National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-05-05
Latest from Paris.


alton. The members are instructed 10
insist on the maintenance OF the keepub,.
lie and the continuance OF municipal
franchises, and 10 demand that the IA.
tionals shall alone guard Paris and II
Theirs rejects these forms, to inquire
what terms the Versailles Government
has to propose.
The insurgents are said to have made
n demand upon the Church for one mil
lion francs, and avow that they will i'm.
mediately kill the Archbishop OF Paris II
il is not paid. :,
NJ. Favre, in a speech TO the National
Assembly, said that all the powers had
expressed their sympathies with the
Government of Versailles ms the only
legitimate Government of France. He
also stated that the German Admlnistra'
tor in France, Herr Won Fabrice, had de-
clined the overtures made to him by the
Commune, which he believed must short
ly succumb to the power Of the Govern
ment.
New efforts for concilation are making
in Paris, eighteen members OF the Com
mune having declared themselves dis
posed to treat with the Versailles Gov
eminent.
NJ Theirs, in a circulrf bearing date
of the evening OF the 18th, describes the
situation M in the main unchanged, and
says "The Government will act Mt
the proper time The Commune ac-
counts of victory Mt Paris are as false
as they are unprincipled. Our victory
will come bloodlessly. The Paris dele
gates have arrived and were received,
not became they are Communists, but
because they are Republicans. My
answer to them was that no one menaces
the Republic bat assassins. The lives
of the insurgents will be spared, but the
workmen, temporarily subsidized in
Paris, must return to their labor, and
secession be suppressed, rs it has been
in America.
Gen. Dombroski reports to the Com
munal Committee of Paris that the troops
under his command are doing excellent
service that they already hold three
fourths of the town of Neuilly, and hope
to have possession of the bridge across
the Seine tonight The Cri du People
says the Versailles troops have been
driven from Neuilly, and are flying toward
Courbervoie The attack made yester-
day by the Versailles forces was failure.
The Orleans Railway has been cut by the
Versailles troops.
The London Times special dispatch
from Paris says that the portion of the
Versailles army engaged in the attack
upon the outlying forts to the south of
Paris has suffered greatly in both killed
and wounded. The Communists have
surrounded 5000 gendarmes near Asni
eres, and their capitulation is thought
probable.
Semi-ofiicial journals say 1000 soldiers
were killed before Vanvres and several
hundred taken prisoners at Neuilly.
There was no loss among the Parislans
except Dombrowki who is slightly
wounded
The Germans at Creteil have been re-
enforced with $4,000 men, and are pre-
pairing to intervene.
A dispatch from Paris says that about
500 women assembled in the Place de Ia
Concorde, and paraded through the
Champs Elysees. They wore a square of
red cloth on their breasts red Phrygian
caps and short dresses of some blue
mat rial. They carried revolvers and
dag GERS in their belts and some of them
were armed also with rifles As they
marched, they howled ga Versailles y
and demonstrated with all the peaceful
women who looked on. Their avowed
mission was to march in front of the
National Guards and form shield for
them in battle.
Dispatches from Versailles state that
Marshal MacMahon's headquarters are
now at Fontenay Roses, near Sceaux.
Fifty insurgents were taken prisoners in
the Chateau de Becon, and Others were
captured in the vicinity. An iron-clad
railway battery has been captured from
the insurgents at Colombes.
M. Theirs, in circular just issued,
confirms the announcement of the capture
by Government troops, of the Chateau
de Becon. Batteries have been estab-
lished there by the Versailles troops,
which are within easy range of the insur
gent batteries at Asnieres and Chchy.
The Mot d'Ordre intimates that nego-
tiations will soon be reopened with the
Government at Versailles. The OHiciel
Journal pronounces false the reports that
Lullier has been appointed to the COM
mand of the gunboat fiotilla in the Seine.
The supply of provisions by the north
ern and eastern railroads is said to be
uninterrupted. The churches of st.
jacques and ST. Vincent de Paul have
been pillaged and closed.
The Times special speaks highly of
the American guns used in the defense
of Paris.
In the first fight the insurgents were
badly defeated They had completed
large defensive works at Asnieres, and
the Commune Generals believed the
position was safe from assault. Beyond
the bridge over the Seine, about fifteen
yards from the railway station at
Asnieres, strong barricade was erected
and armed with mitrailleuses. Other
were thrown up over night
to prevent an attack via the Charlebourg
road.
Across the road to Colonies was a
barricade of paving-stones covered with
earth. This barricade was eight hun
bred yards long and connected the prin-
cipal posts of the insurgents. Seven
locomotives, armed with
American mitrailleuses, were ready
along the railway to defend the National
Guards.
But although the Asnieres roads were
barricaded by the insurgents, they were
without cavalry, and unable to recon-
hotter. They we're consequently unaware
of the fact that the Versailles troops had
armed the Gennevilliers redoubts, and
placed heavy naval guns in position
at the Colonies redoubts. When the
first shells fell yesterday from Courbevoie
in the neighborhood of Chateau Becon,