Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-26
Weekly News Summary.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN. ee a.
According to cable dispatch OF the
18th, the Prussians had largely outnum'
bered the French in every engagement.
The French claim that az Weissenburg
8 1000 men checked $4,000 Germans with
12O guns, for four hours, the Germans
losing 1000 men, while the enemy lost
1000. They also assert that Mac
Mahon, at Froschweiller, had only 10000
men against 10000 Germans, yet the
French only yielded when 100000 more
men were hurled upon them. 0no
The Bank of France suspended specie
payment on the 18th. Experiments at
Shoeburyness with the mitrailleuse are
said to have been splendidly successful.
The press gives glowing account of the
range and accuracy of the weapon.
The London Telegraph of the 18th is
authorized to contradict, formally, the re-
port that the Prince Imperial is in Lon
don. E EoA III ia
Gable dispatches of the 18th announce
that the French had evacuated Metz, and
the Prussians counted on starving out the
defenders of Strasbourg, without recourse
to bombardment. Paris dispatches state
that the appointment of Trochu to the
command of the French armies had made
all the soldiers more hopeful. Seventy
thousand volunteers left Paris on the 14th
for the army. The Paris Journal O6fcieZ
says that the activity of the Ministry of
War was wonderful, and all the immense
resources of the country would soon be
available, Volunteering continued in
large numbers. The British Consul at
Hamburg telegraphed on the 18th that
the mouths of the rivers Elbe, Elder,
Jahde and Weser were blockaded by the
French fleet. 50 e4ta 5a~st .5'f'
The Spanish Colonial Minister has tele.
graphed to DeRodas, that If the insurrec-
ton is not suppressed by the first of Sep
tember, he will send $4,000 more Spanish
troops to Cuba. ~ '''
Heavy fighting is reported to have oc-
Cured near Metz on the 14th and 18th,
both parties claiming the victory on the
14th.. The Prussians are reported to have
been victorious in the battle on the 18th.
The report of the evacuation of Metz by
the French is erroneous. 1t is report
ed from Paris that, as the first
panic over the reverses to the
French army disappears, confidence is re.
turning. The Opinion NatSon0le of the
10Th computes the force for the defence of
Paris at one hundred and thirty thousand
men. Six hundred guns were mounted.
The press in all parts Of France resolutely
denounces all overtures for peace until
the Prussisns are driven from the soil.
It is said that the reason of the Empress
Carlotta has been reawakened by the
events new transpiring on the continent.
She manifests the deepest interest in the
war. -Fr ~s-~ orT E-A~.-1F4 IN
K A statement was published in London
on the 10Th that there were 100000
| German soldiers then in France, carrying
the needle.gun, backedup by the reserves,
ana the entire male population of able
bodied Germany.
The news from the seat of war on the
10Th was somewhat conflicting, one ac-
count ststing that in the battle on the
10Th, after sanguinary conflict, the
French were driven into the city Of
Metz, with loss of 1000 men. Another
account states that the result of that days
battle was to force the Germans back to
the Moselle. Heavy losses are reported
on both Sides
The London Times of the 10Th says q
French victory was necessary to predis
pose the Emperor to treat for peace. Il
also says the stories of the arrival of the
Empress and Prince Imperial on English
soil were untrue, and it was certain thai
the Prince was then in Paris.
Dispatches received at the Prussiar
the account of the Prussian successes OF
the 14th, but do not throw much light OF
subsequent events. No kilograms re
ceived Ill London up to midnigh
of the 18th explain clearly the move
ments of the previous three days
An official dispatch made public in Paris
from Metz, on the nth, says: eve had
serious engagement yesterday (the 18Th
near Gravellotte, We gained the advan
tage but lost heavily. The Paris Joa1rna
Oficiel Of, the 17th publishes an officia
notification of the blockade of the coast Q
the German and Prussian States.
A collision occurred, ABOUT July ~, O,
the Amazon river, Brazil, between tw
| steamers; one sunk within half an hou1
with 200 passengers on board, and 16
were lost. She had cargo on boar
valued at $450,000, without insurance o.
{ vessel or cargo The accident occurre
at the mouth of the Madara, one of tn
tributaries of the Amazon.
ABerlin dispatch of the 18th announce
that General Sheridan had arrived 8
the Kings headquarters, Pont- a Mousse,
and was received as royal guest.
i Advices from Paris on the 18th stat
, that Emile Olivier and his wife had fle
from France to Italy. On their progres
through French territory they met wit
i the most vehement expressions of hatre
from the people. General Trochu hs
been appointed commander in-chief of a
the forces in Paris.
ii, A London dispatch dated at midnigl
of the 18th says: "We have it on hig
authority, fresh from Paris, that it is tt
universal conviction there that the M
), poleonic dynasty is ended. The Empires