Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-30
EUROPEAN NEWS, &c.
A Suh-Central Committee
Formed.
DEGREES Issued for Munitions
Of War.
The Commune Proclaimed at the Place
de la Lille.
Versailles is rapidly becoming a
Military Camp.
Chauzy promises not to Fight OK.
cepting against Foreigners.
Paris.

! Paris, March 20. This afternoon a sub
central committee was formed consisting of
twelve members. Asey is the real President
and Garibaldi honorary President.
| DEGREES were issued for the formation of
twenty five batalGons of artillery and fifteen
batallions of mitraillures
The national guard are to be paid two and
half francs daily. e4Ef --J
Gen. Duval is organizing the artillery.
Henry the infantry, and Bergeret the cavalry,
They are authorized to levy acquisitions on
everything. . El
NJ. Theirs has issued proclamation in the
name and authority of. the government, in
which he announces the restoration of order
IN Lyons, and Toulon and the re-establish-
ment OF the government in the cities. He
also affirms that the revolutionary movement
is existing in Marsailles, and that the com
mune lately established there by the insur-
gents will shortly cease to exist The revo-
luton he states has reached its climax and is
now waning, and that there is every indica-
ton that in brief period the powers of the
government will be wholly restored.
AT the inaugural sitting of the communal
council yesterday, resolution was adopted
declaring the national guards have deserved
well of their country.
The Debates says the council separated at
midnight without having come to any argu-
ment upon the vital question at issue The
next sitting will be held to-day
London.
London, March 20. At noon yesterday,
Paris was quiet, and the insurgent committee
retained their important positions. The COM
mittee has dismissed twenty-fi officials in
the department of finance for disobedience.
The erie du Peuple opposes the election of
the commander-in-c chief of the national
guards as dangerous and useless, and urges
the deposition of the assembly.
La Verte says that the committee are him
dering the seed and corn sent from America
from reaching the farmers.
The Francois Desbates, Steele and Verte.
blame the inaction of the assembly. The
commune was proclaimed in the Place de la
Lille at four o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Speeches were made by members of the
communal council from platform covered
with red cloth. The approaches to the place
were niled with an enormous crowd of ma
tlonal guards, who often raised their caps ON
the end of their bayonets, at the same time
vigorously defending the Republic. Sixty
guns had been collected in the place and sa-
lutes by the artillery were repeatedly fired.
The German official newspapers EXPLICITLY
deny that any encouragement has been given
to lnsurgent Parisians by the German govern
ment, or German commanders in France
Versailles.
. Versailles, March 80. Versailles is RAPIDLY
becoming military camp. Gardes are ar
irving continually from the departments.
The movements of the government relative
to Paris are unknown.
The deputies of the right demand the re-
moval of General Letio, but Theirs positively
refuses his consent
Chauzy has promised the insurrectionary
committee that he would not fight except
against foreigners.
An amicable arrangement between Paris
and the Versailles government is still regard
ed as possible.
Clerreneean has resigned his seat in the
Assembly.
At the sitting of the National Assembly to-
day, there were demands for an interruption
of communication with Paris.
Berlin.
Berlin,'March 30. The Reichstag has ap-
proved the commercial treaty between the
German Empire and the Republic of San
Salvador.
There has been a correspondence between
Bismarck and the Central Committee at Paris
The latter represents that the Theirs govern
ment is unsupported in any proper way by
the country, and that the election of the new
Assembly became necessary. The committee
offered in the meanwhile to pay in few days
the Indemnity due Germany Bismarcks re-
ply was favorable. The opinion here is strong
that the restoration of the Empire, by the aid
of the Imperial army, is inevitable.
st. Petersburg.
st. Petersburg, March 30 The reply of
the Russian Synod to the Patriarch of Con-
stantinople, states that the Synod shares the
dissatisfaction felt by the Patriarch at the re-
lations between the Porte and the Greek
church, but considers the convocation of the