Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-09-06

Brussels, Sept. 4.
Midnight hundred fugitves from
Gen. Mcmahon are found in the forests on the
border of Belgium. They report that Gen.
McMahon was opposed to the capitulation.
The Eterte Beige says the Emperor is dan
gerously ill, and that McMahon's wounds are
serious.
LONDON, Sept. 5.
The Telegraph's Paris Special says that the
Empress Eugene having received word from
the Prussian government that she will not be
treated as a prisoner, has consented to join
her husband and SON. who surrendered at Sc
dan, and will leave for Prussia as soon a the
necessary arrangements can be perfected.
Gen. Trochu will at once be made Temporal
~ dictator, and Paris will be defended to the
last.
The people say that the war is not ended
nor will it be so long as the Prussian soldiers
are within the confines of France.
The news is very meagre but the main facts
are known and although there is consider
able excitement the people are not nearly as
moved by the news as might have been ex-
pected.
New YORK, Sept. s.
A Washington special states that the State
Department is in receipt of despatch this
morning from Minister Washburne stating
that the the empire Is cHuet, anu TIE SA-
citement is intense in Paris.
LATEST.
New YORK, Sept. 8.
The Worlds correspondent telegraphs from
Namur. Belgium, the following sketch of the
latter portion of the battle at Sedan not here
tofore published:
..The French on the hill west of the city
Al fill tu,n in ba
afternoon, three times repulsing their assail-
ants They were fiercely pounded back here
also, and about 2-30 they fell back sullenly,
firing steadily, though little too rapidly, on
the inner road to Sedan, closely followed by
the Germans, who were pressing on to meet
the columns emerging from under sombre
and smoke, which enveloped the woods of
Giyonne.
At Brazeilles the battle wavered still, the
ground there favoring the French artillery,
which kept up a murderous and almost litter
ally intermittant fire, with extraordinary
accuracy. l think the German losses here
were the heaviest, and from what | myself
saw, / should put them down at from 100, 900
100, 900, in killed and wounded, at this point
alone.
Three attempts were made abusing cavalry,
the only attempts. l think that were made
during he day, but the nature of the country
made them useless and neither on the French
side nor on the German was there any serious
display Of this arm in which the German army
is so much stronger, and better equipped than
its rival. 5
1t was towards three o'clock, l think, that
the decisive moment came. The Germans
who had fought and won on the Givonne road
were thrown in heavy columns by small by
ways and country roads, along the line of
\ ota tn IloJUnN Enmlnf
where they gathered around some of the iron
factories 10 the east of Bazielles, pressed
through the woods and came out upon the
flank of Lebrun in overwhelming strength,
firing as they came on i'll that cool, deliber-
ate, uneXcited regularity which has such a
striking effect upon the morale of the enemy.
| saw their dark lines emerging, the sun gilt
tering on the brass ornaments which mark
them out so clearly from the French when in
masses at any distance, and heard the crack
ling rattle of the volleys deepen and grow
nearer, rolling at last into sort of continu-
| Gus SCATTERING noise, like the crashing of dry
branches in the forest.
The attack was decisive. The French were
driven in on the west and south as on the east
and north. The ground fought over was won
and kept everywhere, at each point. The
German troops were handled with such sense
| and GOODNESS that always there came the
greatest force upon the weakest point. The
| day was never in doubt.
| MY journey here by Bouillon and Givet has
been terrible. All is confusion and alarm
| among the refugees, deserters and broken
companies of troops. The Belgians are great
| ly excited. The Empire is dead if one half
| we hear tonight be true; that all France is
in revolution. Soldiers are shooting their Of
ficers and peasants are attacking the houses
of the rich. The city is crowded with Belgian
troops, and just outside of the great dark rail-
way station are cautioned two regiments. Two
| thousand French and Prussians are now here.
1 Many are wounded and many have died. The
magnificent Citadel is full of soldiers.
LONDON, Sept. 8.
| An Amsterdam telegram reports the frs,
announcement that Prince Imperial escaped
into Belgium, false. He surrendered al
Sedan with the Emperor and McMahon's
army. The total number of prisoners by
this surrender reaches.
| A despatch dated Brussels, Sept. Sd, states
that IL 900 French troops with cannon, eagles
and ZOO horses had crossed the Belgian
frontier and laid down their arms.
A demand has been made upon Montmedy
| for the surrender of that town and the gar
rison, which was refused.
Another despatch dated Carlsruhe, Sept.
| Sd, states that on the previous day, the
cellars of Strasbourg had been inundated
by the rising of the river Rhine, causing
great suffering and destruction Of property.
The magnificent cathedral is partially de-
stroyed.
Tho sa;ga of Stra shouro still cnntinuas