The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1870, Page 3

$e THE WAR. Four Hundred Thousand Prussians Closing Around Paris. Hopés of a Successful Defence of the Capital. Supposed Escape of Bazaine from Metz. His Army Reported Advancing on Sedan. Contradictory Statements Regard- ing the Peacp Question. HL Thiers in Communication with the Or- leans Frinces. Whe Blockade of the Rivers Dibe and Weser at an Bnd. THE QUESTION OF PEACE. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ¥resh Instractions to M. Thiers—The Repad- lic Refuses to Cede French Territory—Views of the Prussian Government. x Lonpon, Sept. 15, 1870. __ The latest reports which were received from Paris in this city yesterday, relative to M. Thiers’ mission to England, wero to the effect that M. Thiers had received still further in- ‘structions from the republican government in Paris, and that by these he was instructed still more explicitly to treat a peace, and di- rected still further as to the mode and manner of his diplomacy to that end. ®Hopes are still entertained of M. Thiers’ final success, M, THTERS WITHOUT OFFICIAL OHARAOTER, On the other hand, the Pall Mall Gazette concurs in the general opinion that M. Thiers is without official character. EEPORTED PEACE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND PRUSSIA. The Garjois affirms that the British govern- ment has sent another letter to the King of Prussia, demanding peace and asking upon what conditions Prussia would sign, and where they would have the peace concluded, and also informing him that the basis that would be agreed upon by the neutral Powers would be the integrity of French territory. No written answer was’ received to this message, but the King asks what guarantee the provisional government can offer and whether the French people and the regular government to suececd the present would ratify a treaty of intervention. FAILURE OF AN AMERIOAN ATTEMPT AT MEDIA- TION, The Hlecteur Libre, of Paris, says negotia- tions, with the ojbect of obtaining peace, have been going on between Jules Fayre and Min- ister Washburne at Paris and Minister Bancroft at Berlin, but they have failed. The King of Prussia rejects American mediation, and Mr, Bancroft replies that he can only remain a spectator of the conflict. Mr. Washburne, on communicating Bancrofi’s despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, added that he could only. record his protest against this impicus war. ° MINISTER WASHBURNE “DISGUSTED.” Minister Washburne is said to be disgusted with Secretary Fish. He told Jules Favre that he had protested personally against use- less measures, and disapproved the cruel coldness of the American government in re- fusing to stop the vandals. TNE REPUBLIC REFUSES TO CEDE ALSACE AND LORRAINE, A despatch from Berlin dated to-day says that the provisional government of Paris would have been accepted by the Prussian govern- ment if the exactions proposed by Prussia had been assented to. These embraced the cession of Alsace and Lorraine atid the dismantling of tae French fortifications on the German fron- tier. The provisional government refused to listen to any proposition for the surrender of French territory. VIEWS OF THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. The Daily News of this morning contains a letter from Berlin giving the views of the Prussian government. The writer says Prussia will not negotiate with the present government at Paris. Prussia proposes first to occupy Paris. The Regency and the Senate and the Corps Lé¢gislatif will then be summoned, who wiil be expected to name cormnissioners to treat on the Prussian basis. When this treaty is signed Napoleon will be released, and France will be left free to choose her own government, A PARIS PAPER HOPEFUL OF PEACE, The Gaulois “has reason to predict happy results from the peace negotiations now pending.” THE ORLEANS PRINCES, TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. English Ideas of a Erench Restoration= General Trechu Said to Ge in Communica- tion with tho Exiled Family. Lowpon, Sept. 15—P. M. Avery firm belief is entertained in diplo- matio circles here to-day that the restoration of the Orleans princes to the throne of France is certain as a coming near event consequent upon the revolution. The recent arrival of the Count d’Eu, of tne house of the late King Louis Philippe and General-in-Chief of the army of Brazil, in this country from Rio Janeiro, 18 regarded as a very sig- nificant fact indicative of a tendency in that dirce- on. i : ‘Thiers has had @ protracted tuterview with the members of the Orleans family now resident in England, during which it is said that he (Thiers) de. vered to the Duke d’Anmale a private autograph fetter from General Trechu, commandant of Paris, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. THE MILITARY OPERATIONS TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Four Hundred Thousand Prussians Advanc- ing on Paris—The City to be Isolated To- Day—Communiration with Lyons De- sroyed—Fighting Near Paris. Lonpon, Sept. 15—Evening. A speciad telegram to the New York HERALD from St. Denis, France, under date of the 14th instant, evening, reports that the Prussian troops aro ad- vancing on Paris in great force. ‘They om ing.” says the writer, “by thousands and many thou- sands,” Calculations, which are apparently accurate, est!- mate the Prussian army which is sweeping on the French capita! at four hundred thousand men, There is intense excitement and a widespread agt- tation prevailing at St. Denis and all through the outside world of France near to Paris. PARIS TO BB ISOLATED TO-DAY. Telegraphic despatches for the New York HERALD, addressed from Paris during the day and evening of yesterday (Wednesday), report the situation which then exisied inside the city, The HERaLp telegraph writer says:—To-morrow (Thursday) tne capital will be isolated from its outside surroundings, The rall- way lunes which radiate from the city, with the exception of those which run westward, have been cut, The forests of Montmorency and Bondy are on fire and burning with great fury. All the other for- ests and parks in the neighborhood will be fired to-mofrow. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARIS AND LYONS DE- STROYED. Communication between Paris and Lyons has been destroyed, the Prussian forces having cut the telegraph wires and the railroad line at Montereau, sixteen miles southeast of Melun. The railread ser- vice between the two cities has consequently been stopped, All the bridges on the route which can be reached will be destroyed to-night, FIGHTING NEAR PARIS. A sharp skirmish occurred there between the Ger- man uhlans and the Franctireurs. The former are said to have been beaten beaten off. Firing was heard at Paris yesterday from the direction of Melun. ‘The roar of cannon was heard distinetly in the city during the past night. The sound came from the direction of Neuilly. The Prussians Closiag Areund Parils—Their Siege Guns in the Mud=French Invasion of Bein Pants, Sept, 15, 1870. My latest information of the positions of the Prus- sian forees is that they are now camped at Croix- auxois, Gastons, Glas and Fontaine, near this city. At Nogent-sur-Seine the uhlans g#peared a couple of days ago, but retired when it became evident that the people were prepared to contest their advance. To-day, however, Prussian dragoons have appeared there, as also at Colinas, Senlis, Crespigny, Valgis, Nanteull, Plessy and Lindau, small towns situated in the east, northeast and southeast of Paris, THEIR MOVEMENTS AND STRENGTH AROUND PARIS. The Prussians have been seen near Melun and Montereau, on the lne of the Lyons Raliway. A despatch from Melun, dated eight o’clock at night, says the telegraph line has been cut between Melun ana Mormant. Thirty Prussian lancers came at four o’ciock and asked for the latest newspapers, and announced the arrival of part of the Prince Royal’s army en route for Paris. A camp of four thousand Prussians is at Mormant, near the wood ot Thiboult. Twenty Unlans at Nanges on the 13th had a skir- mish with a company of free shooters, who retired, The Prussians are camped at Croix-aux-Bois, Gas- tins and Closfontaine, and forty thousand men bave been signalled at Crepy-en Valois; also strong at Monteutl Sicpy, two and forty-nine kilometers from Paris. Hostilities have been suspended at Mezieres for the removal of the wounded. All the ambassadors and heads of diplomatic corps have informed the government that they in- tend to remain at Paris. ® ‘The Spanish ambassador had a long interview yes. terday with Jules Favre, and left suddenly for Ma- aa STAN CORPS AT eULACAR. Atelegram from Mulhouse, dated yesterday, at twenty-six minutes past four P. M., says:—Commu- nication with Colmar has been interrupted since morning. A lrussian corps, with artillery, occupy the city, Preparations are made for crossing the Rhine at Noubourg. PRUSSIAN SIEGE GUNS IN THE UD. It is reported that many of the large siege guns oy the Prussians are deeply imbedded in the mud of the canal dela Marne au Rhin. The Germans at- tempted to transport their guns by this canal and the French suddenly let the water out of it. Ic is said this will delay the siege for a considerable time, FRENCH ADVANCE INTO BADEN, The French troops which recently crossed the Rhine into Baden territory will probably remain and |, Operate on German sol!. Reintorcements have gone to them, MISCELLANEOUS REPORT. The Prussians are still swarming around Nancy, ESCAPE OF BAZAINE FROM METZ. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Eseape of Bazaine’s Army from Mctz—Onoe Column Under Marshal Canrobert Marchiug owards Paris. LONDON, Sept. 15, 1870, Aspecial telegram from the correspondent of the New York HeRaup, dated at Bouillon, Belgium, Wednesday night, September 14, reports that the French army under command of Marshal Bazaine has succeeded 1m cutting its way through the Prus- sian lines in front of Metz, and is now in full march towards Paris. Marshal Canrobert is said to command the column which has succeede d in making its escape. No detalis of the engagement which resulted in piercing the German lifes have yet been received. Confirmation of the Escape of Bazaine’s Army—The French at Carignan—Sedan De- clared in a State of Siege. Lonpon, Sept. 15—P. M. A special telegram from the New York Heratp correspondent at Bouillon, Belgium, on the French frontier, dated at four o’clock this (Thursday) after- noon, reports that the fortress of Sedan, where the army of MacMahon surrendered, has been declared in a state of siege by the German commander there. The Mayor of the town has been arrested, the civic population expelled and the fortress prepared for an attack. These measures of war have been adopted because of the reported approach of Marshal Bazaine’s army, which had succeeded in cutting its way through the Prussian lines at Metz, After effecting their pe the French forces moved by forced marches in a northwestern direc- tion to Montmedy, and from thence pushed towards Sedan. This afternoon it is reported that Bazaine’s army has already reached Carignan, a town situated some sixteen miles east-Southeast of Sedan, and the scene of the great condict which decided the fate of Mac- Nahon’s army. Earlier Reports from Metz—The City Bom- barded—Picket Fighting=The Garrison Must Soon Starve. LONDON, Sept. 15, 1870, There has been no figting at Metz since the 2a, except two hours of bombardment on the 12th, German officers say that the French reply is weak. The German forces have been contracted and have closed in much nearer to the walls during the past week, chiefly on the est and south sides None now remain near Briey. Picket» firing, which was formerly discouraged by the German commanders is now encouraged sos to prevent comradeship between the pickets, The French are anxious to approach the Prussians ina friend'y manner to get victuals and news. It is reported from French source that the garri- son must soon starve. TRE SIEGE OF S$: RASBOURG. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The Third Parallel Completed—Constant Fire from a Breeching Battery—A Force of French Riflemen Dispersed Near Colmar. MUNDELSHEIM, near STRASBOURG, Sept. 16, 1870. ‘The bestegers completed the third varalle: before © Strasbourg on Tuesday, and for the past forty- eight houre @ breecning battery has maintained a constant fire, with telling effect. ‘Tae republic has been proclaimed in Strasbourg. Adetachment of General Keller's command dis persed a force of French riflemen near Colmar on Wednesday. The Situation Becoming More Desperate— * Severe Fire on the Place=The Assault Post- poned—Women and Children Leaving the ‘sie Loxnon, Sept. 15, 1870, The HERALD special correspondent at Achem, Thursday, telegraphs that General Uhrich has admitted that the situation at Strasbourg 1s becoming desperate, from his inability to repair the enormous losses sustained from the incessant bombardment. Last might the fire of the bestegers ‘was very severe. Additional guns have arrived. General Werder still postponed the assault, to avoid unnecessary sacrifices. A Swiss con: voy was permitted to enter Straspourg to provide for the escape of the women and children. Six hundred left on the 11th and others are follow- ing daily. The Swiss report that utter destitution is prevailing among them. THE SITUATION IN PARIS. ° TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ‘The Parisinus Determined to Fight—Trochu’s Hepes of a Successfal Defence—The Men and Material in Paris—Gunoers Practising Troops Organizing ‘Throughout France French Gratitude to the United States. Paris, Sept. 15, 1870. General Cluseret advised the people a few nights ago at Belleville to refuse mediation and to fight. He said:—“If the Frenel Republic conquers aione the freedom of the soll it will not only be the consolida- tion forever of republican institut.ons in France, but allover the world. Death or victory. _ There must be no other issue.” Even in the pourgeoisie the same feeling prevails; and, strange to say, the only weak elements are the oficers coming tn from MacMahon’s army, who, having been cowards, or themselves betrayed and routed, say to the people, “You cannot succced where we failed.” Some ofiicers of the Garde Mobile, wealthy petits crevé of the em- pire, are in the same spirit; but the people—the real people—are unanimously in the highest spirits. They will certainly fight, and ten times better than the army, TROCHU GRATIFIED WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD— SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN SUFFICIENT TO HOLD PARIS. General Trochu, in his order of the day to the Gardes Nationales, says the result of the review is very gratifying. He feels assured that the defence of the city will bo admirably sustained. Paris ts ready to sacrifice all in order to give time to France to organize for an irresisible defence, General Trochu, in another order of the day, says 70,000 men, on the ramparts, may, by a persevering effort, save Paris, The city 1s unapproachabie if its defenders are properly armed. COMMANDERS, MEN AND MATERIAL IN PARIS. ‘The amount of material and men accumulated in Paris is really frightful. Certainly half a militon of men are now under arms in Paris, General Cluseret hasbeen unaninrously elected by the twenty arron- dissements of Paris, with Flourens and Shuiller, as acentral committee. Gustave Flourens, Fonveille and Chateaubriand are in command of battalions, The Place de la Concorde is filled with cavalry and the National Guard. Agreat number of Franc-tirears are camped at Montmartre, in the northern part of the city. The conscripts of the regular army are drilling here daily, ‘Yhere are over six millions of pounds weight of gunpowder in the city to-day. GUNNERS ON THE RAMPARTS PRACFISING. Last night the Paristans were awakened by a tre- mendous cannonading all along the ramparts, It Was supposed an attack had been made, and there was some excitemeft, which, however, was allayed when the announcement was made that the gunners 2 ‘ Were, ORVGHNG MONEY AND RAISING TROOPA. 4 Advices received from all parts of France say that large sums of money are being subscribed for tne national defence. Large forces are belug raisea and equipped in all the departmeits. A party ‘of American volunteers passed through Tours to-day, coming to Paris. The National Guard is being reorganized through- out France. FRENCH GRATITUDE TO THA UNITED STATES. ‘The people of every grade and class 1n Paris, and throughout France generally, express the deepest gratitude to the American nation for the sympathy which has been expressed by the citizons of the great republic for the provisional government. The work- men and the National Guard have made another demonstration of regard to Minister Washburne and the United States government. At Pau friendly demonstrations have been made by the Garde Mobile and the people in front of the American Consulate, Much enthusiasm was manifested, ARREST OF A BELLIGERENT PRUSSIAN. A Prussian was discovered to-day in a secluted place firtng with a rifle at one of the balloons witch are being used as outlooks by the military authri- ties. He was piomptiy arrested, GENERAL ITEMS OF NEWS. Tho Councillors of State have temporarily s™- pended thelr authority. All the foreign representatives are still in Paris, Lord Lyons, the British Minister, warns Englih residents In Paris to leave the city now while th¢ may. ‘The Parisians have full supplies of water and food and the gates of Paris will be closed against the u vaders to-morrow. The city gas pipes have not been all cut, nor wil $hey be for a few days to. come. ‘The seventeen bridges which spanned the Setne| above and below the city have been destroyed. Tue shops of the city aro mostly closed and mas- ters and employés alike are drilling. Itis announced that not one of the French fort- has yet been captured by the Prussians, The forts at Lyons are completed. Many troops are reaching there daily. tion. The Committee of Public Safely at Lyons have imprisoned the Prefect of the new government. re: LONDON REPORTS TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Democratic Demonstration in London--Prus- sian Atrocities at Bazeilles—Destitution in France—Anxicty to Hear from Puris and Rome—Biockade of the Elbe Raiscd= French War Steamers Passing Eastward. LONDON, Sept. 16, 1870, There is intense cagerness to hear from Paris and Rome. The news from the latter city is scarcely less interesting to Engilshmen than that from Parla, COMING DEMOCRATIC DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON. ‘The democratic demonstration on Monday next wiil be the most formidable ever held at London. The programme is fall of grand processions, banners, &c. Hackney, Clerkenwell, Islington, all sections will be rep noted, The English men will march in a body to join the Ltalian and French republicans at Trafalgar square. All will then proceed to the official residence of Mr, Glad- stone and demand the r itiod of the republic. Speeches will be delivered at various places, PRUSSIAN ATROCITIES AT BAZEILLES, The report of the atrocities committed by the Prussians at Bazeilles is confirmed. A letter has bean received from Duc do Fitz James, who was an eyewitness, in which he says the Prussians pun- ished the inhabitants for deiending their vit lage by setting the place on fire. Most of the National Guards were killed, The people sought ref- uge inthe cellars, and all men, women and chil- dren were bnrned alive, the Bavarians ariving back into the flames or shooting all those who tried to es- cape. DESTITUTION IN FRANCE. Great destitution exists among the French pea- santry. Not o grain is left, Even the German wounded have but the poorest black bread. Inthe ravaged districts help for the starving villagers will be needed soon. An oficial appeal 1s being prepared for publication in England and America, MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS. A passenger tramieft London to-night for Parla ‘the guns are ail in posi- p via Dieppe, ali other routes being closed. Yester- day’ Paris mall wus not received, bvt the telegraph is working. * French steamers on the Mediterrynean have becn diverted for passenger trafic to the Orleans Une. Aspecial correspondent of the HERALD at Esch telegraphs to-day:—The republic wag proclaimed here ofictaliy on the 13th and was joyfully received, ‘The blockade of the Elbe hus been raised and ves- sels are now passing iregly. Steamers from Eng- land to France and Germany will resume the ser- vice immediately. A mail from Paris 1s hoped for to-day, More French war steamers have been observed in the channel passing eastward, The German shiv Herminie, which put into Ber- wick for refuge, has been ordered to remain tn Eng- lish waters on account of the blockade. The Paris fashion journals have suspended pubti- cation. Mourning ta generally worn in Paris and Berl. REPORT FROM WASHINGTO! TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The Blockade of the Rivers Elbe and Weser Relsed. WASHINGTON, Sept, 16, 1870. By a telegraphic despatch of this date from our Minister at Berlin the secretary of State is informed that the French blockade of the rivers Elbe and Weser was raised on the 1ith inst. THE CAPTIVE EMPEROR. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, How Napeleon Spends Bis Mornings=Limit of His Tether—Doubtful Story About Him, LONDON, Sept. 15, 1870. Adespatch from Cassel dated the 12th says the Emperor spends the mornings with some of his om- cers walking over the lawn or making long excur- sions, His tether extends several qatles in all direc- tions, His guard consists of one officer, two sub- alterns, one trumpeter and thirty-one men, The statement of the Frankfort correspondent of the London Telegraph that Napoleon complains bit- terly of his generals, and declares that Paris ia unable to prevent the entrance of the Prussians, excites great indignation among the friends of France. It is saia that Napoleon paralyzed the action of his generals, and shoul.l be the last to pro- claim the weakness of the defences of the capital. THE ENPRESS AND PRINCE IMPERIAL. TELECRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. — Constant Excursions Around Hasting: LONDON, Sept, 15, 1870. The Empress Eugénie and the Prince Imperial make constant excursions around Hastings. Car- Tiages or horses are never employed, FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. Pe EON a Bee Our European iiles and correspondence of the 2d of September supply the following interesting facts and incidents from the battle ficlds and of the Ola World war generally: ‘The hosts of the Socicte ‘Internationale are on the invrease. They woul! constitute a large army. A correspondent doubts if there 18 a paper in Ger- many which cannot claim the services of some gen- tieman or other with the wiute brassard and red cross. Prince Pierre Ponaparte has been loyally working for the dynasty in Corsica, He has recruited there an ariny of 600 Corsican spies, who Creag m smail parties, have ail arrived at Marseilles, Vhetr mission is to spread themselves atout the country and inculcate the idea that the Emperor, “who hag ben deceived and betrayed by Emile Olvier and certain generals,” will yet be the savior of France and that, asa proof of his single-mmmded honesty, he is quite ready, in pursuance of his invariable principles, to submit his case to another plebiscite, ‘The Sotr says:—“They were talking 1 @ group of deputes of a high personage who will be compelied to pass into posterity. Some one said, ‘it 18 impos. fible to deny that he was at one time in ; pew we superior abilities, but R Tail M. Thiers, ‘ne; superior avilities | never in his liie! Shall L tell you the truth? Well; it is @ great incapacity un- known.) ?? ‘The King of Prussia has expressed his admiration for the soldiers who are now among his best troops, as in 1866 they were among his most stubborn foes. The Wiesbaden journals are anxious that the Ger- man armies, ou their return irom Paris, should bring buick some art treasures not restored in 1815, among them some porphyry pillars which adorned the dome of Alx-!a-Chapelle Cathedral. Thirty-two were car- Tied off by Napoleon, and but twenty-four returned, the late King of Prussia replacing them with eight granite monolths, ‘The abstracted pillars agora tho halle de la ix of the Louvre. Calculations published In the Hanoverian papers enable us to realize the part. played by railways in ihe present war. A train has a carrying capacity of oue battalion of infantry, or one squadron of cavalry, ora half battery of artillery. For a com- lete feld artillery regiment thirty-two trains would be requisite, the artillery park occupying tturty- seven, The number needed to convey an entire army Corps may be computed at from 130 to 150, and. an army of from ten to twelve corps would employ between 1,200 and 1,500 trains. The despatcn of these, upon five main lines of railway, would occnpy twelve days, averaging daily from twenty-three to twenty-seven trains; hitherto the despatch of from twenty to twenty-four such trains has ‘fally tasked the ordinary forwarding powers of a German rail- way. On the present occasion, three main Hues only being avatiable, it has been necessary to send off dally an average of fiity trains. “In the almanacs,” says a Paris paper, “we Onda lst of nine Princes of the Bonaparte family; how many of them are in front of tie enemy 1” Messrs. Rothschud Brothers have had to formally deny & persistent statement in the Journal de Paris a they have any share or 1luterest in the London Times. ‘The contractors and others called upon by the goy- ernment lo carry on the works of the forttiications ot Paris are uli said to have declined any remunera- Hg for theix personal services or the use 0 Some coniroversy has arisen whether lint onght to bo sent to military hospitals abroad, or the linen of which Imtis nade, which could then be on the spot manufactured into “charpie,” the foreign substitute or equivalent for lint. Ou this polut we nave au- thority to state that by the National Society's agents atthe seat of war—Drs. Sandwiih, C. B.; Mayo, Prank, McCormac and others—the last thing asked for is “Engiish lint,” which 1s @ great luxury. Dr. Russell tells & good story of French wit and Prussian practicaity, ‘There is a great tobaccagnanu- factory in Nancy, on which the Prussians descended With irresistible elan. Cigars and tobacco, which they consider n aries of life, were seized at was needed to be done was to of The director made his bow, @ pinch of snug, and said, with ao ‘ADD: utly M. le Colonel has forgoiten Some- “Whaty’? “There is a quantity of tobacco ‘ob been good enough to notice of itr? O, dear no,” at once and manu. peopie."? Paris Constitu- have just seea in a book- here the new map of the rman emplre (‘Die Karte des ~ Deutenen uches.’) Itabsorbs, in France, Lorraine, Aleace ad Franche-C the line then leaves the Doubs, in Switzerland bevween Herne and Fri- St. Gothard on the south, and crosses 8 tO Trieste, whence it remounts by Gratz «4 Vienna to the confines of Prussian Silesia, swal- lang up In its passage through Austria all the ter- Tiry West of tiat me. To the north nothing 1a caged, Only t ‘Olor of the German provinces binging to Russia ts the same as that of the so- cad empire; the only didcrence ig Wat {tis a utile fetter in ounel ‘ers window fe fortifications of Cuxhaven have been come Died and have grown Into a formidable stronguold. | AMI the exposed points of the rman coast arc fofed in astmiite way the works of Cuxhaven | ve as a pattern to all (he other ones, ‘They dden from. tu w of approaching vessels. Th? 13 a railway mine or tea miles th length spally constructed to form a means of commuli- cat between the entrenchineats, which are pro- tectirom the sea by the dy The guns are sevty-two pounders, Which Will make short work ever nine-inch plates of armor. The fortifications conand a@ most perfect view of the sea, but can- not seen by an approaching vessel. Besides these baties, the mouth of the Bibe is Yauarded by na- mer$ torpedoes, to which no French man-of-war willobabiy care to ¢xpose themselves. The Eve 18, Uefore, perfectly secure. Guve Aymard, the novelist, {s about to organize a freorps of the press, for whiell he has asked for the shorization of General Trochu. Aw corps of volunteers, to be called Gueriilas of Pa, 18 being formed. Their uniform will be a brigtblue Guernsey frock and biack trousers, with aligitripe. They will wear a hat and feather, Tharde Mobile of Paris has received Chassepots in exinge for the oid furil a tabatiere, une of Franc-tireurs are belug organized at le. Ail ough Britanny the Garde Mobile has been fully @nized.* M. Vor Sejour, author of the “Volontaires, 1314," has aged for letters of naturalization (he bemg a nativd the United States), in order to aii in te defenat Paris, ‘The ¥i.0 of Turin is informed that Prince Napoe leon tig lately in company with some Italian atatesm, turnea to one of them suddenly and ex- tervention of Italy in our favor woula have provoked the general war.’ A Christian View of the Gerwan Triumphs. ‘A German gentleman writes to 4 London paper thus:— All our victories appear, not alonb to the real Christian, but also to hose Who are not quite void of human feelings, gloomy, aud surrounded by most awiul woefulness, Up to now our armies have lost more than 35,000 dead and more than 40,000 more or less severely wounded, besides many thousauds who ‘are under dysentery, fever, &c. Who ts able to re- Joice over such victories? About the final results nothiug cau be said or settled until the united Ger- man .troops have taken But before this is gained, how many thot lives are to be offered? Ail our towns and villages are full of wounded and sick soldiers. Here we have one lazaretto of one hundred and another of twenty becs. Most of our Rhenish and Westphalian hospitals are uader the care of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul and of St. Borromeo, we have everywhere humerous associations of ladies (all my daughters belong tothem) and of gentlemen, who go about to help the poor wounded and sick men, Buzaine Against City Mumiantions. The following note in Figaro explains how i comes that such meagre details have reached us concerning the brilliant affair at Jaumont;— Marshal Bazalne (says the writer) drew the Prus- sians into the quarries by means of four spies dis- used as peasants, At the moment when their force—from 25,000 to 30,000 strong—reached Jau- one, ag Ure gege re caralty to take them in the rear. jurprises y sudden aggression, sya unable to face about, the enemy was tumbled into the quarries, Marshal Bazaine was advised to tele- graph this success to Paris. ‘No,’’ he replied, “that 1s not sufficient, The Parisians would tluminate, and itis too soun. I wish to announce a decisive victory, aud not a mere success.” A “Headless Horseman”=—How Me Rede a Woerth, {From the London Lancet, August 28.) At the battle of Woerth it ts said that at the third charge of the culrassiers a horse was to be seen fang at lull speed with a headless rider. ‘The muti- lated corpse was that of M. dela Futzun de Lacarre, colonel of the Third regunent of French culrassiers, who had been decapitated by acannon ball. Most people on reading this would declare that it was a Mere sensation paragraph, totally devoid of truth, Such an occurrence, however, would not by anv means seem to be an impossibility. Not ioug ago We direoted our readers’ attention to an interesting article pabliabes by Dr, Brinton, surgeon to the Philadelphia Hosplial, on the instantaneous rigidity which forms the occasional accompaniment of sud- den and violent death, such as resulta from wounas of the head or heart. The startling phenomenon sometimes seen on the battiefleld, of the retention | deati of the last attitude in ive, has not esca; the observation of military surgeons, although the facts connected therewith have not been studied with the attention that they deserve. Those who are familiar with the deacriptions that were given of the Crimean battlefleids, particularly that of Inkerman, will remember that the various attl- tudes and the expresston of the feavures of the dead were dwelt upon, The report of M. Chenu contains @ short account, chiefly based upon the communica tions of MM, Armand and Perler of the atutudes of the dead in batule during the Crimean and Italian campaigns. At Magenta a Hungarian hussar, killed at the same time as his horse, remained almost in saddle, resting on his right side, the point of ts sa- bre carried forward, as at the charge. ‘This rigidity ee follows sudden and violent deaths, but not invariably. Dr. Brinton, aimong his cases, gives one of a very striking kind, Hesa\s that.aman wound- ed in the leit breast at Belmont, Alissourt, found a stray mule, which he succeeded in mounting. While in the act of riding the anual he died; but his corpse rebained the upright mounted position, and on its becoming hecexsary to appropriate the mule ty the use of a living wounded soldier the body was found tobe so firmly and rigidly set as to demand a certain amount of positive lorce to free the mule irom the clasp of the legs, Dr. Brinion ts led to conciude, from hts Own observations and those of others, that this battlefeld rigtdity is developed at the moment of deait, and that the cadaveric attitudes are those of the last moment and act of life, INVASION OF FRANCE. March of the Allied Armies in 1814-15—, Faris After Waterloc. |From the Loudon Court Jouraal, August 27.) The fortune of war has itherto been enttrely in favor of the cause of United Germany, and the over- Whelming hosts of the triple Prassiaa army already occupy the nominally French provinces of Alsace aud Lorraine. By tie ume that our paper goes to press—so rapid 1s the march of events—Champagne may be in the power of tie invaders, and Paris iselt invested, At tltis tremendous crisis in the lustory of Europe it will interest our readers if we recail ‘a few incl- dents of the invasion of weenee Ee the. piled armies in, 2 o I pert or iiistorteal records, but from personal Cxperience and private sources of Information. ‘The tactics of Napoleon I. when fighting a defensive war 4a. the ¢arly part of the year 1914 are acknowledged by Muilitary critics to have been masterly. The battle of, Monateread alone was not the least brilliant achievement of this prince of generals. The province of Champagne, then as po" Was the deld of contest, but it is gratulying to assured that the conquerors ja ‘the present campaign are not lisely to follow the bad precedent of the iormer period. The very word champagne, to all peoples with a taste for wine, is a strong gas- tronomical ‘provocative. The Russians are noto- riously partial to the vintages of Moet and Cilequot, and probably the largest consumers of champagne, England not excepted. The Cossacks of une Don, forming part of the large ailied army which crossed the frontiers of France and compeiled the tirst abdt- cation of the Emperor, had heard of, if they had not tasted, the effervescent nectar. A large proprietor of the prov. nce possessed an immense store of the wine (in bottle) carefully concealed tn a subterranean aie), as extensive asa warren. The adits to this enormous cellar were imperceptible to the uninit - used, and the liquor might have escaped but for the treachery of an employc, who, from spite, betrayed the secret. The Cossacks entered and drank, as may be supposed, ike Hshes.” A large number, intoxicated to a state of insensibility, teil asivep iv the vault, and were suffocated. Others failed to find their way out, and perished miserably. The damage was irreparable. Many boities of champagne were drunk, but thousands more were broken. “When, at the end of March, 1514, the Russ'amen were actually in Varis’—we quote the (psisstina verva of our informant, an old French officer on the retured list—“the miliary discipline of the allies was so strict that the most triding theft was punished by instantaneous death. A Cossack, in his perambuia- tions through Paris, thought proper to try hts hand at shoplifting. He appropriated, but without vio- lence, asmall article worth aboul three frances; but, unfortunately for the tntef,a military patrol was passing, who, in a moment, cocked his pistol, and, as our French friend emphatically phrased ts broken English, ‘blowedl out the Cossack's brain In the summer of 1815 it was our fortune, as pri- vate travellers, to follow the Prussian army to Paris from the fleld of Waterico, The ex: of the Imvaders knew no bounds, tants, and es and Caimbray, w Where the tmpe: pletely “cowed.” i) Were torn down and the slevr-de-lis hoist colored fag gave placé at once to ths draveau blanc, One geuerai oMtcer of the Prussian pursuing force, enraged at the remembrance of Napoleon's treatinent of his Queen and country in 1306 end thereafter, insisted that the party should have tree quarters at ail the hotels, He refused to pay his own scor, and it Was necessary jor his English companions to settie with Boniface « avoid robbery in one case, or, perbaps, by ducl in another. Jt is well known that when the Prussians reached Paris they would, with the frit autuority of Blacher, have blown up the Pont de dena. ‘the vation of the bridge was entirely cine to the interference of the Duke of W Who, asareturn for his friendly offices, wards, 11 this sume Paris, the butt of a vi We hope and verily beileve that these s never recur, The Prussians have behaved, hitherto, with most exemplary forbearance. Their’ generous treatment of the prisoners has hear‘s of the French themseiv gret, therefore, that the enemy have not intr nuy returned evil for good, Some of the stories fn the ted; but 1048 not yet denied bats im Alsace, where the 4ans Were victorions, the women ‘of the con- qnered town, and even the ladies, poured boing oll aud hot water upon the soliters, and only desisted on being th Such conduct ened leas With the severest reprisals! cruel than contempuble aad Iter the battle ot Ansterlitz, In December, 1805, the women of Ulls Moray! minitted the same folly. ‘it was sighed our gallant #renct: y reierred to; “and 80 the. valiant defenders in peiiicoats taonght to wash out their own dishonor aud the stains on Ui onquerors’ uniforms by a shower Ur of hot water trom the upper windows of tie how-es. AS If that could do any good,” lopatientiy continned the narrator. i conduct does ait indinity of harm. it 18 (Uy, 1 is unworthy ov the sex, and the punish: ta sure to foliow with no lame foot. Let every ms when honorably b i plete. ‘The bel f some female savages tn 8, a described: by @ daily coutemporaty, 14 prthy of ihe worst Gays of the Reign of Terror. ‘the sans-cvottes of the Faubourg St. Antoine were terrible ruMans indeed, but 4 drunken Virago, howl ing for vengeance and cursing fu choicest vernacu- Jar Bulingsyate, is a monster of frightful men, ght to the last, but, SUbMISsiON silould bs Thanks for Aid to the French Soldiers. The following 18 & translation, says tue Dublin Times, of @ letter received by Mr. Lesage, of this city, from the Secretary of the Empress in ac- knowledxment Of 10,000 francs sent to her Majesty in aid of the wounded of the French army:— OFFICR OF THE BECRETARY OF HER MAJEST } Panty, 30th August, 187). Sim-—The Empress Regent has received with your letter the bank order for 10,000 francs, being the sec+ ond amouut of the subsc! of the people of Tree land in favor of the wounded of the Frenct: arm. daime*{t is you, gentlemen, you, who are ruining Franca A pene war would have saved wu: War coved 10 Prussia will be our rulp, snd the In requesting me to (ransmit (nie sum to hin eelency the Mivister of War, ler Mujesty bas Je.gu —— famuly. Ungulsbed consideration. For the Secretary of her Majesty, and by his au- thor: MARC P! uy. AL Yo Xr. Lesace, 40 Lower Sackville street, Dul 1S KING WILLIAM INSANE? Paris Reports et His Condition of Mind. (Panis (Sept. 1) correspondence of Pall Mall Gazette.) If we are to believe the papers here Nemesis has overtaken the King of Prussia, who has and the day before yesterday reached Varen his road to Berlin, Varennes, id?murs the Gat in allusion to the arrest of Louis XVI, terrible ex Last nigut on the boulevards the news of jesty’s insanity Was attractively announced, sold off piles of journals, “Demandez la tolie du, rol Guillaume, pore de Fritz.” “Lisez iés détatle de’ Ja folie de Guillaume, qui a une arraignée dans le Platond (dep {u bis bounet). “Veyez! c'est In- Téressant lire; Vepoux a Augusta & Bieetre, * # * Bismarck & Chaillow” Such were tne cries uttered romeeey evening, This morning we were informed that directly the King went out of hia mind Count Bismarck took horse and galloped off be the direction of Berlin, This afternoon the Livert opens thus:—“The morning papers aunoance thas the King of Prussia tsmad. * + * ‘This ts nota bit of news; it is @ fact. Jf the King of were not mad enough jor @ strait watstcoat wowla he have undertaken such an tmiense act of furtous Jolly against France?” POLITICO-MiLITARY FORECAST Napoleow’s Dowafall and the Gerwan Invasion of Paris Anticipated, — ~ * {From the Pall Mall Gazette, Sept. 1.) ~~. The accompanying extract from our impression of the 26th of November, 1868, may interest some of our readers at the present moment, It is a sketch of public opinion in Germany by an English gentle- man who hud lately visited aifterent parts of it and had good opportunities of ascertaming the views of al | classes:— ‘This is not the age of political credulity, Paciflo assurances from the mouths of wionarcus aad 1a the speeches of statesmen seem to make no Lnpression on the world at large, or the Ger:nans in particular. Harangues and dissertations on the evils watea war entalls are met by a polated reference to the unde- miable fact that the great European Powers are at present virtually under arms, In South as well as in Norn Germiny one Opinion pervades ail classes of the resuective communities, that so long a3 imperlatism exists in France eee canbe no ene i Tae a4 8 of note, Who are Hot wider the ity oO: fiving the hy " on thelr tba wit war in their hearts, lay down two theories with respect tothe present condition of France—1. Revolution witula. 2 War without. The latt-r alternative is to prevent the accomplishment of the former. It 19 important to meptton that, whether you talk with Prussians, Saxons, Swabians, Bavarians, Austrians, or with any of the natives of the smail Scutes, noth- ing is heard of a personal animosity against France or Frenchmen. It {9 all the Buiperor of the French. He alone ts regarded as responsible for whe unset- tled condiiton of European uffutes, aad the only ob- stacle to the general pavciticauon. That the Germans generally desire peac’, and are not ia any way disposed to provoke war, may readily be believed, vnt they think that the internal state of France must sooner or later drive the Emperor to divert attention from home affairs by @ war abroad, Tne spanish revolu- tion ts dwelt upon as having postpoued the evil day, and there are shrewd Prussian pol.ticlans who hope that if a republic be established by the present rulers the Freach Emperor may ve tempted to tal- tate the march of the Duc d’Anguiewe through Spain. The influence of the Empress of the French would be at the service of a move.uent in her coun- try to restore royal'y aud priestcrait. It 1s added. that the Emperor himself, forimerty 1ax ln his reli- g.0us nouons, is he: ing a devo/, even to the extent Of uitramontanism, and that he wouid gladly avoid the Rhine to make a stand on the Bore, with a view to « future river bounaary for France, absorbing the chain of mountains and realizing the “11 py @ plus de Pyrénées.” The pablicailun of the three maps exctles the ridicule of the Germans, who, to do them james, indulge in no bravado in discussing the pro- bilities of & copitict with the The partisans of German unity di victory fall to their lot, peace mi. e Paris, but tt is not the Amperor who wil sign the treaty. GENERAL VON MOLTKE, His Lecture to Frossard ou tho Art of War. A Lyons paper relates an interesting conversation Which the writer says took piace not long ago be- tween General von Moltke and a Drench ofllcer sent ‘on @ mission to Berlia:— ducation tm If you have You will bs ‘The opera- glad of 16 when ous which you 2 been carrying on for forty years agaiust the Arabs is only gacritla warfare ofan Juertor’ order, with no sktltul 8, felnis or couatermarches and rarely any sury With that school you do nothing but for: schools like it, ‘The dist great war wii de: r ineilicrency, and were I not tn o sir, should not he te to Ligh at your ignorance of the trade to which you devo Among you—do not deny tt—a pio ions per- son, Here the most couse! as studies are the order of ths & captain KuOWS as much a mb Of your stad oilicers. Huve you even a superficial smattering of the ele- nents of the military art on loaviug your spectal schools/ Iam tempted to doubt it. Now, come (continued General yon Moltke, taking the other by the hand), I wager that you uon't know the most valuable piece of furniture tor Ue garrison quarters of an oMcer. Gen von Moitke led the French officer into a small bedchamber, well sutted for a eutenan’—a small Uiree straw chairs, book shelves from floor to ceiling aud in tae muddle of the room # black wooden board on an easel. “/t is with that we veat our enemies every morning.” your merit, said the old tacticlan, who was d touve General Frossard, the miliiary insiructor of the Prince Imperial, so severe a le-sun. “For drawings, here is al geograph NARSHAL CANROBERT. His Actual Work in the Field. {From the Pall Mali Gazette, August 30.) A correspon/ent, Whose ietter appeared in our Frylay’s number, expresses hls sarpitse that Capro- bert’s name should not have hituerro been men- toned as present befure Metz, and 14 even more as- tonished that that Marshal's stai’ sliould bave been under the delusion that a Yoaville, on the isth, was a Freneh vi aid be remem- bered that our accounts, except a few trustworty of any untrustworthy stories from Paris, have een derived mainty from the German side, and that what we ha ye require,” Said Muitke, extubiting some maps. e gathered irom the other is opseured by the confusion, contradiction and incompleteness which are the invariable characterisites of a beaten y's account of its inisforta Canro- Diography has plainly b subordi- haved to those of the olilcer: and that is yet invader, b th daring he firsts weeks jUous, In command the disasters of Woer sed ihe French nation to tac ¢ their danger then tt was proposed that Cunrovert should be made Governor of Parts; but he decitned a dan- to speak plainly, would have to the easy and yielding dispo- 1 to preserve discipline im the neh army before Sebastopol. When Bazaine formally took the command at Metz, Canrobert appears, with tne same generosity of spirit which he showed when superseded by Pelis-ler in 1855, to have volunteered at once to Serve under tis junior, and left Chalons with a part of his corps—part, by the } cer: tainly with MacMahon when Jast week—carrying, perhaps, what couid ft once by rail to the assistunce of ‘That his aides-de-canp should battle of Vionviile to have been easily accounted for, whea we f army that day stained 18 ground, the Preach geting some Leinporary advantage of their right. COUNT BISMARCK’S COMMAND. The Bisinarck Cnirassiers. To THB Eprvor oF THE LONDON TeLtanarn: A few days ago Count Paiikao declared in the Corps Légisiati( that “Bismarck’s ( ers” had been annihilated on the 16th tast. The tnglish press almost unanimously stigmatized (his aanouncement as4@ mere fabrication on th Minister. In auswer to this, you Will Kindly perinit me to refer your readers partcularly, and English newspaper readers goncrally, to # letwr writen by Count Schineitow, who on Uiat eventiul day Was 1a cominand of the reghuellt i question, whicit 18 pub- lished both ta the Halbersiadier (Ligena tat—the Place the regiment halis from- geltung, of Berlin, Of the 28th i in this letter Count scuunettow gives @ detalled account of tue fearful disaster which befel his regi- meut, and the Berun editor adds, moréover, the fol- Tho Freveh -accounts, which spoke of the aunililation of ‘Bismarck’s Culrassiers,” pre, therefore, correct.” Yours obediently. 20, . part of the French BAD STATE OF § ALABAMA.—The Ox ford (Ala.) Rising Sta tes what is a shame ful (act, that “it 19 @ motorions fact that the public schools of Alabama, siace the preseat iaw bas been In force, and tue present odicere In power, have been @ thousand Utmes Worse than nothing, ese ontcers have made promises but to break them; have en ul Leachers and never patd them. The have used public school junc for party and indl- vidual purposes. The county oMcers in some im stances have taken part of the scanty pay for teachers--have Charged (Rem for license to and for puble printing. We are informed that in our county it takes more than one-fourth of the scanty sun received to pay the county superinten- dent and woldeatais. *