The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-06-10
FOREIGN NEWS

/ Library, National Arsenal and
Museum of the Louvre, are safe.
Manufacture DIES Gobelins Carpets
and Observatoire are badly DANA
ged.
Versailles, May 3O.-The insur-
gents in Fort Vincennes have sur
rendered Internationally.
GNulOis announces that the Or
| leans princes will be allowed to live
I in France.
President Theirs has ordered the
/, disarmament of Paris, and a disso-
luton of the National Guards in the
department of the Seine.
London, May 30.-Victor Hugo
has been driven from Belgium. He
is comming to London.
Singapore, May 25.-A volcanic
eruption and earthquake has sla-
ken the island of Rua. The country
is terribly devastated. -Four hun
\ bred lives were lost.
Washington, May 31.-Cluseret
was SHOT Saturday.
Lefranc succeeds Picard. Gen.
Cleo succeeds LeftO as Minister of
War. Fayre remains i'm the Minis
try at the special request of nj. Thi-
ers. Picard will be made Governor
Of the Bank of France.
The Monde announces that join
vile and d'Aumale have proclaimed
their adherence to the manifesto of
Chambord, and that the fusion of
Legitimists and Orleanists is com
plete.
Rochefort will certainly be con-
demned.
Lefto goes as Ambassador to st.
Petersburg.
Paris, Monday Evening, May
29.-There is already q strong feel
ing that the Paris Government is
too weak to last. The awful mas
sacIe continues.
In one ditch the wounded were
buried alive. They groaned and
shriekcd d~readfully all night.
Vidal was shot, and SO was
n Friedherlet.
Matthew Mupcher, of the Com
muue, was arrested, and 10000
I francs found upon him. Okalowski
1 byas found wounded i'm an ambu-
! 3ancc; he was taken out and shot.
Milliere was arrested at the Lux
smbourg palace. He resisted yio-
h emily, and fired six shots from his
\ aevolver. He was taken to the
steps and shot by the Versaillists.
At the barricades i'm the Place
les Fetes a number of insurgents
n lost their way and got mixed up
With the Versaillists, by whom they
we're taken prisoners and fifty of
Chem shot.
Vienna, May 31--The Pope's en-
y tyclical letter declares the Italian
guarantees a tissue of lies and n.y.
)ocrisy.
London, May 31.-To-day's Paris
ldvices say executions continue.
Persons denounced, as 0 as they
8lrc discovered i'll their hiding
places, are arrested and shot. MI
merous arrests of mel and women
81 continue.
There has been renewed attempts
ut assassination and arson. Many
bf those executed yesterday and to-
# llay seemed perfectly crazy.
a horrible efiuyia from the
II bodies of the dead fill certain quar-
ters of the city.
There are abundant signs of q
Nj speedy coup Tetat in the Assembly
to depose President Theirs, and
summon Count Chambord to the
# throne.
Versailles, May 31.-Ihe Bishop
of Orleans, Dupanloup, will be the
successor of Archbishop Darboys,
hof Paris, who was assassinated by
the insurgents.
Marshal, MacMahon, I'M a prOc1a-
mation just issued, divides Paris
into four commands, viz: East,
North, Centre, and South. Gen.
4 Vinoy is appointed to command the
East, Gen. LAdmirault the North,
n Gen. Douai the Centre, and Gen.
Cissy the South. The civil power
is transferred to the military, and
no ingress, or egress from the city
H will be permitted.
The corpse of Varlin, a member
of the Commune, was searched, and
n upon it was discovered four hun
bred thousand francs.
The adherents of Duke Aumale
and the Bonapartists r very ac-
tive.
1t is said that the number of
NJ prisoners now I'M the hands of the
Hi government exceeds 10000.
Brussels, May 31.-Thes Belgian
# Chamber of Representatives has re-
.iected d resolution of regret for the
expulsion of Victor Hugo.
Florence, Max 31.-The italian
HI Government has instructed it's pre-
II fects throughout the country to
capture all Parisians who may enter
Italy.
Paris, Wednesday, May 31.-Or-
ders to set fire to the buildings
which had been previously marked
BY the Central and Safety Com
mittees for destruction, have been
~ found on the insnrgent prisoners.
Krenlin, who was among the in
surgent leaders captured at Vim
cennes, has been shot.
Oscyn, II member of the Com