Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-05-25

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Overland Dispatches
SPECIAL tothe GOLD HILL NEWS
BY THE CABLES.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT !
THE CLOSING SCENES OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
VANDALISM RAMPANT'
PARIS IN AS ES!
Terrible Fighting-Fire and
Blood!
by X CABLES
HIGHLY IMPORTANT
THE CLOSING SCENES OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION!
VANDALISM RAMPANT!
PARIS IN AS .

TALLY blown up, n tine faials rNoy"io
is still burning. Only one-third OF the
Louvre is saved. Fighting continues
ut the Hotel de Vile and at the terml-
nus of the Northern Railroad. Mac
Mahon, with his staff, has removed TO
the Place Vendome. A heavy rain is
falling.
A special gives the details Of the
fearful scenes enacted in Paris yester-
day. The fighting in the Boulevard
Hausman and Faubourg St. Honore
was very severe, and many houses
were filled with the dead and wounded
of both sides.
The hotel of the Ministry of Finance
is burning tlercely, and the north side
of the Louvre is completely Quilted.
The four walls only of the Palais
Royale are standing.
Fighting is very severe around the
Hotel de Vile, which is blazing with
petroleum. The British Embassy
building is much damaged, II us
Office of archives burned.
The Place dc Ia Concorde is terribly
injured, and no quarter given.
The Versaillists behave we'll to the
inhabitants.
Fire is raging in nearly every street,
and there is 4 heavy bombardment OF
Paris from the barricades on top OF
Rue Fayette.
VERSAILLES May 24-Evening.--
General Vinoy telegraphs that he has
possession of the Hotel de Vile, Belle
willie and Temple Quarter.
1t is reported that Deleschuze is
arrested. Six great fires are visible.
A Tribune special from Paris, dated
Wednesday night, says:
The Place Vendome was definitely
occupied at 4 o'clock this morning,
The insurgents made a strong stand at
Rue st. Honore. The Palais Royale
was set OH fire by the retiring insur-
gents.
The capture Of the Place Vcndome
made the Tuileries untenablc, and the
Insurgents saturated it with petroleum
and set it on fire. The insurgents are
still fighting like ficnds in the Eastern
Faubourg.
Tho population seem mad with JOY,
and tho tri-color waves everywhere.
The streets are quiet, and the Yer
sailles troops are orderly.
The hunt for the Commune leaders
has begun, and the police arc search
ing the houses, rooms and cellars.
Paris is cnvcloped in a dense smoke,
and is terribly damaged. The streets
are smcarcd with blood and Uttered
with debris. Another correspondent
describes the burning of the Tuileries;
another that of the Hotel de Vile, and
the awful scenes accompanying.
The Austrian Embassy, property Of
Empress Eugenia, was also burnt.
Coyssc dies Consignation is reported
| destroyed, likewise the Spanish En-
bassy.
Departure from Paris is impossible.
Passage through the city Is difficult
and dangerous.
The loss of the Versaillists is mall.
Twelve hundred prisoners are taken to
Versailles.
1t is reported that Billovay was shot
Immediately after he was taken.
The Vcrsaillists send flremen to the
city from towns within a radius OF
twenty miles.
Another correspondent t~clegraphs
from Versailles, last night, that Paris
is being burnt to the ground. The
mad aud frenzied insurgents dellber-
ately fired the Louvre, Tuileries, Cour
des Complies, Hotel de Vile, Ministry
of Finance, churches, and every public
building in the city. The conilagration
is rapidly extending. This CORES
pondent tried to enter Paris, but found
it impossible. In watching the fire he
noticed n tremendous increase, and n
third Of the city, he says, will be burnt
before night.
Another correspondent at Versailles
telcgraphs that the insurgents were
beaten everywhere except at Belle
Vile, M~ontrouge and Antoine. The
chiefs are skedaddling. Delescluze is
a prisoner. Dombrowski is n prisoner
Of the P%russians.
Theirs announces that all Nationals
will be diSarmed Immediately.
A letter from Paris says the Versail
lists are masters, and the city is in
ashes.