Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-09-27
ALEXANDRIA VA.
TUEsDAY, SEPTEMBER q, 1870

o sharp fight, in which severe losses were sus
tanned, the French were driven back under
cover of the Notifications A dispatch recelv
cd at Tours yesterday. from Paris, speaks Of
some skirmishirg at the outposts. The report
that Bazaine had offered to captu'atc at Metz
is denied enphat:c-liy. The Paris Moniteur
yesterday published proclamation from the
Provisional Government reafhrmiDg that the
policy of France is not to cede ono inch OF ter
ritory or ono stone of fortress.
Energetic attacks have been lately made on
the new Government by several OF the Paris
journals. Favre has been denounced as Bis.
marck's accomplice, and Picard accused OF do
Jog the work of the Prussians The editor OF
tho pays has been imprisoned Tor attacks
upon the Government and his whole staff dis
missed. A dispatch from Brussels says the
Immediate publication of manifesto from Ma
poeon, in reply to the last proclamation Of the
French Government, at Tours, is promised.
Bismarck is reported as having said that
Prussia was Influenced in this war by no mo-
tiyes of aggrandizement-tha she had no pur-
pose but her own security in the future. The
question of peace, he said, was reduced to the
possession of Metz and Strasbure by Germany,
and Germany was ready to make peace when
ever the Government of France conceded the
demand. Favre, it is stated, could not qua
rantee this concession, and consequently the
wsr must 60 on.
A dispatch from London to the New Y ork
Herald says that as soon as King William has
been proclaimed Emperor Of Germany, the
King of Sayony is to be recompenscd Tor the
loss of bis crown by Bismarck, who, 10 con.
junction with General Prim, will establish
Prince John of Saxony on the throne of Spain.
In Belgium, and in England, popular disaf-
fec:ion is manifesting itself, and the feeling
manifested against Prussia is said to be in
tense At Brussels, on Sunday last, bands Of
workmen paraded the streets, singing the Mar.
seiilaiso and crying Vivc la France and in
London on Sunday there was great demo-
cratic meeting held in Hyde Park, and huge
procession formed in Trafalgar Square, made
up of organized societies OF the lower and mid
die classes. They bore hundreds of banners
with the liberty cap and the words The Re
public" and many American and French ban
ucrs Not one English flag was seen in the
procession, and,it is said, that trouble is antlci
pated from these republican organizations and
demonstrations.
Fears are expressed that war is impending
between Russia and Turkey. a rebellion is
reported to have broken out in Thessaly which
is believed to have been encouraged by Rus
sian emissaries, and indications of revolt are
beginning to show themselves in Janina and
Albania. Russia is masslng her troops on the
frontier, and her fleets in the Black Sea and
the Baltic are reported to be under sailing or
derS 1t is thought that the khedive of Egypt
is in full accord with the Russian and Italian
Governments, and alarming rumors are aiioat
in regard to the designs CT Russia. Austria
and Italy.
The Loss OF THE CAPTAIN.-lt appears
from the accounts published OF the loss OF the
British iron.clad Captain, that the vessel capSl
zed. When the ship was about forty miles off
Cape Finisterrc, cruising under doublt-Teeied
fore aud maiDtopsails, squa struck her on
the port side, causing her to give heavy
lurch to starboard. As she did not right her
self, Captain Burgoyno gave the order to low
or the forctopsail. but, in consequence Of the
yards being braced sharp up, the ship at the
time being on the port track, it did not come
down, and by the time the men got to the top
sail sheets the ship was heeliug over TO star
o~2 tbot no. bod
off the deck, the ship lying down on her side
as she was gradually turning over, and trem.
bling with every blow as tho short jumping
seas {the sea was white all round with
the squalD struck her,-the roar OF the
steam from the funnel roaring horribly above
everything and continuing to do so even when
under water. One man says that, in answer to
Captain Burgoyne'S Inquiry as to how much
the ship was heeling over, he heard the ans
wer, given u.s. 23' and '25' degrees.
This movement was never checked for a mo-
mert, for Immediately the keel of the ship had
been given IS degrees she was keel upper.
most, and about to make tibet tremendous
downward plunge, with the roar of tho steam
from l,er boilers still forcing upward, and out
screaming the noise of the storm. The opin
ion is nearly unanimous that when the Cap.
tain got her starboard side well down in the
water, with the consequent weight of water On
the star board side OF the turret deck, and the
pressure Of the wind blowing from the port
hand on the under surface of the hurricane
deck, and thus pushing the ship right over,
she had no chance of righting herself.
The agent Of the Associated Press telegrapbs
from Washington that tho instructions given
to Mr. Morton, the new minister to Eogand
do not differ from those given to Mr.. Motley
on the subject of the Alabama claims The dis.
patch says: ''It will be recoected that her
Mejesty's Government agreed with Secretary
Fish that for the settlement and disposition of
the questions at issue it was neither useful nor
expedent to continue a controversial CORES
poudence in which there was little hope of
either Government being able to convince the