The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-25
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THE BATTLEo OF THURSDAY.
Henry Prttssian Loss.
Bazaine still Holds His Lines.
THE DEFENSE OF PARIS.

NEW DIRK, Aug 22.-Gaillardet tele-
graphs the Courier des Flats Unis from
Parls; last night that he has seen a tele9 ram
from Bazaine. in which the Marshal assures
the ar Office that he is positively the con-
queror Ia the weeks battles that his STRAIT
egic movements have been successfully ac-
compIlshed, but with no decisive results,
/ however.
Giallardert adds that the army of the
/ crown Prince continues its march on Paris.
1t was yesterday At Nitry lie Franchise, try
ing to turn Chalons. Mcmahon, however.
has TOO great revenge to take to permit the
Prince To succeed in his design.
/ Trochu tells the Parisians that they are on
the eve OF a siege, and that the hour of dam
/ ger has arrived.
The armament of the National Guard is
| complete, and in few days one hundred
| thousand men will be under arms.
/ Paris is provisioned for an eight months
siege.
/ 1t is reported that Italy offers France a
/ vision of troops.
/ Russia has determined not to allow any
I territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to either bellig-
erent power.
| The Herald special says Strasbourg was in
I flames yesterday, and besieged by thirty
thousand Prussians, with complete siege
/ train
The same dispatch reports rumor last nj ght,
In London of the great victory by the Crown
Prince at ChalOns.
Neither report has been confirmed this morn
ing.
{
/ Crown Prince has one hundred and fifty thOus-
and men, and is supposed to be advancing on
Paris by the line of the Aube.
MacMahon : headquarters are at st. Dizier
The camp at ChalOns has been broken up.
and the troops distributed along the line.
A favorable impression to the French char
acIerlzes the popular tone here since morning.
The W orlds special, from an eye witness
who sends his dispatch from Resonville via
Luxembourg, says the Prussians won at a
fearful loss, the mitrailleuses doing terrible
xEfF haR .p-
Metz pOrtending seige.
The Tribunes special says the Prussians
lost ten thousand at Resonville and admits
that the Prusslan cavalry was almost ami
Inflated.
Every dispatch received here from every
source agrees in this point, which is the only
thoroughly established point about the Reson-
Vile battle. At 3:20 the Prussian cavalry
cuirassers, hussars and uhlans charged the
French artillery and mitrailleures, and in
forty minutes were so cut up that the whole
third corps of infantry failed to save them
Eighty thousand Prussian infantry then adj
vanced, and after fighting till nine at night,
pushed the French back from their advanced
line to Metz. The advantage was with the
Prussians, but their loss so great it was
impossible to follow it up. One-half of the
entire Prussian army, with all the cavalry and
the guards, were engaged.
One hundred and fifty thousand men have
passed through Paris since Friday morning
going to the front.
1t is generally thought that the march of the
Prussians cannot be checked before they
reach Paris.
There are said to be 800, 900 good troops at
and around Paris.
NEW YORK, Aug. p, II A. M Gold has
advanced TO lj34. Bonds have declined 15c.
There are rumors on the street of back
ward movement of the Prussans. Such
movement is not at all impossible in view of
the reassuring intelligence from BaZaines
command.
The blockade of Hamburg shuts up in that
arf fb,t IL
The blockade of Prussian ports works
severe suffering to trade.
Advices from Liverpool report cotton
active, with sales of $4,000 bales.
The neutrality of Swiss territory has been
violated by the act of German troops, who
threw bridge across the Rhine between
Basic and Mulhausen. The Government OF
switzerland has protested.
New YORK, Aug. 2l.-Midnght.-An eye
witness of the battle of the lSth-the one
claimed by King William as a Prussan
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that it was really II
Prussian defeat.
The Prussian losses are represented as
awful, the mitrailleuse iuflicting immense
damage.
Tie French losses are much less than the
Prussian, but their line was forced back
slightly, whence the report of the Prussian
victory.
Bazaine has restored his line.
The Prussian left is south of Chalons, !
moving westwardly upon PARIS, as is now
believed.
The Emperor is at Chalons- assisting in
the organization of the fresh army OF 250,-
900 men here.
The French Gen. Latour was wounded
and taken prisoner in the last battle. While /
passing through that place the citizens
crowded around him, with tears in their /
eyes, and kissed his hands.
PARIS, August 20.-Private letters des- /
cribe the conduct of Marshal CAnrobert in |
the battle of Doucourt heroic in the eX-
IRENE. During the entire day he was in /
the front of the lines, personally leading !
charges. An aid-de-camp at his side had |
arm shot off.
Advices from POnt MOussOn represent |
that the Prussians continue their eXorbitant /
eXactions from the people. They endeavor /
to make 10000 people feed 100000 troops. |
The Journals urge energetic reprisals by the |
Baltic fleet.
Prince Napoleon has gone to Chalons.
The excitement of the people of Paris last |
night, on account of the absence of news |
was intense. When the evening journa! ap- |
peared the people fought for first copies. |
Palikoo's statement to the Corps Legislatif
was read to large crowds, and was wildly |
cheered. 10 official bulletins have appeared /
for two days. i
Gen. Trochu has issued another proclama- !
ton, the meaning of which is that Paris |
must stand siege.
PARIS. Aug. 2l.-Strong bodies of troops 1
belonging 10 MacMahons corps are moving /
toward the Nosges.
IaIge bodies of troops, in fine condition |
pass through Paris day and night for the |
front. The capital has been supplied with |
immense quantities of provisions and mu- |
nitions during the past two weeks. 1t could /
now stand a siege of six months. The rapid |
is wonderful and continuous. /
The Gualois relates that when the Empe /
ror offered the GovernorshiP of Paris and 1
the command of the forces here to TrOchu, /
he stipulated that he must be free TO act as
he thought proper.