Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-04-22
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches,
Associated Press Reports.
rom UROPE TO-OA>
Tie Civil War I'm France.
MORE HEAVY FIGHTING
Terrible Slang On r.ra
Paris Desperate scarcity of
Eood-1he COnmunIsts Quar-.
reifng Among Themselves
1s's9rerbed Erc'usirely 20 TIE EreniaS Stor.
Sone of the Horrors of CIVIL War.

PARIS, April 20, evening.-There was fighting
all day. The Versailles troops are massing for
grand attack The discipline OF the nationals
II bad. The men placed on guard ~ the Pos
tern gate ccoly left without orders. The Yer
sailles troops have established strong batteries
TO the left Of NseTien. A captain in the 18Th
regiment was shot by his men, who CHARGED
him with vast OF energy. Two hundred ua-
fortunate women were arrested last night on
the bouleEards, Provisions are short and horse
nesh Il again largely sold. General Cluseret
offered bis resignation, o. the Communists have
run into excuses, but the resignation was NOT
accepted. AT Neuilly to-day the Versailles
troops drove the insurgents within two hundred
yards OF Paris Suagglers, mere BOYS of 10 re-
turned dirty, ragged and dispirited. The COM
mandsnt OF the toru1cstioos At the Rue des
IeTnes vas shot through the shoulder There
Is great exodus from Paris The Partisan
Minister % reviewed the bOmbardueut from
the legation on the Avenue Josephine. There
were awful scenes az the gates. Al the Bean
jon hospital crowds of women with STREAMING
hair were altering loud shrisks demAndinS
Their husbands, brothers and children. The
nationals bsye Just attempted to retake As
nleres, butfaiied. They seem TO prefer fshtiny
under the Notifications. A person from 49,
sailies says an attack has been arranged and
Where Is Dombrowskf-
Donbro~ski has disappeared. It IL supposed
he rs either dead or wounded. At last accounts
the NerSallists we're within one hundred sUd
ntty yards or the rampsrtS.
Attack and Defence.
PARIS. APrll "a eyening.-The csnnOnadin
u lnces>ant between Chchy and Neuilly but N
y expected thatthe genersLattack bv Versailles
FORCES has not yet commenced. The commune
Is making immense and most minute prepara-
tons for defence, raising embsnkments AMI
tortlticatiOns inside and outside the ramparfs
and Fastening the manufacture of ammuEiria,'
Position of the yersaiIIIsts.
Ef'eAiLLks, ApTH 4, eYenIng.-The Yer.
sallies army row holds all the offensive pos
tors from ChatillOn, south OF Paris 20 Gene.
where's, north OF the capital. ana but A sI@T'
distance from ~. Denis. The assemble H..
passed law providing for the payment OF
rents.
Paris Isolated
LoNboN' a pTii "A special dispatch 20 The
I1B'sS, from Paris. say- the commune has dele
ga'ed IT, IOWers 10 a committee or nine men,
il Paris. e IVA i"0N
The T,aes' correspondent AZ Versailles s,rs
IL fs reported that tie Prussians will surrender
the ioIts stu held by them to the Versailles
troops ON Sunday. Paris will shortly be $50
iated; The she'll IRON the Insurgeut batteries
ian short OF NaleTien.
A Doiy Meas special dispatch from Paris
says ;-IhtIe are serious dissensiUDs among the
members OF the commune Communicative
with the provinces IL CUT off All citizens nr,lar
hity i've years or age are Obliged TO serve.
Fsgrdphs special dispatch nom Versailles
Charenton. General Ducrot has arrived az
Versailles with 20 600 men OF the late irnneriaI
army. IL lie announced that Menotte Garibaidi
win return at once 10 Italy.
VERSAILLES, April -, q. m.-The Dexs il
unimportsnt. A slight csnnonade is now in
progress at the advanced Posts, A decisi We ba;-
tie is imminent. There is no truth in the rnmors
OF ministerial notifications and suppIementsrY
elections 10 the Assembly. President Tbiers
has visited the wounded government soldiers
A DuuDy is reported TO have occurred amons
the communist troops.
NeufIIy on Fire.
The Town of Neulily was set OF IRE by shells
and Is nov burning.
Church and State I'm Austria
VIENNA, April 1.-THE Austrian Reichrsth
has, by the adoption OF a resolution, demanded
OF the government the Introduction of the
promised bill in relation to the church ami
Ship Abandoned Al Sea.
LONDON, April y The EsstOn. from Mid
deshOno fer Baltimore, has been abandoned At
sea. The crew were saved andlanded at Queens
town,
More Severe Fighting.
LONDON, April D., p. M.-In a report made
10 The Commune yesterday General Clauseret
claims to bave repulsed the Versailles army al
several points. Other accounts declare that the /
lighting was murderOus, and say that the village I
OF CouTeeles, on the right bank Of the Seine |
between Neuilly sSd Clichy. is filled win /
wounded. 1T is stated that an armistice has /
been concluded for to- day for the burial of tie
dead, and 10 allow the Inhabitants OF Neuilly \
Clichy, and other towns under bombardment 10 /
remove TO places of safety. A bsrricaie il in
course OF erection under the Arch u Triumph. /
demonstration was made by the English l
democrats in Paris, at which resolutions xera
accepted congrstulatipg The commune upon its 1
success.
The official journal of Versailles to- dsy nub-
fishes large number ~f appointments 70 the /
Legion OF Honor, in order 70 equaIize the re- /
wards granted the army OF the Rhine with those \
OF Paris the Loire and North. Generals Chan
GARNER, Bourbaki, Cissey and Basson ara 4
awarded the grand crosses OF the Order
From Chicago.
ire b1stlAerS Convention Z rscbti0u.
CHICAGO, April 2I.-The Distillers' National /
nF1wn N inn lion