Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-04-28
--latest from Franco.

inhabitants of Alsacc against France.
New York VoridS special from Paris
OF the 2lst, says another revolution is immi-
ncnt. The Commune has annullcd the Cen.
tral ComTlttcc, accusing the members of ne
gotlating with Thcrs to bctray Paris. The
National Guards are ind. ,nant and threaten
the arrest of the Commune unless the Com.
mittce is released. Complete anarchy rcigns.
LONDON, April 2l.--Asniercs was captur.
! cd by stratcgem, the Vcrsailsts passing the
outposts pretending alliliatlon with the Ma.
tionals. Twenty thousand Imperial Guards,
under Ducrot, have reached Vcrsaillies'in OK,
ccllcnt spirits. In an engagement along the
entire liuc on Wednesday, Dombrowski re.
ports the results favorable to the Commune.
The Communists arc mastering on the
Island Grandc Jata.
Fighting Of a bloody character is expected.
| and the Communists are making strategic
movement to envelope the Yelsuillsts who
advanced too far.
Lavillois has been sacked, and Valcricn
and Courbcvoie are shelling Paris frightiully.
The Arch de Triumph has fallen, and the
shells shower in the Avenue Dcs Tirncs and
forty civilians have been killed
The Nationals are returning dispirltcd and
disgustcd with the slaughter, which has been
| awful.
Dombrowski complains Of the incfliciccy
OF his officers, aud says he is waiting the co.
operation of the gunboats which will be ready
in four days.
LONDON, April 2l.-Vcrsallcs dispatches
say the Communists have not recovered
their lost positions
desperate house to house fight took place
at Ncuily and at Lcvalcrs. A decisive en-
gnScmcnt is progressing at Port Mallot and
The ramparts adjoining were mass of ruins.
Shells reach Rue Duclaysu. The general
tenor of regular and special dispatches, now
being received, indicate the Vcrsailiss gradu.
ally ginning g;ound
PARIS, April %, Sunday aftnrnoon, via
London, Midnight. THE Official reports to
the Commune state that the Nationals silcnc.
cd several of the cncmy's batteries Saturday,
aud rcpulscd an attack on lssy and Yanvcrs
| Thursday night.
The Prussuns have ordered strangers to
leave st. Denis.
No detachment of French troops was there
| yesterday, as runiorcd.
The Republican league has published the
details of its proposal for subsidies for Paris
1t President Theirs consents to it, the league
will force the Commune to accept it,
General Cecilia has been appointed com.
| mandant of Paris
| Brrgeeist has been released from arrest.
The firing to day is not so heavy.
| a decisive attack on Issy and Yanvcrs was
| postponed.
a night attack by the Communists upon
Asniercs was rcPulsrd with great sl1ughtcr
| Faldhcrbc is expected at Versailles
| Toulouse is declared in state of scigc.
| Another cmcutc at Marscilles was sup
pressed
| \ delegation have left ITavrc to mediate
between Versailles and Paris
VERSAILLES, April "a Morning-It is
expected that general attack will rot be
commenced before rentorccments from the
NcrsalIlists, which arc arriving daily, get
here and which arc Immediately hurried to
F, the trout
| The evacuation Of Charcnton by the Prus.
slams is officially contralicted
| 1t is reported that the Prussians at ST.
| Denis have stopped the ingrcss of supplies to
l'arls from the north.
PARIS. April 81. General Cluscrct re.
ports to the Commune that the suspension of
hostllitics ut Ncuilly is arranged to date from
noon to-day, and also reports that affairs at
Asniers arc in excellent condition. There
were no great movements of troops yesterday
| Immense defensive preparations arc in
progress.
Torpcdocs have been planted at the ST.
| Gclnnin and Versailles railway station, aud
batteries have been erected on the Rue Gas
| tcanc.
st. Roche and St. Sulphic have rcopcncd,
and their cures have been released from i'm.
prlsonmcnt.
VERSAILLES, April 24.-Thicrs received
! the d"pntat,on Of the Masonic Lodge; frou,
Paris, who asked in bchale of the people for
an armisice Thicrs replying, said General
l4adn'arault had power to grant truce when
ever 1t was necessary, but the Commune
could never be recognized by the Govern
mcnt
DANGEROUS CoNDIrIoN OF THE CREtAs
SIS ---LouiSvHhe, AprH24 To Hon Wm
Orton, PRESIDENT The Crcvasse which oc
cured in the lcvec of the Mississippi River
at Bonnet Carrc, at point above Now Or
leans some days ago, has been gradually in.
crcasing in extent until it is now entirely Lc.
yond control. 1t was last evening, six hun.
drcd and fifty feet wide and eighteen feet
deep. Danger Of the city of New Orleans and
Jackson Railroad, and our lives, is very seri.
0us
(signcd) JOHN VAN HOME,
General Superintendent.
New ORLEANS, April 2f--Assistant State
Engineer, Hatch, writing yesterday from tho
Bonnet Carro crcvasscs, says: 1t is now six