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PARIS. Reports of Several Minor En- gagements. DEFEAT OF THE PRUSSIANS NEAR TOURY, _Lyons Preparing to Receive the Prussians, Herald Special Reports from the German Army. A Second Cordon Forming Around Paris. Efforts of the French to Prevent Its Formation. The Prussian Arrangements Complete for an Attack Upon the Capital. A Bombardment, Momentarily Expected. ‘General Condition of Affairs in the City. Activity of the Bonapartists in England. THE MILITARY OPERATIONS TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. An Engagement Near Muintenon—French Suc- cess at Chateau Gaillard—Oficial Report of a Successful Reconnoissance—Prussian De- feat at Soissone—Military Avyrangements at Lyons— Disturbances of the Reds—General News. Tours, Oct. 6, 1870. There is no news from Paris to-day. AN ENGAGEMENT NEAR MAINTENON, A telegram from Chartres dated yesterday and made pubic to-day reports that cannonading com- menced that morning near Maintenon and was pro- greasing when the despatch left. No later news has been received, and it is not known how the engage- ment ended. RESULT OF THE FRENCH SUCCESS AT CHATEAU GAIL- LARD. ‘The battle which occurred near Chateau Gaillard on the 4tn has been productive of important results. ‘The Prussians were defeated and forced to retreat. ‘The position taken by the French was one that ne- cessitated the evacuation of Pithieviers by the enemy. ‘The Prussians abandoned that point with so much precipitation that many cattle, a large amount of forage, &c., were left behind, all of which fell into the hands of the French. SUCCESSFUL FRENCH RECONNOISSANCE. General Rigan reports from Chevilly on Wednes- Gay that he had reconnoitred towards Toury with three brigades of cavairy and infantry and afew guns. He reached Chisses at about seven o'clock, surrounded the village and took five Bavarian pris- onersand some guns. Ressayre’s brigade turned the village on the right, and the enemy’s cavalry, 500 strong, supported by 2,000 infantry, were obliged to retreat precipitately towards Paris, The French pursued ‘them three hours’ march beyond Toury, General Rigan ascertained the presence, with these forces, of Prince Albert of Saxe-Meinengen, and of Prinee Albert of Saxe-Altenbourg. A drove of cattle ‘was captured by the French. PRUSSIAN DEFEAS NEAR SOISSONS. A telegram from St. Quenten, dated yesterday, reports that there was a combat yesterday near Sois- xons, and prisoners say that two regiments of the army of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin were defeated by the garrison. MILITARY ARRANGEMENTS AT LYONS. At Lyons, in view of the Prussian approach, due military precautions are being taken. The surround- ing heights are fortified and occupied by regular troops. The government is ‘aking measures to in- sure Normandy against devastation by seuding there @iine of the Mobile Guard. DISTURBANCES AT LYONS, At Lyons the reds seem determined to organize a movement. They have had a meeting at Grenoble, Dumbering over 2,000 persons, at which several speeches were made, It is expected that the goy- ernment will at once take measures to prevent any violent manifestations. A SCARE AT HAVRE, An American frigate that entered the harbor of Havre created a scare in saluting. The people sup- posed the enemy was bombarding the town. ANOTHER TERRIBLE WEAPON INVENTED. It is asserted that an armorer of Lyons has con- structed @ steam mitrailleuse, the most formidable yet known. Sortle from Metz—Gallant Gardes Mobile— German Indemnity—Houses Destroyed at Strasbourg—General War Notes. Lonpow, Oct. 6, 1870. General Treskow commands the Prussian army extined for service in the south of France, STILL ANOTHER SORTIE FROM MET2. ‘The garrison of Metz have made a sortie against the Eighth Prnssian corps at Jouy. The losses were trifing on both sides. It is said that the French troops at Metz are still deceived as to the result of the war. GALLANT GARDES MOBILES, ‘The battalion of the Garde Mobile, raised in the Department of Aisne, and commanded by Duke Fitzjaines, is mentioned as having distinguished itself by its steadiness and gallantry before Soissons. INDEMNITY FOR GERMANS. The New York, HERALD correspondent at Berlin telegraphs from that city to-day that King William has sanctioned the demand for indemnity made py the Germans who were expelled from France. The German maritime towns require special damages, asserting that although their vessels escaped capture, the injury to their shipping interests was great from the compulsory sojourn of their ships in foreign harbors, They complain that France, in opposition tothe progress of civilization, seized private pro- perty on the high seas, and ask indemnity, in order to prepare for the universal recognition of the prin- Ciple of the absolute freedom of private property in time of war. HOUSES DESTOYED AT STRASHOURG—THE CATHEDRAL INJURED, Five hundred houses were Westroyed in Strasbourg by the bombardment, and the number of persons rendered homeless reaches 10,000. Subscriptions for their relief are general throughout Germany, It is dentea that the Strasbourg Cathedral escaped serious damage by the late bombardment. Persons just arrived from the scene report that the edifice suffered severely. REVIEW OF TROOPS BY KING WILLIAM, Sea William yeyiewed the Sixth Prussian army NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, UCTOBER 7, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. corps at Versailies on Wednesday. Headquarters were subsequently established at that place. A BALLOON FOR POSTAL SERVICE. Captain Schmitz, of the French artillery, and in- ventor of the mitratileuse, has devised a new style of balloon for postal purposes. NOTES ON WAR SUBJECTS. Beauvais, forty-one miles northwest of Paris, has been made a great victualling centre by the Ger- mans. ‘The French iron-clad steamer Regnard Armund 18 cruising in the Channel, near New Haven. ‘The steamers of the Hamburg-Awmerican line, now at Hamburg, are being used for the detention of the French prisoners, ‘The presence of General Beauregard in Europe is denied, THE BESIEGING ARMY. TELEGRAPHIC LETTER TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Kiog William at Versuilles—Historical Remi- niscences—Wild Rumors—Prussian Prepara- tlons—A False Alarm—Newn from Paris— Desultory Firing—Where the Attnck Will Be Made. Lonpox, Oct. 6, 1870. ‘The following letter has just been received from the New YorRK HERALD correspondent at the head- quarters of the German army:— VERSAILLES, Oct. 1, 1870. A few days ago the headquarters of the King of Prussia were removed to Versailles, An order has been issued that none but the officers and men on duty shall enter the palace, but King Wiihelm’s pass opens all the doors and to all parts of the lines ex- cept immediately aroun Paris, where the Germans are fortifying. HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES, This visit of King WHliam to the palace of Ver- sailles has proved quite interesting. On entering the ground floor that grinning, sharp old monkey, Voltaire, hails the enemies of France, seeming to remind them of his literary victories over the grea Frederick. A step further and @ host of Prussian military officers are seon peering into chambers Sled wit the most interesting and thrilling of ts- torical paintings in existence, Here are representa- tions of the campaigns of Napoleon the First. How can we compare them with the campaigns of the other Napoleon we have personally seen? We have seen Sedan, but look yonder at Ulm and its glories. Here, too, we see the great conqueror towering over the Prussian queen and over Berlin itself. The Prussian oMcers were tickled when they saw paint- ings representing Solferino and the Malakoff and the taking of Mexico, There were the new colors and gaudy frames tottering and clattering over ihe prim but now faded glories of the second empire. WILD RUMORS, The wildest ramors were prevalent at Versailles two days ago. I was assured by the wrench peas- ants that a great battle was in progress between the forces of Prince Frederick Charles and those of Ba- zaine, On the same authority I learned that an army of 120.000 men from the south of France were advancing rapidly upon Versailles. The truth is that no movement of an aggressive character has been attempted by the French, or will be for some ume to come, if ever. PRUSSIAN PREPARATIONS. Meantime the German army 1s quietly and indus- triously intrenching and fortifying the positions occupied by them, apparently with a view to a long stay. Their earthworks are intended to resist sor- ties rather than to be used in an active attack upon Paris, Still, rumors are current in the camp, and are, doubtless, trae, that heavy siege guns are to be brought up and mounted on the heights of Meudon and Clamartin order to silence Fort d’Issy, which threatens to give trouble. Reuller, it 1s said, makes the assault on that quarter; but it Is less easy to take the fort than to attack It, A FALSE ALARM. Continus! alarms occur along the lines of the be sieging army, which, however, are natural enough in the course of things warlike. Yesterday some officers galloped up tothe house where I spent tie night, bringing to the division generai the startling intelligence that an advance upon their lines was being made by the French. Within ten minutes crowds of Prussian soldiers, their helmets and bayonets glittering in the hght, were march- Ing in the direction indicated, followed by an artillery train and the baggage, ambulance and am- munition wagons. The staff soon after got up, and, with their trappings, made an imposing force. The Prussian division was soon under way and ready for action; but there was nd enemy to fight, and it returned to camp much like the firemen of New York after a false ala) NEWS FROM PARIS, The absence of any war news renders everything duil. The only occasional enlivenment ts caused by the receipt of papers or the bringing in of refugees and deserters bold enough to escape from Paris. One, who came in to-day, purports to be a workman desirous of reaching Bossy, which is his place of residence. He said that Paris was calm and tranquil. Occasionally there were outrages perpetrated by the mob, principally upon unoccu- pied dwellings and warehouses in the absence of the soldiery. The Parisians are awaiting an attack. They are resolved to resist tu the bitter end, but are aying of ennui. Great excitement attends the de- parture of the balloons, Drilling is constant ana the Nationai Guards are praised for the great rapidity with which they are acquiring proficiency. The regu- lars are reported to be terribly demoralized. More than one thousand of them are in the guard houses and prisons. According to the account of this ouvrier, some alarm is felt in the city at the spread ofa fever of a typhus character, superinduced, the doctors say, by the fright and anxiety of the pa- tients, He also reports the rumors prevalent in Paris yesterday that Jules Favre had demanded ano- ther interview with Bismarck, with a view to mak- lng further efforts to conclude a treaty of peace. DESULTORY FIRING. It must not be imagined that all is quiet and safe here because uo great movement is at present con- templated. Along the frontin every direction the constant desultory fire of musketry and the occa- sional hissing and explosion of shells and the heavy boom of cannon are the normal sounds, Wounded men are constantly brought in. It is rare, in fact, that the firing 18 not without effect, WHAT BISMARCK DOES NOT DESIRE. I was told to-day, on good authority, that Count Uismarck has not the slightest intention to interfere in Italian politics and does not desire to inherit the legacy of the French empire, WHERE THE ATTACK WILL BE MADE. The near approach of the King to the beleaguered city, occasioned by bis change of headquarters, has created quite @ bustle here. It seems, also, to fully Mayor and five of the leading cifizens prisoners, | veris recetve one franc and a half per diem, At ‘They sent a flag of truce to the Mobiles, who h@a re | tired with their captives, informing them that unless the four ublans were returned the Mayor and his companions would be sent off to Versailles. This threat had the destred effect. The men were sent back from Breteull, where they had been imprisoned, and the others were then set free. TACTICS OF THE FRENCH. On the following day an order was received from the General commanding at Lille for all the Gardes Mobile to fall back a8 soon as the Germans appeared. The Gardes Mobiles have no artillery, while every German force numbering five hundred men has a proportionate number of field guns. The Mobiles are discouraged, 80 far as I have seen, and are anxious for a stoppage of the war. ANOTHER COMBAT. Leaving Clermont yesterday (Friday) I came on here just in time to witness another skirmish. Four hundred of the Gardes Mobiles fell in with a couple of hundred of German cavairy, and fired upon them at long range. The cavalry fell back upon two pieces of artillery and six hundred infantry in their rear, when the entire force moved forward and dreve the Mobiles back upon Ailly-sur-Noye, The Prussians then occupied Breteull. PRUSSIAN MOVEMENTS, ‘To-morrow they will proceed to Ailly, on the next day to Boves, and so on until they occupy Amiens, They will then move round toward Neufchatel, Where they will meet the troops which have advanced from German headquarters at Versatlles, and thus form a complete cordon around Paris, about thirty leagues outside of the one now sure rounding the French capital. A BERIOUS ENGAGEMENT EXPECTED. It is evident that between Rouen and Clermont, a day or two hence, the most serious engagement that has yet occurred between the Gardes Mobiles and the Germans will take place. The former are mov- ing up in masses from all points outside to occupy North Picady and East Normandy, orders received from Paris and Tours being to prevent the formation of the second cordon at any cost. But the hope of successfully defending any of the towns in North and Northeast france seems utterly hopeless in the present broken and scattered condition of the French. THE SITUATION AT PARIS. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Plundering—Prussians Ready to Attack—The French Prepared—Awericans in Paris to Their Frieade—Defensive Preparations—Of- ficial Report of the Attack of the 30th— Why It Was Made—Its Failure. Lonpon, Oct, 6, 1870, Late advices from Paris state that there ls much plundering there. A telegram from Tours, dated to-day, says that news has been received there that the Prussians have now completed all arrangements for shell- ing and attacking Paris, The guns and mortars are in position. THE GARRISON READY FOR THE ATTACK. The spirit of the population, however, Is un- daunted. Advices received show that the garri- son are prepared at any moment to second such attack as the forces outside of the Prussian lines may make. The French are aware that some time must elapse ere an offensive movement can be made, and they use the delay m drilling and arming the Mobiles. AMERICANS IN PARIS TO THEIR FRIENDS, ‘The following was received this morning per bal- loon from Paris, dated 29th ult, and addressed on an open card:—“E. H. Kidder, Msiden lane, New York, by son George—Teil my family 1am in no danger. There are plenty of provisions here. The terrible stories manufactured by Bismarck regarding the tn- ternal diesensions here are utterly false. The troops are in cxcellent condition.”’ By the same balloon, bearing the same date, was received an open card from William Dreyer to EF. Dreyer, Fayette street, Raltimore:—“Our days are occupied with perfecting our ambulances, of which we Americans are justly proud. There is ne danger of a famine for three months to come, The city 1s well provisioned, and the troops are improving wonderfully. The city is quiet and very orderly, and there 1s no noise or disturbance.” DEFENSIVE PREPARATIONS. All the bridges ep the railroads and highways to the west of Paris have been mined, and are to be blown up as the Prussians advance. The Parisians claim that the Prussians wi!l find plenty of defen- sive contrivances to face before entering Paris, GENERAL RIPLEY AIDING TROCHU. Late advices from Paris announce that General Trochu is turning to good aceount the experience and abilities of General Ripley. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE ENGAGEMENT OF suP- TEMBER 30, A messenger reached London to-day with de- spatchos from Paris from the 30th ot September to the 3d of October! There was heavy firing on Thurs- day night, and it increased in intensity this morning at about one o’cio I saw about a hundred wounded brought to the Palais de l’Industrie, and on going down to Montrouge I found the church near the fortifications fuil 07 them, TROCHU'S OFFICIAL REPORT, ‘The following ts the oficial account of the engage- confirm the general belief that the advance upon Paris, when made, will be from the direction of the sonthwest, Operations of the German Forces—Shirmishes at St. Just and Breteuil@A Second Cordon of Germans Forming Around Paris—Efforts of the Freuch to Prevent its Formation—No Chance of Their Succeeding. LONDON, Oct. 6, 1870. ‘The New York HERALD correspondent at Breteull writes from that place under date of October Las aaron. BRETEUIL, Oct. 1, 1870. Tleft Brnsecls September 22 and worked my way throngh Lille, Arras, Douai and Amiens, and reached Clermont on ‘Thursday. Since the 27th the Paris railroad has been cut at Brerenil, Clermont ts now in possession of the Saxon cavalry. On the 28th 600 dragoons marched into the place, When I left the Hotei Dieu Epees was filled with soldiers, A SKIRMISH. On Tuesday last, 3/th, 1 witnessed a skirmish at ‘St. Just, ten miles north of this place, between a force of 150 Gardes Mobile and thirty uhians. On the latter entering the town the ublans fired upon them, from behind a wall. Not one of the Germans Was killed, but four of their horses were Knocked over and their riders made prisoners, The nhians re- tired on a gallop, but returned three hours later With a larger foyce, entered the town and made the & ment:— ur troops in a vigorbus sortie successfully oceu- pled Chevilly and L’Hav and advanced as far as ‘Thiats and Choisy-le-Roj. All these positions were wholly occupied, After a sharp artillery and mus- ketry engagement our troops fell back on their positions with remarkable order and coolness, The Garde Mobile were very firm. Our lossea are con- siderable, and these of the enemy bes 3 as large, TROCHU. General Trochu’s report 1s dated at Bice! 10:30, and reduces the successes to real dimensions, OBJECT OF THE ATTACK. An additional report by General Trochu says the object was, by a combined action on both banks of the Seine, to discover precisely in what force the enemy was in the villages of Cholsy-le-Rot and Chevilly. While the brigade of General Guilhem drove the enemy out of Chevilly the head of the column of General Blaize entered the village of Thiais and seized a battery of cannon, which, however, could not be moved for want of horses. At this moment the Prusstans were reinforced, and the retreat was efected in good order. FRENCH LOSSES, General Guilhem was killed. General d’Er while this combat was going on, marched with his brigade on Creteil, and inflicted severe loss with his mitraillenses, The journal Le Zemps calculates the Joss on Friday at about 500 wounded and 400 killed, DISHEARTENING EFFECT OF THE KAILURE. The object of the sortie was to blow up the bridge over the Seine ana to rouse the courage of the Pa- risians by obtaining a success where the Prussians were not supposed to be in force. Neither end hay- ing been obtained, consequently the besieged are greatly depressed. BARRICADES AND ELECTIONS. Rochefort has issued a poster begging the citizens not to coustruct private barricades, He says there must be unity in the system of interior defences, The Reveil announces that the ultras do not imtend to proceed to revolutionary elections of the muntci- pality to-morrow, because they hope the government Intend to yleid. HOW THE PEOPLE ARE FED. Asystem has been adopted py the authorities to make the stores Rold out as long as possible. Every butcher receives each morning & certain amount of meat, calculated upon ifs ave- rage sales, Against this meat he issues bills in the evening to his customers, who upon Presentation of the ticket the next morning will re- ceive the amount for which they have inscribed themselves at the tariff of this week. When the uckets have been iweued by thea butcher equivalent to the meat whiuh he is to recetve he issues no more, Yesterday a decree Was promulgated ordering all persons having flour on sale to give it up to the government at the current price to be distributed to the bakers like the meat to the butchers, The meat supply does not equal the demand, Many persons are un- able to obtain tickets, The restaurants cannot get enough for their customers. Work is at a standstill. The Mobiles ayd Nationals who apply forma paw Present prices it is impossible for even @ single man to obtain sufficient nutriment for thia sum, It was supposed that the peasants invited to take refuge would bring more than enough food with them for themselves and their familles, but they preferred to bring old beds and furniture instead of stores of flour and sheep. We have twenty-two million pounds of horse flesh, still the misery among those who have no money to buy food with, unless the government boldly faces the question, will be very great. everything except beef, mutton and bread is at fancy prices, Ham costs seven francs the kilo- Gramme, cauliflower one and one-half franc per head, salt butter nine francs the kilogramme, fat chicken ten francs, thin five frances, rabbit eleven francs, duck nine francs, fat goose twenty francs, Rents, too, are a vexed question. In a few days those for October will be due. Few can pay, and fv 48 proposed to allow no landlord to levy either before the close of the siege or before December, NAPOLEON'S LIBERALITY, The Tuileries correspondence reveals the fact that both Cassagnac ana Jerome David were regular pen- sioners on the civil Mst. Tne cost of the Prince Imperial’s baptism amounted to 898,000 francs. The cousins, male and female, of the Emperor received 1,310,975 francs per an- num; the Duc de Persigny in two months 60,000 francs, The Prince Sablonowiski, the Countess Gajan, Madame Claude Vignon, General Morris and many others are down for various sums, 1,200 francs to General de Failly for similar plums, The Duchess of Monchy, whose name continu- ally appears, received 2,000,000 francs a3 a marriage portion. The son of the American Bonaparte had a pension of 80,006 franca. Madame Ratazzi of 24,000 francs; ner sister, Madame Turr, the same; Marquis Pepoll, 25,000 francs. The cousins, not content with their pensions, were always getting extra allowanaes. Prince Achille Murat’s debis the Emperor paid a dozen times, THE AMBULANOE SERVICE, The complaints of the newspapers against the number of men who avold military duty by hooking themselves in some capacity or other to the ambu- lance service are becoming louder every day. Dr, Evans, the leading spirit of the American ambu- lances, has vanished, leaving the care of the ambu- lances to others, THE CONSPIRACY BUSINESS AGAINST THE EMPIRE. The Prefect of Police 1s actively engaged in an at- tempt to throw light upon M. Pietri’s connection with the periodical plots against the emptre. Docu- ments discovered show that the mogt of these plots were of the imperial police, and that Pietri, Lae grange and Tharnter, Juge de Instruction, were the prime movers. 1t is certain that Bablat received 20,000fr. for his services as a conspirator. WHAT THE AMERICANS ARE DOING. Mr. Washburne informs me there are still about 250 Americans in Paris, of whom about forty are women. Some remain to look after their homes, and others from curiosity. A WILD RUMOR, Rumors have been in circulation all day (October 3) of @ great victory and @ junction of the army o the Loire, GENERAL FACTS, Mrs, Washburne, in Brusse!s, recelves letters fre- quently from her husband by balloon express, THE DIPLOMATIC QUESTION. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. A Hope of Peace—Imperialists in Enginnd Working tor a Restoration of tho Bonn- purter—Bismarck Said Be Helping Them. Lonvon, Oct. 6, 1870, It is stated in a Berlin despateh that the cold lan- guage of the German press in regard to the annexa- tion of Alsace and Lorraine is exciting the displea- sure of Count Bismarck. hope for peace. BISMARCK WORKING FOR A RESTORATION OF DYNASTY. ‘The adherents of the French Emperor are very active in England. M. Rouher and Baron Jerome David are living in the clty. They go to Chiselhurst quite frequently to confer with the Empress Eugénie, The rumors that the Prussian government is not hostile to this movement in favor of Napoleon are repeated, and some persons even go so far as to assert that Count Bismarck furnished part of the funds for the establishment of La Situation, the impertal newspaper here. ACTIVITY OF IMPERTALISTS AT JERSEY. A Brussels correspondent, tn writing on the oth, savs:—I have had an account of the doings of the nest of imperialists assembled at Jersey. ‘They are spending money profusely and boasting what they can do through certaiu political connections in Eng- land. Rouher has been there and Drouyn de L’huys, and a host of other notables. Marsnal Le- boeuf went over to the island af night ina cockle shell boat. All this makes quite an excitement here, If this is correct we may THE REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON. Letters from Paris—Condition of Affairs—No Dissensionx—The Enemy Disappointed. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 1870. Letters have been receive’ here from Paris and its neighborhood by several prominent French gentie- men, the contents of which ave to-day confirmed by private telegrams, to the effect that the situation ot affairs at that city has improved, and that there are no dissensions among the people, all of whom regardless of political opinions, are nnited in de- fence of the capital. ‘The arming of the ciuzens continues,’? says one of the correspondents, ‘and the hopes of the Prussians that the citizens of Paris would be found in anarchy on the approach of the enemy are disappointed FRENCH PATRIONIC AID SOCIELY. ‘This soctety met at 21 West Houston strc night, Mr. Gerdy in the chair. Thirteen genuemen out of the seventeen comprising the committee handed in verified accounts of their coliections. The others are still to come in. A resolution vo dismiss Messrs. Salinon and Thiebaut in conse. quence of their remissiess as committee men was unanimously adopted, and Messrs. Strauss and Gen- ull were bo tr to receive the amounts collected by them, Pto this time $37,570 have been sv seriped, including $250 sent in last night by the Frenciinen of St. Joseph, Mo. A letter from Roths: child was read by the presid acquatnting the committee of the receipt of their last remittance of $13,200 in gold. PRUSSIA AND BELGIUM. { last The Attitude of Berlin—Visits of the Quecn to the Hospitale—The Crown Princess—Hospi- tality at Namur—Railway Stations During the War. NAMUR, Sept, 18, 1870, A friend of mine has just arrived from Berlin, but he does not bring much news from that capital. ‘The intense excitement produced there by the great 2d of September has passe away, and once more the city has resumed its attitude of anxious watch- ing. Since Sedan Berlin has felt that it is waiting between two acts of the tremendous French tra- gedy—the surrender of the Emperor and the fall of Paris. No Berliner, probably, doubts the certainty of that fail; but we who are outsiders cannot help hoping that somehow the brilliant, giddy, girlish city May be saved, O! course the Berlin people are very flerce against the French, but they seem to have been kind to the wounded and the prisoners. In this they have lad a noble ple set them by their Queen and the Crown Pricess, My friend assures me that they visit the hospitais constanuy. Crowds follow them to watch their faces, aud guess trom their expression what news they have received the of ihe war. It was observed lately that Crown Princess, who has been visiting West many, looked much depressed. Her amiable corinte- nance, 80 welt Known and sc frei! beloved, was observed to be very sad, No wonder. She has been visiting the Frankfort hospitals and has scen very sorrowlul sights. ladies who believe devoutly in the newspapers and who cherish a conviction that there are Turcos who Would dine comfortably of roast Prussian, and others who required a detachment of soldiers with loaded rifles to keep order in the hospitals where they were lying wounded, However, tne poor fel- lows seem to have been humanely treated in Germa- ny; and it is only in France that there are sad accounts of Prussian ill usage of prisoners. No doubt the demoralizing effect of the late savage scenes must be felt in a most deplorable manner by those who have gone through them; for war isa true Circe, transforming men into brutes, and the horror of the transformation is increased by the fact that the greater brutes men become the greater brutes they become! ‘Think it over and you will sce the philosophy of this, Oh, for peace! Meanwhile we, among the ‘braves Belges,” are somewhat proud of our proximity to war, and oftl- cers who have been to the frontier are very vain of the hardships they have gone through, especially those who did not undress for two nights, I am still at Namur, and beg to repeat what 1 before rewarked to you of the exceeding kindness of the Namurois, The ratlway station here has presented some singular — scends. Trains arriving ful of French soldiers in an exceedingly depressed and confused condition, crowds of Belgians recelving them, ladies and geu- tlemen (of course ‘red cross’ people) tearing in with trays full of retreshments, dashing in so tn- discriminately that 1 have often had to beat a hurried retreat before these crusaders, Other kind eltizens would come rushing from cafés, &c.. with & glass of something good in each hand, some coming to grief against each other, and “liquoring up,” or rather down, the ground tustead of the military. Others bought up the trait stalls im the strects bodily and brought them—this is a great place for fruit. You nee the hardening influences had not ex- tended to these outsiders and all Was sympathy and kindness, ‘The appearance of ihe French troops was singul in the extreme, and you could hardly guess at the orginal uniform of some of them, Those who came 0 road, chiefly cavalry, Were in @ much worse con- dition than those who came by train. You could hardly teil which looked most miserable, the men or the horses, ‘The poor animals were mere skele- tons; some, they said, had been saddied and bridled for eight days. Many of the men had not taken their boots off for a month; jaded, ragged, covered with white dust, their appearance was truly pitladie, ‘Their costumes were extraordinary—some wrapped in horse blankets, some bare headea, others with Belgian caps, cavalry with rags of in- fantry uniform, cuirassic rs with remains of a zouave dress—such asight! Yet with it all their solcteriy spirit was not quite quenched and througn thelr dust and dirt and squalid misery they contrived to show some remnants of martial decom and pride. Those I saw at the station, loo, were not by any means utterly crushed, but had a great deal to say for themselves in sprightly French fashlon. You know, of course, & Frenchman never 13 beaten—he always is betrayed. If it had not been tor the in- Jame trahison of some parties unknown the Ung: ish Would have been ¢cras’s at Waterloo, And so ould the Prussians on the banks of the Rhine, ac- cording to the French soldiers I conversed with, ‘The army, the Emperor,had been wickedly betrayed — had not been properly supplied with ammunition or food—had been obliged to fight with bayonets only those who had both ball and bayonets. Their dereat was the result of treachery aimply, and so on. ‘The appearance of the Namur station must be re- freshing to these poor fellows after all they have seen lately.’ Ladtes in trreproachable costumes, gen- tlemen also, Whose coats and boots are sans peur et sans reproche, are waiting to receive them. From the most precocious hours in the morning till quite Jate at night these wild crusaders are at their posts. ‘Three rooms at the station are filled up by them, One is an ambulance, another @ reception room and the third 1s a sture room and has capital stores, You look at them with surprise, Are these model moun- tains? No, they are merely piles of white bread; those are’ not little castle turrets, but barrels of beer neatly standing upon barrels of beer, Observe the regiments of wine bottles—tiey are all fail; fruits are here mm abundance, too, and saucy looking, corpulent sausages, Here also you sve in abundance, not the “pipes of peace,” but the cigars of neutrality, cigar boxes in heaps Me heaps. Would that some of our provisions coul’ » to the unhappy prisoners, who are starving, we hear, in the hands of the Prussians, But our great stores would, perhaps, be only a drop ta the ocean of want there. They say that she has been particularly kind to the wounded Turcos, who stick dreadmliy in the German throat, inaced, 1 know some Germay These provisions are, however, not all that the Namurois are prepared to offer the fugitives, tor no sooner are they settied in the barracks than they are asked out to dine with the townspeople, Itis sald that many of these soldiers were moved to tears by the kindness of their reception here. Our station 1s, however, not only a place for ving but for getting, too, Our Crusaders ere great feast and no sooner does a train arrive (not of Bold fers} than they go from carriage to carriage beg- ging heip for the wounded. Their appeals are often most generously responded to. 1 often think, while watening these trains, what wonderful scenes the railway stations have witnessed since the com- mencement of unis war—the enthusiastc embarka- tions of troops, the mournful receptions of the wounded, the excited gatherings to bear we news, the fights, the terrors, the disguises, the discoveries they fave witness These business-like pijoos will be for the future as much embalmed mstrange memories as the most romantic ruins in the world. ‘There are not many wounded soldiers here yet— not more than one hundred, I believe; and they are mostly at the St. Jacques—not at the military hos- pttal. I wish more of the sufferers could be sent on here; they might be better cared for than they are now on the frontier or in France. The stories one hears of their condition there are too horrible. But what system could cope with the enormity of the distress? The National Society does wonders as it is, We understand: butall I learn makes me look upon Namur just now as a little oasis in the great desert of suffering. Our wounded are, for the most part, not very badly hurt, as the worst cases were not brought so far. The usual policy of dispersion 18, however, to be followed as soon a8 special trans- ports to the different towns of Belgium cau be a ranged for that purpose. Ainong the prisoners here Imay mention M. Paul de Cassagnac. Beyond this e I know Of none of suiticient faine to interest THE WAR IN EUROPE. Foreign Facts, Incidents, Anecdotes, Per- nonalia, dc. THE EMPEROR'S SECKET CORRESPONDENCE. M. Juies Claretie, one of the commisstoaers ap- pointed by the Freneh government to edit and publish the imperial correspondence captured at Dieppe, in a letter which appears in the Cloche says:—'Do not doub! of the depth of the mire, 2 country, when it reads what we are reading, will experience nausea, THY NEW RECRUITS FROM THE PROVINCES, du reverence to the ions of the Guard Mobile arriving from the provinces for the defence of Paris, just before the siege began, the Opinion Nationale makes the following remark: Ihave just seen one body pass by from the du-Nord, The men were marching four abreast, with two scouts in front, and we ng 1 GN wn dertone one of those popular airs of oid Armorica. nonotonous Chant, the weasure of witich served to regulate the step and repla and trampet. Assuredly no trained soldiers could have a more martial appearance, more regularity or better discipline in th 8 HOW TROOPS ARE LODGED IN PARIS. ‘Yhe principal nave of the Palais de Mindustrie is now boih a barrack and an arsenal. A regiment of mounted gendarmes is instatied there, the men oc. cupying the galleries on the first floor and the horses the outside of the space below, while ihe centre is filled with cannon of various calibre and projec- tiles. Such of the men as cannot find room tn the building are camped out in the Chasnps-Elysces. THE GREAT OSTY SOBERED DOWN. ‘The state of Paris 18 at this moment much more satisfactory than at the Commencement ot the week, The singing im the streets has ceased; numerous Garde Mobiles from the departments now fill the thoroughfares and public squares, and thei y ance is of energetic men summoned to a se struggle and resolved to do their duty. The muzz! loading muskets given them In the departments are exchanged on thelr arrival for Chassepots. Among the population of Paris volunteers are coming for- ward jn great numbers and being exercised all ihe day, without uit or cries. on the landing places of the qu nd on all the open pieces of ground. As for the National Guard, its attitude ap- pears excelleate THE VOICE OF RELIGION. The Archbishop of Paris has addresse! to the clergy of his diocese a padtoral letter pofnting out to them the duties they have to perform iu present circumstances, “What we have to do,” he writes, “in this terrible crisi# is to convey to our vallant soldiers, In the forts and on the ramparts, the con- sojation of our ministrations; to solace the wounded and aid thew famthes, especially their children; to encourage the population and sustain them in thelr generous istance to the attacks of the foreigner; and, in fine, to pray to God, Who 13 the supreme arbiter of our destinies.”” TUE BALLOON SERVICE IN PARIS. The air balloon Neptune, intended for the obser- vation of the enemy's movements during the siege ot Paris, wader the command of M, Naday as cap- tain, and MM. Camiile Dartots and Jujes Durouf as his Heutenar is kept ready (In @ captive state) at te Loot of the Tour de Soliérino, Montmartre. Dar- ing the half hour that the workmen were employed on the first day in Uxing it a number of spectators assembled und @ sum Of 165 francs was collected tor the wounded. The Neptune will remain perma- nently inflated during the siege. It is out of reacit of the enemy's howitzers. PRUSSIAN RULE IN ALSACE AND LOREAINE. ‘The Prussian civil governor of Alsace has issued a proclamation to the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy. it declares that all are to retain their pre- sent rights and sttpends The Church will not be interfered with by the State; but ecclesiastics a 3 reaching, peaking or ‘acting against existing au. Tonites will be punished by military law. ‘A large police force has been sent to Alsace and German Lorraine, where a regular government is Row established, THE LAST SIGHS OF 4 HAUGHTY NATION. The Gawois gives the following extract from a letter written by the person charged by MacMahon to carry despatches to Marshal Bazaine:— On the evening of the battle of Sedan, at half-past four, the Prince of Saxony, Who was at La Chapelle, a little village near the fronuer, said to some persons of that nation:—“You hear, gentle. men, those last cannon shots; well, they are the last Sighs of that haughty France, that nation once so great and so proud! No, Prince, what you heard Was ouly the last sigh of the empire, And you would have no doubt on the subject were you to hear the cry which fora week past has resounded from one end of France to the other, the same that Was pronouuced by our fathers in 1792, and which Made Europe recoll—namely, ‘The country 18 in danger—to arms!’ I went through the streets of Sedan the whole night, and gave the word, *! one to Paris.” There were at lan avout prisoners; but in the course of the night 12,000 escaped, The Prussians killed about of them, but the rest got off, Several oMlcers succeeded in falning Belgium in plain clothes, and train which TOuUght me to Paris held about sixty who had got away without anythmg, The Prussians have not taken a single French flag, All ours were con- cealed or burned, I myself saved three from Sedan. PRUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE DEGENBRACY OF THE PRENCH SOLDIERS, Herr Wachenhuson, in an article in the Cologne Gazelle, tius gives his opluion on the French sol- diers, the result, he states, of nis observations in the Crimea and Italy, as well as in the present war:— , It may sound rash, but I assert that the French soldier, such as he is, will gain no victory over w like the Germans, either to-day or to-morrow, still less, for tho degeneracy wil but increase, a few years hence. The rule of France js played out; it will remain quiet by the Rhine. The country, which early, through the artificiality of its manner of ife, 1t8 dissipations and its obstinate destruction of human life, is depopulated, and whose people are physically declining; that country, alter this fearfal and bloody lesson, will have to give up any serious thought of conquest in Germany, The French soldier through bis mode of life has lost all military virt his discipline 1s relaxed und his ambition stunted. @m assured that when the French soldiers marched through Rheims they tired of the weight of theirgans, threw them away and scornfully laughed tn thelr officers’ taces. Everywhere | have found proofs of the vandalisin which the trench soldiers have ex- hibited in all the villages and towns of their own country. Ihave met civilians who openly confessed they Would rather have twenty Prussians as foes than five Freuchmen as defenders. As to the want of vigilance of the French ariny, We saw an instance of it at Beaumont, where, at bright midday, our troops surorised a large French encampment at cooking which had not appointed any sentinels. In the evening the meat, potatoes and rice in their Saucepans, under which the fires stil glimmered, showed me the way over the battieneld. They abandoned everything tn the wildest fight, and we thus captured two iarge camps, one behind an- other. The Arab, e' shames the French in this, for he always, even on his caravan, ap- polnts sentinels at wight, We see, however, that the grande nation have learned nothii even from their conquered enemies, the French dier in the camp so he is onthe march, He cannot march, indeed; he consequently accom- plishes only a short distance in a day, Marches of twenty or twenty-two niles three or four days im succession, as our troops in this campaign have so often been obliged to make, Would speck the roads with the entire French army. The French soldier is, therefore, so much the more selfishly exacting. All the quarters which the hostile army ‘have ocea- pied evince this, he bears privations unwillingty, murmurs if they are laid upon him and takes by force from his own countrymen what he needs, The patience and endurance Which our soldiers have shown when it was necessary to dispense with bread, and even with Water, would be taconceivable to the French soldier, Inds trae, and I cannot sum. clently emphasize the fact, that the French have fought brave and who would not with such » Weapon as the Chassepot’ Bat remember what L said of the littie prelude at Saarbruck; only when they are In masses do they give a smart fire. They also hold out in strong positions. But are these military virtues? Where our artillery actively played they always took to flight; their officers never had authority over them. What we suffered from them—and God knows it is much—was owing to their fearful weapon, which was death itself for our troops, and poured ta aa thick as hail, so that only a lucky accident averted death or wounds. With such a Weapon in ticir hands vur Prussians would not have lost any of the fine positions whjch the Freuch have been driven from. The French efvinans themselves readily and voluotarily adimt:—“We French are no longer soldiers, at least mst sich enemies as the Germans. should, therefore, be given us. France is big enough. God only gran that it does not become smalier |’ To sum up, Na- poleon, the great strategist, undertook a war with 4 army of at most 300,009 to 350,000 men, includiny, the Garde Mobile, which was first cailed up on the 16th of August, Napoleon himself, the generaiis- ino, the great theorist, showed that he nuderstovd nothing at ail of the art of war. His generals bed relied like strect urchins; one of them showed hi self still more incompetent than Another; not one of them had talent or made an opportunity anywhere to distinguish himse: AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Astated monthly meeting of the American Insti tute was heid at the Cooper Unton last eventing, General William Hall in the chair. The Lecture Committee reported that preparations have been made for a course of seclentific lectures similar to those of last winter, and recom- mended the appropriation of $2,500 to defray expenses, The report was adopted. Dr. Rich moved the appointment of a committeb to draft resoluttons expressive of the sympathy of the mem- bers with the famiy of George R. Jackson, whose aeath occurred since their last Meeting. Nathan C. Ely seconded the motion, in @ speech of some Jength, praising the virtues of the deceased, wih whom he was on terms of intimacy. The motion was adopted, an the commiitee, consisting of the movers and S. D. Tillman, was appointed, after which the ineeting agjourned, FIRE IM HUDSON STREET—LOSS $6,890. A fire occurred last evening on the third Noor of No. 3 Hudson street, occapied by Howelt & Brothers asa packing establishment. Their loss way $2,000, On the second floor the Jos# was $10) to the premises of J. V. Prescott, carpen- ter, The first floor, occupied by Charles Drake, commission terchant, sustained a loss of $200. Weill & Co.'s EXpress Company, on one of the floors, was subjected to a loss of $100, ‘The fire extended to the third fle upied by Leonard King, painter, whose loss is 00. Amongst the sufferers was W. W. Fowler, liquor dealer, whose damage 1s $100. ‘The buildings are damaged and are owned by ihe Trimity Chureh Society. BUFFALO AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD. Burrao, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1660, Ata meeting of the Buffalo and Washington Rail- road stockholders to-day the following officers were elected:—Bronson C. Rumsey, president; Henry A. Richmond, vice president; H. L. Lyman, secretary Inrector mas Clark, James Bush, Cyrus Clark, E. Henry, rhoelikepf, ©. J. Hamlin, Sher naon C, Rumsey, Jonathan Sco- William G, Fargo aud A, M. and treasurer, Myron nond, J, F r cary, TELEGRAPHIC. NEWS ITEMS. ‘The Canadian Agricultural Exposition at Toronto fs a great ces. On Wednesday 40,000 visitors were present, dward Higgins, a brakeman on the Hudron River Rat}- from his train walle in motion at Poughkeepsic and broke bis neck. Acrazy man jumped from a bridge in Utica yesterday afternoon and was instantly, kiled. He fell about 165 feet, The Henry Gray Steam Fire Engine Company, of Spring field, Mi ai Poughkeepsio ‘ast night. They met with ception by the Poughkeepsle firemen, ‘The despatch from St. Lonts concerning the death of thir- ty-six men in a coal mine jn Ulinols is hoax; no such aie. aster happened. The city of Rockland, Me., yeaterday voted almost unani mousiy to lend its credit tor’ further sum of $150,000 In aid of the Knox and Lincotn Railroad, Thirteen deaths from yellow fever occurred in New Orleans on Wednestay. Ainoog the victims of the fever on Sunday was J, B Hoil, w native of New York, but for wany yeure » resident ot Philadeiphin, A grand review of the T nty-fourth brigade, New York State Guard, took plac Syracuse yerterday, by Governor Hoffman aud stait. fhe Governor, after the review, went to Rochester, and will review the brigade ia Butlalo to-morrow. ‘The owners of some elghty odd lake vessels, In Chicago, who struck a fe Hee againet the pri paid by the lumber dealers for carrying lumber, have succumbed to the lumbermen, and put their entire ‘fleet at work at the rates offered by them. T. E. Sick'ex, of Omaha, hax been appointed superintend- ent of the Uso ¢ Railroad in place of Coionel C. G, Hammond. On Monday evening last a boller Ins soap factory at Broadwood, exploded, instantly killing L. Teusler, i Highman, William Hearister and Fidet Rose. TOBSCCO STATEMENT. son of inspections a from the 1st of October, 1869, and fron October, 1870:— Number ot hogsheads Inspected from Oct. 1, ~The following 18 compart Wd receipts of loose tobacco: 1898, to the Ist of October, the ist of October, 1869, to the Ist of 1588, 0 Oct. 1, 1900........ cesssvebannuse 5,282 Number of hogsneads laspected from Oct. 1, 1809, to Oct. J, STU. 3,547 Hogsheads short in 1870.....c.sseees scene 1,764 Hogsheads on hand for tnspection Oct. 1, 1869. tte ee eens eeeserecseacesereeeree . 8 on hand for inspection Oct. 1, Loose and boxed topacco received 1, 1868, to Oct. 1, 1809. . sseserceeess 180,850 Loose and boxed tobacco received from Oct. 1, 1869, to Oct. 1, 1870. 8,751,550 Short in 1870.