New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-28
PARIS.

Commune Suffers for Lack Of Money, 01e1
and Unley-Where the Counune WIN
Make Its Last SsanA-Fsre . -
sterDeA by Versailles AFny-Battery
CiaimeA q - eilenced ~ Cesuntnises.
RxtrasrdinaFy ecenss-ClaAefs -
Leave the Horrible City.
LONDON, April N.-The Eseniag Staxdard
has the following dispatch from Paris:
"Tho commune suffers from . want Of
union among its members, - we'll - lack
Of money and men. The national guards
openly disobey the orders Of the COM
mune." sss,4 4,ss, ss f
! It is believed the commune viii make its
last stand in Rue de Rivoli and Rue Castig-
lione, in the immediate vicinity Of the Place
Vendome. W
Fort Montrouge win probably be storned
by the Versailles army to-day. 1
The commune has impressed into military
service the porters on the Lyons hallway.
The communists claim to have silenced
the Versailles battery at Meudon, captured
q barricade at Neuilly and dism0unted i've
guns at Courbev0ie. .asflls
PAR1A April Is, Noon.--There is an armis-
tice to-day. III s..1
A committee of five members Of tho COM
mune have been appointed to preside over
the entry Of the sufferers from Neuilly and
to take steps for the accommodation Of the
O63UIGOt0s AL bU0 VWC8ut 0VHE EG0100G0 IN
Paris have been requisitiOnod, and inven-
tories have been taken Of the furniture and
seals placed ON all portable objects.
At an early hour this morning Portes
Bivau and Ternes presented extraordinary
scenes. Carriages, ambulances and all
kinds of vehicles were crowded with men,
women and children. rich and poor-all
clamorous to leave the horrible city. Only
persons possessing conveyances were al
lowed to leave. Some took mp decent
women who wished to 60 in search Of rela-
tions at Neuilly. -
Tlnre was great distress outside tho
gates, and the sight was pitiab1e. Many of
the nationals were drunk. The poor were
collecting tho remnants Of furniture; am
balances seeking the wounded; houses torn
open by shells; ratings and lampposts
ripped Of. and horses killed. -
At the barricades. where, in spite of the
armistice, the nationals were working, the
devastation was horrible.
Avenue Reuil and Rue Orleans it was evi-
isted under such storm of iron hail, and
many were the impromptu places of shell
ter resortod to. There was . strange mix
tur1 of ruins and magnificent furniture.
The asylum for the aged and bedridden is
full of wounded, and everybody 10 hurried
ly placing tho sick and dying in vehicles,
and their goods in vans, before the slsugh-
ter recOmmences.
In the Champs Elysees crowds Of people
were viewing the scenes Of destruction OF
removing their furniture.
The Ottoman embassy il being dis
mantled. fs IT,. 5.. SD &c.
Many distinguished persons were present.
By fve o'clock five thousand people had
gathered at the ramparts, waiting to SEQ
the first shot fred. a-.
St. Croix is all in ruins. In it was .
young man, much qnaciated, whe had lived
in a cellar for three weeks. Last week the
nationals came to the place and demanded
the plate and money, and the following day
the priests removed to the English convent
next door.
Friday last the communists visited the
English convent and demanded the priests.
The concierge attempted to save them, but
those who could be found were seized,
bound and taken to Hazas prison. The
nationals attempted to set the convent ON
fire.
Three hundred persons are at work to-
day repairing Porte Maillot. Every person
to the works, and any one refusing is ar
rested.
The members OF the commune, accom-
panied by an escort, attempted to approach
Versailles, but were driven back by the
Versailles troops, who are stern and un-
compromising in appearance.
At halfpast four O'clock tho people were
hurrying home, and there was . general
stampede toward the portes. At Ave O'Clock
the versaillists had Withdrawn behind the
barricades. where they have been fraterniz-
ing with the communists.
There was no firing from Neuilly until six
O'clock