The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1871, Page 3

PAR IN RETO The Government Attempt to Surprise Montmartre Frustrated. Fraternization of the Regu- lars and Insurgents. Bloody Conflicts in the Streets. Many Killed and Wounded--- French Officers Captured. Generals Clement-Thomas and Le- conite Shot by the Insurgents, General Vinoy’s Execution Also Reported. “GREAT CONSTERNATION IN PARIS. All the Right Bank i“ the Seine Evacuated by the Gov- ernment Forces, Suspension of the German Evacua- tion of France. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD Lonpoy, March 19, 1871, Ihave received intelligence from Paris of Important events transpiring in that clty which I forward for publication in the New York HERALD :— THE SITUATION GRAVE, Eventw of a most unfortunate character have taken place in Paris, and the situation is Bourly becoming graver. PROOLAMATION FROM PRESIDENT THIERS. On Friday Presidont Thiers issued a pro- clamation appealing to the reason and patriot- ism of the citizens of Paris to preserve order. He says he is informed that the malcontents of the Montmartre have planted their guns so as to demolish the dwellings of their fellow cit- izens, He declares that by such acts as these the republic is fatally compromised, because a Tepublic accompanied by disorders will be lost. He insists that the present government fs really republican, and no friend of the re- public should strike at it, The government will take the cannon from these men who, misled by deceiving politicians, seek to in- augurate civil war, He draws a picture of the deplorable results of their dvings, showing how the reviving commerce of the city is stopped and the shops are deserted. He con- tinues:—The government, hoping the malcon- tents will return to their duty as good citi- zens and ebey the laws, siill withholds orders to proceed to extreme measures to free the country of a new enemy; but it is determined to act when necessary and de- iver the principals over to justice. The government relies on tho co-operation of all good citizens, The proclamation concludes with these words:—‘‘After this warning we shall proceed to force peace, if necessary, at all hazards.” MONTMARTRE OCCUPIED BY THE REGULARS, The government, following up the proclama- tion of President Thiers, at midnight on Friday sent o detachment of troops and gen- darmes to occupy the positions of the insur- gents in the Montmartre. A considerable number of cannon were removed and the gen- darmerie made some 400 prisoners, APPEARANCE OF THE INSURGENTS. In the morning the National Guards of Belleville ond Montmartre, with many unarmed soldiers of the line, arrived on the acene, and released the prisoners, POSITIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT FORCES, General Vinoy, who was in command of the government forces, had posted a cordon of troops around the hill of Montmartre, and planted mitrailleuses at the approaches, and his sentinels prevented all persons from ascending the hill, A GENERAL FRATERNIZATION. The batteries of mitrailleuses were soon surrounded by angry groups, who demanded to know why the authorities distrusted the people, and if it was their intention to mas- sacre them? The soldiers, when asked if they meant to fire on the citizens, made no reply, and soon a general fraternization com- menced. The people were allowed to draw the mitrailleuses aside and ascend the heighis. The companies of soldiers on the summit fraternized with the nationals who were guarding the cannon still in their possession. As fresh troops arrived on the ground the people shouted to them, ‘Reverse arms!” and the order was obeyed. AGAIN IN POSSESSION. At ten o’cloek A. M. the Nationals held the ground again, and prevented all unarmed per~ sons from going up the hill. OONFLIOT IN THE PLAGE PIGALLE. « Ad the mame honr p perjous sonflict osourred, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 20. 1871—TRIPLE SHEET, REVOLUTION ene IN PARIS. Map of the French Capital---Situation of the Disaffected Quarters--Scene of the Cont st of Saturday---Extent of the Territory Within the City Held by POSITIONS OF THE INSURGENTS. From the map of Paris published above it will be easy to ascertain how much of the city is held by the insurgents, as our despatches report that the government forces haye retired to the left bank of the Seine, leaving the National Guards in possession of all points on the right bank. Virtually, therefore, the rebels are in complete control of the French capital. The greater part or the city is on the right bank of the river. Here are the most important public edl- fices and the most vainable property. Tie Tuileries, the Palals Royal, Hotel de Ville, Palais de I’Elysée, Palais de l’Industrie, Are de Triomphe, Grand Opera, Halles Ceatrales and numerous other public le, at the end of a street Some artillerymen in the Place Piga leading from the height, and chasseurs were surrounded by an angry mob, who accosted them with shouts of ‘Go and fight the Prussians!” THE INSURGENTS VICTORIOUS. A lieutenant of chasseurs while endeavor- ing to disengage his horse from the crowd, drew his sabre. He was instantly dragged from his"horse and killed, A melée followed, in which an artilieryman and two Nationals wounded, But the fighting soon ceased, The soldiers their posts and mingled with the crowd, dis- tributing among them their cartridges and relinquishing their chassepots. The artillery- men suffered the people to remove two mitrailleuses, making no further show of re- sistance, The gendarmes alone proved faith- ful to the government, but were too few in number to be effective, and were with- drawn, were abandoned VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE, At eleven o’cleck many battalions of Na- tional Guards, fully organized, marched into the Montmartre, shouting “Vive la Repud- lique!” The district was then wholly in the possession of the Nationals, the soldiers having deserted. Not a gendarme, not a single regular was visible, THE INSURGENTS WELL PREPARED. All the National Guards were amply sup- plied with cartridges, and appeared deter- mined to retain their cannon and hold thelr position on the heights. THER PURPOSES, The purposes of the insurgents are still indefinite. resistance to the government. Their main object just now is The crowds in the Montmartre and Belleville, however, are unanimous in their clamors against the Assem- bly at Bordeaux, diate dissolution, and the election of a new body, which shall sit in Paris, THE SITUATION IN THE EVENING, At six o'clock Saturday evening the agita- tion and uncertainty continued. Tho troops had been withdrawn from the faubourgs, where the people appeared excited and haptile, DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING—GENERALS TAKEN PRISONERS, They demand its imme- TDE MONT, buildings which adorn Paris are within the quarter hetd by the unruly National Guards, The quarters where the insurrection broké ont will be seen marked on the map. They are Mont- martre and Belleville, Here hive the lowest classes of Paris, true descendants of the murderers, thieves and vagabonds invited to the city in 1468 by the then government. The streets in these quarters are, for the most part, narrow, and bear evidence of the class which inhabits them. As one approaches the hill of Montmartre the ground rises, while Montmartre itself completely overlooks the other parts of the capital, Previous to the reign of Louis Napcleon the hot- beds of insurrection were in the vicinity of the Rue de Rivoll, but of late years it has been in the north- ern and northeastern quarters to which the the morning have become known, General | Faron was surrounded for several hours by the mobin the Montmartre. Histroops proved | faithful; they charged and took three barri- cades, using the bayonet, and finally cut their | General Lecomte and Abandoned by their men, they were made prisoners by the way out and escaped. others were not so fortunate, rioters, and are now detained in the Chateau Rouge, General Paturel was wounded, THE CANNON, In the morning the troops succeeded in cap- turing forty cannon in the Montmartre; of these the people retook five without fighting. The remainder were removed to a place of safety. HORSEFLESH IN FAVOR, The rebels killed, cut up and and ate the horse of a staff officer, who was surrounded and made prisoner. MORE BARRICADES, The rebels are now building additional bar- ricades in the Montmartre, Belleville and the Faubourg St, Antoine. ANOTHER GOVERNMENT PROOLAMATION, The government has issued another procla- mation repndiating any intention of a coup @état, warning the communities who seek to pillage Paris that they will ruin France, and appealing to the National Guards to put an end to the condition of anarchy into which they have plunged the capital. CAPTURED GENERALS EXECUTED BY THE IN- SURGENTS. At nine o'clock P. M. it was reported that Generals Lecomte and Clement-Thomas (the latter formerly commander-iz-cnief of the National Guards), who were captured in the morning, had been shot by the insurgents aftera summary trial. The news spread con- sternation through the city, RETREAT OF THE GOVERNMENT FORCES TO THE LEFT BANK OF THE SEINE, General Vinoy’s staff, all the troops of the line and the entire force of gendarmes have retired to the left bank of the Seine, leaving the National Guards to restore order on the right, THE GENERAL SITUATIONs The Nationals are assembled at various points, The boulevards are crowded, but there has been no further conflict, The shops are closed and the omnibuses have stopped Stariling facts gonnected with the events of | rupuing. communists have gradually been driven by the Increase of population and the general improve- ments which have been made in thelr old haunts, under the direetion of Baron Haussmann, Unless, a3 was the case on Saturday, aided by the disaffection of the troops ef tho line, the revolutionary element of Paris would huve little chance of success even in Montmartre and Belle- ville, for while a majority of the streets are narrow, there are several wide thoroughfares which com- mand all points, and from which the government for could sweep the insurgents. It was in the Belleville district that the reds tried to get up a revolution during the last months of Na- | poleon’sreizn, The attempt was a complete flasco, as the mob was not armed and the mateylals which | they possessed for erecting barricades were utterly ADDITIONAL REPORTS. The Execntion of Generals Clement-Thomas and Lecomte Confirmed—Opinions of the. Press~ Reported Shooting of Vinoy — Move- ments cf German Troops Stopped. Lonpox, March 19—10 P. M, Additional reports from Paris enable me to forward the following intelligence for the New York HeraLp:— FRENCH GENERALS EXECUTED. The Paris journals this morning confirm the report of the execution of Generals Lecomte and Clement-Thomas, After their capture they were taken to the Garden of the Ruedes Rosiers, Montmartre, where the Cen- tral Revolutionary Committee hold their sit- tings. After a brief trial, they were con- demned to suffer death, and were taken out and shot. All accounts say they died bravely, REPORTED SHOOTING OF VINOY, Special despatches to London journals say General Vinoy has also been shot, The report has not yet been confirmed and is not credited, OPINIONS OF THE PARIS PRESS, The Journal des Débats says :—‘‘Yester- day will be considered as one of the gloomiest hours in the history of France, The revolution, marshalled under the banner of pillage, is the mistress of Paris, France will condemn these horrible assassinations and this odious insurrection, which is without pretext or purpose. Will the provinces come to our aid, or must the Germans re-enter the capital? This terrible day has wronght more damage to the republic than all the Bonapartes. LATEST REPORTS OF THE INSURGENTS, The latest news is that the nationals of Montmartre have seized and now occupy the staff and general headquarter buildings of the National Guard of Paris in the Place Ven- dome, STOPPAGE OF THE GERMAN EVACUATION OF FRANOE, The Echo of Parlioment says in conse~ quence of the disturbances in Paris the Em- peror William has provisionally stopped the movements of the German troops, VICTIMS OF THE REDS. The following are brief sketches of the French generais reported shot by order of the red republi- can Revolutionary Committee in Paris:— General Clement Theman. ‘This O@cor was bora at Lpowsae WD 18}9, received the Insurgents. SATAY ai OG at) ty ’ y Mary M4 aay ay UN y) RSS Zi p wi! LA PISSOTTE insoMictent, In this revolt the case is much dif- ferent. The revolutionisis are all fully armed and possess the advantage of having complete military organizations. We have po means of ascer- taining the number of cannon held by them. They seized 600 at the outbreak of the trouble, but a large proportion was returned by them and parked tn the garden of the Luxembourg. Nevertheless they can- not hold less than 260 pieces of artillery, All the streets In the Montmatre district are blocked up by barricades, The tl! of Montmartre js now virtually a sort and is armed with a largo number of cannon, which are pointed towards the city. By all accounts the fortifications have been constructed with considerable skill and bear evi dence of having been designed by military engi- neers, a good education tn Paris, and entered the army as a volunteer. He served for in the Ninth cuirassiers, the conspiracy of Lunevilie, condemned to prison. awhile took part in for which he was With M. Guinard and several others, he escaped from Sainte Pelagie and sought refuge in England, On the proclamation of am- nesty he returnea to France and became attached to the editorial staff of the National newspaper. THe took part in the revolution of February and, under the provisional government, was employed a3 government Commissioner in the Department of Gironde, where he was subsequently elected @ representative of the National As- sembly. Returning to Paris he was elected Colonel of the second legion of National Guards. His energy and zeal soon procured him a General’s commission, and finally he succeeded M. de Comtats as commander-in-chiet of the National Guards, Soon after his appointment, however, he gave great offence In a speech delivered from the tribune of the Assembly, in which he denounced the Cross of the Legion of Honor as “a bauble of vanity.” For this ne was removed from command and was succeeded by General Changarnier, In the Assembly he voted with the moderate democrats until the 10th of De- cember, 1843, when he failed of @ re-election. He Opposed the coup d'etat, and remained in private Ife until aiter the overthrow of Napoieon’s dynasty last year. During the siege of Paris he was com- mander of the National Guards, and was sald to be extremely popular with the very men who assass!- nated huw on Saturday last. General Viney. This oMcer, who ts also reported to have been shot—but the news lacks confirmation—tirst saw service in Algeria, where he greatly distingutshea himself, When the war between France and Prussia broke out last year he was on the retired list, but he Was recalled to active service and placed in command of & corps organized under his directiop, This corps, it will be remembered, arrived near Méziéres just in time to hear of the terrible disaster which attended the French arms at Sedan. General Vinoy fell back upon Paris, conducting his retreat with skill and success, After the investment of the capital by tho Germans he made the first sortie, and was repulsed in the heavy loss. Toward the close of the siege he was piaced in command of the Na- tloual Guards of the Seine and retained it till the appointment of General de Paladines, He 1s said to have been a decided opponent of the republic and a warm adberent of the Bonaparte dynasty. GENERAL REPORTS. Prussian Troops in Dieppe—French Ideas of the Use of Citizen Education, TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, March 19—11:30 P, M, A despatch just received from Dieppe announces that Prussian troops from Amiens have arrived there and occupied one-half of the town, ‘The French garrison retains the ether nalf. The Journal des Dédats last week advised “aiftu- sion of education and a better training for French- men. Then thelr powers will be increased to seek for thelr revenge in an improved administration of affairs aud the extension of public hberties.” Reported French Loun. BRUSSELS, March 19, 1871, The Rtotle Belges learns that the French govern-~ Tent has negotiated a joan witd the Rothachilds of — two millianis of rrancs wt ove per cent interest, price 75. French Celebrities Suffvring from Sicknens: Lorpracr, Maven 19, 1871, Henri Rochefort 1s here suffering (rom @ relapsed of fis recent sicknes#. M. Jules Mircea, the bankes of thia city, is dangerously il, NAPOLEON. Tho FeMonareh a Route in Belgium. TELEGRAM 70 THE WEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, March 19, 1871, Thave telegraph advices for the Heratp, daied in Verviers, Belgium, this afternoon, walen supply the following announcement: poleon will take a spectal train at Herbesthal at nine o'clock to-night, and come through to this city without stopping, ‘The ex Einperor will thus be on Belgian territory | during the ume, and among. a population watch sympathizes largely with nin, Herbesthal, wh Bonaparte will take the train, id station on the Belgian railroad, between Alx- la-Chapelle and Verviers, In this city (Verviers) he will be about fourteen miles east of Liege, on the Hue of ratiraad to Co logue, and in the miust of @ busy and very indus- trious manufacturing people, numbering about 2,500 persons. PARIS EVACUATED. The Retirement of the German Troops After Ocenpying the Capital. View of the Retiring Troops from tho Bridge 0! Surenes— Appearance of ihe Troops—Tho Emperor-King — Birmarck — Moltke —The Crown Prince— Homeward Bound. (Correspondence of the London Scan@ard.1 1 was wo late fer the deparvure, a3 I have already told you, but I determined to have @ last loox at the enemy after he had gone outside, and 1 took a cay and drove rapilly down to the Porte Matliot, ‘Phe drawbridge waa raised. No thoroughfare. On ine ramparts groups were stationed, looking eagerly towards the Bolts de Boulogns, where the Yeuton bayonets were still to be discovered glinting in the sunshine, I turned to the leit by the creméin au rond UilT reached the gate which leads out fromthe Ternes district, which | found open, ans, dismissing the vehicle, I crossed on toot and took a breather through the wood and by the borders of the Seine ull I reached the suspension bridge of Surenes. The plattorm of the bridge had been blown up at the siege, and haa not mpracticable, but a& been thrown over since bee capital pontoon ro Nay the river, and y this £ iearod a portion of the German army was about to pass, after an inspsetion by 1s royal and imperial master on the raceground of Longchamps. I had the good luck to be in time for the defile. The side repes of the pontoon were decorated with laurels, and on the Surenes side two tall potes were erected on either hand, from whitch floated the flags of Prussia and of the North German Confeleration—the for- mer ata higher point than the latter, Prassia i the heraldic, as Well as in the diplomatic, poitticai and all other # , heme so mach Digher than Germany. — Presentiy the army corps, — de- bouching from the trees, came into view. headed by parallel hues of Bavarians and Prussians marcuing in columns of fours. It may be presumed that this equabie relation of the North and Senth German coutingents was meant to repair aby otfence which the Bavarlans niught have taken at seeing their new national banner subordinated to that of the House of Hovenzoliern, After a long train of Intautry, marching wita that marvellous regularity aud mechanical precision, so often noticed by ma, came the Emperor and its erowned vassals, The troops’ hats and helmets were decorated sprigs of myrtic and evergreens —it was tins thai the men who had borne the toll aud the heat of the day were content to be signalized—out their oiicers’ breasts were literally ablaze with medais nt ribbons of ali orders ana all grades, from lar Kear of Russia to the Pinkeeyed Kabbit of Monaco, Fneirclea by a staff as tortuons as the sea serpent and as gilitering m curve and scale, drove up the Emperor-King. “His Majesty has obvieusiy no notion of the picturesque, He arnyed on the ground in a neat but unpretending brougham, drawn by two horses, whten, to alt appearance. had made no acquatitance ’ with Paris during the siege, On his right hand sat the Crown Prince, looking the jood-natured man ne is. In a@ second vehicle sat the brain of Germany, uuder the arid dome of Count Von visuiare skull. To the Chancellor's right was General B.u- menthal, doing his sauvage best to reduce to snbor- dination a revellious elgarette. Next appeared wo inulaspring of the gigantic war macuine, Von Molike himself, Bismarck looked stern, but Moltke Was as meekly meditative aa Mr. Coleraft, waiting, In cuse Of a possible citent, the yeraict, gaily or quivied. Von Moltke was alone, In long convoy behind him came a cavalcade of titied gentlemen, Whose Dames I was uot privileged to jearn, bub which, | da , you will ind stated in all their imposing formatity, by tdastriousiy turning over the pages of the Almanach de Gotha. A couple of baudved soldiers, infantry, Were stationed ou the western flank of the pontoon, and were surred to such fine entunsiasm that they Qeavered thelr mouths of their pipes ana shouted Hovn 23 the Emperor-King passed by. ‘ihe Emperor-King re- moved his pickiehauber, and smiled benignantly. The act of condescension was equivalent, in troops’ eyes, to the issue of an extra ration of 7 ‘The infantry were sneceeded by the cavalry—tiat cavairy which had doue such magniticeus service throughout the war, They passed by, and When the last charger sunk into the middie distance of houses, and stree' and seauiy multitudes in sombre uniiorm, the air and the piace seemed robned of a Wondrous radiance, Wheeling back by the Hippodrome, ratuer tired and couiused, 1 contess, by the long spectacle, my mind reverted to others of the same Kind, but under different aus- pices, held on the spot where I found myself. f could not heip thinkiug of that gallant array L fad seen marching past another Linperor, now dethroned and captive, for the good pleasure of him whom 1 have just seen passing victor over the Pons de Surenes. That = magniticenlly anliormed mass of men tad melted imto nothingness in @ tow short weeks belore the might of the citizen army of Prussta and her allies, Tne hosts of (rance had perisied, not because they were destitute of the highest quaities of bravery and endurance, but be- cause they lacked that seusibility to disciplive which. formed the backvone of thelr antagonists, I fer- vently hope that the moral of the enorinous contrast: Will not be lost upon other Powel specially those whose natioual lite is menaced by a combination of what Mr. Carlyle would call vitalities, and for whicn we can fing no worse name than “peittical trades unions, MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS. The “human hair” exported from Bohemia to the United States durmg 1870 represented the value of $8,545. Several officers of high rank of Bourbaki’s army have become tusane. Among these is the uptortu- nate General Durien. ‘The lately deceased Prigee Puckier Muskaag, of Prussia, ordered in nis will that his mortal remains be burifed or destroyed by some chemtcal process. His physicians adopted the latter mode, A ight took place on the Spanish frontier between @ party of smugglers and a detachment of Spanish Custom House officials. The result was two dead and ten wounded on both sides, ‘The imperial Crown Prince of Germany will go to Munich for the purpose of formally surrendering the command of the Bavarian army corps iato the hands of its nominal commander-in-chief, the King of Bavaria, ‘The bankrupt Life Insurance Company Albert has been reconstructed according to a decision of the London Court of Chancery, The policy holders have voluntartly redaced their claims, while the share- holders have to bear the rest 6f the Labiiities. During the siege of Parts 251,572 projectiles for ordinary firearms, and 1,000,000 mitratileuse batls were manufactured by the military authorities. The following conversation took place between Count Bismarck and M. Picard, the French Minister of Finance, with regard to the then discussed exten- ston of the armistice. Bismarck—“I am not disin- clined to extend the armistice till the 24th, or, in case of need, the 28th of Febraary.” “Trusting to your kindness, Vount,” said M. Picard, “I beg you will consent to prolong it ull the soth.’” “Impossi- ble,” repited the Count, “May I know your rea- sons? asked the French Minister. “You may,” answered Bismarck, with a good-natured simile, “pecause the month has only twenty-eight days.’” At the beginning of the Franco-German war two barbers in Temesvar, Hungary, agreed to commit suicide if the French should be conquered by the Prussians, They were as good as their word, At the news of the surrender of Paris both blew their brains out, leaving a letter which ended with “Vive Ja France