Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-23
NEWS
MurderOuS Fighting Friday
ArmiStice to Bury the Dead
VerSaiIIlStS Occupy st. Denis
FRANCE.


subOrdinatIOn OF the Nationals
CIuseret Wants TO Hesign-DOm-
brOWski Disappears.
NEW YORK, April % Special cores
pondenis add little to the news from
Paris. Thursday evening the troops were
massing for grand attack. The discip-
line of the Nationals is bad. The men
placed on guard at the Postern Gate
coolly left without orders. A captain in
the 184th regiment was shot by his men,
who charged him with want of energy.
Two hundred unfortunate women were
arrested last night on the BouleVards.
Enormous barricades have been erected
in Rue RivolI aud the Place O0ncorie, be
sides double bitches, six feet deep. Every
preparation has been made in anticipa-
ton of obstinate street fighting. Horse
flesh is again largely sold. Gen. Cluseret
has offered his resignation, as the Com
munists have run into excuses. The
resignation was not accepted. At Neuil-
ly, on Thursday, the Versailles troops
drove the insurgents within two hundred
yards Of Paris. Strsgglers, mere boys of
sixteen, returned, dirty, ragged and dis
pirited. There were awful scenes at the
gates of the Beaujon Hospital Crowds
of women, with streaming hair, uttering
loud shrieks, demanding their husbands,
brothers and children. Dombrowsh has
disappeared. He Is supposed to be dead
or wounded. At last accounts the Yer
sa lists were within one hundred and
fifty yards of the ramparts.
The situation Friday EVen1ng-Pre-
paratIOns for Desperate Defense.
PARIS, April 21-Evening. -The can
nonading is incessant between Clichy and
Neuilly, but the expected attack by the
Versailles force has not yet commenced
The Commune is making immense and
most minute preparations for defense,
raising embellishments and Notifications
inside and outside of the ramparts, and
Fastening the manufacture of ammuni
ton.
VERSAILLES, April 2l-Evening. The
Versailles army now hold all the often
sive positions from Chattillon. south of
Paris, to Gennevilliers, north of the
capital, and but short distance from St.
Denis.
Inc NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF tn0
Communists.
LONDON, April ga Paris special to
the Times says the Commune has dele
gated its powers to a committee of nine
members. A company of aeronsuts is
being formed in Paris.
The Times Versailles correspondent
says it is reported that the Prussians will
surrender the forts still held by them to
the Versailles troops On Sunday. Paris
will shortly be completely isolated. The
shells from the insurgents batteries fall
short of Mount Valerien.
The News Paris special says there are
serious discussions among the members
of the Commune. Communication with
the provinces is cut off. All citizens IN
der fifty five years of age are obliged to
serve.
The Telegraph's Versailles special says
the Prussians are preparing to evacuste
Cbarenton. Ducrot has arrived at Yer
sailles with 90, 600 men of the late Impe-
rial army. Il is announced that Menotti
Garibaldi will at once return to Italy.
nIerning-A Decisive Bat
the Rebel Ranks.
VERSAILLES, April 22-Morning-An
unimportant slight cannoua1e is now in
progress at advanced points. A decisive
battle is imminent There is o truth in
the rumors of ministerial notifications
and supplementary elections TO the As
sembly.
A mutiny is reported to have occurred
among the Communist troops. The town
of Neuilly has been set on fire by shells,
and is now burning.
MurderOus Fighting Friday-Re-
ported Armistice Yesterday so
Bury the Dead.
LONDON, April 22.-In his report made
to the Commune yesterday, Gen. Cluseret
claims to have repulsed the Versailles
army at all points. Other accounts de-
clare the fighting was murderous, and
say the village of Curicelles, on the right
bank of the Seine, between Neuilly and
Clichy, is filled with wounded. 1t Is
stated that an armistice has been conclud-
ed to-day for the burial of the dead and
to allow the inhabitants of Neuilly,
Clichy and other towns under lombard
ment to remove to places Of safety. Bar
ricades are in course of construction
under the Arc de Triomphe.
A demonstration has been made by
English democrats in Paris at which
resolutions were adopted coDgratulating
the Commune on its success.
VersaiIIists Occupy ST. Denis.
BRUSSELS, April 22.-It is reported that
a rortion of the army of Versailles has
occupied St. Denis and communication
with Paris, by the Northern Railroad j:
interrupted.
RLcNDoN, April %, IL P. MA dis
patch from Paris says the representatives
of thes commerce. and industry of the
| capital are about to make an attempt al
Cancellation, and will go to Versailles for
that purpose. The army Of the Assem-
bly, are strongly fOrtifyng the towns OF
Sevres, Courbevoie and Asniers, and thu
| Communists are erecting defensive works
st Neuilly, Lsvsllois and VillieIs. TIT
| Mot D'Ordre confirms the entry of Yer
ssilles troops into s.. Denis. There ha
/ haen no hOmhardinp since 10 O'Clock thi