Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-09-16
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1G, 1870.

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EUROPEAN AFFAIRs.-A dispatch from
Bouillon, Belgium, says part OF Bazalne's
army, under the command of Canrobert, has
cut its way out Of Metz end is marching to
Paris. Another telegram states that these
forces have reached Carignau, point on the
railroad, few miles east of Sedan; that the
Prussians have arrested the mayor and expel-
ed the inhabitants of that city, and were pre-.
pairing for defence. The Prussians are repre-.
sented as advancing in immense force on Paris,
and by to day it was expected that the city
would be surrounded. Every possible prepa'
ration for defence has been made, and General
Trochu says 70, 900 mon on the ramparts may,
by persevering effort, save the city. 10 day
the gates are to be closed Accurate calcua'
tons place the number of the advancing Prus.
sian forces at 100000.
A Berlin dispatch says the Provisional Gov
ernment in Paris would have been accepted by
Prussia had the demands of tho latter been
complied with, viz. {: the cessioa of Alsace and
Lorraine and the dismantlng Of the French
Notifications on the German frontier A letter
writer from Berlin says that Prussia will not
negotiate With the present Government that
she proposes first to occupy Paris; the Re-
gency, Senate. aud Corps Legislatiff will then
be summoned, and will be expected to name
commissioners to treat on the Prussian basis;
and when the treaty is signed Napoleon will
be released. The Paris Gauois af6rms that
the British Government has sent another let
ter to the King of Prussia demanding peace,
and asking upon what conditions Prussia would
sign, and where they would have peace con-
cluded, and also informing him that the basis
that would be agreed upon by the neutral Pow
ers would be the integrity Of French territory.
No written answer was received to this mes
sage, but the King asks what guarantee the
Provisional Government can offer, and Wheth'
er the French people and the regular Govern
ment, to succeed the present, would ratiiy the
treaty of intervention. A firm belief seems to
prevail in diplomatic circles in London in the
restoration of the Orleans princes to the throne
of France. NJ. Theirs has held long inter-
view with them. and, it is said, delivered them
letter from Trochu. A Paris dispatch says
that Theirs has further instructions about a
peace treaty, and a successful result is yet
hoped for. Foreign Ministers still remain in
Paris. The Gaulois maintains its confidence
in pcndips peaeo negotiations, and predicts
happy results.
1t would seem that Italian unity" is almost
an accomplished fact. The people, it is re-
ported, everywhere welcome the approach OF
the Italian troops, and it is denied that there
has been any diplomatic difficulty in the way
of the occupation Of Rome. King Victor
Emanuel has explained to the Pope that any
delay on his part would have caused the proc
lamation OF Republic in every city of Italy.
and that his army would not have fought a
Republic, which would have destroyed Papacy.
The New York Times has recently been
splitting its venom at the Southern people,
and talking about "the scum and riff raft that
filled the regiments of the Southern troops
during the late war The Lynchburg Virgin-
ian suggests that il Northern journals will be
guilty of the folly into which the Times has
been betrayed, they need not be surprised if
Southern journals assume the defensive, and
even become aggressive. The people south Of
the Potomac, had occular evidence Of az
amount of ''scum and riff raff'' which came
across that river during the war surprising in
foulness almost any thing ever before seen or
heard OF. Who for Instance, can ever forget,
who the scum and riff rafF'' were, when he
thinks of what occurred in he Valley of Vir
PIMA, and in the captured city Of Alexandria,
for four long years