The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15 00:00:00

ITEMS OF THE WAR.

The French Government Is endeavouring to secure further
supplies of chassepoto at theist. of 25,000 • day.
A special telegram states that, In the last great sortie from
Met., the Prussian@ lost nearly • thousand men, and the
French twice that number.

The new Krupp grenades sent to Parts are three feet dim
and filled one feet with 7011,. of powder; others are sent to
the army before Metz

The Constituttouncl says that the Prtuslane have taken
all the property In the Chateau de Complezne—not a curtain,
a bronze, era statue remains.

Les Nov ffetiee heads an article " English 9pie.," and tr.
Poses that to simplify the question of whether they are spies
or not, all English in Paris ,hold at once be shot.

At Lyon. three thousand workmen are employe] In erect-
i. line of earthwork, for the protection of the city, and
the walls of many of the private houses have been loopholed.

The Notional asserts that 18,000 Prussians have during the
week been put bored. combat under the walls of Paris. All
the locomotive. upon the railroads are being furnished with
breast-plates, rend, ring them shot-proof.

Al Marseilles an order has been Issued for the Incorpnra
Mon of all students, in seminaries, ecclesiastical students,
members of religious congregations, acid the Brothers of
Christian Doctrine, in the Army, the Garde Mobile, or
the Garde /rationale.

The Patne of Saturday flays what is required by France Is
one military wilt which nothing can stop, nothing Impede,
neither superiors, colleagues, nor c,minitteea. The civil
element should entirely disappear at thin supreme moment.
The c ,untry neither desires nor calls for anything bat
soldiers and generals.

The charge, and suspicions raised against General Chrieh
seem to have been completely dispelled and Feinted, for the
Government has conferred upon him the Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour, the first decoration it hu bestowed nibs°
any one.

The members of the French Government in Tours met lx
Council on Sunday last. Whilst engaged In deliberation a
large crowd assembled in the courtyard of the Prefecture.
French and American banners were displayed. Garibaldi
came down and addressed the people, expressing coundence
in the deliverance of France. Ile also told them that he
would have the chief command of the Volunteers. There
were loud cries of " Vire Garibaldi!" Vice Is France!"

The lists of Pllllllllll lessen, coming down to the 18th of
An,ust, which have been published by the German author(
ties, gives the following result :—Killed.—Two Generals, 43
Staff officers, 477 subalterns, 125 ensigns, trumpeter., sen-
tinel., drc , 785 sergesn'e, drummers, &a, 6,7,5 musicians
and privates, 7 surgeons and holnical attendants—total, 522
officers and 7,675 men Wounded.—Seven Generals, 99 Staff
otticers, 1,417 subalterns, 495 standard bearers, &if , 2 938
sergesnts, &c., 35 surgeons, five krankentiager, 29,477 pri-
vates —total, 1,553 officers and 32 945 men. Missing One
colonel, 12 officers, 5 vice-sergeants 2 ensigns, one regimental
drummer, 95 sub officers, 5,755 privates—total, 13 officers,
5,860 men. Gross total.-2 088 officers, 46,480 men.

'lt!, not, however, we are told, in Its forts or in Ha en-
ceinte that Paris puts its faith, hut in Its barricade., In Its
ramparts of citizens' breasts.' Paris does not fight for
victory, but it ha. made its 'pact with death.' The capital
will perish that the country may conquer. France 'requires
martyrs,' and Paris offers up Its 'two miniumo of victims.'
It is melancholy to hear such language from statesmen at
the head of •ffairs : to hear men of sense ore ,urage, and pos.
sibly share, such delusions. With all it. proverbial bravery
the French nation can do no more than the French army has
done. This would be tco happy a world if mere fury could
do the work of discipline, If armed mobs could answer all
the purposes of stantima armies. But the present war car-
thinly justifies no such sanguine er,actatioce."—Leader in
The Til.B.
Colonel de Kahlden, commanding the Ist Regiment of
Mecklenburg Dragoons, has homed, a proclamation to the
inhabitants of Leon and the naghbourlng villages, statit.g
that in consequence of the boatile attitude of a port ion of Lbe
inhabitants towards the German troops, the .Imhtest attack
or resistance would he vigorously avenged, and that for every
German soldier slain four Frenchmen, Innocent or utility,
would be shot, and the neighbouring towns ho made to pay
• large indemnity. All arms not surrendered up to the pin-
sent time mast be forthwith delivered to the Mayor for
transfer to the Commandant. The proclamation forbids
the publication 01 all political Journals except thole of

arms

The five franc pieta bearing the effigy of
_the French Re-
public are already In circulation.
The Ga,elte de Cologne contradints the statement that
Marshal Ma,hlabon Is at Wiesbaden. and says that his con-
dition will not permit at hut removal for • mouth
it is said that the Commandaot of Toulon has 200,000
Chateepots in hie custody, and that he refuses to give them
up till he receives an order from the ex-Emperor.
At German headquarters it has bees finally decided not to
reassemb'e the present Prussian Chambers, but dissolve and
order sew elections, from which a more reliable Govern-
ment mayority is expected.
The ....tidoss of the Galeria des Antiquites and those of
the interior courts of the Louvre are protected by sobs
filled with earth. The sculpture Is being covered with plaster
as a protection against fire.
All the workshop.' of machine makers at Tarim have
been couverted Into arsenals. An M. Gambetta says to his
proclamation, women are employed in making cartridges.
Hundreds of them are at work in huts on the Champ de
Mara.

The Senate of Hamburg hal voted 70,000 thalers for Strat-
bury, and private tuincriptions for the SOlllO purpose
amounted on the &et day in that town W. 3,000 thalers.

The fortification. of Strasburg are being rapidly repaired.
All the masons, carpenters, and labourers of the town urn
impressed at high wage..
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The prisoners taken at Baraine's last great mottle declare
that his soldiers I weed him too:110°8e between another at-
tempt at escape or
.to surrender.
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It is slated to a Tours telegram that Garlbalii Fs elestlnallon
Is not yet known. but that It la posslnle he Will operate
against the Prussians in the Vosges. The general has ad-
dressed a letter to his friends at Nice, urging them to dis-
continue their agitation In order not to embarrame France.

An official decree has been homed by the Government at
Tour., that In consequence of the Interruption of the postal
.ervice, alike detrimental to the public Interest and the
national defence, all post-office agentu and sub-agents will
be exempted from military service of any kind during the

The Mare de la Loire says the Franco-American volun-
teers who arrived at Brest from New York in the steamer
Lafayette had left on foot for Rennes, having previously
announced that the authorities had refused to provide them
with food or shelter.

The annoyance caused by the armed bands which have
made their appearance in different parts of France bar in-
duced the German authorities to line orders for the Wipes'.
lion of a c•intribution of • million francs upon any depart-
ments in which such bands are met with in future.
The Tours Government begins to prepare the French for
the minion of territory. The Paris Llberte approves • nom-
muideation. which. It says, it has received from Tours, and
which Includes a slight correction of the frontier near WU-
sem bourg In favour of Germany.

It is aiserted that the heavy Alp guns with which the de-
tached forts roemd Paris are in great pert armed send their
shot to a distance of eight kilometres (between 8,(40 and
9,000 yards', and consequently further than the largest of
the Premien siege guns.

The Prussian- Ministerial Journals publish a statement
according to which, whilst the Prussian Government cannot
acknowledge the present Provisional Government of Franco
to be endowed with euniclent authority, they disavow all
plans for bringing about • Bonapartist restoration.
General Bourbakt has passed through Arlon on his way to
Liege. So says the telegram, and If it speaks truly, the
General of the Guards is not going to shut himself up at pre-
rent In the fortress of Metz, as it was supposed he would do.
To go to La",ge from Arlon, is to go away from Metz. Perhaps
hie mysterious mission is not yet completed.
The Journo,4 de Loire of Cher announces that for many
cloys past a great movement of the population, with their
goods, Is takMg place In the direction ,d Blois, crossing
front the right to the left bank of the Loire. Waggons of
provision! and cattle are being driven towards Sologne and
Berry. The hotels In Blois are filled with fugitives, the
people hying In panic from the plscee bordering on the seat
of ear.

The Journgi Officia, on the sth inst., supplied Information
which,although imperfect was yet reassuriug as to the situa-
tion of the department., and the assistance that Paris might
tun et from them. Of the city it says that, now the ram-
parts and their approachea are fortified and armed in such
a way as to bid nefiance not only to a simple surprise, but to
a regular attack.

Had be been elaughterman to all my kin,' says North.
umberland In hbakespeare's play, • I could not for my life
but weep with him. The sternest enemies of France might
surely now make • similar avowal. If she has been hot and
passionate, has loved glory overmuch, and has too easily
yielded her trust to selfish leaders, and to • false national
Pride, she has bitterly atoned for her wrong-doings."—Daily
New.

M. Male Blzoln has addressed • letter to the elector. of the
Cotes du Nord, to which he espresso. confidence in the
speedy deliverance of France, and says that In • few weeks
she will have two armies, each 000,000 or perhaps 300,000
strong, without including the reserves. These armies will be
In • condition 10 march to the relief of Faris.

The Guerre, published at Brest, uys that the Lafayette
brought from New Irt rk 150,00 six-barrelled guns, breech-
loaders, nod 6,000,000 cartridges for the same, 150 volunteers,
and a quantity of revolvers and sabre-bayonets Another
French paper adds that this vessel brought tour millions and
• half pounds of biscuit, supplied by one of the drat houses
to See York.

Some experiment.; have been made at Tours with • view of
ascertaining at what distance balloons would be In danger of
being struck by projtctiles. At an elevation of 2 600 metres
not a single hull struck the experimental balloon. At • di,.
lance of 1,000 and 1,200 metres several bullets struck the
ballooo, but the tame a gm was so gradual, that, aided by.
gad wild, it would bear the aerostat some miles from the
locality where It had been struck.

The papers publish letters from Inhabitants of Beauvais,
ex operated at the Prnesian requisitions, asserting that their
menaces always terminate with threats of Incendiarism, and
that in the houses where they are lodged they intimidate
the proprietors by plating straw under their beds and
threatening to fire it at the first alarm They are tmartered
upon all tne inhabitants of the town. All the tons.° has
been consumed, end enormous regulations are bring made
upon the surrounding country and forwarded to Casually.

The Archbishop of Tours accompanied M. Cremieux to
receive Garita'dion his arrival at the city. The Arebblahop
shcok the hand of Garibaldi, who cold that they must now
overthrow the superstition of monarchy, the cause of all the
disaatirs of France Garibaldi is buffering • great deal from
the wound in his foot. and can only walk by leaning on the
friends.

" The apy mania in Path, 1. 1 think, dying out—and a good
thing too. For a short time it had grown to an absurd height.
Every light that appeared from the window of • sizth.sturey
room was a signal to the Prussians. one could scarcely walk
• hundred yard. in the streets ants. nightfall without seeing a
knot of people with eyes upturned, carefully studying the
going and coming of • candle in some upper chamber. Often
the supposed signal turned out to he • gentleman lighting his
cigar, au old lady going to bed, or something Equally absurd."
—beocpopro C,respondent.

A general officer of considerable experience, and who has
hail large number. of militia under his command, states that
the Garde. Mobiles he lately saw at Dieppe, and who were
shortly afterwards sent to Paris' were excellent as to physique
and silence and tteadiners in the rank. Ile asserts that
be never saw better material for soldiers, and t` at they
are equal to the beat of the ml Ufa regiments embodied
during the Crimean war. lie says that their great want is
that of good officers.
A letter from Wilhelmshohe, referring to the mysterloue
mission of General liourinekl, says,—" I can assure you that
the Emperor and his suite, alter discussing every conceivable
hypothesis, could come to no other conclusion than that he
is a monomaniac. hut who would have thought it, and what
fine material for • future novelist? As to the manifesto
published by the Situation, It is undoubtedly apocryphal,
but the forger hae certainly been • person familiar with the
Ideas of the Imperial suite, where almost exactly the view.
there expressed are held."

The account given of the present state of the town of Nancy
recalls the hardships Venice underwent during the Austrian
occupation. The presence of the Pi mailing is endured, but
no opportunity is lost of letting them know how heartily
they are detested by the inhabitants. Ladles dress only in
black, men go out as little as possible, and the floe streets of
Nancy are trodden only by those whose daily toll compels
them to leave their homes, and by a few Individuals who
read or copy the news of the war written up in German at
the corners of the streets, In order to circulate translations
of the seine In the houses, with commentaries of which the
Germans can easily divine the tendency.

A special correspondent of the Wiener Prehee, writing
from Chateau Titterer, say. The people of Chateau
'Merry are warm admirers of the Emperor Napoleon. Many
of them still hope that the King of Prussia will request his
illustrious prisoner at WilhelmshOhe to return to France,
and will hold no intercourse whatever with the Provisional
Government. The most respectable people of the town are
Impressed with the Idea that the Republic has already seen
It. day, and that the German armies occupying France will
has no easy task in re establishing peace and order In
Paris.'

The Gorman Preu complain strongly of the anti German
attitude of the Belgian population, while admitting that the
Belgian G..vemmeut haa properly observed the obligations
of a neutral Power The North German Gazette has published
a somewhat threatening article on the subject, while another
neat-official paper, the Cron Gazette, takes a milder tone,
and reasons with the Belgians. It reminds them that the
Emperor Napoleon contemplated the annexation of their
country, and expresses surprise that, instead or being grateful
to Germany for their escape, their sympathies are entirely
with the French Republic.
A letter from Epernay, in a German paper, give. an account
of the accident to a train of German troops, which has been
mentioned in a telegram. The railway to Paris, it says, Is
open up to Chateau Thierry, from which point the French
have blown up all tunnels and bridges, while they have also
destroyed the line from Epernay to Rheims. On the 29th the
rail, between here and Chalons had been stealthily loosened,
the damage being In idly perceptible. A train, therefore,
came to grief, the engine-driver having both legs crushed,
while some soldiers happily escaped with slight injuries. The
town of Chalons has to pay .000 as a punishment for this,
Secret injuries to the railways are happening everywhere, 60
that trains can only travel very 'lowly, and with the utmost
care.