The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-08-27
THE EUROPEAN WAR.
PR UsSIANs MARCHLNG PARIS
Claims a VictOry-4O,-
900 Dead PruSsianS Oh
the Field.
EFFORTS FOR PEACE.

New YORK, Aug OF. GailIardet, IN
his dispatch to this mornings Courier deS
EtdtS UniS says: 1t is with much diff
Guilty that | can obtain positive information
concerning the situation in the neighbOr
ho,d Of Metz. Marshal Bazaine still insists
on the necessity Of silence. This is wrong,
in my opinion, for the anxiety which pre-
walls, In spite Of the categorical declaration
of the Minister of War, is prejudicial to the
national cause. The bourgeOise, timid and
distrustful, think there would be no motive
to conceal other than unfaVorable news, and
this discomfort is fed by not very reassur-
ing dispatches which reach us from Brus-
sells and London.
have myself seen the latest dispatches
from Bazaine. He declares positively that
he is the victor, and that his stragetic move
ment has been accomplished with success,
but is attended with serious losses. Why
not give publicity to this dispatch to reas-
sure the unquiet spirits Surely the en-
emy could not gain from them any useful
information to sum up. | believe that the
incessant combats of the last seven days
have been favorable to US, but that they
have not yet brought about decisive results
One fact Is certain, that the army of the
Prince Royal of Prussia continues its march
on Paris. yesterday it was at Vitry lie
Franchise, and if we may believe the report
which has reached the Corps Legislatif, it
has the appearance Of meving to turn the
combat at Chalons and fall upon the capitol
The Emperor and McMahon are as Cha
Ions. They have too great a revenge to take
to permit any movement not likely to be
successful
The armament of the National Guard is
complete Yesterday more than 1000
guns were distributed, and N. Choran de-
clared to the Chambers that in a few days a
hundred thousand National Guards would
! be under arms.
Grain is arriving in great quantities. The
city is provisioned for more than eight
months. All this certainly indicates that if
we are threatened with siege, we are cer-
| tainly prepared to sustain It. The people
of Paris are in excellent spirits, and full of
| patriotism. They will rise, in this crisis, to
the hight of the situation.
New YORK, Aug. ga special to the
| EUeni7lg Telegram, from London, says a
| dispatch was received this morning from
| Switzerland stating that the Germans have
commenced throwing a bridge across the
| Rhine at n point between Basle and MHl
hOusan, within close proximity to the Swiss
| frontier, and 10000 German troops have
! collected at that point
| The Swiss Government has protested
| against this as violation Of neutrality.
" "AsHINGION, aug. IL secretary OF
State Won Thiel has sent the following tele
| gram to the Minister Of the North German
Union at Washington, by cable:
| August 22.-On the 18th inst, as the
bearer of flag of truce, carrying a white
flag, accompanied by trumpeter sounding
his trumpet, approached at a slow pace the
| French outposts to deliver a message from
| French surgeons, on behalf Of the French
wounded, he was fired upon by all the pa
trlots whom he met on the way so he was
forced 20 return after his trumpeter had
| been severely wounded. We protest sol
EMMY against this violation Of the laws ot
nations.
LONDON, Aug. ga dispatch from
| Messlcars to-day, says the loss Of the
Russians IN the last battle was fearful
More than forty thousand wounded re
maIned on the field Of battle, without as
slstance. The Prussians have asked per
mission to send their wounded home
through Belgium.
The runor which came from Luxemburg
that the French had occupied Verdun, il
contradicted
Stockholm advices state that French
agents have been arrested for bribing the