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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. THE CIVIL WAR AT PARIS. Bloody Fighting under the Walls. More Defeats for the Insurgents. Prominent Communists Arrested nt Marseilles. Mar-seilles. Congressional Intelligence icncr:il IVcav. THE MINERS' RIOTS AT SCRANTON. Reports of Horrible Atrocities Atroci-ties Committed, A Vigilance Committee at White Pine threatened. FOREIGN. iNew lork, 8. A Versailles special says the government troops carried the Forte De Neuilly yesterday afternoon, and crossed the Seine at 3:30 p.m., under a tremendous lire l'rom the guns and metrailleuses of tho insurgents. 1'hey advanced up the avenue Neuilly, driving the insurgents furiously back inside the city, and advanced as far as tJorto Maillot.The slaughter was great, b"t the troops hold their position under the ramparts. The rebels in Forts JJ' Issy and Vanvres have ceased firing uow. The troops are so near Paris that they are firing shells into the city continually. con-tinually. The greatest consternation prevails. The insurgents suffered heavily. The government troops fought most splendidly at Nantevrer, when General Gallifet whipped the rebels badly, but no particulars of the fi"ht have heen received. London, 8, 5 p.m. The Paris dispatch dis-patch of the Times says the insurgents have already commenced to put into effect their threats of retaliation on the prisoners they have taken. The Commune Com-mune prevents the opening of churches. Nearly all the priests have been thrown into prison. Reports that a portion of the Prussian army near Paris had marched into the city are unfounded. jMarsbal McMahon, who commands the army of Versailles, has established his headquarters at Petit Trienan. General Gen-eral Vinoy has charge of the reserves. London, 8. Thiers, in a circular of iLo 7tU oays yesterday General JJar-levis JJar-levis carried the insurgents' position at Courbevoie. To-day the insurgents' position at Neuilly bridge was carried. The insurgent losses are immense. The positions captured are decisive. The Telegragh't Versailles special says the Assemblyists at Porte Maillot hold their position under the ramparts, 'ssy and Vanvres hpve ceased firing. The collapse of the insurrection is imminent. im-minent. Marseilles, 8. Creimeux, Tellisseir and others are arrested. |