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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1871)
<£|nmfrle fc Stntinri. WKDJfKSDAY MORSISG. JTHK 14. “ THKKK IS MOKE IH THE MAE THAN THKEE IS IN THE UNI.” The New Departure and the speeches of ex President Davis seems to have set all the political manager* by the ears, North and South; The Memphis Appeal seems to consider that a ooalition of both parties has been effected, and thua reached the conclusion that we are in the blissful state of being “all Republicans, all Democrats,” and on the eve of a political milieniurc, or something worse, and that the next poiiti cal campaign is to be a free fight, solely between the “Ins and the Oats.” Bays the Appeal : “ Since it is evident that the Democrats will acquiesce in the mutilation of the Constitution, and make no effort to rid it of the excrescences fixed by fraud and usurpation, the Democratic guns are spiked. There is nothing left to fight for, save the spoils of office. This ‘new de parturc’ by the Democrats will induce the Radicals to make a retrograde movement, and at the next session of Congress they will grant universal amnesty and make the same bid for Democrats which the Dem ocrats have made for the Republicans. Already the Republicans are adjusting their platform, so as to secure a reduction of the tariff, discontinuance of direct taxa tion, reform in the civil service, economy in the working of the governmental ma chine, and a sweeping correction of those numerous abuses that have grown and flourished from rocking battle-fields aDd prostituted law. The Democrats can promise no more, and the contest will be simply a scramble between the ins and the outs —a war as ridiculous and oon temntible as that which raged in the empire of Lilliput between tnc nig endians and the little-endians, as to whether eggs should be broke on the large end or the small end. Republicans arc guilty of misrule, .tyranny, usurpations and corruptions, and when the Democrats acquiesonoo in these outrages, there is just about as much difference between the two parties as there is between the thief and the receiver of stolen goods.” If the views of tho Appeal be correc ts ere is still left us a choice between men, and we believe that “there is more in the man than there is in the land,” OBKKLKY’H THUNDEB. lioraco Greeley, in a late number of the New York Tribune, throws down the gauntlet in this wisp to Merton and the President-General, and the national Ku- Klux oaucus of tho Republican party at Washington. Greeley says: “ To support the administration is one thing. To advocate the renomination' of its head is another. We support the ad ministration. * * * We tell Repub licans, real and nominal, that tho business in hand is not tbo destruction of a party to secure the ronomination of a President, but the preservation of a party for the election of a President yet to be nomina ted —not the reduotion of our ranks to a number convenient for the distribution of tho offices, but the effort to make sure that we shall have the office* to distribute, not warfare among our factions, but war fare on tho enemy.” Mr. Grocley represents a large wing, perhaps the larger wing of the Republi can party—the non-office holding Republi cans, and with this advantage of Grant’s political Scnitoriai Lieutenant he Las daily communication with the masses of the Re publican party. But General Grant has the U. S. Treasury at his command, and the office holders who have renominated him already at his back, thoroughly organized and posted, and the administration of the Ku-Klux law in his hands* Now, what can Greeley do? The convention which Grocley looks forward to will be a mere delusion. It is a foregono conclusion that offioc holders will make up and control that convention, and will as matter of form pass a scrips of resolutions to re nominate Grant. Wo can discover no alternative except a coalition with Jeff. Davis to swing round tho circle, in favor of universal amnesty. Grocley and Davis, North and South, would be more than a match for Morton and Grant or the anti- KuKlux platform of universal amnesty. TKOUHLK IN THE RADICAL CAMP IN SOUTH CAROLINA—WHAT LIRKH TO HAVK HAPPRNKD! Tho South Carolina Radicals arc not pleased with Governor Scott’s reocnt course* They charge that he has Bold out to the Democrats —that he has removed >;o«d and faithful members of his own par ty from offioe to make for simon pure Democrats ; that in many counties of the State tho livoe and property of foil men have boon placed in imminent peril by the mfluonoe and power of Soott’s Democratic ofljoe-boMers, and that finally, and most intolerable to bo borne, Gen. M. G* Butler, a distinguished Confederate offioer and blood-thirsty rebol, actually controls the government of the State through his influ ence over Soott, who is in mortal fear of this unreconstructed rebel. Soott has taken a tour North, and in his abseneo, Ransicr, tho negro Lioutouaut- Governor, has been active in fomenting dissatisfaction in the Radical ranks, and his chicanery went so far as tho arrange ment of a plan by which Soott should be deposed, and ho promoted £P bis place. The plan was this: Ransicr, as Lieutenant-Governor, and, in Soott’s absence, the aciing Governor, arranged to oall an extra session of the Legislature. This was to be done on twenty-four hours public notioe, tho faith ful having been previously informed of the movement and induced to lend it their support. A majority of the Legislature were hanging around Columbia and Charles ton, where they have taken refuge since adjournment upon tho plea that they are afraid to return to their respective homes. As soon as thjs revolutionary body as sembled they were to proceed at once to she impeachment of Scott, articles for whioh had been quietly and secretly pre pared by Ransier and his co-oonspirators. So careful had Ransier and his tools been, and so secretly had they oonduoted the whole affair, that tho matter had actually progressed within twenty-four hours of its development before any of Scott’s friends suspected the trick. Unfortunately for Ransier and his friends, by some means the plan reached the ear of Chamberlain, a friend of Scott, and who furnishes all the brains for the party in the State, and he set about at once- to kill the plot. By dint of incessant working and of making great promises on behalt of bcott for his i future good behavior towards hi* party — a few of Kasnier’s strongest friends were induced to abandon the scheme. Then | there was a general withdrawal of the in- j surreotionarv forces until in a lew hours Ransier was left with but a coporal’s guard j and was forced for the present to abandon ( his design of making himself Governor. j Thus, by mere accident, Scott has been j saved from the tender mercies of his '• friends and the people of the State the mortification and disgrace of having the 1 gubernational chair filled by a worthless and rascally negro. We congratulate them oh their good lack. Summer Resori. The V* ilmington Journal announces the completion of the Western North Carolina Railroad to the foot of the Blue Ridge, twenty-five miles from Ashville, with cheap rates for sum mer excursion tickets- Old Rip \an Winkle will have to yield her ancient name to some of her si; tere, and assume one which .will better characterize her enterprise. In another year she will have penetrated the splendid vallies of the Alleghany chain. Already she has made accessible the delightful,the salubrious cli mate of Asheville and the W T arm Springs, and the splendid scenery of the French Broad. M Count Walderee has been appointed Minister to France. THE COMMUNE’S PYKE. FULL DETAIL 11 OF THE HORRIBLE SCENES IN PARIS. A WEEK OF BLOOD AND FIRE. Graphic Dmcßirnoicof Events that Wiil Live is Histoet. The Communists Hunted Down. Destruction, of the Tuilerist. the Hotel de Y'Jle, Palais; Royal, Notre Dame , Sornte Ohapehe, Ministry of Finance. Council of State, the Luxembourg and Sorbonne— lntensely Dramatic Inci dents, dec,, Ac. [PYom the New York World.] Versailles, May 34—Ob, horrible! horrible 1 most horrible 1 Paris is being destroyed before my eyes. As I stood on the terrace of Mendon this afternoon, fas cinated by the awful spectacle before me, the mysterious words of the Apocalypse came into my mind: “Babylon the great is fialleo, and is be come the habitation of devils. As much as she hath glorified herself and hath been in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her, because she saith in her heart, I sit a queen and sorrow I shall not sec. Therefore shall her plague come in one day, death and mourning and famine, and she shall be burnt with the fire. And the kings of the south shall weep and be wail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for tear of her torments, saying, Alas! alas! that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, standing afar off from her for fear of her torments, weepiDg and mourning, aod Raying, Alas! alas! that great city which was clothed with fine linen bd<l purple and scarlet, and was gilt . with gold and precious stones and pearls ; for in one hour are so great riches eome to oaughf. * * * And in her was found the blood of prophets.and of saints.” Hainr John could not have described with more accuracy what is now going on in uaris ana wnat are tne emotions of the wbolo world as it hears of the destruction of that Babylon, had he been an eye wit ness of the scene. The Louvre, the Tuile ries, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Council of State, the Hotel de Ville, and the Palais Royal are either heaps of ashes or piles of flame, and 1 have just been told that the Pantheon and the Lux embourg have been blown up, while all over the quarter in which the insurgents are still holding out bow conflagrations burst forth every moment. These are simple words, and you cannot comprehend all their awful meaning at once. If the Treasury, the Patent Office, and the Capi tol at Washington should all be burned at once, the people in America would feel dismay , if the British Museum, the Ileuses of Parliament, the Tower of Lon don, Windsor Castle, and the National Gallery and tho Royal Academy wero con sumed by fire it would be a bad thing ; if half of the West End of London and all New York from Union Square to Central Park were in flames, tbo loss would be great ; but all those calamities put to gether could scarcely equal that which has been caused in Paris to-day. There was some doubt as to whether these conflagrations were tho work of the Communists, or whether they had been caused by tho shells of the troops. It soomed unreasonable that men who wore engaged in defending themsolvos should set fire to tbo buildings whioh were their strongholds. But it now appears that the Communists had sworn, in their desperate frenzy, to conquer or to literally bury themselves beneath the ruins of the city : to die like so many Samsons, pulling down upon their beads every monument of his torical or monarchical Paris, fearfully have they carried out their throat. ft seems they had prepared themselves with great quantities of petroleum several days before tho entrance of the army ; this they had collected in tho various buildings which they had rose Jved to destroy, and as they were driven from these, one by ODe, they gave them to the flames. I confess I am out of all patience with M. Thiers. The ineffable egotism of the man is not in the least abashed by the contemplation of the irreparable calami ties which his own indecisioa and weak ness have brought upon Paris “No one could have prevented the crime of these wicked wretches, ” said M. Thiers to the Assembly to-day. Nonsense! Nothing would have been easier than for M. Thiers himself to have retained Paris in his own hands on the 18th of March, had lie only been wise in time; or nothing would Lave been easier than for the citizens of Paris— the men of order—ho have put down the band of foreign adventurers whose mad ness lias now laid Paris in ruins, M- Thiers was so anxious to av'h'd the shed ding of blood that lie has ended by shed ding blood in torrents j he was so anxious not to lire on Paris that he has ended by seeing Paris in flames, lint still, witli sublime impudence, lie affects the god. To-day the Assembly convened at three o’clock, and a member asked a question concerning the presence in Paris of M. Jules Ferry as Prefect. M. Thiers, who is a consummate actor, began bis reply in . a voice which, trembled. “I am always ready, ” said he, “ to listen to the advice of the Assembly. ” He continued : “ The melancholy events of whicli Paris has become the scene cause me deep afflic tion. The insurrection is overcome. The odious act—one unparalleled in history— of which some villians have just been guilty, is the crowning act of their de spair. The generals, desiring to treat the city with leuity, withheld any attack upon public monuments in which the insur gents had taken up positions. This morn ing they carried the Place de la Concorde. The Ministry of Finances, the Hotel of the Conseil d’Etat, the Palace of the Le gion of Honor, and the Palace of the Tuil erios w ere burnt by the insurgents. When the Hoops gained possession of the Tuil eries it was but a mass of smouldering ashes. (Cries of indignation.) The Louyre will be saved to us. Another grievous piece of intelligence is that the Hotel de Villa is in flames. (Renewed outburst of indignation.) I am convinoed that the insurrection will be completely comiuerea by this evening at tho latest. No one oou’d have prevented the crime of these wicked wretches. They have made use of petroleum lor their incendiary purposes, ’ and have sent petroleum bombs against our poldierr. What remedy can be ap plied? you will Let us preserve a cool judgment. The remedy is union. Without that we shall never attain to anything but resolutions which will be dis puted and ever disputable. Let us first complete the victory; it has been difficult to procure- The best of the generals of the arrpy Laye shown an amount of talent and valor w'Hioii has excited the admira tion of foreigners, who have expressed it to us. After what W? have Already done I implore the Assembly to allow us to complete this work, which weigh? heavily upou us, inasmuch as our efforts aro directed against Frenchmen. There should be no distrust of u?. When the insurrec tion shall have been suppressed we shall nst fail to punish, according to law, but implacably. Our right of pardon we invite you to share with us. It is false that the National Guard is being rearmed. Somo officers, partisans of order, caused the rappel to be beaten at Passy, and have ooliected men who are knowo to be trustworthy. I have given orders that this proceeding be discontinued. It is by an error that M. Jules Ferry lias been mentioned In the Journal Official as Pre fect of the 3einc. No one could be found willing to accept the responsibility and burdsD of that office. Such a functionary, however, was absolutely necessary to inter vene between the army and the civil population. An appeal was then made, and not without success, to the patriotic devotion of M. Ferry, who has already performed those functions. All that is but provisional. The population must be disarmed, (Loud applause.) Maires will be appointed. Be not impatient. Leave us to finish our task, and never again will the country see such an insurrection. I long for repose; you can cooler it upon me —(’No, no’)—but pray do not add to our difficulties. We share your sorrows, your anguish. Allow us to aot with calm ness. We have need of all our coolness and of full freedom of mind.” M. Thiers was too sanguine—he is al ways too sanguine—in saying that the Louvre would be saved, and that the insurrection was euded. Three-fourths of the Louvre is already burned, and the most that can be done is te save one or two of its courts. O’Halloran. A WEEK OF BLOOD AND FIRE. Thrilling Descriptions of the Fighting, the Conflagrations, and the Executions— Hundreds of Women Shot by the Troops. [Corrcs}>ondencc of the London Times.] Paris. Thursday.—ln the evening, soon aftet 8 o’clock, the firing died out almost everywhere, and there was r dead ealm. the barricades—there were barricades everywhere—had for the most part been finished, and one might pass most of them without fearing to be requisitioned as a m . m yway down the Rue L*layette, making occasional detours for strategical reasons. 'What strange people these 1 ansians are. It was a fine evening, and thesoenem the narrow streets was like Dute s place in Aldgate on a summer Sunday afternoon. Men and women were placidly sitting. on chairs by the street doors, gossipping leisurely about the eveute of the day. The children played round the barricades; their mothers scarce ly looked up M the penerofebeat or the dis tant report of the bursting of a shell came on the light night wind. Reaching the Hotel de la Cbaussee d’Antin, I found that it bad been a very hot corner during the afternoon. It is dose to the Boule vard Haussmano, which had beeo continu ously swept with shell all the afternoon. A fragment had invaded the privacy of a' friend whom I had left in the hotel, and bad fallen before him on hi* desk as he wrote. The reaacn of the temporary lull was not very apparent—perhaps the Ver gailiists were rating n late dinner. About 10 the din began again. Shell after shell burst close to us in the Boulevard Hausg mann, and there came the loud noise of a more distant fire, which seemed to be sweeping the barricade. In the intervals of the shell fire was audible the steady grant of the mitrailleuses, and I could dis tinctly hear the pattering of the bails as they rained down the adjacent Boulevard HaussmaD. This dismal din, so perplex ing and bewildering, continued all night. A friend sleeping in the room above me was awakened by the smashing of the but ton of a shell through his window. It dcDted a hole in the roof above his bed and fell on his pillow. the boulevard haussmann. Daybreak brought no cessation of the noise. Looking out and cautiously up the Bodlevard Haussmann. I saw before me a strange spectacle of desolation. Lamp posts, kiosks, aod trees were shattered apd torn down, lbe road was strewn with the green boughs of trees which had been cut by the storm of shot and shell. The Versaillists had a battery in position at an emplacement close to tho Caserne de la Pepiniere, and had possession of a slight barricade lower down, with 400 yards of the eastern end of the boulevard, at the Rue Taitbout. It was held as an outpost, and over it the battery was firing steadily with shrapnel shell and mitrail leuse in the eastern end of the boulevard, where a few National Guards still prowled in doorways, throwing a shot nowand then at the barricade. Communist sergeants were rushing about the side streets and the Rue de Lafayette, ordering everybody to close their windows but to open their jalousies, this seemingly being regarded as a precaution against Versaillist sympa thizers firing on them from the houses. 000 thing is remarkable in this curious episode of fighting. There has been no Guards to occupy the houses and fire from them at the advancing Versaillists. They have been content to utilize barricades and such cover as the streets casually af forded. The Versaillists, on the other hand, are said to occupy the houses and tire freely from them; as to the truth of this I know not of my own knowledge, but Ido koow that they expose themselves very little indeed ; and that, except in a few instances, they have done nothing in the way of hand-to-hand fighting. * A HORRIBLE MATTER. I penetrated as far as the head of the Rue St. Honorc where it run3 into the Rue Royale, and there was witness to one of the strangest cross-question and crooked-. answer spectacles I ever saw. The Versail lists were io the Rue Faubourg St. Hon ore, which is a continuation, on the west ern side of the Rue Royale, of the Rue St. Honore, behind the barricade at the end of which I was standing. The Ver saillists were in the Corps Legislatif across the water, and were firing over the bridge and the Place de la Concorde into the big foderal barricade across the end of the Place Royale. In one sense, then, the Versaillists in the Ruo Faubourg St. Honore were behind the defenders of this barricade ; but then our barricades at the Rue St. Honore neutralized them there, and so the deadlock seemed a fixture. One thing I established for certain, and that was that the Versaillists were not in the Place de la Concorde, Returning to the Hotel de la Ohaussee d’Antin I found the Versaillists engaged in developing another plan of tactics. Yesterday they had already carried the Place de l’Europe on their way to Mont martre. Now they had got the Place and Church of the Trinity, and were working eastward by the narrower streets in pref erence to advancing down the Boulevard Haussmann and then along t)>e Rne La fayette. About 10 there came- the sound of a terrible fire behind the hotel, and I managed at some risk to obtain ocular proof that the Versaillists had carried the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette. and the man-trap barricade in which I had got involved yesterday, and were now fighting their way along the Rue Chateau dun, so as to get into the Rne Lafayette, on the eastward considerably of my hotel. Meanwhile a heavy fire was maintained down the Boulevard Haussmann, so that our hotel seemed imminently about to be surrounded. As I returned to its front, and prowled forward cautiously into the Rue Lafayette, and looked up eastward to the barricades across the Rue Lafayette, and continued across the Rue Chateaudua, I saw tho federals firing furiously down the latter street. After considerable re sistance they broke, and the Versaillists gained the barricade. I saw the red breeches surrounding it as they poured out of the Rue Obateaudun. Now they are (i o’clock) firing westward along the Rne Lafayette icta the Boulevard Hauss mann, while other Versaillist troops are pressing down the Boulevard Haussmann, tiring like furies and covered by a shell fire falling in their front. Thus the fede rals in the Haussmann, a mere handful but very obstinate, are taken front and rear, and must slide out of the crux to all appearance by the New Opera, from the summit of whioh still flies the red Hag. They are taken in flank, too, for a fire is pouring down on them by the Rue Ohaussee d’Antin, from the Church of the Trinity. Balls are whistling past my win dow ; a shell has just shattered the lamp post at the junotion of the Rue Lafayette with the Boulevard Haussmann. I see federal after federal sneaking away by the cover afforded by the Opera Ilonse. Every minute I expect to see tho Versaillists come in Sight round the corner, marching down the Boulevard Haussman. A CHARGE OF HASH. 2:30 P. si.—Contrary to my anticipation the Versaillists are not yet round the corner, that is, they have not got so far down the Boulevard Hausmaon as the corner of the Rue Lafayette, ‘where I am writing, and the red flag still waves from the top of the New Opera House. The Versaillists wili not expose themselves. About twenty-five Federate jare blocking tbcm with an intermittent fire; they might rush across the Boulevard and finish tho affair in five minutes. Instead of this they arc bursting their way from house to house, and firing down from tho windows on the Federate who are fighting with re markable valor—although a mere handful —in the street, under cover of projections, gateways, &c. I see Versaillists on the fifth story taking potshots down, and do ing for the most part little good. This style of fighting on the part of the Ver saillists leaves the street open for artillery and mitrailleuse, and neither are spared. The shells and mitrailleuse are whistling past the corner where I am ensoonsed in one continual whistle, and the clash of broken glass is incessant. For a time it seemed as if the fighting were confined to this particular spot. It is hottest here still, but L hev them at it on the great boulevard also, and there is musketry fire also to the eastward. I don’t like my po sition, but to change it would to all ap pearand be out of the frying pan into the fire. There is wonderfully little execution being done by a fire so heavy. The posi tion of the Federate as regards this par ticular spot is desperate beyond a doubt. The Versaillists held , the Rue Lafayette to the eastward of this, and there is fight ing now going on for a barricade across the neok of the Rue Dronot, which con nects the Rue de Provence, into which the Versaillists have penetrated. When they carry this, the way is open into the great bouleva r ds at the junction of the Boule vard Italien ‘ ,ie fcowawd Mont martre, and thus win be ifirned the Fed eral position on the boulevards to she west of the Rue Drouot, whioh will enable the Versaillists to get dowa to the Made leine in force, make untenable the Federal barricade at the end of the Rue Royale, opening into the Place de la Concorde, and so open np that important position and the Champs Elysees right to the bottom to the Versaillists, -There is heavy fighting going on in the cross streets behind me, and between the Boulevard Hauss raaon and the Church of the Trinity. The Federate have got a cannon up by the side of the Opera, in the Rue Halevy, which is firing on the Trinity, It is impossible to define the situation. All is chaos, at least for the moment. What a beautiful day it is ; such a day as one would like to be lying on the grass, under a hawthorn hedge, looking at the young lambs skip ping about; not oowering in a corner, dodging shot and shell in this undignified manner, and without any matches where with to light one’s pipe. DRAMATIC SCENES. 5:20. —They were Versaillists that I saw on the parapet of the New Opera. There is a cheer; the people rush out into the fire and clap their hands. The tri-oolor is waving on the hither end of the Opera House. I saw them stick it up. The red flag waves still at the other end. A ladder is needed to remove it. Ha! you are a good plucky one, if all the rest were oow ards. You deserve to give the army a good name. A little grig cf a Mow in red breeches, he is one of the old French, linesman breed. He scuttles forward to the corner of the Rue Halevy in the Boul evard Hausmann, takes up his poet behind a tree, and fires along the Boulevard Haussmann towards the Rue Taitbout. W hen is a Frenchnmn not dramatic ? He fires with an air; he loads with an air ;he fires again with a flourish, and is greeted with cheering and dapping of hands Then he beckons us back dramatically, for be meditates firing up the Rue Lafayette, but changes hia mind and blues away again up Haussmann. Then he turns and waves on his fellows as if he were on the boards of a theatre, the Foderal bul lets cutting the bark and leaves all around him. He is down. The woman and I ds.rt out from our corner-and carry bim in. Fie is dead, with a bullet hole through his forehead. The Versaillists (5:45) bring up a mi traillfease to our corner, and the fire be comes positively ear-splitting. The soene is intensely dramatic. A Versaillists has got a ladder, and is mounting the statute of Anollo on the front elevation of the New Opera House- He tears down the draprau rouge just as the Versaillists troops stream out of the Chaussee d’Antin across the Boulevard Haussmann, and down the Rue Meyer beer, and the continuation of the Chaus eee d’Antin. .The people rushed from their houses with bottles of wine ; money was showered into the streets, the women fell on the necks of the sweaty, dusty men in red breeches, and hugged them amid shouts of “ Vive la Ligne.” The soldiers fraternized warmly; drank and pressed forward. Their discipline was admritble. They formed in companies behind the next barricade, and obeyed the officer at once when he called on them from conviviality. And now there was time to look abont at the damage done to the neighborhood. One end of the Boulevard Haussman is very handsomely battered indeed, but the shells not being of large calibre, the dam age is not very penetrating. Now the wave of the Versailles is over us for good, ’and the red breeches are across the Great Boulevard and going at the Place Ven dome. Everybcdy seems wild with joy, and Communist card* of citizenship are being torn up wholesale. It is not “ citoy en ’’ now coder pain of suspicion ; you may say monsieur if you like. THE COMMUNISTS FLANKED. 10 P. m. —Much has been done since the hour at which I last dated. The Versail lists soldiers, puriDg down in one continu ous stream by the Chaussee d’Antin, horse, foot, aod artillery, crossed the Great Boulevard, takiog the insurgents in flank, not without considerable fighting and a good deal of loss, for the Federals fought like wild oats wherever they could get the ghost of a cover. The game became curiously involved. The Versaillists, pressing down the Rue de la Paix, were threatening the Place Vendome, but avoid were sticking like leeches to their artillery barricades at the top of the Ruo St. Honore, in the Rue Royale. They had the command of the latter beautiful street, and, although the Versaillists from the Corps Legislatif blazed into them, they were able to prevent the garrison of the Pepiniere Barraaks from making a good hold on the much-battered Madeleine. Anxious to ascertain whether there was aoy prospect of an embassy bag to Ver sailles, I started up the now quiet Boule vard Haussmann, and by tacks and dodges got down into the Rue de Miromeuil, which debouches in the Faubourg oppo site the Palace of the Elysee. Shells were bursting very freely in tho neighborhood, but the matter was urgent, and I pressed on up to the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore, and looked round the corner for a second. Had I looked a second longer I should not have been writing these lines. A shell splinter whizzed past me as I drew back, close enough to blow my beard aside. The street was a pneumatic tube for shell fire. Nothing could have lived in it. I fell back, thinking I might get over to the Embassy as the firing died away, and waited in the entry of an ambulanoe for aD hour. There were not a few ambu lances about this spot. I saw, for a quar ter of an hour, one wounded man carried into the one I was near every minute, for I timed the itretohers by my watoh. Look ing into others I could see the court-yards littered with mattresses and groaning men, A tew but not many corpses, chiefly of National Guards, lay in the streets, be .hind the barricades and in the gutters. The fire showed no symptoms of ceasing, but rather increased in intensity, and so it seemed to me that it was wanting time. As I returned to tho Hotel de la Chan see d’Antic, I had to oross the line of ar tillery pouring southward from the Church of Trinity, and so dowo the Rne Halevy, toward the quarter where the sound indicated hot fighting was still go ing on. The artillerymen reoeived a wild ovation from the inhabitants of the Chaus see d’Antin. The men gave them money, the women tendered them bottles of wine. All was yaudeamus. Where, I wonder, had the people secreted the tri-color all these days of the Commune ? It now waved from every window and flapped in ■ the still nigh, air, as the shouts of “ Vive la Ligne” gave it a lazy throb. Still, the work was not nearly done, Stray bullets whistled everywhere —the women in their crazy courage had oome to call them spar roWs—aDd nobody’s life was in his hand who ventured out of doors. But from the Rue St. Honore, the Place Veodome, and the neighborhood of the Palais Royal and the Hotel de Ville pame a steady, heavy firing of cannon, mitrailleuse, and musket ry, mingled oooassionally with what the timid called explosions of great plaoes, what the experienoed ear told was the re sult of a shell jo a tumbril. THE TUILKRIES ON FIRE. Wednesday.— And so evening wore into night, and night became morning. Ah ! this morning 1 Its pale flash of anrora bloom was darkest, most sombre night for the once proud, now stricken and humi liated city. When the sun rose, what saw he ? Not a fair fight—on that within the last year Sol has looked down more than once. But black clouds flouted his rays—clouds that rose from the Paladium of France. Great God I that men should be so mad as to strive to make universal ruin beoause their puny course of fac tiousness is run! The flames from the Palace of tbe Tuileri.es, kindled by dam nable petroleum, insulted the soft light of the morning, and cast lurid rays on the grimy recreant. Frenchmen who sknlked from their dastardly incendiarism to pot at countrymen from behind a barricade. How the place burned! The flames rev elled in the historical palace, whipped up the rich furniture, burst out the plate glass windows, brought down the fantas tic roof. It was in the Prince Imperial’s wing, facing the Tuileries Gardens, w here the demon of fire first had his dismal sway. By 8 o’clock the whole of this wing was nearly burnt out. As I reached the end of,the Rue Dauphine the red belches of flames were bursting out from the oorner of the Tuileries facing the private gardens and the Rne de Rivoli; the rooms occu pied by the King of Prussia and his suite on the visit to prance the year of the Ex hibition. There is a ftfrions jet of flame pouring out of the window where'Bis marck used to sit and smoke, Crash I Is it an explosion or a fall of flooring that causes this burst of black smoke and red sparks in our face?? God knows what hell devices may be within that burning pile; it were well surely to give it a wide berth. And so east ward to the Place du Palais Royal, which is Still unsafe by reason of shot and shell from the neighborhood flf the Hotel de Ville. And there is th 6 great archway by which troops were wont to enter into the Place du Carrousel—-is the fire there yet? Just there, aDd no more; could the archway be out, the Louvre, with its art* istie riches, might still be spared. But there are none to help. The troops are lounging supine in the rues; intent —and who shall blame weary, powder-grimmed men?—on bread and wine. And so the dtvast? tor leaps from chimney to chimney, from window to window. He is over the arohway now, and I would not give two hours’ purchase for all the riches of the Louvre, fn the name of modern vandal ism, what means that burst of smoke and jet of fire? Alas for arts, the Louvre is on fire independently. And so is the Pa lais Royal and the Hotel de yille, where the Rump of the Commune arc powering amidst their incendiarism ; and the Minis try of Finance and many another public buildiog besides, of which more anon. No wonder that Ocarbet, toi-duaiti Minister of Fine Arts, should have sect far aDd wide, among friends, foreign native, to find a place wherein to hide his head, Minister of Fine Arts 1 Fide art, truly, to burn the Louvre and its treasures. Are the dark ages descending upon us again ? The ages of the Goths aod Visigoths, of the Vandals and the Huns? The acts of last night were worse than suicide. The injury of suicide is local and person*!; the injury done by the burning of tin Louvre is universal and world-wide. COMMUNIST HUNTING. I tjirn from the spectacle sad and sick, to be sickened yet further by another spectacle. The Versaillist troops collect ed about the foot of the Rue St. HoDore, were enjoying the fine game of Communist hunting. The Parisians of civil life are caitiffs to the last drop of their thiD, sour, white blood. Bnt yes terday they had cried “ Vive la Commune 1” and submitted to be gov erned by this said Commue, . To-day they rubbed their hands with livid, currish joy to have it in their .power to denounce a Communist and reveal his hidding place. Very eager at this work are the dear creatures of women. They know the rat roles into which the poor devils have got, and they guide to them with a fiendish glee which is a phase of the many-sided sex. Voila! the braves of Franoe re turned to a triumph after a shameful captivity! They have found hun, the miserable ! Yes, they drag him outfrom one of the purlieus whioh Haussman h not time to sweep away, and a six of them hem him round as they him into the Rue St. Honor*. A tall, pale, hatless man, wita something ignoble in his carriage. His tower P trembling, bnt his brow is ’ and the eye of him. has some pride and defiance in it. They y —the crowd—“ Shoot him; shoot him I”—tho demon-women most clamor ous, of course. An arm goes into the air , there are on it the stripes of a non-com missioned offioer, and there ia a *tiok in . the fist. The stick fills on the head of the pale man in blac. Ha ! the infection j has caught; me - club their rifles and bring them dowoon that head, or clash, them irto splintts in their lust for mur der. He ia down he is up again ; he is down again; thethud of the gun-stocks on him sounding yet as the sound when a man brats a cubits with a stick. A oertaia British mpilse, stronger than consideration for elf prompts me to run forward. But it is useless. They are firing into the flaVidcarcase now, throng ing about it like blot-flies on a piece of meat. _ His brains sure on mv boot and plash into the gntter whither the carrion is bodily chucked, pesently to be trodden on and rolled on by te feet of multitudes and wheels of gun carriages. Woman hoed, then, is notquie dead in that band of Bedlamites who bd clamored, “Shoot him.” Here is one iihysteric* ; another, with wan, scared faoc draws out of the press an embroyo bedlamite, her off spring, and, let us hoe, goes home. But surely all manhood isiead in the soldiery of France to do a deei like this. An offi oer —one with a bull faroat and the eyes of Algiers -stood b; and looked at the sport, sucking a sega: meanwhile. Parti cons criminis surely vas he if there is such a word as d’seipline h the French ranks ; if there is not, am I question whether there be, he might have been pitied if be had not smiled his smug-faced ap proval. The merry game g>es on. Denouncing becomes fashionable and denouncing is followed in the French natural sequence by braining. Faugi! let *us get away from the truculent ctwards and the bloody gutters, and the yeling women and the Algerian-eyed officen. Here is the Place Vendome, held, as Hearn on credible au thority, by twenty-five Communists and a woman against all tlat Versailles found it in its heart to do for hours. In the shat tered Central Place Versaillist sentries are stalking about the mins of the columns. They have accumula.ed, too, some forces in the rat-trap. Tiere is one corpse in the gutter buffeted and besmirched—the oorpse, as I learn, of the Communist cap tain of a barricade, who held it for half an hour single-handed against the braves of Frapce, and then shot himself. The braves have, seemingly, made'sure of him by shooting him and the clay, which was onqa a man, over c^3ei t h'at oi\»d Hecate, who fought on the Rue de la Paix barricade with such persistance and fury. They might have shot her ; yes, when a woman takes to war, she forgets her im munities ; but they might, at least, have pulled her scanty rags over the bare limbs that outrage decency, if the word be not an exotic in Paris. • STREETS ON FIRE, And now, here is the Ruo Royale, burn ing right royally. Alas 1 for the lovers of a draught of pure English beer, the Eng lish beer-house is a ohaotio ruin, diversi fied with jets of fire. The same applies to the whole side of the Rue between the Place de la Madeleine and the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore. The other side ot the way is nearly as bad, and the fire has been down the Rue St. Honore, up the Faubourg, and working its swift, hot will iu the Rue Boisßy. In all the Rue Fau bourg St. Honore the gutters are luil of blood. There is a barricade at every street corner. There will be an item in the estimates next year for the smash in the British Embassy, which is very severe. Tbe ball-room is not now quite in a state to take the chalk. Tbe gardeb walls are pieroed, for via them the Versaillists worked their strategic progress round the barricades, respecting much the wholeness of their skins. And how about the chained wild-cats ip the Hotel de Ville? Their baoks are to the wall and they are fighting now, not for life, but that they may do as much evil as they can before their hour comes— as come it will before tbe minute hand of my watoh makes many more revolu tions. The Versaillists do not dare to rush at the barricades around the Hotel de Ville; they are »t onoe afraid of tbeir skins and explosions. But they are mi ning, circumventing, burrowing, and they will be inside the cordon soon. Mean while the holders ot the Hotel de Ville are pouring out de&th and destruction over Paris in miscellaneous wildness. Now it is a shell in the Champs Ely sees ; now one in the already shattered Boulevard Hauss mann ; now one somowhero about the Avenue Reine Hortense. And although they are out off from the Garde du Nore and LaChapelle, the Reds still cling to a barricade in tho Rue Lafayette, near the square Montholon. And for these the way of retreat is open backwards into Belleville. Canny folks these Versaillists ! The Prussians would, no doubt, let them into Belleville from the rear, as they let them into LaChapelle; but Belleville, iroDt or rear, is not pleasant unto the discreet hearts of the Versaillists. So there may be fighting about there for days yet, till the last Bed is exterminated. It is be tween the devil and the deep sea with the poople in the Hotel de Ville. One enemy with weapons in bis hand is outside; an other, fire, and the fire kindled by them selves, is inside. Will they roast, or seek death on the bayonet point ? [to be concluded next week.] Narrow Guaee Hoads and Cheap Transportation, Atlanta, Ga., Jane 7,1871. Henry Moore, Etg. : Dear Sir— Yours of the sth received. The gauge question is attracting much attention and discussioo, and is one in which the South is deeply interested. The practical workings of the Narrow Gauge, wherever adopted, has demonstra ted its superiority over that of the Broad Gauge for all ordinary demands, furnish ing what the South wants and must have —low rates of freight. Their capacity is fully equal to the Broad Gauge, while their cost is only about one-half, and operating expenses much less. It is time we had quit building rail ways with a capacity from five hundred to one tbhsand per cent, greater than our present business demands, and take to building Common sense railways, adapted to our wants and within our means. The tendency of our railways is to a con solidation, tjie practical of which is to mako oiir interior pities mere way stations, resulting iu discriminations agaiost them destructive to their commer cial interests. The most effectual remedy for these evils is the Narrow Gauge, with its small cost and light operating expenses, thereby providing for the great want of the South * —cheap transportation, ’fhe South pays the highest rates of transportation of any civilized people in the world, while their wants demand the lowest. With but one partially developed inter est—that of agriculture—a sparse popula tion, and with railways costing from twenty to thirty thousand dollars per mile, with a capacity to do the entire business of the year in’one or two months,com pelled as they are to pay operating ex penses, the intersest on their bonds, and provide" a sinking fund, or pay dividends as the case may be, it is simply impossible for them to furnish cheap transportation; hence it is that our ooal and iron remains locked np in our hills and mountains, and there they mast remain until cheaper transportation is provided. The Southern manufacturer, with high rates for coal and iron, and exorbitant rates for tfie transportation of his manufactured goods, cannot possibly compete with the North ern manufacturer with cheap coal and iron and low rates of transportation. The remedy is cheap transportation. The Broad Gauge cannot furnish it, the Narrow Gauge can and will. Shall we adopt it? Respectfully, yours, E. A Frightful Cyclone. Most Wonderful Phenomenon— Graphic Description of a Powerful Cyclone — Every Blade of Grass on its Course Dried to a Crisp—Narrow Escape of a bopulous Village. Chicago, June 5.—A cyclone occurred near Mason City, Illinois, last Friday morning. In Kentucky a lurid cloud or smoke like column was observed gather ing near the earth’s surface on an open prairie, six miles from that place, and from this column soon shot out three nar rower and spire like cloud columns,which continued to ascend rapidly till they reach ed and seemed to attach themselves close ly to a passing cloud above. This fright fal apparition moved slowly towards Mason City, bnt finally changed its course, much to the relief of the people of that place. An odor very much like burning sulphur was inhaled by several personals who stood but one hundred yards from the cyclone when it passed. Some small flashes o. electricity were constantly visible in storm oolumn, passing from the south to the cloud aboye, and rapid, popping, crack ing reports were heard, reminding one most forcibly of an infantry regiment in battle firing their muskets as fast as possi ble. The pathway of the cyolone was near three miles in length and from twenty to eighty feet in width, and in that path way not a spear of grass, not a stalk of oorn or wheat, not a shrub, not a particle of vegetation was left alive,' For some distune the earth was literally plowed ud to a depth of six inches. The column of whirling air must have been intensely hot, as every green thing in its pathway was literally dried to a crisp. Another feature of the cyclone was that while its rotatory motion must have been of an inconceivably great velocity, its pro gressive motion was not above the rate of six miles an hour. The outlines of its pathway are so well defined that five feet from the outer line of the total of vegetable of every kind, not a vestage of its effects oould he seen. Fortunately no house stood in the tornado’s line of march. NEW ORLEANS. THE GREAT FLOOD. IMMENSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. [#Vot« the Picayune, of Sunday.] The evil so gravely apprehended for several days past is at length upon us. The new canal in the vicinity of Hagan avenue has given way. and that part of the city is being rapidly 1 flooded. The breach in the embankment is about 25 feet wide, and the water is rushing through it to the depth of 6 or t> feet. When the reporter reached the scene of disaster the water had spread over a space of about a dozen blocks, and was rising last. A number of houses were already surrounded. Some were moving their families out, while others were making preparations to remain where they were. Everywhere distress and confusion pre vailed, and the scene resembled in many respects that which three years ago brought such disaster to the residents back of town. The lake is exceedingly rough, and the wind is blowing strongly in the direction of the city. Several weak points in the various' canals will inevitably give way if the pressure is continued on them. These that appear in the greatest danger are the Galvez and Orleans street canals. In one or two places the water is already running over, but the danger to be apprehended is in the banks giving way. Indeed, there are grave apprehensions to be indulged ot a disaster more serious than at any former period. The great danger at present is at the juncture ot Carondelet Can|il and Bayou St. John. The water is within a few inches of the top at this place, and the banks in a, weakened and unsafe con dition; besides, the water is rising rapidly, and the pressure from the lake greater than will be readily conceived. Another point where reason for alann is manifest, is at the juncture of Broad street and Marigny Avenue. This has been a serious cause of apprehension for years, as also at the crossing of St. Bernard Avenue and Broad street. About 9 o’clock the water commenced rising at Mioeburg, and at the present moment the little town is almost com pletely flooded. There is perhaps twenty and wide, and the lower part of Claiborne street is completely submerged. In fact, that part of the city described bv the square bounded by Bienville and Broad streets, and in many places this side of it, is partially inundated. The amount of’ property destroyed, and the individual suffering that will result from it, is incalculable. Those of the population who have neglected to move away before the rise set in will probably suffer for food, but accidents of a grave nature are of almost inevitable occurrence. MaDy families bordering the new canal and that part of the city punning back from it towards Claiborne street are neces sarily in tho greatest danger. The depth of tho water at this point not ooly en dangers the lives of tho inhabitants, but the light frame buildings may be swept away. In any, event they must suffer greatly before assistance can rea"h them. The Shell Road from the Half-Way House to the Lake Ead has been under water since yesterday evening ; but it was reported that the lake at Further Point, rising very fast, would, in all probability, completely submerge all of tho buildings located at the Lake End. As night closed in the water was ad vancing in every dirc-etiou. It had risen some two feet on Canal btrcct, and had reached nearly to Claiborne street. The oars on that thoroughfare have necessarily stopped, as on Cla’borne street beyond the bridge. At this point (the crossing ot the Orleans Canal) the water had broken over the banks on the Toullouse side of the street, and a serious inundation was threatened momentarily. At 7 o’clock in the evening the water stood four teet on Hogan Avenue at the original break in the New Canal. The City Park cars were unable to run all day. Thoir track, bordering the canal, is from five to six feet UDder water. It appears that all exertions to stop the breaks are unavailing. The dredge boat was brought into requisite and proved useless. A quantity of lumber was sent out by the City Railroad to be used in damming, but it proved unavailing. Already a large quantity of property has beon sacrificed and infinite distress has been occasioned to the families re siding back of town. Nor is the danger yet over ; nor indeed resched its climax. Should the wind continue to blow tfom its present direction, before we go to press nearly all that part of town back of Clai borne street will be completely flooded. Indeed, it is nearly so now. The area of the flooded district is even greater than three years ago. At night, from Broad street out, the water stood over three feet deep. Some families undertook to reach a place of safety by wading. Women were struggling in the water waist deep, while men were pngaged in constructing temporary rafts with which to move away their good?. It was understood that some of the smaller police boats from the river would be taken out to render assistance. A number of them in the canals were al ready brought into requisition, but the facilities thus supplied were wholly inad equate to tho demand made upon them. After visiting the inundated district we came to the conclusion that none of the canah will bear tho pressure brought up on them. There is not one from which the water is not escaping, and at 8 o’clock the upper part of the city, that is, that part of the rear portion ol it drained by the New Basin and the New Canal, was in serious jeopardy. ' They may possibly escape if the present strong wind abates, but this, at the present writing, is not likely. Some two hundred men are alrosdy at work, but these will not be able to make a show of resistance to tho flood. It will require ten times that many, and the full strength of the draining machines. The authorities appear to ho aware of the fact, and aro straining every rerve in its accomplishment. [From (he Times, of Sunday.] At a lato hour last night, we learned that the Rontchartrain Railroad is a foot and half under water, from the Gentilly Road, and that the flood is still rising. The passengers and the United States mail, dispatched yesterday by the Jack son Railroad, were compelled to return, and all traffic on the Chattanooga Rail road has also stopped. The entire city in rear of Johnson street is under water, and the height of the flood has greatly in creased since i‘4 o’clock Saturday, Our reporter, at 5 P. M , took a drive to tho Half Way House bridgp. All the coun try on both sidles of the canal street Hack is inundated, up to the cemeteries, which are free from water, exsept Greenwood and Cypress Grove No. 2, where there are large pools of rain water. The Half-Way House bridge was five i feet over the low-water mark, and not to be reached by vehicles. It had to be openetj constantly to lgt Jarge pieces of timber pass, tho watchman tearing that these large timbers would destroy the bridge. The cars on Canal street kept running up to 6 or hall-past 6 o’clock, when the water had reached Prieur street. At half-past 6 o’clock Capt. lie? tele graphed to the Superintendent of Police that the Old Basin was running over at Marais street bridge. The water was then five inches higher than at noon. Capt. Rapp, of' the Fifth District, tele graphed at half-past 0 p. m. that the Lake Pontcbartrain water is up as high as Gentilly Road, fifteen inches deep. There is two feet and a half in the village of DJilnuburg. Butler’s Canal, in the rear of the Third District, is also oveifiowicg its banks from the lake water. The inhabitants residing along the above places are making prepara tions to remove tbcir effects. Thus far no serious damage has been done. The Administrator of Improvements was informed about 8 o’clock that a break had been made ip the Old basin, at the corner of Marais street and Carondelet Walk. Men will be there at daybreak, and those now at Hagan Avenue Canal and the {Jow Basin, aio hopeful to stop the break by to-day at neon. Sand bags and timber have been furnished in plenty by the department. Officer Pettaway says at 10 p. m. the women were crying for fear thoir children would be downed. The water on Common street is past the ear station. The cars stopped at about half-past ten o’clock. The Chattar ooga train, which left yester day, had to return. [FVowi the Picayune , of Tuesday.] We are now almost realizing the spec tacle of a submerged city. By far more 1 than one-half of the town is under water, j and the rising waters, with a stealthy, cat ' like advance, are coming in every direc- j tioD. Citizens are flying from their homes, j and thousands of families are to-day ! shelterless and without food. From Ram- . part street to the woods, from Julia street j to the lake, a scarcely uninterrupted flood extends. The canals, from whose afluent ! waters came the first menacing peril, have themselves disappeared in the lake-like : street that spreads in every direction. The i strong wind from the lake still brings fresh ' material to swell the rising tide, and prop erty and life are alike being sacrificed to the treacherous and subtle element. ginee 7 o’clock Sunday evening the water has risen .at the rate of twelve inches in twelve hours. It now floods Canal street to Dryades street, and on Common street the water extends to Ram part. In the angle ot the city formed by the Old Basin, Claiborne street and Ely sian Fields street, there is but little water; only such, indeed, as arise from overflowed sewers. But between Elysian Fields street and Lafayette Avenue, and far beyond Florida Walk, the flood eztende umuter. ruptedly to a vast lake—a miniature sea. Nor does it stop here, but hovers all the vast area below Canal street from Bayou St. .Jilin to Jourdan Avenue, and from; Hagan Avenue, up Poydras, to Rampart street. Nearly every homestead in this, wide extent is surrounded by water. Many families have left; but others still remain confined to their houses, and suf fering for food. It is true the charitably disposed and the authorities are putting forth every exertion to minister to their necessities ; but their facilities for trans porting food are few, and many’ must suf fer the greatest extremity before assistance can reach them. It was reported yesterday evening that the water was slowly receding at Mdne burg ; but this does not appear possible, in view of the fact that it is rising else where. The same volume of water that passes over the rear of the city would con tribute equally to a rise at the Lake End. All of the street cars beyond Rampart street Lave stopped. The travel on this thoroughfare, however, will scarcely be affected, unless, indeed, it be those cars which ruD out Esplanade street. The ad vance iu this direction, of course, is not to be thought of- In brief, this is the present conditfon of the flood. It is hardly probable that it can remain so long, and by tho time this is in print the reflux may have set in. Toward noon there was an evident abatement in the rise, and towards night fall the waters began receding. Never theless, it was very slowly. Among the noticeable incidents connected with the flood are the exorbitant charges made by boatmen for removing persons aud fami lies. Absolutely dependent upon their kind offices, tho poor people have to sub mit to any extortion they may choose to exact. Would it not be as well for the Superintendent to detail police to pro- 1 vent this -ort of transactions. Robbories in the flooded distriot aro numerous, and nearly every hour some complaint is made of these wietches who prey upon the unfortunate and those in distress. It is to bo hoped, however, that, iu a few days the flood will haw entirely sub sided. In the meantime efforts to assist those in affliotion should be redoubled. | From the Times, of Tuesday. ] From 5 o’clock yesterday morniDg the eight inches, and the gutters on Canal street are overflowed as far as Dryadas street. Both Basin and Rampart streets are partially covered, but the houses are not invaded on this side of Marais street. The moving of families from the sub merged district still oontinues, and boats are constantly arriving at all points along tho water line in the First and Second Distriot;. The break at Hagan avenue, we hear, was discovered at an early hour on Saturday morning, aod numbers of persons had ample time to lay in a supply of provisions before they were overtaken by the water. We hear of a frightful ac cident which befell an unfortunate gentle man Sunday at the corner of Common and Claiborne streets. He bad been engaged in moving his family, and was in the act of carrying his wife from a s’-iff when he was bitten by a snake. We aro informed that he died from tho effects of the bite in twenty minutes. During the disaster numbers of houses have been stripped by miscreants of every article of value. One gentleman wo hear of lost several hundred dollars worth of jewelry.- In the grocery, at the corner of Toulouse and Derbignj streets, kept by a widow lady with live children, there are eight inches of water in the house. One of*the children i“ very ill, and but for the good offices of Mr. Jus. a. Clough, an engineer on the steamer Lucretia, it would prob ably have died Sunday night. It is re ported that the break at Ilagan avenue is finally closed, and the water has ceased to run in from the New Canal. The levee on Claiborne Canal, in the resr of Poland street, Third District, was cut yesterday in five places by four mis creants, who went there in a tiatboat and escaped, when the police arrived; tire Superintendent of Streets has been noti fied. Superintendent Badger ha 9 also been notified, that some parties have cut, the tail race in the rear of the Melpomene Canal. Mr. Keller, the soap manufacturer, at once sent a force of his nten to work to avoid the danger of an overflow in tint Fourth and First Districts. All suspected points of danger are guarded at present by the police. There will be a distribution of provis ions of all kinds to tho sufferers from the overflow at Claiborne Market, at 7 a. in. to-day. The provisions have been pur chased by private contributions and by thepolioe and City Hall authorities. At 12 o’clock last night, the water on Canal and Common streets had receded slightly, hut still comes up as far as Dryades street. It is’ieported that jn the Now Basin the water lias fallen , about eight inches, and in the Old Basin about two inches. [communicated. J Mm tin Again. Liberty Hill, Burke Go., Ga., ) May 27th, 1871. j Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel: We see, in tho last number of your paper, that a tobacconist by the name of Martin has been imposing upon the people of Jefferson county, by putting upon them counterfeit money, and that he has been arrested for the same. Ho was through here a week or two ago, and put on us a ten dollar bill of his counterfeit money ; and we hope he will be dealt with as his orime deserves. Yours, • 8. H. Buxton & Go. Selected Telegrams. LONG BRANCH—INTERVIEW WITH GRANT. New York, June C.— The New York Herald’s Long Branch correspondent says: General Grant, in an interview, stated that Bancroft, Minister to Berlin, desired to resign and go. to Italy to live, but as he is well posted on the San Juan question, to relieve him now would be injudicious. Before October arrived tho troaty would be fixed all right, and as Bancroft has asked to be allowed to resign then he can do so without injury to our interests. In speaking of Gen. Sherman iu cid uection with tho Presidency, Grant said he and Sherman were warm friends. lie was not authorized to speak for him, but ho was pretty certain that Gan- Sherman would not sfand on tho Demoorafio plat form. Gen. Sherman is no Democrat and never was. The President is satisfied witn Boutwell and his policy, and saw no necessity for a change. He further stated (hat ho knew b.it lit tle concerning the disaereeameut between Fish and the Russian Minister, but sup poses the affair very trifliDg. When re ported to him he will be able to say what to do if it should he worth while doing any thing. Our relations with Russia are very oordial, and it would take a groat deal to disturb them. The President had nothing to do with j tho appointment of' Brigham son to West Point, Tho appoihtmcut was made hy the Otab delegatior. If he had known tho delegate’s mtention ho would have asked the Attorney General it he had power to prevent the appointment. If he answered affirmatively, ho would have settled the matter right away. Tho President said he sene the appoint ment of Toon. Francis Meagher’s son to the War Office and it was returned with the endorsement that the appointment had been made by a New York member of Congress. THE SUICIDAL MAMA. San Francisco, June 6. —A Prussian sea captain, residing on Folsom street, suicided with striehoine because bis wile absconded with another captaiD. Yesterday Ebbert Brand, a young Ger man, also suicided, blowing cut his brains with a pistol, on receiving a refusal from a young country womap- THE RAILROAD SHARKS. Bt. Louis, June 6. —The Times , this morning, states that the Missouri Railroad is about to pass into the hands of anew ownership, with M. K. W. Jessup, of New York, at the head. The plan is to bid the road off at the saio to take place in Au gust, under the second mortgage, and thus wipe out the third mortgage, the eight million of stock and the floating debt, which amounts to two or three millions more. If the scheme works, the Illinois, Missouri and Kansas Association, which is the name of the proposed new organi zation, will purchase a road worth $20,- 000,000, and capable of paying a dividend upon that sum of seven or eight millions, or a little more than a third of its real value. A NEW DIVORCE DODGE, Boston, June C. —A divorce fraud is before the courts, in which it is alleged;that Samuel C. Jacques, recently granted a divorce from his wife on the charge ot adultery, achieved his object by inducing a woman to personate Mrs. Jacques, and who was served with the legal papers, wife not being notified. Geo. H. Holden is under arrest as a party to the fraud. Jacques, the husband, has absconded. The Northern Ku-Klcx. Cincin nati, June s.—About a hundred rowdies from this city visited a Catholic pic-nic to (ffiy, at Parlor Grove, Ky., and engaged in riotous proceedings. Clubs, bottles, tum blers and stones were freely used and some shots were fired. No fatal injuries were! inflicted. One man was shot in the thigh. Two policemen who went down with the party acted very courageously and doubt less prevented more serious consequences. A detachment of twenty-five policemen took possession of the boat on its return until the rioters on board, ten in number, were arrested. Telegraphic Summary Versailles, June 7—A World spcMul, on tin- nigUest authority, nates .‘bat a tu rnon of the monarchists has wholly foiled, owing to the intrigues of Thiers, who pri vately exults over a oertainty of maintain ing a nondescript republic, with himsalf as chief, as in tho case of Prim in Spain, for an indefinite period. Incessant attempts are being made iu Paris to induce tho snl-_ diers to fraternize with the people. In tense dissatisfaction prevails among all classes, and iiesh troubles are feared. The municipal eleotious at Marseilles and Tarascon have beon declared void. All the pieces of the oolumniof Vcu dorne have -been found, aud tho monu ment will be exactly restored. Amsterdam, June 7.—Tho Bank of Holland has reduced its rate of discount to three per cent. Washington, June 7. —Concord indi cations clearly indicate the election of a Democratic Governor by the. Legislature. Democrats, Labormen andsevetal disat fected Republicans have coalesced. The Republican commences a leading editorial thus: "The Washington Com mune, unlike that of Paris, has been en tirely victorious. Tho letter which tho Board of Public Works or at least a pot tion of it, sent yesterday to contractor Gleason, is nothing more or less titan a complete surrender to the moo who, for the last four or five days, have been threat ening tha violation of law aud order iu this oity." [Note—Gov. Cooke, who signed the let ter, is ex-officio President of the Board. Two members of the Board, whose names are not to the letter, are absent lrom the city. 1 General Rodman died at Rock Bland Arsenal. Aged, 55. An important adjourned meeting of the representatives of the railroads on the line between New York and New Orleans, vna Lynchburg, convened at Willtard’s to day. All the roads were represented, in cluding the new elements south of Cleve land J unction. For some time but. one daily train was run on this line south of Washington. Tho meeting to-day or ganized a sooond daily lino, taking effect July Ist, with increased speed, making the through time between New York and New Orleans twelve hours quicker, with ’ -* ''r oaic, a> iiyuoifoui R. hurther improvements are contemplated, by extensions going on south ot Chal tanooga and Dalton. Preston Smith, manager of the New York and WaMiing ton line, presided. The following railroad men participated: W. W. Vaodorgrift, Heury Fink, R. C- Jackson, E. G. Barney, J. C. Stanion, 0. T. Williams, A. Mur dock, A. Shaw, Q. W. N. Curtis, John Tuekor, R. T. Wilson, M. J. Wicks, L. M. Cole, G. Jordan, Wra. Keavy, J. B. Yatos, also J. G. M. Butfaloe, of Miss., in attendance. The following railroads were represented: Tho New York and Washington Air Line ; Orange, Alexan dria aod Manassas; Atlantic. Mississippi and Ohio; East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; Memphis and Charleston; Ala bama and Chattanooga ; Selma, ' Rome and Dalton ; South and North Alabama ; Mobile-and Ohio; Baltimore an'dOhio; Mobile and Montgomery. ' Alter the adjournment of the conven tion, a meeting was called to oonsider tho organization of a fast freight line from New York to points south and southeast. The following gentlemen were appointed a committee to perieot organization : Barry, Williams, Keavy, Custin, Thomas, Walk er, Shaw, Jackson, Ftnk, Kendrick, lta wath, Frost. Sowall. The permanent, chairman is Henry Fink, with authority to call a meeting at Knoxville, August stb, of the gentlemen named, including the chairman. The Secretary of the Navy goes to West Point to : nigbt. The strike has extended to Georgetown! Coal destined there has beon ordered lo Alexandria. Several fights. occurred at the coal yards. Several rioters were ar rested. Work is generally suspended, but will commence to morrow, at a dollar and a half a day, but tho mass of negroes do maDd two dollars. The Ku-Klux Investigation Committee to-day examined Deputy U. S. Marshal, Joseph J. Hester, of North Carolina; S. T. Pioner, U. S. Commissioner at Spartanburg, S. C., and Chas! D. O’Keefe, who was formerly a tax collector in the latter State, and was driven from the discharge of his official duties, as it ;s alleged, by an uulawlul combination. Ex- Gov. Parsons, of Alabama, will bo ex amined to-morrow. New York, Juno 7.—Tho brig Bowen, upon which tho Europa placed tier first mate, oo account of mutiny, is overdue. Later.— Brig Bowen, about whose fate apprehensions were felt, on account of mu tiny,arrived iu the Narrows last night. The following is t[to report of Capt. Sleeper, who sucoeedcd to bouimand when Capt. Amsbury died : "While storing away tho anchors, on tho 2d instant, at 4 p. m., one of tho crow disobeyed orders, and on being spoken to by the first mate, ho and Capt. Amsbury, who wont forward at that moment, wore set upon by the orow, six in number, all negroes. Captain Amsbury was struck on the head with the capstan bar and fatally injured. Tho mate had his shoulder dis located, and also received two severe wounds on the head with tho capstan bar, from tlie effects of which he was disabled threo days. The second mate and stew ards were also severely injured. Wc got tho captain aft, but alt efforts to save him were unavailing,and he died tho r amo day. ” The mutineers were taken ashore last night and locked uo. At the stockholders’ meeting of the New Jersey Railroad aud Transportation Company, tlie lease to the Pennsylvania Central Road was confirmed by a decided majority. Tlie p)u directors were re elected,. Specie shipments to-day, $825,000. The mutineers of the brig J.. L. Bowen were brought here this morning. Their names are; Manuel Antoine, Thomas Roache, Mike Antoine and James Thomas, ail colored. When the officers and assist ants went on board, all was quiet, the Vil lains evidently not expecting a surprise. Op the deck forward were found two, who were immediately handcuffed ; the other two were found in their bunks. Thomas admitted that he struck the captain, but added that lie was driven to it. Tlieothers lay all tho blame on Thomas. Tlie for mality of handing the prisoners over to United States Commissioner Davenport was gone through at once. After being brought to the city an investigation will prooeed without delay. San Francisco, June 7.—Mrs. Fair is said to have paid to her counsel and phy sicians, who fostifi to her insanity, and attended he; professionally; for hunting up witnesses, aud other expenses of tho trial, already nrr twenty khousand dol lars. Dr. J. B. Tn.sk., her principal med ical attendant and witness, now sues her. for two thousand more. Gonoord, June 7.—The Democrats scoured the Sneaker of the llouso by a vote of 164 to 163, Berlin, 8 —Czar and liis son Alexis have arrived in Berlin. They were received at the station by the Emperor. London, Judc B.—The Sr. Petersburg * Journal recites the formal presentation to the Czar of the imperial order of Osmauli, instituted by the present Sultan in 1861. The presentation was made by the Turk ish Ambassador. Speeches made and the comments of the Journal upon tho ceremony, fully confirm the general belief that the relations of dip two countries are excellent. Washington, Juno B.—Walter T. Shipp, route agent from Norfolk to Raleigh, has been arrested on a charge of violating the postal laws. Two stills, with fixtures, and 175 acres land, in the Fourth North Carolina Dis trict, have been seized for violation of the revenue lavp. General Sherman, writing to the New York Herald , from Fort Sill, says : “Now, as to politics, l think ail my personal friends ksow my deep-seated antipathy to the subject; yet, as you seem not to un derstand me, I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been, and never will be, a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party I should peremptorily decline, and even it unani mously mooted, 1 should decline to serve. If you can find language stronger to con vey this meaning, you arc at liberty to use it. “ I am your obedient servant, “(Signed) W. T. BHerman, “Genera*.” Montgomery, June B.—The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company, Let ter known as Stanton’s road, was to-day placed in bankruptcy by Judge Bnsteed, of the United States District Court. The petition was made by W. A. O. Jones, an Alabama creditor, whose claim is about $15,000. E. H. Grandin' and John F. Bailey are appointed temporary custo dians, pending the election of an assignee by the creditors. Versailles, June 9.—The Assembly resumed the debate upon the disabilities of the Orleans Princes. The committee reported in favor of the abolition of pro scription. Thiers said he opposod abro gation, thinking the change would bo dan gerous, but assented on the pledge that the Prinees would not sit in the Assembly or intrigue against the Republic. Ho said the safety of the Republic was en trusted to him and ho would not betrav the trust. Abrogation was carried by 484 to 103—when the election of Duke D’Au malo and Prinoe DcJoinville was declared valid by 448 to 113. Versailles, Juno 9. —Rossel and Cour bet’s arrest unconfirmed. The court mar tirls will treat the prisoners as military, not political offenders. Supplemental elections occur J uly Oth. Ferry’s appointment us Ministor to Washington is false. Versailles, Jane 9. —The Minister ol Finance, in presenting to the Assembly , the bill making provision for a loan of one hundred millions sterling, urged tho |y ment of the war ind-moity in order t*t Franoe m-y be rid of the Germans. To Minister raid that ho relied for suooess n raising this loan upon foreign onntidcncca tlie ability of France to meet Ler oblig tions, and the internal energy of the ns tioD. . Ho promised Iho exercise ot strit economy iu all expenditures of tho Gov eminent. London, Juno 9.---Thc 7Vinrs ’•editorial, reviewing tho question ot Canadian op position to the treaty of Washington, says: “Tho treaty sacrifices tho interest of a small community to the convenience of the powerful States ; that portion of the empire is made a scape-goat for tho peace of the whole, aod that the possessions of the maritine provinces have been bartered aw»y,’’ The Times, however, urges the acceptance of the treaty by Canada as a compensation fee for the boon ot Ameri can l'roo ‘trade, which is rapidly gaining ground iu tho United Stall's. Buciiarist, Juno 7.—The Roumanian Chamber of Deputies verified the election of its members, and chose Prinqo Ghika, leader of tho Conservatives, its Presi dent. Washington, Juno 9. —A deficiency of twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars has licen discovered in tho accounts of F. A. McCartney, disbursing officer of tho post office. Cause: Speculation. McCartney lias gouu to tho lusanc Asylum. The Government will probably lose nothing, The strike is over. Workmon aro get ting a dollar u-.d a half por day. The convention of steamboat inspectors to-day appointed committees, ft will bo in session several weeks. The Postmaster General has just ordored the great mails between Now York, Wash ington and New Orleans, whieh are now transmitted via Chattanooga, Grand Junc tion and Canton, to go via tho Alabama and Chattanooga Road to Meridian. Miss , thence over tha Mobile and Ohio Road to Mobile, the.coe over the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Road to Now Orleans. Baltimore, Juno 10.—Tho Typographi cal Union, before adjournment, adopted a resolution placing men and women on tho same'footing in the profession. SUNDAY EVENING DISPATCHES PAttid, Juno 11.-—-Tho IVesse ox poets that a strong oilort will bo made by tho Boaapanists for the success of thoir party in tho coming supplementary olectious. Tho journals of Paris say the Prince Im perial, and not Prince Napolcor, will be put forward as a canuidato tor the Assem bly. _ Cloche fhiuks the result of tho elec tion iu cities, will check tho tendency to monarchism. The restoration of public buildings has ooumionood. Douai has issuod au order that all civil ians .ound with anils in their possession after a certain day, shall be tried hy court martial. Picard has resigned tho governorship of the Bank of France. The Orleans Princes are still at Ver sailles. Becky and Thelsiz, who acted by authority of tho Commune as Delegate SuperinteqdotiU of t ho Bank Os France and Postal Department, respectively, have been released from prison on tho interces sion of the Bank authorities, and furnish ed With safe conduct to leave France. The sacred vessels and valuable orna ments taken from churches by tho Com munists have, with a few exceptions, boon discovered iu the mint and oilier places. Frerch prisoners are rapidly returning from Germany. Alexander Dumas writos to tho Parte "reuse, denouncing tho blind dashing of pnvato ambition at Versailles, jle praises Thiers and advocates a oOntinuance of the Republic, to which ho says Frauco alroady instinctively reverts. iho steamor international, which is to lay the telegraph cable between Marseilles and Algiers, has arrived at Marseilles. 1 rains over the Lyons and Modittora ncan Railway, vta Mont Oennis Tunnel, have commenced rturning again. CO »TON MOVEMENT. New York, Juno 11.—The cotton movement shows a continued decrease, es pecially in recoipts, which are tho smallest ot any week since tho heighth of the sea son. Exports are a little so for/ last week, but nearly double the oorrospontling week Uhl year. Receipts at all ports 28,136, against 36,402 last wook, 40,178 previous week, and 45,067 three weeks sinoe. To tal reoeipis since September aro 3,521,180 aghinut 2,i92,879 the corresponding pe riod of tho previous year, showing an increase of 1,028.301 in favor of tho present, season. Exports from all ports 42 323, against 22 962 bali-i last year. Total ex ports for tho expired portion of the cotton year 2,982,841, against, 1,982,341 samo timo last year- olooks at all ports 235,508 against 263,886 samo time last year. Stacks at interior towns 21,511, against 48 324 last year. Stool in Liverpool 914,000, against 603,000 last year. Ameri can cotton afloat for Great Britain 206 000, against, 155,000 last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe 415,147, against 328,180 last, year. Tito weal hei South has boon rainy in some sections. Severe storms visited por tions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, aud North ami South Carolina. These-havo done much damago to tho growing plant, and undoubtodly decreased fho yield of ootton. Southern plantors have had nothing hut reverses and drgw baekf) sinoe the growing crop was planted, and it would seem, from weekly reports of : the weather, that rain enough had fallen in the Southern States to dolugo tho whole country. (Those reports must bo exaggerated to sonio extent, booauso if true in detail, then it would bo impossiblo to expect anything hqt a total failure of tho Cotton orop. TJio Express says the sales for tho weok reached a . hundred thousand halos, of which 78,000 t ales v/cro lor future dcliv eiy, and 22,000 bales on tho spot and to arrive. Os tho spot- ootlon, exporters t.Qok about 1,450 halos, sniunors 9,650 bales, and speculators 2,440 Dales. Ihe Cotton Exchange olcction, during tho week, resulted in the choice of a board of manager* satisfaolory to the entire trade. Tho new hoard it composed of fjevea coinpnuoion rucrcfcuintH, lour export* ers, and four brokers— ,11 of w h o m aro eminent for respectability and high stand ing in their respective branohot of tho cotton trade, J'nero is overy reason to be hove that the now Board of Managers will appoint a oommittoo on quotations that will so arrange the quotations for the monthly settlements as to exhibit, an on tiro absence of anything like tho Heathen Chinee, who made his appearance so oon spieuously in tho settlements of last Maroh. MtSCEULANEOUM. Baltimore, Juno 11. —Tho steamer Wooms was partially burned athor wharf. The G eorgo Law took tiro but was hauled off little damaged. Ban Francisco, June 11.—Mrs. Fair’s death warrant is signed and in the hands of i be Sheriff. The activity iu the wool, market con tinues. Low gradnsuro almost exhausted. Immense deposits of cancel coll have been discovered in Alaska. New Koine, Juno 11.—Seward and party arri/od at Suez on tho ,9th of May. FROM HEW YORK. New York, .Jano 1 1.— James A. Wil son, President of the Nowark Typo graphical (Jripu, died early yesterday. A writ of error, on which a motion for a new trial is to bo argued, was granted yes terday in the of Dr. Lookup Evans, the notorious abortionist, who Judge Bed fnrd lately sentenced to three years in Sing Bhjg. KltllM MISSOURI. St. Louis, Juno 11,—A mooting of railroad men, hold here yesterday, with reference to the building of a grand union passenger depot, decided upon a plan of ojganizatnu, and adopted articles of asso ciation. Tho capital is to bo three mil lions and a half. The stock was sub c crihcd by thn various railroad companies repre sented. If you travel East, West, North or South, lako a package of Simmons’ Liver Regulator. Prepared only by J. 11. Zsilin dt CO., Macon, Ga. junlO-dlUvrt , advertisement’of Dr. holt’ » dla* penssry, headed bodk for the million— Marnaac (Vw.dc-—in another column, should bo rev J by- all. rny lf>-d<£wly K m A* O VA JL. MAURICE WILKIWSON, (Late Wilkinson. Ac Fargo and suc cessor of M. Ac G. Wilkinson,) wholesale dealer in Wooden and Willow Ware, Cordage, Brooms, Mats, Baskets. Twines, Matches Blacking, Booking Glasses, Wrapping Paper, Bags, Ate. ITO CHAMBERS STREET, (Lolts in 132 Chambers street and side en trance on College Place,) Opposite Cosmopolitan Hojel, New 1 ouk. SILAS C. A YEWS. FRKD’K WILKINSON, LaieL}‘ a ‘ ri ,T A Wilkinson. r.ivlN-'Uwfiw /GEORGIA. JEFFERSON COUNTY. ( T s |i w. Hunt'ir, Unnrdi»'> furbjmli W. vviute- A.-fl ,m*orh«lr of ,1. ’l. wTO*** 1, I.W I<t re?daradhid rwiltfiWtiQii ns wild account of iu Robert A .Garv.'n, of »afd ebuoty, hiving been recommended iw u iiuUble poraon to Uko ttuurdlau w are, tiiereforculo cite tho said Robert A. Garvin, ard the nc |re *t of kn "f minor, to be ap.l appear at Irtvooico on the I’ii«»T >H>NI)AY IN JUJ.Y next, and iihnwc*nne. If uiiy ,he V can.whv thenaldK.il, W. Hunter's resignation flhoVld not be nueepted, him! the ftiitl Kobert A. Qarvin be appointed, Guardian of said minor in hi* »• tcid. Giren undurmv hind and official tlfU the stl* d;*y of June, IG7X. W. ii. Ai’KlNh, tuu!o~w4 Ordinary J«4on»ou county.
