The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-20
-. ALL QUIET YESTERDAY.
Contradictory Reports from Paris.
Negotiations Said to be Going On for a
Settlement.
&C., &C., &c. p,
VICTORY OF THE GOVERNMENT TROOPS
CAPTURE OF ASNIEREs.

VICTORY OF THE GOVERNMENT TROOPS
CAPTURE OF AsNIEREs.
LONDON, April ia dispatch from
Versailles to-day says that the Government
troops occupied Asnieres yesterday, driy-
ing the insurgents across the Seine, and
capturing some prisoners. A battery has
been put in position which prevents the
insurgents from using the bridge which
crosses the river from Clichy to Asnieres.
me lnsurgent troops are qnet, and their
batteries were silent last night.
Other dispatches say the fighting was
severe, the town being taken and retaken
by the contending forces two or three
times.
A Paris dispatch of Tuesday saws the
Versaillists had not resumed fighting, and
the belligerents were separated by the
island of Grand Jotte.
One dispatch says the insurgents are
greatly discouraged by their sufferings and
losses, and another says the Versallists are
becoming unreliable and without discp.
line.
The Versaillists have driven the insur.
great loss.
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT NEAR
EEUILLY.
III
sailles gives some particulars regarding the
fight yesterday at Neuilly:
The incessant fighting around Neuilly,
which lasted throughout Sunday, Sunday
night, and all day Monday; Was followed
by an ominous calm Monday night, which
was broken shortly after daylight Tuesday
morning by the insurgents. The fight last
cd all day with little advantage being gained
by either side, every inch of ground being
contested on both sides with determined
yigor. The houses were on fire in various
parts of the town, and the inhabitants had
sought shelter in cellars, where many of
them, including women and children, were
burned to death. Toward night the Ma.
tionals, from some unknown cause, became
panic-stricken and fled precipitately to-
wards Paris, leaving their dead and wound
ed lying thick in the road.
The Government forces did not follow
the Nationals.
&c., THE EXODUS FROM PARIS.
The widest excitement prevails in Paris,
and the inhabitants are leaving by thou
sands, the road to St. Denis being choked
with fugitives. All the churches are closed,
but the war on sacred edi1ces still contin-
ues, and the priests are daily being insult
ed and imprisoned. Almost every church
in the city has been pillaged. Provisions
are more plentiful and still coming into the
city by the northern and eastern roads.
PROGRAMME OF COMPROMISE.
PARIS, April ia programme, which,
it is suggested, meets the general approval
maintenance of the Republic, granting
communal rights to Paris and other cities !;
the dissolution of the Assembly, and cleo
ton of Il National Communal Representa-
tive Assembly instead; the formation of dd
interim, governments at Paris and Fcr-
sailles; the declaration Of Il general am
nesty for all offences against the Govern
ment; and the signing of an armistice.
The insurgents admit rcpulse at Neu-
lily, but claim victories at CLAIMANT and
Issy.
Gen. Okelow succeeds Gen. Dombrow-
skis brother, who was disabled at AsnierS.
THE MILITARY SITUATION.
LONDON, April ia dispatch from AS
niers, via Versailles, says the weather is
rainy, and operations to-day are next to
impossible; but adds that "the insurrec-
ton is falling to pieces"
A dispatch from Paris also confirms the
fact that the fighting and cannonading is Of
small account, on account Of the weather,
but there has been much moving of troops.
COhMCNlSl ACCOUNrSs
PARIS, April 19.-The markets are badly
supplied, beef bringing one shillinga pound
on the hoof.
The Commune journals recommend that
the Imperial mummies be removed from
the Invalides.
NJ. Rochefort says that he has trustwor-
thy information that negotiations Of a semi
official character are proceeding.
A special dispatch says the insurgents
met with a severe repulse Tuesday. Heavy
defensive works have been erected at As
nieres in the last few DAYS, and the position
of the insurgents is believed by their gen.
erals to be safe. Strong barricades have
been erected, armed with mitrailleuses, at
the railway stations, and another was
thrown up last night to prevent an attack
from the Charlebourg road. The Colorube
road is protected by barricades of paving
stones, covered with earth two yards thick,
and 500 hundred yards long. Seven armor-
plated locomotives, armed with American
mitrailleuses, are ready along the railway.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
BRUSSELS, April 19.-It is aScertained that
the Peace Conference comedies nothing to
France.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Herr Dollinger, distinguished Bavarian
theologian, has been accommodated by
the Pope.
A change is to be made in the French
(Goyernment Ministry.