New-York tribune., 1870-09-28
MORE FIGHTING AT PARIS,

SUCCESSFUL SORTIE BY THE FRESCH-sE'EhAL
REDoUBrs CAPTURED FROM THE PRUssIANs-
ANOTHER FRENCH VICTORY AT PIERREFETTE'
Tours, Tuesday Sept. ~, 1870.
The Prefect of the Department of the Nord,
under date of Lille, September 26, writes to the
Minister of the Interior here as follows:
"The following news has been received here
by carrier pigeon from Paris dated Friday, Sep
tember %:
"The division of Gen. Maudhay yesterday
attacked the nights at:Villejuif, on the south
of Paris which were occupied by the Prusslans'
The battle began at 8 o'clock in the morning.
After sustaining sharp Prussan fire for some
hours our troops captured the redoubts OF
Mouling, saque, Yillejuif, and Hautes Brugeres'
We occupy them now. The Gardes Mobiles be-
haved well.
"The enemys loss is great The same day
a considerable force of French made recon-
noissance, and drove the enemy from the VII
lage of Droncy. The same day Gen. Bella
mere, the commander at St. Denis, attacked
the village of Pierrefette, about mile north
of st. Denis which the Prussans had occu-
pied in considerable force. The enemy was
driven ont of the village, and the French
troops returned to ST. Denis unmolested.
"The guns of Fort du Mont Valerian have
dislodged the Prussians from st. Cloud"
FAyRE'S UNSUCCESSFUL PEACE MISSION.
HIS OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NEGOTIATIONS
THE MONT vALERIANA STORY REITERATED
THE GERMANS SAID TO BE DETERMINED ON
CONQUEST.
TOURS, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1870
Jules Favre to-day made an official report to
the Government here of his mission to the
Prussian headquarters in behalf of peace.
He says a great many different solutions of
the difficulties had been proposed and rejected,
and he determined at last to make direct
move. Therefore, on the 10th of September
he demanded of Count Won Bismarck a cate
gorical reply as to whether he would enter
upon negotiations for peace.
Count Won Bismarck's first answer was un-
favorable, though he subsequently asked what
guarantees France could offer.
The Foreign Minister, who was acting as an
intermediary, advised NJ. Favre to see Count
Won Bismarck, and make his demands in per-
son. Accordingly, NJ. Favre saw Count Won
Bismarck, expressed to him his love of France
and liberty, and his determination to accept no
conditions which would render the peace only
a menacing truce.
Count Won Bismarck replied that if he
thought peace was possible he would sign
Immediately but the actual Government was
too unstable and likely to be OyerthrOwn.
France would not be any more apt to forget
Sedan than she had been TO forget Waterloo
and Sadowa. She would soon attack Germany
again. Being pressed for conditions, NJ.
Favre was explicit, but Count Won Bis
marck asserted that the security of his country
demanded the retention of part of the terri
tory the Germans now occupied, and men
toned in that connection the Departments of
Upper Rhine, Lower Rhine, and Moselle, with
Metz, Chateau Salmis, and Scissors.
To the objection of NJ Favre that the peO-
ple of France would not agree to that and
that he could not act without their sanction,
Count Won Bismarck replied that he felt con-
fident of that before, but as another war was
certain. he wished TO make it with all the
advantages possible.
NJ. Fayre then intimated that Europe might
find the pretensons of Prussia exorbitant. He
was certain that France would never accept
them. She might perish as a nation, but she
would not be dishOnored. The country alone
could decide upon the question of territorial
cession. and NJ. Favre could not doubt what
that decision would be. Count Won Bismarck
would not listen to any proposition for an
armistice.
on the 10Th of September. On this occasion
Count Won Bismarck seemed to accept the idea
of an armistice NJ. Fsvre asked for fifteen
days.
The next day Count Won Bismarck handed
NJ Favre his conditions, adding that the Ger
mans must have the forts commanding Paris,
more especially Fort du Mont Valerian on the
Western border.
NJ. Favre replied that it would be more sim
nile to demand Paris at once
Count Won Bismarck said if these terms
were not satisfactory, the French must seek
other arrangements. NJ. Favre proposed
meeting of the Constituent Assembly at Tours;
Won Bismarck made condition that the gar
rison At strasbourg should surrender prisoners
of war.