The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-20

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their march for Paris. The Prussian
have at least 100000 men advancing OF
French soil, and rs many more in reserve
in Germany. Tho talk OF peace befOrt
the occupation Of Paris Is laughed at
THE ADVANCE OF THE CROWN PRINCE
Our special correspondent from thC
head quarters Of tho Crown Prince, or
Friday, August 18th, writes: We arc
daily advancing from village to village
The Alsacian sympathies arc altogether
French, but the inhabitants are treated BY
tho Germans kindly, except where thu
peasants commit hostillties. No compul
sorry military service Is enforced on them
Their wagons for the wounded arc reQuir
ed, and sales ofprovisions are compelled
Nothing Is cXactcd but strict necessities
and everything Is paid for MCDLahOn's
corps Is almost destroyed. No remnant
has been found rs the Crown Prince push
es steadily forward against the French
right flank.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF TUESDAYS
BATTLB.
PARIS, August IL.
The following additional details O
Tuesdays battle near Doncourt and Wan
vile are obtained from an official source :
Prince Frederick Charles attacked ouI
right and was firmly met. The corps O
General Argoud, at ResonVille, fastened
into the action, which ceased only with
night The PT1lssians repeatedly attack
cd us and were US often repulsed. Toward
night fresh corps sought to turn oul
position, but was beaten of. Our losses
are serious. General Battaille is wound
cd. BY eight o'clock in the evening the
enemy was rcpulsed along the entire line
He,lad one hundred and twenty thousand
men engaged.
ANOTHER STORY OF TUESDAYS FIGHT
ISpsetal 10 the Tribune.
''a LONDON, August 18.
Tuesdays battle Is crowning proc
of the ialsehoods and concealments In
the recent kilograms. Palikao declared in
the Corps Legtslatif that the PrusSians
had been forced TO abandon their attempt
to interrupt the French retreat, and thai
Baxaine was pursuing his road unmOlest'
ed TO Verdun and Chalons While he
was speaking the Prussians were attack
Inc tho French flank. At nightfall one
portion at least Of Bazaine's army had
been forced TO abandon the road to Yer
dun, and were again shut up in Metz. Il
is more than ever plain that no considera'
bio part of the French army has even
succeeded in getting for on the road from
Metz to Verdun. Their delay, to whatev'
or cause due, gave the Prussians time tc
come up, and they were able on Tuesday
to attack with a vanguard strong enough
to arrest the French retreat and bring
four French corps into action. When
Bazaine found that he could not shake of
the Prussian pursuit, he clearly resolved
to crush their single corps before its sup
ports could come up. For hours, tho
Third Prussian Corps, which, supported
only by cavalry division, had first at
tackled, was compelled to bear the brunt
Of vigorous onslaught from twice OF
thrice their own numbers. Toward the
close Of the day, reinforced by the Tenth
and parts of the Eighth and Ninth Corps
tho Prlssians resumed tho offensive, and
when night fell the French army was
again divided, and 1t is doubtful whether
either of tho main roads from Metz tC
Verdun remains open to Bazaine. Three
French corps heretofore unscathed. be-
sides Frossarl's and the Imperial Guards,
were brought into action, which on the
French side was general engagement,
while on the Prussian side the larger part
Of the two afmics Of Stoinmetz and Prince
Frederick Charles, were not on the field
and apparently not "a single battalion oi
the Crown Prince, who Is believed to be
advancing steadily for Chalons.
~ JUNCTION OF FRENCH ARMIES
LONDON, August 49,
The junction Of the armies Of Bazaine
and BIcNIahon Is momcntarily expected
at Vitry Francias, near ChalOns, where
the French expected TO make q new stand
SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS AT METZ.
The commandant at Metz, on account
of the deficiency Of food, drives away
fugitivcs who throng into the city.
FIREMEN UNDER ARMS.
The firemen have been enlisted as sol
dicrs, and throng the streets oi Paris, the
GGukOiS says, to tho number Of 100000
They wear brass hlemets and are armed,
PRUSSIA AND THE POPE.
LONDON, August 1S.
The Cabinet of Berlin, in reply to the
communication from the Pope, declines tC
guarantee tho inviolability oil the Ponti'
tical States.
THEIRS ADVOCATES STRONG MEASURES.
N. Thiers told the Corps Legislatif yes
terday that the enemy must be resisted at
all cost to the last. He advised prompt &c
tiOn. The surrounding population should
bc Obliged to bring their cattle, crops and
food within the walls, and tho entire re-
gion in sight of Paris should bc laid waste
# necessary. n. Duverncis, Minister o.
Commerce, said tho Government was
ready TO guarantee them provisions, shel'
ter and subsistence.
LONDON, August 18-Noon.
Official reports from the Prussian head
quarters claim victory in the recent bat
ties northwest Of Metz, on the ground thai
tho French were prevented from continu'
ing their retreat in tho direction Of Yer
dun, and driven back to Metz The
French lost two thousand prisoners, two
eagles and seven cannon, besides abandon
ing the field to the PrusSians,
LONDON, August 1S-Noon.
The French War office has received q
second dispatch from Marshal Bazaine
dated seven o'clock in the evening, declar.
ing that the enemy were repulsed along
the whole line. Ono hundred and TWEEN.
ty thousand troops were engaged in the
battle.
LONDON, August 18.
Official tclcgraphic dispatches received
ut the French War Office, in Paris from