The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-10-06
BISMARCK AND NAPOLEON.
The PFussIaR PFemIer's Report en- the
Surrender or Sedan, and HIS Inter
view With NaDOIp0n III

The PFussIaR PFemIeF's Report en- The
Surrender or Sedan, and His Inter-
view With Napoleon III.
Count Bismarck has addressed the
following statement from DonGhery,
under date of the End inst, TO. tie
King Of Prussia: .,o a. :
"After 1 had yesterday evening at
tended here, in accordance with ysHr
Maiesty's commands, to taxa part in
the negotiations concerning the capi-
tulatiOn, the negotiations Were inter-
ruped till about one o'clock a. night,
in consequence of our aeceding to a
request for some time for considera-
ton, which General Wimpffan made
after General Won Moltke had declar-
ed decisively that no other condition
would be accepted but that OF q sur
render by the French army, and that
the bOmbardment wOcld be. Feeem-
menced atnine o'clock in the morn
ing, If the capitulatiOn had not by
that time been completed.
early to-day, about six o'clock In
the morning, General Reille was, an
nOuneed to me. He informed me the
LLLlDELOI MA6AAGA W SIT LAlCs 1Alu tAAt4I
he was already on his way hither from
Sedan. The general Immediately re-
turned to announce to His Majesty
that 1 was following him; and short
ly after, somewhere about half way
between here and Sedan, near Ere-
nois, found myself i'm the presence of
the Emperor. His Majesty, with
three superior officers, was i'm an open
carriage, and beside this there were
several other officers on horseback,
among whom Generals CastelnaB,
Reille, and Moskowa, who appeared
to be wounded in the foot, and VGu-
bert, were personally known to ire.r-
When / came to the carriage j dis
mounted, and, going up to his Msies-
ty, asked him what were bis COM
mands. The Emperor Immediately
expressed wish to see your Majesty,
being apparently under the Impress
ion that your Majesty was In Dom
cherry. After had replied that yssIT
Majesty was at that momentum the
headquarters at Nendresse, three
miles distant, the Emperor asked il
your Majesty had appointed a place
to which he should next proceed, and
eventually, what was my opinion on
the matter. I replied that I had come
hither in complete ignOrance, and
that the locality was unknOwIit TO me;
and I offered for his accommodation
the house I occupied in Donellery,
which was ready to leave a6onees-
The Emperor accepted the offer, and
directed his steps to DOnchery. "A bout
100 wards, however, from the sbridge
leading into the town, he stopped be-
fore 8 laborer's house, rather lonely. in
its situation, and asked If he could
not descend from his carriage there.
I secured the house through Count
BOhlem, Councillor Of Lega-
ton, who had in the interval come
m to me: and after we had been in
formed that it was narrow and poorly
accommodated but free from the
the mperOrdescended from
the carriage and requested me to fol-
low him inside. There, in very
small room, which contained one Ia
BILE and two chairs, had about an
hours conversation with the Emper-
OF.
"His Majesty principally expressed
3 wish to obtain more favorable terms
Of eapitulation for the army. / COM
pletely declined to negotiate on this
matter with His Majesty while the
purely military questions were to be
settled between Generals Won MOltke
and Wimpden. On the other hand /
asked His Majesty whether he was in
clined 70 enter into negotiations for
peace. The Emperor replied that as
3 prisoner, he was not now i'm a posi-
ton TO do 50; and when I further
asked through whom his views in re-
latiOn to she Government Of France
were now to be learned, His Majesty
to the Government then es-
sablished in Paris.