The New York herald., 1871-03-06

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Important News from Paris-The German
| Rsncuatson OF tho City und Symptoms
| Of Revolution.
| The series Of special cable kilograms which
we publish in tho HERALD this morning contin-
ues our report of the situation In Paris as il
existed during the moment of the triumphal
march OF the Prussian victors through the city
and Immediately subsequent to the military
pageant-that Haunting proclamation Of con-
quest and sorrowful acknowledgement Of
defeat. The intelligence is not at oil enoour-
aging. In fact, We may say that
It is alarming. The ranking memories
OF the vanquished prompt to retalia-
tion-a desperate resolve-but, even
should it be completely adopted, one which, it
must be acknowledged, will be taken under
very desperate circumstances. Last Saturday
at noon, in the full glory of spring sunshine,
the Parisians looked out from their garrets
aud cellar places Of retreat and found that the
Germans had passed through the city.
The Prussian consuerors marched un-
der the Arc de Triomphe, after the Em-
peror William had ridden through the Bois
de Bouiogne, accompanied by his royal COM
panions in arms-aliving monument ofthe fruits
Of military persistency, personal embodi-
ment Of the grandeur and consequences which
flow from national union and patriotic cohe-
sion, when moved by the propulsion of Pan
slavist principle. After this Paris was thrown
again back upon ITSELF The intercommunion
was not by any means pleasant. Citi-
zen discomfort appears to have induced
| popular elimination and recrimination. The
elements OF future disorder were plentiful
| Idlers by nature and non-combatants, dsmoral-
lied by the excitements and terrors of the SIEGE
| moved through the streets. They murmured
and growled, and whispered and huddled
together as did their fathers before the great
French Revolution, when Danton was
perfecting the guillotine in his cheerless
room and exhibiting the rude instrument to
Robespierre, as the coming ''reformsr" OF the
nation, in its policy and plan Of government
and morals. The promptings Of the moment,
inspired BY the recollections Of the past
and moved by the actualities of the
present, brought out the National
Guards of Paris. The soldiers came
in collision with the newly constituted authori-
ties. They demonstrated against the prison
| Of St. Pelagie. The troops Of the line were
called into action, and, as we are specially
informed by cable, drove the National Guards
away and forced them to 'sfall back"
| The agitation extended. It terminated In
revolution. An outbreak Of the people
took place in Paris during the night
1 Of Saturday, or at an early hour yesterday
morning. The fact is reported on Prussian
military authority. General Won Moltke tele-
graphed to Bordeaux that revolution had
been commenced in Paris. He also ordered
the Prussian officers to permit free march to
the French troops who would move for it's
suppression. The government In Bordeaux
may be in danger. French troops were being
moved rapidly from the provinces to the centre
Of dsaffection, and the very latest reports as
sert that at five o'clock yesterday afternoon
'sParis was quiet. The city had been tran
| quilted.
| Whether this quiet was induced by the ex-
hausted syncope which sometimes follows an
outburst of aimless passion or by the sitting
logic Of an armed suppression we have not
yet been told. When the Prince President Of
one of the latest republics of France, after
ward Napoleon Ill, was told at the initiation
Of the coup d'etat that the people sared on the
troops" his reply was an order conveyed
In the words, "Let the troops dre on the
people," In this expression Napoleon en-
bodied the sentiment which has prevailed in
Paris during the period Of every tumultuous
movement from the moment when King
Louis and Marie Antoinette lost their
heads to the hour of the election OF
Louis Philippe, thence to the organiza-
tion of the Provisional government and
the period Of the philanthrophies of Lamar
tine and the soup kitchens and free labor
shops onward to the Prince President Napo-
leon; to the exile Of Cavaignac and Changar-
nier; to the revived and refreshed purple OF
the empire; to the march for the Rhine !;
to the surrender at Sedan Partisan riot
and the republic again; the constitutional
elections, aud to the venerable Theirs.
France has been as fiery planet, brilliant,
but tjAneful to the economies of the
surrounding monarchists. Has the meteor
been eclipsed2 VIII It career through space
to darkness, or will 1t, after many mourn
full eccentricities, burst forth and illume
the democracies of Europe to joy2 te
the fruitien of o wholesome measure o.
''lIberty, equality aud fraternity." whiof