The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-07
WAR ITEMS.

days of the Empire and the Palika
: government, says "The stupidit,
, shown by all concerned was inconceiva
f bic. One cannot help asking: OF wha
e use was the experience OF Connt de Pail
kao, NJ Henri Chevreau, Baron Jerom,
David, men who have all their live
: been in public life, who have repeated
: ly seen placed in positions OF the great
est responsibility? The stupidest fool'
, Oxenstein observed, were statesmen
compared to these men at this hour. Il
is said this telegram was found in the
Tuileries: The situation of affair:
, has gone from bad to worse. The Ma
tional Guards are hostile Nothing car
save the empire. Pietri, Prefect ot
Police So perhaps everything gave
up in despair Before the Chamber
met, the Empress had surrendered all
her powers as Regent. Was not
that abdication? She and the Minis
tiers had, however, agreed-what
Strange to say no two accounts concur
in the article of this agreement. Some
accounts say they agreed to introduce a
cabinet in which the country would feel
confidence Whom? The curse of the
empire (this hour showed it to be the
fatal curse) was that it had systemat-
ically kept down all moderate men. The
empire could not prevent large cities
from sending Messrs. Gambetta, Rasp-
all and Rochefort to the Chamber, but
it had done its best to keep ont NJ.
Thers, and had succeeded in keeping
out NM. Provost Paradol, Duiaure,
Allon, Laboulaye, Pouyer, Quertier-
men who, at this hour, might have saved
it. Other accounts run that the En-
press agreed to allow the Empire to
fall temporarily into abevance, reserv-
ing to the Legislative Chamber to ap-
peal to the people to declare by Pile
biscitum (though this hated word was
not used) the form of government they
desired. Other accounts-but why re-
late the contradictions? The fact
is obvious that the Empire fell to
pieces.
The provincial Gardcs Mobile in
Paris are billeted on the inhabitants.
Persons who pay 5000 rent have one
billet and an additional billet for every
5000 rent paid The persons who are
aversc to being bothered with Gardes
Mobile may compound by paying two
francs day in money.
/ France has sustained immense losses
away from battle-felds. OF this he
Journal dc [Agrirvltre says: I've
cannot estimate at less than 5000 a
hectare 1.-TWO and half acres) the losses
sustained by our agriculture in the in
vaded counties, if we reckon lost crops,
stock carried off, work and seeding
which cannot be done These are the
supericies Of the seven counties at
present ruined Aube, 609000 hectares; /;
Marne, SlL037 hectares; Upper
Marne, 62j, Oh hectares; MeuSe, go.
5j2 hectares; Meurthe, 6OS,922' heS
tares Moselle, 533, 796 hectares; Lower
Rhine, 4G4,7Sl hectares; total, 4,27S
l34 hectares Thus French agricul-
ture has already lost above SS0,000,000
in the invaded counties. These unex-
aggerated figures, nevertheless, give
only a very incomplete idea of the losses
superinduccd by the war, for in them no
allowance is made for men killed, Prus-
sian acquisitions, ruined fortunes, &c
Among these, &c, | may mention the
S2000O0,000 loan, which is rapidly
melting. At the battle of Sedan alone
the Germans captured 10000 horses,
worth at the least S300,0O0. The re-
turns OF the Eastern railway during
the last week show loss of 100000
francs compared with the same week
last year.
So great was the exodus from Paris
that people had to wait hours at the
railroad ticket offices to get tickets.
The prettiest actresses and singers took
refuge in Berlin.
lie Rappel, in an editorial signed by
all the editors, says: THE Republic is
above universal suffrage. 1t existed
befdAe and during the Empire 1t
is primordial right. 1t is not voted
it is. One single Republican suflices to
constitute the universal Republic.
The Republic is the sovereignty of the
individual himself This sovereignty is
not discussed, is not voted upon, is not
proclaimed; above all votes, beyond
all votes, before As well as after all
votes, the Republic was, is, and shall
! be.
A st. Petersburg correspondent Of
the Pail Mall Gazette on the first OF
September wrote his belief that
the Russian army is totally un-
prenared for q war with Germany.
There are not more than 10000
breech-loaders available for the troops;
the artillery is far from being complete,
and the attendance is in a state OF total
disorganization.
There is evidently a great deal Of
suffering in Germany as consequence
OF the war. A prominent parsonage
who has recently made tour of inspec-
ton through Rhenish Prussia, Hano-
yer, Baden and Hesse, makes an earnest
appeal to the charity of the Germans
for the people OF these countries. He
saws that the towns are crowded with
helpless woman and children coming in
TO beg for bread; the fields are left un
TILED the villages are swept clean by
the armies of food His picture of these
regions of victorious Germany is scarce
" better than that which is given by
others of the vanqpished districts Of in
vaded France. Prices of all the neces
saries Of life have gone up three-fold.