The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-05-26

beyond the viaduct of the circular railway,
meeting with but feeble resistance.
There was heavy fighting yesterday ON the
west and southwest, but according TO Com
munists reports it was without important re-
suit The officers of the Montmartre battery
claim that they have dismounted the guns Of
the Versaillists at Gennevilhers.
The inhabitants of Malakoff and the Villages
near Vanguard and Montrouge are flying from
their dwellings.
FRANKFoRT, May 2O.-Bismark, and NJ NJ
Ponyer Quertier and Favre arrived in this
city to-day, for the purpose of exchanging rat
ihcations of the treaty Of peace. All the pub
lc buildings and great many private resi-
dences were decorated with flags. In honor of
the occasion.
VERSAILLES, May 22-Report from Paris
come in thick and fast. The Palais de Fin
dustrieis surrounded by government troops,
and the Communists inside have been called
upon to surrender. A parley is now in pro
gress.
A bloody fight occurred in the Rue St.
Stonore. The Versaillists charged down the
Street with fury, and were fearfully cut up by
a concealed fire from the windows eff the Con-
ciergeries. MacMahon planted eleven cannon
on the city side of the Arc de Triomphe, amidst
the debris of the captured barricades, and COM
pletely swept the Champs Elysees. The
Communists are concentrated at the Rue de
Riyoli, the Rue StAntoine. around the Hotel
de Vile and in the Place Bsstile.
General Lenoir was shot this morning in the
east square of the Tuilleries by a court mar
tial, on the charge of treason to the Com
mune.
A report has been received here that the bar
ricades under the Arc de Triomphe have been
carried by assault, the Forty-frst, Sixty-third
and Eighty-fourth regiments taking gallant
and conspicuous part in the action, and Colo
nels Rendaulb and LeFayne are said to have
been mortaIly wounded. A regiment of Chas-
seurs in dashing up the Boulevard L'Impera-
trice, now called the Boulevard Brune, were
met with a murderous vOlley of rifle shots
from an smbuscaded party of the Communists.
The latter precipitately retreated, when an ad-
ditional force of Versalllists came Immediately
in support of the regiment attacked in front.
PARIS, May 22.-Afternoon-The Versailles
army has occupied Paris. The Head Quarters
of Marshal Mcmahon are established in the
new opera house. The Head Quarters of Gen.
eral Cissey, whose forces entered the city from
the south, are in the Ecole Millitaire, which
fronts on the Champs De Mars.
The city is in a tremendous commotion.
From the windows in the west front of the
Tuilleries, the conflict can be distinctly seen.
An immense body of commune troops, have
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ing retreated from the outskirts. The capture
of the commune is eminent.
VERSAILLES, May 22.-The commune troops
rallied at MOntmartre and the Hotel de Vile,
the approaches to which places were defended
by barricades. Much serious fighting took
place and resulted in the Versailles troops oc-
cupying three fourths of the city.
A conhagration is raging near the Invalides
and the insurgent battery on Montmartre is
cannonading the city.
L'Admirault telegraphs that everything is
satisfactory, and, although the fighting may
continue several hours, the city Is absolutely
won. Many Of the Commune leaders were
taken and there were some awful massaeres.