The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-09
The French tivil War.

n. M, lne OOiHi1uulsis dTc iulliuS Ddch.
The Versailles forces on Tuesday night,
reoccupied the Park Of Issy. The village
Of Issy is almost completely surrounded,
and its remaining defences are closely
pressed. Shells have fallen in the Rue
Vanguard, and several persons have been
killed in the open street. The Versaillists
are massing with the apparent intention
of making an attack on Fort Issy.
PARIS, May 3-Evening. The Prus-
slams having demanded the strict execu-
ton of the terms Of the capitulation of
Paris, the Commune has been obliged to
reduce their garrison in Fort Vincennes.
An intermittent cannonade has been
going on,all day,from Neuilly and Genne-
%villiers
The batteries at Portes Maillot and
Des Terres are silent.
The Nationals are engaged, making re-
pairs.
There is a heavy cannonadc from the
Versailles batteries on the south, especial
ly against Vanves.
Les Mouleneaux and Park of Issy were
alternately taken and rctaken on Tues
day.
The Versailles troops finally triumph
ed, and now hold both places against the
Communists, who were twice panic
stricken during the day and rallied with
difficulty.
LONDON, May s..
The Times special from Paris says all
hopes of peace have been abandoned.
Delegations of Free Masons have gone to
the provinces to agitate in favor of the
Commune. There was constant heavy
firing yesterday between the forts. The
Times Versailles dispatch says that NJ.
Favro and Ponyers' Quartermaster have
gone to Frankfort.on.the-M MI to meet
Prince Bismark. A dispatch says the
Versailles forces are Smelling Auteil from
q battery near Montretour.
PARIS, May 8.
The Communists still hold Fort Issy
and arc having it entrenched. The Fort
continues to fire slowly upon the Versail-
list batteries at Clamart and Bas Mendon,
and receives, in return, a perfect hail Of
projectiles. Fort Nanvres also keeps up
a slow fire, and is vigorously shelled by
Versaillists at Claimant and Chattillon.
The Assemblies have remarked a formid.
able battery at Montretout, near St.
Cloud, which menanccs Auteil Pont du
Jour and Passy.
The Official journals admit that the
Communists have suffered serious losses
in prisoners and cannon, that the Ver-
s~aillists have advanced and constructed
barricades in Nuilly and Levallois, and
that Nuilly has been set on fire by shells
from Mont Valerein.
VERSAILLES, May 5.
Until now Theirs has depended upon
the cooperation of a party inside afParis
who promised to rise against the Com
mune the moment Theirs gave the signal.
The movement was to have been made on
Tuesday night, but their courage failed
at the last moment and nothing was done.
Negotiations are now progressing for
an armistice to effect a compromise, and
should these fail, MacMahon will carry
the city by assault.
VERSAILLES, May Z.
A heavy cannonade was kept up all
last night, and continues this morning
1t is given out that fresh batteries have
been erected and will open tomorrow
directing their fire especially agains,
Montretout. The work on the trenches
between Issy and Vanvres is rapidly ad.
vancing. No engagement during the
night or day is reported.
The official journal Of Versailles, re.
ferring to the proposed congress Of mu'
nicipal councils at Bordeaux, says that
the government would betray France, the
assembly and civilization, if it permitted
! the communist rebellion to exist side by
side with the regular government.
A decree of the Paris orders
the gr%atuitous restoration of all paw
pledges under FIVE francs in value, on tn,
establishment of the identity of thu
original pledges.
/ PARIS, May 7.
Official reports published by the com
mune represent that all is quiet in Vim
cennes. The reconnaissance of the Yer
s%aillists before Montrouge was repulsed
!, An engagement took place between tn
outposts near Issy, in which several Yer
: s%aillists were taken prisoners. The worI
! of barricading Avenue de pArmy is goinI
9 on. Many arrests have been made.