Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-16
FOREIGN.

The Germans evacuated Paris on tn
4th. Several Paris journals had resume,
publication. They were unanimous il
the opinion that the impression produce,
by the preliminary terms of peace wa
very bad. They declare that no peace il
real when it is obtained under such terms
but they recommend calmness and con
cord as the only means of making tn,
country great and prosperous. All restric
tions as to persons passing into and out o
Paris has been removed.
Prince Frederick Charles has been ap
pointed commander in-chief of the army
of occupation in France. His headquar
tiers will be at Rheims.
1t was officially announced at Florence
on the 4th that a treaty of commerce be.
tween Italy and the United States had
been signed.
A London dispatch of the 9th says me-
gotiations for definite treaty of peace
would commence at Brussels. Favre would
probably be the French Plenipotentiary.
The London Times of the 9th publishes
a dispatch from Versailles that the pre-
scribed limits of Franch were being rapid
ly evacuated by the German army The
movement was conducted quietly and
with admirable order.
The Paris Journal Des Debdts calculates
the expenses of the war to be six milliards
francs.
The London Times of the 7th announces
the following changes in the Ministry
Geo. j. Goschen succeeds Hugh G. E.
Childs as Filst Lord of the Admiralty /;
James Stansfield succeeds Goschen as
President of the Poor Law Board; w. E.
Baxter, ESQ.,, succeeds Stanstield as one OF
the Joint Secretaries of the Treasury, and
Geo. S. Shaw Lefevre, at present Secretary
for the Home Department, succeeds Bax-
ter, as Secretary to the Admiralty.
The Prussians ON the 7th delivered to
the French all the forts ON the left bank
of the Seine.
In the French Assembly on the Sth
Victor Hugo attempted a speech in de-
fense of Garibaldi, ON a committee report
in favor of annulling the election of the
latter to the Assembly from Algiers. Hugo
was interrupted by the great tumult in the
chamber, and when he attempted to con-
tinue he was met by storm of misses.
He thereupon announced his resignation
and abruptly left the Assembly.
Napoleon has addressed communica-
ton to the President of the French AS
sembly, protesting against the vote by
which that body declared his dynasty had
forfeited the throne as unjust and illegal.
The Assembly, he says, was created only
to make peace, and has exceeded its pow
ers. The foundation of all public right is
4" "pge5iscite-to that he is ready to bow, and
to that alone"
Baron Baude, Gen. Caille, and NM.
De Moulard and DeClerG have been ap-
pointed plenipotentiaries of France to
negotiate the final treaty of peace with
Prussia.
A Paris dispatch of the 10th says:
"Thiers will soon dissolve the Assembly,
and appeal to the people to decide the fu
ture government. Ducrot, Chanzy and
Faidherbe are working for an empire.
Bonapartist meetings in the provinces are
numerous"
King Victor Emmanuel denounces as a
forgery letter credited to him by the
Paris correspondent of the London Times,
expressive of surprise and disappointment
at the hard terms inflicted on France, es-
pecially as to accession of territory. The
letter was stated to have b cen written to
the Emperor William.
A long train of cars filled with Ger
man wounded, returning home, was run
into on the 9th by freight train, near
Puteaux, on the Paris & Versailles Rail-
way. Nineteen passenger cars were
broken to pieces. The number of soldiers
killed and injured was unknown.