The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-19
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Assertions ind Denials of PrusSian Inter
vention-Rose. colored Reports from
Paris-Everything Lovely for the
Insurgents The Versailles
Government Still
Determined.
4 COMMANDING p ONT CAPTURED By THE
GOVERNMENT TROOPS.
&C., &C., &c.

LONDON, April 1S.--The following is the
The Versailles Assembly has ordered the
municipal elections Of Paris to take place
on the 30th instant.
The Government troops have carried
Chateau Bcckon, which commands Amiens.
It is rumored that the diplomats Of the
United States, England, and Italy will
Jointly urge the Commune to agree to a
truce.
The Commune has instituted general
court-martial in Paris.
The red flag was placed on the steeple of
church at Neuilly, Sunday afternoon, by
a youth of IL, amid a shower of bullets.
Scarcely church is open in Paris now.
The churches of st. Vincent de Paul and
st. Jaques dc Haut Pas were pillaged Sun
day.
THE INTERVENTION OF THE PRUSs1ANs.
The Times has special from Paris say
ing the Prussians will intervene in the af-
fairs of France in case the Commune is VIC
torious over the Versailles Government.
The PruSsians have advanced to Aubervll.
liers.
Another dispatch says the Commune has
in its hands cash TO the amount Of IS, 900. 000
francs paid by the Bank of France for I'M
sold bonds of the city Of Paris.
A Versailles dispatch says the Prussians
have agreed to stop revictualling Paris by
way Of St. Denis.
The insurgents now occupy the greater
portion of the woods of Colombere.
Prince Bismarck, in a note to the Yer
saIIes Government, admits the right OF
MacMahon to occupy with French troops
the ground around Paris made neutral by
the >tipuIations of the preliminary treaty
OF peace.
Theirs, in circular, confirms the capture
us well as Asmeres, and denies the capture
of the colors of the POntifical Zouaves.
PARIS REPORTS.
PARIS, Tuesday, April 1S.-Cluseret re-
! ports that the past night has been compart-
| lively quiet.
DGmbroski is surely and steadily adTanc-
| ing, and a considerable breach has been
made in the walls of Valerian. The situa.
ton is everywhere satisfactory to the Com
munists. Several of the Government bat
| teries have been demolished, and Ill their
attacks repulsed with small loss to the de.
Tenders. The morale of the men is exAel-
| lent.
| The MOT D. Ordre intimates that negotia-
tons will soon besreopened with the Gov
crnment at Versailles.
| Ht UlllCltI WIN ~ pcio 'iiA'
! Lullier has been appointed to command 4
| punboat flotilla in the Seine.
The supply Of provisions by the north
ern and eastern railroads is uninterrupted
| The Commune are discussing the ques'
ton of commerce, preparatory to the re-
| storaton Of trade and credit.
| REPORTS FROM VERSAILLES. ..
| VERSAILLES, April 1S.-NlarShal McMa'
hons headquarters are now at Frontenay
| AUX Poses, near SceauX.
| The rumors of the Prussians Offering
| torcible intervention in affairs at Paris are
unfounded.
Fifty prisoners were captured at Chateau
Becon, and others were captured in the
vicinity.
! One iron-clad railway battery has beer
captured from the insurgents at Colonies
MISCELLANEOUS.
There was slight earthquake in Scot
| land yesterday.
| The Lutheran inhabitants of Livonia Pc
tition Russia for annexation to Prussia.
and the Car ordered the petitioners tC
leave Llvonia ut once under penalty OF con-
| tiscation.
| The London Times speaks highly OF the
| American guns used in the defence OF Parls