The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-24
VERSAILLES, May %.

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VERSAILLES, May %.
The barricades under the Arch de Triomphe
were carried by the assau the forty ynrst,
sixty-thrd and eighty-fourth regiments taking
gallant and conspicuous part in the action.
Colonels Rendault and Lelavre are said TO
have been mortally wounded. The Commun-
isis are represented as having fallen back to
formidable line OF barrcades extending across
the Rue de Rivoli to the centre OF the Place de
Ia Concorde. The barricades are armed with
mitrailleurs and light field pieces, and immune
rable torpedoes and other engines Of deslruc-
ton thickly planted in the nelghborhood. The
Palais de lIndustrie is surrounded by gov
ernmsat troops, and the Communists inside
called on for unconditional surrender.
A bloody fight occurred in the Rue st.
Honore The Versaillists charged down the
street with fury, and were fearfully cut up by
concealed fSe from the windows Of the Con-
ciergierle.
McMahon planted eleven cannon on t. city
s.ieor the Arc de Triomphe amidst the debris
Of the captured barricades, and completely
swept the Champs Elysees. The Communists
are concentrated along the Rue de Rivoli, Rue
ST. Antoine, around the Hotel de Vile and in
the Place Bastile.
Gene: al Lenoir was shot this morning In the
east square of the Tuile-ies by court martial on
a charge OF treason to the Commune. The
commotion in the city is eliminating.
In the Assembly to-day President Thiers
made congcatulary speech on the surprising
success The government arms. He SAID ne
had not expected to effect an entrance into
Paris for three or more days, and gave an ac-
count in detail OF the movements on Sundays,
which terminated so VIGOROUSLY. He an
nounced that the government was determined
to visit with rigorous punishment the most
criminal OF the insurgents. Bills were intro
duced to restore the Chapel of Expiation and
the column Of the Place yendome, the latter
to be surmounted by o statue OF France. a
vote of thanks to President Theirs and the
army was adopted by acclamation.
LONDON. May %.
dispatch dated outside OF Paris, Monday
eveSrng, May 22d, says the isolation Of the
dense smoke overhangs Montmartre. Ere
ouent explosions. are heard. The sound OF
cannon and musketry firing is continuous. 1t
is said the Prussians are occupying Vincennes
The Prussian outposts have received strict or
ders to drive back all insurgents attempting to
mass their lines. wounded Communist geE-
eral has been turned back by the Germans.
Their advanced corps has been doubled. The
headquarters of the Prince of Saxony will
shortly be removed from Margency to Com
peigne. The Guards will return to Germany
by the end of the present week.
LONDON, May %.
dispatch from Versailles last evening says;
The versaillist troops occupied the station OF
the Versailles Railway on the Boulevard Mont
Parnasse, within short distance OF the LuXem-
bourc, and General Clinchamp has turned the
insurgents position at the Tuileries and made
eight TO ten thousand prisoners. later dis
patch saws the Versaiists have occupied the
Place Vendou,o, the Tuileries and the Hotel
de Vile. lAssy is certainly in custody, and 1t
is reported that Felix Pyat is also arrested.
Another dispatch says the insurgents aoan-
doned the Place Concorde yesterday. General
I,Admirault's forces have surrounded Mont
martre, and the battle now progressing there
will complete the overthrow Of the insurgen.
movement.
OUTSIDE OF PARIS May 23-Noon.
ThaSersaillist flag nov floats over Mont.
martre. The whole city Is evidently in pos
session ofthe forces OF the Assembly.
The --latest.
VERSAILLES, May 23-Afteruoon.
General Clinchamp, during last evening, oc-
cupied Bonlignalles, and attacked Montmartre
to-day on the west and south from the avenue
and Boulevard de Clichy Mont. General Pad
mIrault, simultaneously moving his forces
along the line OF the Seine and BouleVards,
leading to the Northern Railway. attacked the
station OF that railway and carried 1t by as
sault. He thence moved on Monlmartre,
which was captured at one this P. N. General
Czzay's forces carried the barrcade in The
Chansee de Moine, in the northern part OF
Paris. The operations of the government
troops are progressing satisfactorily every
where, and the complete suppression Oh the
insurgents is expected to-day CT tomorrow.
The losses of the Versaillists in to-days en-
gagements were small.
The heaviest lighting yesterday was in The
Rue Royale. The slaughter was terrific.
Colonels Dubois and Moran, nephews OF
Guzot, commanding the Versailles troops,
were killed by the explosion of torpedoes.
The barricado in the Rue ST. Hcnore was
captured and ,recaptured six times. General
Vinoy is reported wounded in the groin, and
Donai in the head.
1t is rnmored that the Archbishop OF Paris
and the Abbes Francois and Villemesant
were shot BY the insurgents.
THE TEXAS FACIFIC RAILROAD.
1,,, vnr Nov 30