The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-24
Bq.tainQ Still at Metz Monday
Bazatne has Forced a
lN Passage.
Inlitet;pOsItiOn Gf the Great Powers in
q few days.
London Reports and Comments.

London Reports ana SoHmshs'
NEW YoRE, August 90.
A private cable despatch dated London,
93l, f9 ", states that q special Paris dis
match saws: "The armies Of King William
and General stciuinetz are reported 70 be
too severely crippled to assume the often
siye, and II Is given out on high authority
that BazaIne was reinforced from ChRlons
on Sunday for the purpose Of giving bat
tie TO the enemy near Metz. lie is conf
dent Of victory, when he will march on
lhc army Of the Crown Prince and rescue
Paris. ArepOrt has reached London Of q
French victory. Another special dispatch
from Paris sbyS Bazaine was yesterday at
Metz, and has the north and centre entire
" omen TO him, either for retreat or TO re-
coive rcInlorcemeuts. The appalling
Prlssian losses have sent thrill OF hor-
rOr throughout Germany, and recruits are
only to he had from among the country
Te6pls and working men, nearly all OF
whom ntc raw. BazAihc processes to be
master olstbe situation"
LONDON, August %.
Bazalne has forced passage by the
way 0f Autien and L,Ongmon, reaching
Monlmcdy. 1t Is reported that the ar
mics OF the Royal Prince and Prince
Frederick Charles have formed junction
to tho westward Of Metz.
ANTWERP, August %.
The war has paralyzed business here.
No failures have yet been announced, nor
are any anticipated. Here, as everywhere,
the only hope Of the resumption Of com
merciai activity Is based on the speedy
triumph OF the Prlssians
LONDON, August %.
II is almosbtOrtnin that on interposition
Of the Great Powers OF Europe in the
French and Prussian question will take
place within a few days
The Paris journals continue TO urge a
leyec en- WldESs u eXterminaLe the invaders
| The French Eunboats now operating In
the Rhine hive been recalled tothe Seine,
This mornings OPiHiOHi Ndti0nG!e, un'
der the caption keep cool, predicts the
tleGcat,O Of the Pnssians rs the result Oi
pending combinations
Herbert Bismarck, one Of the sons oI
| InO I'TueSIhu IEtulo NAlutSVSAl W9S MpuuA'
ed in the foot, and his brother William
had his hOne killed under him.
4 The Standards correspondent Is conf
4 dent that Paris will be defended, even Il
bOmbardment takes place.
The RDSt is authorized 10 deny the let
ter published yesterday, said to have been
written by Queen Victoria TO Empress
EugcniC.
The prize promised by the PrnSsiar
Government lnr the capture Of the frs
French gun has been awarded to scr
geant Of the PrussiAn fifth, the Gorlea
rifles.
A letter from Baden, published here to
day, says tho French peasants lre *
tanatical as 10 poison tie wells in AlSace
The correspondent Of the Daily Netci
says lhnt in the battle Of the 18th The
French wCre flung back on ST. Quentin
Vinville, Flanghy, ResonVille ant
Gravellottr, villages IN the nCighboFhooC
l0f Metz, where the battles Of the past lei
days lIave occurred, have been nearly dc
stFoyed.
n The war news in the London Afternoon
papers in mcagrc. The bOmbarClment o
Toul has been commenced, The Empc
ruF's headquarters arc now at Rheims
MCMAlion's headquarters are at Cerncille