New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-11
PARIS.

Wlu-PubllcatlOn OIL La MnrSellalSo'
Suspeuded-Suburban Residents Orr
dered to Evacuate-Tnnnels Exploded
Gates Of Lnon Opeu-Prussians Ad-
niitted and Mines Fired-Earthworks
at Paris Progressing from Sc
dan-Proclamntl0n from the Mayor
Bombardment Of Schlestadf-
that Bazaine Has Cut Ills Way
Through and IL Now Marching Paris
ward-Prussians Leisurely Marching ON
the City-Evacuati0n Of Chauny ana
Destruction of Railroad.
PARIS, September lO.-Banneville has re-
signed the ENTHUSIASTICALLY to Rome..
The journal O6ieiel publishes letters from
Italy and Switzerland, recognizing the re-
public. and favOrs responses thereto.
The citizens of Paris who have left the
! city will be taxed in proportion to the rents
| paid them for lodgings OF the Gar(le Mobile.
All theatres are closed. l
Protestations made by the Radical Jour-
| nails against violence had the best effect.
! The people have been made aware that rev
! OlutiOn does not mean anarchy. a
The journals oppose the project for the
convocatiOn Of the assembly constituents
as depriving the Prissians of any chance to
| make claim for indemnity, there being no
general government.
There is an immense crowd of strangers.
at Havre, and the trains hence are incapa-
BILE of carrying the crowds from the city. 4
The forests Of Clamart and Meadwin are
being destroyed.
The publication of La MarseiHoise has
been suspended. All the editors have akGp-
dOned the concern. <
The suburban residents are ordered to
evacuate the Zone, which is reached by the
guns of the Notifications.
All tunnels ON the railroads of the Seine
and Marne have been exploded. 4,
that
mandant at Laon opened the gates on de-
mand of the Prussians. When the Prussian
officers and soldiers were well inside. the
commandant fired the mine, blowing up the
citadel, killing and wOunding many Of the
enemy.
Large numbers of the Garde Mobile stip
continue to arrive.
The journals of Havre and Lyons demand
increased measures of defense, as. those
cities apprehend an attack. eE
The earthwOrks at Paris are progressing.
At Lyons it is proposed to cut the bridges.
Generals Velle and BelleInar, who refused
| to sign the capitulation at Sedan, escaped.
| Bellemar has been appointed commander
| of the forces at St. Denis.
A proclamation was issued to-day by the
Mayor OF Paris, requesting the people to
| prepare their houses to extinguish the fires
| quickly, also that persons charged with the
| sanitary care Of the city have easy access
to the dwellings.
The bombardment of Schlestadt has be.
| gun
Emile de Girarlin will publish new jour-
nal outside of Paris.
| Most of the Paris Journals now publish
articles without the signatures of the writ
crs. The Paris Sunday journals having re-
ported that Prince BOnaparte wept when
he met the ex-emperor, the former writes tO
the journals denying the story, and adds
| that both his friends and enemies know he
has more manly habits.
| Evening.-There is considerable excite
| ment over the favorable news. 1t is re-
| ported that Bazaine has cut his way through
| the Prussian army, and is now marching,
! toward Paris.
| The report stiffened the Dbirse. Rentes
| advanced to So.
! The Prussians are leisurely marching on
| the city.
The French evacuated Chauny as the
Prussians appeared, and destroyed the rail
road..>
Especial to the New York Herald.
PARIS, September 9-The government
was in session until six o'clock in the morn
ing. proposition to call constitutional
convention to impart formal authority TO
the government ministers, was divided,
Negative, jules Simon, Gambetti, Pelleter.
jules Ferry and Rochcfort, five to five. BY
French parliamentary law, a tie decides the
question atfirmatively. AZ
1t is believed that the ministry will con-
| troll the elections, which occur October l6.
| The Democratic socialists meet nightly.
| Their object is to obtain power enough to
carry their extreme views.
| Some parties who have attended these
| meetings are warned on pretense of politi-
| cal intrigue that they are calculated to i'm
| pair national defense.
| Every indication is now that Paris viii
makea terrible resistance, though many be-
lieve to the contrary. General Trochu de-
clared that if the PrIssians take the city
| their loss will be immense, the streets being
| barricaded and the great sewer mined.
| If the forts and ramparts are carried the
| fighting in the streets will be desperate and
! Victor Hugo has written an address to
| the Germans. of which the following is an
| extract
! .You may take the fortress. YOU will find
| the rampant; you may take the rampart
| YOU will find the barricades; you may take
| the barricades, and then who knows the re-
| sources OF patriotism and distress, You
| will find the sewers mines Of powder. ready
| to blow whole streets into the air. This
will be the terrible sentence.
! "lou most expect to take Paris stone by
stone. to slaughter Europe on the spot, to
| kill France by detail in each street. in each
| soul by soul.
Germans! think awhile before her walls.
All transformations are possible, for her in
science gives you the measure of your enemy.
| She seems to sleep. She will awake. Her
| thought will leap from its seabbard like q
sword, and this city which. yesterday. was
Sybaris. tomorrow may be Sarragossa."
| Madame George Sand salutes the nev
regime in the following words: s'The Rn-
public! She must have life in her. sine
she rises again from her ashes. By ~
voice of all, the will of which she ia worthy