The Portland daily press., 1870-09-26
The Loss. of the Captain.
France.
THEREvoLUTIoNARY MOB IN PARIS.

EXTRAORDINARY MOB IN PARIS.
Tours, Sept. 24.-The excitement of the
| governing classes here was overwhelming when
they received intelligence of the revolutionary
uprising of the ''Reds" in Paris. Rumors of
the uprising were confirmed and assured by
fusitives from the city, aud the widest discord
| and confusion prevails. 1t appears that de-
tachment of fugitive Zouaves and Turcos from
McMahon's army joined the mob in the streets
of Paris and CONNIE need revolutionary de pre-
| dations Generals Trochu and Vinoy, with a
large force from the outside Notifications enter
ed the city for the purpose of queling the dis
turbance. Severe fighting ensued; result I'M
known.
The enyirons of Paris all now in ruins from
the gates of Neatly to Les Terres. All the
buildings in that part of the city are destroyed
with the exception of the beautiful chapel
erected to the memory of the Duke of Orleans.
large force of Prussians occupy Fontain-
bleau and have levied hundred and fifty
thousand fraucs from the Inhabitants
The terms of the capitulation of the garrison
at foul are the same as those granted to the
French army at Sedan.
THE REVOLUTION IN PARIS.
LONDON, Sept. 25.-The Prussian report that
from the height overlooking Paris they have
observed fighting going on in the streets with
cannon and musketry. Advces by way of
Charles attempt 50 discredt the report, but
late dispatch from Tours, Saturday evening
admits that there have been constant comoats
since Friday in Paris between "Reds'' and the
troops under Trochu.
TIE GOVERNMENT OF ROME.
1t is settled that loca! Junta shall rule at
Rome till the plebiscitum is taken.
ARREST FOR TREASON
Especial to the NY. Tribune ]-Geu Am
bert who commanded section of the fortifica-
lions of Paris was arrested by his own men
Sunday P. M. He was standing amidst his
| officers whom he had called together to give in
| struction, when he dropped remark that he
| trusted the Lew battaliors Of national guard
| having been formed on the model of the old.
would prove as good, and regretted they could
| only be supplied with percussion muskets. A
crowd of from 500 to 600 began to cry give
La Republique.' He then told the officers he
could only acknowledge the government, rati-
fed by universal suffrage, which this republic
had not been. The captains replied they
could not acknowledge such commander and
| took him prisoner and led him off to the min.
| istry Of the interior, which act was approved
Gen. Trochu has since told the Capt. he did
quite right and deprived Ambert of his con-
mand.
COwARDICE.
At Chartres, where ten thousand mobiles had
been concentrated on Monday, when the news
came that the railway had been cut at Ram
boulett and that the Ulhans were expected at
Chartres, officers told the Mobiles to lay down
their arms and 60 home as it was impossible to
resist. The mayor also exhorted them to
withdraw. The whole force thereupon dis
banded.
JULES FAvREs MISSION A FAILURE.
Journals at Tours concur in acknowledging
that M. Favre's mission to the Prussian head
quarters proved abortive and declare that the
French people prefer extinction to bumilia-
ton.
TOul, Strasbourg aud Verdun the Germans
already consider theirs and demand that they
shall lemain so, but M. Favre and his col
leagues in the provisional government are a
unit in the rejection Of such demands. Should
any terms be reached they must have the sane
tion of an European Congress, which would
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sible on the terms proposed by Prussia, with
out ruin and shame. There is nothing left US
now but to make logged resistance.
Dispatches from Berlin repudiate the in
tention on the part of Germany to permanent
ly retain part of Mont Valerien as a menace tt
Paris.
The journal st. Petersburg denies that the
neutral powers encourage the obstinacy I"
France, and declares that Russia approves
the terms dictated by Prussia.
PERscNAL
Eugene and Prince Imperial have removed
to Chisel Hurst, where a house was hired fol
them. Queen Victoria wholly ignores the ex
lies.
FAILURE
meeting here last night to express sympa-
thy for France owed a failure. Few people
J attended and no orators of note were present.
A mobile attempted to blow up the powde
magazine which would have almost destroyed
the city. The offender was arrested and shot
THE FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS
between Bismarck and Jules Favre is due i'm
medlately to the extreme weakness of thu
French government dare not follow its owl
Judgment The question of recognizing Favrt
! officially was not raised.