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THE WAR. French Territory to be An- nexed to Germany. Formal Announcement of Prussia to that Effect. PROGRESS OF THE MISSION OF M, THIERS The Basis of a Treaty of Peace Proposed by Him. All Hope of Suspending Hos- tilities Abandoned. How, When and Where King Wil- liam Will Make Peace. The Prussian Forces Still Ad- vancing on Paris. VICTOR HUGO ON THE CRISIS. His Special Appeal to the American People Through the Herald. Bismarck’s Report of His Inter- view with Napoleon. ihe P American French Gratitude for The Blockade in the Baltic and North Seas About to be Raised. THE QUESTION OF PEACE. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW. YORK HERALD. Formal Notification by Prussin ef an Inten- tion to Annex French Territory to Ger- many—Russia Opposed to the Dismember- ment of France. Lonpoy, Sept. 13, 1870, A despatch from Munich, dated yesterday, announces the important intelligence that the Prussian government has formally notified Bavaria of its intention to annex to Germany # portion of France as a military frontier. RUSSIA OPPOSED TO DISMEMBERMENT. Ihave learned to-day, on the best author- ity, that the Emperor of Russia is more de- cided than ever in his opposition to the dis- memberment of France. Should Prussis Insist upon annexing any portion of French territory either to herself or to Germany at large, the Russian government will propose ® congress of European Powers to settle the ternia of peace. French Advances Towards Kiog William for Peace—Where, When and on What Terms He May Treat. Lonpon, Sept. 183—P. M. Ihave just received a special telegram for the Heratp, dated at Beauvais, France, which states that within the past week ad- vances were made towards the King of Prus- sia with the view of ascertaining from his Majesty in what form overtures for peace on the part of the French people would be likely to be acceptable. The reply was in the shape of a Prussian official intimation to the effect that King Wil- liam cannot have, does not have the means of knowing either the exact status or authority of the persons making or conveying these proposals, nor has the time, in any case, arrived for a solemn executive reception of them. When the Prussian army has arrived before Paris the King will be found still anxious to treat the arrangement of such a peace as will afford guarantees of safety and security for Germany in the future. His Majesty will then make a formal demand on the people of the city of Paris either to surrender or arrange a peace with this intent, and he will hold himself ready to receive any propositions ‘which may come from those in authority inside the fortifications having this object in view or with this intent, M. Thier Mission to England=He “Does Not Kuow the Republic?—peace Intervention of the Crown to be Solicited=French Repub- Hican Bases of a Peace Treaty. Loxpon, Sept. 13—Evening. ‘M. Thiers arrived in England from France this morning. Ihave seen him. He looks careworn, in ill health, and rather dejected in his demeanor. The aged statesman evinces a disinciination to engage in any conversation approacning the subject of the war. He exchanged a Very few words with an old friend and intimate personal acquaintance after landing at Dover. Tiiis gentleman inquired of M. Thiers if he came tw England as the accredited Envoy or Minister of ‘the French republic. M. Thiers indicated in his reply that he did not know the French republic, but took cognizance only of the government for national defence in Paris. A PEACE TREATY BASIS. Thave very good reason to believe, however—in- eed, I have authority for the statement—that a de- Anite proposition for the arrangement of peace ‘between France and Prussia has been offered by the French on behair of the provisional government of France in Paris, and that M. Thiers has been com- ‘migsioned and duly authorized to submit the plan in ite entirety to the British Cabinet Ministers, and at the same time solicit the intervention of the Queen's government with the view of having 1+ adepted by the contending Powers, a ‘Thiers’ proposition for peace reads as fol- Wwe ¥irst—The payment by France to Prassia ot the expenses of the war. Second—The destruction of all the French forts in Alsace and Lorraine, except Metz and Strasbourg. Third—A ytemporary occupation of tne fortresses of Metz and jStrasbourg by the German troops; the occupation to endure until after a general election in France has duly authorized the complete ratifica- tion of the treaty of peace by the proper authorities of that country. BETURN OF THE PRUSSIAN AMBASSADOR FROM DEAL— MR. GLADSTONE WITH M. THIERS. Count Alpert de Bernstord, the Prussian Ambaasa- dor to Great Britain, who has been in conference with Earl Granville, the English Secretary of State tor the Foreign Department, at Walmer Castle, Deal, since Saturday last, returned to London this after- noon, Earl Granville learning of the arrival at London of M. Thiers, also came into the city to-day, and at this hour (3:30 P, M.) ig in consultation with nim at the French embassy. WHAT TERME OF FRACE GRRAT ERIFAIN, WILL AGRER The Times this morning says:—M. Thiers comes to England pursuant to information reaching the pro- visional government, and is doubtless authorized to express the views of that government touching peace. We hope those views may be accepted as tne basis of negotiations. The conditions will probably embrace the dismantiing of Metz and Strasbourg or their occupation for three years by the Germans. If the verms are at ali reasonable Englana will back them. A RUSSIAN PAPER ON M. THIERS’ MISSION. ‘The Journal de St. Petersburg (semi-ofMcial) dis- cussing the mission of M. Thiers to the neutral Pow- ers, hopes he will carry home a conviction favorable to peace. To do so he must sacrifice many preju- dices and obsolete ideas. He will then set France a great example and make bis own infuence more powerful than ever, PARIS HOPEFUL OF THE MISSION. ‘Shere is a strong feeling in Paris that the mission o» M. Thiers to the three courts will be productive of fruitful results, MAKING A REPUBLIC OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE, ‘The idea has been started in Berlin of converting Alsace and Lorraine into an independent republic, and it is regarded with favor in London. It is looked on as a condition to which both belligerents can agree. All Hope ef an Armistice Abandoned— American Recognition Not Valued in Paris. Lonnon, Sept. 13—Night. The Morning Post, speaking seml-officially, says the neutrals have abandoned all hope of suspending hostilities, The HERALD’s special correspondent at Berlin Tuesday telegraphs by authority that the report that Bancroft has made representations to the govern- ment at Washington on the subject of mediatiqn is utterly unfounded. The United States have not offered their good ofices, but will actif the belli- gerents request her to do so. The Telegraph's Paris correspondent says that American recognition is really but little valued there, and 1s regarded more as the good will of a Power without material weight in the European system. it is noticed that the only American Minister no- tified of the efforta for peace on the part of Great Britain is Mr. Curtin, at st. Petersburg. OATES oe ‘fHE SITUATION IN PARIS. TELEGRAMS TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. Consolation from New York—Victor Hugo on the French Crisimflis Aspirations for Peace—Special Appeal Through the Herald for American Mediation—City Defence—The March to the Front=Every-Day Life in the Capital—When the Prussinns May Arrive. Lonpon, Sept, 13, 1870, I have received telegraph letters from Paris dated on the 12th inst., in the afternoon, which inform me that the journals of the French capital copy in an approving tone and with applause the language and words of the New YoRK HERALD in which foreign intervention between France and Prussia 1s recom- mended for the purpose of preventing a further pro- secution of the War.” <-""wrtresrotseets. pica Yesterday I was accorded an interview by M. Vic- tor Hugo. After afew words of preliminary conver- sation I told him that the exact object of my visit was for the purpose of obtaining his views of the position which the United States of America heid towards the French republic, and, if he so pleased, am exporition also of his feeling with regard to the atplomacy of the American people and their gov- ernment on the resent orisis in the affairs of his country. M. Hugo replied #% once. He first expressed him- self ag being highly, Jed wigh the editorial articles which were piSlished in the HaRap on the French revolutionary changes, as he was well aware, he said, that the paper faithfully represented the public sentiment of America. He told me next that he had aeterminea ‘to address a special appeal to the American people on the issues of the day, and then continued to speak thus:— “Since you saw me last,” said M, Hugo, “the snows of many winters have whitened my head, but netther time nor the pains of exile have deadened my heart to the sense of deselation which fills it to-day at the sight of the many misfortunes which have fallen on this unhappy land—on France, my country! My grief is of too poignant a character to be uttered in words. I can- not convey to you what I feel at these sad results of the work of that one man, who is now expiating his crimes agamsat the counwy by his downfall end captivity. But why, sir, should not the conqueror be now satisfied? Why is he not satiated with the blood of so many victims—blood which has been shed and alreaay sacrificed to an unboly ambition? Why should King William of Prussia, who at the commencement of the struggle solemnly declared that he warred not on the people of France, but on Bonaparte, be content—content now that his crowned antagonist has been stricken down from his imperial eminence and disappeared personally from the scene of strite? The faiPof Bonaparte, sir, permits me and mine—my family and friends—to return to this the city of my home, after nineteen years of exile. Why shall we now be slaughtered on the very hearth for what we have pined for so long, and for the only reason that because Prussia has had her anger provoked by the deeds ot a public criminal whom the justice of the Providence of God has at length overtaken. It will be an eternal disgrace to the name and nonor of King William of Prussia if he refuses to sheath the bloody sword now that the exciting cause which caused him to draw it against France is gone, has been obliterated. The people of Germany, sir, are humane as they are courageous. Their king mis- takes, sir, Fassure you that he mistakes the senti- ment of the German people it he imagines that it 1s their wish to prolong @ frightful butchery of human life by war; a butchery which tends to degrade the nation over which he rules; degrades a people who have been dragged Into the confict by Bonaparte, not of their own free will. Tie ty “Tne appeal,” continued M. Hago, “which I lately addressed to all Christian Germans was made merely in response to many solicitations which I had pre- viously received from almost every quarter and part of Fatheriand, requesting me to raise my humble voice against the barbarity of war between two such nations. Thank God, my appeal has been heard; for to-day, this day, sir, I have a letter which comes direct from the headquarters camp of King William of Prussia, signed by ten thousand men in arms, in which they say that whey shrink from further slaughter. “Will not the United States of America, the home of so many Germans and of 80 many French—will not the citizens of that glorious Union—even if its gov- ernment refuses to do so—make one grand Christian effort to extinguish the horrid, Naming, lurid torch of war? Will not the elder sister of our young French republic stretch forth her hand in remon- strance at the untold calamities which thteaten us here in Paris? I appeal, then, to them in my own humble name. May Heaven vouchsafe that the ac- cents of anguish in which I speak may reach their hearts and so incline the American people to pro- test, protest in the name of reason and in the name of humanity, against a further waste of human hife, against the sacrifice of a people at the command of a king, a command which is inflicting death on an unoifending and brother people.” In words and terms such as the above did M. Victor Hugo express to me for publication in the columns of the HERALD the sense of torture which appeared to rack both his mind and body in conse- quence of all that he had seen and heard of the miseries and sufferings which had been induced to his fellows by this fearful war. 1 can merely convey a very faint notion—an idea only—of the words of thrilling eloquence in which he spoke. I was so dazzled, 80 much affected, by his m: ificent language, the deep and solemn tone of voice in which he spoke and the impressive man- ner of hia delivery, that, although Ihave attempted to report the interview at length, I can only write a meagre aketch of my impressions of the scene, PEACE, In reply to @ question of mine on the subject of peace M. Hugo said that he believed that the French Tepublic would accept peace on any honorable terms short of yielding up territory to Prussia. 10 THE FRONT. There was a grand military movement made in every part of the city to-day in consequence of the Occasion of the departure of the last contingent of soldiers towards the front for the final concentration of the troops which are to resist the advance of the enemy. ‘The near approach of the Prassian armies seems to have raised the military ardor of the people to the very highest pitch. ‘The streets are tilled with thou- sands of volunteers and regulars, who are marching ana countermarching from point to point in order to take ap the most effective positions for defence or offence, A GOOD APPOINTMENT. Henri Rochefort has been appointed commander of the barricades of Parla, . A PLEBISCITUM. Louis Blane publishes a very forcible article in the Reveille asking that the Prussian monarch shall agree to submit the question by vote to the innabi- tants of Alsace and of Lorraine whether they will attach themselves to France or Germany in the future, VOLUNTEERS. Fourteen hundred young men who have been em- Ployed as clerks in the ollices of the different de- partments of the government took their departure from Paris to-day for Tours. OBSERVATIONS. Experiments are being made with anchored bel- loons In order to test the value of balloons for pur- poses of observation in war, AT MONTMARTRE, ‘The cannon on the fortifications of Montmartre re- quired twenty-four hours’ labor of a great number of mnen to drag them into position. ROTHSCHILD'S COMPLIMENT TO KING WILLIAM. His Majesty King William of Prussia will sleep next Wednesday night at Rothschild’s country seat, near Paris, The place was tendered for the use of the King, it is alleged, by the owner with the view of saving it from destruction by his army. REPUBLICAN FINANCE The government of the republic is about to issue Money bills of the value of five, ten and twenty Trance, THE PRISONS AND CHURCHES, The prisons of Paris have been emptied of their occupants. The prisoners have been sent to the provinciai jails, The city prisons and churches are all used as hospitals and etorehouses for army pur- poses. IN THE FORESTS. Orders have been issued to kill all the game in the forests of St. Germain, Versaiiles and Ramboallet, THE LADIES. ‘There are very few femates visible In the streets of Paris. ‘THE SIEGE. I had a conversation a few hours since Colonel Lewinsky, General Von Vader's chier of staff, He said that the Prussians do not intend to press the siege of Paris in an irregular manner. It 18, said he, just now a grand point of study with our engineers and men of science generally how to re- duce the place, Though a good deal stupid to hear those who do not understand the refinements of the science of war continue to express their opinions with an almost mathematical precision that the place must certainly fall on or about the 24th instant, always providing that no unforeseen accident occurs in the works or to the army approach, with Watching from a Bailoon for the Prusyians— The Paris Papers—Warlike Conversation with Prussians—Eulogy of M. Thiers. PaRis, Sept. 13, 1870. Wilfrid de Fauveille, the author of several treatises on air navigation, is constantly on the ‘watch for the approaching Prussians from a balloon. He has algo prepared other balloons, which will be properly anchored, to serve as outlooks from diffe- rent parts of the city. The Paris papers retain their former prices, not- withstanding the abolition of the stamp duty, be- cause advertising patronage is destroyed and paper is invaluable. The Opinion Nationale, referring to the Paris fortifications, says:—The Prussians will find some- thing to speak to, and materia! abundant to make the conversation long and interesting. The Journal des Débats has long editorial to-day exalting the patriotism of M. Thiers, ‘The staff of the Ministry of the Interior has reached Tours. A pass countersigned bya member of the ministry is pow requisite tor any person entering or leaving Paris. Count de Chambord exhorts his adherents to re- sist invasion as the duty of all Frenchmen, Nansouty’s cavalry escaped miraculously from Se- dan, and have arrived in Paris, Portugal has recognized the French republic. . Americans residing in the suburbs of Paris are advised to remain in their houses, and raise their national flag. Communication between Brussels and Paris is still maintained by way of Douai and Quierran. A despatch from Marseilles says that bands of Spanish volunteers in the French service are march- ing through the city carrying the French and Spanish flags. A letter from Dr. Marton Sims, who {s doing nos- pital service w:th the French army, states that American ambulances have been more useful than others. The government is daily more anxious for peace. Girardin quitted Parts yesterday. The mails from London are still made up for Paria, but the railway to-day refuses to sell passcngers tickets beyond Calais. R: PORT FROM TOYRS. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. Arrangements to Receive the Corps Discontinued. TOURS, Sept. 13, 1870. The arrangements making here to receive the diplomatic body have been discontinued. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs has decided to remain in Paris the representatives of tbe foreign governments will also stay there some days longer, Diplomatic LONDON REPORTS. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Transporting Refugees to England—A Potent Inquiry—Ex-Queen Isnbella in Bavaria— Minister Washburne Thanked—A Brussels Paper on American Recogniti LONDON, Sept. 13, 1870. The steamer Napoleon II1., of the General Trans- atlantic line, is now engaged transporting French refugees to England. ‘There is an active inquiry proceeding at Paris into the distribution of the vast secret service fund of the empire. The Paris Figaro regards the tender of American mediation as the opportunity for peace. The ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, with the Prince Asturias. has withdrawn to Bavaria, The Prussian government has thanked Mr, Wash- burne for extend:ng assistance to the Germans in France. The Independance Belge says that the policy of the American government occasions no surprise con- sidering the close intimacy of Minister Bancroft aud Count Bismarck. It 1s dented, however, at Berlin that Mr. Bancroft has made any representations in favor of mediation, BISMARCK AND POLEON. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. OMcial Report of Coant Bismarck of His interview With NapoleonTerms of Capitu- lation Sought by the Emperor—He Was Forced Into theWar by the Force of Public Opini Lonpon, Sept. 13, 1870. Count Bismarck’s oMcial report to King William, dated at Douchery on the 2d inst., is published here to«lay. He recites at length an interview held with the French ‘Emperor atySedan, which lasted for an matter of the capitulation than had been offered at first by the Germans. On this, as a military point, Von Bismarck refused discussion, but announced to the Emperor that he ‘Wes quite willing and ready to discuss questions looking to peace. The Emperor replied that as he ‘Was @ prisoner that was impvasibie, but referred the Count to the actual government at Paris. Von Bismarck said the situation at Paris offered no enter- ing point for such an overture. ‘The Emperor then proposed that the French army ‘be allowed to pass the Belgian frontier, and there surrender its arms. This was also refused. ‘The Emperor stated further that he deplored the horrors of war, but that he had yielded wholly to public opinion in deciaring war. Bismarck accompanied the Emperor to Bellevue, where General Wimpffen was at that time negotlat- ing with King William relative to the capitulation. ‘The Emperor was not allowed to see the King until the negotiations for the surrender were con- cluded. When these were finally announced they destroyed the Emperor’s hope for better terms. ‘The French officers were then dismissed on parole, “TO AMERICA. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. Demoustratious in Houor of the United States at Marseilies and Havre—fours. Proparing to Receive Minister Washburne. PARIS, Sept. 13, 1870, An Imposing demonstration was made in Mar- seliles yesterday in honor of the United States. Twenty thousand people assembled in front of the American Consulate, and the city authorities through M. Esquiros presented an ad- dress to Milton M. Price, the Consul of the United States, Speeches were made, the band played tne national airs of America and France, and the im- mense crowd cheered with great enthusiasm the Consul and the government of the United States, ‘The American Consul at Havre has been saluted by @ succession of enthusiastic demonstrations, Very great excitement still prevails at Paris and other continental capitals regarding American me- dilation, ‘Tne people of Tours are much impressed in favor of the American government, and anxiously await the arrival of Minister Washburne that they may testify their gratitude for bis prompt recognition of the repuplic. THE MILITARY OPERATIONS. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORX HERALD. Positions of the German Forces—Parix Still Fortifyiog—Prussian Repulse at Chateau Thierry—Soissous Defiant. Panis, Sept. 13, 1870, This morning nothing was known here of the exact positions occupied by the Prussian forces. According cO various accounts which reached me they had arrived at Meaux, Ligay and Melun, Later an the day I learned that the maim body of their army arrived yesterday afternoon at a point within twenty-eight miles of Parts and were continuing their aavance, though slowly and with caution. In addition to the places named the Prussians were, on yester- day noon, at Provins, in the Department of Seine et Marne, and also at Laval-Tracy and at Carlepont, in the Department of Oise. THE DEFENCE OF Panis. It is claimed by the government that every hour which passes before the Prussians arrive tu sight of the fortresses increases the chance of a successful defence of A position has just been discovered at Sevres, which commands the Seine and a portion of Paris, and it 1s now being rapidly fortified. ‘The ramparts are divided into nine sec- tions, each under a separate commander, The guns there and in the forts are manned by sailors from Chervourg and Toulon. The National Guards are camped out on the giaciz. The forts are garrisoned by the National and Mobile Guards, who are under stringent military discipline. A line of troops 1s stationed between the exterior forts and the ram- parts, supported by the volunteers and provincial mobile. There 13, however, little confidence among the officers that the city can resist. PRUSSIANS REPULSED AT CHATEAU THIERRY. Last Suaday a Prussian reconnoitring party ar- rived at Chatean Thierry, where they unexpectedly encountered a force of French cavalry. A sharp en- gagement ensued and resulted in the repulse of the Prussians with considerable loss. SOISSONS DEFIANT. Thave advices from the armies which state that ata late hour last night Soissons still held out against the Prussians. The Germans demanded a sur- render. ‘To this summons the French commandant replied that he would blow up the place rather than give it up to the Prussians. It 1s said that the in- habitants of Solsson: d of its resolution. Review of the Arm: ridges Blown Up— Movements of the Uhlans—Positions of the Prussians=A French Prefect Imprisoned. Paris, Sept, 13—Night. General Trochu passed the army now serving in Paris in grand review to-day, The bridge of Creil, on the river Olse, was blown up bythe French yesterday, and all the other bridges which lead towards the city of Paris on the advance route of the Prussians will also be de- stroyed. ‘The Prussian ublans have appeared at Nogent-sur- Seine. They threaten to bombard the town across the river should the bridge in their front be blown up. ‘There are 8,000 Prussian pioneers at Chalons. The regiment of White Cutrassiers of Prussia {s at Chaumy awatting the arrival there of the army which 4s to attack Soissons. Several thousand Bavarian soldiers are in the neighborhood of Vancouvieurs. At Baon the Prefect has been made prisoner, and will be taken to Gen Moltke, in relation to the catastrophe of the blowing up of the citadel. » Trench general who was wounded by the ex- plosion .8 gtarded as a prisoner in the Prussian hospital, FREYCH THANK REPORTED SURREND' DR OF METZ. TELEGRAM TO THE NOW YOIK HERALD. Reported Unconditional Surrender of ‘With the Army Bazaine. LONDON, Sept. 13, 1870, A startling rumor is current in the streets this eveniag to the effect that the tortress of Metz, ‘o- gether with the entire army of Marshal Bazaine, has surrendered unconditionally to the German armies commanded by Prince Frederick Charles and General Steinmetz. No offictal advices of the occurrence of this im- portant event have reached the Prussian embassy here, but the report is nevertheless credited by the German diplomats. THE SIEGE OF STRASBOURG. TELESRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Progress of the Siege~The Third Parallel Nearly Completed—Expected Surrender of the Garrison= Operations Slow but Sure. PARIS, Sept, 13, 1870, The course which Is to be pursued in a siege is not entirely a matter of choice with the beslegers. Strasbourg is surrounded by three concentric moats, each one eighteen feet deep, and uniess the water of the river Ill can be diverted from its present channel they present an insurmountable obstacle to storming party. It is the general Opinion here that;General Ulrich, the commandant in Strasbourg, will capitulate to the Prussians as soon as their tnird line of siege parallel approaches its completion. The first and second Hines of parallel are now armed with twenty-four pounder guns. The third line will be armed with one hundred and twenty-five pounders, which, when worked ata distance of only @ couple of hundred yards, cannot fail to silence the French batteries. Telegrams from Brumath, four miles from Stras- bourg, date? on the 9th inst., report that the rule of operations which are conducted against the fortress 1s slow but sure, Metz, The Sortie on Thursday—Loss of the Prus- sianv—The Course of the River Ill Diverted—Effective Fire on the Citndel. LONDON, Sept, 13, 1870. The HERALD special correspondent before Strae- hour, Napoleon seught better conditions in the « borg writes on the 9th:—In the sorties ov Thura- * NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1870,—TRIPLE SHEET. day and Friday the French report the German loss to be from 8,000 to 10,000 men. The actual toss was under fifty men. The total loss during the last fort. night will not exceed 150, ‘The efforts to divert the river III, which fils the moat, have resulted in a complete success. New mortars have been placed in position throw- ing shell of two hundred pounds weight. The fire. on the face of the citadel is exceedingly effective. A breach has already been made in the walls, and the assault will be ready @ week hence, A capitula- Uon 18 expected before the final attempt. THE FRENCH NAVY. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The Blockade Shortly to Be Raised in the Baltic and North Seas—The Flect Concca- trating in Danish WatereAction of the French Naval Officers on Receiving Infer- mation that the Republic Wes Proclaimed= Satixfaction at Fourichow’s Appointment— General Items. Paris, Sept. 15, 1870. The HERALD’s correspondent at Hamburg, the lith, writes there are many mdications that the French shortly intend to raise the blockade in both the Baltic and North seas, When Fourichon heard that a republic had been proclaimed and himself appointed Naval Minister, ne assembled the ofcers of the squadron on the fagship and consulted them as to the expediency of recognizing the republic, Nearly all were willing, and Fourichon started for Cherbourg. The greater part of the Baltic feet is concentrated at Kioge Bay and the rematnder is anchored off Moen Island, both in Danish waters, notwithstand- ing the prohibition of the Danish King. The heavi- est ships will be ordered soon to return to France. The blockade is continually evaded, as the ships are ‘unfit for such service. Yesterday the Lubeck Cham- ber of Commerce teiegrapned to the German Consul 4t Copenhagen asking whether the French fleet was still in the Baltic, as it had not been seen for more than a week, Notwithstanding the reported return of the French fleet preparations for defence are unrelaxed. Ad- vices to-day from Alsen Sound warns vessels against entering the roadatead, all communications having been just closed by a triple row of torpedoes, Hamburg has been notified to receive 1,800 French prisoners, who will be placed on the American steamers in the harbor. A HERALD special correspondent, with the Baitlo fleet, writes:—- x COPENHAGEN, Sept. 7, 1870. There have been no serious demonstrations by the fleet since the atfair at Colberg, where the Prus- sians holsted a hospital fag and ladies crowded the pier and the Admiral refused to fire. The news of the capitulation and the mauguration of the repub- luc produced no disturbauce. Fourichon’s appointment as Naval Minister was well received, and itaparis fresh hope, The squad- ron will bow receive practicable orders or be re- called. Despatches order ail the squadron to ren- aezvous at Langeland, to arrive on Saturday, the 10th, and await insiructions. Since the above was written it i3 believed one division of the feet has been ordered nome and have passed the Straits of Dover. GERMAN ARMY LOSSES. Prussian OMvial Report Great Battles—The Regiments which were Particularly DistinguishedOmMccrs Killed and Wounded=Men who Feil by the Chasse- pot and Afitralleuse. {Berlin (August 23) correspondence of London ‘Ties. Atlength the first oficial jist of losses In the feld have been made public. They oniy faliil too com. pletely the melancnoly anucipations with which we sew the troops going out to the war. Although re- stricted to ofilcers, and referring only to a few intro- ductory engagements, they conta figures which will not easliy be erased from the minds of men. I Will just give you a few examples, AS you may be aware a Prussian regiment ona war footing lias 3,006 men with 69 officers. Of these 69 officers the Seenty-fourth regiment (Hanoverfans) Jost no less than 0 in kiiled and wounded at Weis- kenburg. The Seventy-seventh (also Hanoverians) on the same Occa-ion lost 25 officers; the Thirty- ninth (Rhinelanders), 26; the Eighty-second ¢Hes- slang), 19; the Ninety-tifth (Thurm@lans), 16; the Eighty-third (Hessians), 14; the lifty-third (Westphalians), 11; the Eighty-cighth (Nas- saners), 9; the Bightieth (Hessians), 8, &c. Still worse was it at Woerth, where the Prussians were for five mortal hours opposed to the French, who Were stationed on the fills and could not be dislodged unul taken in flank by Wartemburgers and Bavarians. There the Fifty-elgith regiment (Poseners), had 32 dead and ‘wounded officers; the Fifty-ninth (Poseners), 23; the Seventh (King’s Grenadiers)—Lower Silesians and German Posen. ers), 35; UI Forty-seventh (Lower Silesians), 20; the Forty-sixth (Lower Silesians), $3; the Fifty- seventh (Lower Silecstans), 30; the Sixth (West- pbalians), 28; the Thirty-seventh, (Westphadans), 2 b,&c. of Losses in the What terrible conclusions must be derived from these statistics in respect of the higher grades ag to the number of casualties among rank and file I need not say. But the most frightful carnage of all in the eariler part of the campaign was at Spiche- ren, Whose steep and precipitous heights, defended by a tearing fre from cannon, mitrailieuse and Chassepots, were thrice assaulied in vain, and at last carred atthe point of the bayonet. On this spot 10,000 Prussians, gradu- ally increased to 27,000, struggied against 40,000 French. Though thejoffictal list does not yet extend to this sanguinary encounter, there can be no doubt as to the correctness of the private intelligence for- warded me, Which gives the total of tne loss as 2,297, of whom 811 are dead and 1,486 wounded. Accordingly every twelfth man was killed or wounded, Some companies left nearty one half of their men on the spot, as, for instance, the Fifth company of the Forty-eighth (Rhinelanders), which went with 250 men into the fireand came out with 129, and the First company of the Eighth (King’s Own—Brandenburgers), which, on the evening of the battie, consigned 107 comrades either to the grave or the hospital, Passing on to the tremendous three days’ battle, an near Metz, we lave but private intelligence, this only referring to individual detachments: we know already enough to imagine the re the 14th, in the action nained alter Pange or celles, the Forty-eighth (Khineianders) lost 32 oM and 891 rank and file; in other words, about J third its compiement. A rifle battalion in the same locality was by the enemy’s fire deprived oi nine of iis oMcers and 270 rank and file—that is, of a third of the officers and @ fourth of the men. On the 14th, as well as on the 16th—the latter being the battle of Mars-la-Tour, or Vionviile—tne losses Of the Prussians were comparatively greater than those of the French, the former being on both occasions greatly outnumbered, yet holding fast the enemy with a bulldog’s tenacity. to give their main force time to come up and engage him in right earnest. At Mars-la-Tour the best blood of the country was spilt like water. Within a few moments, by the un- expected unmasking of a mitratileuse battery, Count Westrap, Count Wesdelen, Baron Kleist, Henry Vil., Prince of Rew Baron Grimm, Baron Witzleben, and many 0! oblemen of high rank and position were killed, The grand finaie at Kezonviile, or Gravelotte, on the 18th, where the Prasslan hosts, at last assembled in strength, are said to have suffered a loss of 18,000 combatants, Was worthy of the begin- ning. Nor did the French suffer tess. In the three actions near Metz they had nearly 16,000 dead, and 50,000 dead, wounded and prisoners togetner. Well may tt be asked what has made these batties so unusually bloody. Different circumstances have combined to work out the awful result, The valor of the German and French soldiery and the extreme exasperation of the German race tor the sufferings they have for centuries endured at the hands of their Western neighbors are among the primary reasons of the extreme bitterness of the strife. So rarely have the Germans been sufficiently united to be able to cope with France, amd go joni have they accordingly had to pocket invasion an affront, that now, wien the time for paying off has at Jast arrived, every man in the army is incited by @ personal desire for revenge, ana heartily enjoys the work in hand. Not to dwell upon other more serious injuries, the speeches of M. Thiers and his associates, the jen, gion articles of French news- er Writers, and the whole tone of French liter- fits siice 1840, bave gindled the fire which is now consuming France. Again, the terrible efficacy of taodern weapons and the pecuilar strategy employed ‘by the 0) ng Rare Bergven superadded to the*| pidmostty of t ie combatant Scarceiy everin the course of the entire cam- paign have the French met the Germans in the open field, They were either posted on hills high ana dificult of ascent, or concealed in rife pits of enor- mons length and systematic continuity. Standing always on the defensive they were at liberty to choose their battle grounds, and the use they made of this privilege nas been deadly to their adveraa- ries, At Spicheren they were on an isolated rock, rising abruptly out of the valley. Woerth found them on the top of a semicircular ridge, and con- cealed in the vineyards and hop gardens of the adjoining slones. At Weissenburg they fought partly behind ramparts. partly on the summit of the Gaisherg. At Pange or Courcelles they had dug themseives the carth, Mars-la-Tour was in the Spicheren styie: and on Rezonviile or Gravelotte the official telegram says that the entire army of the enemy was stationed in a fortress-iike position, being disposed in woods and on hills. The Prus-- siahs having Ww charge an enemy so advantageously posted, naturally always lost @ large number of men before getting at lim. In many instances they were the more easily pelted with every description of missile, a» the ground trom which they had to attack had been designedly cleared of trees aud al! omer cover. sf the French were formidabie ou the defensive, the Germans proved none the less so in the attack. The German tactics fu the present war do not seem Lo adinit of SLULWNE any difleulty however embarrassing 1% 3 may appear. From the rt commencement of the campaign the moment the hetmeted posts deserted the eneiny, no matter where and when, they rushed to the confict, and undeterred by the greatest sacri- fives, by dint of the mos. remarkabié prowess, Buc~ ceeded in forciug him back, It is not difficult to divine the motives inspiring this prompt but costly" style of warfare. At the beginning of the cam} rapid and decisive successes were absolutely re quired to check those of Germany's nelcnbors. wha. were pegioning to urm and preparing to attack her rear incase of defeat, Later, when this, the first object of the General in command, had been plished, an expeditious progress of the oj ‘Was none the less desirable in order to sever the tWoi French armies from each other, and batter, snattert and demolish the old and tried soldiery oi before the new levy en masse could be carried out. But although this massacre uas not lasted for a fortnight, ana although they are not professional soldiers, but civilians in uniform, the pith and flower of the country, that ure being slaugh ered tn these Inurderous contests, | have not yet heard any one advocating a pause. Now, as ever, the general cry is to “put down France,” to “cripple France,” and, by enfeebling her entire position, reuder it umpossi-i ble for her to jacnige agus in those “mali brome enades” for which she has evinced so enduring and 80 morbid a proclivity, “Strange to say, it is the very fact of the Prussian army consisting of civilians which renders It, and the people too, generally so: martial tn the present emergency. As, being ctvil- Jans, they cannot afford “to go to war very often, they wish to establish peace on what they suppose to be a secure basis, and are resolute to push tacit advantage to the utmost. Well aware that what they are going to demand of France wiil never be conceded unless she 1s utterly at their mercy, they oa prepare to crush her entirely before mention- ing terms. ‘This was the programme o! the war be- fore the nrst shot had been fired, an when the issue could not but be considered douviful. NEW YORK CITY. A Jersey Horee Thief Done for—The Bogus Marshal Conlan—Settling a Lazer Beer Bill—Police Matters—Murderous As- saults, Accidents and Incidents. High mass was celebrated yesterday in St. Peter's. Roman Catholtc church in memor; . By emia ory of the late Rev, Justice Cox yesterday committed Edward Fitzpat. rick, Of 281 Soring street, in default of 81.000 bail for threatening to murder his wife with @ shoe knife, and driving her into the street. The funeral of David K. Reynolds, late a member of Company D, Eighth regiment, took place yestere day. The company, under command of Captal Penberthy, acted as an escort. — The Department of Public Parks announce that if the weather be fine there will be music by the Cen~ tral Park Band in W; ‘ton square this afternoon, from hull-past four to half-pust six o'clock, i‘ The remains of the unknown man found dead in the greenhouse of R, M. Shaw, on Broadway, near 112th street, have not Pid been identified, though, hundreds of persons have viewea tiem at the Morgue. ‘The work of erecting a water battery on the south, side of Governor's Island, between Castle William ‘and the South Battery, is now going on under the direction of General Newton and Colonel Eggleston. The battery will be mounted by thirty-six guns and Will be in every respect a formidavie work. Proposals were to have been opened and a cong tract awarded yesterday by the Department of Pub- Me Works tor compleiing a sewer in Fourth avenue, between Fiitecnth and Seventeenth streeta. The matter was postponed in consequence of the ab- sence of the Comptroller. The store of P. M. Conkling. No. 99 Hudson strect, Was entered by burglars on Saturday last and rifed of $1,400 worth of proyerty, with which the thieves succecded.in making thelr escape. ‘The entrance was effected by forcing open the shutters in rear. Nicholas C. Conlan, an account of whose arrest and arraignment at the Mayor's Court for person- ating a city marshal was given in yesterday's HERALD, Was committed ¥ Mayor Hall yesterday in default of $1,000 bai, ‘There is another charge Against the prisoner and the papers will be trans- ferred to the Grand Jury immediately, On the morning of the 10th officers of the Fifth Precinct police discovered secreted in the yara of Adam Kramer, No. 107 Broadway, a large number Of polts of cloth, of the value of $1,700, which it subsequently appeared had been stclen by burglars, who pried open the shutters of Huhl & Steight’s dry goods house, 21 and 23 White street. The property was reatored to the owners. The American Institute fair is now really worthy of a visit. ‘The machinery is all in motion, and the arrangements for the display of all the good specimens and curiosities have been fully and satisfactorily completed, There 18 a superb collece tion of photography, and the agricu!tural and floral departments @re especially fine. Tne attendance yesterday was large and the music is excelient, The Police Board yesterday held a se:sion, trans ferred sergeants Robbins, of Nineteenth, to First; Doyle, of Twenty-elghth, to seventh, and Sminck, of the Seventh, to ‘Twenty-elghth precinct. x: President Joseph Strauss, of the Franco-American Republican Club, and now vice president of one of the M. 'T. Brennan clubs, was promoted to rounds- man at the Central Office, EXx-roundsman Mack was fined five days’ pay for sleep ng on an appie stand, corner of Houston street and the Bowery, William H. Denton, of Newtown, L. I., on Taeg- day left his team and wagon load of vegetables standing in Murray street, between Coliege place and Greenwich street, and during his temporary ab- sence they were stolen, At half-past twelve o'clock yesterday moraing the property was found in Bayard street in possession of Richard Gallagher, of Ber- gen, N. J., by an officer of the Sixth precinct. G@al- jagher was arraigned in the Tombs Police Court yesterday before Justice Dowling and held for trial. Julia Clary and Ann Grennen, occupants of the tenement nouse No. 464 West Twenty-sixth street, on Monday night engaged in a discussion, during which Ann deait Julia a blow over the head with an iron shovel, injuring her in such @ manner that she is at present confined to her bed and unable to appear at court. Upon a complaint preferred against her by officer Fitz gerald, of the Sixteenth precine:, Justice Cox yes terday comimitted her to await the result of the injuries, Solomon Brown, a deformed, hiaeous looking cole ored boy, about seventeen years of age, was locked up yesterday morning by Jastice Cox, upon com- plaintof Emma King, of 109 West Twenty-fifth street, proprietress of a “female boarding ‘house, charged with beating her little, daughter, aged two years, over the head and body wiih a large glass bottle, injuring here 80 severely that she 1s at present con- fined to her be ‘he negro, upon being arraigned atconrt, stated that his employer, a Miss Jennie beunett, the proprietress of a rival house 1 the Same street, ordered him to do it, Itisasserted that the fruit crop fs falling short this season, and as proof of the fact it is stated that yesterday twenty-eight car loads reached this city, Whereas in one day, two weeks ago, 108 car loads ar- rived, Peachesenow bring from one doliar to two dollars and a half per vasket. Inferior ones may be had for fifty cents a crate, Grapes, however, are abundant this season, and bring from four to nme vents per pound. Apples range from two dollars snd a half to four doilars per barrel. Bartiett peat twelve dollars to fifteen dollars a barrel; Kel years, ten <igliars to twelve dollars a barrel. ‘The steamer Plymouth Rock, which has just been. withdrawn trom the Lung Branch route and is now being stripped previous to into winter quar- tem, has had @ most successful season, Sne has car- Tid over 250,000 fret class without & single case of accident or jury Ww pel preperty. The greatest number of persons on board at one time was 3,097 passengers, 52 “dead hesds” and a crew of 107 souls, making a total of 4,16. This occurred on the day of the yacht race, She has frequently carried over 2,000 persons on her Teguar trips, Justice Dowling yesterday gave the necessary orders for the transfer to New Jersey of a man named Conrad Helates, who was arrested recently in this city on a charge of having stolen two horses in tat State, one valued at $300, the property Valued at $600 tke property of Me. avert” Huck, of valned at he pi y of Mr. Ehizatetn, N. J. Heiates in each oase had engaged ‘With has victim as servant, remaini ut a short time, however, and stealing the horse“when he left, In order to avoid Rag ee wa as eras Cannon by @ chemical process, known 01 01 leves, put the owners were able to identify the animals by private marks, On Monday night, as Sergeant McComb and oMcerMcCormack, of the Jefferson Market Court squad, were in the “Dive,” corner of Tweniy-sevents street and Sixth avenue, for the purj of arrest- ing a young man named Archibald Kiccanate, on & charge of disorderly conduct, they were set upon by the friends of the prisoner and handled iu a rougi manne, with no other damage, however, than the loss of a revolver a clothes. One of the asmilants, named Reynolds, was arrestee and commited yesterday morning py Justice Cox with: out val. Officers Fitageraid and Haruett, of the Eighth precinct, also preferred charges of assault against John Reilly snd Svivester White, colored, who Were held for examination,