Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-09-21
THE WAR In FRANCE.
PARIS CUT OFF.

munication is now broken, and the French
have surrounded the walls of Paris with
deep canals of water. The Prussian cav
airy were within sight Of the capital last
evening.
| PARIS READY TO SACRIFICE EVERY
! THING.
PARIS, Sept. l5.-Trochu, in his Or
der of to-day to the Gardes Rationale,
says the result of the review ia very graf
flying. He feels assured that the defence
of the city will be admirably sustained
Paris is ready to sacrifice all in order to
give France time to organize for irrcsisti-
bic defence.
Trochu has published proclamation to
the troops. Neuilly is full of supplies
and food. The gates of Paris will be
closed tomorrow. There are now owe,
100000 pounds of powder in the city.
Seventeen bridges over the Seine have
been destroyed. No French fortress has
yet been taken. Paris is grateful for
American sympathy, and all classes are
resolved to fight to the death.
WHY PEACE Is NOT MADE.
BERLIN. Sept. l5.-The Provisional
Government at Paris would have been
accepted by the Prussian government if
the exactions proposed by Prussia had
been assented to. These embraced the
cession of Alsace and Lorraine and the
dismantliug of the French Notifications on
the German frontier. Tho Provisional
Government refused to listen to any pro-
position for surrender of French terri
tory.
THEIRS MISSION FAILURE
That NJ. Theirs mission to England is
a failure, seems to be certain. Prussia
will ouly treat with the old Senate and
Corps Lesislatif and the Empress, and
this means war to the death, for the Pro-
visional Government will sooner than
abdicate, make Paris heap of ruins.
PARIS BEsIEGED.
PARIS, Sept l6.-The city has been
declared in siege. Nom combatants are
to be expelled. 1t is reported that the
American ship Queen has arrived at
Toulon with five hundred American vol
unteers and 1000 rifles. The Prussians
were yesterday at Joinville, seven miles
from the city. There have been no rail
road trains beyond Pontoise since Wed
nesday last.
The forests around the city are now
entirely consumed.
PRUssIASs WITHIN RANGE OF THE RAM .
PARTS.
PARIS, Sept. l9.-The Prussians are
at Cretiel, Clamart, Charenton, and St. /
Onen, almost within cannon shot of the .
walls of Paris.
The Prussians now occupy some small
woods around Paris which were too green
to burn.
THE SIEGE OF STRASBURG.
LONDON, Sept. l6.-In his last de-
spa.ches Gen. Ulrich. commandant a,
Strasburg, admits that the situation is des.
perate.
The Hcralds correspondent dined last
night with Victor Hugo and his family
His two sons, with their young wives,
were present. The illustrious writer, in
reply to some remarks, said many strik-
ing things. He said he had come to
Paris 20 share the perils of her citizens.
He had no public role to fill. His poor
presence on the ramparts might be use-
full. He would go daily unarmed and
stimulate the ardor of the patriotic defen-
ders of the city. He regarded the attack
on Paris absurd as we'll as cruel. The
war was begun. against the Emperor.
Now he is a prisoner, and the King of
Prussia sends him retinue Of servants
and sends us. who never provoked this
war, bombshells. Never was there all
act so atrocious in history. Il don't
KNOW" continued he, as cloud over
shadowed his face, "what part may fall
to my lot to play before the awful drama
closes, but Paris has the choice of dcterm-
ned defence and cowardly surrender. If
It should, though it seems impossible, de.
tide upon the latter course. can only
,eturn in exile to my old retreat in Ger.
many. If it elects the former. trust
% see every quarter of Paris, one after
another, blown to atoms the enemy,
,orps after corps, battalion after battalion,
buried in the same grave with my reso-
ute fellow-citizens. If that way Paris
must persish, while the spectacle may
lorrify the world it will be followed by
esurrection of the democracy of France
md Germany, who will avenge the ter.
ible catastrophe" re. oI .lr.
The DIPLOMATIC CORPS LEAVES PARIS
IN HASTE.
Tours. Sept. 1s-The diplomatic 1
orps arrived here to-day. A great num- e
er of volunteers left town to day, going
orthward. 1t is reported that the Il
french corps of $4,000 men under Ger I
raj Ducrot occupies the woods of Cla- l
,art and Meudon. There was a fight, a
esterday, between the Prussian and d
lree regiments of the line. assisted bv