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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. THE CIVIL WAR AT PARIS. Indignities to Religious Persons Per-sons and Places. The Commune has 100,000 Ticked Men. An Extraordinary Scene at Burying the Dead Communists. More Desperate Fighting near Paris. I'AUIS AGAIN 1JOMIJAU-D 1JOMIJAU-D C O. .Ml K LLS BURSTING BURST-ING WITHIN THE WALLS. THE "PARIS AVENGERS." Congressional Intelligence GENERAL NEWS. Great Fire at Albany. Congress Expected to Adjourn Ad-journ tliis day week. Annexation Practically Dropped. Formidable Riots by Coal Miners in Pennsylvania. FOREIGN. Brussels, 6. A nun who escaped from Paris lias arrived here. She reports re-ports that churches are sacked, priests insulted, arrested and maltreated and convents are entered at night and searched. A rumor prevailed before she left that twenty Jesuits had been shot. She succeeded in escaping from Paris after she had been hunted from place to place by the Communists. Paris, April 6, via London, 7. The Commune decrees the arrest of all persons accused of complicity with Versailles, and a jury of investigation! will decide who shall be detained as hostages for every execution of nationals nation-als or a civil partizan of the Communists Commu-nists taken prisoners by the Versailles officers, which will be immediately followed by the execution of a treble number of hostages. Cluseret reports i to the Commune, that the organiza-j organiza-j tion of the national guard wUl give them 100,000 picked men. He adds inai at, me present moment the policy of the patriot is to maintain an attitude : of defense. Piochfoit's journal is severe se-vere in its condemnation of the administration admin-istration of the affairs of the Commune. Com-mune. London, 7, 6 a.m. A special dispatch dis-patch to the Daily Mies reports all the officers and professors of the college col-lege of Jesuits in P;iris have been ar-; ar-; rested by the Comraunists. Grousset, i appointed by the insurgents delegate minister of foreign affairs, has sent out a circular, addressed to the representatives repre-sentatives of France abroad, notifying them of the, electiou and organization of the Commune. The army of Versailles is waiting for heavy artillery to attack Fort D'-Issy. D'-Issy. j'!n peace PlemPtentiaries of France and Germany will have another meeting meet-ing at Brussels on Saturday. Versailles, 7. There was a violent cannonade last night and this morning morn-ing in the direction of Chatillon. Aew York, 7. A special cablegram from Paris says that at the funeral of the killed yesterday there were extraordinary extra-ordinary scenes. There were three huge hearses, with black velvet palls, each decorated with sixteen red flags, containing the dead. Following them were 8000 national guards, and double that number of citizens. Women were marching in hundreds past and alone the boulevards at a solemn paceT Many members of the Commune joined join-ed the procession as they arrived at Pere la Chaise. Each hearse contain ed thirty-three coffins, and twenty-?hree twenty-?hree hearses were already in the cemetery, filled with the dead from the various hospitals. It was an awful aw-ful scene. There was one huge grave for all the bodies, into which they were lowered one at a time, amidst the shrieks of women and the shouts of men, for vengeance on the assassins of Versailles. Pere la Chaise was one mass of people, swaying with passion and screaming "Vive la Republique! Vive la Commune !" The losses of the Communists create great grief in the city, mixed with bitter animosity. Versailles, 6, 9 p.m. Firing has ceased for the present. London, 7. A dispatch from Versailles, Ver-sailles, dated last night, says heavy musketry firing continued all the afternoon af-ternoon to the south of Paris, between the insurgents at Montrouee and the government forces at ChatilTon. Similar Sim-ilar firing is heard northeast of Paris. The government troops have made a vigorous attack upon the insurgent nationals at Xeuilly, and -were aided therein by the fire of Fort Valerien and the batteries of Courbevoie. The combat com-bat still continues, and the nationals have everywhere abandoned the offensive. offen-sive. A large force of insurgents are surrounded. Paris, 7. A bold attempt was made by theCommunists to pierce the lines of I the Versailles army and return to Paris, but it proved an utter failure. ; A dispatch from Paris says several j shells have burst within the walls, in :the avenue de 1' Imperatrice. The ! Communists are determined to continue con-tinue the struggle, and have greatly strengthened the fortifications at Mont-martre. Mont-martre. General Cluseret is reorganizing reorgan-izing the nationals. The party of conciliation are redoubling re-doubling their efforts. Several placards devoted to this object have appeared, all of which demand complete municipal muni-cipal liberty for Paris. Hopes are entertained en-tertained that an armistice of forty-eight forty-eight hours will be concluded for the exchange of prisoners. Louis Blanc Iiiih gone to Voi'H!ull',s (o ncfoliutc with 'J'liiiTH the cori'litioiiN of a new election law, to cinbniiMi tho convoca- J tion of the clrulom for the choice of a t coriMt i f iilioiiiil iih.-eniL. A new awph culled the J'urin avenjerH is in cnur.ic of formation, the members of which arc to operate as t-kirinilierH. All the largo hIiojis are closed by order of the ; sub-central commit tee, for tho men to KCrvo in the oraiii. ttion. The re- j mains of three hundrecd victims of tho recent battles were buried in the , cemetery of Peru la Chaise on Thurs- j day, followed to the grave by an im-. mcn.se procession of national guards I and citizens. ! |