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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Pires are raging inside Paris. Revolutionary outbreaks continue at Venezuela. The Government of Venezuela has declared its ports in a state of blockade. The California Pacific Eastern Ex-j Ex-j tension Railroad lias been incorporated. incorpor-ated. Witnesses continue to be examined upon the premature publication of the i Treaty. ' The Senate has confirmed Nicholas Fish, of N. lr., secretary of lefjation at Berliu. Prussian orders have been issued to drive back the Communist insurgents trying to escape. Many of the Commune leaders have been taken and there have been some frightful massacres. The official copy of the Treaty of Washington was only received in London Lon-don on the 21st inst. Frequent explosions are heard and the sound of cannon and musketry firing fir-ing continue iu Paris. Fighting may continue in Paris for several hours, but the city is absolutely won by the Versaillists. The steamer Florida is suspected of being chartered by Cuban insurgents, and is detained at St. Thomas. Vice-President Colfax was taken suddenly ill during executive session, and was obliged to be taken to his room. The U. S. Marine Hospital at San Francisco has been bid So02 for at auction. auc-tion. The material is worth fifty times that amount. Bonner denies the report that he has accepted the challenge to trot one of his horses against a San Francisco horse at Chicago.. . Earl Londerdale in the British Lords ridiculed the idea of England making an apology to the ' United States, and declared one would never be made. The American Society of German patriots held their annual picnic at Jones' Wood yesterday. Carl Schurz, Frank Sigel aud other notables were present Earl Granville states that the British Government will not ratify the Treaty before the loth of June, and so obtain ob-tain time to consult the Canadian Parliament. Par-liament. A council was being held yesterday in Washington between Indian delegations delega-tions and the Indian commissioner. The aborigines were attired in civilized costume. The report that Governor Stanford has challenged Bonner to trot "Dexter" "Dex-ter" against his Sacramento horse at Chicago, for $t!5,000 a side, is believed to be a canard. W. H. Seward, Jr., and Col. J. M. Knapp and their Indies, returned to San Francisco from Yosemite on Sunday Sun-day evening, and started overland to Oregon yesterday. Juarez has closed the ports of Tam-pico Tam-pico whilst the insurgents hold possession posses-sion of the city; meantime he has opened open-ed Port Pueblo Viega to both foreign and domestic shipping. The Presbyterian Reformed Synod, at Philadelphia, has adopted resolutions resolu-tions that the ca'amities in Paris are a righteous retribution for the martyrdom martyr-dom of St. Bartholomew. Samuel Gardner, a boy sixteen years of age, took a boat without leave of the owner on Sunday last, and went otf on an excursion in the bay of San Francisco, upset the boat and was drowned. |