Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-09
In the House, on the Sd, bills were
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
A Florence telegram of the 25th says
that the new Queen of Spain was rapidly
recovering from her recent illness, and
would soon be able to resume her journey
to Madrid.
By an imperial decree the opening of
the German Parliament has been post
poned until the 10th of March.
A terrible colliery explosion occurred in
South Wales on the 25th. Fifty dead
bodies were taken from the mines on the
day of the accident.
London papers of the 25th announce ex-
Queen Isabella, of Spain, who was at &C.
neva, as being ill beyond recovery, all hope
having been Abandoned by her physi-
cians
A Paris telegram of the 27th says:
"The preliminaries of peace were signed
yesterday, at $50 p. m. France cedes
Alsace and Metz. Belfort is retained.
The war indemnity is fixed at five mil
lizards francs. For payment three years
time is granted. The Germans are to
hold the fortress till paid. The armistice
is prolonged week. The Germans enter
Paris Immediately"
A London dispatch of the 9th says
the triumphal entry of the Germans into
Berlin has been delayed two months, as
the whole of Germany will observe six
weeks of mourning for the victims of the
war.
The London Times special from Yer
sailles, on the 2Sth ult., gives additional
particulars of the treaty: 1.-THE fortified
cities of Lunnev1lle, Nancy, and Belfort
are left to France: Longwy, Thionville,
Metz Saarbruck and the iron district will
go to Germany. Rothschild promises to
pay the entire indemnity to Germany
within year, by which the army of occu-
patton will be got rid of; at the end of
that time Prince Frederick Charles is to
be Governor of Champagne, with head
quarters at Rheims. The Emperor William
will merely pass through Paris and his
new possessions en- route to Berlin"
Dispatches from various parts of Ireland
received in London on the 2Sth, report
that several acts of agrarianism had oc-
CURED, in which several persons were
killed.
The French Assembly on the 1st ratified
the preliminary conditions of peace by q
vote of SAG ayes to 107 noes. The Assem-
bly, enthusiastically and unanimously
voted by acclamation, a resolution decree
ing the fall of the empire, and stigmatizing
Nepoleon as the author of all the mis-
fortunes CT France.
The grand entry into Paris of portion
of the German army occurred on the 1st
The streets are reported to have been al
most entirely deserted by the inhabitants,
and no disturbances occurred. The shops
and windows of the chief thoroughfares
were all closed, and the aspect of the city
was desolate. Only few italian, Ameri-
eau, and English flags were flying, and one
single French flag hung over the Palace of
the Corps Legislatif.
The widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the
author, died in Kensington on the 26th.
At Berlin, on the Sd, the following dis
patch from the Emperor to the Empress
was publicly read amid the booming of
artillery, the ringing of bells, and the
cheers of the people, wild with joy.
"yEnsAILLEs, March al have just ratified the
conditions of peace, which the bordeaux Assem-
which was through seven months battles to be
achieved thanks to the valor, devotion and endur-
of the whole Fatherland. The Lord of Hosts has
everywhere visbly blessed our enterprises and by
His mercy has permitted an honorable peace To
Him be the honor-to the Fatherland the thanks.
(Signed) "WnHELM."
A cable telegram of the I'd gives the fol-
lowing as the preliminaries of peace ar
ranged by Bismark and the other plenipo-
tentiaries with Theirs and Favre:
Article specifies the line of demarcaion. Arti-
milard francs-one milliard at least, in 1871, and
all the rest in the space of three years from the
| to commence on the ratification of the treaty by
| the Assembly; that the German troops VIII then
Immediately quit Paris and the left bank of the
| and the Seine -Inferieure. The French troops will
remain behind the Loire until the signing Of the
definite treaty of peace, except those In Paris,
where the government is not to have exceeding 40
| 00l troops The Germans Will evacuate the right
bank of the Seine, gradually after the signing OF
milliard mil francs. After the payment Of two mliards
| the Germans will only hold the Departments OF
Marine Ardennes, Meuse, Vosges, Meurthe, and
| the town of Belfort. After the payment Of three
milliards, the Germans will only keep 5O,OOO
troops in France; but II sufficient money
| guarantee be given, the Germans will evacuate
completely at once otherwise, three milliards will
carry interest at five per cent from the ratification
of the treaty. Article provides that the German
| troops make no further requisitions; that the
French Government will find food for the army II
occupation of the ceded departments, that favor
able arrangements will be made with the inhabi
tants, and time given them to move II they please
and that no obstacle will be placed In the way O
emigration. Article provides that the prisoners
will be Immediately liberated on the ratification o
the treaty, and that the French railways Will LEND
their carriages and engines at same prices as to tht
| French Government. Article provides that tht
treaty will be definitely signed at Brussels mmedi
ately after the ratification. Article provides ina
after the ratification the man cement OF al the de
partments occupied will be handed over to th'
French officials, subject to German comma nders
in the interest of German troops. Article 3 pro
vides that it be well understood that the German
have no authority over the departments not oceu
pied by them.
A colliery explosion at Victoria, Eng
land, on the Cd, caused the death of abou
twenty miners.