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Show LATEST NEWS1 BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. ! Great Struggle at Paris Ap-; proaching. j j Gradual Advaiu-cnn'tit of": tlx-, (ovt't'iiuifiit Forces. Preparations for a Desperate j Resistance, ' MOStE Tannine I l(;iITIG. The Trenches Filled with the Dead and Wounded. Great Victory Claimed for, the Communists. 1 GENERAL NEWS. The .Extra Session of the' t-'enute Proposed Resumption of Work ly the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Miners. Satl l,os of Massachusetts Fishing Vessels. ' Half of a Virginia Town Burned. Etc., -Etc., Etc. FOREIGN. I London, 22. The Austrian Reich-srath Reich-srath demands the introduction of the promised bill in relation to church and state. The Times special saysthe Commuae has delegated ils powers to a committee of nine, and is organizing a company of aeronauts. It is reported the Prussians will deliver de-liver up the forts on Sunday. Paris will becompletely isolated shortly. The insurgents' shells fall short of "V' al-erien. al-erien. The Daily News says serious disscn-tions disscn-tions have occurred among the members of the Commune. Communication with the provinces is cut off. All citizens citi-zens under fifty-five are obliged to serve. The Prussians are preparing to evacuate Charenton. Ducrot has arrived with 20,000 men. London, 22. Menotti Garibaldi goes to Italy. Versailles, 22. There is an unimportant unim-portant and slight cannonade between the advanced posts. A decisive battle is imminent. The reported ministerial modifications aud supplementary elections elec-tions to the Assembly are false. Thiers visits the wounded. The Communists have mutinied at Neuilly, burning houses. 2S"ew York, 22. The special correspondents cor-respondents add little to the news from Paris. On Thursday evening the troops were massing for a grand attack. The discipline of the nationals is bad. Men placed ou guard at a gate coolly left without orders. A captain of the 184th regiment wus shot by his men, who charged hun want of energy. Two hundred unfortunate women were arrested last night on the boulevards. Enormous barricades have been erected erect-ed in the B.ue Kivoli and the Place do La Concorde, besides double ditches six feet deep. Every preparation has been made in anticipation of an attack and street fighting. Horseflesh is again largely sold. General Cluseret offered his resignation, as the Communists Commun-ists have run into excesses, but the resignation res-ignation was not accepted. At Neuilly, on Thursday, the Versailles troops drove the insurgents within 200 yards of Paris. The stragglers were boys of 18, dirty, rat sted and desperate. There were awful i. eues at the gates and at the Beaujon hospital. Crowds of women, wo-men, with streaming hair, were uttering utter-ing loud shiieks, and demanding their husbands, brothers and children. Dom-browski Dom-browski has disappeared, and is supposed sup-posed to be dead or wounded. The last action was within 150 yards of the ramparts. Paris, 21, evening. The cannonading cannonad-ing is incessant between Clichy and Neuilly. The general attack has not commenced. The Commune have made immense preparations for defense, de-fense, raising embankments and fortifications fortifi-cations inside and outside the ramparts, ram-parts, and hastening the manufacture of ammunition. The Versaillists hold all the offensive positions from Chatillon to Gengvilliers. The Versailles Assembly As-sembly has passed a law for the payment pay-ment of rents. London, 22, 4 p.m. There is a report re-port that, yesterday, Cluseret claims to have repulsed the Versaillists at all points. Other accounts say the fighting fight-ing was murderous. The entrenchments entrench-ments were filled with wounded; and it is suited there is an armistice to-day for the burial of the dead, and to allow the inhabitants of ISeuilly, Clichy and other bombarded places to remove. Barricades are being erected under the Are de Triomphc. A demonstration of English Democrats Demo-crats has congratulated the Commune. - Versailles, 22. The Journal Ojficuile publishes many appointments to the legion of honor. The order equalizes the rewards granted to the Army of tbe Rhine, and those of Paris, the Loire and of the North. Changarnier, Bourbaki and Cessy Besides received grand crosses. Brussels, 22. It is reported that Versaillists will occupy St. Denis, interrupting in-terrupting the northern railroad. under consideration was whether or not the committee, or duo portion of it, should proceed South at once. As an early reas.-embling of the Senate would prevent Senators from going, itwasde-cided itwasde-cided to take no further action until the dale indicated. Amended Tax Law. The amended tax law goes into effect on tho 1st of May next, at which time the special or license tax, required of all kind-i of nil kind of dealers, expires, except that on tobacco and liquor dealers, deal-ers, .which continues in force, from which cause it is e.-timated that the receipts re-ceipts for the en.-uing year will be decreased de-creased about a hundred and liliy million mil-lion dollars. The only internal revenue collected hereafter wiil be on incomes, stamps, spirits and tobacco. The Pennfcylvnnla Miners' Strike. New York, 22. Specials from Scran-ton Scran-ton says a mass meeting of miners was held yesterday in all the districts of the Delaware, Lackawanna and western coal mines, and the miners at each meeting almost unanimously declared de-clared themselves in favor of a resumption resump-tion of work; and delegates were appointed ap-pointed to meet tbe officers of the various var-ious companies to arrange a basis. The German miners who went to work on Thursday have been forced to quit by threats from the miners, but arrangements for their protection have beoii made and many have agreed to resume work to-day (Saturday). Gen. Lawrence's Accounts. The Tribune says an examination of the accouuts of Gen. Lawrence, late peusion agent of this city, shows a deficit de-ficit of over 5-50,000. Snricn Survey. New York, 22. A letter from Panama Pana-ma of the 5th says, that day the United States steamer liesaca would leave for , the point where Captain Selfridge left a party prospecting the survey. He has expressed himself in favor of the route, which will not involve more than twenty-three miles of cutting to connect tbe Atralo and Tuyra River. The Kipsic would leave Colon for 1 Atralo immediately after the arrival of the steamer from New York, due on j the morning of the 8th. The Columbian Robbery 1 Intelligence has been received here rom Barranquilla, that the national 1 post which left that city for Santa 1 Martha on the 18th ult., was robbed 'of $500,000 worth of gold bars at a ! place called Cuyatro Blcas, and tbe ! robbers, twelve in number, escaped i with the booty. Six of them were sub-jsequently sub-jsequently captured, the telegrams stated some days ago. Eds. IIee-j IIee-j ald. Mining Shaft on Fire. ; Potlsville, 22. The Hickory shaft, at St Clair, belonging to the Hickory coal company, was discovered to be on fire inside this morning. The mules ; and presses were saved. It is reported it will be necessary to flood the snaft. , It is impossible to estimate the loss, but it will be very heavy. Vessels Lost. Boston, 22. Four fishing schooners belonging to Gloucester, Mass. , were 1 probably lost with all hands, in the severe gale of the 2nd inst int on the ' Banks. The mi-sing vessels are A. Ft Lindberg, with eleven men; the steamer Pride, with ten men; the William Murray, with nine men; and the B. H. Sough, with ten men. Gloucester is in mourning over the probable fate of the missing schooners. Two fishing vessels from the same ' place were lost in February, which added to the piesumed vossels of April gives a total of six vessels and sixty-three sixty-three lives lost the present season. The lo-t seamen were mostly residents resi-dents of Gloucester, and many of them have left families. Kew Plan for Paying Interest. Washington, 22. The Secretary of 1 the Treasury has determined about a new plan for the payment of the inter- est on the new registered bonds. The plan consists in the payment of interest i by a check, or payable order, on the I Treasurer of the L. S., sent directly by ' mail to the address of the holder of the 1 bond, and removes the serious incon-j incon-j venience of compelling holders to attend the office of the Assistant Treasurer, in order to obtain their money. The , Secretary has given directions that I circulars shad be issued in writing, to ! all parties subscribing for the new loan, 1 to furni-h their a loresses in order to j enable this plan to be carried out. Fire in Virginia. j Wheeling, 22. Half the town of : Farmington, Virginia, was burned this 'morning. The loss is unknown but i heavy. I Movements of President Grant. j Indianapolis. 22. The President ar-I ar-I rived in this city this morning, acoom-' acoom-' panied by Senator Morton, and was I met by a committee consisting of tbe j Mayor aud a number of prominent citi-jzens. citi-jzens. The President wilt remain here 'as the guest of Senator Morton until i 10:30 to-night, when be leaves for St. 1 Louis by special train. A public re-: re-: ception will be given him at the Acad-! Acad-! emy of Music this evening, at which ! addresses will be made by Senator ! Morton, Gov. Baker and others. Monetary and Stocks. j New York, 22, 2, p. m. Gold ; lower. Governments dull and steady. Sixes, 81, 163; 5-20's, 02, 135; 64, jl3; 65, 13; new, 12; 67, 12J; 68, jl2j; 10-40's, 9K ; Currency. 15. Stocks strong and I excited. W. U. T., 57; Pae. Mail, 461; W. P., 43; U. P. Sil |