Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-12-07
The AmazOns of Paris.

Mr. Edward King writes to the Boston
Journal from Havre: sI have never
told you much about the very Lsrge
'9woman's rights" party which exists in
Paris. just now this petticoated pha-
lanx is making itself quite conspicuous
The committee of what is called the
amazon Society" meets regularly to
take measures for the public safety, and
some OF them have desired to go armed
into the field, promising both to relieve
the wounded and to fight This is most
illogical, of course, and the Paris jour
nails, which still find time to jest, think
that the fair sex would be so enraged
against the Prussians that the enc
my would hardly consent to be
cared for by them The women
had grand mass meeting on
the 9th instant, and had chosen a man
to preside This was objected to by
many ladies present, and very soon the
meeting was in an uproar The French
women have round, full, lusty voices,
and the Grow" was equal to that of any
caucus ever heard of in New England.
When the citizen who presided had
made a long peroration, in which he
said that "no decent woman could OBJ
tain work in that section of Paris unless
she made nun of herself, he was Civ
en- the lie in loud voice, and a Duke,
who was present in his uniform as an
officer of the National Guard, attempted
to pitch the citizen out of the window.
This made a tremendous screaming
among the women, one or two of whom
interfered in the fight The table on
the platform was upset, and things were
generally disarranged. At last order
was restored and the reports of the vari-
GUS committees read. They were in
many cases of the most amusing charac-
ter. One woman, who said she
had previously been peaceful
and simple,S now declared
her Willingness ssto put on zouave
breeches." Another announced that her
whole house was at the disposal of the
" "Amazons as "barracks. " A third
desired to carry into effect suggestion
that had been made for killing the Prus-
slams with prussic acid. How they pro-
posed to do this the ladies had not
stopped to think. The "citizen" who
"led the meeting" on the occasion I
speak of was a violent orator in 1848,
and has such vivid conception of the ex-
istent sympathy between the sexes that
during the last revolution he pro-
posed to replace telegraphs by "sym-
pathetic snails." If any one in Boston
wishes to know how that was to be done,
they will find story in one of their old
Atlantics which was founded on The
snail telegraph story. The Amazons are
getting on very well, and some of the
sterner sort drill daily, and are said to
be better markswomen than their hus-
bands, etc., are marksmen. The French
ladies carry on the commerce of France
a shopkeeper or hotel proprietor COM
mits all his books and money arrange
ments to his wife, and has from time i'm
memorial. Why shouldn't the ladies
also fight the battles2
The American Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Company.
The n Y Tribune says: "We learn
that the American Atlantic Telegraph
Cable Company, chartered by our State
in 1866, and by act of Congress IN 1857,
has been organized by the choice of A..
F. Willmarth, of the Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph Company, as President; Hon.
S. @. Pomeroy, Vice President Hon.
Edward Haight, President of the Bank
of the Commonwealth, Treasurer; w.
0. Stoddard, Secretary and, having
procured from Holland and Russia the
necessary concessions which they were
disappointed in not obtaining from
France, they now possess all the privi-
leges they require in either himis-
phere, and expect to lay their first table
across the Atlantic during the ensuing
summer, making New York its Ameri-
can landing place. They are, and pro-
pose to remain, wholly independent of
all other Atlantic Telegraph Companies,
but they mean to extend their line to
Russia at an early day, and to be init
mately connected with the telegraphic
system of that country, and through
that with China. The company is au-
thorized to issue twenty-year gold bonds
to the amount of $6,O0O,000, whereof
the proceeds are to be devoted to an
early and vigorous prosecution of their
enterprise. - @4-
A FEW days ago the newspapers pub
lished a citation issued by the Masonic
Lodge of the Orient of Paris against
Reverend Brother William, King of
Prussia, as a traitor to Freemasonry
The king took no notice of this citation;
so he was tried as contumacious, and
condemned to communication In
connection with this NJ Victor Hugo's
newspaper, the Rappel, publishes the
following: E'Brother William is now
out of the pale of the law. ALI Free
masons are authorized to assault him
and to infiict upon him capital punish
ment. 1t remains to be seen how the
sentence will be carried out. A Free
mason, in whose presence a doubt was
expressed as to the seriousness Of such
a condemnation, replied, ECDo not laugh;
the sentence OF the Masonic tribunal is
of such a dreadful nature that Bonaparte
undertook the italian war solely to re-
trieve himself from the excommunica-
ton pronounced against him by the
lodges of Naples and Milan. Pianori
and Orsini were Freemasons
The Gaulois of the 7th inst, says that
after the attempted revolution in Paris
on the 31st ult., letter was found on
the table where Flourens and his asso-
ciates had been sitting, apparently ad-
dressed to the director of the 6ag1ae at
Toulon, and in these terms ''Citizen,
we must at any price have Williams s
head. Send hundred resolute con-
victs. Make haste; time passes." The
signature was illegible. This proposed
assassination of the King of Prussia
shows that in the eyes of the partisans
of the Commune all means are legiti-
mate. The erevolutionistsno not only broke
or spoilt the furniture at the Hotel de
Vile, but stole the coats, paletots, mill
tary uniforms, umbrellas, and everything
they could carry off.
THE London "Church Review" says ::
When we see a parson we instructive
ly look at his neck, and we sum him up
accordingly. There are parsons with
cravats and collars these are, as a rule,
Low Church There are parsons with
cravats and no collars; these are, as a
rule, High Church; and there are par
sons with collars and no cravats; these