The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-30
PARTICULARS OF, THE CAPTURE
OF STRASBOURG.
&C., &c., &c.
NOON DISPATCHES.

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The guns lately in position before Stras.
bOurg, as we'll as the troops, are being hur-
ried towards Paris. Some have already ar
rived in front of that city.
The headquarters of the King are at Fer
rieres, the Crown Prince at Versailles. and
the Grown Prince of SaXony at Frenchlay.
The Paris letter-halIoons offered too fair a
mark for the Prllssians, and now nothing
but carrier-pigeons are used for the mail;
The Prussians have re!aid the railroad be-
tween Chalons and the German border.
The Prussian Government officially de-
MES the presence in either the Black or Red
Seas OF national vessel bearing the name
of Bertha or ,Hortha, alleged to have been
sunk by three French frigates.
It is confirmed that the Prussians are
retiring from Orleans towards Paris.
The reliable French Consul at Basic, who
telegraphed the slaughter Of 10000 Prus-
SLAMS by one mitraillense, now. telegraphs
that Strasbourg has not been captured.
THE POSITION OF ALsACE AND LORRAINE.
BERLIN, Sept. CIT is understood that
Alsace and Lorraine will be represented by
q commission in the North German Con-
federation, and for the present be exempted
from the burthens of Federal taxation.
-s. THE RECENT sORTIE AT METZ. ..
LoNDoN, Sept. 39.-The Times CORES
pondent, giving an account of the last
sortie at Metz, says the French got as far as
Arsele QueauX, where they We're defeated,
hut carried back their wounded, dead, and
the Prussian prisoners they had taken. The
village where the fight occurred was burned
by the shells.
BELGIAN PAPERS ON PEACE AND BISMARCK.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 29.-The papers,. this
morning deny that there is any excitement
here over the failure Of peace negotiations.
The Independence Beige, referring to
Bismarck's contradiction Of Fayre's state.
ments about the armistice demands, says
Fayre's statements must be contradicted by
somebody more truthful than Bismarck.
PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE AT HAyRE.
HAvRE, Sept. 29.-The merchandise re-
naming here is protected by neutral Con-
suls, and their flags fly over the warehouses.
A huge electric light eliminates the entire
bay, and enormous chains protect the en-
trance to the harbor.
THE FRENCH ORGANIZATION FOR DEFENCE
TALK ABOUT THE BLACK FLAG. .4'
Tours; Sept. 29.-The Projects Of the
several departments adjacent have met to
organize further means of defence. The
organization is rapidly Processing, com.
by the Government and permitted to choose
their own officers. They will act indie
pendently of the regular troops, and If ne
cessary will be united under one command.
The departments will furnish arms and
equipments for this force.
Another corps is organizing which VIII
carry the black flag. They announce that
they will neither give nor receive quarter.
.:- GERMAN OPINIONS ABOUT PEACE.
BERLIN, Sept. 29.-Three opinions pre-
vail in Germany about the terms of peace.
upe party agrees with Bismarck that the
war ought not to stop until Alsace, Lor-
raine, and Metz are annexed to Germany,
from whom they were taken another
party demands the disinantlement Of StraS-
bourg and Metz, and indemnity for the
cost of the war: and the third party de-
mands Alsace and narrow strip OF Lor-
raine in the East, where German is still the
prevailing language. The Cologne Gazette
favors the last plan.
REVOLT AT LYONS, HEADED BY GENERAL cLU-
+ -s sERET-IT IS PUT DOWN.
LYONS, Sept. 29.-General Cluseret, head
ing a revolution, forced his way into the
Town hall to-day and addressed the people.
The National Guard arrested him and his
adherents without bloodshed.
Marseiiles is quiet.
PREPARATIONS OF PRUSSIA FOR WAR. "
z LONDON, Sept. 29.-The war preparations
of Prussia proceed on a gigantic scale, and
activity prevails everywhere.
ROME.
ROME, Sept. 29.--Cardinal Pericoli has
gone to Florence on q secret mission.
CAPTURE OF cLERMoST-sorssoNs BoMBARDED.
LONDON, Sept. 29.-Some of the Paris pa
pers accuse Fayre of having acted upon a
private understanding with Bismarck.
! FERR1EREs, Sept. 29.-Four telegraph ca
bles in the river connecting RoWen with
the South have been found and destroyed.
Tours, Sept. 29.-Clermont has been cap
tured. Three hundred Garde Mobiles and
citizens resisted the Prussians until they
brought up artillery and reinforcements
and captured the place. - <'.@
The Pressians have surrounded scissors,
and have been throwing shot and shell into
it since Saturday. The suburbs of the city
are destroyed. A bridge has been thrown
across the Aisne, near the town, by the
PrllSsianS,