The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-08-27
THE WAR SITUATION.


of military operations lying between
the citv of Paris and the fair fields O
France which border upon the Mo
selie and the Rhine. This interest l.
natural as well as intelligent; fol
while our people like other people are
full of interest in the result of great
nattles-the greatest of games-they
have been prepared by recent expe-
renee in actual warfare to understand
as no other people can understand. the
statements of fact which are so eiabor-
,tely furnished to the reading world
day by day, through the medium o!
the electric telegraph. CThe degrees
sion is quite warranted, in this connec-
ton, 10 remind ourselves that Morse,
an American, invented the telegraph
that Field. an American Is the father
OF the Atlantic cable; that an Ameri-
can correspondent of an American
r,cwSpaper-the Tribune-furnishes
the most complete and truthful re-
ports of the campaign which have yet
been furnished TO any press of any
city either of Europe or America; and
that day, the = situation Is more
fully known in Mr.. Greeleys sanctum
than it is known either in Paris, Ber-
I'm or London.)
such mass of facts. conjectures,
f,brications and opinions are furnished
s,rth in the reports that TO digest them
all and make Il concise and pithy state
:nent of them is Il task from which
even the most industrious, patient and
,ainstaking editor may well shrink;
and while we, in what follows shall
cndeavor to state as cogently as posi-
bile the latest phases of this tremend-
Gus conflict, we are only too well
aware tina, there is much that is impor-
ant that we shall overlook, much food
+or consideration which we shall not
to digest.
We have been treated to an immense
mass of kilograms which have come to
IL from Paris via the Tory press of
london. the French Consulate in New
York and the copperhead press oil New
FORK and Chicago.
The best that all these much biased
vouchers can say for the cause of the
=. L., ha
ave failed 10 whip Napoleon as badly
at Gravelo.te as they did in their first
battles on the Rhine; and that the
Germans. in gaining their last victory
oSt more men than the French did.
This is about the pUrport of their
story. presented in lis most favorable
phase.
Now let us look into the latest Paris
not Beriin) dispatches and see what
they say.
Hazaine. in Metz, comforts himself
that while he and his army tand.the
Emperor and Louis if they are
,here) are virtually prisoners of war,
Ike crown Prince with his army and
Prince Frederick Charles with his.
ard General Steinmetz with his corps
and old Noltke who is coIdly and 81
entity managing the campaign al his
secure headquarters, have not yet sue
'eeded in entirely dividing communi-
i. ions between Paris and Metz; and
',azaine is represented as calling this
a draw @ame"'
IN Paris. where ,hcy don't dare
,ither to let the situation he known or
O arm the men who east a majority of
,ver half 4 million against the PlebiS-
.Itrm, they talk in 4 sick Y way-a
cheap, theatrical. clap-.rap way-of
heir cheerful patriotism and valor
.n1 of what the t:ar,le Mobile and the
sartie National-armed with pot
neal mu>hets, ununiformed, and
whom Napoleon cares not trust, |
!. any rate: i'll the midst of all these !
,itiful sights and sounds the truth |
oaks out that the ..reinforcenentS"
which are marching against the Prus |
ians are 'conscripts'-drai men
,rn from their homes 10 help fill up |
regular army who have not vet been
ngaged with the enemy in more than |
hree pitched battles or been in the |
cid more than thirty days!
Moreover. the mutterings of Paris |
70 reechoed by the French Legislat-
re. and Nanolenn, a minister's feeling l