Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-14
FOREIGN.

A Versailles dispatch of the evening of
the I'd says several thousand National
Guards, occupying Puteau, Corbevoie, and
the bridge of Neuilly, had been routed by
the troops, who carried the barricades, and
fled into the city. The moral effect of the
affair was excellent. The army of Ver-
sailles occupied st. Cloud and the line of
the Seine. Zenits, with 900 men, had de-
feated the insurgents at Narbonne, and
captured their leaders. Marseilles had
recognized the regular government Ver-
sailles was crowded with fugitive PARIS
ians.
A Belin telegram of the I'd says the
Emperor had decided not to interfere in
the French troubles unless the interests
of Germany were endangered, and in such
an event action would be taken which
would be effectual.
A dispatch from Versailles on the Sd
says that Marshal McMahon had been ap-
pointed Commander-in.C Chief of the
French army.
A London telegram OF the Sd says the
Paris Commune had issued decree ar
raigning Theirs, Favre, Picard, Dufour,
Luiron, and Pothnan before the tribunal
of the people, and ordering their property
to be seized. Another decree pronounces
the separation of Church and State, sup
presses religious bodies, and abolishes ma.
tional property. --
Advices from Hayti to the 1st announce
that there was much feeling against the
President because his Secretary favored
annexation. The Presidents life was
threatened. There were several engage
ments recently on the Dominican frontier.
In one of these General, supposed to be
Baez. was killed.
Cable dispatches of the 4th give partic-
ulars of great battle between the insur-
gents and the government troops, the
former attacking the latter at Narterre,
Rueil, Bougival, Basons, Chaton and
Croissey. The fighting continued all day
on the Sd, and the insurgents were every
where defeated, with terrible slaughter
On the 4th the government troops are re.
ported to have again completely defeated
the remnant of the communists, taking
many thousands Of prisoners and all their
artillery, and destroying their army,
A Versailles dispatch of the 4th says
"The army Of Versailles surrounds Paris
and order elsewhere in France is estab,
lished. Thiers says the government will
exercise clemency toward all who have
been blindly misled, but will punish with
severity the ringleaders. The insurrec.
ton is impotent."
The Government of Ontario, Canada,
has recently issued instructions TO admit
the following articles free Coal, coke,
wheat, flour, salt, peas, beans, rye, oats
Indian corn, buckwheat and all other
grains Indian meal, oat meal, -four, OF
meal Of any other grain.
A Versailles dispatch of the 9TH says
Notwithstanding their defeats the Com,
munists have rallied all their forces in
Paris, and desperate conflict would take
place before the government troops could
enter the capital
A telegram from Stockholm on the 5th
says the King and Queen Of Sweden were
both recovering from their recent illness
Advices from Hayti received in Havana
on the 9TH state that great excitement con
tinued over the annexation question
Otherwise the republic was quiet ~"
II was reported In Versailles on the 9th
that Theirs had commenced negotiations
with the insurgents At Paris, and that he
had offered to concede many of their de-