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Transportation Of Communists

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Vork, Sopt. 5. A correspondent of the L adon Vi writinir i'i'uüi Cherbourg, August 3d, In the doek yard L went overone i i oní for nniüist pril ti u. The Bhip is named ihu G ih'1 is a sen w Bteamer of 2,000 or 2,5OÜ bons barden, and haring i . been built as a transport for horses is unusually lof tv between deoks. The arrangement made foi the prisoners are is follows: On each d atre being built) two on each side, eucli running 11 ar half the li ngth of éhe side and I about 160 by 12 feel or 13 feet broad. The sides of the compartía nis are fonned of itrong iron rail 1 at sufBcient di itance t'. oin the side and from the U itehway leading fo tl"1 engine room to ifford a clear l);!s ige around ; n ui prevent the possibility of prisonera doiug any iunrj eithur to the sides of the lip or to tho machinery. Around the sides t' the ■ ,:t 1 onches -. ;ukI hooks were being driven into the beam froin which hainmooks aro to be liun at. each end. Outaide tho cago, linted toward (lm pi ., gmall gun ia laid in a il il forui. Duiing the voyagi the gun wilï Iji1 tept 1 ani a gaard of thirty or forty marines will bc constantly on duty to prevent au outbreak. On the lowor doek will be iln siok bay, with low iron bedsteads and every convenience fot Burgecna and attendants. Tlic Garone is intendedto take 000 in all, 120 to 150 being thua placed in each Their destination 8 supposed to be New Caledonia.

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Michigan Argus