The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-09-08

up from the Moselle to the support of the Crown
Prince. The battle which MacMahon is now
fighting is O decisive one, and will result Ill
crippling him or making France too not for the
invaders He has the advantage OF hghting
with the Argonnes hills at his back, ana they
are natural Notifications, which is something IN
his favor. The Emperor, at the last accounts,
was at Bertheneville, about twenty-five miles
north of Chalons Prussian cavalry scouts pen
citrate far into the country, both west and south.
Marshal Bazaine is.stll at Metz. The Prus-
slams report that typhus fever is raging INSIDE
the city.
The Parisians are still looking for the Ger
mans. The Moniteur Of yesterday morning
calculates that they will arrive in six days, and
the scouts sooner. There is some talk OF trans
ferring the national government to Tours du-
ring the siege of the capital, so that the de-
partments may have full scope for action Gen,
eral Trochu the Governor of Paris, has issued
notwithstanding all strangers, natives
of the countries now at war with France, ana
not naturalized citizens to leave Paris and tne
Department of the Seine within three days,
late battles are now arriving in Berlin, and are
80 numerous that the fortresses are overhowing.
Camps are formed at Wittenburg and elsewhere
to receive them. In South Germany an anti
Prussan feeling is rising. A crowd in Munich
made angry demonstrations on Sunday before
the palace against the war, clamoring that the
Prussans put the Bavarian troops in the front
of the fire. The story may have originated IN
the fact of the fearful losses sustained by the
Bavarians at Worth and Haguenau.
The Belgian army is being rapidly concen-
trated on the frontier in the neighborhood of
the present theatre of war The Belgian gov
ernment evidently forsees that its territory is
liable to invasion by either of the belligerents
in carrying out strategic movement. The ma
tional militia is being armed, and the fortlfca-
tions of Antwerp strengthened. A war cloud,
black and angry-looking, appears in the north
east There is imminent peril OF Russian IN
tervention, and apparently in favor OF France.
WEDNESDAY, August 81, 1870.
If the great battle at the base of the Argon-
mes has not already been fought, it cannot long
be delayed. The hostile armies are within
few miles of each other. The French army
under MacMahon left Vouziers on Monday IN
the direction of Rethel, and shortly afterwards
the Prussian army under Prince Frederic
Charles arrived. 1t is the opinion of we'll
informed London correspondent that when the
battle is fought Bazaine will be able to support
MacMahon. Their combined forces will be not
far from 100000 effective men, and to these
may be added $4,000 additional troops sent
from Paris on Monday. The French position
is naturally the strongest, because of the noun
famous condition of the country in its rear and
the excellent railway facilities for moving
troops. The army of Prince Frederic Charles
is estimated at 100000, that of Steinmetz at
10000, and that of the Crown Prince at l5O,-
600, or 10000 in the aggregate. This is the
French view of the situation. All the French
journals express the utmost confidence in the
favorable result of the present movements. On
the other hand, Berlin dispatches assert en-
phatically that Bazaine's communications with
the west are cut, and he is shut up in Metz.
The Emperor is still with MacMahon. The
Prince Imperial was atSedan on Sunday night.
The bombardment of Strasbourg is severe, and
the Germans are boasting that its capture is
only matter of time.
Paris is now claimed by its defenders to be
fully prepared. The Prussians are certainly
expected, and the Parisians protest they will
be disappointed if the siege does not come off.
Engineers are tearing down buildings in front
of the Notifications, so as to insure an unob-
structed range for artillery, and $4,000 of the
country people have moved into the city. All
the workshops are closed the workmen occupy
themselves at the Notifications, orin military ex-
ercises in the Champs de Mars and all the public
squares. The Bois de Bonlogueis closed to the
public, as it is filled with thousands of cattle.
A legion of foreigners is forming to tale part
in the defence. NJ. Gailardet telegraphs, that
the several departments of the government are
moving from Paris and that Tours will be the
official headquarters while the siege lasts. The
Emperor has been invited to betake himself
thither, but he replies that "his place is with
his soldiers"
The Paris Journal Oficiel announces that the
French blockade of the North German coast
was completed on the 10Th instant, and is now
effective.
The French authorities have taken the i'm
portant step of breaking up the passenger travel
between England and France. The Calais ser
vice has been stopped and that by Boulogne
was to be stopped to-day. The channel steam
ers are all being withdrawn.
THURSDAY, September 1, 1870.
Fighting was in progress Tuesday and yester-
day between portions Of the armies of Marshal
MacMahon and the Crown Prince. A report
of heavy battle and great Prussian victory OH
Tuesday comes from Berlin and London, but
lacks confirmation yet from France. All these
reports are based on the fact that skirmishing
is going on in the neighborhood of the Argonnes.
| The most reliable statement is that a force of
Prussian cavalry attacked the advance guard of
MacMahon's army on Tuesday, between Mou-
zon and Carignan, and, after a hard contest,
drove the French back and captured the rail-
way from Sedan to Thionville. Yesterday the
fighting was renewed at Armigny, on the same
line of railway. Besides their movements in
the north, the Prussians are operating in the
Departments of Yonne and Aube, and are
oyerrunning the environs of Troyes and Tou-
mere, and cutting the railways and telegraphs.
All our adyices respecting the siege Of Stras-
bourg come from the Germans. The defenders
are shut in from the world, and have no means
of communicating their real situation. The
Germans claim to have destroyed a large part
of the town, including the library for which
the city is famous. They believe that the be-
sieged cannot hold out more than three days
| lonner London dnsnatch savs that tho IN