The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1871, Page 8

8 PARIS ROUGE, Photograph of the Appearance and Description of the Paris of 1871. BEFORE THE FALL OF THE-REDS The Ruin and Desolation, Deserted Houses, Fhying Population, Funerals, Destitu- tion and Financial Prostration. FROM DAWN TO SUNSET. The Line of Battle—Its Topography and Landmarks—Fighting Al- most Breast to Breast. DETAILS OF THE BOMBARDMENT. Paris as It Is and Paris as It Should Be. FUTURE OF THE IMPERIAL CITY. Paris, May 1, 1871. Paris of many centuries, always the gayest, often ‘Me saddest, capital of Europe, 1s in May, 1871, in the most eventful epoch of its history, The rien and curious, visiting this city long before it became Most famons of all the cities of the world, and later years commg here to live among Its luxu- Ties, little know to-day how It is mutilated, how its fair face 1s wounded and bleeding, the prey to civil War and local disorders that may reign yet for many mouths. As Iwander from day today along ‘these streets and boulevards I can can well measure THE GREAT CHANGB that has taken place. But two events need to be remembered: indeed, they force themselves upon he memory as you walk, for instance, along the Avenue Josephine without meeting a person scarcely 4m these sunny days of spring. I mean the Exhibl- tition of 1867 and the disastrous declaration of war by the Duc de Grammont mm July Jast. Where the world’s pageant was from Gay to day defiling through the capital in 1867, you ave now the funeral cortége; where then the tri- color, now the flag of the Commune; the gay Georgian, with her pewlldering beauty, is replaced by the poorly clad daughter of an ouvrier ; elegant @quipages are succeeded by the heuvy dray horses of the National Guards, bearing bread and forage to the scene of slaughter, beyond the fortifications; gad the only Paris that you find 18 a Paris of lifeless mansions, deserted cafés, closed hotels and frag- mentary battalions hurrying to outpost duty. Even ‘though we haye BEAUTIFUL WEATHER, . @lear skies and soft, salubrious airs, tt brings no eheer to Paris. It reminds you of walking in un- @istarbed solitude among such imposing splendors @6 embellish the palace at Versailles. Imagine a careless promenade along the Champ Elysécs, when you walk in the echoes of your own footfalls—no more ianghing, coquettish grisettes; no more rolling Carriages, shining liveries; no more costumes of the street and productions of the artist and modiste. You cannot criticise the last caprice of the Tul- series, or pull out your handkerchief to some passing | @cqotia ance of TOE BEAU MONDE, ‘The little Poncn and Judy shows once so pert in ‘Weir cunning gyrations unaer the maples of the Park, epd the hobby horses, the circus, the strolling cbidren and flirting nurses—these have gone on a temporary visit. Soells do not permit them to en- Hiven this, the Bnest avenue in the world, You can Bnd along on some bench beneath a tall tree, lying carefully pot away in the shade, a poor devil of a man, sleeping off the effects of an unguarded hour, or poor National Guard who bas crawled into a quiet place to sufer unbelped and unknown of a Wound caused by a bursting shell. This is ali there | te to compensate fur (he GIDDY AND JOYFUL PARISIAN, Mndced cosmopolitan, beauties that once reeled along | the avenue, You can perhaps pass half way up to the Triomphai Arch, meeting but a dozen, and that Gozen ts composed of persons who go there for | meditation, to sketch or safely listen to the bombard- | ment of the Porte Mailict, stil golug on with uure- Dewting fury. In endeavoring to reproduce Paris to the readers Of the HBRALD as it exists now, I should state that ® mere outline of ite condition cannot be satisfac- | tory. You ook at Paris from three thousand mules away ws come with me and enter into the though! of the momeut, and I shall try to think asT Know millions of Americans would think were bere Curing ths civil War and spectators of the great events Bow decimating unhappy France. It Bot enough that you sould it down and see the Pash, (he smvke, and thew boar the discharge of the guns (rom Mowat Valerien, and nervously watch for tee shell Which Makes He Coa! just avove your dead. You must inquire “WHAT DOBS THIS MBAN i” “Who doce thier” “Por what is it done!’ Oh, there # 6 man; he can tell me. “epee! tale et eed” I ay by way of Introduc- | on“ Prenebmen fring upon Frenchwen; French- meen Geewortng (he pade of Fraace, and killing ew own srowpers.” “Yea, Monsicus, it 8 sad," be goes on, as the little Sparrows Mag, aOG We mt Gown logether on a bench. a beve seem turee revelations, many riots, but Bever ub Near thoes gens —vever those vefore— “t my Were sireager to my cars.” ‘The thar France against Paris, Paris oguine' Frade’ 100m) Badnem, Movelear | Be bere bo gee mon None ihe © astington ” ee a bal 6 grea: man! He is not oe er Tere o pele & country back, Hels wer Monee ar ee op above bis countrymen ene shoves Au Counuy ahead a whole ceutury— ai madaegs | | 7 oe bentred peers, Weebingten did that for see e ewer, © «© Oiferent way, Das done eet (or Germeny 481 cur Mareemen—what have * (be po desire, then « lactose and drag yeu" ell, | 0 obus | telemmen, ne gea- we tar & Mere coBVeTsA- © te Triumphs! ootre Mia Weeas have ome, Co Oaung WIL we Woe tae Bed on | & the or hom not unwel- we & feedeute of (h@ quarter ) vietaity. Aga, whee oe he : bat we et the cfY, 1 tesources, military | Co ven ihe tom of troops and | ew Was ave ae get Gally bread and | oon We 2* Carly, perhaps with (ay . than be Whe sie down ly waten the ft, me het Gael dow rootung ‘Ginaue Bu! (ve duieful speeches uf Kemain ng 1,260,000 Reuonal Guards 463,000 Thus (bere are rs (han ove wilion neo-Combal- out in Par to-day, aod of th every evidence iat Lue ma, vamber there is eovatn the Com Legion of Hopor are om the persons of for ign oo BeVer Iead of oF a Uted Freach- Hence taking away thw 265,000 National B¥eid9 a04 Wels (ames and (here are jens than NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. not Atrectiy Saree Pas im figbttng 0 this wires to them: Commune ve order that the sofde should not be endangered, From this and @ thousand other ca tag Svar “every 5 ib Wiad ii i # } i i : ans of pecal managed to live out pote with the same priva- ons a8 followea oe bos of the populauon, DI however. ¢ cannot always thrive on fami nearly empty, Comma has falsned the business, and new nothing bat the Kindness of @ rich American vented the proud mother from charity, 1 mention this because I pelleve at take some measu: the any means think am Ty dint pleasures should roa noourage: jeasures e ment from @ public fund. The ‘tiers, however, are deserving; aud {t 1s a notable ‘that rich Ameri- cans abroad do not usually take those in distress bj the hand and beg nga Money seems to hi higher value on side of the Atiantio than on the otner. While on this sabject [ might as other cases—those in the Latin quarter— THR YOUNG AMBRICANS who come to Paris ag students—and they are many and worthy—have und ne great hardships. Money is and has been for @ month past very scarce. Everybody is borrowing, and bo! too, en an uncertainty. J could tell many instances where personal apparel, Watohes, clothing of every nature, are either pledged as security or are now exposed in some dingy pawnshop along nal, People must not sup; that living in Paris at this moment is a charming existence our funds are ready and always available. It does not do even to hold “actions” in avaiwey, One lady, who has ee money invested in the Lyons road, is now embarrassed, because she aves not care to sell her bonds ata great discount, and sucha thing as negotiating a k On collateral security simply laughed at, When ROTHSOBILD’S SIGNATURE cannot be found in Paris money matters are some- What mudadied, Through all this hazy and unwei- come prospect I hear Frenchmen cry, ‘Oh, tor United States bonds!” I was ina bauking house the other day, reading the quotations, and there a Frenchmanj remarked, ‘Lihat 1s the credit won by moderate republicanigm,”’ In such a state of affuirs, everything dearer, and meaner at that, those seekiug their cosmopolitan education across the Seine have truly hard times. 1 know Americans who can rarely be seen on the boulevards, and who, in the seclusion of their chambers, have studied for years, preferr- ing to avoid their own countrymen and live in the Frencn fashion, so as to study the habits of the people. Distress brings them out, and hence you often see new faces in the favorite American haunts. Thave ofteu thought 1f the truth could only be known about that tine young man, handsome in face, in eee who talks lightly and laaghs gayly, you would fad that he lives on one meal a day and that at half afranc. Sucn 1s life here. Yet 1 do not believe that he 1s @ poor Man or deserves wick com- miseration wno is here to-day. Asa DISTINGUISHED AND RICH AMERICAN once said to a begzar in the street, ‘Go along! Why do you ask alms of me? Why 1: 1s_ worth $100,000 to be able to live in any manner in Pans.’ And 8o the beggar did not get his sou. Then, wih Frenchmen, whether under empire or republic, the American has @ certain prestige upon i indepen- dence. When Napoleon was giving his court bails at the Tulleries an American gentieman drove np in his carriage to the carpeted entrance of the pal- ace, passing, accidentally, a French nobleman of high rank. The nobleman at once reminded the Amertean that be had precedence tn alighting an: ascending the steps because gf higher social rank. The American denied this, and claimed, in a courteous way, that such etiquetic could not oprain in his case. Tt was finaily agreed to submit tne dispute to THE EMPEROR for his decision, and he said, “The American has precedence, because he 18 a sovereign and you are a subject.” Since the Commune has begun the sxme is true, Every American who applies obtaiss a laisser passer Lo visit any part of the elu of batiie, to go In or out, and when he does go he is received by the Communisws with the happiest marks of ap- preciation, In visiting the battiefleld during mo- ments of great excitement I have teen saiuted with great kindness as @ correspondent of the HERALD, “le yournal de ia liberté/’ Even deserving as the French people are of the severest criticism for their moral and political decadence no American can complain that he fa not more welcome tn France than in any other country in Europe, The unexampled § foe ogo of our country, labor reforms, brotner- | oods tor ELEVATING AND INSTRUCTING TAR POOR, the practical workings of our institutions, and our written constitution re all discussed by these men with intelligence and zeal, They uaderstand ono thing that M. Thiers and his followers do not— primary education, They say, and justly, that the American Union 1s based upon that fact, and upon no mere idea of abstract rights, impertectiy under- stood and then feebly carried ous. One man told me that under the empire the appropriations were 40,000,000 francs per year for education and 600,000,000 for the army, aud 40,000,000 for the chareh, "hat State cin stand such a superficial application ot even imuperalisn tuey say. “Yrance has fallen by her own toily.” The reunions gud public prints continue to agitate the quesuon of INSTRUCTION in different ways aud from various points of view. It does not seem Lo me that it is all understood here, not even the rudimentary principies. But there are hundreds of men who are highiy educated who sympathize wiih the Commune, They are mea who Wad no distinctions under the empire, no decora- tions, and, in short, Were not then apprectated as they thonght they ought to have been. They com- prise an erratic School of artists, electric journal- ists, caf’ Wits, would-be wags and young authors, both dramatic and poetical. Of course, such a mé-a.ge gives us ecores of tdeals of what popular education might be, but what it never cau be. In fine, the French must either teach TOO LITILE OR TOO MUCH. Every man must be a musictan before he knows “the rule of three,” or a reader of the encyclopwxdists before he understands his own language. A prac- tical, progressive and tried sysiem of education is still beyond the French inteliecc to comprehend. LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF PAKI3, T do not remember ever to have known the con‘i- tion of Paris .o be more exaggerated to the outside world than it has been since the 18th of Auguas ‘Three weeks ago 1 came to Parts (rom Lyons, and on the way 1 was told, “Yon will be assassinated at the station, robbed when you get inside the walis and your body tossed into the seine.” I came in as usual; was surprised to find carriages awaiting the call of travellers, 1 took one, expecting, of course, that the coche would cross the river after leaving the garv, and then murder ine amid eries of “Vive ia Commune?’ Imagine my surprise. 1 found no 1 ng pasassins eudeavoring to track me through the tigels, and I did not have w aodge from door- ie to doorway to dSCape the murderous discharge of or aon Pelt ry ob. aaah an vee hed, HS Ta dep’ atone upon fore’ aré cohverhed, | nave walkyd i ut these pusesis. from saidhighe i, ist ise uloue, threading varricad rd and bave been at attra at atthe t, anit consider that I was then safer than I would be in the sireeis of New York after dusk in inost any quarter of the city. In going through Belleville one Deed not jear as Much as in going through the Sixin { ward, THE COMMUNE—ITS PERSONNEL. The Commune when full, consists of eighty mem- bers; bul account of the recent ravages of the re- Magnston eter the number 18 DOW much reduced, ihe men Composing this body, with the exception of such Well Known characiers as Assy, Bergeret, Claseret, Pyat, Grousset and Vermoral, are nearly el rough ud untutored workmen, Who bow to the wisdom of those of superior education. They range between the ages of twenty-five aud Hity; and any one paying a visit to the Hotet de Ville would ‘noc “be impressed = cuther oy their elegance of manner or sink- jog phyetqne. In other words they have iy general @ Very rough exterior, and among tem “re vad faces, The worst aspect of the Commune is ‘hat its sittings are strictiy secret, and o7sy such portions Of its deliberations are printed as ihe Com+ The Commane 1s always in exe- cuuve » Today it may decree that the Arewhishop «hall be shot, aad he may ve disposed of without the world knowing anything avout his fate, wntli bis Doay is cod of his bones crumpliug into t. There is a strange feeling that this mau may suffer the extreme penaity. Qutiously enouga redecessors 1 Ofice have been murdered — one e Mov In 1848; the Oller assassinated by a Driest in 1867, ARCHBISHOP DAKBOY formerly Arcupisnop of Nancy, and was called ‘aris by Napoleon for his imperial pr Glivities. Cluseret is well disposed toward him, Vo read tue datly proceedings of the Commune in toe U9 eae would think that this body was the most diguified and bi cous inthe world; but J aan told Wiat tals ts far from the truth. Dissen- fons are Lyf epee arising, and the gtboet is often inated aud the dungeon voidly prociaimed, Secrecy sas dove more (o make the Commune odious than uy other atirioute. We believe it 1s employed to arrest Uno! cftizens, to incareerate them and sold them in illegal bondage, simply to gratify the whim of some man Who is almighty wnder the drape rouge, 1 cannot say that these reports are true absolutely, Dut there 18 ho reasonabie doubt of their Veracky. 1 ve junctions of the Commune are omnipotent, There is no court of al from their dees Tt seems to be the origin of power, and Gelegates vo the departinents tne prerogatives they eujoy, This is a tair and, | believe comprehensive satervent of the positionof this body. 1 conid give you detaus, but they Would embarrass and realiy prove puihing. CLUSERET AND DOMBROWSKI. the historian sits down w write the Whea ee | National Gaards, as they march off to battle to te | this terrible revolution he must munict ELL a ; f : : Cluseret has demonstrated that he and Dombrowski jan of the whole affair. The other the Minfster of War qo" give us daily report and Sonal, General,” sald Cluseret, “T ost: a lave one tive order to give you.” ¥ been necdiessiy exposing your life at the front, Yesterday you got up on the most ad- Yaneed barricade at Neuilly amid @ shower of balls in order simply to encourage our That was foolish. it Dombrowak1 leontc in his brevity and in the he treats a breathless chef de dat- running into the War Office, report- jon among his men. He 1a the brains Commune. IN THE STREETS IN DAYLIGHT. Leaving hotel early in the morning I find ly at nine o'clock than 100 peo) wards. Seven-eighths of the shops are closed; ta few carriages havo taken thelr places beslié the curb to be let, and at intervals the water- pe. carts are seus, their Gally wo for even in the larkest hour is never allow 4 ceaceal without horses—a iter covered with the Diao Cluseret 1s Ni with faltion who ing demo of The remains may be those of some jard killed at the front or some rash clvil- Jan, who ventures too wear the Triumphal Arch when shells are thick and fast. it is one of the most sorrowfl sights in Paris to witness tiicese corteges, one follo' another all the day long, victims to a senseless strife. Strolling down towards the Madeline I find a few of the poorer classes going timidly up tne great granite steps to confession or prayer. The seven o'clock Omnibus just starts for the Bourse and the Palais Royal; and, with this exception, all 1s silent. as a baualion of National Guards, preceded THE INVETERATE BUGLER, ‘and the curious advanced file, march down toward veille to ali along its route of march. ‘Th newsboys, the newsmen and the newswomen begin to cry the morning journals Voila ta Verité, Qui Vient de Parattre, L’Opicicl, Le Mot @Ordre, Ot all the journals the Vériid 1s the most enterprising and = most independent, aud therefore the most relia- e. bie. There 18 one bright woman, half English, half French, Who opens ner kiosque every inorning at an early nour. 1t stands directly Im frout oi the corner Of the Café de la Paix, and is patronized by Englisa- | men and Americans to @ large extent. Singular as it may seem, this litte woman is THE BEST INFORMED PERSON IN PARTS, and 1o her white cap and rosy cheeks not the worst looking by any means. I generally find a knot of the Ropes Jag nationality about her. “Well, madame, what's the news this morning {” “Oh, these rascals are getuag Whipped as usual.” And tous she ratties on, teiling us about short supplies of mUk, pUlage of the churches and the in- fluence of red ideas on the gamins of the Bovle- yards, She iiiriving a smart business just now. Tarough the Prassians at St. Deals she gets the English and American bewspapers and seils them at one franc geventy-tive a Copy. Say it is eleven o'clock, and if it does not rain, ag it does to-day tn | perlect torrents, the wicker chairs of the cai¢s are half taken by people over their VERMOUTH AND MORNING BITTERS, and about 1,000 of the muxed nationalities of the town are running before breakfast at an easy pace when in times of peace you woald find 60,000 busy people. Kappels are beaten at tervals, and move- Ments of troops Lecome more and more rapid. Ke- hefs go out and the fatigued commands of the pre- vious day come in to enjoy a watch of duty. You may hear the heavy ruinbling o! a battery frow Muntmartre dashing aloag toward the Porte Bineau to form one more nucleus of bombardment against the V les positions at Courbevoie and Valevi ‘Then an unposivg, grand funeral of an oMicer 01 Ui Etat Major lorms another procession toward THE WORLD'S CEMETERY, and even while the cori. ge winds up past the Porte | St, Martia you hear loud echoes of sells bursing in the Champs ilysées, a heavy cannouade toward Issy and Vauvres and the hail of projectiles at As- micres and Le Vailois, ‘Thisis wie music by which the dead are accompanied to thelr graves as they are borne through vhese wide poulevards—througit vearless, unsympatheuic crowds. | Tne living 1nd no more pity than the dead. The sound Oi their discordant buries, dud no encourage ment, no cheer from the muititude. ‘There is simply @ speechless indidereace. A man may stop iu his promenade, let the ashes drop irom his cigar, lean ubon his cane aad gaze passively at these men and inutier, “What fools!” and yet regret them, ior mauy are good citizcus aud hardy, competent me- chanics, When jegion after legion left New York for the batue delds, 1 well remember how they were cheersd and féted, and sent of with “God vless you!” Here itis “sudicieat anto the day, is the evil thereof.” Bul let us go into the PLACE VENDOME. To-day it offersa curious spectacie, Beneath the Winaows of ge rooms always occupied by the Prince of Wales in aris (at the Hotel Bristol), aa oid wo- Mian Is vending bad wines anid poor tobacce to the Nationals who surround her, Huudreds of the Guards are lying upon the stone payement sleeping aud resting, and carriers are nurcying to and fro. Barricades, puied down day belore yesterday, changed tn position yesterday, given diferent pro- portions to-day, and probably to be re-engineered to-morrow, command the Rue de la Paix; but the cannon have b takea away aud the Etat: Major ltself 1s now situated at the Ecole Militaire, over- looking the Champ de Mars. “You cannot enter the e without a permit. ut 1 Mave oue eitoyeun ssez, culo ud J pass inio the inuer fold and | inspect tue works. FOUR O'CLOCK ! @ brass band and a jong procession and loud cries on the Boulevard, I drop my peu, rash out into the stree. What crowds—what endless crowds! To- day (Sunday) 1s the first time | have ever seen a decent representation of the population out. A battalion Is pactng along to the -+Marselilaise,’ the soldiers with rifles, wearing iliac and green boughs. Has there been a victory for the Com- mune/ So they say. OW! thers F-— ina car- riage; he’s a Communist; fe can tell me,“ Waat is th ictory Wiiere?”? Vait am hour and you shali know.’* Yes, tie men are jubilant, aud Lsee more happy faces wader the freshly leaving tr aud blooming foliage than | have seen i March 18 Thus you have the day wp to four VU. M. Unless there is, ag there was yesterday, a general Masonic demonstra- lon, an armistice or ai expected general attack by MacMuhon, the ovowds of to-day ure never oul. They comprise the timid people—those who are afraid ibe concierge Will levy upon their property In their absence Upon A Mandatory requisitiun of the | Commune; those who remain comned in their houses as long as there 18 A sound of firearms, lest Jn looking out of the window they might be haived by a shell or builet, But at this writing it begins to Jook like old times; the gardens open and full; the Place de la Concorde overflowing with visitors; the fountains playing; and ail tus, with fash rains | intermitung sree pals hour, even while a eannon | oat, &8 Up 10 LI ey have nog roared veture, n el-rhts been Ve dnt ye TORY TL full Sf ‘om t Bi ekaae t) eb av a ‘YF you want to realize ng nce of our better to Paris-by gasiigit. The condition tt is 8.glit is Loo disconsolate for a jover of Lis great ctiy, Last night I drove around the quarter about tie Portes d’Asnieres, Courceves and Bincan. I went by iong blocks, aud it was only once or twice that [ saw a light In any window, though it Was about ten o'clock, With a population habituated to going to bed early in the morning and breaktasting at meri- dian this is @ strange condition of affairs, When over the Beit Railroad, about the Park Monceaux, J could smeli the budding spring flowers and the fragrant verdure, and with a iuil moon and a de- ligntfal breeze I thouga the weather delicious. But there was not the life of a New Eugiaud town of 5,000 inhabitants ona Sunday might. In the Champs Eiys es all lights are required to be extimuished, and the shutters must be kept closed until dawn. Circulation, however, 18 not dangerous, anu you are never hindered and seldom stopped, At tms writing I haye just come from No, 118 Avenne de Conrcelies, where | besonght the concierge to allow me to ascend to tie seventh stury and witness the furious attack on the Porte Mailiot, whieh has been suing on all the evening, Even with hail of Paris jigated np by the flames of burning houses, set on fire by Mont Valcrien’s | eand is, Leonid see only & few instances where tne houses were crowded with spectavors, Farther down, however, the roofs uf jojty buildings commanded plenty oi. visitors FROM MIDNIGHT TO SUNRISE. ‘Live onféa close at eleven ). M., but Petera’ and a few favored foreigu resorts manage to stretch out the line until one o'clock in the morn.ng. at mid- night, though, you see the fag end of the population on the Boulevard, and those poor begaarly girly who, jailing to sell tneir wares, offer themselves 0 any hideous purpose, The wretched venders of matches aud flowers are about the sole occupants of the Boulevard, unless you wander along ander the arcades of the Rue de Rivoli, aud cross the Pout rhaps, to see the pour gitl into, the silent river below, undetermined whether to make the leap or awalt the iriendly succor of the world. | have taken ase jaa) strolls up the Latin quafter and in Paris and have found many touch- ing incidents ot that depravity induced vy distress, The only dimiculty Is to distingaish ‘ween the ulent, Sut sometimes you genuine and the irand Py pam be mistakeu, You cannot be deceived in PALE FACE AND TREMBLING GAIT, those neat, but tme-Worn garments. She does not speak to you, Dut it seeins as ii she would, You know that that gir is edging toward her firs! steps jachwation but from bitter want. ‘y:—Pather killed in the war; mother taken away by fever; no work; everything flat; no friends, and too. piond to tell her relations. This the Parisienne of to-day, thers of the high dememonte, Sorweriy disdaining vo appéar | to do anyibing ‘upon the come out after midnight, in bh: of pecw vaniage, without danger of ieiog ‘ized by those who know them well. it ts at Peters’ Sess 70m Gel soe revelry by be od ‘This familar haunt of the American-Pa- is the only one that does eudfer by the civil war. Every night it is fall—fuller thau ever— from the very fact that e1 pody knows that there will always be somebody at ’. I strotled into Peters’ last ‘t. If you allow for the population seen in the wall mirrors there was no en: heads, Peters believes in multiplying, for everywhere you look you look straizut into a looking giass, an “american grog” glass, or the face of some Pansian siren. I col not help it—there were no other laces —I had to sit down beside a mass of dyed ir and powdered cheeks, and then the girl led to take something with myself and guest. The Intervals between her pertods she spent in rolling up her eyes and fabri- cating dimples in her cheeks, and she seemed never to weary of throwing out her cunningly gaitered iect to entrap a certain member of @ foreign embassy. She wanted toknow “how @ sup} would suit up stairs; but Ideciined on the of a late dinner and a disordered stomach. Then she declared she would go herself, and I saw no reason why she should not go, and she shook herself all over, in- every man in the case rip particular care, 1d thought none good enough fdr her. so she said, “flons.”” Peters’ grand supper room is in the third ry, and here you get most anything you can- Not eat, for a price that would pay a month’s board, bs ee not prevent it from being tilled mostevery THE BOMBARDMENT. Itis now about four weeks siuce the Versailles troops first to throw shells into Paris, and I es- timate that since the first day above i00,090 shells have fallen im the city. The damage doue is incom- prehensibly small. 1 do not belleve less destruction could have resulted even if the Versaillists had tried toamusethe Parisians with theeffect, at the same time not to produce casualties. The total number of deaths within the walls do not exceed 590 and the wounded 2,600. One dozen houses in Paris have been totally destroyed; but not above fifty badly Tract \. use it is the rich quarter which is suffering the exaggerauion is and has been immense, I have been looking to find a man in Paris who has Not at least narrowly escaped death 100 umes, ‘Well, what's the news’? “Oh, 1 was up at the Triumphal Arch this morn. ing, and the shells burst all around me. One actu. ally fell at my feet and exploded between my lege |’? Another man comes along breathing in great ex citement, stating that a shell burst just in front of his nose, each half going by each cheek. I have pro- mised to make the man famous in the HERALD who has not been near death’s door at least fifty times, An honest man told me that he almost caught him- self telling these stories. When you meet a iriend on the Boulevard it is fashionable, before the usual salutation, to give a detailed account of your daily ae escapes.” The dramatists ought to be alive. You cannot in New York tell what the bombard- ment is exactly, perhaps. 1 um going to relate tais little incident as a fair sample of what occurs from hour to hour, On Friday I went to my hostler and told him I WANTED A FRISKY HORSE to go to Asniéres. fe saddled a gay, spirite’ little stallion, who was more adapted to hippodrome riding than the bridie path. I mounted him and startea off on a@ short trot toward the Triumphal Arch, When the animal got in front of the huge barricade, just erected in face of the northern fagade, he became shy, described several circles on his hind sl aad insisted on being grossiy in- subordinate, Intimated in &@ mitd way that If de- sired him to move toward the Avenue de la Grande Armée, but he svemed to think bimself master of the situation. Inthe meautine great crowds were around the arch, expecting te — grand Masonic demonstration to take place at that earl hour In the morning. ‘There were ouvriers, with packs and toois, Qu thelr way to such work as they might be able to find—and what would man do without them °—Dbevies of curious girls and women. I remember one face—young, animated Peachy in its lusctons softness, peering over the bags and watching the salais, She was eager to see, but soon a projectile came whizziny along, and turned her eyes as she turned her heels in the opposite direction. It was at this moment that my litle stailion ceased to turn on his heels, Dut he ieaped In the air and rushed down the Ave- nue Friediana as if he were running away from A MEXICAN HORSE THIEF, Every one radiated toward different points of the horizon abont as rapidly as men usually get away froin their taiior when Ae has a large bill and they have no money. This is the datly story when tt 13 Imagined that there 1s a cessation of hostilities, In aimuitacy point of view the tiring (rom Valé- rien, Coarbevote aad the guns of the barricade at the Seine has beena failure. Of coarse it has prevented the “reds” from establishing strong positions out. side the walls, and has ¢arsied the war into Paris, but the damage done has been absolutely so small that it can be compared to the fesh wounds a man might recetve irom a duel with Heidelberg rapiers. The bombardment has simply preserved the louuw- cae statu quo: ‘ational Guards at La Vallois, on right, In front of four batte.iea, Colombas, Courbevole and Becon Cuserne. Nationals at Neuilly, in front of Versailles at ailly-—fight in village--four batteries bearing on Guards, Nationals in Issy, Vanvres, Montrogue and Bice- tre, In front of enemy’s batteries on plateau. Nationals in ninety-foar bastion forts of Paris, Thus te line of battle Is the longest, perhaps, the world ever saw of Uhis kind—that ts, actual tyhimg on the rigat, besieging in the centre and everything passive on the leit, The reader may well be ap- pailed when he is mformed that at Asmieres the combatants are distant from each other only 200 yards, at Neul'ly by thirty feet and at alo tue line of the southern forts vy @ mile. The severity of the fighupg may therefore be welt Imagined. To stand up on either side, above the works, ox even to dite close your hea, is death, NAVAL OPERATIONS, The Seine, profitiess as it was during the siege by the Prussians, has not been uuulized by either of the combatants in the struggle. The mighty navy of the Commune, consisting, 1 belleve, of About twenty gimboats, has been cruising at anchor, and on ouly one occasion Nave they participated in any of the couficts. A few adic scows; old, geedy looking bath frigates, tu which humans fortify their cieaniness; the passenger boats running their regular veats— this 1s all to the peity streamlet which 13 dignifiea by Paris more than it gives importance to this capital. It is only au irreguiar boulevard of the towg, stagnant like tle rest. 5 OFF GOES CLUSERET’S TRAD. From the weary waters of the river it is refreshing: to turn to an eveut which makes ait Paris wid with excitement—the end of Ciuseret. He is not dead; but all his oficial intuence aud authority is. As have frequently written in my letters, Cluseret has veen the headpiece of the Commune, and [do not think 118 necessary to change what is writlen above concerning him, Tals morning the Journal Oficiel 1 a three line paragraph disposes of the Minister of War by stating that he is under arrest and is de- prived of his functions. All beileve the Commune has lost its ablest man and most experienced oficer, MRLANGE. At the railroad Stations all the rolling stoc« 1s raihered iu— Cars, omnibuses, and now only on the Northern road 1s there any activity, The markets ave beginning to 100k as they did at the beginning af the last siege; people are flocking ‘0 the cheap boarding houses and abandoning the dear hotels, It costs you two francs to send your letters out of Varia, aid such a thing a8 an oiiicial poste 1s un- known. ‘ihe Rue Scribe is the most active street in Paris, and caricatures, cochers and ‘red’ journals oceapy the pedestrians’ adention while in the brain of the Communist you will tind him anxious to solve the exact status of Mr. Washburae, The alaces are silentand shut. Going to Versailles is Tire great piigrimage for the man who can avoid being arrested asa spy, witn the understanding, of course, that a brief visit shall be paid the Prussians at St. Denis, But two really active classes remain in Paris -[ptriguers aud journafists—but L suppose you have thesé even iu New Youk, THE FUTURR OF Parts, Many brildings rémaln in an embryo state of constructioa, Great Improvements Dogger i the Emperor have passed into the hands of cupital- ists ready to continue them, Tye Grand Opera House ttself needs but a few monthy’ work to make it the finest butiding erected in the nineteenth cen- tury. The magnificent enterprises set on toot im the environs—beanulul parks, fine pubiic gardens and pretty villas—are ail lying Idle, in order that- there may be an insane struggle between the igaoraace of Paris and the imbecuity of Versailles. But blood caynot flow on forever even tu Parisian Poland; and I see every evidence that when this miserable civil war is ended Paris, spurred on by & new —_ and engrafied with @ morality and an educa- tion to which she has been a strenger for many years, will be more stable, richer, handsomer, and less fickle, She wil! then be mighty, Anarchy, after all, is only the national purgative of France, JOURNALISTIC NOTES. The Kent Neves, a democratic paper published at Chestertown, M4., bas been enlarged. Journalism is flourishing in Albany. A new democratic paper, entitied the Kvening Cal!, pub- ished by James H. Mulligan, J. T. Maguire and Philip Lyons, mace its appearance Saturday even- ing. The Leening Times is enlarged. The Times has just been admitred to the State Press Associa. tion, paying therefor the som of $5,60), The #x- press has appeared in a new dress. Mr. William H, Clarke, assistaut editor of the Baltimore Sun, died in that city on Sanday last, 1a the fifty-third year of his age, He was an English- man by birth, and at the age of twenty-one Mr. Clarke came to Baltimore and became the editor of the Baltimore Clipper, and retalned that position nil the latter part of 1551, whem he entered « the same line of duty at the Sun office, where he femained until stricken dowa paralysis on Wednesday last. As a news editor he had few sapertors, and he heid to bis post unl stricken by the hand of death. A Barut The Hudwon (Wis.) Democrat says:— At Black Maiden Rock, in' Wisconsin, wt # locality called Pinm Clty, tive: who, having (his thd of the “roke iit plougiiina, w end o} ‘oke i jough and their boy drove. The woman labored tvs beeen dh emplo; ree fe! wre “ates ‘as then compelled to quit 1 un account of having ruprared ao internal organ in her efforts to keep her cud of the yoke eveo, in two days alter she died, the physician calied by the neighbors linding it imposible when he reached her for her relief. ae ae nn ie RUNNING NoTES—-PoLiTICAL AND GENERAL | ‘THE LATEST EXPRESS ROBBERY. ‘The California Republican State Convention will be held in Sacramento June 28. Ex-Congressman 0. ©, Washburn is mentioned as # candidate for the republican nomination for Gov- ernor of Wisconsta. The Rochester people are boring for gas. The Albany Journal thinks if they would import George Francis Train they would obtain all the gas they wanted. Brick Pomeroy is going to California. The Toledo Blade wants to know whether the Val- lJandigham resolutions are put forth in good faith, or whether they are a wooden horse device to get a body of hostile men into a position where they can strike down the amendments and the reconstruction measures. Bugs have made their appearapce among the grapes in Put-in Bay. It is feared they will injure the crop materially, The great vineyards in Plea- sant Vallvy, this State, are as yet free from these peste. Miss Tennie Clafitn says Ben Butler 1s one of the Mentors of herself and sister. He was once a great tormentor down South. Lew Campbell is out with another platform for the Ohio democracy. Keep up the game. One paper says Tad Lincoin is going to study medicine. Another says he wants to be a soldier, He 1s, no doubt, more inclined to fight than to physic. The Louisvilie Ledger (red-hot democrat) don’t like Vallandigham’s new departure. The Kentucky platform, the Ledger thinks, ought to be adopted by the Ohio democracy. Throw in a little old Bour- bon, That will, probably, make it all right. The Cincinnati Gazetie talks inus irreverently of the Ohio democracy :— The “old clo’? party will hold a State fair at Columbus next week. Moses Levi Vallandigham, a famous dealer in the second hand garments of the republican party, will be there to open his pack. There is a suit made of negro cioth, much wor which he thinks will ft the democracy, and will have @ magical effect on their heaith, He will put this complete suit to them for nothing, ani himscit thrown in. There 18 also a pair of constitutional tronsers, with three patches on the seat. ‘Ie patches make them better than new for democratic use. These he will put in on the same terms. There ig the abolition mantle, compictely worn out, but whicu he thinks may be made tv cover the demo- cratic features. As the republicans had no further use for this he picked it up cheap, and will put it to the demooracy at the same price, himself thrown in. ‘There are also the same weli worn altar robes and censers of the “negro worshippers,” which he de- Heed to sell tothe democracy, and himself thrown Fighting Joe Hooker has gone to the magnetic | springs in Michigan, talking freely in his blunt way against General Grant wherever he can find a will- ing auditor en rowfe, This ws what he said io aman at Oswego, N. ¥.:— It 1s my absolute conviction that were you to | walk the length of Brosaway 70s could not meet a man less qualified for the idency than Grant, We of the army know lum better than the people at large. When his adjutant, General Rawlins, was alive, the President scemed to be eflictent and suc- cessful; but when Rawlins died Grant's vottom fell out. He is now in lis normal condition. im no Politician; declined going to the coaventions in 1863 chiefly because I regarded Grant untitted for the of- | fice of President; but from observation I pow think, candidly and without prejudice, that Grant cannot carry half a dozen States, He is very cheap, The republicans of Marshall county, Iowa, have nominated Miss Abbie Gilford for school superin- tendent. The Boston Post, Louisville Caurier-Journal, In- dianapolis Sentinel and Cleveland Plaindeailer are among the democratic organs that gtve the Vallan- digham movement an emphatic support. WHITSUNTIDE. To-tny the Annual German Open Air Spreee | Day—Turners and Singers to Be Chicfly on | the Rampage. To the Germans of this as well as of the old coun- try Whitsuntide is a great open air epree-time. In Germany Whit-Sunday and Whit-Monday are Chris. tuan holidays, while the Tuesday following is gen- erally celebrated as a kind of spring festival. Mil- lions of people of all classes, who live in the cities and towns of that country, go on that day to the villages and rural resorts, in order to behola the | beanties of blooming nature, bieathe pure, balmy | alr and enjoy music and dancing, The Germans of this city and country celebrate their genera! spring festival on this Whitsun Monaay, and a complete exodus of the Germans of nis city, including fathers, | mothers and children, will take place to the several pleasure parks of this city this afternoon. There they will look upon the fresn foliage of the parks and surrounding country, listen to vocal and instrumental music, indulge in dancing, and, of course, drink lager beer. The Germans will never find it more agreeable to their taste to quatf cold water instead of wine and lager. To judge from the preparations made from fifty to sixty thousand Germans will, the weather per- mitung, spend this afternoon in the several pleasure ardens of the city, chiefly on the Hast river. The furners and singers, belng the most important of the Gerinan social organizatiuns of this city will, of course, Icad to-day’s amusements, and have, to- gether with their families and freads, the biggest turnouts, ‘The following Is a list of the principal pinion and summer night festivals which will be held py Ger- man societies to-day:— The New York Turnverein (society of gymnasts) Will celebrate its twenty-first anniversary at Jones’ Wood, when the Turners will appear in thetr linen dress suits and perform a number of tuteresting gymnastic exercises on thelr apparatus. The at tractions of the festival wili be enhauced by the co- operation of about twenty vocal societies, which wil sing at intervals, . The biggest affair of the singers will be the festi- val of the Northeastern Singers’ Union, compmsin, twenty-seven of the most prominent German vocal societies of this city and vicinity, which will be held at Funk’s Union Park. Although there will be some singing and concert music on the occasion, social enjoyment, dancing included, will be the main ob- Ject Of the festival. The same will be the case with sre festivals of the following named vocal so- eleties— : The Colonia, assisted by fourteen singing and other societies, will hold a festival at Sulzer’s East River Park. The Loreley Bund (union), assisted by ten singing and other associations, wil! hold a festival at Rentz’ Elm Park. The Union Maennerchor (male chorus), assisted b} seven singing societies, chiefly from Long Island, will hold a festival at Kapf’s Lion Park, The Mozart Verein (Society), assisted by five sing- ing and other organizations, will hold a4 festival at Rabenstein’s Bellevue Garden, The Teutonia Maennerchor will hold a festival at the Terrace Garden, FIRE IN BHOOKLYN, Burning of a Tenemont House—Narrow Escape of the Inmates, A fire broke out at half-past twelve o'cleck yester- day morning in the basement of No. 653 Union strect, owned by Thomas J. O'Connor, and occupied by him as@ liquor store on the first floor, and by several families in the upper part. The flames com. municated to two adjoining buildings, owned by Charles Tieman, and before the fire was subdued a damage of about $9,000 was done. O'Connor's oss on building was 000; insured in the Fulton Insurance Company for $: and in the Continental for $1,600, Tho josson farniture was $1,200; insured In the Fire- men’s Fund and San Francisco Compantes for $1,000, Loss on stock and fixtures, $400; insured in the North America for $1,000. John BE. Riloy, a ten- aut, lost $500 worth of furnivre, and John O'’Con; heli lost $300 worth; not insured, The fire oc- curred at an hour when the tenants were asieep, and as the stairway was the first thing burned the occupants in the upper part of the building had a narrow escape from being urned to death. Mr. Tieman’s loss on_ buildings 13 $4,000; msured in the Germania for $5,000 and in the Continental for $3,600, The fire was caused by Mr. Connor letting a kero- seue lamp tall while in the cellar tapping a barrel of THE SAN JUAN BOUNDARY QUESTION,—AN @X- change reminds the disciples o! Izak Walton that salmon will not take the hook in their spawnin; ly known that the in- the loss to England of and Wi Lon tory. Im a recent speech delivered by Dr. gt in ine Colontal Eo gs at Victoria, on in Juan Kee] 6 gave the following ex- of the causea which Jed to the cession of hat country to the United States:—"In bg tt Pe pin were n pends between Great the United 31 with respect to the boundary line, Great Britain claimed the country known as Oregon and bts int Territory. Two British only ot wet were seni out ¥ examine the country Teportto the British Ministry upon its value. ‘The Eart of Aberdeen was Premier at the time; the commander of one of the ships was the Karl's brother, and he and others went ashore at Columbia | river and iried w ci salmon with Mes. The salmon wouldu’t take the files, and the omoers caught no fish, When they retarned to their snips the Pari’s brother wrote home, ‘The country is not worth a farthing’ And the Kritish Ministry re- Hnquebed al) chaiams to 1b? Seventy-five Thousand Dollars Stolen from the Adams Company at Columbus, Ohio. Detection and Arrest off the Thieves. All the Money But One Thousand Dollars Recovered. Cotumsvs, Ohlo, May 26, 1871. | ‘With the exception of what has appeared in meager telegraphic despatches but few particul: have been made public in relation to the ( robbery of the Adams Express Company at 0%, umbus, Ohio. The following facts are given good authority, and will give @ tolerably clear uly. derstanding of the case:— i Atone ondof the Union depot in Columbus situated a small building, in which ts transacted the might business of the Adams Expt such as delivering wo and receiving m from the messengers of the night te, regular office of the company being; located on East Broad street. The usual practice to send down tothe depot, about six P, M, eacl day, all the money, &c., intended for the messen- gers on the night train. For gome time past W. Bradley has occupied the position of chief i at the depot, being assisted by a young man named Richard Collier. About six P. M. on the 16th inst} Bradley loft the general oflce on Broad street, wit a large amount of money, which he brought down te the depot in a safe and placed it in the small om at the end of the depot. From this tii until one A, M. on the 17th he attend to his duties a3 usual, going to and receiving mot and valuables from the night messengers. 16: since been discover.d that when the train left one A. M. he had about $72,000 in his possession; but of this amount there was one package con! ng $32,000 worth of revenue stamps, iy The next train reached Columbus at twenty-five minutes past two A. M. None of the clerks their appearance at the car deor as usual, Jol Gossman, the messenger, sent one of his guards jee What was the matter. The guard knocked one of the folding doors to the ofice; but, get no response, tried the handle of the door, which found uniastened, and walked into the office, Tha, room wasinastate of darkness, but on lighting a match and going to the gas burner he found thal the gas had been turned down very low, and iad Bradiey and Collier were lying on the bed in th office, apparently asleep. On being aroused frony their slumbers by the guard they looked around, an seeing a number of waybills s@attered around th 5 floor, Bradley remarked that ‘they must have been robbed;” but, added he, as he saw the packaga of revenue stamps lying im @ basket at tha head of his bed, ‘Well, they didn’t get this Pack~ age.” Collier was lying on his back when found, with the bedclothes turned down. Bradley wad lying on his side in a cramped position, and both! were breathing heavily. Near him was lying @ smail sponge, and he advanced the opinion that taey had been chloroformed. i] There were two safes in the office, the keys to’ which had been taken from Bradiey’s pocket, the safes opened, contents abstracted and the keys left in the locks, All the vaiuavies bad been taken, with! the exception of a package of valuable papers an@ oue of unsigned currency. A casual examinailon of, the folding dvors wonld indicate that the bolt whiely fastened them on the inside had been bent back from the outside; but a more careful investigation developed that the bolt had been bent back too fur to admit of ite having been done by bursting open the door from the outside, The bolt was bent about three inches further back than was necessary ta allow the other door to pasa 1, which showed pretty, conclusively that tie dour had not been forced from tue outside; aud this theory Was somewhat strength- ened by the absence of any marks of violénce upom the outside of the doors, Tae agent Of tue company was immediately notl- fled of the robbery, and telegraplied to the principal ofticers of the conipany, Who at onve proceeded to Columbus, in company with the officials of tne National Detective Agency, from Chicago and New York, On arrival ai tie scene of operations, the detectives, after carefully examining the office and surroundings, couciuded that Bradley or Col<« Her waa coucerned in tie La eng The Investiga- tions developed that on “aturday, Mey 13, Bradley’s brother, Theodore F, Pradiey, made hts appearance m Columbus from, it was supposed, Chicugo, and had rewained in town 1a manner concealed. | Theodore had formerly been in the employ of the company as clerk, and bad afterwards been a Mes senger on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, but bad veen discharged: for carelessness. He then entered the employ of the Adanis, as a pers ler in their Chicayo ofice, but was soon discharged: } again, for drnukenness. After his arrival on Satur- | day, previous to the robbery, he had only been seen by two parues in Columons, and it boing ascertamed that he was still In the cit7, two decectives were put upon his track. Jt was iesrned that be had represented that he had tavely married a wealthy lady im Chicago; but upon mvestigation it Was iearned that | heodore Was a lite prone to exaggeration, as the lady was, found to be not only poor in this world’s i. but the niece of a celebrated courtesan of that city, who Was also the proprietor oi a house of Ml-fame. it wus also learned that this aunt had given her miece the alternative of inary ing Bradie: or of golng to the House of the .Goo Shepherd. Rumors were rife in Colambus about suspected parties being seen in town, and the detec. tives investigated ottier clues; but the objective point seemed to be centred inthe Bradleys. Kor thirty-six nours after the robvery George was allowed to rewain unmolested, attending to his usual wutiess but was suddenly taken iuto custody and contined in the hotel, on Friday Theodore left for Chicago closely “shadowed” by the detectives, who brought bim in contact with his wife on Satarday night. On Tues- day he attempted to leave for Canada, but matters being ripe he was arrested and $7,000 in currency Jound upon his person, conceaied ip every pockes of his clothing. His hotel was then visited, his bag- Gage searched and about $7,000 more fod in @ carpet sack, the mone; being im. geniously concealed by a false lining; some of the money found was taentified being among the money stolen, and on Thuraday night he was brought to Columbus, Previous to this, however, his motuer's house in Pepe where George and his wie were > had been visited, and in @ lot in the rear of the Louse tar- panto bag, was found buried, w on being rought to light, was found w-cottain $25,000 of he stolen money, including a number of bonds, which ‘were at once identitied, Up to this time Gi had been very reticent, but when confronted the fatal proofs broke down and confessed that himself and brother were the only partes concerned in the robbery, | It ape? that Theodore had come from Citicago for pur- pose, his brother having posted him as to when. tuere would provably be the largest amount of Mouth large amounts ure sbipped trom that clty 1a month amounts a the pay mesters of the different roads, ‘On the night of the robbery up after Collier was asieep and bad then dosed him with chloroform, He had then opened the safcs and selected the money to be taken, and about two o'clock A, M. was joined by Theodore with the dag, who, after giving George & dose of chloroform, took the ‘money an’ mace himseif scarce. Theodore then buried the money, @3 above stated, having se- cured in all over $40,000, The two Bradleys bave since made full confessions, and indictments having been procured against thea tay will be brougut up for trial on Monday, May 2. It is thought they, will plead gullty, ) With the exception of about $1,000 all the peer money hag been recovered. This amount Pin bably squandered by Theodore, who was werk javish in his expenditures, having purchased a gold watch mes Gasmecevored. dnd ts guilty pAriios money was recovered an 1 rested within eight days after the iseoRery of the robbery ig very creditable to the detectives who. worked ihe case, A BROOKLYN POLICEMAN BEATEN. John H. Hillbergh, of the Fourth precinct poiice, was yesterday dangerously assaulted while attempt. Ing to disperse & crowd of loafers who bad gatuered’ on the corner of Myrtie avenue and Schenck strect., An anti tion of police interfere! 6 suMans had coil ee a Locate 2 es stones hag ena when the officer made ppearan wine volley, of these miss! alates of Wi took effect and inflicted severe 1n)' oO was and several of the assailadte were taken fe custody and held to answer, BASE BALL NOTES, To-day the White Stockings, of Ohicago, play the Ecktords op the Union grounds, A flue game may be ex! . Newt Wednesday the Fokfords play the Resolutes, of Elizabeth, on the Union, Th rede, June 1, Mutual vs, Forest City, of Rocktol pes Jane 2, Eckfords va. Forest Ay ‘The Health Board clerks and the Ink Slingers will burlesque the National Game next Saturday eitinr on the Union or Capitoline grounds