. The rise and fall of the Paris commune in 1871; with a full account of the bombardment, capture, and burning of the city . s,was a strong rebuke to those who had usurped the powerof the capital. The partisans of the Commune had an-nounced that the ballot on the 16th would be a strikingtriumph for them, that all Paris would rush to the urnsin crowds, and nominate by acclamation the Communalcandidates. They found themselves in front of a pitiableresult. In most of the arrondissements the persons whohad come forward had not received one-eighth of thenumber of voters on the electoral lists. This
. The rise and fall of the Paris commune in 1871; with a full account of the bombardment, capture, and burning of the city . s,was a strong rebuke to those who had usurped the powerof the capital. The partisans of the Commune had an-nounced that the ballot on the 16th would be a strikingtriumph for them, that all Paris would rush to the urnsin crowds, and nominate by acclamation the Communalcandidates. They found themselves in front of a pitiableresult. In most of the arrondissements the persons whohad come forward had not received one-eighth of thenumber of voters on the electoral lists. This governmenthad been at work nearly a month, and the people hadbeen able to judge of its merits. General Cluseret, whogave orders to 150,000 men, had difficulty in obtaining1,968 votes; General Dombrowski, in spite of the aid ofthe biographies in the official organ of the Hotel de Yille,presents himself escorted by 65 ; M. Courbet, the patrioticpromoter of the demolition of the Vend6me Column,recruited as many as 2,418 supporters; and Colonel Eazonais obliged to avow that with his 972 he had fewer electorsthan PvAZOUACommune of Pans 1871 . KEWSPAPEES SUPPEESSED. 145 The comments of yarious journals on these elections,produced the following decree from the Commune: The Commune, which cannot possibly tolerate in he-sieged Paris journals which openly preach up civil war, givemilitary information to the enemy, and propagate calumnyagainst the defenders of the Republic, has decided that theSoir, the Cloche, the Opinion Nationale, and the BienPublic are hereby suppressed. One of the most important engagements of the siegetook place on ths 17th between the regulars and the ad-vanced jDOsts at Asnieres. During the morning the troopsfrom Versailles attacked the federal outposts on the rail-way, guarded by the 77th battalion, which at once re-treated, abandoning the barricades and trenches. Fourother battalions on the farther bank of the Seine, seeingtheir comrades fall back, a
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