The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-01
RequisitiOn OIL the Railway
Companies.
Repulse Of Insurgents Friday.
Depletion Of the Nationals,
Forts Held by Insurgents to be
Blown up.

BY the Atlantic Cable.
so NEW Ym.K, April 90.
A dispatch from Paris Thursday night
says that on Wednesday night u recon.
noissance Of the 1s5Lh battalion from
the barricades at Villejuif, composed Of
forty Communists, were surrounded by
the VcrsailIists' cavalry. The Commun.
lists rctrcated, but four OF them were cap
tured and Immediately shot, One of the
captured regained the lines In o dying
state, and was taken to the Bicetre hos.
pital. m 'I.o ~
The Versaillists took the barricadeS In
in Rue Pirroutte, but they were rctakeu.
McATahon is at Chateau Becon. Governor
Of the 1nvaliaes, has been arrested. Flssy
lps been bombarded, all!day. Tie sail,
ors have abandoned their guns, and the
fort Is scarcely tenable. The loss Is
heavy. The hospital Vecker, in Rue de
heVres, is FULL The civilians are forced
10 fight, and also the soldiers OF the late
war '
Yesterday about fifty men and boys
hanging aboht the northern tailroad sta.
tion, were surrounded SUR p Dc and pressed into
tho service.
vERsAt1IEs, April 2s, Evening.
McMahon went TO Reull to-day, and
returns tonight. Fort Issy scarcely re-
plies to the Versailles batteries. An al.
tuck upon the fort is imminent.
PARIS, April 2s,-Evening.
There has been heavy firing to-day,
south and west Of the city, 1t slaCkened
during tho afternoon, hut Is now again
violent. The Versailllsts arc attacking
all points simultaneously, The erection
Of barricades in the interior otthe city has
been hastened 5sa. ~
The Commune has made requisihon
for $e,OO0000 francs upon the railway
companies. Provisions arrive but sci.
dom and are growing scarce. '-r..gi
a. ~ BERLIN, April 2s, ,-Evening.
Cluseret has replied to the intercesSion
of Falrice, that he will propose TO the
Commune to release the Arch Bishop ot
Paris, and other eCclesiAstlCs now in
prison: lsA .o7t. -.
LONDON, April 30.
The Times special states that at day
break yesterday, the insurgents attacked
Les Moulineaux, Pierre, ClamRrt and
Chatillon, but were repulsed.
! A NetrS Paris special says tho Minister
of War accuses Thiers Of using Prusstan
runs and mitrailleuses. It Is possible that
before long the Central Committee will
attempt to arrest members ot the Com
mune. . .r- " 3
The 7elegrapNS special says it Is ex-
pected that Fort Issy will be stormed to.
night. All communications between
Paris and departments will probably be
stopped, the railway companies refusing
to pay the Commune the money demand
cd OF them. $50
VERSAILLES, April 30.
The southern forts were bombarded
Iuriously all day yesterday. Vanvres re.
. piled vigorously. The night passed
quiet, The strength Of the Nationals de-
creases rapidly, from fire and fatigue.
The BFGRcdiSe says the troops OF the Com
niune do mot now exceed $4,000. .
HAvRE, April 90.
A fresh convoy of French prisoners
: from Germany has arrived at Cherbourg.
J The Versailles government has ordered
: that the provisioning Of Paris by way Of
J the Seine be entirely stopped. To-day
being the occasion Of the municipal elec-
& ton, the Havre workmen, who arc, parti.
zanS oGthe Paris Commune, have issued Q
revolutionary decree. No disturbances
3 have yet occurred.
= PARIS, April 90.
This morning the cannonade ceased
. along the whole line. Tho southern forts
Z arc Ia an indelensible condition, and, It Is
3 believed, will soon be untenable. The
X forts will, under the orders OF the Com
mune, be blown up in case the troops are
Obliged to abandon them. Earthworks
3 have been constructed to replace them.
A decree, issued by General Cluseret,
8 divides the army Of the Commune into
q q two corps, one for the external aud the
other for the internal defence OF Paris,
General DombrOwsi commands the ex-
ternal army and General La Creila the
. internal. Another decree, issued by Gen.
0 Cluseret, urges that the officers oil the
National Guard be furnished with regular
onn,u, taafnRa .HH a.