Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-20
NASHVILLE, TENN.

4 admirably equipped. The forts nave beer
armed completely, and enormous quanti-
ties of provisions are slowed away In the
city and much more is arriving daily
Mills have lately been erected here capable
of furnishing more -four than the resident
population could use Some of the heaviest
dealers in grain have engaged to furnish
| all needed without reference to price,
leaving that altogether with the govern.
ment The journals compliment such evil
dences of patriotism.
| - Z [ GA National Loan. D. ~.
| It is said on good authority that the
| Minister of Finance will open national
| loan on Monday. ~ N'.'l--.4' 4
8 A council of Ministers was held to-day.
Intellectual Diplomacy. -lao
LONDON, Aug ia collective note Of
1 Austria and England, dissuading France
| from expelling German residents from the
Empire, has been Intellectual.
| The Grand Skedaddlee at Saverne
PARIS, Aug. 19.-Edmund About con-
tinues his description of the retreat OF
| McMahon's corps, in letter from Sa-
verne dated Monday, Aug 8, as follows:
Yesterday, kSunday, 9TH August, at G
| o'clock, upon I know not what false
alarm, perhaps because three or four scouts
| of the enemy were announced on the side
| of Steirburo., the Duke de Magenta caused
the general call to be beaten, and Saverne
| thought itself lost, whilst officers and sol
diers threw themselves pel nell upon ths
Pfalsburg road. q, Three~fourths of the
people went off wildly towards the neigh
boring forests. q -.-H
A sad example was set by Generals
D'Armes and Sergeants DeVille. The
| town folks closed their shops and piled up
| their furniture upon carts. Some farmers
drove their cattle before them as in the
| time of Abraham. There was an incred-
ible accumulation formed, both of men and
| animals in the houses of foresters and in
the ruins of old castles. This morning
they all came in town. An invasion is ex-
pected from one moment to another. None
| dream of any defense against the 150, 900
men of the Prince Royal.
The Mayor invites all bakers and butch
ers to reopen their shops. 80
A few devoted men and some French
women divide themselves between two
ambulances, one of which is at the hospital
and the other at the Aisle Imperial. There
is remaining only sixty or so wounded, 100
having been sent on to Saarbruck.
Almost all the Zouaves and Turcos made
their escape last night, fearing they would
be murdered by Prussians How they
have been able to drag themselves as far as
Pfalsburg, being in such a state as they
were in, scarcely know. They must have
stolen horses and carriages. Mine was re-
covered this morning at six O'Clock, per
fectly sound, from half dozen stragglers,
who had placed on him traces made with
Ubans unraveled. ..-.. a..-
Complications OF Martial Law.
The journal Oficiel publishes the fol-
lowing as having been approved by the
Empress:
MADAME-The ports of Cherbourg,
Brest, LOrient, Rochefort and Toulon,
having been declared in a state of siege,
if the letter of the provisions of the decree
of October ID, 1868, were to be strictly
followed, the powers entrusted to the mil
itary authorities, by virtue of the state of
siege, should devolve on the generals COM
manding, the territorial divisions within
the limits of which are found these five
ports. -...r. -..
As these powers are not intrusted TO any
maritime authority by the terms of the
2SSth article, except in case of an unfore-
seen attack, the present circumstances
and the general interest in defense of the
country demand the abolition of said arti-
Gle. Therefore, after having consulted
with the Minister of Marine, have the
honor to propose to your Majesty todecree
that the maritime Projects be invested
with the extraordinary title of Superior
Commanders of all troops stationed within
these five military posts. PALIKAo.
Prussia will Treat of Peace in Paris
Only.
LONDON, Aug. 19.-It is certain that
Prussia has refused the proposition recent
ly made looking to an armistice. She will
discuss no proposition outside of Paris.
The analogy of the campaign with the adj
vance on Richmond is suggested
The Military Use of the Telegraph.
New YORK, Aug. 19.-GaiIlard telegraphs
from Paris to the Courier des Etats Unis
of this morning: .-sr "a
In an interview with Michievou, Minis.
ter of the Interior, he complains that dis
patches which, by special favor, have been
permitted to be sent to New York have
been transmitted back to Prussia to the det-
riment of our operations. He further
assured me that the Chief of the Berlin
police had perfected arrangements for re-
ceiving the moment they were published,
dispatches sent from France to Luxem~
burg, Belgium, Switzerland and America,
which dispatches will be Immediately for
warded to the Prussian headquarters.
These dispatches have made the enemy
acquainted with projected movements
on our part and informed them as regards
the strength of our forces at certain points
1t consequently follows that Bazaine felt
compelled to interdict the publishing of all
army news, except such as emanated from
his headquarters. The Minister of the
Interior will furnish such dispatches as are
suitable.
Theminister added that Bazaine had said
he feared Geographic indiscretion, which
made known strategetic movements to the
enemy less than the demoralizing effect
produced on the people by making known
totheir families the killed in battle.
Though our army has suffered severely,
the concentration upon Chslons is being
accomplished If nothing unexpected |
happens our forces will be there in three |
days.
There is very much confusion in the dis
patches from the army, and while advant-
ages are announced as having been gained |
at various points no mention is made of a
decided victory.
The Defence of Paris.
New YORK, Aug. ia cable special to
the Times, dated Paris, 10, P. n, says
the nomination of Gen. Trochu to be mil |
itary Governor of Paris, and the recall of
the Garde Mobile inspire great confidence |
among the people, proving that the army
of Paris is able to repel any attack of the
enemy, and rendering it certain that Paris
will be well defended.
Fighting Going on Yesterday.
Fighting was going on yesterday, but
Marshal Bazaine will only send a report
when the result is certain.
There is no confirmation in the ru-
NOR that Prince Frederick Charles was
wounded.
The OrIeanists I'm London.
have Just heard from good source the
original cause of the hostility of the Lon
don Times to the Emperor, and the sudden
wheel around of the London Daily Tele- |
graph in the same direction. Lady Waldo
grave, of Strawberry Hill, is a great friend
of the Orleans family and is dining and
Whining the London Journalists with
view to make them partizans.