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PARIS. The Herald’s Special Report from the King’s Headquarters, FIELD OPERATIONS AT VERSAILLES. Meeting Between Bismarck and Thiers Arranged, EUVGENIE’'S LOVE OF COUNTRY. She Will Not Consent to the Ces- sion of French Territory. The Peace ‘Agitation in Berlin---Poverty, Death and Orphanage the Prus- sian Consequences, Aetive Life at the Palace of : Withelmshohe. Willing to Play a Lead- ing Part. Bazaine Prince Napoleon's Reception at Chiselhurst. THE SITUATION IN PARIS. ‘YELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Special Report from the Sieged City—The People Comfortable Under the Circum- ataaces—No Bombardment=Still Drilling ‘Troops—American Visitors Fatignued and About to Leave—Minister Washburne’s Mail—A Foed Pinch Anticipated. Lonpon, Oct. 26, 1870, Ihave just been favored with the original of the following private letter, dated in Paris on the 18th instant, and been permitted to use its contents for transmission by cable to New York for publication 1n the Henan. ‘The writer reports as follows:—All is going very comfortably here in Paris just at present. There is no starvation; no very severe suffering for want of provisions. There has not been any bombardment of the city by the Prussians yet. Paris remains perfectly tranquil. There is no out- Yage and little actual crime. DRILLING. ‘The men of the Garde Mobile are gradually be- coming perfect soldiers. They drill really well, but Dave little or no means for support or equipment, ‘They are consequently uot complete soidiers by any means yet. THE AMERICAN MAIL. Count Bismarck appears to be disposed to permit the iUnitea States legation in Paris to forward a weekly mail bag through the Prussian lines, al- though he refuses absolutely to allow a special mes- senger to go forth to accompany the matter. TEPREGNAELE. I myself regard Paris impregnable until the armed forts which protect the city (or one of them at least), are taken by the Prussians, ‘There appears to be very little danger of the exe- oution of the long anticipated general bombara- ment. omar 3 FEAR OF 4 FOOD FAMINE. A food famine is really the only visitation which ‘we have to fear in Paris. This stern necessity will, I suppose, judging from the accounts of the supplies which have been published, commence to piuch the inhabitants very severely, cruelly, indeed, towards the first days of the month of December. tS -awmace TUSRIGAN RESIDENTS. + About two-thirds of the WUMibsr of tie Americans fow resident here wish to leave. They are really tired and fatigued by the existing situation. The Prussians will allow them to take their departure on compliance with certain regulations in force in the investing army, but the French authorities interpose objections of various kinds to the American leave- taking, as they do not wisn to experience—are afraid Ofemthe moral effect wluch this exodus of foreign and friendly neutrals will produce on the remaining pop- alation. The people would naturally inquire the cause of the Americans leaving the city on seeing ‘go many of them go away in a body. It will end, I suppose, however, in the Americans Jeaving as soon as they possibly can, in small num: bers, and at different dates of exit. PROPERTY SAFB. You may assure any of our folks now present in London that their property remaining tn Paris is ali perlectly and entirely safe, MINISTER WASHBURNE. Miutster Washburne, of the United States, does not propose to leave the city just now, but he will pre- Dably do so one of these days—soon.; PEACE RUMORS, BUT NOT MUCH HOPE. We have lots, plenty of rumors of peace circn- dated here just recently. Many persons insist that the arrangement of an armistice is certain. 1 must confess that I myself do not entertam any great hope of such a result at present, or at any time be- fore a mucb greater actual pressure has been felt by ‘the Parisians, PRUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS. ‘TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ° ‘The Besleging Army of Paris Kept on she Alert—Russian Artillery Tacties—More Heavy Guns Wanted=On the March Under DiticultioeA Bombardment if Neccesary. LONDON, Oct, 26—P. M. A special correspondent of the HERALD, writing from tne headquarters of the Prussian army at Ver- sailles, under date of the 20th inst., reports that the Saxon contingent at Aulnay, Sevran, Livry, Vert- gallant and other points of field service In and near the forest of Bondy, are kept on the alert both day ‘Bnd night by surprises and slight assaults of ihe french. At Chetenay and Sceanx the Bavarian troops are disturbed nightly by shells, which fall around their position and in rather alarming contiguity to their fines. PRUSSIAN TACTICS, The besiegers have not yet replied to these offen- sive demonstrations by the discharge of a single gannon. There is no secret made of the assertion; indeed, it may be set down as a positive fact, that the Prussians do not intend te commence their regular artillery practice until they have brought enough of their heavy guns into such position as will enabie them to bombard Paris effectually. A number of guns, in reinforcement of their bat- terles and for the armament of new works, have been already brought up by the Wow ana painful process of being dragged aver the common roads and highways. Guns ‘of larger calivre than these cannot be moved oy such routes, 60 the Prussian siege guns rein- foreerments must be halted and wait for the clear- ance of the obstructions which now impede their advance. anette re ree here tie wre NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OUTUBER 27, 1870.—TRIPLK SHEET, the bridge across the Marne at Ingny. ‘The last named work is almost completed, byt the former 1a not near so far forward, a ‘When the Prussian gins are np and in working order nobody can doubt—no person here doe doubt—the result. -. - a IMPATIENCE OF THE TROOPS, Notwithstanding the prospect of, an early bom- bardment and.the almost certain hope of success of the Prussians, it must be acknowledged that the men serving here are becomtng impatient under the delay of active work, It appears proveking to them to have their very comrades and dearest friends in the army picked off one by one. by shot and so forth, and yet to stand still and not make a return reply. ‘The casuajues in the fleld are not yet very heavy, ibis true, yet with the constant, almost incessant, firing from the French forts, the Prussian mortality by wounds foots up a very considerable aggregate cach week. THE PRENOH AT LYONS. Various reports which have been circulated here astothe strength of the French army serving in Lyons are not credited, It is thought the actnal force at that point is not of any very important amouut, and it is alleged that it could be destroyed very readily if it were destrable todo so, ‘The Gers man commanders are beginning, however, to fall Into that most grievous military fault of desptsing or underrating the force of the enemy. CANNONADING AT ST, CLOUD. OcrobeR 21, A. M.—I have been awakened from sleep by the booming sound of heavy guns; net the occasional reports of dropping shots lere and there, but the re-echo eansed by a well sustained roll of fire, coming trom the direction of St, Cloud. The Germans think nothing of it, FRENCH HOPE PROM GARIBALDIL In the cafés the French are whispering myste- riously. 1 can gather fragments of the conversa tions, Which go to show that they are jubilant over the report that General Garibaldi, at the head of fil- teen thousand men, is near at hand, and they assert that the firing from the forts ts intended to cover a sharp askault on some bridge or outpost train of tht Prussians. Garibaldi 1s capable, no doubt, of inflicting much mischief on the enemy and rendering his outside and rear communications msecure, but [believe he would do much better if he were a man of less pre- ‘vious notoriety. During the progress of the American rebellion Mosby and Morgan did such work very effectually with only @ handful of men. The vigtlance of tne Prussian Lestegers here is so active and unremitting and coustant, that even such an active rafiler as Gari- baldi will fiud extreme dificulty m effecting much in the way of a surprise. For my own part J, like Genera: Grant, do not be- lieve much in the utility of night attacks, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Reported Abandonment of Peace Negotiations. Lonpon, Oct. 26—Noon, A telegram from Metz was received in the city during the forenoon to-day which states that all negotiations with Marshal Bazaine with the view of arranging a peace between France and Prussia have been abandoned, Bazaine Stiil Negotiating for a Capttulation. BERLIN, Oct. 26, Via Lonpon, Oct. 26, 1870, } The German negotiations with Marshal Bazaine for the capitulation of bis army continue, notwith- standing the disapproval of the French govern- ment, NEWS TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The Peace Sentiment Prevailing—Ind ustria Decay by Means of the War—shops Closed and Trade af a Standstill—the Men in the Ficld and Hundreds of Widows and Or- Dbans After the Battles—Political Agitation and Distruste-What the Radical Politicians Fear=Territorial Consolidation at the Ex. pense of the People—Royal Aggrandizement and Executive Diedain~News from Napo- FROM BERLIN. Toxpon, Oct. 26—P. M. The NEW York KUuRaLD special correspondent in Berlin telegraphs a letter from the Prussian capitat under date of the 24th instant, I hasten to submit 1ts contents by deep sea cable to New York. The special writer says:—The feeling which Is up- permost in the minds of the people nere in Berlin just now is an intense longing for peace with France, this feeling prevails most especiaily among the lower olaases. The desire is emphasized more and more strongly da‘ly. It may soon become a de- mand. ° Day after day the Berlinese, the workmen 1n par- ticnlar, feel the early and hourly advancing incle- mency of tne season. They picture to themselves the sufferings which must be endured by their friends now serving with the army jn the fleld, Their last pennies have been invested in the pur- chase of woollen underclothing and socks and auch like comfortables, which they have sent off to the troops. They clamor loudty for an early, some ask 2a im- mediate, termination of the war. COGENT REASONS. Asingle battalion of the landwehr serving under Gencrai Kummed, near Metz, when engaged in re- pelling @ sorte made by Bazaine from that fortress on the 7th instant, lost over 400 married men, the fathers of famiites, leaving just as many bereaved and impoverished widows, and 1,070 orphan chil- dren, In the suburbs of Berlin the shops of the more humble mechanics ate closed. The same condition applies with painful truth to the business places of the amaller butchers and bakers in the Prussian capital. The ‘‘artizans are gone to the front,” ray written placards which are posted on tne doors of their shops and at thelr lodging places. ‘These, with many other evidences of the existing distress of the people of the city, have aroused a very determined feeling in favor of an immediate peace. THE VOLITICAL LEADERS GRUMBDING. Dissatisfaction 1s also felt im the higher political clrvles ow accouunt of the degree of secrecy which 1s observed by the government relative to the nego- (ations which are belng carried on with the view of securing the entry of the South German States into the bund of the German Contederation. The ouly information which 18 youchsafed by the Prus- sian Cabinet on the subject comes to us here from Versailles, These reporig represent Bavaria and Wirtemburg a8 being most eager to rush headlong into the united embrace of the arms of the confederation, while it 1s well Known that the po- litical liberals of Munich, Stuttgart and other South German towns, openly demand the assempiage of a German Parliament and the attatnment of a new and revised constitution, , VICTORIOUS AND MAGNANIMOUS. ‘The position of the Prussian leaders in and out of Parliament 13 by no means the same at present on the war question as it was in the beginning of the struggle. At that moment every person approved of the action and attitude of the government and was wiliing to make any sacrifice in behalf of the cause of the country. The same inen are now tired of the Wat, They are perfectly satisfied that Prussia has been and is victorious, and they are quite unwilling that the nation sould go on further against France for the mere purposes of a gratincation of royal ambition and personal agerandisement, NAPOLEON. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Distinguisued Visitors and Busy Life at Wil- Selmshohe, LONDON, Oct. 6—P, M, The tunnel at Mantull w yelpe rebut and also |, The HixaLD specia) correspondent at Versailiga reports by telegraph to-day as follows:—-A very Conaklerable amount of excitement and stir was recently obséived at Wilhelmshoe, the place of Napoleon’s imprisonment, Among more recent visitors to his ex-Majesty of France were Dr. Con- nean, his long tried triend and physician; M. Raim- beau, Count Daviller, Regnault de Staugely, Mar- ques Gallefet and Count Kanlty, Aid-de-Camp to King Wiliam of Prussia, R THE MILITARY OPERATIONS TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ‘Trochws Daring—A Parisian Heroine—Be- sancon and Chatenudun Destroyed—Still in Orleans—The Country Around Paris—Battlo Notes—The Germans Using Ballooys—Tho Red» Violent. LONDON, Oct, 26, 1870. « General Trochu made another attempt to force an outlet near Issy on Monday, but was repulsed, MODERN JOAN OF ARG. Despatches from Tours announce that a young girl of that city 18 creating the most intense excite- ment by imitating the example of Joan of Arc. Hundreds of enthustlestic persons have joined her Standard. Her appea's for recruits are said to be singularly patriotic and eloquent, THE NEW LOAN, Books for subscriptions to the new French loan have been opened in seventy out of the eighty-nine departments of France, niueteen belng occupied by the Germans, ls BESANCON CUTTED. The Germans, on their westward march, gutted the city of Besancon, in the Department of Doubs, ‘They took thirty-seven carriages flied with wounded French soldiers, CHATEAUDUN DESTROYED, The town of Chateaudun has been literally de- stroyed by the Prussians, THE GERMANS STILL IN ORLEANS, Notwithstanding the French report of the German evacuation of Orleans it has been ascertamed that that city ts #till occupied, There are no indications ofan immediate advance on Blois and Vendome, They have made heavy requisitions on the people living in and around Chatres, DESOLATION. ‘The correspondents report that “Paris is girded with ruin, The country without me walls for intics around is desolate.’? THE MINERS PRESSED INTO THE SERVICE. The Prussians have impressed the miners into their service, to repair the railroads from the Ger- man frontiers to Paris. The bakers and butchers of Saarbritck and other frontier towns have been or- dered to prepare ample supplies for the German forces, BULLETIN OF BATTLES. The Gazette, of Carlsruhe, last evening published @ despatch from General Beyer to the Duke of Baden, containing the following intelligence:— Un Saturday, the 22”, several victorious engage- ments occurred on the River Agnon at Voray, Cus+ sey, Anson and Geuneville. The French losses were severe. Battalions of the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Baden regiments took part in the actions. The German losses were generally insignificant. The fol- lowing 18 a compiete list of the casualties suffered by the Baden troops:—Killed, 7; wounded, 33; cap- tured—oMicers, 12; rank and file, 200, THE GERMAN BALLOONS, ‘The military authorities before Paris have snecess+ fully examined the defences of that city by means of balloons, NEWS FROM PARIS—ARMY SUCCESSES AND CIVIL WAn. A balloon letter from a correspondent ut Paris, by the balloon “Le Grand Ture,” has just been recelved, under date of the 18th. It confirms the reports of the almost daily snecesses of the army of Paris in ties before the wails, and reports a general condition of quiet and confidence in the city. Order ts maintained at night by patrols of the cliizens organized by arondisse- ments. The uniforming of the troops goes on steadily and gives employment to great numbers of women, who are paid in orders for supplies and rations. AMERICANS AND AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN TITE CITY. The number of Americans tn the city ts estimated at nearly 500, Mr, Washburne and the Consul- General continue to receive their countrymen on two evenings of each week, and the number of persons anxious to leave is £6 smal! that litle or no difficulty is experienced in receiving permission for thei to pass through the lines. THE FOOD QUESTION, The supply of food has undergone ho sensible check, though there Js an apparent scarcity of a certain class of fresh provisions, Your correspondent relates meeting an American banker greatly giated at having secured a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, which be was carrying home himself, and greater fear, as he said, | of being robbed than he would be if he had a port- folio of American bon‘ts in Wall strect. CHANGE IN PUBLIC MANNERS, The isolation of the city 19 producing a marked effect on the manners and tone of the population, making them much more free and friendly in their intercourse with each other. People speak to strangers whom they never met before, ag they do on the country roads. Your correspondent com- pares it to tie sort of intimacy which grows up among passengers on a ship alone at sea, POPULARITY OF THE UNITED STATES. Asthe American Legation is bellteved to be in freer communication with the outer world than any other place in Paris, persons who are on famillar terms there are eagetly sought alter among their friends, ana enjoy a kind of diplomatic distinction, as being supposed to poasess iniormation inaccessi- ble to the wortd at large. No power in Europe ig now 80 popular with the Paristansor is believed te be so formidable as the United States. Your cor- respondent expresses a hope that the government at Washington will not trifle with what will one day bé found to be a serious and important accession of influence for the Untied States tn the affairs of the world. GENERAL PARIS ITEMS. General Trochu matntains a rigid secresy as to his plans of military action, but he is unwearied in his activity and extremely popular. Several ex-Confederates are in Paris, not in com- mand, a8 has been sald, of military points, but em- ployed on account of vheir conection with the ex- treme leaders of the reds to exert a quieting influ- ence upon that faction. ‘The public Libraries are open, and a number of men of letters are to be found i thein auily at work ag quietly as if there were no Germans on the French side of the Riune. SUCCESS OF THE FRENCH LOAN IN LONDON—ITS POLITICAL EFYECT, The success of the French loan issued here by the Anglo-American house of Junius 8, Morgan & Co. 18 now assured. The loan ts extraor- dinarily popolar, and this {s considered to be a striking illustration both of tne great financial strength of France and of the growing public sentiment here In favor the French cause. It will undoubtedly strengiTen the pressure against the actual ministry for delaying the recognition of the republican government, and contribute to make this conduct of the Ministry @ dangerous issue in the next session of Parliament, The fact that the loan has been taken and carried through by an American banking house {s producing a decidedly disagreeable effect in anti-American circles here. It ts beginning to be feared that a successful resistance of the French republic to the invasion may lead to new and Bopleasant combinations on the questions at issue between England and the United States. WANT!D—A HRAD. The troubles at Marseilles are increasing. The red republicans are largely in the ascendant and ar in open rebellion against the republican authorities at Paria and Tours. They have even gone so far as to offer a reward for M. Gambetta’s head. 4 GENERAL NOTES. Gustave Flourens has been finally discharged. The Germun troops are apparently concentrating at Rheims. Belgium is again sending troops to the frontier. ‘The Prussians have removed all the art treasures from Sevres to Versailles, - General Cambriel ciaims g victory for the French Bb Chawlop-le-Dup. ‘The Prussians again announce that fire will be opened on Paris on the 2ytn tnst, One thousand stoves have been ortered for the huts of the Prussians besieging Metz. ‘The French commander at Verdun has sent a de- flant message to the Prussians, The Germans refrain from attacking Amiens. Their troops at Beauvals and Soissons are retiring towards Mezteres, In the combat at Alry,on the 22d, the lost about 100 killed and wounded, was serious, ‘The Paris and Orleans Railway has been nearly restored, ‘The Prussians refuse further paroles to capturea French oMicers, because it has been ascertained that many thus released have resumed service in the Freneh army. General Von Moltke celebrated his seventioth birthe day, and received congratulations from the King, the Crown Prince, the principat oMcers of the army and all the princes ana statesmen uow present at ‘the royal headquarters, Germans The Freneh loss Going Back in a Balloon—Garibaldi Succeed- ing=The Marseilles RedsNutional Defence Means, Tours, Oct, 26, 1870, A messenger from the government, who has im- portant news to communicate, will essay the hazardous experiment of visiting Paris by balloon. GARIBALDI’S SUCC! Tt is confirmed that General Garibaldi nas success- fully atiacked the Prussians, RAMPANT REDS. Advices from Marseilles show that disorders are stilt prevalent there. Even the aathority of M, Esquisos is now denied, NATIONAL DEVENCK MONEY. An extra edition of the Monitewr appeared last evenmg containing a decree for the issue of a loan of 250,000,000 on Thursday, the 27th inst., under the Utle “loan for the national defence.” MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Yesterday a balloon, which the authorities were trying to despatch to Paris, was carried against a tree and badly damaged. Another eifort will be made to-morrow. At Lyons ail is quiet. The National Guard have greatly assisted the local oMcers in preserving order. It was rumored last evening that the Prussians were evacuating Orleans yesterday, THE POLITICAL QUESTION. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, M. Thiers? Pass—The Meeting Betweon Thiers and Bismarck ArrangedThe South German States—Ruwors about His Holiness—No Mix- ipg—Evgland Regarded with Suspicion. iF 26, 1870, Despatches from Tours, dated Tuesday evening, state that the pending peace negotiations are aue to the initiative taken by Great Britain. The free pass for M. Thiers toenter Paris 18 not expected for @ Week or ten days, THIERS AND BISMARCK TO MEET, The Pall Mat Gazette of last evening announces that a meeting between M. Thiers and Count Bismarck has been arranged, the government at Tours having accepted the principle of the armtis- tice. 8. pON, Oct THIERS BXPK« The arrival of M. Thiers at Versaiiles ig expected to-day. NO SURRENDER OF TERRITORY, The Tours government is firm in its refusal to enter on any negotiations involving surrender of territory. BISMARCK WANTS AN AUTHORIZED GOVERNMENT. Bismarck’s constant answer to the advances daily made to him for peaco 1s that the election vy the French of some authorized government ts an indis- pensable preliminary. THE PROSPECTS OF AN ARMISTLCE, The Berlm Provincial Correspondence (semi- omicial) says:—‘‘On the fact of armistice httle hope is to be founded, as the French refuse to recogmze the hopelessness of their cause, The delay in the bom- bardment of Paris is due to the imperfect state of our preparations, not to political considerations,” ENGLAND ANXIOUS ABOUT RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. ‘rhe greatest annoyance and some little uveasi- ness have been caused in the minds of the English Ministry” by the guarded but absolute refusal of Russia to take uny part in the recent English attempt -at negotiating a peace. Aa it ts known here that the chief of cabinet of the Russian Adjanct-Chancellor, Von Westmann, after passing three days at Brussels, went by way of Rouen to Tours at the beginuing of last week, and 13 expected in London to-night, it is feare@ that Rus» sia ls quietly conducting negotiations on her own account, with @ view to isolating Great Britain on the Easjgrn question both from France and Ger- miainy. e attitude of the Austrian government, too, though at first regarded as decided and encouraging to the Englixi propositions, is pro- nounced to hea been unsatisfactory in a high degree. On that the sicps taken by the English government are felt to lave resulted only in morti- fication for the Giadstoue ministry, and in ex- Pressing the weakness of the influence of England in Continental affairs, without in any way coniri- buting to advance the prospects of a settlement, POPULAR SENTIMENT IN GERMANY. A correspondent at Ostend sends extracts from the press of Cologne, Berlin and Breslau, setting forth the severe pressure of the times on the people, The prices of all necessaries of life are ris. jug, societies are forming for the support of the enormous number of families thrown upon the charity of the public In the cities of the Elbe and in the capital, prostitution ts n creasing to anextent which alarms the sanitary authorities, The general feeling of the country ts growing bitterly hostile to the continuance of the war, and the liberals are no longer silencea by the authorities in their protests, as the feeling which they represent has become too strong to be sup- pressed by force. WHAT THE SOUTH GERMAN STATES WANT, A despatch from Brussels this evening says that the conference between Count Bismarck and the representatives of the various southern States of Germany regarding the terms of unification has already begun, The Bavarian representative announced that his government desired a separate military budget and gome special taxes as well as a special postal service. He agrees in case these points are conceded that her deputies in the federal Parliament shall nof partict- pate in the discussions on the federal budget, It is not thonght these terms will be accepted. SOMETHING ABOUT THE POPE, Rumors were circulating in Brussels to-day of ne- gotiations between the Emperor Napoleon and the Prussian government regarding the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope, and the question of peace between France and Prusata; but they cannot be traced to any reliable source, and are therefore discredited, RUSSIA'S HOPES. The St. Petersburg Journat (official organ), Octo- ber 26, hopes that the discussion of the conditions of peace will not be mixea up with the discussion of an armistice. The Constituent Assembly is the only competent power to decide that question, The writer hopes further, that pending the armistice, in deference to humanity, Paris may be revictualled, REPORTS ABOUT QUEEN VICTORTA. ‘The French regard England’s last effort at media- tion with extreme distrust. It is reported on the Continent that Queen Victoria has writven to the King of Prussia, surging him to moderate bis demands, EUGENIE AND PEACE. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. General Boyer’s Mission to the Empress and What it Meant—Engenie’s Love of Country=- Not an Inch to the German—The Part Ba- zaine is Willing to Play—Plon-Plon Check- mated. Lonpon, Oct. 26, 1870, The following is an authorised statement:—Not- Withstandiog What lg Inslauated aug even onjruved im certain English journals, the Empress has not taken part im any one of the combinations referred to having for their object either peace or an armis- tice, THE SALON AT CHISELHURST has not in any sense become anoMcial salon. It is still thatof an exile, and if its doors are open to those who knock for adinittance it 18 not to afford a field for discussing peace or war, General Boyer, the envoy of Marshal Bazaine, may have approached the Empress with a view to propositions of peace or war to be submitted to Prussia, but he was received with no more favor than were the emissaries of Bis- marck on a previous occasion, when a former envoy or the Prussian Chancellor came to propose peace, declaring that the King was disposed to content humoself With 250,000 franes, with the mbabitants of Strasbourg included, NOT AN INCH OF TERRITORY, The Empress replied with great energy that so long as there Was any question of the smallest ces- sion of territory she would hold aloof from every uegouation. The events of the last month have made no alteration in her resolution, and £0 far as the efforts of General Boyer have been directed to this point they have completely failed; nor coulda the mission of General Boyer have had for its onject to consult the Empress as to the propricty of sur dering Metz at this moment. ‘That story is the one way of concealing the real ebject of General Boyer’s journey, MARSHAL BAZAINE 18 CONEIDENT of the strength of his position, and, as @ General who has suifered no defeat and at the head of the only French army which now exists, he thinks him- sett entivied to exercise not a littie Infiuence on ihe question whether peace shall be made or hostilities continue, He would gladly make himscif tndispen- sable; would gladly be the dictator with whom tbe enemy should have to treat, taking the fead both of nly | 3 NEW YORK CITY NEWS. Local and Police Paragraphs and Items of Interest. The following record will show the changes ip the temperatnre for the past twenty-four hours In com- Parison with the corresponding day Of last year, a indicated by the thermometer at Hudnavs phar macy, Heeato Batldng, corner of Aun street: a7. 64 1509, 1 186). 1870, +0 — 6 we Lemperatt yoar ure for The following named patients were received yes terday at Wot Bank Hospital from Governor's fslond:—Samuel Spence, Company ©; Alexander Johnson, Company A. Elias Frank wae yesterdey held by Justice Dow- ling to await the resuit of injuries he indicted on Lind Swarts by stabbing hum in the side with a | knife outside lijhor store No, Id Greenwich sure. \ ‘The ullray rose out ot 4 barroom brawh Yeetorday afternoon as the schooner Whistler was jue awa the Mast river, and when opposite per No. 1, she collided wich the Hamilton agente jerryboat New York, carrying away the schooner’s jieboom. The lerrybeat had @ large hole knocked: in her hall oa the port site, No one Was injured, Yesterday George Bolts aged twenty-one years, of 516 West Sixteenth street, accidentally fell from his truck jn front of 235 Greenwich street, and re- ceived ac wh the surgeon of Bellevue Hospital, to which pot be Was sent, pro- NOUHCES as Lukety FO prov le | s Crittenden and Bell, of the Eighth pre- the government which sits at Tours and that | on Tuesday night made a descent upon the which is shut up in Paris, and he would | establishment of Stephen Gray, at No. 68 Graud Tejoice that France should owe peace or and arrested fifteen negroes bits jer story te P 1 4 ectable | found seated around a tavle ighting the Uger, Jne- vietory to:bunend vo him only. This is £ ADI | tice Vox, at Jere room Market, yesterday committed ambition, exaggerated as it may perhaps be; bt must not be inferred that Marshal Gazaine would rather conclude @ peace favorable to the Napoleonic dynasty than in accordance with the true interests of his country. THE INTERVIEW AY CHISELWURST. There is, then, no particle of truth in ihe stories told about the interview at Chiselhourst, aud ut can scarcely be necessary to add that the approaching journey of the Empress to King William's headquar- ters belongs, like all the rest, to that domain of inven. tion in which the subtle genius of France, cou to the aid of her preseat dificultics, has contrived during the last few weeks to lead us astray, PRINCE NAPOLEON'S LITTLE GAME, Prince Napoleon, who had taken sides with those who would perhaps bave wished to induce the Empress to commit an indiscretion, hus had his labor vor his pains, while bis violent recriminations against the past policy of the empire had no other result than to compel him to listen to some harsh truths from his tllustrious cousin and to cause him to quit Cnsclhurst somewhat suddenly, whore, in- deeti, his reception had been of the coldest. ANOTHER ACCOUNT—BUGENIE STILL NEGOTIATING Another correspondent telegraphs:—I am enabied to state by anthority that aiter @ consultation with Prince Napoleon, who arrived here to-day, the Em- press Eugenlé has decided to return at once wo Chiselburst. Lord Granville had an mterview yesterday afternoon with the Empress, at the close of which Mayor Byny Hall, of the Queen’s Foreign Messenger Ser- vice, Was despatched to Germany with papers which will be transnutted directly to the Emperor Napoleon at Wilhelmshohe, by permission of the Prussian government, AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT TO BE PUBLISHED, A statement has been prepared by the Duke of Gramoat, whlch will appear in La Situation, ihe tit toperiaiist organ, to-morrow, denying that the Empress Eugenie has had any part whatever im the recent peace negotiviions, The statement 18 quite unfounded, and its only object 18 well understood to be to clear the impe- rialist faction here in the eyes of the French puble ofthe wnputation of treating with the enemies of France at a Ume when the republic refused to do 80, and upou terms repudiated by the republic, I believe it to be, however, true, as will be aMirmed in the Dake of Gramont’s statement that the Empress posilively declined to entertain for herself or her sou any proposition involving & cession of French territory a8 the condition of the return of the ay- nusty to France, THE EMPRESS IN ERROR, It is regretted by the best friends of the Empress here that she should have allowed herself to pe per- suaded to leave Chiselhurst and to come to London at ail, bat 1t 18 understood that she did so only in con- sequence of ap unoficial communication made to her on the part of Queen Victoria, who has oeen personally though probably very active tn attempt. ing to secure an arrangement upon a basis satisfac- tory to King William and the Crown Prince, whose extreme anxiety for peace is no longer secret in well informed circles. MISCELLANEOUS WAR ITEMS. Facts, Incidents and Personalta. Many heavy guns of the Prussian navy have been sent to Paris. ‘The fortifications of Strasbourg are being rap- idly repaired. All the masons, carpenters and lavor- ers of the town are impressed at high waxes, The prisoners taken a¢ Marshal Bazaine’s last great sortie, says a Berlin telegram, declare that his soldiers forced him to choose between another attempt to escape or to surrender. ‘The Pall Malt Gazeve learns from an authoritative source that the camp of French prisoners at Bever- loo was broken up in consequence of the discovery of a conspiracy to disarm and murder the Belgian Guards, Baden, Wurtemberg and Southern Hesse nave, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Loudon Times, signified their invention to join the North German Confederacy and ratify tts constitution with some slight modifications. The King of Bavaria still holds back. La Situation, referring to the challenge of M. Pietri to produce its authority for the alleged manifesto ot the Emperor, and to a request received from Ger- many to furnish the name of the person who fur- nished the manifesto, replies that it has offered to the Emperor to give him full aud entire satistaction. It will return to the subject when it bas learned the intentions of Napoleon UL. in the Prussian army the soldier is suppited with only one meal @ day, but this is a substantial one. He receives daily three-quarters of a pound of meat— beef 1s the only flesh meat supplied—nhalf pound of speck (very fat bacon and pork) two or three times a week, three-quarters of a pound of bread every day, 1-10 pound of rice and a similar quantity of coffee daily, with a plentiful allowance of sugar. The Journal de Roven gives the following account of the sacking of St. Dizler:—‘fhe Prussians made a wigition tor $00,000f. and took as hostages to Bar- uc five of the town councillors. The following day a delay of two hours was granted for the pay- ment of the age f the alternative being the de- struction of the principal houses of the town. The money not peing forthcoming the pillage of the town commenced, and was continued for an hour and a half, when a tender of 150,000f. was made and re- fused.” The London Tim ny that should this unhappy war continue, the Bri governinent and people wil be urged from more than one quarter to consider closely the duties of neutrality. The renewal of the discussion on contraband of war by.tne publication of Count Bernstorif’s rejoinder to Lord Granville coincides with the embarcation of the Irish amibu- lance, and the probable foundation of another dipio- matic grievance. Count Bernstorff’s reply to Lord Granville is able, and makes some points whitch may have their force as relating to the particular form which these negotiations took. ‘The London Standard contends that the sympathiz- ers with the French republic in Engiand are doing their best to make their cause ridicuious. We have, it 8, every Kind of good wishes tor France. We are willing to recognize any form of government which our neighbors may, afier due deliberation, prefer; but for the repubile, one from France, we lave no particular feeling. ‘‘fo ask England to prevent the bombardment of Paris, even if she*could do so, only because Paris Is the seat of a republic aud was the home of Augustus Comte, is to degrade what is an international question tuto one of the narrowest politics and a crazy philosophy.” After King William, of Pross{a, made his entry into Versailles Count Bismarck came into the Hotel des Reservoirs at haif-past six o’clock, dusty and hun- ry, With a few officers of the royal stai, and ordered dinner im the sale & manger, which was crowded with the Aahitues of the place. Recognizing General Burnside, who was seated at @ table with General Sheridan, General Forsyth and Mr. Forbes, he took a chair beside them and spoke for some time in the easiest and pleasantest way possible with the former respecting his visit to Paris. Over his nead on the wall there was & map, and once he raised bis eyes to it and said‘ “Ab! a map ot Germany—as it was,” Tp fact, it was a carte @Avemnagne, them for examination. George Smith, atlas John Barns, @ sailor residing } iz Veath avonue, gat drunk and stole a while horse valued as © fron Cornelius Cailahan, of 505 West Twenty-seventh street Upon belag ar-; igned belore Justice Cox efegson Market he admitted charge, and was comunitved in defaus of $1,000 bail, The investigation in the Whose death either falling or bei; © of Peter Cassidy, “t from injaries received by % pushed out of @ third story iwied yesterday, the Coroner's iy inability to determme the mun- sel's death, Mrs, Cassidy 13 oat on ats, a chimney sweep, residing at No, was yesterday Meld for trial by Justice Dowling at the Tombs for having stolen a par of sleeve buttous, valued at minety-eight dol- trom Michael C, Murphy, of Ne, 67 Varick diitted having pawned the property! es in Prince sireel, where it was overed. 1 aba pawnbro Bubsequently 1 Agostino, the Sicilian gom maker, of No. 201 East Twenty-third street, who was arrested charged with causing the death of George Tweedls, the reputed burglar, yesterday appeared at the City Hall for the purpose of securing his Itber- ation on 11, Coroner Piynn, on being appited to on’ a his ¢ ont, and named $2,000 aw site bonds, where left for home with lis BROOKLYN CIL¥Y NEWS. ‘The City Court will be opea on Thursday and rb day, irom nine o'clock In the morning unt nine at night, for the purpose of accommodating ms who destre to take out their nataralization papers in order to vote at the coming election. Friday, aes the zat inse., Will be the jast day on which papers can be secured to be available for this year’s elec tom. Yesterday Sanitary Inspector Dr. Barron detected agreat quantity of putrid green hides stored on the Atiantic Docks, Brooklyn. Tae offensive material in , question it was found had been discharged from ine steamer Catharine Fietcuer, from Galves- ton, Texas, with a cargo of hides, This steamer, it appears, had recently come up te the Atlantic Docks from Quarantine, where she had been detained for ten days. On the matter being reported to the Health Omecer, Dr. Carnochan, he peremptorily ordere. the hides to be put on board the vessel again and removed to Barren Island. The Fletcher was also ordered to report back to Quaran- tine after landing the tou! staff on the island, * GREADFUL ACCIDENT IN NEWARK. of seuffalding—Twa Jared. A frightful eccident occurred at Newark, yester- day morning, by which several lives wiil certainly be sacvificed. A scaffolding placed on the roof level of the new Dime Saving’s Insutution, Broad street, broke away, and three men fell with it to the ground floor, The descent was forty-one feet, and two of the meu were so fearfully injured that their dean is inevitable, One of these was named Peter Kausch, and resides at 106 Third street, New York. His head was smashed aud bis ribs broxen. ‘There ig no hope held oat by the surgeons who attended the man that he can survive. Andrew Lia single man, residing at Elizabeth, has received u juries that taust pro’ al. August Errcksen, @ Swede, residing at 129 kighteenth street, was verrt- Diy mutilated, but there is some hope of his recov. ery. Al! the nen were taken CO Bt. Michael's Hos pil, Four other men had & very Darrow escape. Fall Men Fatally Ine A METEORIC EXPLOSION. Heavenly Convulsions Near North Adams. (From the 'Troy Times, Oct. 25.) We yesterday noticed briefly the meteor which was observable tn this vicinity on Suaday morntag Just at six o’clock. ‘The phenomenon seems to have been one of an extraordinary character—somethi attended with results quite unusual in meteoric bodies. Wherever noticed it was accompanted by a low rumbitng sound in the earth, and at Beunington people supposed that a repetition of Thursday's earthquake had occurred. The Sararogian de- sertbes its appearance uear the village of Saratoga Sprinj 5 Romething 1s wromg ‘down below.” Either the earth naa cohw or is going to have i. | Friday's quake was a ymptom, but the thing .sectas to be not ended yet. Here comes Jefferson Kamudell, wno resides on the west shore of Saratoga lake, about three-quarters of « mile below Moon's, and reports that early Sunday merning, betore the sun was up, he betug ont doors a, the time, his attention was | arrested by a law, deep rambling sound, as if from the very owels of the earth. The uoise had hardiy ceasea when he Ww an iinmense meteor, appearing as large as a mane hand, shooting swiftiy across the tirmanent from north to south, Just as it reached the soushern limit of vision It ap- peared to split up anc divide nto several parts, The noise and the meteor was bears and recn by several persons be: aide Mr, Kainsdell. But the most remarkable phenomena connected with the teteor were seen at North Adams. Here the citizens were greatly alarmed, and supposed from the rumbling aud tremor of the carth that the glycerine works at Hoosac tunnel had been blown ap. But it turned out from the ooservation of num- bers of persons that the meteor burst In that vicinity, d tuat if was the cause of the commo- eXplosion shook the buildings and earth around. truly, with earthquakes and meteors, and gales and other paenomena, ie year Tsi70 is One that cannot be Le SUDDEN DEATHS. Patrick Crosby, @ man forty years of age, and who resided at No. 529 West Thirty-sixth streei, fell dead av half-past five o'clock last evening while av work at the Metropolitan Gas Works. Cause of death un- known, Clara J. Gregory, a colored woman, formerly em- ployed as cook at No, 363 Fifth avenue, was taken Ni corner of Thirty-third street and Broadway, at eight o'clock last evening, and wus removed to No. 1,270 Broadway, where a few moments later she died. Her remains were removed to tue Morgue, ACCIDENT IN A SEWER. While @ party of laborers were employed on the sewer in process of construction at the corner of Piity- fourth street and avenue A, and just before quitting work last evening, a part of the carth caved in upon upon them. and several were severely injared. James McDonald, who resided #¢ 151 East Futy- ninth street, had his knee fractured, and Michael Dennon, of 337 East Forty-sixti street, was seriously Injured tn the back. Dreunva was sent to Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance. "ARDY. INTELLIGENCE, Second Lieutenant EB. N. Chester, Fourth artillery, has resigned, Captains ©, A, Hartwell, W. H. Hugo Dewitt, C. Poole and Major J. M. Goodiue are re- lieved from duty as indian agents, and await orders, ., ting Captain Poole, who 18 transferrea to the ‘Twenty nd infantry the following are honora- biy discharged:—Captains John M. Daffy, Orson C. Knapp, unassigned; Fb. it. Watson, ‘Pbird cavuiry, and Blisia W. Tariton, supernumerary; Furst Lieu- lenants J. G. 8. White, unasstgned; Wm, C. Sweet, ‘Twenty-fourth infantry; Win, ‘ft. Dodge, ‘'wenty-irst infantry; Win. A. Caineron, Firth arcillory; Ira b. MeBarton and Joel L. Lyman, unassigned. Captain Georke Meade, Tweuly-sccond tfautry, bs Ura ~ ferred to wuassigued oificers and intantry,