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\ THE WAR. Special Telegrams to the New York Herald. Severe Fighting on Thursday Reported. MacMahon Said to be Approach- ing Battle. THE PRUSSIAN MARCH TO PARIS. They May “Reach the French Capital in Six Days.” Prussian Army Losses Reported in Prague. German Assault on a Mitrailleuse Battery. Many Prussian Noblemen and a Prince Killed. FRENGH VIOLATION OF FLAGS OF TRUCE, FRUSSIAR PROTEST T0 0 WASHINGTOR, Barbarism of French Soldiers ‘in Africa, China and Mexico.” ‘A NEW FRENCH ARMY BY DRAFT Spanish Republican | Mission er to Paris. Eight Departments of France Held by the Prussians. FRENCH REPORTS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALO. The Military Conscription Draft—Drawing of 1870—A Critical Experiment for a New Army—One Hundred and Forty Thousand Men Whnted—The Law Under Which They are te Be Raised—Mounted Volunteers— Hlorees of the Imperial Stud and Private Racing Stables for Service—Gunbonts for the Seime—No Itood for the Enemy—Sup- Plies of Food for Paris and fer the Wounded. Paris, August 26, By way of Lonpox—P. 'u.} ‘The military drawing for the army conscription of the present year is fixed to take place in all parts of the empire on Monday next, August 29. The call of the government on the nation by this army draft 1s for 140,000 men—Iinstead ot 90, , 000), the legal quota—in congéqnence ‘of the exigencies of the present war with Prussia. ‘This conscription will be conducted by virtue of and under the provisions of the new Army bill of 1868, which was framed by the Ministry of War, acting under special directions from the Emperer Napoleon. The law of 1863 provides as follows:— ARTICLE 1—CHarrer 1.—The army consists of the active body and the reserve; their effective is in- creased to 800,000 men. They are recruited— 1. By voluntary enlistments and re-engagemente. 2 By the annual raising of a contingent. Axr, 2. The strength of the contingent to be ®ammoned annually for the recruitment of the army 4a determined each year by the Legislative Body ina *pecial Jaw. ‘The same measure also divides the contingent into two portions, one of which ts incor- porated in the active army, and the other left in the reserve. Arr. 3, The duration of service of the young men ¢ncorporated in the active army 1s five years, at the expiration of which time they serve four years in the reserve. The period of service of the young men left in the reserve is five years. Those left in the reserve can only ve called into active service by ‘a decree of the Emperor. The soldiers who enter the rererve after the completion of five years’ service ean only be again called under the flag by a decree of the Emperor, and by classes, commencing with the most recent. They may marry without au- thorization during the last two years of their service. This faculty is suspended by a decree recalling them 10 the active army. Married men of the reserve re- main subdject to all the obligations of military eervice, Ary. 4. The length of service in the active army and in the reserve dates from the Ist July of the year of the conscription. In time of peace the soldiers Who will have completed their time of -ser- vice receive their liberation on the 30th of June of each year. In time of war they only recetve it on the arrival of the corps of the contingent destined to replace them. Akt. 7. The young soldiers who shall not have accomplished their period of service-on the 1st Jan- wary, 1868, may, at the expiration of their fitth year, obtain permission to pass from the active service into the reserve on condition of contracting an en. gagement to serve in it four years, Ant. 8, A national guard mobile shall be consti- tuted with the onject of co-operating as an auxiliary to the active army in tne defence of she fortified places, coasts and frontier of the empire, and in me maintenance of order at home. It can only be cailed into active service by a special law. The bat- talions which compose it may, however, be aasem- bled at the chief town or on any point of the depart- ment bya decree of the Emperor, within twenty days preceding the presentation of a bill for calling ‘them into active seyvice. In that case the Minister of War provides for the lodging and board of the officers, sub-oMlcers, corporais and soldiers, Rr. 9. The National Guard Mobile is composed— 1, Of the young men of the class of the years 1867 and following who have not been included tu the contingent, on drawing lots, 2. Of thone of the same class to whom application has been made of the exemptions mentioned in Nos. 3, 4, 6, 6 and 7 of articie 13 of the law of the 21st of March, 1832. 3. Of the soldiers of the second portion of the contingent who have accomplished five years’ ser- wice in the reserve. Also ail those can be admitted who, iberated from military service, ask to form part of this force. ‘The Councils of Revision exempt from this service the young men comprised in paragraphs 1 and 2 of articlé 13 of the law of 1852. or in one of the cases for dispensation provided in article 14 of the same act, ‘They can aleo exempt as support of the family as Jas ag len per cons those who would baye been Jia ] ble to service, selecting wove wo have the best - NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1870,—TRIPLE SHEER, claim, ART. 10, The duration of the service inthe Na- tional Guard Mobile ia five Fears for the young men who have not been included in the contin- gent. The time counts from the ist July of the year in which the drawing takes place. 4 corps of mounted volunteers. to act im the de- fence of Paria is im process of organization. ‘The Empress Eugénie nas tendered to the com- mander of this corps the vaiuabie horses which make up the stud of the Imperial hunting establish- ment, accompanying her offer with a request to the effect that they will use the animals just as they deem best for the public service. Several wealthy citizens who have patronized the bunting field and turf have already followed the ex- ample of her Maj sty in this respect. A number of gunboats which are to be employed on the Seine in the defence of Paris have arrived of the capital. The command of this important ser- vice 18 to be confided to Captain Thomason, formerly chief of statf, under the orders of Vice Admiral Jurien de la Gravicre. The members of the committee acting forthe de- fence of Paria have decided that on the near ap- proach of the Prussian troops towards the fortifl- cations of the city the crops of the farm- ers between the Seine and Marne and in the environs of Paris, wheat, oats and horse forage of hay and etraw, all which ts not se- eurely stored or housed, shall be burned, so as that the supplies may not be used as food for the enemy, either for his soldiers or cavalry horses. ‘The latest reports from the Ministerial offices state that both the Empress Regent and Napoleon are very sanguine of the result of the military conscrip- tiop, whicn is to take place next Monday. It will be the Qrawing for 1870, and will give, it is sald, a new army of driiled soldiers. The subserlptions taken up in Paris for the relief of the wounded, after being placed in boxes which have been hung up in the public thoroughfares for the reception of the smallest pieces of moncy, amount to 4,000 franca dally. The boxes are emptied each evening. The supphes of food which are taken into Paris are enormous. Yesterday aione the entries at the barriers showed 4,020 oxen, 302 cows, 26,642 sheep, and 1,012 piga. Thirteen deputies, members of the Legislative Corps, have bad thetr names placed on the draft roll for the chance of being drawn in the conscription on Monday. The remainder of the animals in the Zoological Gardens have been removed 1nto Paris, Citizens of Constantiuople, with many Americans resident there, have forwarded @ sum equal to 10,000 American dollars to Paris, for the relief of the wounded French soldiers. Clesinger, the sou)ptor, has volunteered for service in the French army. ‘The loss which accrues to the commerce of North Germany, in consequence of the French blockade of the confederated territory, 18 estimated at a million of American dollars in gold Gaily. Cabinet Notice of the March of the Enemy— May Kench Peris Within Six Dnys— Bazaiue in Check by Steinmetz—Ministerial ‘onsultation=At Toul and Nancy--Alarm and Excitement—No Figtting on Thursday— Anaudation nt Metz—The. ‘Ministers Cheer- fol—The Would-be Assaxsin of MacMnabon— Food and War Cont M. Thierw Position—Naval Successes. Panis, August 26—8 P. M. Le Public says important information was received to-day by the government concerning the positions, num bers and movements of the enemy. ‘The corps of Prince Frederick Charles and a por- tion of the King’s army is undoubtedly marching on Paris, while General Steinmetz is lef to hold Ba- zaine. The enemy may reach Paris within six days; should there be no change in their plans. The Senate : Corps Legtslatif were to be noti- fled of these facts to-day. The Corns Légisiatif went into Comuuittee of the Whole last night and held a secret session, during which ample explanations were made by the gov- ernment in regard to the defences of the capital, To-day @ similar sitting will be had. General Trochu did not attend the sitting last night, a8 the Minister of War, lis superior officer, ‘Was present, ‘The deputies of the “left” had an interview with Count Palikao, the Minister of War, last evening, which is reported to have been perfectly gatisfac- tory to all. ‘The last news from Strasbourg is that six persons have been killed, sixteen honses burned and the cathedral slightly damaged, The people take refuge in their cellars. The fire from the town has kilied a large number of the besiegers. As many spies still lurk in the city of Strasbourg the commandant has ordered the soldiers to shoot any persons seen on the roofs, The couriers of the enemy have been seen at Brienne. ‘The German Uhlans have also appeared in the ar- rondisments of Langre, but they soon fell back to the northward on the corps d’armée which is march- ing towards Chalous, The Prussian Prince Royal is said to have been at St. Dizier on Tuesday, the 23d inst, One-half of the troops which have lately been be- sleging Toul have been marched to Nancy, The garrison of Tout defends the place heroically. The Prussian bombardment has thus far put but fif- teen men hors de combat. The besiegers, on the contrary, have sustained serious losses. The Garde Mobile fight with great courage. The enemy is marching toward Varennes, a town sixteen miles west of Verdun. The people on the outskirts of Stenay, between Verdun and Mezieres, are defending themselves gallantly against the raids of the Prussians, and have inflicted considerabie damage on the enemy. War news ts communicated from the office of the Ministry of the Interior under Ule greatest reserve. Chateau Thierry, about fifty-five mutes distant, is the extremity of public travel om the Eastern Raul- road. General Trochu, the Governor of Paris, has vainly demanded the displacement of M. Pietre, the Prefeot of the Police. M. Reuter, in @ communication to the London Times to-day, denounces the delays in the French telegraphic service. The French system has always been bad, he says, and now it takes at least six hours to transmit mes- sages to England, and sometimes eight or ten. News wessages sent In the afternoon do not gene- rally arrive in time to be printed before the next afternoon. It is now certain there was no serious fighting yesterday, as reported in the Figaro last evening, The government has recetyed information that the Prussians are no longer at Chalons. The army of the Prince Royal bas retrograded, Orders have been given to the mounted gens- darmes to resist the raids of the Uhians, The Liberté says :—' At Toul yesterday the Gard Mobile made a sortie, defeating and killing the greater part of two Prussian regiments,” The environs of Metz have been inundated by or- der of the French authorities, At the Council of Ministers yesterday favorabie news was communicated from both of the French armies, General Trochu, Governor of Paris, has decided that all individuals devoid of the means of subsist- ence and whose presence contributes to the danger of public order and to the security of person or pro- perty, or whose acts tend to impede the measures of the authorities for defence and general safety, are to be expelled from Paris, All infractions of the above order must be defended before a military tribunal, Many arvesie were made jast nish Over 1.200 SCENE OF PRESENT OPERATIONS. Situations of Stenay, Dun, Mouzay and Buzaney—MacMahon's ‘ Strategic Movement for the Relief of Metz. P fe Laonois eMONE, C @) MagzAY e\*! 4. - Were oceasicned by the order Two hundred bourg Montrarei. Le Constitutionne! dentes that the Germans have been expelled from France. At the beginning of the war they were prevented from leaving. Subse- quently, however, all restriction was removed, and of General Trochu, bersohs were arrested in the Fau- those Who left did so of their own accord. The men who preteud that they were expelled by force falsl- fy. If, however, Paris is besieged the authorities will take such measures as the public safety may demand. ‘The Constttutionnel wonders that M. Thiers should refuse to accept a piace in the Committee of De- fence. His great patriotism ang his connection with the construction of the walls of Paris made it natu ral to select him among the first for the position, It is said that Count Daru will be appointed in his place. The town of Avold having failed on account of total exhaustion to furnish the rations, forage and money demanded by the Prussians, was given up to pillage for one hour and the inhabitants terribly treated. The bakeries of Paris were all visited yesterday by the authorities, in order to investigate whetner they had a supply of nour to last forty days, accord- ing to the average daily sales. ‘The Opinion Nationale says a new army is form- ing behind the Loire, The man who attempted to assassinate Marshal MacMahon has heen tried and was shot. to-day. ‘The subseriptions to the new French loan exceeded One thousand millions of francs, Numbers of soldiers, under arrest in different parts of France for light offences, have been par- doned, and will immediately join their regiments. Sixty thousand dollars have been received here from French residents in the United States for the wounded, and a large sum bas been recelved trom Constantinople, ‘The accounts recetved from places now occapied by the Prassians show that the hostility of the in- habitants 1s increasing and is encouraged by the Mobile Guards and sharpshooters, who attack small bands of Prussians, kiling and wounding many of them, Proyinelal jonrnals say the Prussians increase the anger and hatred of the peasants by dezecrating the Catholic churches, Severai rich prizes have been taken by the feets in the channel and the Baluc. The iast company of French troops embarked at Civita Vecchia on Sunday, the 2ist. Jesuits still urge the Pope to withdraw from Rome and establish himself at Malta. Yesterday engineers were engagec marking the bridges over the Marne which are to be destroyed on the approach of the enemy. it 1s said that the committee of the Corps Législa- tif charged with the consideration, of mulitary measures have proposed to enrol all men between the ages of twenty and thirty-five years. In the Corps Législatif M, Montpayreux proposed the total abolition of the Guard Mobile and the dis- tribution of the men now composing it into the regular army. He supported his proposition in a speech wherein he claimed the measure was urgent and would give the reguiar army at least 100 new regiments. At length the proposition was sent to the Military Committee. It will no doubt be adopted. The French government has taken measures to cause Belgium to arrest the transportation of munt- tions of war or wounded soldiers across her terri- tory. A Jetter to the Univers (ultramontane organ) says:— a cry of horror rings thronghout Alsatia, which hag been so tried by the war. Our magnificent cathedral at Marienthal no longer exists, ‘rhe Prussians burned it after profaning the stacue of the Virgin by covering it with mud and breaking it in pieces, Prassian Losscs During 2 We MEZIERES, August 2 vin Paris, August 26, isio.} The details which are coming in here show that the Prussians received a serious check and suifered enormons losges in the battles of last week. After the last battle the wounded of both armies were bronght here. There were over twelve thou- sand Prussians, who were treated as well as our own wounded. The battle of the 18th was a real snecess for our arms, Its resulc was to render it tmoossible for all of King William’s army to join that of tie Crown Prince, Oniy a small portion of the King's troops went from Pont-a-Mousson to Bar-le-Duc to take part in the movement on Parts. Letters from Rheims and one received via Bel- gium from the French camp report that Bazaine gained a great advantage In a battle on the 23d, capturing many guns and prisoners. These re- ports, however, are probably repetitions of previous rumors, which have not been confirmed, and are only telegraphed in the absence of oficial informa- tion, All strangers who cannot give @ satisfactory account of themselves or obtain respectable refer. ences are to be required to leave Paris in case of siege. The Prefects and Mayors of a number of towns occupied by the Prussians in small force will be dis- missed by the government for showing too little dignity and too much readiness in receiving the invaders, ‘The La Liverté quotes from the law of 1832 to show that all foreigners remaining in Paris may, In case of stege, be calicd upon to serve with the Natlonal Home Guard, The Journal Oficiel says:—Though it is not proper to expose the plans of the government, we may an- nounce that the march of the Prussians on Paris whit be retarded by every possible means,” A decree in the Journal Oficiel appoints Count Daru and two Senators members of the Committee of Defence, Pfalzvurg continues its heroic defence, A church and twenty-one houses have been destroyed by the ‘enemy's shells and the garrison have repulsed two assaults, in whicn the Prussians lost 1,600 men. The town is well supplied with provisions and munitions CHEVICL ON Oy ST pizi \ | train of supplies which had been stopped at Rheims CARIgn % forse. FAW @naconoA Lf p—-DRVERDUN a J \ METZ; KG 1c @Lone Sak, : Sun 4 5 (2 JOINVILLE \ ONEUF CHATE of war. It bas been summoned repeatedly to ca- pitulaie, but its commander replies that be will blow the place up first. Count Patikao in the Chamber yesterday broke out into bitter denunciation of Prussian spies. That they abounded in Paris he pointed to the recent judgments of the council of waras a proof. He bad further evidence which he could show the mem- bers. He hoped they would rely on bis firmness, and added:—"I have in my hands all the means necessary to repress disorder, and shall answer to the Chamber for the preservation of the public tran- quillity.” M. Jules Favre, in the course of the debate, trusted there was no citizen of France so base as to look for defeat aud national ruin as the foundation of his hopes. Such a person he denounced as thrice cursed. The Patrie semt-offivially states that it has in- Tormation concerning the violation of the’ terrt- tory of Belgium, that the Prussian wounded at Saar- bruck and Saarlous were so numerous and so dis- astrous was the situation that the Prussian authori- | Wes were forced to send them to Cologne and | Dusseldorf, but owing to the fact that the armies needed ih) railway clear for the Teception ot reinuforeements and provisions the wounded were conveyed across Belgium and Luxem. bourg without notifying these governments until the wounded were under way. They could not then be sent back, though protesis were made. Count Bismarck, when questioned on the subject, ac- knowledged the tufraction of neutrality but saia he Was foreed so to act. France, says the Patrir, accepts the explanations of Belgium, but denounces to the civilized world the action of Bismarck, who respects no tréatiés or diplomatic conventions, The Journal Oficiel pubitshed Admiral Wilian- mez’s declaration of blockade of the Baltic coast of Germany. Aspecial telegram from Paris dated August 26, | bourg was destroyed, to-day. Itis the duty of the government to warn the Chambers, France and tne people of Paris of the fact. The Committee of Defence had taken all measures t meet assault or siege. They might rely on the energy of the Minister of War. They might count upon the valor of the people of Paris. A similar communication was made to the Senate. PRUSSIAN REPORTS. . A Fourth Army Orzanizing—Violation of a Flag of TruceArtillory Battlo—FKighting at Kehbl and Strasbourg—Strasbourg Sorcly Diatressed=Capture of a French Battery. BERLIN, August 26—7 P. M. A fourth army, under the command of the Prince Royal of Saxony, 13 forming, to co-operate with the third army in the movement on Paris, Colonel Verdy, bearer of a flag of truce and a trnmpeter, were fred upon as they approached the Walls of Metz, and both were wounded, Atelegram from Carisrule, August 26, via Lon- Gon, August 26, at one P. M., says:— Heavy fighting commenced last night at the town of Shenach, ten miles from Montmedy, in the direc- tou of Bowziera, ‘The Prussians cut the ratiway between Chau- vanges and Lamouilly. The wounded are brought to Montmedy. The gates of the ct y have been closed. An assault is momentarily expected, Accounts from Strasbourg represent that the Tau- bourg National has suffered severely from the fire of the besiegera, It is reported that the Cathedral is sughtly damaged, but this 1s doubtful. ‘The open town of Kehl, on the German side of the Rhine, has been nearly razed to the ground by shells thrown by the French from Strasbourg, One corps of the first and second armies still con- | fronts Bazaine, while the remainder of the Prussians have marched on Paris, A telegram from Carlsruhe of August 26 reports as follows:— ‘there was a severe artillery battle at Ketil and StrasLourg on Wednesday night, Jasting until Thurs- «iy morning at five o’clock. A large part of the citadel and arse ul in Stras- Many Gres occurred in that city on account of the vigorous bombardment. A French battery located at Marvien was captured without loss to the Prussians. The French fre has destroyed houses in Keh). The French stories that the Prussians were checked yesterday between Chalous and Verdun are faise, about twenty OMcinl Despatch to Washington. WASHINGTON, D. ©., August 26, 1870, The following telegram was received here to-day, addressed to Baron Gerolt, Minister of the North | German Union:— BERLIN, August 26, 1870. The incident mentioned in the telegram of the 22d has recurred twice since. Captain Rochow, sent by General Alvensleben to Toul with a flag of truce, has been received with shots, and @ trum. peter accompanying another flag of truce has been killed, You will lodge a protest with the United States government against these repeated violations of international law, and declare that we shall be henceforth in the impossibility of sending flags of truce to a nation whose soldiers have lost in Africa, | China and Mexico ali recollection of the usages of | civilized warfare, VON THILE, The effect of the refasal of the French to permit wounded men to pass over neutral territory will be | that the Frepch wounded in our hospitals must Wait until the Germans are treated. The Prussian Moni(eur, referring to the slaughter of Prussians, Bavarians, Wurtemburgers and Ba- deners, sces the unity of Germany cemented by the blood of her heroes, ‘The following are the particulars of a recent vio- lation of a fag of trace:— On August 19 a farm house on the fleld was filted with French wounded. Our surgeons were so busy they could not immediately attend to them, amd Colonel Verdy, witha flag of truce, went to the ene- my’s lines to request the French to send surgeons to the sufferers. As he gage waving the flag, he was fired upon as before reported, and bis mis" sion of hnmanity was defeated. A similar case ctcurred at Marsal, where the besieged fired on a flag which brought a summons to surrender. Phe 2, main ol sage on the city, ‘This is undeniable. Tue success of the French loan bas, ‘Ho doubt, Beem exaggerated grossly, Paris is atill apathetic, The German Unlans are objects of prodigious tetw Tor at Paris, Their arrival there 1s momentarily ex« pected. Patrols are stationed everywiere in the vicinity to announce tne event. The Times this morning has the following resume of the situation: — King Wiiliam, leaving a sumetent force before -Metz, where the #lege works rise like exhalations, Joined the Crown Prince, who was pushing on for Paris, ‘The movements of Marshal MacMahon begin now to be intelligible, A fugitive from Woerth, avord- ing Metz, he pasged through the Vosges to the Mo- selie, to Nancy and to Chalons, where he was remforced by the Garde Mdbvile and the —_-volunteera, His obvious «aim ~—shas been to bar the passages and prevent the advance of the Crown Prince on Paria, Affecting to disregard him the Crown Prince moved on his flank past the camp et Chulons, offering MacMahon battle, which the latier declined, retreating on Rheims, leaving the Chalons camp all to the Prussiane, Since that ttme Rhelins itself has been abandoned. The obvious motive throughout on the part of the French has been to avoid a fight. The Prussians are now within a short march of Paris, where, per- haps, some slight additional resistance may be met. ‘The Prusstaus use the raliway from Lunerville to a point near Strasbourg to transport their wounded. MacManon and .azaine are still out of communt- cation with Paris, A formidable tron clad ram, armed with two enor mous guns, passed the port of Dover, under the French flag, at hail post ten this forenoon, steaming eastwardiy. ‘The London Fcho prints # Parts telegram to-day stating that Madame Tascher de 1a Pageri¢e has been imprisnoed at Vincennes, charged with communi- cating news to the enemy. Other court ladies are unpiicated, ‘The Departinent of Marne, from Chatons to Vassy, is under the control of the Prussians, Belgium deutes having permittea woanded Prua- Sian soldiers to be sent across ler territory. Roms, August 26, 1870. The conduct of the French Legion in demanding to return to France was 0 menacing that the Pope disnissed the troops at once, ‘The London Times of this morning contains a de- spatch from Florence stating that Prince Napoleo. demand for assistance was declined by Italy, Count Bismarck from the first refused to permit any representative of Ausirla to accompany the Prussian army. During a discussion in the Corps Légisiatif yester- day Juies Favre tuformed the Deputies that In his opinion the recent French misfortunes were due to the leaders, After denouncing them he wanted to know whether it was jor Wie “dynasty or the nation that we sre fighting." The Minister of ihe Interior, M. Chevreau, ae- | counted for the delays in the receipt of telegrains by saying that the generals were probably tou busy fighting. The London Standard tins morning has a spectat telegram froin Virton (Belglan Luxembourg) ¢on- taining the following intelligence:— A sharp engagement occurred on Thursday night Stenay, near Montivedy, The Pra sluus were Many of the French wounded are now ‘The French Chambers have adopted 2 new law providing that all wble-bodied men between twenty and thirty-five years of age be enrolled for muitary duty, without liberty to procure substitutes. Immense quaniilies of American cured incats are “shipped from Liverpool to France, ‘There ts great activity im the British armories and navy yards. Lt is rumored that Britigh artillery has heen ordered from Piymouth to Antwerp. J 4 }s-among the Prussians badly wounded in the battios of last Week 1s the Baron von Rahdin, the husvaud of the celebrated prima donna, Pauline Lucca, The police last night made several hundred new There are now 20,000 French prisoners of war in A. M., says:— Do not ex; pes apecine intelligence from this side for several days, There is a great strategic move- ment in progress, the importance of which isto be judged of by the a iat of the generals pnd the au- thorities hére. levlers ind Cott 10nd for the ll ave been stopped, and correspondents are imprisoned wherever found. The military prospects of France are clearer and more certaln than at any time since the commence- ment of the campaign. The French strategic com- Dinations will scarcely fail to be attended with de- cisive results in regard to the destruction of the in- vading army, The latest despatches from Arion, Sedan and Paris, to London, by way of Brussels, give the fol- lowing items of army news:— ‘The railroad from Montmedy to Sedan has been destroyed at Margut, near the Belgian boundary. ‘The Prussians are at Longuton. A gentleman coming from Meta says that the Prussians attacked Fort St. Julien on the atternoon of the 24th. He saw Bazaine’s army, after the bat- tle of the 16th inst.. entering Metz in a frightful state, In spite of the government asseriions there is no communication with Bazaine. Tie victory between Verdun apd Chalons, reported vy the Figaro, proves to be a hoax, General Trocha has published an order expelling from Paris every person who 1s without means of living and ail interfering with the defence of the city. General Pletri has denied to General Trochu the right of reviving the four papers which were lately suppressed by the government. There is great agitation among the masses, who begin to perceive, but too late, that they have been deceived by the government. The soldiers, after fasting two days, plundered a in order to make way for the train bearing the Prince Imperial. ‘The Pretects recommend the people of the pro- vinces to submit politely to the Prussian authorities. Every officer under seventy years of age is to be recalled to duty in the army. MacMahon istrying to reach Bazaine by the way of Meztéres, Montmedy 4nd Thionville, but the Prussians have cut through Varennes and Dun, There is fighting going on between Dun, Buzanzy and Monzay. According to ali probability there wil be an im- poriant action before long not far from Montmedy, At midnight, August 28, the following reports were circulated in Pal The Prince Imperial has been sent to Rethal, The Emperor remains with thearmy of MacMahon. he Mayor of Rheims received on Wednesday a copy of the proclamation declaring the penalty of death will be visited on all civilians who commit acts of hostility. ‘The Monitewr announces that the time for which German vessels going to or from certaln ports were exempted from seizure has now expired, and all vessels belonging to the hostile powers will be made prizes of war wherever found. The Council of Ministers has, upon a revision, re- jected the appeal of Prussia in the case of Herdt, sentenced to death as a spy, and the condemned will be executed immediately, English journals having announced the arrival in England of the wife and famtly of Marshal Can- robert, Madam Canrobert writes to the Parts jour- nals “indignanuy denying the statement and asserting tbat she has not been an hour out of Parls,"? The Scige of Piahisburg—No Surrender. Paris, Angust 26, 1870. At three o'clock this afternoon Pfahisburg was untaken. A church and fifty-one houses had been burned. ‘The Prussians were repulsed in two assaults with a loss of 1,500 men, The eity has four times been summoned to surren- der, The Governor replies tbat he wii sooner biow the piace up. Report to the Legisiatnres Panis, August 26, 1870. In the Corps Légisiatif to-iay M. Chevereaux, Minister of the Interior, said the army of the Crown Prince seemed yesterday to have arrested its on- ward course, bul it commenoed adyancing again ° Germany. ENGLISH REPORTS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Prussian March to tke Relief of King Wil- liam—Reinforcements to the Crown Prince— Eight Departments of France Held by tho Germans—Many German Officers Killed by a Mitraillense Battery—Prussian Requisi- tions on the Frenct People. Lonpon, Angust 26—9 P. M. Special telegrams adaressed by the HERALD cor- respondent in Berlin to this city for transmission to New York state that General Von Falkenstein, of the Prussian army, is reported to be just moving the great part of his force to reinforce the Ger- man troops more directly under the command of King William, and subsequently to join bis corps with the forces of the Crown Prince, The North German government has offered to the American Ministers, Bancroft and Washburne, in Berlin and Paris, farther supplies in addition to the funds and stores which have been collected for the relief and support of indigent Germans who have been expelled from Paris “under the recent war order of Napoicon, While engaged in the duty of unmasking a bat- tery of the French mitrailieuse guns, formed at Mars-la-Tour previous to the late action at that place, there were killed Counts Uestorp and Wes- dalan, with Barons Kiiest, Witziepun, Grim, Henry, and Prince Reuss with other German noblemen of high rank. Advices by special telegram from Paris state that there are now eight territorial departments of France in possession of the Prussians, as follows, viz.:—The departments of the Lower and Upper Khine, the Moselle, the Meurthe, the Meuse, Vosgé a, Marne, and Haute-Marne, ra The above departments contaln a population num. bering 3,261,000, There ts great suffering among the people of the eight departments in consequence of the war opera- tions generally and the army requisitions of ti Prussians. Adyices recelved in London to-day from Bar-le- Duce state that Marshal Bazaine’s army is surrounded by the Prussians near Metz. It is expected that the Marshal will capitulate, as his troops are short of provisions, Telegrams {rom Berlin of this date state that an addition to the German army tn the field will be made, and called the Fourth Prussian army. It will be formed under command of the Crown Prince of Saxony. ‘The Prussian Guard from Berlin will be attached wo it. This army is destined to operate in the direction of Paris, with the Third army. or in aid of it, under the Crown Prince. brit’ Prussinn Cavalry Advance—Ramors of Fight- ing—French Hope of MacMahon=The Ger- mane “On to Parie”—French Finance— Afraid of the Uhinns—The Position at the Front—King William’s Army—Bazaine and MacMi Cut Off from Paris C tionNo Ald to France ftom arrests—200 in the Faubourg Montmartre alone. Among the prisoners were @ Bumber of strange wonien, Who liad In their possession inoney which they could not saiisfuctorily account for, They are said to be sp and persons paid to create trouble along the Faubourg Montmartre and adjoining streets, Many houses were searched. ‘The arrests were chiciy made in obscure hotels and lodging houses. In all 2,000 persons have been arrested, ‘The Opinion Nationale asks why Euglana, whom no one menaces, arms in such feverish haste? Eng- land, who never spends @ pound for any cause not her own, yet is now speading millions in arming? ‘The Opinion wants to know what is the object of the unwonted activity. ‘The Garde Mobile is to be merged into the regular army. All vagrants, suspected persons and those who might compromise the public safety bave been or- dered to leave Paris, The Ties, News and other London journals are almost maudiin in their expressions of sudden affec- tion for Prussia, but they “misrepresent the average resolution of the Engiish people,” Tne London Standard says, however, “that it thinks it sees signs, on the part of the London Tunes, of preparations to change sides."? ‘The latest news from the Continent, dated at ten o'clock to-night, reporta as follows:—The Prussian cavairy is re ied at Doulevant, St. Remy, Brienne, Landres and Chateau-Mlerry (the latter a station on the Eastern Rajiroad, fifty miles from Paris). Le Siecle, contemplating the probability of a bom- bardment of Paris, urgently recommends the remo- val of the pictures from the galleries of the Louvre and the books from the Imperial Library. A letter from Berlin says:—“The French in all their actions begin to fireso soon that they canse great slaughter hetore the Prussians are within charging distance. It is admitted that the French fight bravely, but asserted that the positions they leave would have been retained under the same cir- cumstances if occupied by the Prussians,” ‘The King of Prussia ieft the battle Mela at Rezone ville at three o'clock in the afternoon. As he passett through Gorze he was attended by Moltke, Trechow, Verdy, Prince Frederic Charles, the Duke of Mech- Ienberg, and Count Kukisof Count “Bismarck, who was exploring the fleld of battle, in hts carriage with Genera! Sheridan, was not to be found when asked for by the King, and did not come in until dusk, The Situation at Rheims aud Gravelotte= h Attempt to ach and Reinforce eMahou—Vrince Charles? March. Lonpon, Augnst 26, 1870, A special correspondent writing from Rheims, Wednesday (24th), says:—this morning as we were at breakfast an oMcer of the Intendanee informed us that we must start instantly for Rethel. The Prussians are maiching on Kheims and are expected here this evening. True or not, this Intelligence hastens the move- ment of the army, and makes it look more like a mere retreat than ever. A special correspondent writing from the head- quarters of King William at Grave otie, the 20th, say®:—lrench columns were seen by the Prussian videttes the day alter the battle on the road to Thionville, it ts supposed endeavoring to escape; but they are nevertheless cut off from MacMahon. We are ail on short rations, the First Prussian army having now occupied the same region for some days, and tie country all about being eaten out, but supplies ave hourly expected, and the mep are cheerful. 1 have Just returned from a visit to the outposts of our army, which are under the guns of Forts St. Quentin and Carrieres, and look down on the valley im which Metz fies. A large French camp may be seen between Metz aud the hil crowned by St. Quentin, Yesterday and today the Prussian pioneers are throwing up earthworks for defence against the satlies from marck and Austria=The French Logisla- ture—Food for Paris. Lonpon, Angust 26—9 P. M. A strong detachment of Prussian cavalry occupies Donlevant. ” The Prussian curassers have encamped at St Reiny. : Metz; Dut I believe that the whole plateau 1s within easy range of the great guns in tie fort, and that a bombardment would follow an attempt to estab- iish the Prussian army in that position, ‘The same correspondent writes on the 19th tha OONTINVED ON TENTH PAGE ‘