had to i
make a long detour. I was ret urn in -r I
home about dark, tired out ami dishe.iri i
etied at the little help my sister coul. I at
ford, but hurrying hack to make my pur
chases for our evening meal. At the cor
nerof the Hue du Chateau d'Kau was a
barricade, and no passiHg w is allowed:
the officer on guard advised me to go I
round by the Hue tie Hondy, und, not be- I
ing drunk, limited his impertinences to j
words. I went round the little square,
fenced in by an iron railing, and entered
the Hue de Hondv Here wasacuard
house, and at the door a sentinel reeling
about with his musket on his shoulder.
' Who goes thcrcY" he cried. I answend
witli trembling voice as quickly as I
could, and tried to pass. A second time
he roared out. "tjui viveV" and imme
diately followed the report of his musket
and a ball w hist led by my ears, filled
with indignation, I sprang toward the
rullian: hardly had I reached his side
when from the guardhouse came an ollici-r
in epaulets and lace, drunk, and followed
by several soldiers, more like beasts than
men, who surrounded me. The officer
tried to comprehend my complaint of the
brutal behavior of the sentinel, but he was
too much overcome to understand, and en
deavored to throw his arms uroiind inl
and embrace me. stuttering out with
drunken hiccough, "All right, my pretty
citizen! Mv soldier tried lo kill lliee, did
he? Well, 'I'll be kinder than he. and I II
prove 'it lo thee: come!" I spare your eais
the words he used, but as he tried to seize
me iu his arms I grasped the pistol hang
ing in his belt, and springing hack cried
out, "I'll blo'v the brains out of the tirt
man who touches me!" "11a! In!''
laughed one of the rascal's companions,
"she has a quick hand, the little woman:
look out 'r her!" " Uj Hod, '" o.m l.llllieil
tbeollicer. "she pleases me: I want her.
and I'll have her!" Again he drew near
I aimed the pistol at his head, and, trans
ported w ith rage and fury, 1 cried, "Try,
if you dare!" My linger was tightening
on" the trigger when an old woman, lead
ing a little girl by the hand, appeared,
and rushing into the crowd with arms
akimbo, exclaimed, "Well ! well ! w hat is
all this? The children of the quarter are
to be insulted in this way? Not so, my
captain: down with your paws. This is
my daughter, and no one touches her. or
if they du " The rulllans were astounded
at the old woman's vigorous intervention,
and, taking advantage uf their hesitation,
she wbisfiered to me, "Let us run, my
chihl, and quickly too, round by the Hue
de Lanery: we can get through there
yet." I was oil br fast as my feel would
carry me, and once in safety I thanked
my deliverer with all my heart. Not
withstanding the danger 1 h id just es
caped, I did not forget the wants of our
liitle family nor my own hunger, and I
bad the courage to make my purchases be
fore returning home; but when there,
overcome by what I had gone through, 1
Tell fainting to the Hour.
The same evening about ten o'clock, as
we were finishing our frugal repast, w e
heard lhu loud noise ol armed men march
big along the street and thumping their
muskets on the pavement. Wcmn to look
out, and as soon as our faces were seen the
rowdy gang cried out in hoarse rough
tones and with oaths too horrible to write,
"Close your windows and put out your
lights, or wa ll lira upon you." l'aaaing
on, they extinguished the gn and re
pented tlie same order from house to house,
so that s'ioii the Mrccl w a as dark us a
tomb We hid our lamp deep iu the lire- j
place behind llie -creeii. and crouching :
down waited lo see w hat luetic ominous
pie iiiiinarics foreboded The noise in the :
si reel iiu reaed, ami sieuied to he greatest
in trout of our hinic. I.'iud .mi lis ami
laughter lill-d llie air, and the re echoing
sound of heavy blows a if tin- limb wele (
ballering down dour. Suddenly a bright
light illumined the scene. 1 thought there 1
was a lire, and ru-ln-d to the window and :
raised a eoruei i. f tin-i iul.iin. Across the
street lived nu old general nllicer, a man ;
of moderate foil line, w lm ha-l reiiivd from .
acii .e serv ice W licth. i In- had been de i
tiouiiced a miKji- t, or whether the mob :
simply knew that tb" family were all 1
away', and that in I . inm,e thus left tin I
guarded I In-y would h::d ample plunder :
without hindeiame. ! do not know. The ,
bar- fact i-. thai a baitinoii ol National .
iiialds, led by their olhc rs, br ke in the
doors, gigged the i iuicieige and invaded
the genera! s a I mile. This band of robber !
ransacked the Imli-i- from cell ir to garret,
pillaging and plundering and i arn ing of
every thing of value that cmlil be easily ,
moved. They ligb i d up the chandeliers
and lailip. and th.oiigli the open win- '
dows we could see closets and desks
wrenched open, fin liluie smashed, sofas i
and In ds i ij peil up villi Inyoiu-ts, while
bottles from the vvint cellarand food fnan 1
the pantry wen' ciicila'ing Irecly. The
soldiers were some I tiling on iirni chairs
and lounges, dm, king und carousing:
others with the bti"s of their iuukeis
were bieai.ing npel) i i ks that h ul the ill! ,
ptldeuce lo ie-i-1. gtainl piano and i
the mirrors that relic vd their diunkeii ,
and hideous lin es si-i-n,cil t sH-ciallv lo ex
cite their ire. All iiijiht long they spent
the hours in rioting and smashing or
piling up t heir ho tty. Theiiaw u eaiiieat
la.-l. gloomy and sad . a crowd full ol fear
and curiosity filled ibf-trit l and to the
scene of levelry atol pillage within suc
ceeded another episode wi-houl. Mid I
with iliink. the nilliiiis begin pitching
out uf the windows w hat they could not
carry away - furniture, mirror, pictures, j
lothes. everything movable. Women of
the town, friends of these g ilium war 1
rior. weie called ill to share in the di- i
triliiition to one u velvet cloik, to an '
other a set of fins, aid so through the i
wardrobes of this uuttUiunale f tinily tin- :
til the house w as em; tied: and then, us i
the wine was giving ml, the captain oft
the baud sounded the Ml cat and o I they
started, laden dow n wit.i spoils. An mn- !
nibiis was pa-sing: the .ifliccr stopped it, !
an I forced the driver, pistol at his head, i
lo load up with the plunlcr. then mount :
ing his horse, carrying a handsome clock
under his anil, lie took llie lead of his ma- ;
landing band and inar hed tbeiii away. ;
I'rom our windows nil the night through .
we watched this shameful r-tzzn. We ,
had not thought uf sic p, imr did we at
tempt to seek rc-1 during the hour of
daylight, hut hoped for a quiet night to :
I'oflovv, little dreaming this was to be
the last day we should pas-in our .!' '
tntht
It wa- the Cist of May quiet w is !
source !y restored, when loud cries of af- (
(l ight were heard tbioiighout this quarter ,
of the city, (iroiip-ol people collecting
along llie'-lrcet were talkit.gin low voices ;
and with unwonted aniui a'ion. At every
house men were rushing in and out with j
frantic gesticulations, and all around u- ,
something extraordinary wa- evidently j
going on. In the distance, indeed, above :
the noises of the city one could hear the
rattle of niti-k' try." but for two mom lis !
pa-t the sound had been so familiar to our I
e::r-tbut we could hardly suppose it lias j
anything to do vv itb llie genera! excite
incut which prevailed. I went out loseek .
for news and a-ktd the net gli'-ors what it !
all mealil. With bated lire u h and whis ;
peiing in my curs they replied that the :
regular erniv, lei 1 'erMiViit. h ol entered
I'aris, and already held posse-i hi of the j
entire western quarter, fighting, they
said, was going on at the I nv ilide-, al the
Ternos, al .Moutm u t re. ami the regiments :
ol the govei ntiient, who were already i
ma-ters of the mill and the -u tit of l.a
O alette, were throwing slu iis into the j
city. To de-erihe the Mood ul joyful eino-
lion that tilled my In-url wi re inipos-ilile. (
Iran home, eager to atitioiini c the glad
tidings to my poor mother, and we fell !
into each other's arm sold. ing with de I
light. We could not doubt that llie army
would overcome the nioh: it would beat
the most a matter of a few hours; deliver- i
ance from our suffering could be no longer
delayed. Iiul us l he "moment p issed mi j
a panic seized upon all upon us with the
others. Every one lied hither and thiiicr j
lir safely, ami we took refuge iu the i el
lar: we carried down chairs, and soon all '
in the house were huddled together there. '
From one minute to another some one of I
us would venture up to seek for news, to
throw a I a-ty glance around to right and
h-ft, looking' mid eagerly hoping for the
Inst appearance ol the regular troops, and
hasten back ag dn to our place of refuge, I
where we deemed oiltsi Ives safe from all
danger. At either end of our street were j
formidable barricades, wiih emhra-U'cs
like thoseofforisaiiil mounted wiih heavy
cannon. He lore noon the rag imiilliii forces
of llie Commune wen-busy strengthening
lhe-e posts. AM we could see was the Nil
tioiial tiiiard pissing by in long line,
cany ing sandbags and fascines, tearing up
the pav uig slonis to pile up the breast
works s:ill higher. Women, with the red
scarf across their shoulders, ran to and fro
among the soldiers, vociferating and urg
ing on the work, more rapid than men a
hundred times Indeed. 1 saw confirmed
what 1 hid read, that in these paroxysms
of popular fury women, more nervous and
more excitable th.iti men, are far more I
dangerous and sanguinary. Every little
while messengers were arriving at the
barracks of the Chateau d'Kau, close by,
bringing bad news from the front of suc
cessive defeats and the retreat of the Com
mune's legions. These tidings were secret,
or so intended tube, but I heir tenor leaked
out almost immediately, and throughout
the w hole quarter every one knew nearly
as soon as I be nlHecr a I the barracks what
wns passing at the oilier end of I'aris.
We were tilled with li verish anxiety.
None of us had thought of eating, and
indeed no food was to be had: the shops
had been all closed since early morning,
and all day long we waited iii fearful sus
pense wiiii but u crust or Iwcind a little
water.
The night runic on n tcr'ible night.
I'.v ten o'clock the darkness M-n of our
subterraneous, refuge was ligfted up by
the inlen-e and lurid glare i f burning
houses. We went above to our .'ooins, but
from our w indow we could ristinguisli
nothing. We went to the ir-irrct and
climbed iqMin the roof: there clinging
to the chimney and the sports, we be
hald tha fearful yt subitum ' "ctacla of
I'aris in flames. On whichever side we
turned our eyes th conflagration hemmed
u in.
In front, the Thealre of the Porte St.
M irtiu w a- throwing lo the heavens great j
flashes ol tire; behind, the shops of the 1
Tapis Hoiige, and beyond them ibe docks I
ol l,a Vilb-iie; on the right, the corner I
house of the Hoitlevnrd Voltaire, with ils j
red roof, and the Theatre des l)i lasseineiits j
Coiniques; and all around the circle at
many points great massive clouds of lire :
and smoke were rolling up in huge billow s I
to the heavens and vomiting forth sparks I
and Haines that covered and veiled the
sky. In tin-di-iance the tirciiier 'd Abon i
dame was burning, and from the glare it ,
seemed as ll the whole quarter of llie
15a.-tille was in (ire. The TuilerieR, llie
four des Coin pies, the Ministere des Fi
nances, the whole of the Hue Koyale, the
Thealre llistoriquo. the 1'iilaisde' .lust ice.
the Hotel de .lie, wen- all in flames.
The crazy vandalism of llie dying Com I
mum- was burning I'aris in its expiring
rage, while the devoted ci'y was spewing I
il lorth as a deadly poison.'
Lost in contending eiiiotionof wonder,
fear and horror, wedid not for a while
realize our expo-cd siiuation, but louder I
lb ill llie savage mar of the Haines soon !
we heard the heavy thunder of cannon: I
now and then, above or around us, a shell I
lore with tierce scream through the air.
Terrified and worn out, we sought again .
oar gloomy refuge below. I stopped for
a moment at our rooms and tilled a basin I
to bathe inv heated face. I heard a shrill j
angry roar, a loud explosion: the window i
behind me was shattered and the room j
tided with .-moke 1 sank in terror to the I
Hour, and when I gathered my scattered
senses and looked around, the basin in 1
which a si cond belore I had plunged my '
li i in I wa iu pieces, broken by fragments
ot a shell that h d burst before the win- ,
duvv. Stupefied, and hardly believ ing my
Wonderful escape, 1 bullied trembling to !
the cellar, where we crowded together,
and iu misery and dread the weary night !
drugged through its tearful and iiilerinin
able hours.
Al dawn the boldest of ns sailed forth, i
driven by the imperative culls of hunger
and thir.-t. I followed in spite of musket- '
ry, shot and bursting shell, which swept I
the sheet and shook the hou.-es lo their !
foundations. The vv hole quarter was held
by the most desperate of the Commune s
bands, who, driven to bay, were lighting
wiih the courage of despair. The Ver
saillais were attacking the burrtcudu ol
the Faubourg St. Mai tin. bails were fall
ing like a show er of lain, and dead bodies
were strewn along the street iu constantly
iiu leasing numlicis. Frantic with fear
u 1 1 1 ! 1 the cries of the lighting, the groans
of the wounded and tlie w hislliug of llie
ball-, I sought to regain the shelter ol our
house.
.lust then the National Guards were
driven from the barricade: with the cry of
"Sauvequi pent!" they entrenched them
selves again behind the other fortress at
the corner of the I'lace du Chateau d Kail,
which seemed almost impregnable.
Thronging ovrr the breast-wot k. carried
by a-hiiili, 1 saw through the smoke llie
red li jii of our soldiers ol the line and the
blue ' r t of our sailors. The tears ran
down my cheeks from joy. In li s-time
than I can tell the tale,' rushing on at
double quick, they cleared the street and
drove the fugitives from hou-e to hoiie.
keeping up and receiv ing a coii-talit mid
rapid I'm: as lin y advanced. I had crunched
down in the rcce-s of a doorway, lo-t iu
wild emotion, and there I witm-scd one
of i he most fearlul scenes of this fearful
time At the head of a company of the
line, leading mi his troops .-word iu hand,
inarched a captain, his coat torn by bullets
his face black w ith powder and'glovving
with martial fury. The rattle of inns
keiry was incessant, ami balls feil like hail
on walls and pavement: the soldiers, as
they advanced, sought cover in doorways
ami at corners, wherever a iltle shelter
could be found. Hut he disdained all pre
caution, and was cheering on his men
when a door opened and a woman yet
young appeared and cried to him, "For
the love of I tod, i aplain, do not expose
yourself so! Takeshelter here.'' He turned
iit her call, and, waving his hand in
thanks, was but a yard or I wo away: sud
denly from beneath her apron she drew a
revolver and shot him through the head,
shouting, "That's the tilth! ' as he fell at
her feet. Almost fainting, yet transported
with horror and indignation. I clung
convulsively to the doorpost to watch the
end of this' bloody tragedy. It was not
long in coming, nor were any orders
needed. The soldiers, regardless of the
storm of bullets, sprang upon this w retch
ere the smoke had blown away from the
muzzle of her pistol: two held her to the
wall and twc.ny others poured a volley
into her. As 1 saw her mangled body
stretched upon the paveim ut, my senses
b it me and 1 fell as lifeless us -he. When
I came lo myself the street w as clear: our
brave troops" were masters of the place. In
front ol the lust barricade lay the body nf
lVlesclu.o, lit end lo the chief of Ibis
nioiisiroiis revolt that had ib-lnged Paris
with blood and liiled the world with hor
ror. Our troops were bivouacking in the
place, and from all the houses near Un
people were flocking around, bringing
w ine and food in eagi r exultation. All
this while the woik was going on: the
troops, advancing, carried everything be
lore them; llie din of musketry died away
in the distance, save when now and then
occasional volleys told of summary exe
cutions. Every Communard found with
arms in his hands was shot on llie spot,
and while the light ol the conflagration
reddened the sky the gutters of the streets
ran crimson with the blood of Frejch
uicn. When evening came we were anxious
about mv sister, 'aa the ltnpriiuerie Na
tionale wa said to be in Haines. I took
advantage of the early dusk to reach the
Faubourg SI. Martin, so as to get to the
Hue dn Temple by cross streets, which I
thought would be quieter. Before the
smoking ruins of the theatre two guns
were ill Mi-itioii. and around them lay
several bodies begrimed witli powder,
half stripped anil unshod: the sight of these
pallid corpses, wiih their grimy upturn-d
feet, was most ghastly. Furl her along, on
shutters lorn from their hinges, soldiers
were carrying the dead to the Pl ace dn
Chateau d'E.iU. Trembling with fear. I
hastened on through the square: it was
strewn with arms of every kind dropx-d
bv the fugitives, and the ground was slip
pery with blood: all through the streets it
was the same. On I ran, shutting my eyes
to escape the horrible visions of slaughter
and death that met me at every step. I
found my sister safe und well, and, having
reassured her a to ourselves, I started
home again. Hoping to escu the hor
ror I had pusacd iu coming. I went
straight toward the Place, thinking that
as the way was shorter 1 should meet
with fewer scenes of terror aud all'right.
Alas, how grievioiisly 1 was inistukeu!
There w ere no lights, und the I'lace was
dark and gloomy a a sepulchre, Helbre
me rose the Walls of the barracks, grim
and black; on the light were the barri
cades of the Hue al it Faubourg du Temple
and ol the Boulevard Voltaire; on the
corner a house Millburning was throwing
up cloud of flame und smoke; along the
Boulevard St. Marlinand the KucTurbigo
there remained but u mass of smoulder
ing ruim on every side devastation, fire
and death Over tiiis ghastly scene night
had spread it pall a gray, nld, rainy
night and the chill fog froethe marrow
of my hones
Seized with new terror, I Hopped at the
entrance of the Place sentinels questioned
me, and to my answer that I 'vas going to
my home. Hue du Chateau d Kail, they re
plied, "All right: gel through ifynil can."
I did not at tir.-t coiupreheiid thisiloiilnful
permission, and ventured on into the open
spice, where the lions of the fountain,
broken and shattered, cist weird and
gigantic shadows. I hud gone but a few
steps when I understood what the soldiers
had meant. Ail around me were large
gloomy mounds ri-ing amid pools which
faintly glistened and reflected the flicker
ing light from the still burning ruins.
These mounds were heaps of the slain,
whose blood had trickled down over the
stones and ran to form wide, slimy, stag
nant puddles: to complete this fearful
scene, u sickening, liallsealingoilor seemed
to hang upon tin-dump night air an odor
that seized me al the throat : it w is the
smell of warm blond, mingled w ith the
lunies of powder. Petrified wiih terror,
but mechanically urged on by the imperi
ous necessity of escape floin this hell. I
kepi advancing stepping over bodies, slip
ping iu the gore, brtii-ing hands and knees
against the obstacles that beset my path,
and more terrified still by the thousand
noises around inc. I heard I he di'ant
cannonading from the Cemetery of Peiv
la Chaise, where the Commune made its
last stand; the iingry voices of the soldiers,
who with lanterns' were seeking, and
sometimes finding, on this field of death
the body of a friend; hollow groans that
seemed to come from wounded men buried
in these graves built up of human corpses.
Suim'ilingand bruised, at length reached
the farther side of the fountain : there I
saw the soldiers with torches coining, go
ing, hurrying to and fro. W alking a.- in
atiance "and staggering in my fright, I
drew near and looked.
At the corner of the Hue de Bondy mid
of the Hue du Chateau d'Kau is a small
square, which I have before mentioned,
surrounded bv an iron railing. In this en
closure they bad dug a wide deep trench,
and there they were piling in the bodies
gathered from the Place. 1 listened to the
lull heavy thud of the corpses as they
were throw n in one itin another, and the
rattle of tlie earth shovelled over them. I
saw borne belore me the hideous faces of
the dead, pale and grimacing, grimed
with blond and powder: III the fitful glare
of the torch. ight their features seemed to
change aud tlieir lipsm move. 1 fell upon
my knees, completely overcome and my
strength exhausted.' As I lay stretched
upon the ground a huge black cloud
seemed to tall from out the heavens: I
heard the clang ot iron striking the pave
ment, then a loud explosion that swal
lowed up everything around me in its
learl'ul roar, anil 1 lost all consciousness.
A shell thrown from the Cemetery of Pi re
la Chaise had lalien und bui's'i at my
feet.
When 1 came bark to life I found my
self in one of the dark low rooms of the
barracks, surrounded by soldiers, who
were chafing my hands, w hile an old ser
geutit was bathing my face wiih brandy.
The explosion of the shell, followed by the
frantic shritk I uttered as I fell, bad
guided their steps to where I lay, and they
Had brought me to llie barracks, thinking
me dead. 1 had fallen near a heap of
bodies, and thev, by God s mercy, had
served as a rampart to protect me from the
bursting shell, but its fragments, tearing
and cutting tin the dead, had covered me
with the bloody wreck. 1 was a mass of
gore from head' to lout: pieces of flesh were
clinging lo my clothes; my face, my hair,
my hands were recking with blood. My
mind had given way under this dreadful
shock, and w hen I came to life I could see
nothing, hear nothing, understand noth
ing: to the questions asked I could an
swer nothing, only my lips, in convulsive
trembling, kept repiKUng, "Maiiian, Hue
du Chateau d Kan."
The soldiers understood: they carried
me home on n litter, and for three days I
was delirious for a month I was iu my
bed with fever. When ut last I recovered
the Commune was dead and gone. God
grant that in our dear land of France it
may never live again! .1. H'.,
l.ijtpincotl't Mitffazine.
HOW TO WORK.
"Work well done is twice bne."
Never mix up things; do one thinz at
a time; begin one thing and finish one
thing-make cleiin work us you go.
Have order, system, regularity; a
place for everything ami everything in
its plane. Whatever you do, do it
well. A job slighted, la-cause it is ap
parently unimportant, leads to hubitual
neglect, so that one degenerates, in
sensibly, into biul workmanship.
Training the h.uid.-i and the eyes to
work well, leads) individuals lo lorm
correct habits in other respects, and a
good workman is, in most cases, a good
citizen. No one need hope to rise
above his present condition who suf
fers small things to pass by unim
proved, or who neglects, me taphori
cal!y speaking, to pick up a cent be
cause it is uot a dollar. A rival of a
certain great lawyer sought to humili
ate him publicly by saying :
"Vou blacked my father's boots
once."
"Yes," replied the lawyer, una
bashed, "and 1 did it well."
Everything in nature and grace are
active, full of life and motion, on the
wing. The sun, the moon, the spark
ling heavens, the tbiods. the rippling
brooks and flowing founts', the birds
warble on every tree in ecstasy of joy;
the tin v flower, bidden from all eyes
sends forth its fragrance of full hap
piness, and the mountain stream
dashes along with a sparkle and mur
mur of pure delight. The object of
their creation in accomplished, and
their life gushes forth in harmonic
work.
The French soldier is to have gray
trowsers instead of red hereafter.
The measles lately reduced one of
the schools of Hjllarid, VI., to one
scholar.
Fur fifteen years no Governor of
North Carolina has served out his full
term.
It Is proposed in Texas to Bell
enough wild lands tobuild a new State
House.
Already three claims to the 815
bounty ollereil by the Princess Louise
for triplets have been made within a
f-Mtiiiebt .
The agent of the Maine Beet Su
gar Company, who has jut returned
from a trip" to Europe to investigate
the industry there, reports that there
is no reason w hy it may not be made
profitable in New England.
India is said to possess a conveni
ent tree, called the "kapas,r which is
used as & telegraph post. When cut
down, ils branches partially removed
ami stuck in the ground, it readily
tnkos root, thus checking the ravages
ol the white ants and In-coming a living
telegraph post.
Miss .losie Faker, though only
sixteen, has just been uppoiMcd tutor
of the Creek language at Simpson Col
lege, lndiauola, Hi. Slie reads and
writes deck fluently, is equally pro
ficient in Latin, and' is familiar with
Fli nch and (ieriuan. When but eight
years old she bad read three books of
Ilonx r, as well its other (' reck authors,
and at fourteen had made a complete
lexicon of a tragedy of Sophocles.
M. fircvy, the successor of Marshal
M'Mahoii as I'lesident of France, is
sixty-six years old, and by profession a
lawyer. He has been in political life
for nearly thirty years, always occu
pying a prominent position, and en
joy ing in a IiL'Ii degree the respect of
all tin ties. As presiding officer of the
French Assembly, he was very popu
lar, his last election having been by W2
out of a total of 4iW. Although M.
(irevy is now the olli :ial head of the
government of 1' ranee, the real ruler
is M. Oamlietta.
Philadelphia has now six steam
ship lines, two to Antwerp, two to
Liverpool and two fruit lines to the
Mediterranean. She has doubled her
grain exports over last year, increased
her oil exports one-half, sent 2-,(KK ins
of machinery to all the world, includ
ing eighty luconiotlves.actually sending
out. says the 2rwi: Journal, "more
iron t ban the rest ol the United States. "
The commerce of the continent no
longer finds its centre in New York.
Jl islnti J'dM.
In Hie Northwest has lieen dis
covered a curious bug that lies con
cealed in flow ers and seizes bees and
wasps, which it holds t arms length,
and 1 roin which it sucks the life. It
also destroys plant Mce. beetles, butter
flies, caterpillars, etc. The species has
been known to inflict a painful punc
ture or sling on tlie human hand. It
is generally of a yellow color, some
times greenish, sjieckled with brown,
and is characteriz "d by immensely
swollen front thighs, and by the last
joint of the antenna-also being swollen.
Its bee-destroying tendencies are the
must alarming to naturalists.
A singular circumstance is told in
conHeelio.i wiih the death of Mrs.
Elisha Hunt, which recently occurred
at Rockland. Maine. For over twenty
years she had been a cripple, in feeble
health, and for the last ten years had
been blind. About 2ii minutes before her
death it was noticd that she followed
with her eyes the movement of persons
ilmiit the room, and on being asked by
her daughter if she could see, answered
that she could, she had lived m the
home of her son-in-law and daughter,
and had a strong desire to look upon
the fact s of thoBi- who had provided tor
her with the kindest care, and in the
last minutes of her life this privilege
was grained her-
A little girl in Bronkline, Mas.,
who attended a Kindergarten, carried
home fiom school the other day a pack-
ige of taiicy papers, 8H-ctally prepareu
to bt woveu into mills. It tell under
her father's eyes, aud his suspicions
were aroused. He sent several small
nieces of bright green paper to Profes
sor H.ibcock with a request that he
would make tests lor arsenic. llie
chemist pronounced the color and
arsenical cupper green, and remarked
that It wouiil lie very poisonous u
taken internally, or if the dust were
inhaled. He said emphatically that
no one would be just. tied iu placing
such a dangerous plaything in the
hands of children, and that there was
no necessity lor the u.-c of such poisons
for coloring paper, as there were harm
less greens well-known to manufac
turers which could be substituted for
thein.
A London phys'eian is collecting a
rurjnis of still isi ics on the question re
cently mooted by Charles Heade, and
has circulated a series of inquiries
whether the person addressed is right
or lefl-hauduii and has any trick or
mannerism involving the use of the
hand when in thought, and il so, it it
is perform' d invariably by one hand or
by IhiUi indifferently; if he can sua)
the lingers ot bom nanus wtiu equal
ease and effect ; docs he start off danc
ing or walking from one particular
foot; can he kick more freely with the
right or left leg ; over which corner of
the mouth has he the most control;
with which eye dot s he wink the moie.
easy aud which eyelid does he employ;
towards which side does he move more
freely the protruded tongue, and can
he niove his external ears separately,
and if so, which one is moved with the
greater facility. Py the way, all left
handed writing by right-handed people
is not similar in chttntr.ter. Duma to
tb contrary notwithstanding, for the
left hand adopt the trick of lb right.