South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-11-04
European War News
sURRYNDER or nAZAINE.


SURRENDER OF BAZAISE.
BERLIN, OCTOBER - The King 'e|e-
graphs the Queen to-day "This morning
Bazaiue and Metz capi'ulated $50, 900 pris-
onars, including 10000 sick and wounded.
The army and garrison laid down their arms
ant events Of the war Providence be
thanked"
According TO statement, said N be su-
ihGrita,ive, which has been published OF 81.
Petersburg, Russia has made % opposi.
tiou to the English proposition for an ar.
nis,ioe Ia order that Constituent A.
Semhly might be elected, hut vithdfe~ her
wiiiipgness TO mediate after the bismarck
Favre interview, the result Of which WAS
deemed conclusive that mediation, uusuP
ported by force, wou ID b~ worthless. The
position IT affairs now seems tO iuvolvs the
question IF the readiness 90 either party
ven for ormistce. Neither Prussia nor
France, acorine TO their "ffcial professions.
j. temper 10 approciIte The .o ven
iencr If any Arrangement; FIR the prelimI-
naties of peace The zoe declares III a.
vance that territory must be yieldod; tn
other responds that it is useless Ia thins
of such thug The Frcuch newspapers
express the continent that the only bop"
for peace IL Ia an indefinite ProlongitioD e.
tho var, while the Prussians speak IF takinc
general possession of the laud aud quietly
waiting Tor thss difficulty TO settle l.
sef, probably a coupls If years or 80 -
VIVA; effect tho f4it OF Metz will have upor
the question remains 10 be seen. Ther,
are strong indicstinps, however, that negp-
tiatious for al asR iStice will succeed
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Additional accounts OF The surrender Of
Me'z represent that the CONDITION Of b.
z1iue' army rendered. it impossible for him
to continue ;he defense of tho place longer
Not only the army, but the inhabitants werc
on the borders OF starvation, and the issu.
was reduced simply TO one Of life and death
involving untold misery. Tht suspicious
expressed by republicans in relation to the
loyalty OF kuz,Iuo seem to have been un-
founded. Minister Gambetta, how-ver, sp-
pears To take the disaster 700 bitterly To b,
charitable, and while yet unscquainted will
the details, ventures To iuSInuate that al
was not right, white be declares thar "in
this epoOn Of rascaiy cspi,ulations there ia
one thing winch neither can nor will capt.
uiate hat Is, the French republic" IT,
the same spirit proclamation has been -
sued by the ministers uprising the gov
crnmeni at Tours openly charging Bazain,
with having betrayed the republic, mad.
himself the agent Of the man of Sedan, aus
the accompiicr If the invaders" The an
nouncemcut of the surrender at Wilhelm
shohe is said TO have created great susp-nst
aud coDsterna,ion in tho Emperor's house
hold, and the Bunaparti-ts who have mad,
their headquarters at Brussels have bSe,
''thrown into despair" Bsz,in- will h,
sent to Germany, after visiting Versailles
a circular from ismsrck 10 the foreig,.
ministers at Prussia has been received b,
by Baron GeruIi, At Washington, in which
The Pru.slAu premier rrpr, s.nts that III,
/ Proionshuon Of the siege Of Paris AID It's
terrible consequence Of starvation md 40
! clal dec"I, position will be- 5USc tO ths fruit
| less Ob,tihaney Of the authorities IN power
/ there, nod n"t TO aRy m"tiye Of ambition or
revenge ON The part Of Germany. He hnld-,
Also, that proposals fer pracr should orig
ioaie wrh France 1t IL stated at Berlin
/ that the last summons for the surrender ot
/ Paris bas hesn forwarded tO the military AL
/ tuoTiues there, aud If rot acceled to, the
I b"mbl'dmeut will commence during the
/ c"UIEg week The "a rts OF VI Their
and Others prmninsOt in negotiations for
/ peace have not ye, been abandoned huWev
e., aud the question is doubtless not alto
ge'her a hopeless one.
Tue Tour, Constitutional appeals 70 Gam
bctfa to consent - AN armlsiicc, aud 70 81 p
der immediate elections for a Constituent
/ Assembly
/ l. stated that rhr Northern md Southern
, German States have agreed to declare King
T " lima emperor. The KING ha- conferred
d Id n,srsha's bstoDs upon Fri'z and Fred
,uck Chare., The Grsr rune such an event
h-s taken place IN he history If the dinas.
ty. mi also the title of Count upon Gen
p Vyu Monke ~ Btbimoyc Sim, OF. 81
Ess Invitations have been -rpt to IN,