The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-04
ask for Official proofs of Banane's treasonabe in

ask for official proofs of Bazaine's reasonable In
From Marseilles very unfavorable reports are re-
eeived in regard to the conduct of the people
Some excesses have been committed, and it is said
that the newly appointed administrator shot at
on the occasion of his reception of the municipal
Council
The authorities of Lyons have published resolu-
tion that it would be better to submit to any hard
ship than surrender the town. Lyons shall be de-
tended to the death. None shall leave the place in
anticipation of struggle, save women and chill
dren, aud old men. All others who escape, or seek
TO escape, shall be considered as Infamous and
dealt with as traitors.
The journals of Tours declare that the moro facts
in regard to the surrender of Metz become known,
the more It is evident that Bazaine's course was
reasonable. Much stress is laid upon the manner
in which the officers and men were deceived in re-
gard TO the condition of France. The fact thai 49,,
O00000 francs and enormous quantities of munitions
were delivered to the enemy is also dwelt upon as
Dispatches from La Fleche, dated yesterday,
says balloon passing over the towu, dropped a
copy of the Paris journal Offciel of the 3st ult.,
containing the following intelligence:
1.-THE government had issued decree declaring
that the children of all citizens killed in the war
will be adopted by the nation, Theirs had arrived
in Paris. The government on the 30th announced
that Metz bad capitulated. An immense meeting
Jules Favre made patriotic address, He said the
government was determined to carry on the
to the last The army would soon attack the be-
siegers, break through their lines and join hands
with the troops from the provinces. AragO and
Ferry also spoke in the same strain.
Journals publish extracts from the Journal Oficiel
Of Paris the lst inst by which il il understood
that the Paris government has decided 10 accept an
armistCe, and that Flourens, who awaited a pre-
text raised temporary riot
he Journal oGciel says the Hotel de Vile was
invaded and n committee of public safety pro-
claimed. Members of the provisional government
were detained for several hours. About eight
o'clock TrOchu Arago and Ferry were freed from
the hands of the rioters by battalion of the Ma
tional Guard. FayTe, GARNER Pages, Simon, Ge-
neral Tamisier and the commander of the i0Gth
regiment were still held prisoners. 1t was not until
three O'Clock in the morning that these lamentsble
acts were repressed by the interference of some
20 O nf No nrl -ln
gre at numbers and took position around the Hote
de Vile, headed by Ferry.
The couTt-yards were occupied bv Mobiles
whilst small detachments of the National Guard
and carbIneers clearing the halls of the
mob. at the same time the National Guards occu-
pyDg the square, quay and Rue de Rivoli, shouted
enthusiastic greetings in favor of Truchu as he
passed in front OF the troops. The report on the
days event concludes follows: 81
"With the armistce rendered and accepted
other advantages which Paris can easily construe
without any necessity of presenting then here; and
now the government of the national defence is up-
braided with its aCquiescence as having been weak
Perhaps the treacherous, feeble minority, whiCn
cannot aim at representing the senti uentS OF the
Partisan population, taking advantage of the pub
lie emotion tries 70 supercede hy violence the ny
ernment which is conscious of having protected the
interests Of city of two millions of inhahitants,
shut mp within their walls, and the interests OF
unlimited liberty. You have participated in this
task, and your counteGapce viii be our force tor
the future against our enemies both within and
without. tSignedO TRnCHU."
The conditions of the proposed armistice are the
following: It's duration will be twenty five days The
Will nave liberty DrlR III iOOd uurin
this interval Free elections will be held in all the
departments.
The Paris government, owing TO the events tn At
took place lately resolved to consult the people of
Paris to the maintenance of the authority that
was conferred upon it. The vote was to take place
to-day. 1t is not known here yet whether the
armistice has been concluded
Alphonse Gent, appointed to succeed Esquros as
government administrator at Marseiiles, was
wounded by pistol shot on his reception in that
city. He had previously addressed a dispatch from
Lyons to the municipality of Marseilles announc-
ing that he would arrive there yesterday, and de-
claring that he came with one thought-to save the
nation, to save the Republic, and would assist the
authorities in that great task. AT five o'clock in
the evening dispatch reached Tours, stating that
he had been shot. Minister Gambetta Immediately
sent the following telegram to the authorities OF
MaTseilles:
"My friends: Administrator Gent was the object
of an ignOble attack Make supreme appeal to
the people. Permit no longer violence and crime
TO NJ. Gent, the Minister addressed dispatch
saying: 81 am borror-struck by the thought that
one to whom the republic owes SO much can be thu,
basely attacked. / am sure all good people mus
condemn the crime. All not desiring to be con
sidered accomplices in it will acknowledge youl
right scaled with blood to rule in the of the
government. / aDxiousy await news that the
would-be assassin has been delivered up to jus