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

prekSp N The men .chered and
laughed, the women, cried trVive u,
Republique I" and the crowd passed on
One gate Of the Tuilleries ON the sid,
of the Seine was burst open, and tht
crowd poured Ia /; but forebore to enter
the palace on ithe, appearance of NJ
Emanuel Arage, who came out to moe,
them, and said "Citizens, the Empires.
left Paris at midnight. This palace
the property of the people, is under the
protection Of liberty and The law" The
orcwn oheered Immensely guards of the
National Guard were posted at the gates
The Republic was proclaimed imme.
diately afterwards at the Hotel de Vile
with the following list OF the Provisional
Ministry: -
lnterior-M. Gambetta.
Eoreiqn A6airs-M. Jules Favre.
Fmances-DI. Magne.
Public I,sstructton-M. Jules Simon,
Justsce-M. Cremieux.
War-General Lefio.
President cfshe Council of Stasc-M.
Grevy. RI
Secretary Generaz-M. La vertugon
Governor Of Parts-General Troohu.
Meissieurs Glais Bizoin, Palletan,
Ernest Picard, Rocheiorte aud GARNER
Pages have also places in the admins
tration. M. de Keratty has been ap-
pointed Prelect Of Police, and Emmanuel
Arago, Mayor of Paris. In response to
the Prussian appropriation Of that
province, Messieurs Valatin and Engel-
hart have been appointed Civil and
Military Commissioners of Alsaco.
NAPoLEoN,s CORPS LEaIsLATIP.
PARIS, September 5.-The following
is sketch of tho proceedings in the
Corps Legislatif on Saturday night and
Sunday morning, previous to the closing
session already reported
The Corps Legislatif, which had
only taken recess, reassembling at
l:8O Sunday morning, after an exciting
session in the evening, at which the
Ministers had explained the situation.
President Schneider said: Painful
and grave news was communicated to
us during the evening, aud as President
of the House I had double duty to
perform towards it and the nation. For
the rest by an urgent demand on the
part of great number of my colleagues,
you have been called together in ex-
traordinary session. allow, therefore,
the floor to the Minister Of War, that
he may finish the statement which he
commenced during this mornings
sitting.
Count Palikoa said: have the pain.
full mission to inform you what nv
words before must have foreshadowed.
The news which was only semi official
has become official. After heroic efforts
tho army has been rolled back into So
dan, and has been encompasscd there
by such superior forces that it has been
obliged to capitulatc. The Emperor
has been made prisoner. In view of
this news, it will be impossible to enter
upon serious discussion of tho consc..
qucnces which these events may in
volve, when I have been forced to leave
m5 bed to attend this sitting, and my
colleagues have had no opportunity to
deliberate.
President Schneider proposed an
until to-day at noon. He
said the situation imposed on him great
duties and he would fill them. But the
Ministry not having yet been able to
deliberate, and each one needing time
to think over carefully the grave resolu.
tions which the occasion required, he
thought it would be wise to adjourn.
Jules Favre said IF the Chamber is
Of the opinion that in the grevious and
grave situation described by the Minis.
ter Of War it should adjourn until
noon, will not oppose it. But we be-
licve it to be our duty to seize the
occasion to lay before the House
proposition which the existing situation
demands. We will not add one word
TO the text which we now lay before
you. We move that the Chamber adopt
The following resolutions:
"That Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and
his dynasty be declared to have forfei-
led the powers which the nation con-
ferred upon them"
"That there shall be chosen an Exc
,utive Committe composed of members,
he number of whom shall be fixed by
The Chamber, which shall be invested
With all the powers necessary to repcl
invasion and drive the onemy from tho
soil"
"That General Troohu, Governor of
Paris, be charged exclusively with tho
defence of the capital"
The reading Of these resolutions was
listened to in profound silence.
A single voice was raised. It was
hat of NJ. Pinard. "We have not tho
power" said he, "to pronounce the
President Schneider returned to his
proposal to adjourn tho sitting until
noon, on account Of tho gravity Of what
,ad happened.
The Corps Legislatif agreed, and the
sitting was adjourned.
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