The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1871, Page 3

ARIS. First Three Days of thé Struggle the Between the Coxamune and Republic m the Capital. HOW THE CITY WAS E Surprised and Desperate, the Insurgents Prepare for the Dying Struggles. TERED THE FIGHTS AT THE BARRICADES The Women of Montmartre Fighting Like Tigers, THE BATTLE OF THE BOULEVARDS. Desperate Encounters on the Sec- ond Day in the Streets. BURNING PARIS. Men, Women and Children Feeding the Flames. ARRESTED AND SHOT. Dead Bodies Dragged from the Houses and Thrown in the Streets. DESTRUCTION OF THE PALACES. Paris, May 23, 1871. In all parts of Paris the troops of the government re victorious and the Commune is put down, but the victory has been purchased at an appalling Price. So far as relates to public buildings and his- toric monuments the city is in ruins, the desperate men who have tought the government having done their utmost to prevent tae splendor of the city sur- wiving what they call its liverties, Mined with gun- powder and wetted with petreleum, the great edi- * fices are either blown into tne air or given to inex- Unguishable fire, and no one can say yet whether the worst has come or whether anything is to be leit of what was Paris, With all this horror im men’s thoughts, they pass ‘With indifference the corpses that are scattered in all the streets, and take no heed of the blood that stains the pavement at every step. Nay, they de- nounce thelr neighbors for sympathy with the Com- mune, and eee with satisfaction the summary mur- @er on the street that follows the denunciation. ‘They drag out of thecellars the men who fought in the barricades yesterday, and are hiding away to- @ay, and Invite the soldiers to kill them and the sol- ders do, With all this the fighting still rages, and the actual and possible horrors of the situation are without parallel in tl tory of civilized cities, » MONDAY—THE FIRST DAY. Fighting began In the city near daylight on Mon- @ay moruing, May 22. Indeed the people of Pans generally were awakened by the sound of the firing im the streets, and then Knew for the first time that the regu’ar troops were inside the city, so that the HERALD despatch announcing the fact of THE ENTRANCE, which left Paris at 7 P.M.on Sunday might, pro- bably announced this important eyent to your readers as soon as 1t was known to people here. It ‘was wonderful to see the effect upon the people as the news passed trom mouth to mouth—whispered at fret with much misgiving, and then with full confidence passed from neighbor to neighbor, as the roaring cannon in the Champs Elysées rendered it a thing impossible to doubt, The old men and wo- men left in charge of houses, from which the ewners had departed for the rural districts; the concierges at the hotela and furnished houses saluted one another out of the windows with an air of gayety and a cheery “Ah! tiens! il y a quelque chore aujourd@hui!” The old woman at my little hotel came out and scrubbed the small stone court with a broom and plenty of tresn ‘water—a thing she has not done before this long whilo—while the young mistress of the establish. ment talked to her lately gloomy and neglected ma- w in‘ones thatdrew from him unusually dis- ‘cordant screams of sympathetic joy. tut it was otherwise with a National Guard to whom I spoke on the Boulevard, and with all the other National Guara whom | met in other places. “WE HAVE BEEN SOLD,’ they said; “we are betrayed; the reactionary bat- tahons gave up the gates. But the republic is not dead yet.” So it was everywhere—the oid story of treason. Frenchmen, tf you will believe French- men, are never fairly beaten, and what they lose is Just by some one's treason. A RAPLD MOVEMENT. Troops have been pushed in rapidly during the fight, and a force was in the Trocadero, another as far down the Champs Elysces as the Round Point, another In the Parc Monceaux, end still another in the Military School and on the Champ de Nars, Troops, I say, had been pushed forward rapidly to occupy even so many points; but they mizht have been pushed more rapidly still, and a sumicient cav- alry could, between daylight and noon on Monday, have occupied every important point in the city, and Paris would have been spared the terrible dis- asters that have fallen upon it since. On Monday early the resistance was discouraged and disorgan- ized; the National Guards were straggling away from their battalions with @ conviction that the cause was lost, and that individuals might as well fave all that remained to them—their lives. All that resolute courage which has since ALMOST GLORIFIED THE CAUSE OF THE COMMUNE ‘with its desperate resistance appeared later, and barricades at which the grentest fights were made ‘were not built yet by Monday noon. At daylight on Monday the soldiers of Marshai MacMahon were building a redoubt in the Champs Elysces for the guns with which they intended to batter down the gteat barricades on the Place de la Concorde, and at that hour the rear of the barricades was com. pletely unprovected and could have been reached by the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré witnont firing a shot, Shells from this battery of Marshal MacMa. | hon's, and not the Communists, SET FIRE TO THE MINISTULY OF FINANCES, and while it was burning the pompters, who hastened walianily wo their duty, were = assisted by the National Guards, and the Guards even stopped all passers-by and compelled them to heip the firemen in their attempts extinguish that first of the conflagrations, But Marshal MacMahon being a great soldier had to do things in @ formal military way, and ae nis chief of stat, General Borel, is perhaps the vest type of the genins of capacity to pe round even in the French army, it was not to be expected that he would con- duct a military operation in a way to maxe it quietly effective and at the same time gimple. So the great guns in the Onamps Elys¢es, threw their THOUSANDS QF SHELIS INTO Tae PLACE DE LA CONCORDE ana grushed all the fronts of the houses in the Rue 4¢kivoll. So they threw hundreds of shelis even clear over the housea in the Rue de Rivolt im the narrow streets around to explode the Marché St. Honoré, and threw some even tne city ag the as far into the heart of Piaee dela Bourse, Other great guns in the same neighborhood threw the shells that crushed to pow- der the fa-ade of the Foreign Office, on the south side of the Seine, and even TORE THE PALAIS LEGISLATIF ALL TO PIECES, to frighten out of it that pitiful pigmy of insurrec- tion, the wonderful Bergeret. On the other band, the guns in the barricades on the Place de la Con- corde replied with energy, aa did guns on the ter- race of the Tuileries, und between all this cannon fire acress the Place de la Concorde, although some of the colossal statues are greatly injured, and one has her head knocked of, the Obelisk of Luxor ts still erect and still lovuks calmly on more wonderfull Scenes than aay, perhaps, it ever saw in Egypt. THE BARRICADE MANIA, It seemed on Monday as if the men of the Com- mune were suddenly seized with a barricade munia, a6 if, like a man deprived of reason who merely mumbles forever his last, rational utterance, putting it into all improper and inappropriate places, the people were just going on to build barri- cades without any perception of the reason why they did it or any judgment of the use of these ob- structions, In every street, at every corner, m with ccowbars and pickaxes were TRARING UP THR PAVEMENT and throwing up the earth, while two or three always stood by with loaded muskets to compel every one coming along to stop and help. Utners pulled all the wine harrels out of the celiars, and these filled with earth swelled the proportions of the barricades. Many went into the houses and threw all the furniture of the people ont of the windows, and especially all matiresses. These latter’ were piled on recklessly and men wiin pipe and hose, did their utmost to saturate them with water, and to wet completely all other inflammable material. On the Rue de Rivoli there were SIX BARRICADES BETWEEN THE TUILERIES AND THE HOVKL DE VILLE, the first at the corner of the Place du Palals Royal, @nother was on the Rue St, Honoré, at the same place, and another on the quay at the other sive of the river, nearly conuinued the same line. Even tne few shops lately open were now, of course, all closed. Some streets were entirely deserted, aud immediately around the corner one would come into astreet filled with excited National Guards, running confusedly hither and thither, shouting orders, of which no one took notice; breaking open doors, staving in barrel heads, endeavoring by example, it would seein, to communicate excitement to the people. I went 10 THE PLACE VENDOME. There was not a soldier to be seen. Shells ex- ploded there, sent up from the Champs Elys¢es. Nobody was to be found in the place where Bergeret and, later, Dombrowski had had their headquar- ters. ‘Tne table was set, but the breakfast was not touched—all the indications of a precipitate move- ment—whether to tue rear or the front was not evident, Beds, from which the occupants had but lately gone, were as wey had left them. I went from room to room and saw only my own image in the great mirrors and heard only my own footsteps on the polighed floors. Goimg thence into THE RUE DE RIVOLI, I saw the barricades there filled with ready de- fenders, and saw the ruin toat the sheils had made ana were making on the fronts of the houses. At that moment the Ministry of Finances was burning, fired by the shells from the Champs Elysées or the Trocadero, Thence 1 went to tne Tuileries, where I found BRRGERET. He was just coming infrom the Corps Législatif, wheuce he has been driven by the shelling, leaving behind him also an untusted breakfast. He had just assumed the command in the Place de la Concorde and was throwing up an earthwork in the front of the Tulleries, into which, while I was yet there, two twelve-pounders were placed. These immediately opened freon the Champs Elys¢es, and presently ect to the right about a line of troops that was ap- prouci:ingeo~Piace dela Concorde. I watched the effegt of this fire from the Salon ose, recently THY DEPCHAMBBR OF THE EMPRESS. It was a beautiful day. Far up the broad avenue, now #0 magnificently green, the sunlight seemed to dance in waves on the treetops, and obscured by !13 brilliancy the view of the great Arc de Triompie, that, towering over all surrounding objects, so grandly closes the magniicent perspective. BURNING PARIS, To my right was the Ministry of Finances in flames, from witich liquid tongues of tire darted up- ward and were lost in the heavy rolling column of black smoke, which the wind drove toward the centre of the city. Far to my left, toward the Ecole Militaire, another heavy column of smoke arose, darkening the sky in that quarter and giving to the sunlight @ strange lurid color; and between the great conflagrations, and between the Tuileries and the Arc de Triomphe, magnificent in tho sunlight, the artillery of the government and the Commune Toared with their furious interchange of dcstructive elements, BERGERET’S MADNESS, Bergeret is no doubt insane. At that moment he regarded the situation as promising for the success of the Commune, and talked of shuttjng the gatea of Paris and cutting off aad capturing by a turning movement, operated from Montmartre, all the National troops wnat were im the city. He conceived of Dombrowski as in command of the creat turning movement, while Dombrowski, tf he had succeeded in the plan he contemplated, was at that moment on the Belgian frontier. Two bullets fat- tened themselves against the marble mantel as we discussed this plece of Communal strategy, and Bergeret laughed m frei gies at the notion gf sleeping that night in the Emperor's chamber. Ho said that if the worst came he would not be taken alive, and that if he died his death struggle would shake Paris from centre to circumference. FROM THE TUILERIES Iwent upto the Boulevard Haussmann, where the hardest fianting of Monday was then raging. Com- pletely arrested in their ceatre, the troops stood in front of the Place de la Concorde, while on their right they had swept forward and captured every- thing upto the Pont Neuf, and on their left ttgy had gone forward ‘along the Avenue Friedland to the Caserne Papintére, and from the Pare Monceaux, by the Boulevard Batignolles, to the very foot of Montmartre. ‘There was a hard fight at tne Caserne, and the troops captured it, and thus threatened at once Montmartre trom a new side, the quarter of the Opera by the Boulevard Haussmann and by the Boulevard Malesherves, the Madeleine and the rear of the great barncades on the Place de la Concorde. At the moment I reached the Boulevard Haussmann there was rapid tiring. The National Guards still held tpis boulevard ag high up as its junction with the Boulevard Males- herves. Bullets fired from higher up toward the Cascrne were falling near Rue Aaber, One man went across the street on a run and a dozen bullets hit all around him; but he got over safely. A girl of sixteen crossed after him, but the street generally ‘was very clear. PECPLE WERE HALF WILD WITH FEAR and excitement. Pale, frightened faces showed a moment at the windows and disappeared suddenly at the sound of a musket shot, the sense of danger and curlosity dividing their empire tn the minds of all, Shots were fired from windows, apparently in wantonness, but there may have been private re- venges. ‘Two spectators were hit on the corner of ; the Boulevard Haussmann and the Rue Chaussée a’Antn by suots from an opposite window. BLOOD STAINS WERE ON THE SIDEWALKS | In many places. National Guards crept almost on | their faces to the corners in the side streets, waited fora good shot, fired and sprang back. True Indian wariare in the heart of Paris! BY MONDAY NIGHT the troops had made progress, but their operations along the whole line were not pushed—rather they Were held in suspense, waiting upon the movement against the Buttes Montmartre, which i¢ was im- portant to carry first, that the Commune might not ' NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDA have that commanding position for its final struggle. It was in the heart of Paris, so far as concerned the fire, a quiet night. TUL:DAY, THE SECOND DAY. MONTMARTRE, From the Gare St. Lazare, up the Rue d’Amster- dam, and from the Pare Monceaux, by the Boule- vard Batignolies, the !roops operated in a front at- tack by Qitferent streots of 1¢ barricades in the Place Clichy, Place Blanché and Place Pigalle. At the same time @ column of troops moved by the ine of the city wall along all the bastions and opened the gates behind Montmartre to a stronger body coming from outelde the wall, Now the Communists had only counted upon defenting Montmarire on the side toward the city, depending, perhaps, upon the Prussian neu- trality at the other side, It happened, therefore, that while men, women and children—for AT MONTMARTRE THE WOMEN ALSO FOUGHT DESPE- RATELY— were defending the barricades from tne attack by the streets named, the troops coming by the gates went up to the buttes almost unre- sisted, and by noon this natural fort Tess was in the hands of the troops. THE MADELEINE AND THE OPERA, Simultaneously with the operation against Mont- martre another operation was pushed down the Boulevard Haussmann towards the Opera House and the Boulevard des Italiens, and a third down the Boulevard Malesherbes towards the Madeleine and the rear of the great defences in the Rue Royale and the Kue St. Florentin, On the Boulevard Hauss- mann the most desperate resistance was encoun- tered, at the junction of the Rue Auber and the Rue Carmartin, where there was a large barricade; but towards noon the soldiers in the windows of all the houses looked down into the barricade 80 completely that the National Guards could not be kept there. One captain, hoping to inspire his comrades by his example, not only stayed there, but, scorning any cover, stood up on the barricade, ani some of his men, crouching beiow, loaded their guns and handed them up to him, and he alone kept up the fire till his head was plerced by @ bullet and he fell dead. SEVERAL PRISONERS were taken in this barricade, among them a boy of sixtecn, and the soldiers made them kneel, and so kneeling blew out tueir brains. Into the open mouth of ono who had been killed that morning they thrust a cepy of the flithy revolutionary print, Pire Duchesne. At the Opera House, too, there was a hard fight, but it was carried, 1N THR BOULEVARD MALESHERBES . the barricaile just above the Madeleine was taken and retaken several times, for it was like tne Key- stone in the arch to all the defences of that quarter. Once, when the troops had been repulsed and were again coming forward, some Guards, making sem- biance of @ purpose to surrender, drew a group of soldiers near to them and Killed them all, At eleven o'clock A. M. the soldiers stormed itand held it, and the defenders taking refage in the Madeleine, there was a desperate combat in the very church itself, and the soldiers visited their vengeance on the pri- soners. With the capture of tnis;position and the Opera all was ready for a general forward move- ment across the whole quarter toward the Boulevard and the ‘iuileries, and then ensued the mest terrific struggle of the day— THE BATTLE OF THE BOULEVARD. Atfour P. M. on Tuesday the war came with the greatest energy upon the grand Boulevard. Here raged for two hours and @ half, and all the way from tbe Madeleine to the Rue du Faubourg Mont- martre, the most resolute, obstimate and bloody batue of the city. Looking out of a window at the corner of the Boulevard and the Rue Neuve des Capucines, | saw lor some time 4 desultory firing from a barricade in the Rue de Séze, which looked toward the Rue Troncuet behind the Madeleine, and saw the men of the Commune compelled to cross the street, one at a time and in a stodping posture, toescape the fre of the troops, Bullets from the troops at that time reached the Boulevard down the Kue de Sze and the Rue Canmartin, and also swept up tho Boulevard from the neighborhood of the Madeleine. Shells of enormous size swept down the Boulevard from the barricade at the Place de Opéra, whence the Communists fired on the regulars at the Madeleine. Shella also reached the Boulevard by the Rue Canmartin. Only those who have known the beautiful and brilliant Boulevard des Capucines in the days of its sunshiny spiendor can ever imagine what a PANDEMONIUM it became when swept by this storm of tron and lead; but any one can readily Ggure to himself the dificulties under which the retreating National Guards crossed @ street so covered at once by the fire of both sides, Suddenly the movement tn ro- treat became more positive. The soldiers, moving at once from the Boulevard Haussmann and the Rue Tronchet, were pushing down the Rue Canmartin, the Rue Godot de Mauroy, the Rue de la Ferme des Mathurins and the Rue de Size, CONCENTRATING A TERRIBLE FIRE at the junction of these streets with the Boulevard des Capucines. The National Guards came on whe run, stooping a little to get the cover of the barri- cades they were leaving behind them, moving close to the walls to expose themselves as little as possi- ble te the fire, or, in other cases, making @ reckless run for life; hugging a corner that covered them for & moment from the fire in one dtrection, yet afraid to linger there lest the fire in the next minute should come down the other street; stopping in a doorway to load and give the advancing regulars one more shot; eo they came to the Boulevard, nobody standing deflantly up to face the fire. one guard, In running across the Rue de Séze, dropped some papers from hia pocket, and walked steadily out and picked them up. That was a solitary act of indifference to the danger. He was not hit. But now all these men were crowded under cover of the walls on the northern side of the Boulevard, These covered them completely from the fire down the side etveets, but at the same moment the troops, firing up the Boulevard from before ihe Madeleine, sent showers of bullets that picked them out one by pe sng gropped them, DEAD © DYING IN THE DOORWAYS OF ALL THE HOUSES. Every moment, too, the troops were coming closer and closer down the side streets; and thus pushed from behind they were forced to the effort to cross the Boulevard. Presently a little respite came, lor some mea of the Commune, advancing from the Place Vendéme and irom the barricade at the cor- ner of the Rue de Rivoli, occupied the windows of all the houses on the south side of the Boulevard, and from there opened a fire on the troops near the Madeleine and those coming down the Rue Canmar- tin and the streets below and above it. For a mo- ment this diverted attention, and in that moment the wretches huddling on the north side of the Boulevard rushed to the cover of the defences on the other side. Many got tuto the barricade at the head of the Rue Neuve des Capucines; others into that at the head of the Rue de Luxembourg, and otners into the cover of Rue Neuve St. Augustin and Rue St. Asnatxl. DEATH'S HARVEST. But many also {ell on the way; some, faint-hearted, stopped af the little shelter of the kiosques and were killed there; some dropped stark and straight on their faces haif way over, and some fell crouch- ing Into the angle of the wall and the pavement, as if fairly beaten down by the weight of the bullets they received, as the grain is beaten down by the rain. Some, bit atthe very face of the barricade, ambered over only to fall dead on the inside. One feliow had a sort of psychological fascination for my eyes, aud J could not look away from him as ne lay dying, apparently, tn agony, and not passing away in that painless change which bas been said to result from gunshot wounds. He had failen at the corner of the Rue de Luxembourg, and lay stretched on the pavement haif way between the houses and the gutter. For two or three minutes after his fall he seemed already dead, he lay so still, and the blood from under him streamed down the smooth asphalium pavement to the gniter, presently, recovering trom the first shock, he turned to is ieft side; but the effort was all from his shoulders, and the bullet had probubly cat his spine, He then turned to the other side, He was trying to turn on his face and get up, but his legs were useless, He was fastened down more fear- fully than Prometheus. But his struggies moved the sympathy of his comrades who saw him from inside their barricade, not ten feet away. Two brave fellows made a rush to vring bim inside the barricades—in the ancounting spirit of @ generous sympathy perilling two lives to save scarcely more than @ corpse—risking the chance to take his place rather than see him lie there helpless in their sight. One took him by tue shoulders, the other by the feet, and tne distance from where he had lain to the safe cover was half passed—but the pitiless shower froma across the street was too much; THE LEADEN DROPS FELL too fast and (urlous to miss a space so large as that govered by tho Ogures of ihree men, The man at the iest ¢ $46 wounded man fell, not even to strug- gle, but held to the feet in the grasp of death, and the other dragged the weight of both bodies with tne last effort of his life, and fell inside the opening at the end of the barricade, TUE TYPR OF SCENES. Ali this I saw from the window of the nouse of & friend in which I had taken refuge, and | dwell thus on the detail of one scene because it is the type of what I saw in many otner piaces—the type of scenes that passed at every corner of the strects of Paris during three days. But now all around me burst forth 4 MUSKETRY FIRE WITHOUT PARALLEL for its intensity and incessant fury. On the north side of the boulevard the troops had entered the houses by the side streets, and thus came to the front winaows without being in the least exposed to the fire from the barricades. They went up as high as the third and fourth stories, and fired down into the barricade across the street, leaving only @ small angle safe from their shots, so that to be covered completely by the barricade a man had to crouch close to the pavement. On their side the National Guards were in the houses also, for they had com- pelled the residents on the side streets to open their doors, Hence it became a storm of fire from ianu- meraple windows, not only into the street, but into the other windows; and the rooms of the houses were traversed by the bullets as thickly as ever was THE HOTTEST SPOT ON THE HARDEST BATTLE FIELD. I was ina front room at that sharp angle formed by the Boulevard des Capucines and the Rue Neuve des Capucines—a room lightea by three windows that stretch from foor to ceiling, and protected only by the spaces of wall between the windows. Even these spaces afforded protection only trom the muskeiry fire, for a shell would have come through the wall anywhere. Bullets traversea this room, coming up the boulevard and out of the Rue de Seze and from the houses at all the three corners where the Rues Seze apd Cammartin meet at the boulevard, entering the windows directly and diagonally. Into this room the Nailonal Guards did not come—partiy, perhaps, be- cause the American flag was flying at tne window, and partly, perhaps, because & man could not have shown himself there and lived, Mattresses were fastenea up before the windows, in the hope to stop the bullets or fying fragments of shell; but the hope was vain. The bullets traversed the mattresses and the backs of sofas that supported the mattresses, and pierced the doors at the other side of the room. All the walls were cut to pieces, One large mirror on the further wall of the room was plerced by four bullets within as many seconds, Tue whole foor was strewn with the scraps of curled hair that the bullets going through the mattresses carried with them. The little escritoire on which I wrote was pierced by a bullet through the upper part, ard the splinters fell on my paper, DREADFUL CONFLICT. For two hours and a half this frightful contest was kept up without the least abatement. From eighty toa hundred men were defending each of the two barricades tn the little angle under my eyes, but not more than twenty could remain in elther one atatime, Allthe rest were kept inside the courts and entrances of the houses further down, and asthe men in the barricade exhausted their ammunition or fell others crept cautiously forward till they were under fire, and then rushed to the gover of the barricade to take thelr places, All hit in the barricades Were hit in the head. Ai they fell their comrades carried them into the little shops near by that they might receive assistance, and they died in those little shops and in the courts of the larger houses. Others died up in the rooms on the second and third stories of all the houses where they were fighting and where they were nit as they crept to the windows to deliver their fire, At half-past six this combat was fought to a stand- still, and all the defenders of the two little barri- @ades that I looked into were either dead or woanded, or, having exhaused their ammunition, nga gone to the rear, Then came A CHARACTERISTIC CIRCUMSTANCE. These two barricades that were no longer de- fendel—from which not a shot came—covered the rear of important positions, One, tnat in the Rue Luxembourg, lea into the rear of the position made by the famous barricade of the Rue St. Floren- tin, and the simular barricade at the end of the Rue de Rivolt on the Place de la Concorde. The other, on the Rae Neuve des Capucines, covered one of the best approaches to the Place Venddme, Al- though the smportance of the position must have been Known to the commander of the troops, I did not see any of that dashing readiness to rush forward and take possession of the defences from which the National Guards had been driven. On the contrary, the com- mander was disposed to be satisfied for a while with the peaceable possession of his own side of the street. But the Communists, not count- ing on this and feeling the importance of the posi- tion, saw the necessity of keoping up at least a show of fight, and one came forward from the Place Ven- déme under fire for at teast half the distance. Whether he was the only one who would come, or whether it was deemed that only one was necessary to keep up the required show of resistance, { cannot say; but this one DID HIS DRSPERATE DUTY WEL. Once in the barricade he crouched close to the earth, even sitting inthe gutter and leaning back on the onrbstone to be more completely covered; and hundreds of men in all the windows across the street were waiting with thelr pieces ready for the least movement he might make. It wasall silent, and he crept to a place where he could pass the barrel of his gun be- tween the sand bags on the top of the barricade; but the niomént the piecé came in sight outside the sand bags all around it were torn by a hundred bui- lets. He withdrew his gun, dropped, and waited his chance again. And ao he kepton till, in spite of the attention with which he was watched, he had fired away ail his ammunition—with what effect I know not—and the last I saw of him, as the night came on, he was fumbling with hus rignt hand among the fragmentsof paper {n thé street searcning for cartridges that might have been dropped by careless shooters earlier in the day, and his movements were siow and peculiar, not with the deliberate slownesa of steady nerves and cool blood, but as if with the debility cf @ man bleeding from deadly Wounds. Inthe morning, when I saw tne regular troops in possession of that barricade, he Was there still, his head as cold and calm and indit- ferent to all around him as the curbstone on which tt rested, But THE FIGHTING OF TURSDAY did notend at nightfall. The great canuon tn the bar- ricade om the Boulevard des Italtens was, with tnat barricade, captured at night, and its fire was imme- dlately turned down the Rue Quatre Septiemore on the Place de la Bourse; and at ten P. M. an attack was pushed simultaneously toward that position and toward the Piace Vendome, which in the mean- time had been reoccupied. It was no time to be out, No lamps—no gas—a soldier with the frenzy of blood in his brain, or a Commanist desperate witn defeat, at every step; and the WHISTLING BULLET AND THE SCREAMING SHELL still filing the air with their tune of death, Remem- brance of the horror of that night will long be banded down in France as. the bitter legacy of bad ambition, tyranay and poiitical frenzy. At ten o’ciock the fire which had been raging all day on the Rue de Rivoli! seemed to have terribly increased, and pushing explorations in that quarter 1 feand that THE PALACE OF THR TUILERIRS WAS ON FIRE. Desperate Bergeret was keeping to his destractive programme. Compelled to abandon the Tuileries by an attack pushed from ali directions, he had fired it, distributing in all the departments, as I have heard, bundles of hay wet with petroleum, At mid- night I lay dowa, but not to sicep, for a twenty tour. pounder, within a hundred yards of my bed, fired every five minutes, rendered that respite lmpossivie, Y, JUNE 7, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. Ifelt the snock of @ great explosion in the nigbt, but did not see it, It wasthe Luxembourg palace, Wr DNESDAY—THE THIRD DAY. Very horrible--wearying the mind with its hor- Tors -was the third day in this appalling drama, Ataix 4. M. the fighting was in full Jury in the Rue Lafayette and the Rue Faubourg Montmartre, Pushing the insurrection to its last refuge on the Buttes Chaumont; and a battle was in progres near the Hotel de Ville and at what 1s called the Pointe St. Eustace, near the Church St. Eustace, in the Rue Rambuteau principally; but the fighting at all these points was of the same character with that desoribed above, full of the onorgy, THE SAVAGE TEMPER of desperation; for whatever mercy was shown before there was none on either side to-gay. People looked upon the burning city and saw in the many confla- grations an evident general attempt at widespread, Wholesale destruction, and their hearts were hardened and closed auatnst every thought and sen- ument of pity, The Tuileries were burned, the Louvre was burning, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Cour des Comptes, the Luxembourg Were in flames; the Ministry of Finances was totally destroyed; the whole western side of the Rue Royale was A MASS OF BURNING RUINS; 80 Was # part of the Rue de Rivoli, and che tire had already caught the Palais Royale. From haif a dozen different parts of the sky vast columns of smoke indicated the furious spread of the great con. flagrations, and men, women and children were taken in the act of feeding the flres with petroleum. Men, women and children thus taken were all forthwith shot, In the Rue Avjon @ grocer was taxen who had sold petroleumn—people sald to feed the fire, but nobody stopped to inquire too closely— they oniy shot him, Six firemen were charged witn playing PETROLEUM INSTEAD OF WATER on the Gre. If there was any evidence that tt was Petroleum and not water there was none how it came Into the machine, whether by their fault or Not; for it was no tine to take evidence—they were marched away and shot. In the midst of all tis a cavalcade of 300 women, taken prisoners at Mout- martre and those districts, passed by, with thelr hands ‘ted behind them. As they passed along they shouted “VIVE LA COMMUNE !”” If tt had not been tor other women, not more gentle, woula have murdered them then and there, In all the dis- tricts where there had been fighting on Tues- day in the little streets near the barricades people dragged out and threw into the street the dead bodies of the National Guards who had crept into these places to die, In many cases whero the Wounded were not quite dead the soldiers flnisned them. Many were thus dragged out who had only hidden away when the retreat was cud om, and very lucky were they who, captured this Wednesday morniug, were marched away to the prisons, Many, very many, were “passed” into tae other world “by arms,” ac- cording to the horrible phrase by which the French soldiers inform you that they have murdered some one with their guns, THE CITY NEARLY OCCUPIED. Now, Wednesday night, with the whole city ex- cept a little district at one extremity in the hands of the troops, but with explosions and conflagra- tions it 13 feared yet to come, 1 close this letter—not because the story 1s all told, or for scarcity of mate- rial, but because I am ilterally exhausted with writing of all these horrors. the soldiers How tke National Assembly Received the News of the Burning of Paris—M. Thiers’ Recital of the Deed—Indiguation of ths Members. The sitting of the National Assembly commenced in the afternoon of the 24th ult,, at half-past three o'clock. M. Thiers, who spoke with a voice broken br emotion, sald he wag always ready to listen to the advieé of the Assembly, and added:— ‘The melancholy events of which Paris has become the scene cause me deep aittiction, The insurrection Is cver- come. ‘The odious act--one unparalleled in history—of which some milains bare just been guilty, in the, crowaing act of their despair. ja, desiring to treat the city with lenity, y attack upon pubic monu- ents in which the insurgents had taken yo goritions, Tois morning whey carried the Place de la Con- on The Minutry of Fi the Hotel of the Conseil d'etat. the, Palace of the Lenicn of Monit, and the Palace of the Tulleries wer but by the insurgents, When the troops gained possession of the Tuileries it was but a mass of smouldering ashes. (Cries of indignation.) The Louvre wi taved to um Another grievous pléce of inteiligence {# that the Hotel de Ville ‘s in james. (Kenewed outburat of indignation.) fam oonvinced ut the logurrection will, be completely ‘conquered by this evening at the latest. No one could have preveuted the crime of these wicked wretches. They have made use of petro. Jeum for their inoendiary purposes and have sent petroieun bombsagainst our soldiers. What remedy can be applied? a will ask. Let us preserve a ovo! ot. The remedy union. Without that we shall never aitain ‘to any- pi RB ee utable, ue compiete ; bee: 5 Seult to procure. ‘The best of the generale of hae shown an amonnt of talent and valor whieh bi era, who have ne 1 implore t us to complete th which welehs asmuch as our efforts ‘are directed ‘There whoula be no distrust of us. When the insurrection shall have been suppressed we shall not fail to. pun’ \. to law but impiacably. rou to re with Our right of pardon us, It’ ia faine Some off sans of order, caused the to be beaten at Pas have collected men who are known to be trustword have given orders that this proceeding be alscontinue.!. It is by an error that M. Jules Ferry has been mentioned in the e/ an Prefect of ihe Seine. No one cul be invite the National Guard is veing rearme.l. parti. rand to accept the responsibility and burden ot that ; functionary, however, Ww: Intely neces. sary (o Intervene between the army ulation. ‘An appeal was then made, and not without success, to the patriotic devotion of M. Ferry, who has aireaty per: formed those functions, All that is but provisional, ‘The povulation must isarmed, (Lout applause.) Matres will be appointed. Be uot impatient. Leave us to finish our task,and never again will the country see such an insurrection. Tiong for repose. You can confer itupon me—(‘No! No!” but pray do not ada to our difficulties. We share your so: rows, your anguish. Allow ua to act with calmness. We have ‘need of all oar cooloess and of fuil freedom of mind, (Applause, especially {rom the left and centre.) Amid much agitation the sitting was closed. OBITUARY. Commodore Andrew Arcedeckne. A special despatch from our correspondent in London announces the death, last week, of Commo- dore Andrew Arcedeckne, of the Royal Yacht Club, London, This distinguished yachtsman was a son of the late Andrew Arcedeckne, of Glevering, and was born during the year 1822, He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor ot Glevering in 1849. He a Magistrate of Sudolk, was High Sherif in 1:66 and patron of two hivings. The deceased gentleman was a untversal favorite in yachting and dramatic circies, Although nota particularly active yachtsman personally, he was an enthusiast in the cause and did much toward popularizing the sport in England. He was also passionately attached to the drama, and was him- jet an excellent amateur actor, He visied this country several tmes, aiways enjoying his visits, he being an ardent admirer of Americans, who were always received byhim at nis home ta England with lavish hospitality. Commodore Ar- cedeckne was an intimate friend of the Wailacks of this city, and tirough the influence of the elder Wallack was elected an honorary memper of the DPramatic Fund Association, to which he was a regular subscriber. He last visited New York about tweive years ago. His death will be deeply re- gretted by all yachtsmen ani members of the dramatic profession, both of whom were much to him, Personally he was a whole-souled, hospitable, charitable gentioman, whose large fortune was always at the service of his frienas and the poor, and ‘who, in the social circle and in public life, was distin. guished for his upsullied character and high sense of honor. “THE QUARRYM NW AGAIN. The Society Mon Attavk a Party ef Laborers and Seriously Isjure Two of Them. Shortly after six o'clock last evening @ gang of about sixty soclety quarrymen, who were returaing from a funeral, attacked @ party of quarrymen who were working in Fifty-eighth street, near Sixth avenue, and attempted to drive them from their labor by throwing stones at them. Captain Killilea, of the Twenty-second inet, receiving tnforma- tion of the affair, beader Party of policemen and started for the scene of operations, tar, arrivin: there the society men left in hot haste, but not until they had seriously ip,ured an old man and a boy. ‘The police gave chase, but were unable to come up with any of them, 60 no arrests were made. AMESICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY. PHILApELYHtA, June 6, 1871. The Homemopathists celebrated the twenty-seventh anmversary of the American Institue for Hommop- athy by @ convention this morning at the Mercan- , Dr. Guernsey, chairman of the Com- tastes om aires ments, delivered an address, wel- muttee on ming the d ates. The President of tne Lustitute, Prthedawih. of Cleveland, Onto, responded, WEST POINT. Conclusion of the Examination of the Graduating Class. ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDE He Attends Evening Parade and Takes a Little Stroll. West Point, June 6, 1871, ‘The examination of the graduating ciass in engl> neering was concluded this afternoon, and the branen next in order of importance taken up, Dur- ing the afternoon the class was exercised on the plains in OAVALRY TACTICS. There was @ large number of spectators present. ‘The President, accompanied by ois father and brother and daughter, arrived on the Mary Powell this evening, and was received at the wharf by General Pitcher, who hada carriage in waiting for him, As soon as the President reached the plains A SALUTE OF TWBNY-ONE GUNS from Battery Knox was fired by @ detail of cadets, He was very warmly greeted by the officers of the post and appeared to be might glad to get back to this his favorite resort once again. He was present at THE EVENING PARADS, And after supper strolled about, out of the reach of the crowd of the curtous, in the company of @ fra- grant Havana. tHe wiil remain here until next Monday. f TEE WSEHAWKEN MURDER. Cunniaghnm Taken to Trenton—The Case of His Sympathizer, Policeman Harney. Patrick Cunningham, the murderer of Anthony McDonough, bade farewell to his wife and children yesterday morning, at the Hudson County Jail, and was taken to ‘Trenton to commence his twenty years of exptation. His case ia pretty sure to bring about achange in the law regarding the punishment for different degrees of murder. Eight of the jury held out for four hours fora verdict of murder in the firsc degree, while the other four, though convinced of the prisoner's gailt, and not possessing @ high order of intelligence, had thelr feelings worked upon by the impassioned appeals of Mr. Abbett, the prisoner's counsel, for merev, not to the criminal him-elf, but to his Wile and children, who sat facing the jury in court, There was @ fecling among the ma- Jority of the jury that it would be far better for the ends of justice to effect a compromise than to be discharged alter a prolonged disagreement, on MASSACHUe There wes a possibility that tue trialin such @ case would be put of tll next term, and in the meantime the two witnesses—Kgan and Coyne—without whom the case would fall through, might disappear, not to return. Hence the verdict of mnurder in the second degree. Judge Bedle tinposed THE HEAVIEST SENTENCE prescribed by the Jaw—imprisonment for twenty years. The feeling of ninety nine mea out of every hundred tn the community is that this punishment 18 too light, considering the enormity of the crime. Imprisonment for life ts the punishment im: din New iork for this degree of murder, and public opinion in New Jersey is drifting towards a change which will assimilate the iaws in this respect to those of New York, Another siugular feature in the late trial was the absence of the Attorney General. It was the first case of an atrocious murder tried during several ears in the State without the aid of the Attorney eneral or some lawyer of great ability delegated by htm, The Prosecutor of the Pleas for the county haa to bear the entire burden, aud the verdict tells the result, HARNEY, THE POLICEMAN who was called before the cqurt and fined for tame the jurors on behalf of his Cunningham, 18 to be ut withoit deiay before the Police Commissioners of Jersey City. At the meeting of that body on Monday night a@ com- mittee, consisting of Messrs. Goetz, Edmonson aad Hutton, were appointed to investigate the case and report to the full Board, The case will be thoroughly sifted, SHOCKING WiFE MURDER IN SETTS. Beaten and Burned to Death nd—ihe Fiend Arrested, Boston, June 6, 1871. West Roxbury, or that portion of it known ag Roslindale, has had @ sensation which has greauy disturbed the equanimity of tne residents, being no less than the death of an aged woman at the hands of a brutal aud tendisn hasband. Ac least this is the character of the occurrence so far aa it appears from circumstantial evidence at present obtained. The pare ticulars are tese:—In a nouse on Short street, lead- ing from Brown's avenue, Roslindale, have lived alone for more than mine yoars, Michael Brennan and bis wife Aun, eaci o: whom, we are Informed, had seen aout sixty years of lie.’ It had been weil known to tae neighvors lor some time that this. conple did not live together in an altogether happy manner, and of late compiaints have veem frequent from whe neighbors that Breanan was in tne habit of beaung nis wile, or at leass that she was heard tuo scream as if receiving violence. Throug® these complaints which nad been made to the police Captain A. McDonald was led to make an investigation, aud for that purpose went on Friday last to the house of Brennan, He found Mrs. Brendan on the ved, evidently in @ dying con- dition, and noticed inarks of bruises on her head and shoulders, which, in response to his inquiries, sie said she had received tn a fall down stairs, We did not liear that she said anything to implicate her husband, but subsequent reveiations tend to snow that she was reticent on this subject through fear of her husband. on Friday night the woman died, and it waa deemed pest by the authorities to have an autopsy made, This was done, and tnatcated that te woman had received the most cruel treatment, Aside from the marks betore referred to there was found on one of her shoulders @ bad cut, on her breast bruises fas if fromgbiows and elsewhere on ber persuu large discolorations, which seemed to have been the result of kicks. On one of her lips was discovered @ blister as largs a9 one’s hand, and on her back the imprint, in bilster, of the top of a cooking stove, the circles described by the stove covers belug clearly defued In her ‘les. it was also found thay five of her ribs were vroken and a sixth fractured. Yesteruay an inquest was hell by Coroner Stead- an, at which the avove acts appeared, and @ ver dict was rendered to the effect that the woman came to her death from blows Inillcted by her hus- band soyietime between the 23d ui May and the date of her death. Breunan has been arrested and ts held in custody, He denies al charges of maltreatment, and says bio wite's injurles were the result of a fall down stairs aud a full upon the stove about three weeks since, the being au iuvalid and unabdic to move about with certainty. Brennan drives @ job team in that vicinity aod Is reported to be Worth sume property. he is held for examination. Picaic OF THE ST. OOMIAGO cLU}. The St. Domingo Club of the Sixteenth ward ere joyed its first picnic Monday. Alderney ark wag visited by the excursionists, Wao Were transported down the bay in two large barges and a steawer. Wallace’s brass and strug bands furmished tne music, and the merry party were more (han pleased with the memories of the day. A uumber of leading politicians of the city leat their presence. A rare vocal eutertuinment Was given in the grove, at which Mme. Alfred, Miss Banon, Messrs, U. and J. Anderson, of the Union Glee Club, assisted. Tae various committees, under Messrs, Georze Gardner, Charles Blackie, Charles Heyser and assoviaies, con- tributed to the success of the day. A Crack ReGiment.—The virst Nebraska regis ment, which served in the late unpleasaatness, is fairiy entitled to the championship for ae Its Colonel, Thayer, was the fi elect to represent his own St Tipton, the ¢! came next, and still bolds his seat, though Thayer is out, The sutler, Spencer, stimulated by theso ilastrious ceases, Went for the Alavama Legisia- ture and persuaded 113 members that he was just the man to represent thent If {he Senate, and he now sits beside his old chaplain, The headquarters cook will probably be run in next. EUROPEAN MARKETS. Loxpos MONRY MARKET. —LONDON, June 64:30 P.M. Consois cloned at $L% for money and 9 4 f United “tates ave-twenty bouds, 1882, Ws 1887, 2%y ; Len-forties, RHA. Movxy Mager. —Panrs, June 5—Evening. The 68 france 47 ceotimes, se closed baovan. Re BU MEAPOOL COTTON MASKET—LIVERPOOL, June 64:00 P.M. The market closed active. Mildiing uplands nearly ‘aSul.; middling Orleans, Sd. The saien of the day 6 been 2,00 Dales, imciucing 5,000 for export and speciw bi lauion. ‘TRADE Rerorr.—LrivErroor, market for yarns aud fabrics at LONDON “PROD M. 7 6d. . ir gailon. Liver: AADSTUFFS® MARKET. LIVERPOOL, Jun@ 6 “the market e quiet out ew, the roeeuvta of, waeat f one Pe @ June 64:30 P.M. aacbester ‘s orm, ~ eet, the past three daya have been 10,00) quarters, ‘Ameriead. Corh, 328 per quarter (or bew, per quarter for Canadtin, FRANKFORT MONEY MARKRT—FRANEFORT, June Kyening.- United States tive twente banda closed’ at 96% the issue of 1362