The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-22
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FRANCE.
THE PARIS CIVIL WAR
Manifesto from the Commune.
The End Approaching, Ac-
cording to Theirs.
APpTehenSIon9 OF Cholera
Building More BarriCades in
1.-The City.
Paris Under re-.CiVilians
Killed in the Streets.
Reinforcement Of Government
Paris Under Fire-.CiVilians
Killed in the Streets.
Reinforcement Of Government
Position at Asnieres.
By the Atlantic Cable.

By the Atlantic Cable.
PARIS, April 20.
The Commune has issued o manifesto
saying: Paris, once more laboring and
suffering for the regeneration OF France,
demands local autonomy and the en-.
couragement Of the producers. She does
not aim at dictatorship; she has decentral.
lied the unity Of the country" The docu.
ment pronounces compromise with the
Versailles Government impossible and
closes with IN appeal 10 France 10 disarm
the troops now threatening The capital.
VERSAILLES, April go.
President Theirs In a circular 10 the
Projects Of the Departments, announcing
the capture OF Asnieres, declares the end
Of 1.-THE criminal resistance TO tho Govern.
ment Is approaching
A Paris special says Le BAH Public
and L Opinion NatIOnale still appear, not.
wiLhstandlng the order for their suppress
sion, and sell freely, The ramparts are
being rapidly strengthened, The cholera
Is anticipated, numerous deaths occurring
from kindred diseases.
A Versailles dispatch says Fort Val.
erlan, aner long silence, has resumed
the bombardment Of Porte Maillot The
insurgents are bombarding Sevrcs from
the new naval battery erected at Point du
Jour. The Government Is unable to re.
ply. The GaulOiS says 1t must confess
that the lnsurgcnt defense shows sytcm,
intelligence and daring.
Another dispatch from Paris says that
the taking Of Asniercs was accomplished
by stralegem, the troops Of the line simu.
lating friendship and determination, and
thus passing the outposts Of the line with.
out difficulty. The buildings at Asnieres
were destroyed.
The Communists arc building barrl.
cades 10 tho Rue Nvoll aud many other
streets. AthalEpast two O'Clock Wednes.
day there was an engagement along the
whole line.
A dispatch dated 5:e5 n. NJ, Wednesday,
SAYS Valeiren and CourbervOle were shell.
ingPAris frightfnlly. The Arc do Triomphe
had fallen and Avenue des Ternes was
visited by a shower OF shells. Forty citl.
zens were killed.
General DombrowSki still claims vic.
tory, but the Nationals arc returning dis.
pirIted and disgusted. There has been
an awful slaughter. Dombrowski com.
plains Of the ineiilclency OF officers. The
American mitrailleuses have been moved
to the front D0mbrowskl states that he
Is waiting the cooperation Of the gunbOatS
which will be ready in four daya The
Communists are mining the houses held
by the Versailles troops in Asnieres.
Several correspondents confirm the re-
ported destruction ofthe Arc deTriOmphe,
but 1t Is doubtful whetherit was destroyed
BY the fire OF the ASSemblist batteries or
was blown up by q mine. Ducrot Is
marching with 10000 men to reinforce
the Versailles troops at Asnieres.
The Assembly Refuses to Treat with
the Insurgents.
The Insurgents Driven Across the
Seine.
Desperate House to House Fighting
at NeuillY.
Paris Accounts OF the Situation.
FortS to be Turned Over to ThlerS b.
the PTuSSiRnS.
The Paris BarricadeS.
VERSAlll.Es, April 20, |
ria. LONDON, Midnight !
The Assembly has rejected tho motor
to treat with the PGris insurgents.
LONDON, April 81.
A dispatch from Versailles says the as
Serlion Of the Communists that they havt
recovered the positions lost on the 18th
false. The Parisians have been driven Il
the right bank of tho Seine and have no
attempted 10 return to AsnieTes.
A dispatch dated Paris, last evening
says: "There has been desperate house 4
house fighting all day at Neuilly and l.
Vallois. The forces Of the Assembly hav
been reinforced at Neuilly, but the artille
ry Of the FederalistS and Communists de
ftnds with great tenacity the 6arricad
opposite tho position Of the Versatile
troops.
The cannonading was incessan
throughout the day. The Versaillist
have not occupied the village Of Asnieres
but are entrenched at the railway station
and In the Colonies wood. The fire q
the Versailles batteries greatly tries th
Nationals, but though they have sufferet
heavy loss, they are still undaunted. /
decisive engagement is impending at Mai
lot, the gate ramparts adjoining which ar
aheap Of ruins The shells reach eve
the Rue Du COlOysee.
"The Ben Public newspaper refuses I
stop publication. The cOmpoSilors {
most Of the journals are engaged in rio
ing"
A special to tho NtIe1 from Versatile
says the PruSsianS intend TO Surrendl
those forts around Paris, which are sti
In ntheir possession, to the lawful COVER
nenk The i've hundred millions ol fran