Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-10-27
EVENING STAR.
THE WAR.
EasY .SEGHT,s saA 9.
he following are the most important tsle
grams received here by cable last night:

grams received here by cable last night
THE PEACE QUESTION.
LOrrON. oct 26-The Tours government is
tiTm in its refusal 10 enter upon any negotiate IN
involving the surrender of territory. B'sma-cks
c N tant answer to applications daily made TO
him for peace - that the election by the French
OF some authorized government Is an indispen-
Tie BeTIin Prorineial Correspondence semi
officially says that on the fact OF an armistice
little hOpe i to be founded, as the French re-
tuse 10 recognize the hOpeleS>uess Of their
cause. The delay in the bombardmens of Paris
i due 10 the imperfect state of our prepara-
lions and not 70 political considerations.
ST. PETEEsEURG, oct. 26--The Journal an
Official organ. hopes that the discussion of the
conditions OF peace will not be mixed up with
the discussion Of an armistice. The COnstitu-
ent Assembly Is the only competent power to
decide that question. The writer hopes fur
Their. that pending the armistice. in Difference
to humanity, Paris may be revictualed.
THE PEACE FEELING IN BERLIN
LONDoS. oct. 26.-lSpecial u n. Y. Hsrah.l-
a Berlin letter, dated the 2ith, SAYS that the
UppermcSt feeling in Berlin at the present mo-
ment = al intense longing for peace, especially
among the lower classes, who loudly clamor for
the termination OF the war. A single battalion
OF the landwt hr, under Gen. hummer, at Metz,
IN TepeliIng BaZaines sOrtie on the eth, lost
400 fathers OF families, leaving As many be-
reayed widows and 1,O10 orphans. 10 the su-
buIbs OF Berlin the shops of the smaller me-
ChaniCs are closed, and 80 are those OF small
butchers. bakers and artisans. They are al
on the doors OF the shops and lodgings.
These and other evidences of distress
among the peOple have aroused decided
feeling in favor of an immediate peace.
Dissatisfaction prevails in POLITICAL circles on
account Of the secrecy observed by the govern
ment relative to negotiations for the entrance
OF the southern States into the German COnfe1
Grafton. The only information to be vouchsafei
comes from Versailles, and represents Bavaria
and Wurtemberg eager to rush headlong into
the arms OF the confederation, while IL is well
known that the liberals of Munich, Stuttgsrdt,
and other places, openly demand a German
Parliament and q new, revised constitution.
The position OF the German leaders is by no
means the same now as at the opening of the
war, when everybody approved the situation
and was willing TO make, sacrifices in behalf of
fhe country Now, they are tired Of the war,
satisfied with their victories, and unwilling t.
90 further Tor purposes of ambition and az
~ tndisement.
THE POSITION OF EUGENE.
LONDON, Oct. 26.-ISpecial to n. Y. Tribune. l.
The following is an authorized statement, not
w'thstandIng what l. intImated and even
affirmed in certain English journal. The
Impress has not taken part in any one OF the
combinations referred to having for their object
either peace or an armistice. The salon at Chi
selhurst has not in any sense become an Off cial
salon; 1t - stu that OK an exile, and il its doors
are OPeH to those who knock for admittlnce il
IL not 20 afford field for discussing peace or
war. Gen. Boyer, the envoy or Bazaine, may
propositions of peace or war to be submitted to
Prussia. but he was received with no more favor
than were emssaries of Bismarck on a previous
occasion, when former envoy of the Prussian
Chancellor came to propose peace, declaring
that the King was disposed to content himself
with 30 eco francs with the inhabitants of Stras-
burg included. The Empress replied with great
energy that so long rs there was any question
of the smallest cession of territory She would
hold aloOf from every negotiation. The events
OF the last month have made no alter alton I'm
her resolution.
JOAN Of ARC THE SECOND.
LONDON, oct 26-Dispatches from Tours an
nOunce that young girl of that city is creatin 2
The most intense excitement by initiating the
example of Joan OF Arc, and hundreds of enthu-
Siastic persons have Joined her standard. Her
appeals for recruits are said to be singularly