The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-05
TIE SITUATION IN GENERAL
TELEGRAM TO TINE NEW YORK HERALD.


Madame Bazainc's Journey TO WilheIms-
hohc-FOod Relief in the French Pro-
vinccs-Tho Condition at Metz -French
Olcers as Prisoncrs-GaribaIdi not Popular
with tho Troops-Prussian SpoiIs-German
Money Loans rendered 10 French Towns.
LONDON, Nov. 4, 1870.
Special kilograms addressed to the HERALD have
been received In this city from the Continent. The
dispatches were delivered In the morning. pro-
coed to forward their contents TO New York by
cable in the following order, wiz
special telegram dated In Brussels on the Sd
instant reports that Madame Bazaine was then In
tho Belgian capital on her way to Join her hus.
band the Marshal, at the residence OF Napoleon at
WihalmshhUe.
have received special Telegram report dated at
Bouillon on the 31st OF October. The HERALD
special correspondent writes % rollows:-There was
distribution Of food relief to the distressed peas
antry at this place yesterday. Two hundred ana
eghty-four families Of ST. Of population received
rations for all the members. young and old.
A commissariat depot, from which the inhabitants
Of the impoverished villages Ill be fed, is to be
established in the military depar tments Of the
Mouse ana Moselle.
have received special adyices from Metz under
date Of October 81.
The HERALD correspondent telegraphs as fol-
lOws-Everything is orderly here In the town. Food
IL obtained easily. Great distress exists among the
people living in the surrounding villages.
The line of railroad between Metz and Courcees
has been opened TO travel.
Comparatively with their aggregate number very
few OF the French officers who were made prisoners
at Metz have accepted parole. Large numbers OF
them have consequently been conveyed into Ger
many Dy the Prussians.
The Germans have exhibited very great amount
OF attentive consideration for The sick and wounded
Frenchmen.
A proclamation has been promulgated in and
around Metz declaring the death penalty as The pun
ishment for any OF the inhabitants who assail or
attack Prussian soldiers.
GARIBALDI.
Special telegram advIces dated in Berlin on the
Sd inst, have been delivered here. The HERALD
correspondents continue their narrative OF the cir
cumstsnces Of the general situation thus
The soldiers Of the French National Gardes ana
Mobiles quartered at Besancon have refused to fight
Garibaldi is consequently, endeavering to organize
force Of Franc-tireurs at Dole and Dijon.
FIRE AND PLUMBER.
When Schlesta at, In the Bas-Rhin, surrendered to
the Prussians the soldiers plundered all the shops
and stores and subsequently set fire to the place.,
Commandment Reinach was the first person to leave
the town under German escort. Prussan officers
then entered In order to complete the surrender
Three battalions OF Prussian troops were marched
in to take possession OF the powder magazines and
so Schlestadt, great work Of vauban was neutral.
lied and rendered inolfensive to Germany for the
future.
This Prussian work was fully completed before the
documents necessary for the registry and attestaton
OF the surrender were completed.
GERMAN FINANCE
Bankers in the free city of Frankfort have ten
dered to advance money loan the authorities
some Of the French rowns as to enable the cor
porate bodies and citizens TO bear the cash burdens
of the war. The financial negotiations incident to
the case are countenanced by the Prussians.