Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-28
PARIS
The COnflagrati0B Sill E0ing On
Ons-FOurth Of the City iH Ruiss.
Men and W0m q Throw Petroleum
into Buildings - Iassndia-
Fiss Shot.
Prominent Communists Executed
Letter from Victor Hugo.
Insurgents Still Hold Out in a Small
P0Fti8H Of the City.

Portion Of the City.
/ LONDON, 27.-DispatChes from St.
Denis, up 70 Friday night, say that
/ there are still terrible CONGREGATIONS
raging In Paris, the flames Of which
rise to q great hight, and illuminate
the country for miles around. All
human aid seems to be valueless, and
the only chance of saving much more
valuable property from destruction
/ rests in the hope that the night will
/ remain calm.
The Prussians have fired upon and
/ driven back to Paris body Offthe
insurgents who were flying towards
! Aubervillers.
! A dispatch from Versailles, on FRI
/ day night, says that General NinOy
| captured the Place du BelIeville,
/ which was defended by ten thousand
! Federals. The fighting was severe
| and the casualties heavy.
The Nersaillists have carried seve-
raj unimportant points and are now
advancing on Belleville.
Petroleum bombs are still thrown
| all over Paris.
General LehO has informed the As
! sembly that the insurgents still hold
/ several points, but that the insurrec-
ton would end on Saturday.
1t is known that the hostages held
! by the insurgents have been shot.
The insurgents viii probably be
/ surrounded tonight in Belleville and
] Mevil MOntaint, and the remainder
Of the city is occupied by the Nersail-
/ lists.
The theaters Lyrique, ChateateI
and POute It. Martin have been de-
] strOyed by fire.
The c0urt-martiaI for the trial Of the
] insurgents viii begin its sitting on
! Monday. There is a rUmOr that De-
Lascluse and Piatt have been shot.
/ The insurgents impri=gned in the
! Docks have attempted a rising and
/ several were shot before order was re-
/ stored.
A dispatch. from FSt. Denis, Friday
night, says that foreign hremen have
/ entered Paris and that the cOnhagra-
| tons were deer easing.
A dispatch received at noon to-day,
from Pantin, says that the fighting on
/ the east and north is less violent. The
insurgents fire recklGssly into the city.
[ The Prussians arrest and imprisOn all
escaping insurgents.
The slaughter of the insurgents has
been frightful, the Nersaillists since
Tuesday killing all their prisoners.
Several houses In the Rue Royal were
wet with petroleum and the insur-
gents fired them. The people are
furious in consequence. It is clear
that the insurgents intended to de-
strOy the whole city. Even women
were discovered throwing petroleum
upon the houses, and six members Of
the National Guard, dressed as POM
piers, and who threw petroleum on
the fires instead Of water, were shot in
the Place Royal. There is no limit TO
the readiness to kill the members of
the Commune, and leading guards are
taken and shot instantly. The gas
works at Aubervilliers exploded, and
many explosions have taken place.
Dead bodies Of the insurgents are seen
everywhere. ANY hidden COmmuu-
lists, when found, are brought out and
shot Immediately and no pity shown.
Raval RigOult, chief Of the COmmuu-
isb police, and COrbit, sUperIutenCents
OF the destruction of the NendUme col
umn, have been captured and shot.
Numbers Of prisoners, among them
about one hundred women of the
dg0ti-WOnde, taken while while fight
Ing for the Commune, have arrived
here.
VERSAILLES. May Picard to-
day informed the Assembly that Cen
eral Cissy occupies the whole of the
LEFT bank of the Seine. Generals
Nin0y and Dande, after capturing
the Place de la Bastile, occupied the
faUbOurg st. Antoine as far as the
Barrier DuTone, and Generals Clinch-
art and L1Admirault have advanced
to the foot Of the nights of Les Buttes
ClaramOnt, and viii tomorrow, with
six thousand men, occupy this last
refuge Of this mOnstrOUs msUrrectiOn.
Favre, I'm q dispatch TO the repre-
seut8tives of France i'm foreign cOun-
tries, says the acts OF the insurgents
are criminal, and are not of q political
nature and he therefore desires them
to request the neighb0rlug nation
alities TO eXtr8Qite those who may
enter their territory, and says that
the government of Spain already pro-
poses to DO so.
LONDON, May "a dispatch from
scissors SAYS the Germans who have
been searching for the Archbishop of
Paris and the priests, held as hostages
| by the Communists, cannot be found,
and it is supposed they have been
shot.
1t is caIcul8ted that there are up
wards Of $4,000 dead bodies in the
houses and cellars Of Paris, many of
them women and children. The WO-
men, it is said, have been perfectly
furious during the recent fights in the
French capital Executions of the in
sUrgents are almost constant. The de-
structiOn Of property is terrible. One
fourth Of Paris is estimated to have
been destroyed.
BRUSSELS, May 27.-Victor Hugo
has written a letter to the LQde-
pel1de7ce Beige, which, while it disap-
proves Of the insUrrectiOn, protests
against the statement that the Belgian
Government would eXtradite all in
surgents found upon Belgian territory.
The above Journal, IA its comments on
the letter, does not agree with the
sentiments Of NJ. Hugo.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Wash-
burne telegraphs from Paris that the
insurgents still hold q small part Of
the city. Some new fires occurred.
The fate Of the Archbishop is Uncer-
tain.