The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-09-21

THE EXCITEMENT IN PARIS ON
THE RECEPTION OF THE,NEWs
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Fi - .- ,OsrEND, September 6.
The Republic has beon proclaimed 10
Paris. On the train which left Paris
this morning aud reached Ostend this
evening, by way of Lille, the mail car
riage came with the Imperial arms
effaced aud the legend Poste Nat,onale
Francaiso. In Paris yesterday evening
the approaches to the Palace of the
Legislature were guarded by detaoh-
tnents of the line and squadrons of the
Gendarmerie. The Guards of Paris and
the National Guard occupied the centre
of the Pont de Ia Concorde, and were
formed in squares around the centre of
the Place dc la Concorde. No vehicles
were allowed to traverse the Place dc 10
Cohcordo. The Champs Elysees were
cleared of all carriages, and Gordon of
National Guards stretched across them
at the Rond Pont.
After the suspension of the sitting, q
number Of persons gradually assembled
on the grand stair case within the
Legislative Palace, and finally came out
on xhs portico in front, waving their
bats, and shouting "Down with the
Empire u "Long live the Republic p
The shouts were not echoed by tho
troops, but the demonstration was taken
up by crowds on the quays, and by other
crowds in the Rue Royale and along
the Rue de Rivoli by the gardens Of
the Tuilleries. These crowds were a
compact mass from just beyond the
Obelisk of Luxor quite down the Rue
Royale to the Rue st. Honore, and
down the Rue de Rivoli to the Rue
Castiglione. The shops were not shut,
and there was no disorder beyond that
merely incident to the presence of so
great a multitude.
About-six o'clock the National Guard
and the troops of the limo nearest the
Legislative Palace began to show signs
of sympathy with the people. Shakos
were raised on the bayonets; and cries
uttered here and there Of "Death to the
PrussiansP' "Long live France p
Shortly after column, perhaps a thou
sand strong, Of National Guards, fully
uniformed and equipped, with q baud
playing the "Mlarseillaise," came down
the line Of the quays from the Pont des
Arts, and pressed on to the Legislative
Palace. The gate keepers made some
resistance, but finally gave way, and the
people pressing in after tho troops, the
whole enclosure was rapidly filled, and
the multitude, the troops still in tho
front, aud in perfect order, surrounded
the whole building, and passed into tho
door.ways and up the humorous stair
ways, number even invading the build.
ings appropriated to the residence Of the
Counsellors of State and other officials.
The cries Of the multitude were in
cessant. The Emperor's name was never
mentioned, not even in cries for his
downfall. The Deputies of the Left
came out Of the hall to meet the people.
Men embraced each other with cries of
joy, shouting, "Long live France |" The
Deputies Of the Left were soon gathered
in body and set off, amid cries of "a L
Hotel de Ville," for the municipal
palace. Two stalwart workmen 10
blouses and as many National Guards in
uniform seized Messieurs Picard and
Gambetta, raised them in the air, and
carried them as if in triumph to the
Hotel de Vile. The scene on their
arrival was most impressive. Some one
had mounted the towers of Notre Dame,
and from each of the gray piles foated
three or four tri. color flags. The gilded
colossal lamps of the Palace de l'Hotel
de Vile were wreathed in flags, and
high up on each was perched a bov
waving tricolor.
The vast place itself was dense mass
of people, mingling with whom every
whore were the uniforms and bayonets
Of the National Guarde, and of the line.
AS the deputies advanced, or we're
borne up to the facade Of the vast build.
ing, Henri Rochefort came ont to meet
them, holding out both hands, with a
cry of "Yive 10 Republique |" At the
same moment halra dozen men burst
open from within window in the
facade, and began throwing out great
crowd of small, white papers, crying, as
they did so, "These arc the votes Of the
Then, for the first timo,
went up great cry from tho whole
vast crowd, of"Down with the Empire"
1t was taken up and sent, with noise
like the roaring Of the waves, along the
quays, and along the Rue dc Rivoli,
both towards the Louvre, and towards
the ancient city Of Paris. Down tho
great Boulevards de Sebastopol pro-
cession of several thousand troops,
surrounded by crowds Of mon, women
and children, advanced with bands of
music. Tho procession aud its wings
filed the enormous street from front 10
front;of tho houses on either side, and
the music ofthe bands was accompanied
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