Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-03-09
CLOSING EVENTS OF THE WAR.

ne rieHcu Assembly ou yeSttIuaN
ratified the conditions oil peace agreed TO
at Versailles. after repeated efforts by the
minority to delay consideration. The
ratification was carried by vote of 546
against 107. During the session violent
agitation ensued on the attempt of NJ.
Cont, formerly private secretary of Napo-
Icon Ill. to speak in justification Of the
empire, which the Assembly Fummari!y
and enthusiastically extinguished by
adopting resolution decreeing the fall of
the empire, and stigma:izing Napoleon as
the author of the misfortunes of France.
After various outrages and demonstra-
tons peculiar to Partisan mobs in tunes of
great popular agitation, the military and
civil authorities Of Paris had succeeded on
Tuesday evening in restoring tranquility
in the city. Disauieting 81 gns were ap-
parent in the quarters especially notorious
for disorder, but official assurances were
given that sufficient precautions had been
taken to prevent recurrence of outrages.
The eleventh Prussian corps, under
Gen Won Bose, having been awarded the
honor of being the first German troops to
enter the city, proceeded to carry out the
programme yesterday The corps entered
in two columns. by way of Pont du Jour
and Neuilly. numbering 80, 600 men, with
ninety-six pieces of artillery and the usual
proportion of cavalry and marched By
separate but direct routes to the Place de
Ia Concorde. The F.ench troops which
occupied The streets along each line ,f
march, to prevent disorder, vacated as the
Germans advanced. No hostile movement
of the populace occurred during the march
The scene, as described in the cable dis
patch, was a very mourrful one for Paris
Wherever men or women appeared they
we're sad enough. Many were weeping
emblems of mourning, and the statues in
the public places were draped. Perhaps
so gay aud grand pageant never passed
through a city so silent and heart-broken.
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Bismarck was yesterday informed by
Jules Favre of the ratification of the pre-
liminaries of peace by the National AS
sembly. He was at once told by the
former that the Emperor had already sign
ed the treaty, and that he was ready to
exchange formal ratifcatons. 1t is said
that Favre would demand the immed late
| evacuation of Paris by virtue of the terms
of the Convention signed. The excite
ment among the people seemed to be on
the Increase, and they were only restrain
ed by the constant vigilance of the troops
Payment of the French indemnity is TO
be made in three installments. One
milliard Of thalers in 1871, two milliards
in 1872, and two in 1878. Interest will
be demanded only on the last payment.
A later despatch from Versailles an
nounces that the Germans would evacuatc
Paris yesterday. Prince Frederick Char
les retires behind the Seine. and in a few
days the Emperor and the Grown Prince
will remove to some point near Paris on
the right bank of the river. The pop
ulace were still greatly excited.
March Chs indicated by Saturday 5
dispatches, the German troops evacuated
Paris on Friday last, after forty-oirht
hours occupation, in accordance with the
condition requiring the movement on the
ratification of the treaty of peace, but
much TO the disappointment of the mass OF
the. beseiging army, who, it was believed
would be given taste Of the browning
glory Of the war. The evacuation was
conducted in good order, the German
marching out under the Arc de Triomphe
with bands playing and flags flying, many
Of the men wearing eyergreens upon their
helmets. The Iapers having resumed
publiceiion. speak bitterly but cautiously
of the conditions oe peace, and while en-
joining present calmness, intimate that
vengeance must come in the future. The
disbauding of the Mobiles and National
Guards in France has begun, and there
is every evidence OF an immediate brea king
up of the war. But there are also indica-
tons of riot and disorder in Paris and
other cities, with which the authorities will
have doubtless soon to contend, and out
of which grave political complications may
! Gee II.