The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-11
A Crisis at Hand.
Only the Germans Can Save
Paris from Carnage.
Cancellation Impossible.
AReign Of Terror.

LONDON, April 1O-G:SOA.
It's again reported that Assy has es-
capped from Paris.
AParis special To the. NtrS says that
shells are crashing close TO the American
Legation. The firing broke the draw.
bridge of Porte Maill0tt. The Church Of
Notre Dame has been sacked.
t. VERSAILLES, April 0.
Fayre has gone 10 the Prussian head
quarters. a4 ~ s.A a.
A partial breach has been made In the
Notifications Of Paris.
A sortie was made against Chattillon
and rcpulsed with heavy loss. An In
cessant fire has been kept up from Forts
D'Issy, Vanvres and Montrougc. The
damage done was slight.
General Vinoy will keep command
until Tuesday. The deputation Of Paris
merchants 10 Theirs returned without
result. Cancellation Is believed to be i'm.
possible. There was no sitting Of the AS
sembly on Sunday, majority having
gone 10 mass. g
A special from Paris says the Commune
Bulletin announces that the Versailles
troops have been driven from NeullyBrldge
and that the National Guards are eager to
advance, but are forbidden. The cathe.
dral of Notre Dame has been sacked,
Rochefort vainly endeavored to save 1t
from pillage. Nearly all the cathedrals
are plundered. The Archbishop Of Paris
has been transferred from the ConcorgerlC
to tho Moza prison. General Henry has
not escaped. He was sent 10 Belle Isle.
The arrest Of two prominent members Of
the Commune, Delescuse and Bergeret, Is
reported. They were arrested on Satur.
day night. The Commune Is controlled
by q secret committee, which arrests the
other members. 1t has no known chief.
Piatt declares, in to.day's ItnOeur, that the
suppression Of newspapers Is an Oct Of the
Committee Of Public Safety and not of the
Executive Committee.
A special correspondent at Rouen tele.
graphed on Sunday that Favre on Satur.
day had d.an important conference with the
Prussian commander, and returned to
Versailles to-day.
LONDON, April 10.
A Times special from Versailles says
the Government troops now occupy, In
strong force, the towns oil Boulogne, AS.
ueires, and Sablouville, and have un.
masked o number Of new batteries be-
tween Neuilly and the ramparts Of Paris.
Many Of the Paris newspapers exhort
the people to abstain from voting, and
thereby give death blow to the Com
mune. r.,
Barricades have been erected by the
Communists in the Rue de Rivoli.
The Commune has made an indirect
demand that the foreign ambassadors take
upon themselves the task Of arranging the
quarrel with the Versailles government,
but the representatives OF the powers are
reluctant TO accept the responsibility.
A special from Versailles says the
breach at Porte Maillot will admit Of an
easy entrance by an aSsailtng party, that
the insurgent batteries on the ramparts
have been silenced, and that an assault Is
expected to be made tomorrow.
E VERSAILLES, April 10.
It has been reported that the PrussianS
threaten intervention in the affairs of
Paris II the disturbances are not ended by
the 18th inst, but there Is the best au.
thority for pronounCing tho statement un-
true. ..I.i-
Favre, contrary to the general expecta-
tion, did not go to the PruSsian headquar.
ters yesterday.
1t Is stated that more than 800 persons,
who were called upon by the Communists
to serve as National Guards, escaped from
Paris by descending the ramparts by
means OF ropes, and reached the lines Of
the Versailles army in safety.
Special to the n. Y. World.
PARIS, April 10.
Unless the Germans ave US Paris must
soon swim with blood. The Commune
hourly grows more desperate and resorts
to fierce excesses. The Concergerie Is
filled with priests and nuns who have
been arrested on warrants calling them
citizens styled servants Of a person call.
ed God" Arch Bishop Durboy was strip.
ped naked, bound to a pillar and scourged
and Knocked for hours, by band Of 200
Reds