The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-31
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VERSAILLES, May'3I.-The inhabitants of
Belleville have openly announced that they
will make reprisAls, and secret system of
arson and assassination is appreAended.
There are constant discoveries of stores Of
petroleum in Paris.
The insurgents in Fort Vincennes have
surrendered Internationally to the Yer
ssilles troops.
The Gsulois announces that the Orleans
Princes will be allowed to live in France.
Theirs has ordered the disarmament of
Paris and the dissolution of the National
Guards in the Department of the Seine.
McMShon has issued oongrAtulstory proc
lsmation to the army.
Paris is tranquil, and trade already shows
signs of reviving. The soldiers have been
fed BY the inhabitsats. Arrests of insur-
| gents continue.
! The insurgent losses, previous to May p,
when the Versailles troops entered Paris,
are estimate at Il, 900 killed and wounded
and 25, 900 prisoners, and since May y, at
| 10, 900 killed and wounded and 900 pris-
oners. The prisoners have all been Gent to
| Versailles.
General La Cecilia, with O few followers,
| fed to the castle of Vincsnnes, but upon
the commencement of the erection of siege
works bv the VersAillists, he at once sur
rendered.
General Douai officially reports having
! lost 40 officers and 600 men during en-
gsgements in which his troops have par
ticipated since the Versailles army entered
| Paris.
The Paris journals demand 9 cessation Of
summary executions.
Several attempts were made yesterday to
aEsassinate officers of the army.
The bodies of the murdered priests are &c
lie in state for q week.
/ With the exception of Psott and Cram
sett all the Commune chiefs have beer
killed or taken prisoners.
The Official Journal Of the Republic an
nounces that the Arsenal and Museum o
Lonore are safe, and also the Manufacture
des Gabelines and the Observatoire.
SINGAPORE, India, May 25.-A volcanic
eruption and an earthquake have shekel
the island Of Ruoa. Ths county WAS great
ly devastated and 400 lives lost.
New YORK, May 30.-A special CORES
pondent of the Tribune, at Paris, telegraph
' on Monday evening: "Paris looks com
plstely cowed. The shops are all closed
: and even those OF vital necessity, such aI
: che mists, remain shut. The restaurants
/, bakeries and groceries have also suspende
business l walked across Paris last mig
and never saw anything so desolAte. lssw D
human beings but ssntlnes every one huI
" dred yards, and one shabby civilian. Their
'e we're no souods bnt the footballs of the SCI
p. tinels, and then only when they struck thei
musksts on the fagstoues. The old revolt
tiouary system of denunciation is going o
70 with terrible ferocisy. NAdor, the @ronau
- has been arrested for supposed symp&th
with the Commune. Nobody Is safe even
" the presence of their most intimate friend
y A rash word or imprudent gesture, oy ma
:" or woman, insures instant death. Men, VI
men and even children are seized by Il
brutal soldiery and shot. The ssddess fes
,ure ID the conduct of the women, fema
insurgents having in many instances bee
detected firing the houses OF innocent pc
sons with petroleum.
PARIS, May 3l.-It is stated on good at
thority that the Communists have lost II
900 killed and wounded since May 1T
The Verssllists loss is less than one-thr
that number.
An attempt was made yesterday to asss
sinAte the officers of the army. No dealt
resulted put several we're seriously wounde
r. NEw YORK, May 3l.-About o'oIo
Yesterday P. M, 9 German named M. be
on dord, shot his afiauced, Miss Csthari
AN Nekioklau, in the left temple. She di
ne Soou after. Bsndord was arrested.