The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-14
PREPARING FOR SIEGE,
Removal of Parisians Within the Barriers
Terrible Excitement and Confusion.

correspondent of the New York Tribune writes I:
Paris presents the aspect of city turning the
house out OF the windows. Since NJ Henri de Chey-
reau's announcement that the Prince Royal of
Prussia, after hestatlng to advance, has Resumed
within the first zone OF the forti6cations is
q crescent OF 25O metres-have been under the infu-
ence OF real panic. A friend of mine whose resi-
dence is unpleasantly proXimate to two big guns
mounted on the Notifications, the mouths of which
guns appear to be two enormous eyes looking
straight into his windows, bundled all his effects
into hearse and two mourning coaches last Sat-
urday night, and having bestowed them
in a warehouse for furniture in Paris took reTnoe
with his wife, two children, and servant in a hoteI
Yesterday, although Sunday, was general removal
day. Vans and vehicles adapted to the service were
not to be obtained for money Those who are
familiar with Paris will remember the long rows of
splendid houses which abut upon the Bots de Bou-
l0gne outside the barriers, the beautiful villas
thickly sprinkled within circle OF half mile am
round Paris; all these are being rapidly evacuated
and the inhabitants are hooking into the city, goods
and all.
The railway stations are literally blocked up with
goods Of all kinds. Servants running after their
mistresses or scolding their younger charges mis-
tresses hunting about bewdered after their domes-
tics; rushing to and fro OF hurried, persplrng
over-zealous but ever civil railway porters convex
ing wrong luggage away in trucks to coaches car
rages, wheeloarrows, any vehicle, in fact outside:
octToi officials renouncing in utter despair the ex
animation OF decidedly suspicious characters, and
smiling even compacently at open delin-
quencies, to the detriment OF the munich
tongues an agglomeraton OF all that is incongruOus
Such is a mild description OF the spectacle pre-
Sente0 yesterday Oh OF the trains the
suburbs bdnLteu, and which is stl in full VigOr
Hundreds OF families, thinking tl save time and
money, have chosen the rail the most convenient
mode Of removal, and the several companies must
receive credit for their extreme readiness in meet
ing this sad emergency The stations OF Strasburg,
the north, the west, and OF the bGeu on the SOUTH
western side are the most encountered, because
nearestto the probable scene OF strife, should the
Prussians arrive. But it is not only
these stations which are the scene
OF so much excitement and confusion. At all
the barriers, especially those of Neuy and the en-
virons the same evidences of rapid flight are promi-
nent. IL seemed yesterday as though the long pro-
cession OF vehicles laden with household goods
would never cease dedling. Private carriages were
impressed into the service, and ladies might be
seen inside or them, hugging heaps OF cases, pro-
baby containing jewels or other precious articles.
/ have referred to a friends having effected his
sudden removal with the help OF a hearse and
mourning coaches, in the utter impossbiity OF OBJ
talnlng more suitable conVeyances. The "COmpanY
OF Funeral Pomps," or General Burial Company is
actually enlisted in the service OF removing the
living instead OF the dead and considerable mum
Der OF the lugubious vehicles peculiar TO the oce
OF the undertaken were conspicuous In the long
train OF vehicles OF every description which, from
early morn till late into the night wended its way
from the localities mentioned up the Avenue de Ia
Grande Armee, and thence dehed into the various
quarters OF the city 1t was really pitable sight.
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