New-York tribune., 1871-04-07
IFRoN Our 0yS CORRESPONDENT

| AMERICAN KILLED.
| IPRoN OUR ovS CORRESPONDENT
| PARIS, March 22.-Tbe journal OGcicI Paris
edltion) Informed tn morning thi the Communal
elections announced by the Ccnr Committee had boeu
postponed until tcuorrow, and it hoped that lhs
had been done In order TO allow Of some expected ar
rahgemeht with the authorities AZ Yo,s lies, and 10
put an end TO the existing sta:e os anarchy IN PaTis
unfortunately, this afternoon alton in favor OF
the National Assembly ended in boo1hed ia the Rue do
Ia Palx ana things now look worse than they have
ever dohe' As was an eye ness " all that occurred
II may Dc as wen to state simply what saw, there
will no doubt be many sensational and inaccurate
| versions by other correspondents who we're not
! on the spot at the time The National Guards
| fred the people. About quarter
past one to-day coming in 10 my lodgings in the
Rue de Ia Palx from little tolr q inspection round df
ferent parts OF the city, order how things were
looking. At the Bonrse had found lot OF the Eighth
Battalion OF the National Guard, wso disown tho Cen
tra Committee at the Hotel de Vile, under arms, and all
the streets leading TO the OUre carefully gu rded only
persons in plain clothes, ana without visible arms being
allowed pass. Then came ~ the new street from
the Bourse to the New Opera, which, the fan Of the
Empire has been chrlstened the Rue du soptombre,
and arrived on the Place NOuvel Opera where the
Rue dc Ia Paix Joins the Boulevard des Capneines.
Here there numerous groups assembled the loe
place being black with people, nearly everybody express
ing deestation Of the Beeylos at the bottom OF the
street. who were guarding the entry TO the Place Ven
dome At O'Clock tie people, about 1900 strong,
started of 20 make manifestation in favor Of the Ma
onal Assembly Unfortunately, just they proceeded
70 march down the street. the National GUARDS in the
Place vend0me Rcds) sent picket OF some 20 men 70
clear the street This picket marche up the the Rue do
la Paix quietly enough hut when they go opposite tho
| American Cub, the Washington" on the Place de
Opera the crowd began to hoot the picket and TO Insult
them in every possible 1hev stood their ground
for little time, not attempting 70 use their arms
although the bayonets were fixed. After about i've
minutes bowling the crowd drove the picket down tho
| street. the officer in charge dlsgTacng himself by
| running as hard az be conld toward his Trends
| I'm the Palace vend0me. Tho 25 unfortunate men
composing the picket hisei down the street by
the crowd who Joined blows aud kicks TO 1eers ana IN
sulting exclamatOns such as Oas BeHerte' od4 "a
eqnaiie!D Down with Belevel down with the
backarsD Some half dozen Of the unfortunate Behe-
vlies who had got separated from tie main body wero
most cruelty n-ueated Their arms were wrenched
from them, while they themselves we're husted hcted,
and beaten in the most br tai AMI cowardly manner
The crowd cheering for the National Assembly, order
and the Republic rushed the Rue de Ia PAX unb
they the point where the Rue Neuye des Capu'
cnes crosse and where the entrance TO the Place Ven
dome gins. Here the OF the 7sth battalion 81 Ma
tonal Guards drawn Two deep, with fixed bayo-
nets beat ~ tue crowd charged down
the street. and two sixpounders were run out OF ier
place like lghtnn, and laced as TO rake the street.
Il needful another body Guard pressing np IA re-
around them. The crowd dashed on until checksd
by the gterng line OF bayonets, wnen they stopped,
and began to vOciferae at the National Guards. TDcn
some one gOt trcOlOr nag from house adjoining and
| waved IL aloft, calling on the crowd TO follow him.
Hardly Ia the people presse fory yard again when sud
denly saw two shots red A. tho air by the National
Guards in the Then fOlowel succession OF drop
ping shots from the National Guards, as the people
! rushed mady for dear life down the street. As the
crowd cleared away, I four or five OF the
| Belevil!etes on the grOund-an important fact,
| which Gems. Sheridan AM FORSYTH, who were
| in a window OF the Hotel Wcstminster, can
| bear witness Tie bullets whisted down TIE street
for fully ten minutes after the first shot Just opposite
my windows in 'front.' OF Benals, chemist, welldressed
man suddenly capped his hand his head and fell stone
dead-l bullet having gone clear through his brain.
Most of the bullets. however, fired In the air, and
many vhizzng by ny window on the second story.
Not single sTeetamp was brokersn tho whole Rue do
/ IL Paix. Two lay dead about halfway between
where was posted-at No. l3-and the Place Nend0me.
The whole street was strcwed with hats, cape, and
| sticks DIR, pped by persons in their light. 80
As as the Irt firing over q National Guards
drew their two fuTA1r fOrwaId, TO be able
10 fire UP the street raurs behind They received
rcnforcements wlthnlaf hour Of the firing The
bulanee came up with creditabe rapidy, and
received by the National Guards. by o'clock the dead
bodies had removed from the streets the dogs HEX
ing up the blood which filed tie cutters In the most hor-
Tibe There seven or eight killed on the
| spot and about es many were wounded; facts which
prove that the Guards rcd Ia the air mainly for there
were at least 1900 people the street when the first shot
was fred have been assured By the National Guards
that they fred on fist by persons in the crowd
with reyovers aud certainly it is hard account for
the death OF two Generals and the ewOundug Of three
others on any other suppoon At $50 the street -
held by the Beleyeiies the people being ordered back
| to the Rue des Augustins.
March 23.-Aer the m ortnna'e coll's' Which took
place yesterday at rnoon the u Dc IA Paik nothing
very important occur omit excitement prevailed
throughout Paris, nj he most " few about
! There som" hundreds kil,d ana wounded; Yer
| saies was marching on PlI the Pruss ns were com
Ing in from ST. Denis &c &C. Cno paper 80 tu1.y gs-
serted that there were 100 people in IN Rue ie Ia
Paix. 1t said tha NJ RAJ hacl Felix, the Wel Enown
drectoriof the Porte -. MrA one Of the largest the
aters in Paris was killed. also ~. Henry &C Pene
Journalist well known Tie ueyarfs rs the editor of
a sossipping semi-Imperalist paper a loi the PG1s
Journal NJ de Penc, IL seems, really Was wounded IN
the Rue Neuyc de Capucnes yesterday afternoon, hnt
not very seriously 10 not fnd IN either ho p3peH OF
last nj glt or Ills NOR lyihing TO adiio t ount
| 1 sen, yo., b, yesterTa,s posi-. Hrt F. cry 'lt 70
! max. oue or two ycmlrAsa a. tlo Irc'1I' e'"'" II
/ ,,st., laws bloo>sh.i 100 u aris, nearly every
Frenel.tan Of the bourgeois whom one meets l' per
shaded tat the r. ds" ii eI wfully and crucliy on an
upa,med crowd without having received the smallest
vocation But 10 r. quite impossible for any ono who
n.s an eve Nitueis ard not 20 led with hatred for the
lower orders Of P.rsials "a to 'e DDnd 20 Wb"t
bapnened under lis eyes 10 accept this view OF TIC mat
ter IL undenla 10 that the crowd ON their way down
the Rue dc In Psix and the lace Yend6me, o'd most
grossly IN treat any man Of the pc ct sent AZ ~ mo
"PedsD TO ole.r the street. saw the musACts of at
,.t half dozen OF the men wrcnched from them,
boin carried of in triumph and come showed down graf
lnr- into thc basemcnts below. The oic,rs aud scr
resrts swords were snatched from them and carried ~
in triumph Atoy in a blue blouse was particular! cor