The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-23
PARIS AND FRANCE-WHAT NEXT?

HAhlO AMI L rhANOE-W Hal NEAL!
From the NJ Y. Herald
Paris continues in absolute possession of
the Jacobin mob. If since the butcheries of
Sunday night no further assassinations are
reported, it is because all resistance to the
''reds' has disappeared. Within the citys
walls they have unqualified ''liberty, equality
and fraternity" as they understand these
things, which means unbounded license, de-
bauchery and spoliation. Fresh barricades
have been erected; the omnibuses have
stopped running; traffic has ceased; only
the cafes and drinking shops remain open;
the Police Commissioners have been arrested;
again the fsherwomen are in arns General
Chanzy was so maltreated by the mob that he
had to be sent to the hospital; the insur-
gents have seized the funds of the city
in the Hotel de Vile and the Mayoralties; an
the approaches to the city are defended by
the Nationals against the National Govern
ment; the Jacobin juntas are issuing nume-
rous manifestoes; they will shoot even M.
Theirs if they catch him; people are leaving
the city by thousands, citizens and strangers,
and so on, to the end of the chapter of this
most astounding and alarming red republican
Paris revolution. The only thing respected
or promised respect from the revolutionary
Central Committee is the treaty of peace with
Germany, which they promise to respect for
the sake of the republic, or, in other words,
because they have learned to entertain a
wholesome fear of the German armies.
Such is the state of things in Paris. The
capital of France is under the control of q
bowling mob the elements of which have
nothing to lose and much to gain from the
overthrow of law, order, and the rights of
property. These subterranean savages and
sans cuL0ttes, brought to the surface, have
ordered an election in the several communes
for a new city administration, and no
doubt they will carry it through to their
complete satisfaction. Meantime the National
Assembly and the executive government
of the nation, chosen by it, or from its
authority, by nj. Theirs as head of the State,
and the diplomatic corps are at Versailles
under the protection of an army of twenty,
thirty, or forty thousand men, commanded
by General Vinoy. Versailles resembles
camp; but Nj. Theirs is hopeful and the AS
sembly is firm. At its meeting on the Goth
the ''reds" belonging to the body were ,ail
absent. This signifies, we apprehend, that
their ultimatum is the overthrow of the
Theirs government, including the Assembly,
and the substitution of Jacobin establish
ment on the platform of the guillotine.
The Assembly, on the other hand, in the
resolution adopted providing for the appoint
ment of a committee to consider the condi-
ton of France, and the necessity of placing
the Departments of the Seine and the Seine
ct Disc in state of siege, has taken the
proper course for the exigency. The Paris
"Reds, again, have called upon their par
tisans in the provinces to act promptly; and
it is possible that in Lyons, Marseilles, Bor-
deaux, and Lille, where they are numerous
enough to be audacious, they will follow the
example of their brethren in Paris, and
take possession in each case of the city and
all the public funds and arms they can lay
their hands upon. In short, this reign
of the ''Reds" in Paris must be speedily
suppressed, or anarchy, with all the horrors
of civil war, will soon prevail from the north
to the south of France, and law and order will
be limited to the Rhine provinces taken pos
session of by Germany, aud to the champagne
districts, held as material guarantee" by
the German armies for the payment of that
indemnity. Here We see the sagacity of Bis.
marck and Won Moltke in the securities they
have exacted for the payment of said indem.
nifty within the stipulated time. The money
must be forthcoming when due, or those
champagne districts will be apt to share the
Tate of Alsace and the Vosges, of Strasbure
and Metz.
There can be no doubt that if the Emperor
William were to say the word the NapoleoniC
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