Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-04-12

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
FOREIGN NEWS BY THE CABLE.
The sOrtie against ChatiIlon RepuIsed.
The Communists Growing Desperate.
Arrest and Imprisonment Of Priests,
German Aid Necessary to Secure Peace.
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Miscellaneous and Washington News.
German Aid Necessary to Secure Peace,
Miscellaneous and Washington News.
MISCELLANY.
cANNONADING IN PARIS. ON SUNDAY
sOrtie RepuIsed---Notre Dame PiIIasecl-..
No Hopes of Peace
FRENCH NEWS.


No Hopes of Peace
FRENCH NEWS.
WASHINGTON, April 10.-The Govern
ment troops now occupy in strong force
the towns of Boulogne, Assures and Sabton-
vile, and have unmasked numerous bat
teries between Nuilly and the ramparts.
Many Paris newspapers exhort the peo-
pie to abstain from voting to-day, and
thereby give death-blow to the Com
mune.
The Communists are barricading Rue
de RivOli.
The Commune has made an indirect de-
mand that the foreign Ambassadors ar
range the quarrel with the Versailles Gov
ernment, who, however, are reluctant to
accept the responsibility.
IT is stated that the breach at Porte Mel
lot gives easy access to the assailants An
assault is expected to-day.
A special to the New York Tribune, on
Sunday evening, says the cannonade had
continued all day.
The Champs Elysees are com mpletely de-
serted.
The National Guards are hiding in cross
streets, seeking protection from the shells,
which fall in every direction, many close
to the American Legation.
The Versailles troops have crossed the
Seine, and occupy Sabantonville and Long
Champs.
The drawbridge and floor of Porte Mel
lot are broken.
a Commune bulletin to the troops an
nounces that the Versailles troops have
been driven from Neuilly Bridge, and that
the National Guards are eager to advance
but are forbidden.
The cathedral of Notre Dame has been
sacked. Rochefort vainly endeayorai to
save it from pillage. Nearly all its vsfua-
bles were plundered.
The Archbishop of Paris has been trans
ferred from the Conciergerie to Mozas
prison.
Gen. Henry has not escaped. He was
sent to Belle Isle.
The Commune is controlled by secret
committee, which arrests other members
The deputation from the Paris merchants
TO Thiers has returned without accom-
plishing aLy result. Cancellation is be-
lieved impossible.
PARIS, April l0.-Unless the Germans
save us, Paris must soon swim with blood.
The Commune hourly grows more des-
perate and resorts to fierce eXcesses. The
Conciergerie is filled with priests and nuns,
who have been arrested on warrants call
ing them "Citizens, styled the servants of
person called Cod" The Archbishop
Durfoy was stripped naked, bound to a
pillar, scourged and Knocked for hours, by
Il band of two hundred Red Republicans,
PARIS, April IVA LONDON, April g.
The fighting Is terrible.
The Nationals, on Thursday night, reoc-
cupied the barricade at Neuilly, and were
fiercely attacked by the batteries of the
Versailles army. The Nationals defended
their position with mitrailleuses, which
had been mounted on the barricade. There
was q perfect rain of shells from the Yer
sailles army until half-past four in the af-
ternoon, when it became apparent that a
direct assault was intended by the Govern
ment forces. The movement proved q
feint, however, for instead of following it
up, the Versailles troops advanced upon
both the right and left TANKS of the barri-
cades. There was for an hour rapid and
effective fire of musketry, and then, the
fighting increasing intensely, the Commit
tee of Hostilities advanced two fresh bat
talions of infantry, supported by eight
guns. Crowds of women and children
were in q dangerous position near the
Arch of Triumph, watching with the ut
most anxiety the changing scenes of the
battlefield.
| WASHINGTON, April S.-The following
details of Fridays fight around Paris have
been received:
The Communists at Courbevoie were dis
| lodged by Valerien's guns, but rallied in
| Avenue D'Neuilly, whence they We're
driven by the troops behind Neuilly
bridge, which they had barrieaded. The
| DafrlcaueS We're uefnOllSneu Dy smells. Inc
Communists suffered heavily. In attempt
ing to hold the bridge they fell into tenn
porary disorder, but succeeded in extrieat-
| ing their artillery and took refuge in the
! houses on the eastern bank of the river,
while the troops occupied those on the OPP
posite bank. A sharp fusilade was MAIN
tanned across the river for some time. The
troops pushed across the bridge, when the
guns from the ramparts swept Avenue d.
Eeuilley, checking pursuit.
Under cover of the rampant guns, the
Communists again erected barricades, but
were ultimately driven beneath the ram
parts. The fight was desperate, eommenc-
ing at ten in the morning and lasting till
sunset, when seven guns still protected the
gates. h-4
A circular from Theirs officially confirms
the Government successes.
Gen. Moutaubon was slightly, and Gen,
Prechat seriously wounded.
Paris. has only enough provisions for rNe
days.