News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 23, 1871

News and Miscellany.

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

NEW YORK, May 15.—A special, dated Paris, Sunday night, says, Yesterday a grand procession of women marched through the streets of the city, headed by a bugle, drummers, and flags, to the Hotel de Ville, where they demanded arms. Yesterday an order was issued for the organization of battalions of women, immediately, for the purpose of stimulating the courage of the men. It has been ordered that all cowardly males shall be led to prison by women. Battalions are to march against the Versailles troops. The bombardment is exceedingly violent, and shells are falling within the city in large numbers. A heavy attack from the Versailles troops is expected.

PARIS, May 15.—Evening.—The Versailles forces are under the walls of Paris, exchanging shots with the insurgents, who line the ramparts from Porte de la Muette in the arrondissement Passy, to Porte d’Issy. The Parisians have been expelled from the trenches between Fort Vanvres and Issy. A battery is erecting in the garden of the Tuileries, to pour a flank fire into the Champs Elysees. There is undoubted evidence that a wide-spread conspiracy exists in Paris for the overthrow of the Commune. The Gardens of Luxembourg are closed to the public, and are occupied by a military force, in anticipation of a rising on the part of the populace.

PARIS, May 16.—Immense crowds gathered this afternoon in the vicinity to witness the expected fall of the column in the Place Vendome. Great efforts had been made by the Communist engineers to tear the column from its base, but it has withstood their utmost exertions. The engineers have not, however, given up hopes of success, and are now renewing the attempts. The members of the Commune and battalions of the National Guard were on the ground.

Evening—The column in the Place Vendome was leveled at six o’clock this evening. It fell lengthwise into the Rue de la Paix. Fort Mont Valerien is firing vigorously to-night.

PARIS, May 16.—The Commune to-day split into two factions, each at open war with the other. The Versailles have effected three practicable breaches and massed a large number of troops within five hundred yards of the ramparts. The destruction of life and property by the bombardment in the American quarter to-day was fearful.

PARIS, May 17.—Cluseret advises the Committee of Safety to cause the erection of barricades in the Place de l’Etoile, the Place de Rome and Place d’Eylau; of a second line of defensive works from Passy Gate to Grenelle Bridge, and of a third line from Pont de la Concorde to Pont de St. Ouen.

PARIS, May 17.—Afternoon.—The Auteuil and Versailles gates of Paris have been destroyed by the bombardment, and the neighboring barricades are silent under the terrific fire. Issy is now in the hands of the Versailles troops and bombards Petit Vanvres, Genelle, and Point du Jour. The latter position is untenable. It is believed the Versaillesists are undermining the walls near the Neuilly Gate. Dissensions continue among the committees of the Commune.

THE ISRAELITE states that an eminent rabbi says that it is a tradition of the German Jews that, at the time when the Empire of Germany shall be re-established (the empire ceased several hundred years ago), this will be the omen of the coming of the anxiously-expected Messiah.