Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-26
Excessive Cost of Bread 10 Rear Of the
PrHsslan Army-Ths aultitade
Breeds a Famine.
ENGLAND.
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CHALoNs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
lAAEa a BOTH ARMIES.
LONDON, August 25.-Strasbourg is
well defended, but according TO tele-
graphic correspondent the defensive fire
had destroyed all the property within
range of ths guns.
The French armies are now well sup
piled with provisions of all kinds.
A Paris letter says the greatest fear of
the Parisians is, that some success of the
French armies may enable the Emperor
TO reign.
The Paris correspondents of the Lon
don newspapers concur that the French
authorities will only treat for peace be-
yond the Rhine.
Dense fogs still cover the battle-fields.
It is believed in Strasbourg that Mar
shal Bazaine has been severed from the
main French army, and that his power is
completely paralyzed.
Chalons has been abandoned, and il is
said that the forces of the Crown Prince
will to-day enter that city, as well as
Rheims, meeting with no resistance,
while Prince Frederick Charles moves on
Paris direct.
The Li5erte in referring to the informs-
tion received from private sources, says
that siege of Paris is altogether improb-
able now.
the Prussisns were defeated In the battle
of Sunday.
THE PRUssIANs ARE IN NO HuRRY-oF
COURSE MOTTO TAKE PARIS.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-In the absence of
general news from the armies, it is beliey-
cd that the Prussians will not hurry their
attack upon Paris, but will turn their at
tention to the reduction of Metz, and
destroy Bszaine's army, leaving the
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nication Of Paris with Napoleon and check
any forward movement on his part to re-
ieve Metz. It is further believed that the
Prussians are strong enough TO disregard
McMahon's reinforcements, composed as
they are, of raw troops. rTfs
MMAHON FALLING BACK ON PARIS.
LoNDoN, Aug. 25, noon.-Fhe entire
command of Mcmahon left Rheims on
Monday, hoping to protect Paris.
Prussisn scouting parties are near Cha
Ions and Troyes. Montmedy advices to
the 2Sd Tuesday, mention nothing what
ever of Bazaine's junction with McMaho
Bazaine's report found no credit. Prus.
sian detacbments are reported at Chan
leigh and Brienne.
The Paris Committee of Defense has
given an order for the destruction of crops
and food in the departments of Msrne
and Seine IS the Prussians approach.
VI AtOAIAON. OF CHA
.. Ions.
LONDON, August 25.-The following off,
cial dispatch from Berlin has lust been re-
cslved: "The Government has received
a dispatch, dated Bar lie Due, last even
ing, to the effect that Ghslons has been
by the French, and that the
Prussians' column Is west of Chalons,
advancing rapidly" e
PREPARATIONS FOR SIEGE OF METZ.
LONDON, August 25.-The preparations
for the siege of Metz seem formidable.
lntrenchments proceed with great &C
tivity.
Paris papers are persuading themselves
that Bazsine is realizing desp-laid STRAIT
egy. ----s- --..-.---
PRussIAN SHIP GoBBLED.
ATHENS, Greece, August Is, via LON
DON, August 25.-The Prussisn ship Viii
laden was captured by a French man-of-
war and taken into Syria.
OF THE LoNDoN T1MEs-CoN-
DUCT OF THE PEOPLE.
LONDON, August ga special from
Berlin says that since last Tuesday Metz
has been completely surrounded by a
strongly intrenched force of Prussians.
No attempt at a rally had been made to
noon yesterday, a-ssss.a a-----
Paris is utterly without news from the
s5db OlNAIs Inc l0Lreuc1Lu6nbs arOunu
Metz are completed. It is believed that
OF the Corps Lsgislatif has
goneto the Emperor to demand abdica-
tion. The Corps Legislstif is now per-
guarded by troops,
The announcement of tke organization
Of provisional government for France
s imminent.
A quarter of q million fac simles of
secret treaty have been sold
within two days.
The Emperor quilted the Tuileries last |
night, and goes to Rheims.
Yesterday the imperial headquarters |
were at the Chalons grain mills, in the |
valley of the Seine and Marne, and all |
their cOnt8nts which could not be re-
moved have been purposely burned, the
country people destroying the roads and |
doing all they can to impede the Prussian |
armies.
THE SAME RUMoR OF FRENCH VICTORY.
LONDON. August 25.-There is great |
deal of excitement this evening over a
rumOr In the Stock Exchange to the effect
that the Prussian army, under the Crown
Prince, had been defeated by the French,
under Napoleon. The rumored repulse
of the Prussians, although occasioning
the widest excitement, can be traced TO
no reliablS sOurce.