Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-08-18

Germans who have heretofore been
Democrats, into the Republican party.
So mote it be.
THE EUROPEAN WAR.
sTRAsRURG CERTAINLY INvEsTED-NA-
PoLEoN AT THE BATTLE OF WORTH.
London, August 12.-The investment
of Strasburg by German troops is con-
firmed.
The presence of Napoleon at the bat
tie of Worth is positively reaffirmed.
PREPoNDERANCE OF THE PRUssLANs
OVER THE FRENCH-DISPARITY IN
LOSSES.
1t is said the Prussians largely out
numbered the French in every engage
ment. The French claim that at Weis-
senburg 5000 men checked $4,000
Germans with 120 guns for four hours.
the former losing 1900 men, while the
enemy lost 10000. They also assert that
McMahon, at Froschweller, had only
10000 men against $4,000 Germans, yet
the French only yielded when 10000
more Germans were hurled upon them.
The Crown Prince promises the release
of all newspaper correspondents taken
prisoners on the field.
Prince D'Auvergne is about to return
to France but the Pdtrie says he has de-
clined the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Silver is declining as the demand from
the Continent ceases.
THE OPPOSING FORCES.
London, August 12.-The German
forces between Rastadt and Cologne are
said to aggregate 100000 men. Accord
ing to the Paris Steele 250,000 soldiers
are now at Lorraine.
THROUGH THE voSGES-GEN. SHERIDAN
KIND TREATMENT OF FRENCH PRIS-
oNERS.
Berlin, August I2.-The Bavarian
army has passed through the Vosges
and bivouacked last night at Dumer-
ingen, near Saar Louis.
Gen. Sheridan, of the American army,
has left for the Kings headquarters.
The Queen announces she will take
personal charge of the wounded of both
nations, and their treatment will be
identical. The French prisoners as
they pass through the railroad stations
receive nothing but hindness. The cit
izens and volunteers offer them refresh
ments, cigars, &c, and the ladies enter
the cars, and going from man to man,
offer them paper and pencil and volun-
teer to write to their friends for them.
REPORTED SURRENDER OF sTRAsBURG
FIGHTING AT METZ-FRENCH REIN
FORCED.
London August 13.-Reports from
Carlsruhe this morning announce the
capitulation of Strasburg after a short
bombardment.
Sharp fighting took place in front of
Metz yesterday. A considerable force of
Prussians advanced into the envlrons
of the city as a accommodating party to
discover whether the reports of the town
having been evacuated by the French
were true. They wers met by sharp
fire from the batteries and forced to re-
tire.
Reinforcements for the French, both
in men and stores, are constantly and
rapidly. 1t would appear that the
Prussian advance has received decided
check at this point, and great battle
cannot be much longer delayed.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL-wHERE Is HE
Advices from Metz through private
channels seem to confirm the story of
the removal of the Prince Imperial from
France. He has not been seen there in
camp or at church since sunday. 1t is
reported on excellent authority that the
Empress Eugene has made preparations
to go to England via Belgium in case OF
necessity.
FRENCH STILL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ADVANCING.
Advices from St. Avoid to Friday
night represent that the French army is
west of the Moselle, and still retreating.
The Prussian cavalry had reached
Pont a Moussan, about half way between
Metz and Nancy, on the railroad.
A part of the Prussian army has ill.,
vested Straasburg. The Prussians, as
they advance, capture vast stores, which
have been abandoned by the French.
STATEMENT OF THE FRENCH SITUATION.
Ne,O York, August 15.-The following
dispatch received from Paris last night
by the Courier Des Estdts Unis of this
city, gives clear view of the military
situation of France as seen by the peo-
pie of Paris at that time: News from
the army is now awaited anxiously as
the decisive moment draws near. The
informa ton obtained by the War De-
partufent shows that Prussia is concen-
trating a great army of invasion, COZ
sisting of 750, 900 men between Cologne
and Rastadt. 1t is certainly ascertained
that there are no longer more than
$4,000 men in Alsace and Lorraine.
The leaders of the French army are
making preparations to resist this tide OF
invaders. More than 400, 900 men will
be brought together between the Vosges
ard the Moselle within two days. The
bulk of the army remains concentrated
around Metz, where the first detach-
ments of the corps of .McMahon and
that of De Failly arrived yesterday. The
retreat of these corps was effected in
good order.
INFORMATION wITHHELD-THE ARMY
LOSSES.
Official information about the recent
losses is still withheld and Paris is ex.
asperated by the bad faith of the Gov
ernment, which had promised TO. give
all the news. While MacMahon admits
loss of Is, 900 out of is, 900 men engaged
Frossard' 8 losses at Saarbr are wholly
unknown. Instead of intelligence OF
war, the Government telegraphs from
Metz that SHOWERS fell last night.n
The second Prussian line, behind the
Rhine, is pushing toward the frontier,
and will probably be ready to throw
itself upon French territory long before
the immense levies called out by the
authorities at Paris can be put into
marching order. The capture at .Straas.
burg will leave the whole Prussian Dor.
der OF France entirely open, and indeed
even now King William can march in
wherever he pleases. The last barrier
against an invasion was broken down
when Mcmahon, driven ont of Saverne
abandoned the gateway of the Vosges.
The defective organization of the
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