Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-06-03

| DeHeVllle anu MenllfnOuIdHI, anu tiie re-
mainder of the city occupied by the Yer
saillists.
The Theatres Lyrique, Chatelet and
Porte st. Martin have been burned. Cannon
and twenty-five red flags have been cap
tured at Bellevilie. s....
The court-martial for the trial of the in
surgents will begin its sittings on Monday
There is rumor that Generals Delescluze
and Pyat have been shot,
i The insurgents imprisoned in the docks
have attempted rising, and several were
shot before order was restored.
| A despatch from St. Denis on Friday
night says'the foreign firemen have entered
Paris. The conflagration is decreasing.
The workshops of the Versailles Railway
were burned The insurgents have been
dislodged from Charonne and are surround
ed in Belleville and Menilmontant.
A despatch from Pantin, dated at noon
to-day, says the fighting east and north is
less violent.
A Versailles battery in the Rue de
Flandres, at La Villette, bombards the in
surgent works in Les Buttes-Chaumont
The insurgents fire recklessly upon the city.
The Prussians imprison all the escaping
4 insurgents.
INSURGENTS INTENTION TO DESTROY THE
WHOLE OF PARIS.
VERSAILLES, May 26-Evening.- New
fires are bursting out in Paris. The insur-
gents put boxes of petroleum everywhere.
1t is reported that the Tuileries was fired
by Bergeret's own hands. The building
they say, was STEPPED in petroleum. The
Church of st. German lAuxernos and
the Hotel de Vile were burned down and
the Palais de Justice has been destroyed.
A number of prisoners, among them n
hundred women of the demi-monde, taken
fighting for the Commune, have arrived
here.
The walls of the Tuileries have fallen.
The Rue Rivoli is burning, and the only
means of stopping the fire is by pals of
water passed from hand to hand. The
dead bodies of the Nationals are seen
everywhere, and any hidden National when
found is brought out and shot Immediately.
A few Communists are still holding out
and shelling the city, doing the utmost mis-
chief possible. The slaughter of Nationals
was frightful. The Versallists, since
Tuesday, are killing all their prisoners.
The houses in the Rue Royale were wet
with petroleum, and the Nationals fired
them, and the people are furious in conse-
quencc. 1t is clear that the insurgents in
tend to destroy the whole city.
Even women were discovered throwing
petroleum upon houses, and six members
, members of the National Guards, who
were dressed as pompers, and who threw
petroleum on the fires instead of water,
were shot in the Place Royale. There is
no limit to the readiness that exists to kill
the members of the Commune, and leaders
of the Guarde taken were shot right off.
The gas works at Auberville have eX-
ploded, and many other explosions have
! occurred. The firing continues.
INSURGENTS ACTS CRIMINAL, NOT POLL
TICAL.
VERSAILLES. May 27.-M. Favre, in
dispatch to the representatives of France
IN foreign countries, says the acts of the
insurgents are ola criminal and not of
political nature, and he therefore desires
them to request neighboring nations to cX-
tradite those who may enter their territory,
and says the Government of Spain already
proposes so to do
THE REBELS MAKE REPRISALs.
VERSAILLES, May 30.-The inhabitants
OF Belleville have openly announced that
they Will make reprisals, and secret sys-
tenn OF arson and assassination is apprc-
hended. There are constant discoveries of
Stores ofPctrolcum in Paris. The insur-
gents in Fort Vincennes have surrendered
uncondtionally.
TRp GdutOiS aunounscs that the Orleans
Princes will be allowed to live in France.
Thiers has ordered the disarmament of
Iarls, and the dissolution Of the National
Guards in the Department of the Seine.
MacNlahon has issued Congratuatory
Proclamation to the army.
Paris is tranquil, and trade already
shows signs of reviving. The soldiers arc
feted by the inhabitants. Arrests ofiusur-
ents continue.
I Mou .l,o MI. -..----
Trains tor Paris are to run tomorrow.
The people of Brussels smashed two win
dows of Victor Ilugo's house, and police
now guard the house. A proclamation
from MacMahon to the people of Paris an
nounces their Deliverance from the Com
munlsts, and order, security, and labor are
about being rc-establishcd.
TERRIFIC EARTHQUAKE-400 LIVES LOST .
SINGAPORE, May 27.-A volcanic erup-,
ton and earthquake has shaken the Island
OF Hua, and the country was terribly 1
devastated and 400 lives lost.
TOTAL INsURGENT LOSSES
LONDON, May the 30.-The insurgent
losses previous TO May %, when the Yer i,
sailles troops entered Paris. are estimated
mt Il, 900 killed and wounded and 25.OOO
prisoners, and since May % at 10000 kill .
ed and wounded and 10000 prisoners.
The Prisoners are all sent To Versailles.
Gen, La Cecilia, with few followers.
fled to the Castle of Nencennes, but upon
the commencement of the erection of siege
works by the Fersaillists he alone surren-
dered.
General Doual officially reports having
lost forty officers and six hundred men
during all the engagements in which his
troops participated since the Versailles
army entered Paris.
The Paris journals demand the cessation
Of summary Executions. Several at
lempts were made yesterday to assassnate
officers Of the army.
The Bodies Of the Murdered Priests will
ie in state for week
with the exception ofPyatand Grousset,
Al The Communo chiefs have been Killed
'f taken prisoners.
BUILDINGS SAVED AND DESTROYED
NEnsAILLEs, May 30.-The official
ournal OF the iiepublic announces that the
ialional archives, national library, nation.
v araenal, aud museum OF the Louvre are
ats, aud Manufacture dies Gobelins aud
he observaIorles aro badly damaged.
wee President Collhx, who has been in ,
of more lhuu "a weak il sill iu IA critical .