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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 28, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 15.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

Revolution in Paris.

The country has been startled the past week by reports from Paris, showing that that city was in the hands of a blood-thirsty and lawless mob. The following are some of the particulars gleaned from the dailies of the week.
Paris, March 19.—On Saturday the gens d’armes fired upon the nationals. The latter returned the fire, and several of the gens d’armes were wounded.
Gen. Vinoy has been mobbed. The mob is triumphant and virtually possess the city. Only the wine shops are open. Drunkenness is rampant, and even women are armed.
Gen. Chanzy, upon his arrival in Paris, was arrested at the station by the Montmartreists, and it is said will be shot to-day. All persons of prominence are flying from Paris.
Versailles, March 19.—The official journal announces that the whole government, all the authorities of Paris, and 40,000 good troops under Gen. Vinoy, are here. The department authorities have been instructed that they must obey only from Versailles, otherwise they will forfeit their positions.
Paris, March 19.—The National Guard are now the only armed force in Paris.
London, March 20.—It is thought that the revolutionary movement now in progress in Paris will extend to Marseilles and Lyons, and even to Bordeaux. Thiers’ government contemplates a removal to Tours.
It is said that the Germans decline to interfere with the affairs of Paris.
Paris, March 20.—The government has telegraphed for 30,000 men at Camp Sartory to come to Paris. The Prussians at St. Denis will enter Paris if the garrison is increased beyond 40,000.
The city is full of Bonapartist agents.
New York, March 21.—The latest advices from Paris are dated yesterday. The situation is unchanged. Fresh barricades have been erected, but there is a general quietude. Omnibusses have stopped running, and traffic has ceased. The nationals have occupied Issy, Vanves, and Bicetre. The Police Commissioners have been arrested. Gen. Chanzy was so maltreated by a mob that he has been sent to the hospital.
London, March 21.—A Paris correspondent of the London Times telegraphs that many persons were shot without trial on Sunday. The nationals will shoot Thiers, Vinoy, and Dabrèlles, if they can be captured. There is a strong reaction among the respectable portion of the inhabitants. The Central Committee is alarmed.
New York, March 22.—A Paris special says that last evening, about 7 o’clock, an outbreak occurred in the Place Vendome. The insurgents had been very much excited by the proclamation that the National Assembly had issued, and had determined to resist it with violence. The temper of the general public, as they stood around discussing the situation, was sufficient to excite the anger of the Reds, for they were denounced on all hands, and their outrages spoken of in bitter terms. One gentleman reproached the National Guards for their timidity, and their cowardice, and their apparent sympathy with the insurgents. The discussion grew very heated, and the group of people gathering together all the evening, evidently ripe for mischief, became so alarming that an order was given to the National Guards to clear the Place Vendome. The people refused to leave, and the guard fired, killing five persons and wounding many others. This firing was successful in clearing the Place Vendome, and as many of the crowd were insurgents, with chassepots in their hands, their indisposition to return the fire was regarded as very significant.
Paris, March 22.—This evening a large number of persons reached rue de la Paix entrance to the Place Vendome, and appealed to the sentries to give way to their passage into the districts occupied by the insurgents. The request was refused by the sentries. The demonstration thereupon unfurled a color. The nationals threatened to bayonet the flag bearer, and the crowd at once commenced to retire. Baron Nathan then seized the flag and exhorted the crowd to advance against the alleged force occupying the place. The order was obeyed, when the nationals occupying the Place beat their drums and fired in the air. The crowd retreating too slowly, three ranks of the nationals filed out from the main body and fired. There was a terrible scene for five minutes, and then the crowd broke into a terror-stricken retreat. At least 30 persons were killed and wounded by the fire of the guards. Baron Nathan received two shots in the chest. The nationals in the Place Vendome have since been reinforced, and are orderly. The National Guards have generally been called to arms, and fighting is apprehended to-night. The affair created great consternation among the people of Paris.
The Paris journals say that Count Bismarck has informed Thiers that the Germans will occupy Paris on Sunday, unless by that time Thiers is master of the situation.
The last paper containing news to the 24th, reports the situation in Paris unchanged.