Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-21
MISCELLANY.
INsURRECTION IN PARI
Insurgents RepuIse the National Guards.
Gen. PaIadines Prisoner at Insurgenf
HeadQuarters.

New YORK, March 20.-Gen. Vinoy
with the gendarmes, Withdrew to the left
bank of the Seine, leaving the Nationa
Guards to maintain order on the righ
bank. The general tenor indicates tha
the Nationals and insurgents fraternlze.
Two Generals, abandoned by the troops
were executed by the insurgents.
The Worlds special, dated Paris Satur
day night, gives the following account:
4 council of war yesterday, Thiers pre-
siding, resolved to attack the insurgents
at two O'Clock, the seventh Chasseurs and
three regiments of the line advanced on
Montmartre, another body on Lavalette,
another on BeIleville The troops were
successful at Gentmartmer, but at Belle
vile the people refused to allow the troops
to enter Rue de Paris. The gendarmes
charged, but were compelled to retreat un-
der Tolleys from the Insurgents. At La
valette the troops fraternized with the in
surgents. Gen. Vinoy was Missed and
pelted at Montmartre. Gen. Paladines is
prisoner at insurgent headquarters. Gen.
LIE Compte was sentenced to death. Gen.
Susville was killed, as also were many
gendarmes.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-Washburn
telegraphs to Fish, from Paris on the 18th,
as follows: go The National Guards Com.
mittee is master of Paris. The Depart
-
cupied by the insurgents. Generals vi
noy, Thomas and LIE Compile have been
murdered by the troops. The election for
the Commune takes place tomorrow. All
members of the Thiers Government have
gone to Versailles. 1 will follow with the
whole department corps.
"fSigned1 WASHBURN.p
LONDON, March 2O.-Napoleon left Will
helmshohe on Sunday, being escorted to
nd Of IL
rived at Dover to-day, where an immense
crowd waited fer him and cheered enthu-
siastically.
It is thought the revolutionary proceed
ings extend to Marseilles, Lyons and even
to Bordeaux.
The Thiers Government contemplates
going to Tours.
The Germans decline to interfere.
A report from Paris says the gendarmes
collected from the provinces by Vinoy
have deserted and Joined the insurgents.
The bark Cornwall was sunk by col
lision with the steamer Himalaya. Eleven
persons were drowned.
PARIS, March 20.-No resistance is made
TO the insurgents.
Generals Lie Compte and Thomas were
executed by order of Ricootte Garibaldi,
who directed the insurgents.
ENGLISH NEWS.
LONDON, March 2O.-The Times Paris
special says the respectable Parisians are
stupefied.
Gen. Thomas last word was "Cowards ~
He fell at the third discharge.
Thiers is firm, but full of grief.
Vinoy's indignation is boundless.
The IeLe9rdph's special says Vinoy has
been mobbed.
The mob virtually possess the city. Only
wine shops are open, and drunkenness is
rampant. All the women are armed.
Gen. ChanZy was arrested upon his ar
rival at Paris by the Montmartreists, and
it is said will be shot to-day.
All persons of prominence are flying
from Paris.
The corpses of the murdered Generals
were horribly mutilated.
A Versailles dispatch says the Govern
ment is determined to maintain its author
ity.
The official journal says that the Gov
ernment is indulgent, but must rise and
punish the assassins, otherwise the whole
people will be their accomplices.
1t is stated that these terrible events
have caused halt in the German army
on their homeward march.
CUBAN NEWS.
HAVANA, March 19.-All the tobacco
has been destroyed in some portions of the
Vuella Abaja District.