The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-08
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Herald Special Report from
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Repulse Of Accommodating Party of
Versa. lies Troops.
ANTECEDENTS OF ROSSEL.
Proposition to Kill Archbishop DarbOy il
Clanqni is Not Liberated.
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THE VERSAILLISTS GAINING GROUND.
An Avenue Thronged
With IIearses.
An Avenue ThrOnGed
With IIearses.
The Tuileries Converted Into
an Asylum.
Partisan Old Men Demand Arms to Fight
for the Commune With.
1eLEGRAnS 70 THE NEW YORK HERALD.

PARIS Sunday Night, May z, 1871,
Via BoULoGNE, May 8-Morning.
Yesterday evening the forces of the Yer
sailles government reconnoitred in the neigh
borhood Of the forts and were met by terrible
| fire from the mtrailleuses of the Communists,
which decmated their ranks and routed
| them.
ROssEL's ANTECEDENTs
! during the night, and did not return to Paris
| till five o'clock this morning. The mother of
| the General is a Scotch woman. Rossel, at
| the beginning of the war, lived in Bourges.
| He came to Paris and demanded active ser
vice, having been discouraged from the
| thought Of engaging in journalism by the
editor of the Temps newspaper, who persuaded
him to remain in the army. The general
| opinion is that in General Rossel France has
at last found true soldier.
BLOODY PROPOSITION.
At meeting of club at the Church Of St.
Nicholas in the Champs Elysees, held last
night, NJ Perrin proposed that the Commune
summon the Versailles authorities to liberate
M. Clanqui C) within twenty-four hours, on
pain Of the Communists putting the Arch
bishop of Paris to death. The proposition
| was carried by reclamation.
| MUCH WOUNDED INsURGENr.
ninth battalion Of the National Guards, who
was wounded in the late affair at Issy. He
states that the Communists were surprised and
that the commander Of the Versailles forces
refused to give them quarter. My informant
received twenty-five wounds-one in the
mouth, four in the chest, two in the left shout
der, six in the right leg, and twelve others
in the hands and arms. He laid on the ground
for two hours, when he managed to crawl to
the Communist outposts, where he was req
ceved and sent to the hospital.
| NNUMERABLE FUNERALS.
| The funerals in the Quarter des Gobelins
were innumerabe to-day. The Avenue Italie
was thronged with hearses.
| PATRIOTIC OLD MEN.
| A great meeting Of men over fifty years of
age took place in the Place de la Bastle
to-day. Some five thousand old men were
present They marched in procession to
! the Louvre, where they demanded arms,
| as they wanted to show the young
men how to fight. They have been promised
the arms taken from prisoners and will be sent
to the front, but should they refuse to fight
| for the Commune when there, they will be
returned to Paris, the insurgents being unable
| to feed useless mouths.
COMMUNISTS ExAsPERATED.
The announcement that the Versailles troops
are killing wounded federas (lnsurgents) has
greatly exasperated the latter.
The Firing Ceased-The versaiiIIsts Gaining
Ground-Priests acknowledgements Of the
Tuiicries Into an Orphan Asylum.
PARIS, Sunday Evening,
The firing has ceased, and quiet now pre-
walls between the lines, where, apparently by
mutual consent parties are burying the dead
and removing the wounded.
THE VERSAILLES TROOPS GAINING GROUND.
The Communists admit that the Versailles
forces are gaining ground. The latter are /
pushing between Neuilly and the villages OF
Levalos and Ferret with the object of clear
ing the Seine and driving the Nationals to
Clichy.
THE CoNaREss-PRTEsTs ARRESTED.
The Republican League sends five delegates
to the Congress at Bordeaux.
Five priests have been arrested on the
charge of being spies.
REMARKABLE CONVERSIONS OF PUBLIC PRO-
PERTY.
The church of st. Eustache has been con-
verted into political club room, that Of st.
German rAuxerrois is used for public meet
ings and concerts, and the Tuileries have been
turned into an asylum for the widows and
orphans of the National Guards killed In the
present struggle