The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-20
sURRENDER OF SOlSSONS
Ammunition Wagon Blown Up.
Escape OF Five Iiunirc.l &
Gardes Mobile.

LONDON, October l9.-The report thai
the Prussian Government has advance
money TO English gun manufacturers
! pronounced false and an invention ot
the French designed to weaken the
PmsSian protest against the arming ot
the new French army 10y pretended
uentrals
The story Of General Burnside visit
% Paris is as follows:
General Burnside desired to visit the
P.ussian army and to obtain letters OF
Introduction from Minister Motley At
d-st he was prevented from going, but
soon afterwards an opportunity was Of.
'rrry! of sending dispatches TO Minister
Washburne. which had accumulated
in London. General Burnside under
took to convey the dispatches as far as
the PrUsSian headquarters. When he
got there he presented his letters OF
introduction TO Bismarck and others,
and stated that he had no business in
Paris and no thought of entering the
c.tv and was first induced to DO SO at
the suggestion of Bismarck.
LONDON, October IA riot occurred
Yesterday al ST. Mails Department o!
lirtt Nilaiue. The mob attempted to
prevent the shipment Of a lot of copper
on board an English vessel. Troops
were called out to rcpress the disorder,
and thev, too. were assailed with stones
aud clubs. Order was at last restored,
and the leaders of the riot secured
Many persons were badly injured but
the soldiers suffered most, as they were
reluctant to Use their fire arms.
4 Vienna correspondent OF the Stand
qr( says: 1t is generally believed that
the Prussians would now, gladly ac-
crpt any intervention which would lend
TO relieve her from a winter campai gn.
Prussia has encountered immense diff
hculties in providing clothing, shelter
and supplies, and stress is laid on
Bjsmarck's repudiauon of the crime Of
prosecuting the war at entrance. 1t Is
now said that Thiers never asked the
neutral powers for any intervention
further than was necessary TO sustain
the same form of Government in
France.
Correspondents at Versailles are
unanimous in the belief that general
bomLardment will not be opened for at
.ea,t a fortnight, until every gun is in
position. The Prussians find severe
measures necessary in order to repress
iawlessness among the French in their
rear and around them.
LATER
LONDON, October l9.-The expected
battle at Orleans has occurred. After
six hours defense of the city the French
lied They evacuated the town so pre-
cipitately that they had not time to
blow mp the bridge over the Soire,
which they had already mined. The
forces engaged were about equal. No
further particulars have been received
Al E!ival, yesterday. force Of $500
Germans encountered about 5000
French, mainly Mobiles. After a short
combat the French were repulscd and
driven OFT.
The Germans are now fed from sup
plies captured in Normandy and at
Orleans.
Railroad communication to the
Rhine is now fully restored and provi-
sious are coming forward from Germany.
The GutloiS admits that the Prus-
SANS are passive. through a humane
desire 10 avoid useless bloodShei, and
believes they count upon making q
short work of Paris when the guns are
all placed in position. Besides, as
Paris is known TO he short of food,
why may not Bismarck prefer 10 await
Starvation a. his ally.
LONDON, October l9.-The army OF
the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin,
twenty-five thousand strong, entered the
city OF scissors on Sunday. Fifty
thousand rounds OF ammunition were
found. The bombariment lasted only
four DAYS, as has been before reported
and there is much SURPRISE expressed
that no more vigorous defense was
made. II s laid that the people Of the
city insisted on capitulation.
At Lille it is thought the surrender
was due to treachery and was brought
about by Bonapartjsts who are known
TO be schemiug with their allies in The
Island OF Jersey and in London. The
plan Of the Bonapartes is to place the
Prince Imperial on the throne with
the Empress Eugene as regent.
LONDON, October ia dispatch
irom Chateau Dun, dated yesterday
afternoon, announces that the Pruss;an'
had just began to shell the town.
General Bolrbaki, who is in full pos
session of the plans and intentions o
Marshal Bazaine and OF General TrOchu
has been appointed to the command o
all the forces il northeastern Franc
not under the command of Marsha
Bazaine, and he has left Tours 70
Lille to take charge of his troops. II
expresses the most quiet confidence i
the ability Of the French armies t
assume the offensive on a grand seal
within very few weeks and in the IL
eyltable defeat, il not destruction, Of tn
German armies in France.
VERSAILLES, October Is, via LONDON
Official advices from Epinal announC
that the new French corps which a