Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-27


i NEWS FROM FRANCE.
4 GRAND ATTACK ExPECTED-THE MA,
| TIoNAL GUARDS GETTING LOOSE.
NEW YORK, April 20.
Special correspondents add little to the
news from Paris On Thursday evening
troops were massiag for . grand attach.
The Nationals are bad. The mon placed
on guard at postern gate ooolly left
without orders. A captain in the one
hundred and eighty-fourth regiment was
shot by his mon, who charged him with
want Of energy. Two hundred unfortu.
nate women were arrested last night on
the boulevards. Enormous barrioads
have been erected in Rue RivoH and
Place De La Oonoorde, besides double
bitches six feet deep. Every preparation
has been made in anticipation of obstinate
street fighting. Hsrse flesh is again
largely sold. Gen. Cluseret has offered
his resignation, as the Communist have
run in to excesses, but the resignation
was not accepted. At Feuilly on Thurs.
day, the Versailles troops drove the in.
surgents. ~
THE INSURGENTS DRIVEN BAcK-rER.
RIBLE sCENEs-THE vERsAILLIsrs IN
PURSUIT.
The insurgents are within two hundred
yards Of Paris. Stragglers, mere boys of
sixteen, returned dirty, ragged and dis
pirited. There were awful scenes at the
gates. At Beaujon Hospital, crowds of
women with streaming hair, uttering
loud shrieks, demanding their husbands,
brothers and children. Dombrowski has
disappeared. He is supposed to be dead
or wounded. At last accounts the Yer.
saillists are within one hundred and fifty
yards of the ramparts.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT CANCELLATION
500 PARIS, April 20.
The representatives of the commerce
and industry of the capital, are about to
make fresh attempts at Cancellation, and
win 60 to Versailles for that purpose.
DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS.
The army of the Assembly are fortify.
ing the towns of Sewers, Combevois and
Asmeres. The Federalists and Commun-
lists are erecting defensive works at
Neuilly, Levillois and Varillens.
CONFIRMED.
The Not d'Ordre confirms the entry
of the Versailles troops into St. Dennis.
SUSPENSION OF BoMBARDMENT.
There has been no cannonading since
ten O'Clock this morning.
PRUSSIA PACIFIED.
&Er PARIS. April %.
It is rumored that the Versailles gov
eminent has paid the first installment of
the loan indemnity, 5000, 100000 francs.
and that the German troops in conse-
quence are evscusting the forts north
and east of the city.
RUMORED OCCUPATION CT ST. DENIS.
It is also reported that detachment
1nder Gen. Demaus has passed through
st. Denis, and five of them are on guard
iuty at the railroad station there. The |
however, deny the report
md give out that Gen. Demaus was seen
northward and went no farther
han Gendoilliors.
PARIS TO BE INVESTED.
1t is supposed that the Versailles gov
'rnment intends to complete the invest
nent of the city, and cut eff all communi-
,stion with the exterior
RENEWED FIGHTING.
Batteries on both sides were in active
peration at Neuilly and Sablonville to.
lay, musketry firing was heard at inter-
'als, and fighting is reported within 100
ards of the ramparts. The Communist
orces hold their ground with great ten
Ioity. They complain of NAL administra-
ion at the war Office, and begin to accuse
Cluseret of aiming at military dictator
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