The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-08-13
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Tribune Special cAhiz.1
All France must have gone mad about
Prussian spies, as our special cores
pondent. j~ourneying from London to the
front, by way Of Amienes, Reims and
Chalons, says he vas stopped at a little
place called Lerguir, and questioned by
the eustomhouse officers and gen
d'armes. He vas asked repeatedly TO
produce his papers; and finally was
allowed. most reluctantly. 10 proceed.
when they we're found TO be all night:
yet this correspondent is a French Off
GER. After his examination was con-
eluded, the authorities ApOlogized for the
trouble caused him, but said they were
compelled 10 question everybody. 50
great was the peculiar suspicion.
A special correspondent writes from
Paris. Wednesday evening. as follows:
Extraordinary ~precaution is taken to-day
to protect the Corps Leglslatif. Beside
infantry and cavalry. . batteries of artil-
lery were in position.
Seventy-nine Deputies voted for
immediate discussion Of the proposal
to increase the National Guard, and i10
for postponement. Afc7ced currency of
bank notes IS practically established-for
a one-hundred franc note can not be
changed without paying a premium.
The Bank Of France still processes to
pay in specie. bu; gives only silver for
notes. A 4 on the bank to-day was
very severe. Some persons were CON-
pellsd to wait > hours for their turn.
Over 100. 000f. in specie paid out yes
terdzy and to-day.
Private letters say Marshal MeMahon's
treasure chest, containing n million and
a-half Of francs in gold, was captured
by the Prassians.
A dispatch says the Emperor is recoy-
ering his popularity; that if the French
are victorious in the next battle he viii
be more popular than before the deeiara-
ton Of war. All the stories of his i'll
health are ~emphatically contradicted.
The Orleans Princes have much hope Of
r~egaining their lost power.
Paris dates BY last steamer have the
following: Baron de Chamberd Ia Tone,
Who, in 1859, resigned Presidency Of the
Committee on Fortifcations in const-
quence Of having passed the limit age,
IS recalled 10 his post, and the defenses
Of Paris are to be Immediately placed in
a state of efficiency. The fortified line
Of the city is Is leagues in circumfer-
ence. The forts which defend it are d.
yided in such a manner as to prevent
any approach to it. 200, 600 men would
be required to invest the place; and as
Paris always has provisions for two
months, beside stores in reserve, if the
Prussians succeeded in invading the
precincts of Paris. they would have to
employ four armies Of 10000 each, and
wait 60 days without disturbing the regu-
larity of Partisan meals. The fortified
enclosure is 10 be completed by replacing
10 or 80 open spaces, left for free circn-
lation i'll time Of peace, by port cullises.
A Paris letter to The World observes
that France necessarily must throw all
of her troops between Thionville, which
the Germans call Diedinhofen, and the
vicinity Of Strasburg. These lines rest
ing on Thionyille, Metz and Lauteryille.
Strictly speaking. these being fortified
points, are the great base of operations
which is seriously and permanently
menaced by Nayence, which Is now the
most formidable fortress.
1t is possible that before a movement
is made the French may wait until theiI
gunboats can come up the Rhine. The
Germans say these gunboats can not pass
the forts on the Rhine; and even II they
succeeded in the attempt, there are only
four feet Of water in the Rhine, and the
lightest draft of French gunboats is six
feet. 1t is certain that before a moy can
be made the French must assemble al
their great base of operations the food
necessary for these moving nations oil
100000 or 800. 600 men, and 10000 tc
100000 horses, and the supply of ammu
milton necessary for the campaign. The
term of military service is seven years
All 800 men are annually drafted into
active service. This makes l3I, 800
trained soldiers. $1,000 men rejoin the
reserve, making say 10000. This give.
664,0 900 men for the whole army in
Paris. There are to be deducted from
these figures the deaths of men in the
hospitals, the garrisons in siege. the
French towns and men, the regimenta
depot, and the gendarmes, scattered all
over.