The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-04-20


protect its levies and property of
their citizens.
Mr.. Dawes interrupted Mr.. Cas-
serly to cite decision made by the
U. :. Supreme Court.
VERSAILLES, April l8.
The Prussians have agreed to as.
slst tho Versailles forces in starving
out the Paris insurgents, aud com
pelling them 10 surrender, from
lack Of supplies Of store provisions
now in the city which are very small
and tho PruHians have stopped re-
victualing by the st. Dennis gate,
which is commanded by the guns Of
fort st. Dennis.
LONDON, April Is.
Paris advices state that the insur-
surgents obtained an undoubted
success in the engagement near AS
niors yesterday. The Communists
now occupy Calombes.
VERSAILLES, April 10.
Theirs, in a circular just issued,
confirms the announcement of the
capture by ths Government troops
of Chateau Beoon.
Batteries have been established
within easy range OF the Insurgent
batteries at Ashniers and Clechic. /,
The report from Paris that the
colors of the Pontificial service were
captured by the Communists on Sun
day was unfounded.
air. LONDON, April 1S.
Yesterday, after the taking Of
Mully church, a youth of Is years
of age planted q flag of the Com
mune on the summit Of the church
amid q shower Of Balls.
The inhahitants collecting in the
provinces report that the cities are
about to be invested by the Yer
saillists and Prussians JOINTLY
This causes great excitement. The
barricades on Rue Castiglione have
been demolished. Large works
have been erected at Ralgnolle and
Belllevilie, and the Moot Mar:re
Church Of Saint Jacques.
Du Hautepas was surrounded by
the Nationals and, the clergy arres.
ted during the vospers.
Yesterday the Church Of st. VIM
cent, ut De Paul, was surrounded
by the Nationals and pillagcd.--
Scarcely a church is open now.
SCRANTON, April 18.
A final termination of the Penn.
sylvania coal strike 10 announced this
afternoon, and an early resumption
ofwork is Anticipated.
LoNDoN, April 10.
The London Times has q special
dispatch from Paris stating that it
is reported in tho city that the Prus.
slams will Interfere in the affairs of
Franco in case the Communists
should be victorious over the Yer
sailles Government. The Prussians
have advanced to AubervilIars, four
kilometers southeast OF st Denis, and
within eight kilometers of Paris.
The Daily News has a special
dispatch from Paris which says the
Commune has in its hands thirty
eight millions of francs cash, which
has been paid by the Bank of France
for the unsold bonds of the city of
Paris.
The insurgents now occupy the
greater part Of the woods of Colomb
and beyond Asniers.
Bismarck in note to the Yer
sailles Government admits the right
Of Marshal Mcmahon to occupy with
the French troops the ground
around Paris made neutral BY stip
ulations of preliminary treaty Of
peace.
WASHINGTON, April Is.
The effort in the Sd Ohio District
to reopen the contest against Hon.
Lewis D. Campbell, have come to
naught. The Committee on Elec.
tons at their meeting yesterday
morning unanimously refused to
consider tho appeal of ;Schenoks'
friends, for re-opening of the case
and commented on the evidence pre-
sentcd as frivolous. In the Ward
where its alleged 100 newly discov-
cred fraudulent votes were cast for
Campbell, that gentleman runs, &C
oording to the official count, more
than that number behind his ticket.
g The Conference Committee on
disagreeing in the two Houses on the
Ku klux bill have not reconciled all
the differences, but will probably
reach tho result today. So far
there is q prospect Of a more liberal
bill than was passed by the Senate.
1t is agreed by tho Conference al
ready that the Test Oath for Jurors
shall be abolished. Tho principal
point of difference is on the Senate
proposition, that requires that per-
sons shall have indemnity from citi-
zens Of the county in which sthey |
NEW York, April I8.
One of the most destructive fires
that ever occurred in New Jersey |
brokeDut on Saturday night in At
Iantic county, near Newfield, and
swept over large district of coun-
Try, and burned for forty eight hours.
The West Jersey Railroad passes
through dense forest near Newfield,
and the underground was fred by
locomotive spaI The flames star
led opposite NdWfield and was driv-
% by strong winds, and tho fire
swept rapidly toward Egg Harbor.
Barns, dwellings and fences were
burned and nothing remained yes
,erday but the blackcned trunks of
,rees. The area thus desolated was
'bout twelve miles long and four
vide. The river broke the progress
IT the flames a fcw miles north Of
Weymouth. Loss $50, 900 to $780,.