The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-05
MING TELEGRAPH -PHADEpHA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER s. 1870

ters in which the masses of the people have inte-
rests at stake.
advices from Russia are equally hostile to and al
most contemptuous both to the Germans an
French.
The Frankfort Gazette is publishing a series of
articles by Herr Carl Voght, the great German ma
raine. He protests even against the annexation of
such places as Metz and Strasburg
The Belgian papers are filed with accounts of
attacks made on scattered German outposts by the
peasantry. In st. Dizier detachment of German
troops was fired on and many killed and wounded.
A strong force has been sent to levy a fine of 500-
0o0f. for the offence, but the mayor invited the
officer commanding to burn the town, saying he
neither dared to nor could execute such an order.
LONDON, Oct. 4-[Special to the New York Tri.
bune. "A correspondent before Bitche telegraphs
on October as follows: "On Friday, Saturday
and yesterday, the garrison made sortfes with ca
valry and infantry, protected by she'll fire, and
burned the batteries and far where the besiegers
outposts were. The positions had been previously
abandoned. The beseging guns comprise four Co
round mortars and tive batteries, each of four 12-
lound breech leaders
CAN previous sorties were repulsed from the 1Ith
to the goth of September. There was severe
bombardment, dsmountng several guns and de-
suoyipg the castle and many houses below. The
beseging batteries became disabled by firing 20 900
81 anu 70 ana the cover
west sides oHen. The fort is built on a 200 feet
perl endicular rock, is of two stories, has solid
cssemates, and is impregnable. The garrison
numbers 2000 men"
A correspondent at Stra, burg teegrsphs to-day
''the city has assumed new aspect; the shops are
all Teopened, and the market-plac is filled with
provisions. The French officers who were paroled
have been ordered to depart by October g. The in
habtants must supply the German officers with
fcod wine and segars. The amount of money in
munitions and provisions wasted cannot yet be APP
p1oximately reckoned, but the loss is immense.
"Many cannons were spiked before the surrender.
Postal service has been resumed, and the bridge
the Rhine will be available for railway trains
n a fortnight new army is forming near Frie-
burg to move against Lyons"
Tours, Oct. 4.
Details have just been received here of a battle
Paris September 80. The firing was
slant at Vileiuif for three hours and then ceased
suddenly The Prussians were wOrsted at first,
but they brought up large force of artillery from
Montberg and the French retreated. They were
not pursued, and did not lose many on the retreat
Many carts loaded with Prussian wounded have
arrived at the village of Massy.
Advices from Compeigne announce that the
Prussians have entirely stripped the chateau, not
even leaving the heavy furniture curtains or linen
AT Thornery the Prussians have many thousand
sand cattle and sheep, as we'll as much forage, OBJ
tained by acquisitions upon the surrounding coun-
try, for their forces around Paris.
NEUFCHATBAU, Oct. 3, via Tours, Oct. At is
rumored here that the body of Won Moltke 10
the lead coffin which recently passed through Toul.
Moltke is native of Mecklenburg.
NANTES, Oct. At is known that great general
died recently at Rheims and it is supposed, from
the fact that the persons who took of him were
menaced with death if they divulged the secret, to
have been Won Moltke.