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PARIS.
The Carnival Of Blood and FIre-A Thrill
Ing Narrative of an Eyewitness.
Last Days Of the Communists Fin'
Struggle and Bloody Overthrow.

The Fancy Of the Writer Detects in Grow
Of Condemned Communists ukehesses
to Many Of eur Radical Patriots.
Correspondence Of the Savannah MOrTlin
News
PARIS, May p, 4 pm, ls7I.-TA,
supreme hour" in French phrase
has at last arrived. After fifty day
and nights OF blood and carnage, dur
ing which neither of the cOmbatant
achieved an important victory, th'
outside army managed to effect il
entrance through two gates at
O'Clock tnis morning. One of il
wings has advanced as far as the
Church Of st. Augustin in the Boule
ward MaleSherbes. The other is sup
posed to be near the Notre Dame. The
stronghold OF the Commune is in the
quarter OF the Madeleine, of which
my location is the center. The fOrti.
ficatiOns around (they are not mere
barrieades) are formidable, and If car.
ried by the troops of the National As.
sembly, an immense destruction OF
life and property is inevitable. ] can
convey to YOU no adequate idea of the
extraordinary spectacle which is pre-
scented to my sight at this moment.
The deafening peals of artillery in
close proximity, the bursting of bombs
in the air, almost directly over my
head; the ever and anon WhiZzing
bullets of uncertain destination; the
huge volumes of black smoke rolling
slowly upward from some edifice on
fire; the screaming OF women and
children are of the things which see
and hear. l alone stand my ground
in this large mansion. All its other
inmates have fed for safety to the
cellars. 1 regard myself in the midst
of q battlefield, where a shot may at
any time knock me over.
The flames are shooting forth in
horrid splendOr from the Ministere
des Finances. That magnificent edi-
flee, covering an entire square, is, in
4 straight line, within two hundred
yards Of where l am sitting. 1t faces
the Garden OF the Tuileries, extending
from the Rue dU Luxembourg to the
Rue CastigliOne. The army of Yer
sailles Is steadily pressing forward.
The firing on both sides becomes
more and more impetuous IS night
fall approaches. The Philippi is likely
20 be the front OF the Madeleine, and
down the Rue ROyale to the Place de
Ia COncorde. The Universe Riding
School and Livery Stable establish
yuent, the courtyard of which is just
betore me-nOt thirty yards distant
was converted into a barracks at the
mm.>ucement of the siege. 1t is
4 hvv tho HrrnWau Of tho Nn0rr1-
mime. in vast numbers. Now and
then, as l cast my eyes upon 1t, l see
them bringing In lifeless bodies and
bleeding, WOundCd human 1orInsS ana
depOsiting them upon the hard rocks.
An hour before they tell, they went
out in the pride OF their manhoOd's
strength and in the fullEess OF their
health.
Tuesday, May %, 4 O'Clock pm
I undertake 10 say that in her long
and eventful history Paris never eg-
perienced as awful day as this. The
destruction and damage to life and
property ere twilight iades into the
darkness of night will be without a
parallel in warfare In the history Of
modern times. AS / anticipated, the
troogs Of the line occupied, at an early
hour. She Place de la Madeleine and
the sdiScent portions of the streets
adjoining. At about two o'clock a !
mighty conflict commenced in the |
Rue de la Ferme des Mathurins, |
which opens into the Boulevard |
directly opposite the porte cOchere |
OF my place of abode. l had descend
ed an hour before and had been pro-
yided by the cOnscieTge with seat |
from whence I could distinctly see,
through the railing of the large gate |
yay, the operations In front of me. |
The National Guards, protected by |
their barricade, held their ground with |
intrepid tenacity for some time. Sud- |
denly the troops Of the line, in con- |
siderable body, entered the Rue de !
SeEe from the Place de la Madeleine, |
and turning into the Rue de GodOt, |
which runs parallel with the Fermes
des Mathurins, at distance of forty |
or e fly yards, quickly demolished the |
temporary barTicades therein and OBJ
tained possession OF the Boulevard. |
The flight OF the National Guards was
preeipitate. They ran, crouching as
IoWlV as they could to move swiftly, |
IN order to avoid the shots that were
aimed at their rear, until they reached |
the Rue DuphOt on the opposite side, |
ia an Oblique direction. Near the |
corner they took their stand, where |
they were in uninterrupted cOmmuni- |
"a ZION, by the way OF the Rue st. |
Hon, We, with the Place Nendome, |
Their =, ,~OnghOld. After an hour OF /
shsTn an, 0otng on both sides, but /
without se, ,~iOus slaughter, short as |
was fbe sDae.N between the combat
anti. the NstiOnN Guards fell back,
and the troops OF re line crossed over
and occupied the ent. re length Of the
Boulevard de Madeleine
/ then returned to my apartment.
Upon looking out into the curt yard
VI the Riding School, l ObservtN thal
it was in a state Of wild cOmmO 0on,
and soon thereafter it was totally
evacuated by the National Guards.
AS / trace these lines, all near and
around me, as well as far OF, the In
tensity OF mortal strife for the victory
OF brother over brother, seems
even 10 be intensified. The noise OF
RunpOwdeT explosions was never so
deafeniDg TO my ears. The mingled
smoke thereof, with that proceeding
from neighbOring edihces on FIRE, was
never 50 binding TO my sight. May
this be the last day OF massacre! L
incline to the belief that such will be
the case. In this quarter assuredly so,
for the army of the National Assem-
bly, Is master of the position. 1t can
hardly fail TO carry the Place Ven
dome before 1t rests on its arms. That
Win insure a speedy and complete
sumph. But OH at what cost
: this moment messenger, out OF
e. a. from over joyOusness, or undue
aIooit, lTs of lOcOmoti0n, comes in with
elV Sl ti52,,, g that the tri-cOioF is glOri-
.,S,I 10 SiuS LII, 'ug over the New Opera,
"a 49, tho Place Nendome has been
~ tn,,--oS e,.a,S ~ too. ether with the fOrmid-
~ 'hs-tica6ee erected for It's pEOtec-
~ -. Tbns the q, NtsT Of the metropo-
W. = :, daiiyared If its enemy, and
: ,,Ina end addition. 'sl fire averted.
We Wadneadsv Nav a, 5 p.m.-After
IYtv fedious hours OF imprisonment,
found the porte cOcht Ts VIDE open
dis morning, and was aueetIonapeiy ,
reeted, as i approached Il, Dy Olu
Paul, then NestOr of PaFisian cOYscseTgesl
nd his better-hah. AS / elissrged
he first object that caught myeHe was
3eneral McMahon, accompanied by
IIs et1t Major, handsomely mounted,
nd moving at a slow pace up the
3ouleyard. Though carewOfn and
,therIyise much changed by sadness,
inee I last saw him, he was still
Inc tvpe of the French soldier Of other
isvs, He seemed TO enjoy the saln-
atoms and cheerings which attended
liu at every step which his horse
OOk. After he passed / looked right
nd Ieft Siang the BOulevards, and saw
be tri-eoacr unfurled from every WIN
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