The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-17
WAR ITEMS.

after all the French soldiers had left the
city of Nancy the Prussians ordered the
Mayor to present himself before the COM
mander of the PrusSian forces. The town
was made to pay 5O,0O0f. acquisitions were
also issued for large quantities Of rations
and forage.
[This reads as if Beast Butler were in
Nancy. We don't believe the story as told.
The troops were probably fed once at the
expense of the citizens because their COM
missary stores had not arrived.l
Instead of q few hundred prisoners hay
ing been captured at Weissenburg, their
number amounts to nearly 1900. The
French soldiers stood their ground well.
Their rifles proved terribly destructive. 1t
was downright hard fighting which enabled
the Germans to claim the hODors ofthe day.
A wounded French prisoner avOWed in my
hearing that his countrymen could not
withstand the weight Of the German attack.
The fight being one not Of BULLETS only, but
Of bayonets also. it was decided at last by
the actual strength of the respective COM
batants. Physically the German soldiers,
OH the average, are heavier men than ordi-
nary. The French supposed that the new
weapons would alter warfare-that the old
style hand.to-hand combats were obsolete.
This engagement proved OtherWlse.-Ira.
6une telegram.
The design Of the German authorities, as
I gathered from Prussian officers of high
position, was first to prevent Germany from
being made the theatre Of slaughter, and
second, to attack the French army in three
places NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. telegram.
The German loss has been proportion
ately enormous. BY day and night the
| wounded have been arriving here [Prussian
! headquarters. This afternoon all the beds
| in the hospitals are occupied; these con-
| are also full. Hundreds of wounded men
| were sent on to Frankfort, where there is
accommodation for 5000. Tribune tele-
gram.
| Prussian soldiers say that the hardest
| fighting of all was at Weissenburg. There
was much hand-to-hand work; but the
French, although brave, know not the use
of the bayonet. No Prussian soldier has
received q bayonet wound.
| Toul is q fortified town Of about 1000 in
habitants, situated on the left bank of the
| Moselle, twelve miles west OF Nancy. 1t is
| on the railroad from Paris to Strasbourg,
and is military station of some importance,
having an arsenal and barracks tor cavalry
and infantry. The town is largely engaged
in manufactures of lace, calico, and hard
ware. 1t has a Gothic cathedral, built in
the fifteenth century, and near by are chaly-
beate springs Of considerable note.
Pere Hyacinthe, the famous barefooted
Carmelite recuSant, has volunteered for
home defence.
A private letter from Berlin gives an ANU
sing account of the helter-skelter manner in
which the tourists tried to get away from
the watering-places, and of their beWWilder-
ment when they found that the railways
were monopolzed by the Government.
People stood all day long and waited, trying
for tickets, standing from morning till eve
ming without being able even to reach the
ticket Offices for the rush. In one place four
hundred trunks were left, with all the bril-
liant summer toilets, and silks, and laces,
ana jewels. Imagine the dismay of the fair
owners of all these brilliant toilets ut being
obliged to abandon them.
A special writes from Metz on THURSDAY
son my arrival from Nancy the Prussians
were everywhere accommodating and over
running the country without hindrance.
The peasants are obliged to bring provisions
and supplies for the horses"
| correspondent writes from Metz Thurs
day that dissatisfaction is spreading among
the soldiers, DISCRIMINATION spreading in
the service, and CONSERVATION gaining pos
session of the people.
A special writes from Paris Saturday that
the Eastern Railway Company removed all
their rolling stock and portion Of the track
from Strasbouyg. The administrations are
all iii wocful confusion and disorganization.
Cash payments are virtually stopped. Peo-
pie surround the Bank of France, waiting
to obtain specie.
Il special telegraphs from Dublin Sun
day :" A mob, six hundred strong. headed
by u band playing French airs, attacked n
Prussian vessel lying at Kingston, on Fri
, day evening, and threw stones ut her, They
failed in trying to board the vessel and left.
threatening to return that night and cut
the Threats OF the bloody PruSsiuns. The
police are now guarding the vessel. Bands
of people paradlug the streets this evening
! with French flags were stopped by the 30.
lice. A riot is threatened"
The Gaulois reports that Victor Emanuel
wrote long letter to Napoleon. He said
~ gave you my word, and am ready to
}, keep it, but must tell you that should |
leave Italy may never retnter it." The
Gdalois adds that the Emperor released the
King from his promise.
The Presse admits that the mission OF the
Duke de Galore to Denmark appears to
have failed, and quotes the statement OF The
Danish journal that King Christian refused