The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-07

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quietly effective and at the same time ample. So
the great guns IN the Champs Elysees threw their
or SHELLS INTO TnE PLACE DE LA
CONCoRDE
crushed oil the fronts Of the houses in the Rue
dc e nvoii. so they threw hundreds OF shells even
clear over the houses In the Rue de Rivon
to explode In the narrow streets around
the Marche st. Honore, and threw some even
as far into the heart OF the city 90 the
Place de la Bourse. Other great guns in the same
neghborhood threw the shells that crushed to DOW
der the IA ade OF the Foreign Oalce, on the south
side OF the Seine, and even
TORE THE PALAIs LEGIsLATrF ALL TO PIECES,
to Brighten out Of 1t that ptful pgmy Of insurrec-
ton, the wonderful Bergeret On the other hand,
the guns In the barricades on the Place de Ia Con-
corde replied with energy as did guns on the ter
race Of the Tuilertes, and between all this cannon
fire acress the Place dc Ia Concorde although some
or the colossal statues are greatly injured and one
has her head Knocked OF, the Obelisk Of Luxor i
still erect and still looks calmly more wonderful
scenes than any, perhaps, 1t ever saw in Egypt.
THE BARRICADE MANIA
1t seemed on Monday as II the men Of the Com
mune were suddenly seized with o barricade
mania, as II, like man deprived OF reason who
merely mumbles forever his last rational utterance
places, the people were just going to build barri
cades without any percepuon or the reason why
they did it OF any judgment of the use Of these OBJ
structions. In every street, at every corner, men
with crowbars and pickaxes were
TEARING UP THE PAVEMENT
and throwing up the earth, while two or three
always stouu by with loaded muskets to compel
every one coming along to stop and help. others
pulled all the barrels out OF the cellars, and
these filed 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, Gnd especially oil mattresses.
These latter were piled on recklessly and men
win pipe and hose did their utmost to ssturate
them with water, and TO wet completely all other
lnnammable material. On the Rue de Rvoli there
were
SIX BARR1cADEs BETWEEN THE TuILERlEs AND THE
HOTEL DE VILE,
the first at the corner of the Place du Palas Royal
another was on the Rue st. Honore, at the same
place, and another on the quay at the other size OF
the river, nearly continued the same line. Even the
few shops lately open were now OF course, all
closed. Some streets were entirely deserted, and
Immediately around the corner one would come into
street filled with excited National Guards, running
confusedly hitler and thiIher shouting orders, OF
which no one took notice; breaking open doors,
stavn. in barrel heads, endeavoring by example, it
would seem, to communicate excitement to the
people. went
TO THE PLACE vENDoME.
There was not a soldier to be seen Shells eX-
ploded there, sent up from the Champs Elystes.
Nobody was 10 he found IN the place where Bergeret
and, later. Dombrowski had had their headquar-
tiers. the table was set but the breakfast was not
touched all the indications OF preclptate move.
Ynpnt-Whpther was of
evident. Beds, from which the occupants had hut
lately gone, were as they had left them. / went
from room to room and saw only my own image In
the great mirrors and heard only my own footsteps
on the polished floors. Gong thence into
THE RUE DE RIvoLI,
l saw the barbados there filed with ready de.
fenders and saw the ruin that the shells 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 Elysees or the
Trocadero. Thence went TO the Tuieries where
found
BgRGERET.
he was just coming In from the Corps Legislatif
whence he has been driven by the Smelling. leaving
behind him also an untssted breakfast He had Just
assumed the command In the Place de Ia Concorde
and was throwing up an earthwork in the front OF
the Tuileries into which, while las yet there two
twelve.pounders were placed. These Immediately
opened fire on the Champs Elysees, and presently
sent 10 the right about line Of troops that was ap-
proGcrinse, Face de Ia Concorde. watched the
effect Of ants IRE from the Salon Rose. recently
THE BEDCHANBgR Or the EMPRESS.
1t was beautiful day. Far up the broad avenue,
now 30 magni1cently green, the sunlight seemed to
dance IN the treetops, and obscured by It's
brllancy the view Of the great Arc de Triompne,
that, towering over all surrounding objects, SO
grandly closes the magnificent perspective.
BURNING PARIS.
To my right was the Ministry OF Finances In
flames, from which liquid tongues OF IRE darred 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 lef toward the Ecole
Militaire, another heavy column Of smoke arose.
darkenlng the sky in that quarter and giving to the
sunlight q strange lurid color; and between the
great CONGREGATIONS, and between the Tuleries and
the Arc de Trlomphe, magnificent in the sunlight.
the artillery Of the government and the Commune
roared with their furious interchange Of destructive
clements
BERGERET's MADNESS.
Bergeret is no doubt insane. At that moment ne
regarded the situation promising for the success
OF the Commune, and talked Of shutting the gates
Of Paris and cutting or aud capturing by turning
movement, operated from Montmartre all the
NatlOn8l troops IuaC were IN the CITY, lie conceived
OF Dombr0wski as in command OF the great
turning movement. while Dombrowski If he had
succeeded In the plan he contemplated, was ct that
moment on the Belgian frontier. TWO bullets fiat.
tened themselves against the marble mantel as we
discussed this piece OF Communal strategy, and
Bsrgeret Laughed IN great gee at tho notion Qf
sleeping that night in the Emperor's chamber. ne
said that If the worst came he would not be taken
alive, and that II he died his death struggle would
shake Paris from centre to circumference.
FROM THE rUILERIEs
went up to the Boulevard Haussmann, where the
hardest ngnting Of Monday was then raging Com
petey arrested in their CENTRE the troops stood in
front Of the Place de Ia Concorde, while on their
right they had swept forward and captured every.
thing up to the Pont Neuf, and on their left tney
had gone forward along the Avenue Friedand to
the Caserne Papiniere, and from the Pare Monceaux,
by the Boulevard Batignolles, to the very foot OF
Montmartre. There was hard fight at the
Caserne, and the troops captured 1t, ana thus