Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-15
Rspulss Of the Government Troops
Advantage secured by the Communists
Miscellaneous and washington news
Ks KIux Bill Passed by the Senate.
MiscELLANY.
THE WORK OF PLUNDER AND DE
sTRUCTI0N GOING ON.
Negotiations for Peace between the Com
munisfs and Fersailsists. s5s q
stNs4 as$ FRENCH NEWS.


FRENCH NEWS.
VERSAILLES, April IS.-The Paris and
Orleans railway has not been cut.
PARIS, April l3.-The delegates to ths
Party Cancellation have returned from
Versailles, but are silent as 70 the details o
the negotiations with the Thiers Govern
.ment. Nothing will be made known unit
the full report of the mission is completed
The plate seized in the Bureau of Foreign
Affairs is being converted into specie.
The Commune consider the column in
the Place Vendome barbarous monument
symbolic of brute force and false glory, and
negation offrateruity. They have decreed
its demolition.
Nationals now occupy the whole of Neuil-
ly, and expectsa general attack tonight
by the army of Versailles.
Asnieres still holds out against the Ver-
sailles troops, whose every attack is re-
pulsed. 49,. q, zee :, sssss s.9s.yt...l.tls
An engagement is in progress at Neuilly.
Shells from VaIerien are falling in the
Champs Ulysses. Heavy cannonading on
the south side of the city continues.
PARIS, April 13.-The object of the Yer
sailles commander to-day was apparently
to reach Asnieres, thereby to relieve the
detachment surrounded by the Conmun-
lists on the island of Grande Jotte.s
The Versailles batteries cannonaded the
villages Of LaValois, Cbamperet and
Neuiily, and there was infantry fighting at
all the approaches to these villages.
Dombrowski asked for reinforcements.
They were sent forward, and it lis an
nounced bp to-night's Communist journal
that the Versailles forces were finally re-
pulsed.
report that Theirs, while unwilling to dis
cuss the treaty, is willing to guarantee the
Republic and accord certain municipal
privileges to Paris, upon plan to be elab-
Grated by the ASSEMBLY. He positively
declines to accord be1iigerent rights to the
Communists or grant an armistice.
The gate of Ponte Maillot is a wreck
VERSAILLES, April 14.-An Intellectual
cannonade from. Asnieres and Clarmont
continues.
PARIS, Aril 14.-The artillery firing on
the south and west of the city ceased on
Thursday night.
Several battalions of the National Guard
have been disarmed on account of hostility
MARsEILLEs, April 14-The fighting
for the past two days has resulted in adj
vantage TO the Commune. Their troops
occupy Asnieres, Vitry, Mondinsaquet,
Vile Juif, Nantes, Bruyeres, part of
Chatelles and Neuilly. They have erect
ed new barricades before Porte Maillot.
The Versailles army is posted on this
side Of Choisy LeRue at Chivilly and LIE
Pals.
- Gen. McMahon says he will remain on
the defensive until his army is greatly re-
inforced -
IAN ultimate triumph over the Commune
rs regarded here as probable. 49, 80
ENGLISH NEWS.
LONDON, April 14.-The Versailles troops
have been everywhere repulsed around
Paris. .gv4t
aTHTsf~ SPANISH NEWS 49, sr7 eess
MADRID, April 14.-The Porto Rico
elections occur on the Goth of June.
The election of the Duke of Montpensier