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PARIS. Effect of Bazaine’s Capitula- tion in France. Proclamation of the Ministry to the French. BAZAINE DENOUNCED AS A TRAITOR. fhe People Exhorted to Rise Above Their Dangers. TERRIBLE EXCITEMENT IN TOURS. Division of Gpinions Among the Populace. INSUBORDINATION AMIN THE SOLDIERS. Further Details of the Surrender of Metz. Gceupation of the City by the Prussian Forces. frightful Scenes in the City—Grief of the Inhabitants. “Fritz” and Prineo Frederick Charles Created Field Marshals. £FFECTS OF THE FALL OF METZ, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Proclamation of the Provisional Government to the People of France—Bazaine Denounced a Traiter—Frenchuien Called Upon to Rise in Doience of the Country—The Repub- Me Will Never Surrender—Great Excitement in Tours—The Advance of the Army of the Loire Checked. TouRS, Oct. 30, 1870. A government council was held last ulght, and fasted until a late hour, The following proclamation was issued this morn. ing:— FRENCH REPUBLIC. Uberty— Bquality—Fraternity. Proctamation to the french People. fRENCHMEN:— : Raise your spirits and resolution to the fearful height of the perils which have broken upon the country. It still depends on us to mount above misfortune and show the world how great » people Tay be who are resolved not to perish, and whose courage increases in the midst of calamity. Metz has capitulated. A general upon whom France counted, even alter Mexico, has just taken. away (vient Gentever) from the country to its danger more than a hundred thousand of its de- fenders. Marshal Bazain¢é bas betrayed us, He has made himself the agent of the Man of Sedan and the accomplice of the invader, and, regardless of the honer of the army of which he had charge, he has surrendered, without even making a last effort, 120,000 fighting men, 20,000 wounded, guns, cennon, colors and the strongest citadel of France-—Metz—virgin, but for him, to the contamination of foreigners. Such @ crite 1s above even the punishment of justice. Meanwhile, Frenchmen measure the depths of the abyss into which the Empire has precipitated you, For twenty years Francesubmitted to this corrupt. ing power, which extinguished in her the springs of greatness and of life. Ihe army of france, stripped Of its national character, became, without knowing it, an éestrument of tyranny and of servitude, and is swallowed up, in spite of tue heroism of the sol- diers, by the treason of their chiefs, In the disasters of the country in less than two months 250,000 men have been delivered over to the wenomy, a sinister sequel to the military coup de ‘main of December. 4 is time for us to reassert ourseives, citiaens, and ‘umeer the mgis of the republic, which we nave de- termined not to allow to capituiate withm or with- owt, to seek in the extremity even of our misfortune the renovation of our political and social morality amd manhood. ‘ ' However tried by disaster let us be neither panic stricken nor hesitating. Let it be seen that we are weady for the last sacrifices, and in the face of ene- mies whom everything favors let us swear never to give up so Jong as there remains one inch of sacred oil under the soles of our feet, Let us hold firmly the glorious banner of the French Revofuiion, Yur scause is that of justice and of = right. Europe sees it; Europe feels it. In the presence of so many imminent mis fortunes, spontaneously; reciving trom us nel- thelr invitation nor encouragement, she is moved -and she begins to act. No illusion ts now Jeft as. Let ws no longer languish or grow weak, aud let us prove by our acis that we can ourselves maintain honor, independence, integrity; all that make a country proud and free, Long live the:republic; one and indivisible. CREMIEUX. GLAIS-BIZOIN. GAMBETTA.”” GREAT EXCITEMENT. The proclamation placarded upon the streets at- d@racts crowds of readers, and creates great excite. ament, Groups of people are discussing it, The areachery of Bazaine is denounced, and bitter im- recations are uttered against the Bonapartists. AN ENVOY FROM BAZAINE. Anenvoy from Buzalne, who left Metz last Sun- May, arrived here to-day. He expresses the utmost astonishment at the capliuiation, but says the pro- (vigious were short, aud no salt was to be had, WHE SURRENDER CHECKS THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. The Army of the Lotre, which had been largely in- creased, was ready to attack the Prussian forces, ‘and much was expected from It toward the deliver- rea ef Paris, The surcender of Metz checks its forks. THE SITUATION AT TOURS. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Tho: Surender of Metz Made Known to tho Puovle=Dangerous Agitation Produced by the News—Suspicion of Trenson in Kaver of BKonxparte—Public Clamer and Kepressory ; Phrewt of the ExeentiveCensorship ef the « Telegraphs. Lospon, Oct. 50—P. M. A Speciaj telegram adresse to the Heraro from Tours, under date of the 20th tustant, in the even- Ing, was delivered in this city today, 1 transmit the report of the ccvespondent to New York by ca- ble. The special writer ment prevails amongst people here tn Tours We fal af Mew to says s— Intense all classes of the ever the news of the Prussians by the excite- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1870.—TRIPLE Shir. oar,fratation of Maranal Baxzaine’* army, The firat “camors of the event were circulated here last even- ing and night. The inhabitants refused in the most positive manner to credit the statement. They know to-day that it 18 trae, too true for thelr peace of mind, BUSPICION. ‘The effect which bas been prodaced ts alarming, The French are wild, ashamed and confused. There isa most dangerous division of public sentiment. The members of the executive government, with the more active oMclals engaged in the public ser- vice, loudly denounce the army men as traitors to the country, and openly threaten—the government does—to try the chief military oMcers by a drum- head court martial should they come to Tours from Metz, ‘The government further declares that it regards that the surrender of the fortress was accomplished ‘n furtherance and as part of a plot conspired and matured in the Interest of the late empire, in order that the ex-imperlalists should regain possession of power. REASON. Persons of more cool consideration and calmer Judgments condemn these assaults on the loyalty of the army, They affirm that they belteve Bazaime fovght nobly at Metz, and that he ylelded to the necessity of a capitulation only when he found that the garrison was pressed by actual starvation. THB PEACE IDBA. Many other persons in Tours talk openly of peace between France and Prussia a3 gn tnevitavie consequence of the surrender of Bazaine, Some, again, express a belief to the effect Uiat the micin- bers of the government of Fr: Touch more eager to retaiu official power they are to save ihe country froin further of war. REGIMENTAL. There bas been some lon observed among the milttary. The ent is deter. mined to punish every case tal recusancy or disioyaity with the utmost rigar—that is, provided it has really thé pewer to execute its sentences on the soldiers. UNQUIET, ‘The removal of the seat of the governmental de- partments from Tours is regarded as very probable. j CENSORSHIP, “A note, in the shape of a private commnni- cation specially for the use of the HERALD, dated by your correspondent at Tours last night, says that a very strict supervision {s exercised over the telegrapls ana telegram despatches of the French officials. The telegraph operators take all the money which is offered them on the delivery gm tn the oMee bat it lg well known that Dot éven dne-haif of tho messages are permitted to go forward after the scrutiny of the government censor. BAZAINE’S CAPITULATION. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Borther Details of the Surrender=How it was Brought About=Sigul of the Ar. ticles—Arrangements te Occupy the City— Disarming the Freach— Honors to the Impe- rint Guard—Occupation of Meta—Behavior ef Bazuine 1 the Iuvestment—Death from Starvation—Inordiuate Price of Pro- visione~The Sick and Wonnded—General News. ae oem 4 ree LONDON, Uct. 30, 1870, es va dash pees ee A correspondent at Metz to-day telegraphs about two columns, 43 follows;— FAILURE OF THE FIRST NEGOTIATIONS, ‘The telegram ofthe 26th left the capitulation un- finished. On the evening before the German Chief of Stam had left Frascati very much discouraged, seareely hoping for any agreement, as the French appeared intractable and obstinate, Nevertheless, I knew ‘rom private sources that Metz could not hold out, and, accordingly, told you to expect the capitu- lation surely. ANOTHER ENVOY FROM BAZAINE, A$nacn Bazaine sent Prince Prederick Charles un aitograph letier asking another conference, and ac- co dingly the Germans sent General Stickle, Chief of Staff of the Second army, and Count Wartensleben, Chief of Stu of the Firat army, to Frascatt once more, 4 STORMY INTERVIEW. The Interview lasted three hours in the afternoon. it was stormy at first on the part of the French Com- musstoners, but resulted in their conversion to the main points of the German terms, The tirst dimicul- ty was concerning the officers keeping their side arms, on which Bazaine insisted. The peint was finally referred to the King and conceded by him In a despatch received at three o’clock on the morning of the 27th. ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION SIGNED. By agreement the conference was resumed early the same morning, and lasted tilt eight o’ctock in the evening, when the capitulation was signed for the a bsolute rendition of Metz and all its fortifica- tions, armaments, stored and munitions, and for @ surrender, on the Sedan conditions, of all the garrison and all of Bazaine’s army, comprising three Marshals of France, sixty- six generals, 6,000 oMcers and 173,000 troops, The Germans are astounded at this result-an army and fortress capitulating to an fnvesting army larger thau Itself by only a small fraction, THE FRENCH COMMISSIONERS. The French Commissioners were Bazaine’s Chief of Stat, General Jarnas, and Colonel Fay, and Major Samuele on the part of the commander of the fort- ress. ARRANGEMENTS 1 OCCUPY THE CITY AND DISARM THE FRENCH, On the 28th Major Landkuhl, Chief of Engineers, of the Second corps, was to enter by stipulation at ten o’clock, to withdraw the mines from under the forts, preparatory to @ safe entry of the Seventh corps, whitch will remain and guard the city and prisoners, while the remainder | of the First army departs immediately for Paris aud the South with Prince Frederick Charles, with headquarters at Lyons. At oue o'clock the Irench army were to lay down their arms. All this has been postpones twenty-four hours, in consequence of the uneasiness of the French authorities owing to internal disorders, THE FORTS OCCUPIED—A REVIEW, At fen o'clock on the 29th the forts were taken possession of by the artillery of the Seventh army corps, At one o'clock the Third division, which wili depart for the southwestward after the Fourth division, was reviewed in splendid pageant by the Prince on the Nancy and Metz road, near Tour le Bride, HONOR TO THE IMPERIAL GUARD. ‘Therenpon the Garde Imperiale marched out of Mew with their arms, which they deposited at Fras- catt, Prussia, in review before the Prince. Tuts honor accorded to them alone, all the rest having to deposit their arms in the Metz arsenals and then march to their cantonments outside the town to await transportation. ‘The Garde Imperiale was received by the Prussian troops with respectful dignity; not a jeering syllable was heard nor an exultant look seen. Previousiy, at the Prince's review, the cheering was loud and persistent. THE PRUSSIANS IN POSSESSION. Al four o'clock im the afternoon the French com- panies were still mounting guard at the various gates of the city and at the depots and arsenals. They were relfevea by two regiments of Prussian infantry and one of cavairy. THE MILITARY GOVERNOR. Having entered the town the appointed military Governor, General Vou Zastrow, Commander of the Seventh Army Corps, took possession of the govern- ment, clty and fortress, where, he tells me, he ex- pects to find @ portrait of one of his ancestors, who wae at sonie early period also a military governor of Metz. 2 BAZALNE'S LACK OF DECISION, ‘The tragedy was completed, but its saddest side still remains to be reviewed. According to the statement of General Von Zastrow, who held the Hols de Vaux on the morning of the 19th August, Bazaine could then havé dyolded being en- closed in Metz He could, Moreover, after he was there, according to the Metzan statement, readily made a sortio and rejoined Mac- Mahon easier by far than MacMahon squid have Jomed him, Alter most of bie cavalry and qrivery horses had been eaten, of course it was more dim. cult etl, THE MARSHAL AN IMPHRIALIST, His movements are sald to have Iacked deter- mination, and even to have been frivolous In the last two sorties, This is charged w a compact in behalf of the regency, according to which this army was to try vo remain in statu quo until the conclusion of the war mm Western France, nd then to become avatiuble, with the Prussian consent, for Bonayartists’ purposes, Bazaine him- self in that case to be Governor of the Imperial Prince and virtual regent, Nearly all the Metzans seem to believe this and their most iniuential peo- ple have avowed such a belief to me, BAZAINE’S BEHAVIOR DURING THE INVESTMENT. Sinco tho ume of the investment Bazaine has never been seen In the camp, except on extraordt- nary occasions; never at all in tho ambulances, whico are partly constructea in numerous railway box wagons on the Place Royale; eq seldom has he been seen in the city, The civil autiorives had io find him at the Ban Saint Martin. He would not appear at the Marte once, and he rarely, if ever, said @ word to encourage the troops. Caurobert sometimes cheered thetr patience a little, and then they would ery, “Vive Canrobert "" ‘A bas Bazaine 1) Toward the last he dared not, for fear of aesassination, show himself to his own men, and the terribly ree laxed discipline 1s assuredly the cause of the hasiy rendition, When a weex's rations for al! were on hand, STARVATION LN METZ, On the ornimgeemtie 19th Ove soldiers Jay dead of starvation at Moatigny, wntle the start still n- duigedt 1 luxurtota meals, and four days’ rations | were given to the @mtire army that ig, while they had received none for two daya previous No bee! or posiwiad Leen obtuinabie at any price for a Weck; buton that morning, before anytuing had arrived in town, the shops had plenty thereof. ‘This proves the charges current im the town that speculators ba seized much food, and that a rational system of apportioument, @tch as existed «during =the last ten = days, if imtroduced at first and combined® with re. quisitions, would have prevented much waste Eee the fortresy to hold out a mouth longer, The ataff aséd to feed their horses on bréad at first. Recently the prices had reached the fol- lowing maximum:—Sugar, 30f. a pound; galt, 16f.; one ham, 300f.; one poiato, 45c; one onion, 60.c, The International sold a little pig caught noar Gravelotte for 7481. SICK AND WOUNDED. Sincg Gye Weeky. amputations pave Peep per- formed without chloroform or ether, aud wounds have been dressed without carbolic acid. There are over 19,000 sick and wounded. Thirty-five thousand persons have died in the town alone during the siege, greater part from lack of proper care. The prevailing diseases are variola, spotted typhus and dysentery. urvy has not pitevailed, thongh even the sick have for over three weeks re- ceived their horse steaks and horse brotiewithout walt. The reported discovery of a salt spring at St. Julien was a hoax, got up by putting salt into the spring to encourage the army, TERRIBLE EXCITEMENT IN METZ, When the rendition became known the people were furious. The Nationa: Guard refused to lay down thetr arms, and on the afternoon of the 28th @ dragoon captain appeared at the head of a body of troops, who swore they would sooner die than yleld, i, er “VICTORY OR DEATH,’? Albert Collignon, editor of an tltra-democratic stege daily—the J..urnal de Meiz-rode abont ona white horse, firing a pistol, and exhorting them to sally and seck victory or death to escape the tm- pending shame. He was followed by a lady singing astonishing reality, faint rumors of which they had heard during so many weeks past. Tho German officers on detached outposts hugged me bodily, mach against my will, as I was in haste, white the French peop!e uttered maiedictions on “those brigands.” Many stil refuse to beileve the surrender, convinced that Metz had teu, fifteen or twenty years’ provisions yet. NO HOPE BUT IN PARIS, The French declare that France has no hope but in Parts, and their faithin Paris is less than it was in Metz, But there are earnest people who still say the war will only begin with the fall of Paris, THE MILITARY OPERATIONS TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Moltke Made a Coust—Fritz and Frederic Churles Created Marshals=Later «nt Good News trom Metz—The Cap- Metz—Wild Boars the Are Tenring Up Kailronds—Encounter Monterenu=a Iurky feveral tures in of dounes at Sensational Story-Ao War Notes. LONDON, Oct RallooaSeveral General Mottke, oa his seyeut ety bir ceived from toe King the tre of Count. FRITZ AND FREDERICK MAR OUARLES CxRAT FIELD MALS. Adespateh from Berlin says thai the King | Braphs as follows to the Queen;— VERSAILLES, Oct, 29, 1870. The defeat of the two hostile armics whieh pe. cently marched against us war até me in confer. ring on our wo command itz and Fredertex Charles, the batons of Field Marshal, the firat in. | stanese of such appointments ta our family history. WILLLAM, BERLIN REJOICING. There was great rejoicing and a tion of citizen congratulation in Berlin over the news of the fall aud surrendev of Metz and Bazame Jast night. grand ova. THE CAPTURES IN METZ. The French troops surrendered at Metz have been disarmed. The Prussians refused to parole tne officers because of General Ducrot’s evasion of his obligations. It is said that 49,000,000 francs and 8,000 guns fail into the hands of the Germans by the capitulation, Provisions arrive in large quantiéjles Al Metz, LATER AND GOOD NEWS FROM PARIS, A telegram from Chaumont via Tours, dated to- day, says that a balloon which left Paris this morn- ing landed hero to-day in safety. It brings good news from Paris, The messengers leave for Tours with their despatches, CONDITION OF THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. A correspondent at the headquarters of the Army of the Loire at Solbris, the 26th, says:—Reconnois- 8ances pushed in several directions have discovered no Prussians, but they are known to be in force about Vendome and other good positions, On the French side everything is at a standstill, General Daurelles left camp and has gone to Tours, Never- theless we expect a forward move. it 1s madness to wait here for an attack. Troops have been sent from Salbris to Blois to reinforce the Sixteenth corps, The health of the troops is prett¥ good and food is abundant. The morale is low, and fears of treason are every- and it# social condition enffer a more and more dan- gerous decomposition, The command of the German armies does not flud itself iu a situation to counteract this; but It per- ceives clearly the consequences of the resistance chosen by the powers tn France, and feels compelled to call general attention to one poiut—namely, the speci® condition of Paris. The heaviest attacks heretofore made from this capital (on the 19th and 90th of last month) in which the cite of the armies collected in that city have not been able to throw back the first line of the besteging forces, lead to the convicth.n that the capital will fall sooner or Jater. If the time of surrender 13 postponed by “the provisional government for the national defence” until the threatening want of provisions necessitates @ capitulation, the most terrible resuits must Tollow. The unwise destruction of railways, bridges and canals within @ certain distance around Paris by the French has uot veen able to stop for one mo- ment the advance of the German armies, All com- munications by land or water needed for military operations have been re-established in a very short time. These repairs naturally regard military in- terests exclusively, while the other destructions, even after a capitulation, will prevent for a long time the communication of the capital with the provinces, It will be -an absolute impossibility for the German commanders, | When that cass occurs, to provide one slogle day’s rations for a population of nearly 2,000,000, Tue cuvirons of Paris, to the distance of several days’ journcy—since all stores there are necessarily required for the use of the German troops—will then offer no resources, and will not permit the inhabitants of Paris to evacuate by the | roads into the country. ‘The Inevitable result would be (he starvation of hundreds of thousands, | The persons in power in France cannot faii to dis- | cerm these consequences as clearly as the German commanders, and since to the latter nothing is leit but to carry on the war proffered, the rulers of France are responsibie for forcing such extremes, BISMARCK. M SCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. DEFECTS IN THE PARIS FORTIFICATIONS. The Frusslau correspoudeat of the Tondon Zines re closcly inspecting the fortifications of Paris the Geriuan geuerals believe they have dis- covered some Weak points south and west of the great capital, In the south the helghts of Sceaux uppreach the forts to within 4,000 paced, the dis- tance between the forts and the town itsell being ouly between one thousand and two thousand paces more, This ts scarcely a sufiictent safeguard for the town, while it ts technically certain that the forts cannot hold out for any length when once heavy guns are brought to bear against them, ihat the fall of ove or two of the forts would bring rich, beau- Uiful and pleasure-loving Paris under the eifectiva fire of bombs, grenades and every other descrip- Uon of hellish missile a be gcarcely repeated. ‘Two more gaps tn the defences are supposed to ex- ist on the western side, north and south of Mont Vaicrien, ‘The southern gap 1s between Sevres and St. Cloud, where the hills of Garches, west of the latter place, to a certain extent neu twalize the fortress of Mont Valérien, belng almost equal im height. Sull greater faci- thes are offered to the besieger by the unprotecied ground between Courbevoie and st.Quen. With the Seine in front the Germans would be able to place batteries on the heights overtoppiug St. Denis, ail the way from Genuevilliers to tne road to je, Earthworks might be more particularly erected at Argenieull aud opposite St. Quen, from which the works of St. Denis might be fred at in the rear, and the Quaruers St, Honoré and La Ville L’Eveque bombarded. Supposing the Germans to afterwards Cross tie Seine somewhere near Argenteuil, the lo- Where expressed. Turoughout all the districts [ have traversed everybody who possesses anything and ali thinking peopie are for peace, while the army 1s for peace at any price. Its strength, reported at a hundred thousand, does not exceed sixty thousand. the ‘Marselllaise,’ which produced terrible excitement, The doors of the cathedral were burst open, and the tocsm and death bell rung nearly all night, when Genoral Cofinieres appeared to pacify them. Three pistol shots were received by him, Finally, by the ald of two hne regiments, he quietly dispersed the mob; but all night the sounds of grief, indignation and terror continued. GRIEF OF THE PEOPLE. Respectable women rau abont the atreens tearing their heir and filnging tnetr vonnetw and laces under their feet, secking their friends and asking Wlidly, what will become of onr children? Soldiers, drunk and sober, tumbled hither and thither in irregular groups, with their caps off and their sabres broken, sobbing and weeping like cnildren, and crying ‘On, pauvre Metz’ “O ma pauvre Metz! la plus ficre des villes autre- fois ! maintenant quel malheur! qu'elle catastrophe inouie, Nous sommes vendus; tout est perdus! There is no longer a France.”’ TERROR OF THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES. ‘The civil functionaries asked each other across the streets, “But who will be our master? Who will gov- ern us? Whither shall we flee not to witness this ruin apd nation at the pillory? Yesterday 1 was closeted with the Mayor and City Council two hours, while they detained me, as the = first strapger having entered the towa, to ask all sorts of questions, some —_chtidish, in thelr agitation, uncertainty and herror, as to what the Prussians would do, how they would do it and how they must be met. It was as if they had uever secn or known a Prasstan, They demanded to know tf their already destitute larders must still nourish the troops, and whether they would be personally imaltreated if they were unable to furnish what was required. They were relieved mmediately py hearing that 1,000 wagons were ready at Courcelles to bring provisions hither, and also that there are funds in London, waiting to be applied to their relief, in response to the appeal of the Mairies of Briey and other communes published in the English and American journal HELP NEEDED QUICKLY. Help is needed quickly. The entire besieging army voluntarily gave up their bread rations yester- day to fvced their French captives, This deeply touched the Metzians and did much to re- Nevo thelr fears. At noon a Prnssian railway inspector made a tour from Ars to the Union sta- tion, situated a mie south of Metz, by ratl, and to- day perfect rail communication exists. Between Saarbrucken, Metz and Nancy the road was little injured, #ut few German prisoners were found in Meta The French had not kept those they took when able to return them, FEELING OF THE TWO ARMIES. On leaving Metz last night I noticed on the faces of all the German soldiers a took of great satisfac- tion, nothing more. Not one of the French oMcers and soldiers, who swarmed all about, even when in- toxicated, which was surprisingly rare, wore any other look than that of sadness or deflauce. The Jatter, however, was not common, and occurred chiely among the younger oficera, L am tnforsmed that the Frenci loss in the various affairs since August 18, added to the deaths from sickness in the town were 42,000, Bazaine himself declined the Prince's generous pro- posal to let all the troeps lay down | thelr arms outside of the works m view of thelr conquerors, instead ef laying them down in the arsenals, saying could not guarantee their behavior, The Garde Imperiale alone had pree served its discipline suM@iciently to be trusted to pass in armed review, HOPES POR RELIRF. The inhabitants never ceased to hope for the ap- pearance of Bourbaki’s army from Lille, or of the army of the ivire, or of some other relieving force; but the troops themselves during the last few weeks could no ton be deceived, as ihey got better information through the German outposts. Thus demoralica- tion was due largely to hunger, which was bitterly and openly complained of by thelr officers, POPULAIt ATTACK ON BAZAINE. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon Bazatne passed through Ars, on his way to Withelmsiohe, in a | closed carriage, marked with bis name, escorted | by several ofmicers of his staf on horseback. The women of the village had heard of bis coming and awaiting him saluted hin with ex- clamanitions of ‘‘tratire, lache, poltron, faineant, voleur, brigand.” “Where are our husbands whom you have betrayed‘ “Give us back our children whom you have sold |"? They attacked the carriage and broke the windows, and would have lynched the Marshal but for the intervention of Prussian gend’armes. FEELING OF THE PROPLE. ‘Three days ago, when i sent the first pews of the @apituiation, J told cyerabydy oe MA Wy pt We The government 13 exceedingly apprehensive of what may obefal the army. Aqmitting tnat they have created such hopes of its sugcess that th opnyeanences of @ failure would be terrible. Kaliway Goiiimtinication between Vier- n and Le Maus has stopped. Mobilized National Guards, Mobiles and Frauc-ureurs are concentrating at Le Maus, TED “we DUAKS UF AIDENNES” AT WORK. A Wlegram from Versailles datea yesterday re- ports that French volunteers. calling themselves th “Wild Boars of Ardennes,’’ are tearing up roa tracks and otherwise interferiag with the German communications, They have thrown off the track three trains filled with troops near Lannols, Many of the soldiers were killed and Injured, ENCOUNTER AT MONTEREA! Some Wurtemburg troops bad an encounter on Thursday with a boay of Natigual and Mobile guaras iM Montereau. The latter Were defeated. The loss of the Germans was slight. A SENSATIONAL STORY. The Sarthe Union publishes a report that im the vicinity of Peris a band of Francs-tireurs nearly captured the King of Prussta, who only escaped by precipitate fight, The story is considered an inven- tion. AN UNLVOKY BALLOON, A balloon which left Paris on the 27th fell within the Prussian lines, near Metz, The messenger suc- ceeded in burning the matis and made his escape into Belgium. SEVERAL WAR NOTES. A general attack on the foris ts expected any mo- ment, It is estimated that the Germans have taken, up to the present day, 320,000 French prisoners, A despatch from Tours says that several despatches have been received announcing French successes In different parts of the country. THE POLITICAL QUESTION. TELEGHAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. M. Thiers Declines to Go to Paris—French Appeal to M. Gambetta for an Armistice, LONDON, Oct. 30, 1870. M. Thiers has declined a Prussian safe conduct to Paris, because it requires that he shall go by way of Versailles, FRENCH APPEAL TO GAMBETTA FOR AN ARMISTICE. A telegram from Tours, dated to-day, says that the Constitutionnel makes a strong appeal to Gam- betta, as a person capable of meeting the present emergency, and asks him to consent to an armistice and order immediate elections for the Constituent Assembly. M. THIERS’ SAFE CONDUCT. A correspoudent telegraphs from Versailles as fol lows:—M, Thiers’ safe conduct has been received, FARL GRANVILLE’S REPLY TO COUNT BERNSTORFP, Farl Granville, in reply to Count Bernstora's com- plaint about Wngland’s departure from neutrality, questions the fact and remarks on Prussia’s silence towards the United States, a Magrant ofender, Lord Granville repudiates all objects on the part of Great Britain to German wuity, WAR NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Tho Siege of Paris=Text of Count Bismarck’s Circular on the Fatal Consequences of Re sistance. WASHINGTON, Ost. 80, 1870, The following memorandum in regard to the fatat consequences to which the population of Paris are exposed by a prolonged resistance has been sent by | Count Bismarck to the Ambassador of North Ger- many: ‘The conditions of an armistice offered to Mr. Jules Favre, Intended as the basis lor the re-estavilah- | ment of order in France, bave been rejected by him and his colleagues, They thereby decree the con- Unuance of @ struggle which, according to the | Course of jate events, appears without any chance of success for the French people. Since then the prospects of France in this war, so full of sacrifices, have still further declined, Toul and Strasbourg have fallen. Paris 1s closely surrounded and German troops ai advance. img by the Loire. The large fore heretofore engaged near the above fortresses are now at the free disposal of the German commanders. The country has to bear the consequences of a war a Voutrance decreed by the French authorities in Pas [ts vaguallgca Wl pe wpnaressartiv ingieaped, cality Would easily aduit of their being protected by redvubts at La Garenue, which would preciude tue offensive being assumed by tne garrison of Mont Valericn, If the works of St. Deuis—waich, being very strong in front, were at first intended to ve left on one side, but are now discovered to be more accessible tn the rear—are once fired at from the latier side, they will be cut off from the town and soon become untenable. After their occupation regular breaching batteries might be established south of Gennevililers aud uear Asniéres, witich the enceinle and the adjacent parts of the town would Apa tt Gree wo withaan’ . If wee operations are proceeded wth py ast pamed quarter Mont Martie and Qt itaeed sit bB the SIAL gubur i) Tali into the bands of the attacktag army. VERSAILLES, ‘The articles of capitulation of Versailles, signed atone o'clock on the day of warrenitte gy the Hotel the Fifth Army corps, subjegt to General Kurchbach’s ratification, were;— a‘ 1, That persons, property, pablic monntménts and Works of art should be respected. 2 That the Na- tional Guards should keep theif arms (W.thout am- munition), uniforins gnd posis, for police duty in the city and in the prison. %& Taat the Gerwan’ troops should be lodged in the barracks and pubile puild- ings ad hoc, the ofiicers with the inhabitants, and, in case the barracks did not suffice, the soldiers also. 4. That the civil and military hospitals and the Wounded should be respected, a ‘ding to the Geneva Couvention, aud not made prisoners. 6 That food, market produce and forage should be delivered to the troops.’? On Tuesday, after the city had furnished thirty head of cattle, 500 bottles of ‘wine for officers, ten casks for the soldiers, so inaby dinners with champagne, &., the General in com- maud of the advanced guard rah the Mayor that no capitulation could be made with an open city. The Mayor insisted that a city could slut its gates and detend itself, a8 Versailles did in 1814 and 1515, whe it was granted capitulations; to which the gener replied that the conditions were nof the same, and that, as the Prassiana were obliged to besiege Paris now, they could not posit the National Guard to retain their arms; and, finally, 6 was agreed vhat at two o'clock all arms were to be given up, There, as al all the towns where arms have been found or have been surreadered, the Prussians have destroyed them, and heaps of charred stocks and bent and broken barrels are to be seen im the market places, ENTRY OF THE CROWN PRINCE INTO VERSAILLES. The London Times correspondent describes this striking incident of the wai At last we got past Vel and La Cour Roland, TLotel Dieu, La Bouillie, and taking a sharp turn at a dip of the road, there lay Versailles before us, with the race course on the right and the houses of Petit Montreuil in front, Before reaching the Porte Colbert there was scarcely @ son! to be seen. There, and in the streets wiich lead to the avenue de Paris, there were a few peopie, and the clatter of horses’ feet on the pavement drew spectators to the windows, But it was not @ cheerful nor triumphal procession, The Prince, preceded by an orderiy rode a little in advance of his stat. As the Prince got near the Avenue de Parts the people in the streets and windows became more numerous, and there we iNoxt crowds at the corners of some streets, But they were not cheerful nor wel- come-civing. The only sign of greeting [ saw was from an elderiy lady in spectacles and British pork ple bat, who waved her hand from wnder the cover of the Union Jack, hoisted from a third story window, whlle a lad beside her took off his Glengarry bounet; but when the Prince rode across the Avenue de Paris to the Prefecture there was a real welc thousands of at Frenchmen and w tries across the road, the Jancers dre: the gates on one side, the Gendarme aud Jagers on the other, Outside the railings, on the leit, was a guard of honor, with tite colors of a Prussian ins fantry by eel aid as the Prince entered the court tie Royal Standard was flung out of the front of the Pr ture and waved over the porta), Ali the while the music played a wild martial fourish—drums and trumpets beating and clanging in most heart- moving wild exultation, Soldiers ran from ali sides to see the Prince, who rode along the rank! regiment and then turned into the cou he Pre. fecture, after Which the guard of honor trooped ils | colors iuside and the staf rode off to flad their | quarters, “Ah! C'est bien Je Prince donc. Ui est bei homme, fl faut avouer. Mats, mon Dien, je sevat | Wes-content si son Alte sse avait reaié a Boriin,’? ‘The sam? writer adds:— Attwo o'clock Us morning windows clattered and doors shook. There was a very heavy cainon- ade, uno nuit ala 8 ol." firing never ceased il a quarter past three A. Many ofticers | vever heard itat all, but they were not so far out and so near Pars. My quarters are almost at the end of the Avenue de Paris, on the left. Passing tel des Réservoira, where | found the Mecklenburg-Strelitz, almost recoy- ered from the effects of his fall, L went on to the chatewa with an Dnglish acquaintance whom L met yesterday as we came into Versailles, and who had lied with His family out of Paris to avoid the siege last Saturday. The Duke of Augustenvurg was strolling tn the same direction, The doors were open al the usual entrance near the chapel on the left, and the tickets for sunshades and um. brellas «= dangied useleasiy from their nails n the rack, All the windows were open, and under cach marshal’s picture Jay a litte iron cap bedstead with @ wounded or a distant home— sick man asleep or Luiaking of some told (Eighteenth nearly all soldiers of Poland, | wa and Nineteenth Prussian reg! uis)\—Or Lomi about in pain ordreaniand. A better hosprtal than the Cudteaa ae Versailles cannot be easiy found, and there Were breeze and sbace enough at this hour to make the galleries agreeable. La the gardens there Was scarcely a creature visible, but preseutiy Unree officers in Prassian uniform came oat across the court by the jetless and sprayiess fountains, and nalted at the top of the steps whioh lead trom tne terrace to the alleys, where they stood looking ot over the canal and the sceue, witch is lost in the far distance in the Gat, uninteresting plain beyond the St. Cyr road, It was the Crowo Prince, attended by Count Eulenberg and Major Misckow. The only others near were a wounded man, shot through the y ile We day before yesterday. who satona henca — a ennning himeelf, and the Duke of Augustenbt The Prince rewamed for some thne with folde? arms, a3 af im meditation, at the es walke of the terrace—then = turned = aud slowly back to the chateau, which he eucerod by tui door under the gallery of Louis XILL, and thene proceeded through the gallerles and wards visitin the wounded, making taquiries of the men, and “4 on the upper foor, Where is the theatre, and Walke by the endless acreage of batile pieces which sq many wofortunate people are coinpelied to parcourth in the Paris season, Turnlug to the wing whic! coulalus the galery of Frencu history [ came on thé Prince again, but this ime he was w.tu the Duke of Coburg and several of his staff, and was examinin, the battle pieces with interest, taoxe of Roero) Namur, &c., and ones more, most unwittingly, Wo came on his Royal Highness on leaving the teat What thoughts were passing turougi the mind of the Prince is he vistied under such clreumstance the places he had seen when be was the guest of thé eX-Emperor Who ca aay; bul it is very gure, indeed, that if peace could be had to-morrow by any conditions and on any terms which thé Gerwan naiion could be ‘induced to accept, Lo man living Would so gladly hear of a cessation o bloodshed as tue Crown Prince of trussa. ‘The great gallery tn which the grand ball was given ou the Occasion of the Queen's vail Lo (he Emperor Was fhied with bes oecupied by wounded imeq Mostly Prussians and iavarians, aud tustead ot feathers, lappets and diamouds you saw up and down, to aud fro, tie white-coued, black-robed Sis ters of Charity, and the gallants and beaux werg hospital doctors end wardsn As [write there 48 @ little commotion in the street—the Avenue di Paris, A detachment of Jancers—you have hi ublans often enough-—is galloplug up to the Crown Prince's quarters, ter f dust- or oaning and covered, Thre ur heavy guns have broken the atlence which has reigned since moruing. But pas trols come and go and guns tire nuw ua the normal condition of life, only one cannot heip bving anxious to kuow what the news is. it waa staced last night that Valérieu had been evacuated or takeu; bul My opinion, there will ve, to use an ancient Ir “Wigs ou the green’ before that statement can bi erified. Valérien means one side of Paris, and street barricades notwitistand.ag, UW one side goed so will the other. The gigantic cannon, made by Messrs. Krupp, o} Essen, and exhibtied at the Paris Exhibition o! 1867, where they attracted universal attention, passed through Berlin a few days ajo. They were originally intended to defend the coast of Scnleswig- Holstein, but as these Monster guas had no oppor- tuity of proving thetr power again-t the French fleet Ukey are making lor the second tine thele journey to Paris, there to open their tremendous iron mouths. CUBA. Health of Havana—Losses by the Hurrici at Matanzxs. HAVANA, Oct. 18, 1870. Northerly breezes are improving the kealth of we city. There ts little vomito, and there have been a few cases of cholera here, The Matanzas Aura estimates the damage tn thas city from the hurricane at six mililous of dollars, and within the jurisdiction of that city at twelve millions. Bodies are constantly washing ashore, There has been a few cases of cholera from eating damaged food, which the authorities are destroying. MEXICO. Tho Tehuantepec Railroad Bill Passed—Minise ter Nelson Mediating Between Mexico and Guatemala—Placido Vega Assassinated. CiTy OF MBXICO, Oct. 11, 1870, Parties tndignantiy deny (hat Lerdo slapped Romero in the face. ‘The first nine articles of the Tehuantepec Railroad bill have passed, and the balance will follow this week, The company have asked a grant to build a rall- rozd from Mexico to Toluca. Mr. Nelson has signified to Guatemala tis willing. ness to assist in settling the border diticutties, It is announced that Balaquar has been appointed Spanish Mimsater to Mexico. It is ramored that P. aceda Vego has becn assasat- nated, with the connivance of Losada. Huerta is raising revolutionary forces in Queré- taro. Matters are threatening Guerrera and Jalisco, in TEXAS. Great Fire in Calvert—Twenty-five Bualldings Burned—Veurs tor the Safety of the Steamer Feroua. GALVEETON, Oct. 30, 1870. A fire at Calvert, Texas, last night destroyed twenty-five buildings and a hundred bales cotton. ‘The principal merchants are the sulforers, gteaishtprre are oo teriained here of t ¢ loss of tha de, Sho was heard from off Koy wes? 4xs evar inst. A number of promluent citizens of Galvesion were among her passengers. TWO DUZLLISTS. A Sequel to “the Mysterious Privoner of the Police”—“words Sharpene!] and Baudcages Prepared, but No Blood Sici— Meeting in Muloerry Street and Fisal Recoaciliation ‘At a few minutes before midatght of Saturday, aa reported in yesterday's HeraLp, the detectives at police headquarters made a mysterious arrest, with- out process of law, it is eaid, and upon the order of Justice Dowling, of the-Tombs, The oMvers did nog start on thetr mission from the Ceartrat office but from the vicinity of the Metropolitan Uotel, and wher the — car- rage drove up to the entrance of 3.0 Mulberry street, and the oMcers emerge wiih ‘he prisoner and entered the buliding tney used every efforl to shield nim from the view of the piola cnrioug sporters on the alert to catch aw glimpse of nis features. No information could oe ob- tained in regard to .jye pane of the pri- soner or (lig cause tf his arrest thik last In the meantime detec fay esterday mourning repaired to Wilii@us- bridge, Westchester county, aud arrested Mr. J. A, Chandor, Who was also brought to Police Leadguar- ters, It'then transpired that the name of the frst prisoner wag Peter plahb d that the arrest took piace at the Honmad, 4 Were both charged with the iaten® it . 7 ENGAGING IN A DUBS 7 and the following particulars in rec ‘WA to the amuly have been elicited from the triends oS DANIO Pedro Malibran is a married ian, aud {on of y at the Hoifman House. A warm friends. has long existed bewween him and = M® Jonn A. Chandor, a young geautieman un- married, and siding at Willaimsbridge, In the course of his frequent visits to Mr. and Mra. Malibran Chandor was often ied to speak in eulo- gistic terms, of a young lady, w mucual acquaint. ance, residing at Fordham.’ jn an unguarded meiment Mrs. Mabran satd to algo an acquaintance of Mr. Chandor’s, residing ine thig cliy, that that gentleman’ was ens gaged to @ beantiful young lady in Weste chester county, Wiuding to her triend in Fordham. ater My. Chandor ueard of this statement ras to lead hin tO suppose that his dd been guilty of @ gross violation of aid torbawith Ue iMpelnous youth fors warded (o his late triend, forgeUul of that friend's family, a Heree challenge to dead mbat. The guantlet was gracefully picked up alo at dale frieud and new chivalrous en rs young lady trend, by th my, wad the with the ntmost tne to were ord celerity and des ate! thon raplers were procured an racorlike edge, a large buudhe of bandag provided and physic ior two We In the meantime ‘“incek-eyed peace m the guise of a mutual friend, was watching every movement, and when Mr. Malibvan fad carcinily packed Ms great slarp Kuives, and tucked the budle of bandages under lus arm. | ’veparatory | to leaving the hotel—perhaps never to retarn—by tharge by detectives Woouwiize and and conveyed in the imystertous manucr de- scribed in the moruing journals of yesterday to the venal Police Om tme carty detectives vie? ndor. ners Confronted cold fowl e he THE ACE r field hear Melrose, U | and at itnooen the indefati ited the spot and arrested Mr, € At alate nour last night the each other at a table laid with disies and bearing a pot of sieaming, fragrant tea, and | learned the story of tt inistawke aud eompre- hended how nedy they had besa to dyeing their hands in each other's nocent blovd. RAILROADS i MAINE. BELFAST, Oct. 30, 1570. The Uelfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad is com. { pleted and ready for (ransfer to the Maine Central | Railroad Company, who have agreed to lexse it for tity years irom the first day of November next. CHURCH BURNED 14 BUFFALO. Burrano, N. ¥., +1, 30, 870, ; ‘The Universalist church on Mein sree hse was | entireiy destroyed by fire last night. ‘fhe flew is aup | posed to have originated near the org ». woere a gas Jet had been left burning. Loss $46,000; i for $25,000, BANK ROBBERY. Robbery of the Pine Plains Nation Bank, POUGUKEEPSIE, Oct, 30, 1870, The safe of the Stissing National Bank of Pine Plains was blown open by burglars before daylight yesterday and robbed of several hung othe Worth O1 revenue slamps.