Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-17
THE WAR.
ENGLAND

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RUSSIA DECLINES TO INTERvKNE-eER-
MANY DEMANDS THE cEssION OF ALsAcE
1 AND LORRAINE.
LONDON, September 16.-The Times this
morning has a special telegram from Ber-
lin giving the following summary as pre-
senting the latest intelligence on the ques-
tion of mediation: " Russia declines all
/ further effort for mediation. Bancroft
denies having involved the American in
tervention. Prussia is satisfied with the
reserved attitude of England, as it has
| defeated the French hope for armed inter
/ yention. Germany demands the cession
| of Alsace and Lorraine"
TERRoRs OF sTRAsBoURG-THE HEROIC
CoMMANDER-sTEADY ADVANCE OF
| PRUssIANs ON PARIS CONTINUED.
| LONDON, September I6.-A dispatch
| from Brumath, eleven miles north-north-
west of Strasbourg, yesterday, says:
." A heavy FIRE was continued all day
from the heavy guns of the third par
/ allel, causing great destruction to the
walls and citadel. Efforts to carry the
forti6cations by storm will doubtless be
| made tomorrow. Several fires have
broken out in the city. Fires are inevita-
/ BILE from the ceaseless bombardment.
/ Some fugitives in conversation state that
the sufferings of the people were intense,
Il IEONA.lOIs aiC Sol Cu pul III N6I lilllbbO
quantities. The mortality and sickness
caused by deprivation continued very
| great. On the l4th the citizens made an
other appeal to Ulrich to yield to the in
| evitable destiny. The commander re-
piled that his position was most painful,
| but he must at all hazards discharge his
duty 70 the country. The fall of the for
tress cannot be long delayed"
A Paris dispatch of to-day says: "The
advance OF the Prussians steadily con-
tinues. Last night large body of troops
| left the walls and proceeded in the direc-
| ton of st. Dennis. 1t is believed they in
tend to engage the advanced forces of the
enemy, and retreat toward the fOrtitica-
/ tions on the approach of the main body.
Several Uhlans have been arrested in
/ Paris disguised as citizens, and will be
shot. The Prussian army continues the
work of devastation. To-day they took
posse ession ofthe railroad station at Chan
| tilIy, captured train, detained the pas
sengers Snd confscated their baggage.
Another train was fired on, but succeeded
in effecting its escape"
HABITS AND VISITORS OF NAPOLEON.
LONDON, September l6.-There has been
a slow mail route established between
this city and Paris by way of Amiens
and ROuen.
A dispatch from Berlin states that only
Z
visited Wilhelmshoe since the arrival of
/ Napoleon, and more than half of them
were Americans. On Friday last the
Duchess of Hamilton visited the Empe-
ror. The Emperor receives visitors in un-
dress uniform, and has DIR. Conneau per-
petually on his right during his almost
| incessant walks. The Princess Murst
Viscount Rsille are in his company
much of the time.
| A Paris correspondent writes to the
| Times: There are those who think
| it possible that France would give up a
portion of her feet to pay the cost of the
| present war; raze the walls of Strssbourg
| and Metz, abolish conscription and accept
/ Limitation of her army as the price of
peace. But nobody believes that she will
cede foot of territory.
The Empress Eugene is greatly annoy
| ed by an army of sight-seers, who follow
/ and stare at her whenever she appears in
| public"
PRUssIANs GATHERING AROUND PARIS.
NEW YORK, September 16.-The Worlds
London correspondent telegrsphs:
1t does not appear that the Prussisns
are in any great force directly before Paris.
Their main body seems to be stretched in
kind of semi-circle, from about Vlllers
Court on the northeast, to Meluns and
FontaInbleau east of the CAPITAL, and from
Chateau Theray and rear of Meaux to
Provence, on the railway to Troy and Res
ahule.
The refusal of Scissors to surrender
certainly embarrasses their operations for
the time.
There is a cautious rumor of the escape
of Marshal Canrobert from Metz, and of
his advance upon Sedan and Mezieres,
and menacing Bheims and Laron, on the
Prussian flank.
1t is not expected the Prussians will at
tempt, for some days, to begin a serious
bombardment of the works of Paris.
Numbers Of women and children are
still permitted to leave Paris.
The gas has been cut off. 1t is used so
little in Paris houses that this makes
comparatively much less trouble than was
expected.
The railway to Lyons has been cut by
the French authorities, between Bercia
and Charanton, and the suspended bridges
destroyed.
Many of the Paris journals are moving
their offices to Tours, among them are
Il Union and La Gazette de France: but
the chief papers are still to be published in
the capital.
PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE CLoUDs-TRo-
CHU HAS 10000 MEN-PARIs TO EMU
LATE sTAsBoURG.
LONDON, September I6.-The Times
correspondent writing from Paris, on the
18th, says that bread and meat have
fallen in price, but that salt and prOvi-
siOns have risen.
The signal telegraph has been placed on
Arc de Triumph to correspond with that
on Fort Nslerien. A new system of sig
nails have been arranged, consisting of
eOlored lights. When the trees are re-
moved the movements of the ene-
my will be visible from the
- sn.,I
wires will run from station TO station.
Balloons will be used, and Photographic
bird's-eye views taken continually of the
enemy's advance, and sent instantly to
General Trochu.
Troops are daily arriving who have es-
capped from Sedan-among others, last
night, general in peasants attire.
Pere Hyscinthe has published a letter
expressing the warmest gratitude to the
United States for her prompt recognition
of the Republic. He has been prevented
by illness from going as chaplain into the
army.
The letter addressed by Minister Wash
burne to the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
says the latter, is a page in the history of
liberty in both worlds and reviyes the
memory of Washington and Lafayette,
and proves that if despotism succeeded in
dividing the two governments liberty had
not for a moment ceased to unite the two
nations. Europe, upon whose soil blood
/ of our heroes defeated has been shed, still
keeps silent, while America, notwith-
standing the ocean separates US, makes
her voice heard.
The Prussians are closing in on Paris
on the southern and southwestern side
to secure their supplies, and at the same
| time to prevent reinforcements from the
/ south and southwest to the besieged.
| Military men of experience say the power
of the city to resist is limited only by the
supply of food. Trochu has 10000 men
| under arms, who will become good sol
diers behind the rsmparts. The citizens
are determined to emulate Strasbourg.
1 If the city holds out three months, the
/ Prussisns will be driven back to the
| Rhine.
Trochu's proclamation Wednesday to
the troops discloses the fact that the most
efficient preparations for defense have been
made. The enemy will have to make
their way over barricsdes If they succeed
in battering down the walls, or get in by
| surprise.
On Wednesday evening the first of a
series of mock sallies to be made by the
besieged was made with $1,000 regular
| troops.
A sensational dispatch Of the Berlin
correspondent TO the Manchester EpaB1-
| liner as to the terms of peace resolved on
| by representatives of the German States
in council with the King at Rheims is
| generally disoredited here.
| 1t is considered that the statement that
| Bavaria and Baden renounce any claim
/ for the enlargement of territory proves
/ false.
/ II is stated that the crown diamonds
lodged by the Empress in the Bank OF
France ARE Of paste snd that the real
ones were sold long since, through an
American dentist named Evans, and the
money converted to the use Of the Impe-
/ rial family.