The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-01
Armistice Extended -Four Days.
German Army Preparing to
60 Home.
Riot In Paris.
Worlds Special.l

PARIS, February 2S.-Terrible scenes
are now enacting Vast crowds fill
the streets, and are committing many
acts OF violence. The people have
made an attack on some policemen with
iEtent to murder them. One was
beaten to death, another hanged and two
were drowned. Crowds surround the
statue at Strasbourg, which an orator
proposes to remove lest it be desecrated
by German savages. The excitement
is on the increase, and the National
Guard of Belleville and Mont Martre
have resolved to remain under arms.
Regiments have been hooted and pelted
by the populace. A great body OF
National Guards, fully armed, marched
TO Champs Ulysses, where they are now
encamped.
Thiers and Favre have demanded the
gardens Of the Tuilleries, occupied by
the old infantry line.
Accounts from Belleville and Mont
Martre represent that terrible scenes
occurred in those sections.
PARIS, February 27.-An official
notice, signed by Pickard, confirms the
signature Of the preliminaries OF peace,
and it is announced that the armistice
has been prolonged four days. Con-
tributions aud requisitions are to cease.
The entrance of the Germans into Paris
was the price paid to save Beliort.
Peouyer Quertier has been appointed
Minister of Finance 1t is said that
Auerelles has been named as COM
mander OF the National Guard of the
Seine.
The Germans will enter Paris on
Wednesday and will evacuate the city
Immediately on the ratification of peace.
The consultation commission goes to
Bordeaux Tuesday and debate upon
the question of the ratification OF the
treaty Of peace will commence imme-
diately. The Partisan army will oc-
cupy the left bank OF the Seine. No
Frenchmen in uniform are to be allowed
to enter the German portion OF the city,
which will be surrounded by barricades
There was much patriotic agitation
on Monday night in consequence of a
report Of the immediate entry of the
Germans, and guard was erected on
the ramparts in Champs Ulysses to repel
the enemy. There was, however, no
disturbance At midnight on Sunday,
auiet was restored. On Monday morn
ing crowds surrounded a notice signed
bv Picard, and which had been
placarded in various parts Of the city,
appealing for the preservation OF order
and dignity. The crowd also invaded
the prison of Point PeIige, and freed
two commandants of the guard, who
had been placed under areest. All
papers recommend non-resistance to the
entry Of the Germans. All papers will
abstain from publication during the
occupation, as it is believed there will
be conflict.
PARIS, February 2S.-The Patric
says the question Of the entry of the
German army into Paris occupied ne
gotiations ten hours longer than those
Of territorial cession and indemnity.
Many of the citizens have purchased
weeks provisions to avoid appearing in
the streets during the German occupa-
ton.
The policeman who was drowned in
the Seine by the enraged crowd Sunday,
proves to have been an employe under
the Napoleonic prefect Petre, and to have
been murdered in consequence Of his
acts in that capacity.
Parisians believe the Germans will
enter the city with the ntention to pro-
woke conflict, which will give color to
more exactions.
LONDON, February 2S.-Mediation
has been offered and accepted IN the
Spanish and Egyptian difficulty, and a
peceable solution is anticipated,
The Times special from Versailles
gives additional particulars of the
treaty. Fortified cities Of Luneville,
Nancy and Belfort are left to France;
Longwy, Thionville, Metz, Saarbrucken
and Irondist will 60 to Germany. and
Rothschild promises TO pay the entire
indemnity to Germany within year,
by which the army Of occupation will
be got rid of at the end Of that time.
Prince Frederick Charles is 10 be Gov
ernor of Champagne, headquarters at
Rheims. Emperor William will merely
pass through Paris and his new posses
sions en- route to Berlin.
VERSAILLES, February 2S.-Every-
thing has been prepared for the entry
Of the Germans into Paris. The issue
OF final orders, however. has been re-
served until tomorrow. ....
A manifesto, signed by the editors of
forty-three newspapers, exhorts the peo-
pie to cslmness and dignity under the
approaching trial. The bourse and
theatres will be closed during the occu-
patton Of the city. German troops will
be confined to their quarters while in
Paris.
The powder magazine OF Villete has
been pillaged by soldiers.
LONDON, February 2s.-Dispatches
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