Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-07-22
THE GATHERING WAR
CLOUD.


summary OF Gne DAspatehess
The French Government having de-
manded that Prussia should not permit
Prince Leopold to be a candidate for the
| Spanish throne, the Prince relieved his
/ Government of all embarrassment in
| the matter by his Peremtory withdrawal
France having no longer even a decent
pretext for war, 1t was confidently ex-
pected that LeOpold's action would put
a period to threatened hostilities But
Napoleon seems determined to fight
anyhow, pretext or no pretext. He,
therefore, demanded through Benedict,
his representative at the Prussian Court,
that Prussia should place perpetual in
junction upon Prince Leopold, restrain
ing him forever from being a candidate
for the Spanish throne
This demand, insolent and unreason-
able in itself, was pressed upon King
! William in manner apparently design
ed to be offensive and insulting. The
Prussian King was at Ems, watering
place. where he had taken up his resi-
dence during the dog days. Here the
| French ambassador presented his ulti-
matum and was peremtorily dismissed
without an audience. The dispatches
say NJ. Benedict courted this insult by
repeatedly wavlaying and addressing
King William, after he had received
Prussia's answer, and renewing his in
solent demands. We can imagine,
says cotemporary, the astonishment
that seized the French diplomatic when
he was treated thus unceremoniously,
and we can imagine furthermore that he
opened his eyes to their widest when the
aid-de-camp briefly informed him that
King William had no further commu-
nication to make to him.
The intelligence Of these events was
Immediately telegraphed to Paris and
created great excitement. The En-
peror's Cabinet was Immediately sum-
mOned to consider the indignity done to
the French Government. The circum-
stances Of the affair at EIIIS were COM
municated to the Corps LegisIatif by
which war was at once declared in ac-
cordance with the evident wishes of the |
though not without the en-
phatic protest of NJ. Thiers and M. Tules |
Favre, who made powerful speeches
against it.
THE KINGS ARRIVAL AT BERLIN-EN-
THUsIASTIC RECEPTION.
A dispatch from Berlin, Prussia, of |
the 10th, says: The King arrived here /
at midnight from Ems. His journey
has been a complete ovation from the /
start. Pausing at Coblentz, he was sur
rounded by an immense throng Of his /
who greeted him with |
cheers. AT length the King came for
ward and said: 81 am pleased with this
surprise. See to it that you behave as
bravely elsewhere" On arriving in this
city the King found fully one hundred |
thousand people at the station waiting
to escort him to the palace. The route
lay through the splendid street Inter der
Linden, which was covered with flags
and grandly illuminated for the occa-
sion. All along the march the crowd
shouted, cheered and sang the national
hymns. The King afterward repeated
y came forward and saluted the crowd
from his palace window. During the
entire night hundreds of thousands of
persons were parading the streets.
cheering and singing national anthems. I
All the promenades were Illuminated |
The Prussian army is concentrating at
Treves and Mayence. Austria is form t
ng military camp on the frontier of =
Prussia. The immediate mobilization {
# the entire army is ordered. The
Meeting of the Reichstag is now fixed
or Tuesday next owing to the urgency +.
If the occasion.
PRUSSIA READY FOR THE STRUGGLE.
The Government is in hourly receipt a
It dispatches from all parts of Germany {
HeT1ng men, money, arms, horses, &c. 5
4 support of the national cause, and as a
erting that no sacrifice that can be
1ade will be deemed too great for the
ause of Germany.
PRUSsIAN SYMPATHY IN ITALY. :
A dispatch from Florence, Italy, of
lly II, says: Great popular demon l.
rations were made here to-day against 7
rance; crowds collected in front Of the O.
orelgn office and German Embassy,
Id shouted Down with France, Yive r,
allan neutrality, vive Prussia. II
sWEDEN.
OF SWEDEN ANNOUNCED.
STOCKHOLM, July I8.-The neutrality m
Sweden has just been officially an m
'unced, the Government having pre- RI
ously communicated with France. m
SWITZERLAND. Ir
I ARMED NEUTRALITY TO BE OBSERVED I e.
ZURICH. July I8.-Switzerland will to IN
alntain an armed neutrality. The ed
lambers have voted plenary powers
the State Council to raise money and
ops.
E PRUssIAN FORCES OCCUPY THREE ~ ~
TOWNS ON THE FRONTIER. - -
PARIS, July $500 P. M.-At noon %
russian forces occupied the follow
points: SaarbrucI, in Rhenish Pr1Is. 70
J. ana NeWburg, in Rhenish Bavaria. lnt "a.
"a OF these towns are directly on tbe sia
ntler. They also had a force concens OF
tea at Linden, IN Hesse Darmstadt PEI
Gable Special to Heraldl Iah
RUMoRs FROM LONDON. ~
LONDON, July I8.-General Moltl,a Tai, r,ai
ted In the Prussian Cabinet Council an,
t Prussia was never better prepared the
war than at the present time. the
oUBLE BETWEEN FRANCE AND EN- bet
GLAND. lar;
'Ew YORK July Io.-The Tribune's wh
ldon special this morning saws:
rate letters from Paris represent the T
Spect OF serious trouble between - :.
nee and England. The French pIs
eminent IS furious at the tone of the y
fish papers, and threatens to refuse eve
applications from Englishmen for N IN !
y passes. aad
SYMPATHY WITH PRUSSIA. onir
ertain members ofthe House of Com nev
Is held a meeting yesterday, to con peri
the proposition Of holding a large Fra