The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned From the Telegraph.
Thursday. April e7.
roREI0N.

the chiefs Of the 220th aud 22lst bat.
talions for cowardice.
The commandant Of Fort Montroux
claims Communist victory.
The steamer Queen OF thames, form
Melbourne for London, is lost aud many
passengers drowned.
This evening shells were falling in
Avenue Friediaud and avenues Des Fe.
ries, Flysees and Josephine wcrc swept
by Mitrailleuses, and tho inbabitaDts
aud Nationals were flying 10 all direc-
tions seeking shelter. Barricades 10
Rues Rivoli and Castiglionc arc being
strengthened and preparations are be-
ing made for desperate resistance.
Tho duly revenue Of the Commune
averages six hundred thousand francs,
and Is su scient to provide for the meu
under arms aud conduct the war.
DOMESTIC.
There is now no fears Of the inundation
Of New Orleans.
Tho insurgents siiel commit deprada-
tions in Cubn.
A dispatch from Shanghai, China.
says the Chinese demand that tho Am:
bassadors' Female School be abolished.
Doctrines opposed TO Confucius are for.
b,dden. Missionaries are considered
Chinese subjects, and prohibition to wo.
men attending religions services is es.
tabliyhed.
Friday, April 2s.
FOREIGN.
The Verssillists batteries still contin.
ue to FIRE vigorously into Paris, and are
replied TO but feebly.
wreck, aud yersaillis.s' projectiles
fall inside, causing great slaughter.
The communists will blow up the forts
e necessary. The Commune claims TO
b.,- silcnccd the battery at Mcndon,
captured barricade at Ncuilly aud dis
mounted Eve guns at Courbeyoic. Tho
CONN b Is secretly.
po:.gsrIc.
A dispatch from NV York city says
that mass meeting Of Shoemakers IN
Guiding delegates from all parts oi the
United States, was held this evening ~
Cooper Institute. The speakers d. aoun-
ced the Burlingame treaty for ssn:t. IN,
ing the introducing of Chinese lator,
and criticised the New England capitaI-
lists who hold up their hands 10 horror
at negro slavery. and ut the same time
foster more degrading system Of sla-
very; urged the use Of tbe ballot bog
aud force TO oppose The tide Of Chinese
immigration; advocated tie CO operative
labor system, and protested that re,nop-
sirances TO Congress were practically
unheeded. so long rs the subsidy 20 the
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. iscontioucd.
Resolution we're adopted plcjgeding the
Crispins TO use every legal means to ef-
feet the repeal Of the Burlingamc treaty.
promising persistent opposition TO any
party that will not guarantee pro-
hibitiou Of Chinese slavery; holding
spectators responsible for evils that may
accrue from it. and calling upon NIL ira-
des unions TO unite against the ia,roduc
iion of Chinese labor.
The Joint High Commission has tn
ken recess
Another man stabbed his wife yestcr-
day in San Frapcisco. She will die.
Col. Jim Fisk, Gould and some TWEEN.
~ New York aldcsman aud politicians
of the Tammany school. will visit San
Francisco in few weeks, and the De-
mocraciy of San Francisco are making
great preparations to receive them.
Saturday. April 30.
FOREIGN.
Tho Free Mas1ns informed the Com
munc that they had cx xhaustcd all means
of consultations at Versailles. They are
resolved TO plant their banners on tho
ramparts aud ifstruck, will march against
yersaiIlists. and appeal to brother Ma
sons for support.
Versaillists have taken the advanced
works Of Fort Issy. The barracks are
entirely destroyed, and the for: has
breach Of Eve yards.
The city Of Toulouse has insurrected
and barricadss arc erected
Total Communist losses. are 5000
killed and wounded aud 5000 prison.
ers.
A dispatch from Alexandria, Va.
this evening says: james NJ. Mason, Of
Virginia, ex-Coufedcrase Minister to
England, is not expected to live through
the night.
The average price Of wool to-day in
New York is 32 cents.
Arizona is full of hostile Indians.
In Hamilton. Nevada, yesterday, Mrs.
Parker suicided with poison.
Monday, May
roREiGN.
Fighting continues aud situation un-
changed.
Four National Guards taken prisoners
by the Versaillists having been shot,
proposal was made in the Commune to
shoot tie Archbishop of Paris 10 re.
taliation, but it was rejected.
The heavy firing Of to day on the
south aud east Of the city has slackened
during the afternoon, but is now again
violent. The Vcrsaillists are attacking
all points simultaneously The erection
of barracks in the interior of the city is
hastened.
DOMESTIC.
Grant has gone back to Washington
from his Western visit.
Commissioner Plcasnaton decided to-
day that persons whose incomes are not
more than $1,000 are not required to
make ieturus, nor is there any authority
OF law to assess them. a
A dispatch to-day from Alexandria,
Va, says Hon. James Murray Mason,
ex limited States Senator from VIRGINIA