The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1871, Page 6

3 f" Herald Correspondents’ Accounts of ; Events In and Out of Paris, °THE CAPITAL UNDER FIRE Scenes of Death and Destrue- tion in the Streets. | ee eatita Be a CHAOTIC DESOLATION NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, Ballles secretly doing in Paris are shops in Paris where one can go and buy a Chassepot ror forty sous, provided he is recognized | 8 a supporter of the Assembly, It 1s asserted that the government has subsidized these places, and that the Bank of France has advanced immense sums of money to equip those who will fight, but Who will fight only when the Guards are engaged outside of Paris, [am disposed to believe that, the Ministry wil by a strong movement towards Paris try to engage al) the National Guards and baad tiem beyond the fortifications, Hage sean mee of | order” wiil nee by apnpinypene Aly ‘copy all the 4 dy appearing. This morning again carly artery au eeren at ME—ihe women of the Faupourg | ft. Antoine vegan to fight among themselves— among the wniscrable wretchedness which 13 found in this quarter at this time of deatn and murder, ‘Tbe wives of the guards Who march outside to fight the troops of the government are exposing the men who stay at home secreted from service. The wives of those Immolated through fear are, therefore, fighting their sisters, and we are having an Aimazo- nian confict which, if not bloody, 1s at least noisy A REIGN OF TERROR EXISTING. it, Dissensions and Disgust of the Parisians. FGLUSERET RULING WITH AN IRON HAND, Adiitional Particulars of the Storming of the Bridge of Neuilly. Pants, April 8, 1871. Paris is being bombarded tn earnest. From hal Past One tls afternoon till thirty-five minutes past © five Tcouuted more tan 100 projectiles whieh fell “Anside of Parts, seven-eighths of which bursi, damag- ing buildings, wounding cliizens and killing curious Observers. At two o'clock, from the Rue Rude, the very centre of all the falling and bursting shells (100 yards trom the Arc de Triomphe), I saw this terribly fratricidal w The Versailles army occupied the Pont de Neniliy, and at intervals of three minutes “directed shells down the Grand avenue, most of which exploded before reaching the Arc. The fire Jof the National Guards was constant but not rapid, Bua of conrse the effect could not be seen. WRECK AND RUIN. Inthe Avenue Josephine a chimney was carried ®Way at ten this morning. At the Rond Point, about the Arc, a man was kiiled by a shell, at the corner ofthe Rue Presbourg, and tne blood is still m the gutter. in the magnificent hotel of the Ottoman ‘Ambassador I counted tea holes made by a mam- ‘moth shell, the house being greatly damaged. Be- “Now the Arc the asphalt sidewalks as far down as the Rue ve Chaillot were torn up and indented in Reveral plac fragments breaking windows and “spreading general terror. Just above the Rue de Presbourg a shell burst and a fragmentcut a clean hole througu the door, entering the house—a neater + perforation was never seen, Pieces of tuis same Projectiio had been lodged in all the woodwork of No. 11 Avenue de ila Grand Armée ‘Pheils fell constantly in the Rue Rude, and one “gwhich exploded near the barrier killed a young ‘woman of twenty-three and wounded three by- Btanders. At hal/-past three there was aloud cry by the Arc, and three Belgian mitrailleurs few by ‘to the fortifications. THE EFFECTS OF THE FIRE FROM ‘ BATTERIES. _ Immedately the Versailles batteries planted at | She bridge across the Seine opened a furious fire, the + ghelis dropping all about the Arc de Triomphe and + Fichocheting down the Champs Elysées, causing a helter-skelter diminution of observers. But one or two were wounded. The Arc de Triomphe itself was Struck by a shell last night, and the smoke still Femains on ithe mght band corner Jooking toward | the Tuileries. At four the cannonade became more » Apteresting, for then the wiiratlicuses began to play @ud the people scattered rapidly A rified Projectiie struck te western of we tallest house on the avenue and i 1 clean through the building, going through the third story ‘and passing by a lady who was sewing. Luever . Baw such courage as is displayed by the Women, who every where excelled the men. | noted NO COWARDICE ‘on the part of the Guards. Circuit “mitted above the Avenue crowds were below watching THE VERSAILLES and such only as bad women can perpetrate. Thou- sands of people have moved ap to the Pac bourg st. Antoine to-day to witness the ridiculous scenes and hear the war of words now proceeding, retiring with tue melancholy retection—a bad sign. PROVISIONS [8 THE CITY AMPLE. Ihave made es. inguiries to-day about the alimentaiion of Belleville and La Villette, and find \hat provisions are still ample and that supplies are by no means scarce. Av the twelfth arrondissement supplies of bread and meat are served out to the needy every day at the expense of the city. The Commune is glad to order this humane act to be carried out, a8 hungry mouths are apt to make loud complaints. Last Appeal to Paris by Their Deputies to the National Assembly—Their Entreaties to Stop the Fratricidal Struggle and Hasten the Exit of the “Foreigner”—Clemency 1 am told that there | Recommended Toward the Captured Insure gents. The Verité has published the following declaration of the nine deputies of the Seine:— ‘This is not the time for long speeches. When the cannons ‘ow! and passions clash the voice of reason has no chance eing heard. For all that we, the representatives of Paris, cannot keep silent at the sight of the inisfortunes that over- Wwheim our country, at the sight of Paris in mourning and abandonment, There ts too sharp a pain tn our sadness, in- spired, as it is, by the eTusion of ood ; we suffer too much at the thoucht of the suiferings of Paris, condemned a(ter the cruel trial of a siege heroically sustained to a Aull more cruel trial, not to give vent to a ory of warning and sor- row from the bottoms of bleeding hearts, We shall abstain from all words that might feedthe angry passions or eo- veuom hatred, It 1s not necessary, alas!to agcravate, To soften down must be our alm. We therefore address ourselves in the first place to that numerons portion of the Parisians who desire Hoerty with order, who desire the resumption of work, but who also desire to secure the existence of the republic, and who are Apprebenstve of a certain faction of the National Assembly. We can tell them thatit would be unjust to say that the whole or even the majority of the Assembly is animated by that spirit; that, after all, the republic exists de fucto; that ft numbers ‘among the Assembly energetic and ‘vigilant defenders: not @ single member has as yet openly put nestion the republican principle; that {i this principle is saved no bad tntentions will prevent its coming to fruition and logical development. at the essential thing at present 1s to’ preserve from ail corrup! the republican form of government, which, ff it should perish, would certainly perish On the day when the prolonged vio: lation of the law, the excess of arbitrary proceedings, the aralysis of government, the war between city and cityand Between citizen and citizen, should lead to the bellef that the & that existence of the republic is "facompatible with the respect of law, commerce and industry, Individual security and public peace. As for those who have been led into insurrection by an extravagance of ideas, however sincere and disinterested, we tell them that they ought to have shrunk back at the thought only of aggravating and prolonging the evils of foreign occu- vation by adding to It the evils of civil discord; that if it 1s jegitimate to ask for Paris the full enjoyment of communal liberties, to demand it by a revolt against universal suffrage; the excess of centralization is an evil, the independence of the Commune, driven to the extremity of destroying national unity, the work of many centuries, is a still greater evil; and that to work tor the dismemberment of France 1s to take = backward course in history, to forsake the principles of rignt and to repudiate the tradiilons of the Frencn Revolution, ‘And lastly we tell the government that instead seeking the to stop the eusion of blood it ought, in our opinion, blish order. And {n the choice of the measures to at- tain this supreme end we conjure ft to remember the words pronoun the 8d of April by the Chief of the Executive— Words in which We thought to discover and have welcomed with joyatendency to adopt a policy of moderation; for this fratricidal striggle must be cut short. It must. As for 5 ourselves our line of conduct is plainly | marked out. We had the hope that it would be possible to end the agony the popula- tion of Paris and to fuliil 8 without passing through civil war, This hope has proved deceptive ; and we acknowledge it with it inexpressible sorrow, now that blood ia towing. But we do not der We shall remain at the post which the suttrage of our fellow citizeng assigned us, however sorrowful may be the position into which cir- cumstances have placed us. There shall-we remain until the bitter end. ‘Now that the republic is serlously endangered it is all im- portant for us to defend ft where it stands most in need of defence and where it can be defended by two elficacious means only—by reason and free discussion. ‘be representatives of V’aris, now at Versailles :—Louis Blane, Henri Brisson, Edmond'Adam, ©. Tirard, E. Farcy, A. Peyrat, Edgard Quinet, Langlois Dorian. How the People are Cheatedé—Rogucs and Demazgogues—Possible Results—The Rent Question—How the Reds Secured Power in Paris—fair Promises and Dishonest Inten- tions—Monarchy, Republic or the Empire. VERSAILLES, April 7, 1871. Paris has sealed the fate of the republic and made Champs Elyses. follets, happy faces, long assepots and ‘snuff-boxes,’* ; and excited crowds surrounded the Ely ' Whecry was, “THIEKS IS WORSE THAN THE PRUSSIANS !”” + _ Unjyersa: indignation was expressed at the As- sembly, and well-dressed citizens—not “reds"— afied “Aur armes! aus armes!*’ There was much amusement during this exciting day; men and { women joked, laughed and dodged the’ projectiles, | And argued about apprehended “last moments.” DEMORALIZATION. Leaving these scenes of fire and dame, and death Gnd destruction, | entered the Rue Royale. You ) May not be aware that thousauds of francs Bre probably changing hands at that moment. it 18 the club of the “Moutards,” the greatest \ “hell,” they sav, in Paris. What a contrast with the ‘ poverty you meet at the very threshuid of that oulding. While men at the first janaing are rolling ‘ wealth, whnie they gambie away a thousand franc + pill they litzie dream of the clamor for bread wich ‘8 heard beiow at the hands or little ragged children, i very want of bread 1s owing to the absence of * ir protector, who ts busied in fis turn killing his wrothers at tue Porte Maillot or at Neutliy. Opposite— Mat is, ov the right hand corner of the Rue Royale. we find the \iui-ter of Marine, the Navy Depart- nent, I should say, where VAST STORES OF MUNITIONS fre massed together. Ali the caniste! aeeded on the ramparts are supp seta peep ai the courtyard aud your thoughts are tuddenly carried back to the sishts witnessed on the | ranks of the Loire, save tis duference, that the | igares gatuered around the present camp fires are More hideous; that the smoke surrounding them ts | ten tucker than ever, and that the stench and the | ith is wore intense’ than witnessed elsewhere, And this 1s l’aris, the same Paris which M. Hauss- pann had turued into a “Vile de Luxe. % EASTER FETES AT BELLEVILLE. ‘The Belleville people are holding their annual Easter air. Here are roundabo &e., Moniagnes 1eusse: pooths filed with gingerbread. c! and numerous mis [ see no customers; { spend ai this juncture, and want of money makes + Frenelinan feel desperate. It exasperates lim | ‘Uose who have money; and occasions Itke | tend to germinate an intense hatred towards } he rich, “Why caunot we be rich too? Who pre- | rents us from veing rich? There ts only one man wMo prevenis us, aud tat man is the policeman, down with the policemaa! A has sergeani-de- nue! Remove him, and the road to liberty 1s open.” 1 upon as a transgres- Q ler that this cry is at The iptense hatred ung cated Classes against the sergeant en, gendarmes and everything onnected With the iystiiution ts beyoud all deserip- THE REIGN OF TERROR. The feclings of the better classs of citizens are “Mite divierent, and the turning moment of the for- “anes of Paris, and | fear its entire social dismem- erment, is approaching. 1 will Ulustrate what 1 gean:—To-day a lieutenant in the National Guards, — with the military glories achieved by the june outside of Paris, returned to the city in - it, and declared to his father that ne would @vandon we movement and return to his ; but, he added, “it is not possible. I I lam A DESERTER OR A SPY, the committee wiil arrest me aaa probably put au secret. it is dangerous in Luis momen: oO or show the white featier. ‘Vtiat can 1 do not edd many others are iu (11s same 1x, and too, high io authority avd iuduence 1 the ach man fears aud distrusts his neigh- and hangs on, as 1 were, trom tear of being a3 @ backslider and branded as a traitor. 1 that two-thirds of the men of tne Commune | now serving against convictions of their safety only serve becaure they hope for egress. Assy in prison, riourens dead and BISING TO ALMOST DICTATORIAL POWER, certainly not signs of the sweet Communal har- groWilg oat of such whims as are now gov- | Paris, This I mention because it ts the ap- of terrorism; and men, foreigners, Who have were tor thirty years tell me Paris never saw at sees to-day. The Journal Ofigiel of this ‘ in dignified parlance jays uown the jaw ting the seizure aud sacrifice of hostages, and te a dot what shall be done to a man (why # & Wowan') put under accusation. Who may vt be seized under this pretext’ Great consterna- on has followed tue appearauce Of this decree, and @ Blainpede to-day has been going on ul a very 0 pressure, people leaving Puris vy every accessi- | Outiet. There are 100,000 Frenchmen who would get beyond the fortifications if they could. is this Cluserety Vat? hey)” said a French. “ah te & jew moments ago? “Mon Dieu! I We heard of him at AMarsciiies, dat 1s all.” Well, hed i# the question being asked on all hands ‘wisans do not forget’ Gambetta, who was t “Minisier of War,’ aud they regard With more disdain than the imperialist ‘ displayed wwards the young repute 9 Baere! i wsolute; le has ail in lis hands; he 1s mart,” intelliyent, quick, aud in ail bis decrees the wilitary idea of organization, He is a cautiously cuining, and ofteu cunningly suc- I believe Paris is in his hauds and many the monarchy inevitable. This seems clear, as the situation is viewed from Versailles; and it furnishes one more iilustration of a case as old as the Gracchi, that demagogues always rivet the chains they are relied upon to loose. HOW THE PEOPLE ARE GULLED. It is singular to sbserve in this case of Paris against Versailles how the few political sharpers of either side have played the masses of tne people one against another, and how in cheating the people they have at last cheated themselves, Paris had at first a real grievance—a grievance that gave the sympathy of the whole people to a legitimate oppo- sition to Versailles. Versailles would not grant what was reasonably demanded by the people of the great city. Nearly the whole pupulation nad an nterest in a law on THE SUBJECT OF RENTS that had accrued during the siege; and people felt, tne shopkeepers especially, that as the purposes for whicn they lad lived previously had veen com. pletely defeated by the act of the State the State should in some way lighten their burdens, Ver- sailles put them off with flimsy pretexts. Again, Paris demanded certain municipal rights which she had lost under the empire, and logically concluaed the republic must restore, but the “republic” refused to hear. With all Parisin a state of mind that naturally resulted from this “denial of justice,” the emeute of the disorderly classes came. Paris itself might have put it dowa, but did not care to make the necessary exertion. Why should the people of Paris help @ government that at least did not care what became of them? So they stood siili and looked on. THE RISING OF THR ROGUES. In the opportunity afforded by this passive attl- tude of the true people of the city the rogues rose to power, Escabea convicts, demagogues hungry for place and plunder, political lunatics still mums bling the old formniw of Fourier and Prodhomme, worshippers of Louis nc and company, scarcely higher lu the humaa scale than the people who wor- slip monkeys if the South Sea islands—In short, the whole class of SPOUTING LOAFERS Who cannot or wil not earn a livelihood by honest means, became the governors of Paris and filled the places in her municipal counciis, and even took their seats as ministers of the general government, Never did sheer tinpudence so Wondertally triumph, Indeed, = power Of tue Hotel de Ville was founded on “cheek.” PAIR PROMISES PROM BAD HEARTS. At the beginuing the leaders of the Cmeute 8 hrewaly assumed the cause of the people and thus lea them lato a quasi! acceptance of what was done, Many @ very respectable old head nodded assent to the plausible placards posted on the walls as the groups gathered around hungry to hear the thougiits and purposes of the new rulers. Goold jouruals even urged the people to take partin the elec- tious that were to give @ semblance of validity to what had been done. Meantime the reds rabbed their bands with delight to see viat they really had wwer, with the Whole people of Paris practically titud them; at, without any abandonment of their own programme or purposes, they were nak- ing others supply all the force they needed. And the peopie of Puris only saw their mistake when they had no longer any remedy. PARIS THUS GAVE THB INSURRECTION STRENGTIL to commit acts that Justified the government iu put- Ung it down by extreme measures. Its viunder in accepung some relationship with the movement bad so associated all Opposition that the govern- Ment Was no longer compeiled to distinguish be- tween the opposition of good mea and the oppost- tion of bad men, and it thus put all opposition in a position that fairly authorized the goveryment to shoot at it. When once opposition has taken such ground that the government may shoot at it without Violating the ‘ural sense of rigit—when, indeed, 1 shoots In s athy with that sense the opposition may be looked upou as fairly done for. Nominally at the present moment the soldiers are shooting at the €mewte—at the murderers of Moutmarjre—but the old royalty of the Assembly chuckle and rub their hands with gice, just as ih did a lite while ago and lor a similar reason ‘ause they see that it is thetr purpose that 18 accomplishing quite as much as the purpose that appears ou tne surface. To them the dmwwte is merely TUE VENRERING OF THE REPUBLIC, and they know that the bullets go through. They- kuow thatthey aré notonly putting down Mont martre, but that tuey are uiso putting down Paris, the great hea) «{ stronghold of repubiican opta- tou. They could not put the republic down so weil, 80 cheapiy, so readily, in any other wi It will be jong before auother opposiuon makes good head Wuen the last was put down with artillery, And thus tie people of Paris on the one hand and the army on the other have been played by the reds and the royalists. TUB MONARCHY—THE REPUBLIC~71E EMPIRE. ‘at his mercy. A PRODABLE RISING WITHIN THE CITY. To the meautune What are te Ministers of Ver- There were three possiblities in the government of France—the monarchy, tae repablic, We empire; and wuill the émecte the empire was not looked upon here a in desperate Case; lor Wherever the re- NX panic has a hope the empire has @ hope, since both ave their basis on popular sovereignty, and since, Caesarism is the ultimate term of democracy. Monarchists look upon the empire as the state into which the republic fails when 1t loses control of itself, and from which at Ley es return to the republic t¢ possible and even inevitabie, and they consider that this re- source simply prevents restoration. In the gospel of monarchy therefore just now empire and republic are classed iogether, as the same power in different Conditions, aud the sign of the three feurs-de-!ts, under which the Assembly deliberates, is relied ‘upon to lay these evil spirits from tho yasty decp of popular wil | . . DOUBTS AND FEARS. TE may be possibie now that the Assémbly, behind the lines of the army, will fecl bold enough to de- clare a king, which would be @ blunder. It ts not less likely, however, to be dore on that account, But if this Assembly does not aeciare a king, If it leaves that act to a future body, it will so organize the elections for the formation of that future body as to make the choice of a king certain. in fact, Adaitioun! Particulars of the Fight on Good Friday at the Storming of the Bridge of Neuilly—the Rebel Troops Driven Back to Paris with Great Loss. VERSAILLES, April 8, 1871. To-day the government troops have gained an- other victory of the greatest consequence and importance as to its moral effects, to say noth- ing of the very severe lessons they have taught our rebel friends of the Parisian National Guards. When General Vinoy on Mon- day last cleared the left bank of tne river of the revel troops the latter made towards Paris by the bridge at Neuilly, and on the following night strongly for- tifled the middle of the same, and the end of it—the téte de pont—on the right bank, with a very strong barricade, a third of these truly varisian defences having been also erected at about half of the way up the Avenue de Neutlly, between the bridge avd the Fort Maillot. Last night, ata consultation be- tween Vinoy and the other generals here, it was de- cided that a blow should be struck to day at these barricades, and if possible a position taken up be- tween the right bank of the river and the fortifica- tions of Paris. The telegram I sent you this even- ing will te what theresult of the operations has been. THE MORNING OF BATTLE. Soon after six A. M. I received notice that there would be hot work during the day, but that if I put in an appearance somewnere near Neuilly about one P.M, Ishould be in plenty of time to witness the day’s amusement, The batteries of artillery and the brigades of infantry moving out of Versailles all the morning told plainly that not only the anticipated fight would be no chila’s play, but that Vinoy was determined, 80 faras human foresizht could do, to leave nothing to chance, The troops got down within easy reach of the bridge, but kept well out of tire, ABOUT TEN A. M., and there made a meal of what they nad brought with them, stacking their packs to be the better fit for work. From between Mont Valérien ana Neullly, where I finally took up my position—rather an unheroic one | coniess, for it is like anything but an American to lay at full length behind a mud Wall, but then shells and Chassepot balls do not im- prove on nearer acquaintance. 1 could see not only THE SILENT PREPARATIONS of the government troops on the oue side, but the Testless activity, 6nd the firing as ff w keep their spirits up, of the rebels at the other end of tie bridge. They evidently had tuat implicit tradi- tional faith in their barricades, which is about the only creed your Parisian rufflan knows. Wath the help of & good glass I could seo the bottle going round among the “reds,” and every now and then some officer among them trying to get them to do something, which they, with the most perfect disobe- dience, did not do. They had cannon both in the middie and at the end of the bridge, each being pro- tected by stone barricades, anu trom these guus they kept every now and then sending SHOT AND SHELL, changing their amusement by an occastonal dis- charge at any persun or persons they could see any where in the neighborhood, myself and my com- panion having no reason to compiain that they did not show us a fair share of attention. On the siae of the government troops all was kept perfecti: quiet until about three P. M., when a single sheil ‘Was sent over the bridge into the insurgents behind the further barricade, evidently leaving behind it a mark Which was anything but pleasant. Five seconds later MONT VALERIEN BEGAN TO SPEAK with an earnestness of tone tuat ieft no doubt as to its conviction and determination. When the first shell from the fort burst—a beautiful shot—just above the insurgents, there was evidenly great con- sternation in theirranks. The splinters fell, leaving @ round gap in their ranks. The second shell—haif a minute after the first—scafered still wider the formerly compact mass, In the mean- time, che field guns below fired at the distance of barely two hundred yards, shot after shot—not shelis—at the barricade on the mia- die of the bridge, and thereby solved a probiem which the revolutionary band throughout Europe wili not be pleased to hear. It was, so 1 am told, the first time that rifled cannen were ever tried agamst stone barricades of the regular Parisian faubourg buiid, and in the struggie the barricade got most decidedly the worst o: it, Every shot simply turned the stones of the varricade into so many shells, ail of which injured more or less tie defenders. In haif a dozen rounds AN OPENING WAS MADE IN THE BARRICADE, and its defenders had run to their second defence. Now the fire got hot. The artiliery of the govera- ment troops kept firing rouud shot af the second barricade and dropping shells be- hind it, utterly confounaing its brave defenders, many of whom we could plaluly see were knocked over, but many more kept moving judiciously to their proper rear, At last their guns were ail but silenced, although they kept firlag long shots from the houses they had taken possession of just behind the bridge. It was now the time to give the signal for the attack, and @ company of sallors, with a company of the line, jumped up and rusived forward, very gallantly Jea by their officers. More tnau one of them, lam sorry to say, were knocked over as they advanced. Tils party was closely followed by its supports, that again by the reserves, and the latter py @ battalion of chasseursa pled. Before they got half over the bridge the fire from the houses became fearful, and a couple of mitrailleuses that had been put in position beyond the bridge cid their dest to sweep it clear. Jn every act of life, aud certainly in every movement of war, there 13 a turu- ing poiut, and. THE TURNING POINT ON THIS BRIDGE AT NEUILLY had now come, Knowing what very young soldiers moat of the troops engaged were I fully expecied to see them either turo pack or commit tne almost equally great fault of stopping to fire. They did neither. And as I saw the leading flies -soldiers and satlors—spring upon the last barricade aud use their terrible sword almost made me belteve L could hear each ‘taud” of cold steel as it ente human flesh, grated against human bones aud tore asunaer human muscles and sinews, 1 drew a long breath, feeling that the fight was virtually won. Never in the fair share ot In- dian warfare that i witnessed years ago did | ever see soldiers’ biood more “up” against “niggers” than was that of the French troops to-day agaist the “reas” from Paris. THE REDS DRIVEN BACK, Tn five minutes the end of the bridge was folly in possession of the attacking party, Who seemed to wive, as their opponents evidently expected to re Ceive, nO mercy, and to ma no prisoners, But even then, as it appeared to me, the danger was only halfover, Many of the insurgents had taken refuge 11 the houses beyond tue bridge and opened across fire upon the troops, Street tghcug, as every soldicr kuows, is abouc the most trying orueal infantry car go through, But w-day THE FRENCH NEVER ONCE FLINCHED. Mont Valénen lent them a heiping hand with a few shells, one of whicu, piumping inv & house where a number of rebels had taken refuge and were iiring from, turned them all out like @ swarm or bees into the road, where they were met and kilicd in a haud to and encounter with the troops. The main body of the Insurgents now fed up the Avenue de Neu- illy, leaving some four or five guns in tic hands of their adversaries. THE REPEL ROUT. As they fled their own cannon was turned upon them and killed many before they couid get iusi the barricade wich they nad prepared as city of refuge, about haif of the way between the bridge and the Fort Maillot; but tue troops pushed them hard, and, although with immense pluck, wiih some lite rashness, The avenue is wide und as straight a8 an arrow; 80 thatit was easy enough to rake it as far as tne barricatles, Here, however, again the projectiles of the rifled cannon. together With @ few shells sent behind the barricades and @ few gentle hints frum Mout Valérien (tere 1s at any rate one uucommonly good gunner in that fort), sova cleared the barricade and allowed tie troops to take possession of it. After this THE PROGRESS OF THE ADVANCING PARTY Was tuvisible from where 1 was, aud neiher my laissez passer from the War Minster, nor my com- Panton, a well-known colonel on the stat, who, to- day, not being on duty, came with me to the scene of uction, would procure me leave to cross the bridge, The Major in command was polite, but inflexible. Now, even if I could wave passed the limits, would it, as the officer in command told me, have been pradent jor me w 50, seeIng that with a giass It was caay to perceive a great number of disbanded but armed rafians making of ta dy nt directions: in the Bois de Boulogne, and a solitary “red,” wheu in a bad temper, never finds @ littie bit of murder come ainiss? Tho government troops, as 1 saw, cleared their way to the barrivade in the avenue, aud, as | was given to understand at tie tine, m heir way to the Port Maitio This I now learn was an error; and that, after taking and destroying the barricade in the avenue, they mereiy made Vhat tigir advanced guard, and erected a pont at the Bridge of Newily for the night. About five P. M. 1 was obliged to leave in order to get a tele- gram away to-night, and having exchanged our horses ior a light T cart, with the fastest Irish mare 1 ever sat beaind, We reached Versatiles in time tor my companion to make the first report of tae Ogut Ube authorities here had received. A few minutes later the news witn all aetails was confirmed by a telegrain from. Mont Vailcrien, between which eq ana te Ministry of War there 13 a special THR LOSSES on the government side were severo to-/ay, Wore 80 thay might have been expected. ayonets with @ Vigor that | drst | | CITOYEN MOREAU. An Interview at the War Office of the Commune. Rei ‘THE REVOLUTION OF MARCH 18. Republicanism Not Suitable to the Views of the Versailles Government, WHY THE PRIESTS WERE ARRESTED. The Communal Leaders and the Lxercise of Public Opinion. Panis, April 10, 1871, Events are now drawing to aclimax. Everything connected with the leaders of the present move- ment ts of especial interest. This afternoon I called atthe War Office, where the headquarters of the celebrated Comité Central are now established, with the intention of asking the members of that body to atford me information concerning the gene- ral spirit of the present revolution, and their opinion with respect to the present situation of the capital. Having stated my desire to citoyen Moreau, who ‘was in company with two other members, that gen- tleman replied:— MorEav—You have asked me a straightforward question to give you DETAILS OF THE REVOLUTION of the 18th of March; I will do so with pleasure, CoRRESPONDENT—Before proceeding further, gen- tlemen, it ts right to state that my object in making the request is to publish in the New York HERALD the observations you may make. Nothing, to my mind, is more objectionable than reporting private conversations never intended for publication. The member of the Comi:é Centrale then pro- ceeded as follows:— MoREAU—The world 1s aware of the sufferings en- dured, the courage displayed, as well as the inca- pacity and treason of our chiefs during the siege. TREASON DEFINED. CoRRESPONDENT—You will excuse me for asking on what ground you charge the government of the (aL mber, ailerwards ratified by public vote, with tr Morgsau—The republican system would not suit their views—from it they had nothing to hope for with respect to personal interest or interct réligieux, By aelivering France to Prussia they hoped to kiil the repubitc, which they feared would ve consolida- ted by victory. CoRRESPONDENT—There 1s one expression of which you have just made use, which 1 do not andersiand, intérct religieux, To wnat does that refer? . MorEav—The expression refers to General Trochu, who is a Breton of wel! known bigoted principles, and to Jules Favre, who 1s a member of the Coliege of Jesuits. Not having succeeded in car- rying out their object by degrading France, they Nave resorted to the most horrible means in order to gain their end— CIVIL WAR. They have not even teared to place cannon in the works thrown up by the Prussians, ana thus for a second time have subjected the capital to a siege. On the 15ti March they attacked Paris In the streets with troops and witraileuses. The ae Tose, it 18 true, by order of the Central Committee, but this ‘was the order we gave:—“Que personne ne ttre, Si les troupes font jeu, respondez en sommant de deposer les armés, et ne repostez qu’ apres une seconde décharge.”” The people did not fire a single shot. The imposing masses were suilicient to terrily the government, ‘The government fied. REFERRING TO FACTS, CoRRESPONDENT—You will excuse me for suggest- ing that your statement is not in accordance with what | witnessed at Montmartre on the morning of the 18th of March. Lsaw the lifeless body of an oicer of Chasseur: ‘heval, borne from the ground, aud @ person with whom I conversed, and who said he was amiember of the Central Committee, declared that when some linesmen left to joia the Nawonal Guard, the gendormes fred on them, and that then the Guard fired in return. MoksAU—No; the people did not fire atall. The Person Ww! told you 80 Was not @ member of the Central Committee: be probably was @ member of the Belleville Committee. At any rate, the order given by the Comite Central Was—Let no one fire. If the troops should ao 80, cali on them to lay down their arms, and only retura the fire aiter a second discharge. The gov- ernment having left, we could not allow Paris to remam without administration and without bread. The cominitiee tustalled itself at the Hotel de Ville in order to provide for the necessities of the mo- Ment, and to prepare for the Communal elections. it has loyally performed tts mission, aud after engnt days’ exercise of authority retired, ieaving entire power in the hands of the Commune, which nas gov- erned exclusively since the 26th ult. The committee has prevented famime and the effusion of blood, provoked by the happily futile attempt of Admiral Salsset, and presided at the elections which the city Ol Paris demanded. It has neither attempted any Act of government nor issued decrees; It has simply Ve a the right of Paris to administer her own affairs. * CHURCH AND STATE—LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. CoRRESPONDENT—There are some acts which have been committed since the 18th uf last month, how- ever, Which to me, as @ foreigner, appear incom- prehensible.g In the first piace, with respect to the clergy. You have declared that Church and State shail be separate. If, then, the Church has no connection With the government why have you ar- rested tue Archbishop uf Paris and other priests? You deciared Itberty of the press, and yet you have suppressed el ccaren expressing diferent views tw your own. Moreover,you abolish the conscription, and yet you force ail men, married and unmarried, between the ages of nineteen and forty years, to bear arms, alt nga they may entertain convictions totally antagonistic to your own. Thus you do not even permit liberty of opiuion. MOKEAU—WItn Tespect to the clergy, they have been arrested as hostages, &% security for the Church property, which belongs to the nation; but you must bear in mind that none of the acts to Which you bave alluded have been committed by us. They have been decreed since the 26th March, waen the Vommune assumed tie reins of power. ‘The Comité Central approves of no repressive mea- sures, Jam now speaking personally, not author- ized by my colleagues, but 1 believe tuey entertain the saine Views as myself. One of the citizens present here said, “No; rou speak for ail of us; We are of the same mind.” The earnestness With which the members of the com- mutiee spoke convinced that they really disapprove of many acis Which have been comiitied siace the installation of the Commune. Anxious, however, to obtain Weir opinion concerning an act Which has led dows the indignation of Europe on the heads perpetrators, | said:— KRESPONDENT—lhe first page of the present revuiution Was stained with blood; Ldo not allude to collision between tie troops and the people, but toan act which in the United States has been con- sidered murder— THE DEATHS OF GENERALS LECOMTE AND CLEMENT THOMAS. Morfav—With respect to that we are Innocent; the Cointié Central only became acquamted with the Lact on the day succeeding that on wluch the Gencruls uted, General Lecomte commanded the pssent to attack the National Guards, How- ever gullty he may have been, tue Central Commit- tee had absolutely nothing to do with his deat, as well as with that of General Clement Thomas. 1 swear that no condemnation of any kind had been pronounced by the Central Commitee. We bave aiso been blamed for the arrest of General Cnanzy. That oficer was ar. rested simply on vsecount of being the only general suificiontly popuiar in tae army to be maae Use Of a8 a drepeou ol civil war, We demanded his Word of honor that he would not serve in France for the neXt SIX Months, except against a foreign ene: showd @ fresh Wer break out, He piedged his word aud was immediately released. People ca'l us rioters, I ask of those who thus speak of us ww froters can bring into the Held or battle an army of 100,000 men? There was one pot to which 1 forgot to call your Attention, although tie decree which epforces all men Lo bear arms Was Ho act of ours, The conscrip- Hon bas been abolished, but there 13 an old- French law long velore We conscription Which binds every man to bear arms. THE CONSCRIPTION. ConresponpEnT—Yes, but that law must have had reference to foreign war. It could never have been jntended to force Fre ichmen against their will to Lear arms against their fellow citizens. A friend of mine—a Frenchinan—father of four children, ob- Jects strongly to join in this civil war, although ne did his daty without shrinking against the Prussians auring the siege. ‘One of We citizens present replied, “I am a mar- ried man myself. have children; but I would nore willingly fight against the goverment at Ver- wailles than the Prussidus. The acts committed by tne Varia government have made tt the bounden duty of ati to lake up arms, He who would not do 80 can be no Frencoman, THE EXERCISE OF OPINION, i CORRESPONDENT—You will excuse me for saying that what you now urge 18 a proof of my previous suggestion that If you force all to take up arins against their will you suppress the exercise of opinion, one of the first liberties which shouid be recognized in a republican country. Iam personally obliged for the courtesy with which L have been re- ceived, You must not think that the questions 1 have asked have been turough impertinent curiosity. My object has been to make the truth public in We United Staves, and IT shail esteem it a favor if you Wiil let me have a wrtiten note of the salient points Ot our interview, so that no misconception may arise. CONCLUSION. ‘at not i ‘The citoyen Moreau promised to let me have what req ured, aud has Kept mis word. He added, “You APRIL 25. 1871-QUADRUPLE SHEET. have heard the truth, and I thank Jou for giving an opportunity of making it known.’ Before taking my leave I impre: on him that I should simply relate facts, without offering any opinion, and that the Central Committee must not be annoyed should the American press differ in opinion with the views Thad heard expressea, Before closing my letver, I cannot allow the oppor- tunity to pass of declaring that 1 have invariably found every facility accorded to my be the Central Committee, and of bearing tesamony to the cour- tesy with which the gentleman I saw this afternoon received my quesitons, some of which, made by & foreigner, I fear were unjustidable, MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS, ene pte sO ee Much anxiety {s felt in many parts of England on account of the lowness of the water Bupply, owing to the dry winter. General Cremer has been appointed by the Central Committee to the post of superior commander of the forts and ramparts. The Minister of the South American republic of Ecuador has sent a protest against the occupation of Rome to the King of Italy. The First Prussian army corps has recetved orders to hold itseif in readiness for marching upon Paris immediately on notice to that effect being given. ‘The following nouce, showing how the officials of the Commune attend to their duty, is stuck up on the door of the police station of the Champs Ely- sée3:—“The office is open from nine to twelve and two to five o'clock. In case of absence inquire at the wine house round tae corner.’ Crowds of women assemble in Paris and pretend they are about to march towards Versailles, in or der to throw themselves between the combatants. The women are invited to come forward, with children inarms, and stand in front of the National Guards, sothat the soldiers of Versailles may not dare w freon them. Their heroism 1s much applauded. ‘The triumphal entry of the Prussian troops into Berlin 18 postponed until tue 3d of August, the birth- day of the Emperor's father. On that day last year the monument, in commemoration of the war of 1866, was to have been unveiled, but the outbreak of hostilities with france necessarily deferred it, The entering of the troops and the unveiling of tne statue will now take place on one day. The Voss Gazette gives the following as the num- her of the troops engaged on both sides in the battle of Ktniggratz and the princ'pal battles of the Franco-verman Wat: Roniggress, 240,090 Prus- sians, 220,00 Austrians and Saxons; Gravelotte, from 240,000 to 270,000 Germans, ‘tat least’ 210,000 French; Woerth, 150,000 Germans, 69,000 French; Speicheren, 45,000 French, 32,000 Prussians; Mars- la-Tour, until half-past four in the afternoon, 45,000 Prussians against at first 120,000, afterwards 160,000 French; in the evening 100,000 Germans against 200,000 French; Sedan, 210,000 Germans, 160,000 French; Orieans (third ’ batti Germans, 200,000 to 240,000 French; Le Mans, 80,000 to 100,000 Germans, 120,000 to 140,000 French; Bel- fort and Montbéhard, 32,000 to 36,000 Germans “at most,” against 100,000 to 110,000 French. ‘The three greatest battles of the present century, so far as numbers go, are Leipztg (270,000 to 300,000 against 190,000), Gravelotte and Koniggritz, ¥ The Staats-Anzeiger gives some particulars or a method of cultivating the potato, discovered by Guhlich, of Pinneberg, in Holstei, and which, 1t is said, has given surprising results where employed. ‘The leading features of this culture are:—1. ‘Turnimg up the soul to a considerable depth. 2. Choosing as seed Jarge, sound and many-eyed potatoes, 3, Leaving each seed-potato a space of twelve square feet, 4. Laying the tubercle with the budding siae down. The report laid beiore the Franktort Agri- cultural Society communicated the lollowing resalts ofthe experiments:—In one morgen (two-third of an acre), Where each potato was leit twelve square feet, the produce was 108 scheffels (German busheis) ; another morgen of land, were each had a space of nine square feet, yielded 88 scheffels; in a third morgen, where each potato was left s1x square ieet, the produce was 78 scheffels, he advantages of Guhilich’s system, therefore, consist of:—1l. A saving of 6-7 schetfels per morgen in seed; and 2 An in- crease of irom 20 to 100 per cent in the produce, A correspondent writes from Parls:—On the da; the red flag was sotsted upon all the public build- ings of Paris, and the fez introduced as tne new vonnet rouge, l learn that the Turkish Chargé d’Af faires immediately forwarded to the authorities at the Hotel de Ville a complains against the use of the national embiems of Turkey, A meeting of the Executive Committee was at once conveued to dis- cuss this.new dificulty, and 1 understand that it has been arranged to itroduce into the centre of the ilag two chassepots saiter in yellow, with & white arm and dagger above them, resembling the crest of the Douglas family, of Locileven, witn the motto “s’assure,”’ at the same time apologizing to the Turkish representative and disavowiug any in- tention of iusult to the Ottoman empire, With this apology the Chargé d’Affaires 15 said to have been Leong I beg see seeing that the chassepots and loody hand are not likely to be mistaken for the crescent and star. Whether the representatives of the Morton family or Sir Howard Dougias will call upon them to remove their crest with the Freach translation of “Lock sicker" (“Be sure’’) remains to be seen. The Gaulois tells the following story:—Madame P., a granddaughter of General Oudinot, remained 1m a corner of her chateau while the rest of it was occupied by the Prussians. On their departure tue commandant of the party waited on Madame P. and thanked her for her hospitality. “str,” she replied, “you have nothing to thank me for, As victor you had the power oi entering my nouse, and you availed yourself of it.” ‘Madame,” said the German, “I had @ particular regard for you, as lam weil aware you are the granddaughter of General Oudinot.” Madame P. drew herseif up. “Yes, sir, fam, I still keep @ letier written by Germansto my grandfather, i testimony of his probity, and thanking him for ~ his honorabie conduct. He was at the time Governor of Berlin. In those days conquerors did not carry Of clocks.” The Prussian Officer bit his lips, trowned and retired. A quarter of an hour later he summoned the mayor of the little hamiet, and ordered him at once to raise 25,0v0f. as ransom for the town. The wretched village did not po-sess half the sum demanded, and the miserable mayor tore off to tell Madame P. “Very weil,” she re- marked, “I will be responsivie for fhe money. Ke- fer him tome.” In @ short time the commandant wera and asked forthe money. Pointing to a closed secretaire the French woman assured him that the money Was there, and added, “You may take 1% Iwish to see you break open my things. ‘Takeit.” The commandant siunk away, If this story be true the Germaus fave mere bashfulness than they get credit for. FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP. The Prince and Princess Royal of Denmark are now in Stockholm. Art states that Mr. Foley and Sir Edwin Landseer are recovering from their recent illness, General Shicridan and@ General Forsyth have been adinitted to the honorary membership of the London Reform Club. Robert Mitchell, the edilor of the Constitutionnet, who had been a prisoner of war in Germany, las re- assumed the direction of his journal. Ivis said that Prince Charles of Roumania will await the result of the elections before deciding funally whether he will abdicate or not. Louis Blanc and eight Paris Deputies have signed & declaration condemning revolt agatngt the Asse m- bly, but aMriming the maimtenance of the republic to beessental. ‘The death of M. Kuss, Mayor of Strasburg, was by aremarkabiy sad coincidence closely followed by the death of M, Felix Maréchal, Mayor of Metz, wno departed life on March 30, The ex-limperor Napoleon, accompanied by the Empress and the Prince Imperial, will (says the Lon- don Globe) shortly pay @ visit to Wooiwich to view the Royal Arsenal, on which occasion a grand re- view will be held of all the troops in garrison. The Newcastle Chronicle announces the death of Mr. Rovert Donkin, ot the Ingram on the Breamisn, one of the most extensive sheep farmers in North: umberiand, and a man of great local influence. He Was ninety-six years of age, and had occupied the farm of Ingram for sixty-five years, M. Ulysse Parent, another member of the Com- mune, has retired to avoid respousiblity. Counung Assi arrested and Flourens kilied, there are already twenty-six vacancies In that august body; and it 1s sald that citizen Rane intends to send in his resige on ‘his looks as if the rats were leaving tue p. There are now several thousand: of the insurgent prisoners in & building at the camp of Satory, near Versailles. The cells are above grouud, but the risoners are kept in darkne: the prisoners are fastened, and the light 18 excluded by planks of wood. Each prisoner 18 aliowed one pound of bread aday. Those who aliege that they suffer from the confinement are taken iato tie alr, and the doors are opened three times a day to prevent miasma. Americans who have been resident in Berlin since autumn of last year are leaving the city in consiuera- ble numbers, ta order to make tours tn Italy and other States of the Continent during the spring. ‘Their usual places ol assembling, such as tne saloons of Mr. Bancroft, have lately assumed a rather deserted aspect, the fesuvities expec early in May upon the triumphal entry of the army seeming to have less Charins tor otr fellow citizens than for thousands of the English who are preparing tw be preseat at the splendid pageant. MM. Woif and André, two celebrated savans, have written the following on the precautions to be taken for che next transit of Venns in 1874. They recommend:—1, that —_ reflectors, equatorially mounted, twenty-iour centimetres in diameter (about ten Inches), be used; they shouia be reudered aplanetic and externally stiverea by L. Foucault's methods; 2, that the exact adjust- ment oi the eye piece be secured by means of & recicuie situated in the focal plane; 4, thata series of measures of the successive positions of the planet on the sun'sdisk be taken, in order to verify, and if necessary to correct, the observations of the coutacts; and 4, that, for a fow days previows to the transit, both instruments observers be movable disks, genet tw a sort of training wit ‘9 that they may become aware of the disturbing agencies they may have Lo encounter, DUC D’AUMALE: Movement to Elevate Him to the Throne. Secret Gatherin a a of His Adherents Tours. The Conspirators at the Hotel de Univers. Alleged Participation of Bishop Dupanloup. Negotiations With Count de Chambord. MPORTANY STORY—IF TRUE. Panis, April 8, 1872. One month ago to-day the Prince de Joinville and the Duc d’Aumale arrived in Tours, carefully habited in the disgutse of Russian noblemen, and were the guests of one of the best known of the Touraine nobility. There was soon a very noticeable activity among the gentry and rich owners, and soirées were given and private entertainments and | rich, fine dinners were ordered at the ‘swell’ res- taurateurs of the town. People remarked that the chateaux on the lofty bank of the Loire were becom- ing gay again, and these self-styled noblemen from Russia were being /éted with golden hospitality. They remained in Tours but a few days, and on the Saturday following their departure there was an im- portant meeting of the Touraine nobility, and all, in fact, in the vicinity favoring the pretensions of the DUC D'AUMALE TO THE THRONE. The gathering took place in the Hotel del’ Univers, and attracted no attention because of the irregue lar manner in which the gentlemen dropped mm, ‘here 18 @ tine stable attached to, the house, and the fact that many horses were ‘there on that particular day was not at all strange. ‘The first meeting was, therefore, organized in the large parlor fronting the Boulevard, and which is situated on the second floor. The most intimate friends of the Duc a’Aumale, then brought forward the proposition that he should be given the crown with all practicable speed, and the twenty-two pre- sent assented; but it was thought best to adjourn the gathering until about this nucleus should clus- ter all the nobility on the Loire, A committee was appomted, and the meeting adjourned until the fol- lowing Saturday, when forty-four were present. There was now an animated discussion touching also the claims of the Count de Chambord and the Count de Paris, the latter of whom is inimical to the interests of the Duc d’Aumale. The conspirators again adjourned for more num- bers and to await the events to transpire in Paris. The third meeting was held on the third Saturday and sixty-five attended. But before this convocation cau- tious efforts were made for adherents and proselytes, All the shop windows of Tours and the small towns of Tourraine were filled with photographs of the Duc d’aumale in the same way as if he were a young prima donna about to make her débiit. An actual sentiment was tieretore created, though the meetings ef the monarcnists were kept a profound secret. Last Saturday the session was highly important, and touched ail the details of an armed possession ofthe throne. The royalists claimed that France by an overwhelming majority wasm favor of a king, and that this majority and its dearest, most vitat interests coula not be destroyed by mad socialists, who would keep the republic im constant interaal turmoil. + Archbishop Dupanloup having left the Assembly at Versaliles upon a plea of sickness to reside at his chateau in Orleans, artiully contrived to be present at the third session in Tours, The discussion was long and animated. Finally a committee was charged to see the Count de Chambord and get him to retire all his interests in favor of the Duc d’Aumaie. The committee appointed to see Gene- ral Charette at Versailles reported that he was all ready to adnere to the Duc with his army when re- leased from his loyalty to the Count de Chambord by the Count’s formal abandonment of the throne. Negotiations are now going on between the friends of the Duc and the Count himself. There 1s to pe another meeting to-day, and it is thought that the movement already so formidable will succeed im forcing @ king on the heels of the collapse of the Commune of Paris. These facts I have related were reported to me first and to General Cluseret afterwards, and the General yesterday ordered that active measures should be taken to nullify the scheme. GEOaGIA. ye Lecture by the Colored Senator Campbell on the State of Affairs, the Ku Klux and Other Matters. A large concourse of our colored citizétis as~ sembled last evening at Zion church, corner of Bieecker and West Tenth streets, to hear Tunis G. Campbell, State Senator irom Georgia, lec- ture’ of affairs as at present exist ing m that State. He gave a vivia description of the trials he and his feliow colored representatives were subjected to by the democrats of the Svate, He was somewhat self- laudatory in his description of the part he took im the organization of the first Legislative Assembly after the war, and especially in tte House of 1809, when he was threatened with instant assassination if he read y rotests against the admission of certain white members. He sail that he was toid that eight members of the Ku Klux, four of them in each gallery, were waiting to hear him read the protest when they would riddle him with bullets, But, said the Senator, “I felt that the time had come when} should stand forth for my race and the principle of impartial freedom, and with strong and steady voice and determined will I read those resolutions— seven of them—till I was called out by the Governor of the Stave, and he begged me to read no more, His face was of a greenish white cast and terror sat depicted on his countenance, but ‘was not afraid. I went back amid the uproar and copfusiod aud stood firm.’ Mr. Campbell continued in this strain for some time, and denounced the Ku Klux with considerable venemence, vut failed to make mention of any sitive jacts except the murder of Senator Atkins. _ Je said that he nad always preached love and good ‘wil towards all nen; but now the time had come for action, and since Congress had passed the Ku Kiux biil he hoped nis people would act, gira on their armor and do battie for their rights, After the secture Mr. Aaron J. Powell addressed the assembly and read a series of resolutions com- plimenting the Senator and the republican party, and denouncing the democratic party as hypocriti- cal and insincere. NEWARK’S LATEST HORROR. The calamitous fire in Newark on Sunday, by which, as already reported in the HERALD, Ballen- tie’s large malt house was almost totally destroyed and one human being burhea to a cinder, broke out again yesterday morning, but was quickly sub- dued. The disastrous character of the con- flagrauion 13 declared to be chargeable, to & greater or lesser extent, to the fact that the water supply pipe in Rector street, adjacent to the malt house, was not In order, so that the flremen had to run their hose down to the river before a stream of water could be obtained, The pipe was broken on Friday. On Satarday the work- men falled to complete the repairs, and were allowed to quit work at tive orclock, when @ couple more hours would have com- pleted it, Mr. Ballentine and the insurance men attribute the loss In great meusure to ths fact. To repidity and cvoiness of the Clict Engineer, ju, two “plpemen” probably owe there ives, ‘The ladder on which they were standin; slipped, and one of the men caught a window si and beid the ladder while the Cluef mounted nim bly and adjusted it, The woman who was run over by a (rightened horse is not quite so badly hurt us @ first suppo-ed, and she may 1ecover, Her name & Julia ut.