Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-08-20
NUMBER 80.

The universal cry of the army NJ. Favre says,
is " Give us Generals we can trust ~
The NoRiteUr announces that the Meditterra-
mean fleet has sailed from Brest for destina-
tion unknown.
La Li6erte says all the members of the staff of
McMahon were killed or wounded in the battle
of Worth
Letters from Metz speak most undisguisedly
of the calamitous and fatal ncapacity of the En-
pcror. Marshal lie Boeuf and all the military
leaders comprising the Imperial staff, have ut
terly lost the confidence of the army, and II
change in command was an absolute necessity
to prevent mutiny.
OF the n regiment of the line engaged at
Saarbrucken, only eighty men and four officers
reported after the fight.
The Scveuty-fourth regiment lost at Wessen-
burg orty-eight officers, killed and wounded.
LONDON, August 10th.
Paris kilograms of Tuesday and tonight do
not change the aspect of affairs. 1t seems that
the Emperor who was solicited to return TO
Paris, replied he would return dead or victor-
Gus, Houses and trees at all distances within
five thousand yards of the fortGcations of Metz,
are destroyed.
In the Corps Legislatifa bill for the National
defense was adopted unanimously by 273 votes,
amid plause aud excitement A voice was
heard 4" Now let Prussia look us in the face"
Deputy CremicuX submitted II proposition that
commercial contracts falling due between the
present date and the 30th of August be pro-
| longed one month.
| The project was voted as urgent.
PARis, August 18th.
The RcpeWe and RdPpei, Radical journals,
which were seized last night, have been entirely
suppressed by Ministerial decree published to-
! day.
The NoniteU gives the following account of
the death Of General Douay, at the battle of
Wessenburg
The General was, from the beginning in the
thickest of the fight When he saw that the
} day was lost, after he had done all he could
/ to retrieve it--when not even battalion was
left him-he called his aids, one by one, aud gave
them orders and sent them away rs soon rs the
last was gone, the General, spurring his horse,
rode some distance to the front, dismOunted,
and taking his pistol from the holster, shot tho
animal then turning around, he walked slowly
toward the enemy. His soldiers vainly tried to
stop him. amid the terrible fire he deliberately
walked on his rotrcatng soldiers, aroused by
the spectacle turned again upon the enemy, but
| fell in heaps around their General, who still
pressed forward. Another tremendous discharge
from the enemy, and Douay, almost alone, fell
dead.
1t is stated that at the battle Of Woerth tho
| French charged the Prussans eleven times.
! Mcmahon was fifteen hours in the saddle with
out food, and finally fell fainting in ditch, but
was accidentally discovered, and revived suni-
ciently to direct the retreat of the fragments of
his army on foot.
Bodies Of the Garde Mobile from the Provinces
have commenced to pour into the city on their
way Is the 'front.' People crowd the sidewalks
and windows aud cheer them enthusiastically.
The Minister Of Foreign Affairs has received
$40, 900 from the French residents of San Fran
cisco for the families Of the killed and wounded.
New YoRE, August llth
The Courier dcs Etats Uais, ever Il warm sup
porter Of Napoleon, to-day speaks of him rs de-
clining, and too feeble to hold n sword. " We
do not know" it says, anybody, when there
is II question Of the salvation, honor or grandeur
Of France. Let the power be trusted to whom
soever shall take it, and in whatever form it
may be, Monarchy or Republican, but let them
give us victory"
LONDON, August llth.
A despatch from Carsruho to the GioJe an
nounces that Strasbourg is invested on all sides
! by tho Prussians, who hold the railway. Cen
| eral Boyer who commands the city, was sum-
monod to surrender, and refused 1t is said tho
citadel is plcntiully proyisioned, but garrisoncd
by only one regiment Of the liue and the Ma
tional Guard Of the place.
Crowds have collected around the Legislative
chambers, and tho troops have to disperse them.
Olivier was almost mobbcd by members of
the Corps Lcgisatif during debate.
General Sheridan is at the Prussian hcadquar-
ters