Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-16
ENGLAND.
PARIS SHORT or PROVISIONS.
ETect OF the Frcuch victory at orlcnus

LONDON, November IL Times cor
respondent at Tours says the moral effect
of the victory near Orleans is incalculable.
Reinforccments for Palladine go forward
rapidly.
Reports that Paris is distressingIy short
OF provisions are confirmed 10y dispatches
from various quarters.
Bismarck denies having negotiatcdwith
Eugenic
The German Liberals are opposed to the
meeting of the German Parliament at Ver-
sailles.
Tho situation of the Pussian army is
such that it requires daily reinforcements
from Versailles.
Woodhousc. the Secretary Of the English
Legation, has arrived. All Englshmen
were allowed to leave Paris by the Ger
mans. They report the stock of provisions
in Paris short. The weather is cold with
frequent snow storms.
Moltke has issued stringent orders re-
garding the bearers of the Geneva cross,
whose safeguard is guaranteed by all tho
great powers represented in the Geneva
Convention.
The opposition of the liberal German
papers to the convention of the Federal
Parliament at Versailles is based upon the
ground that the members would scarcely
consent to go thither, where they would
becompelled to legislate under the pressure
of military influence.
A great deal of snow has fallen in North
eastern France.
The Prussians have captured the towns
of Isle le Doubs and Clervalin, in the de-
partment of Doubs. The Gardcs Mobile
retreated southwark. The Franc-tirour4
have disappeared from that section.
one OF the tunnels on the Strasburg rail
road has fallen in, hopelessly inteIrupting
communication by that line.
4 dispatch from Florence states that
Riscosoti announces his retirement from
public life
LONDON, Nov. 12.-Thc Germans have
occupied Briancourt and Etampes.
Garribaldi, after the battle on Thursday
between Montbelaird and Swissbarder,
marched with 10000 men upon Belfort.
The French Admiral ut Coxhaven has
restored free navigation on the North Bal
tic sea To neutrals.
of the Mount Gents tunnel is promised in
December
LONDON, Nov. 12.-Bismarcli has issued
n circular TO the representatives of North
Germany, in the foreign States, giving his
reason of the late negotiation for an ar
mistice. The appointment of such man
ne rhiers 10y the French to conduct nego-
tiotiOns--a man of such wide experience,
had excited hopes Of propositions that
might be successful
LONDON, Nov. l3.-The following dis
patch of the New York lFOrldS correspon-
dent ut Tours, on the Sth inst, which was
delayed in its transmission, gives the par
tculars of the beginning of the engage
ment which resulted i'm victory for the
army of the Loire:
a great battle is being fought to-day be-
tween Nier and Beaugency. The affair
began yesterday with an engagement be
tween the advance guards, on the borders
of the forest of Marchenoir.
The French were Attacked
At II o'clock in the morning 10y a Plussian
column, consisting of two battalions Of in
| tantry, 1900 strong, one battalion of caval-
rr and ten guns. The French occupied a
| line from Persey 10 st. Laurent and Des
| BOs. Al noon, battalion of chasseurs II
! pied dehOuched from ST. Laurent, and
| drove the Prussans back between Valbeuc
and Vile Cicair. The French cavalry
| then vigorously attempted to turn the
flank Of the Prussians, who, however,
managed to effect Il retreat in the direction
Of Chateau Neuf,
Leaving Their Dead and Wounded
ON the field, among whom were 20 officers.
Many prisoners were taken. All this hap
pened prior TO the more decisive engage
ment, which took place on the following
| day.
LONDON, Nov. IA special dispatch
! from Tours dated to-day, says the whole
loss of the Bavarians in the battle of the
! 9th and 10th is 3, 40 men killed, wounded
and prisoners.
Won der Taoun's effective force on the
morning of the 18th was estimated at 20
900 men. He was then ut Toury, five
miles north of Orleans. lie infomred Gen.
| Wittich and Prince Albrich OF his position,
! who with one division of infantry and one
| Of caValry-twelve thousand men strong
marched from Chartres to his aid. On the
! evening of the llth he was further REIN
| forced 10y the Duke of Meclllinburg with "A
| corps composed of %, 600 men.
This gives the Germans at TOuTy force
! of iifty-siX thousand.
During Thursday the French drove the
| Prussians from Orleans, intlicting n severe
loss on them, and are now in occupation
of the city.
General D'Aurclles has force of fifty
thousand men ON the north bank of the
Loire, and seventy thousand on the south
| bank.
After having disposed of the remnant OF