The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1871.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 822, 8 June 1871, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1871.

The San Francisco papers to haud contain very copious telegrams of the rebellion now being enacted in France. These telegrams, appearing from day to day, are necessarily contradictory, and a very careful perusal is necessary, therefore, in order to arrive at a distinct conception of the position of the contending parties. It will be readily understood that the Beat of the Republican Government having been removed from Paris prior to the invest ment, constituted authority was very indifferently represented in that city at the time of the capitulation. The Red Republicans, who number strongly in the capital, took advantage of the weakness of the

Government, and as soou as the German, occupation ceased, seized considerable munitions of war, several of the forts surrounding Paris, including Issy and Vauvres, and inudo themselves masters of the city. An unwillingness, at the outset, to proceed to extremeties, arising out of a desire to avoid bloodshed and the destruction of private and national property, induced M. Thiers to adopt a temporising policy, and this had so far emboldened the rebels and afforded the opportunity of organising their forces, that they felt themselves sufficiently strong to attack the forces of the National Government, and to seek to extend the Commune to all the largo cities •of France. The object of the Communists is thus described by the Paris correspondent of the London ' ; Times " • —" There are in the bed of the insurrection two streams flowing together toward aims which are not identical but which do not materially differ. The aim of one part} is the predominance of the poor over the wealthy classes, of workmen over the master, of labour over capital; that of the other party ia a Universal Republic, founded on free, sovereign, and confederate Communes. The former regard the aim pursued by the latter, as the necessary instrument of their Utopia ; the latter consider that the end towards which their colleagues tend would, if attained, assure the realization of their dream, and would give it strength and duration." Some explanation of the obi ct sought to be attained by the Communists is necessary in order to account for the terrible struggle now being maintained around Paris. Since the middle of March a very determined warfare has been carried on between the Communist and the Government forces around the forts and the suburbs of the City with varying success, but victory appears to have leaned generally to the Communists. Emissaries have been sent by the latter into the provinces to incite a general rising, but this movement has not proved successful; and, in spite of victories, the cause of the Communists appears to be losing ground. The National armies, on the other hand, are being daily strengthened. Some idea may be formed of the extent of the destruction now going on from the fact that the value of the property destroyed, in and around Paris, during the latter days of April, is computed at twenty millions sterling. The latest information is that Fort Issy is silenced, that the rebel battalions are becoming mutinous, and that a general assault upon the City had been determined upon.