The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-08-23
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Tuesday Morning. August %. 1870.
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various sources. It will repay perusal:
A despatch from London confirms the
rumor that the Empress Eugenie has re-
ceived permission to pass through Bel
GUM if the exigencies Of French politics
should require her to flee from Paris,
while statements have appeared ia vari-
GUS quarters, alleging that the Emperor
has made investments In this and other
countries, which will secure him large
income if he is driven from the throne.
These stories, if not all absolutely true,
have probably substantial foundation.
No ruler of France has died peaceably
in possession of power for nearly CEN
tury, and dethronement has become SO
habitual that Napoleon will be wonder
fully fortunate if he escapes it. For
reasons less powerful than those which
his enemies are now pressing upon pub
lie attention, his predecessors have been
driven from their palaces; and if he has
not been totally bereft of prudence, he
has n1hde preparations for similar ter
mination Of his own political career.
The Pos1TIoNs. to which
point the Emperor is admitted to have
retrehted, is twenty-five miles North
west Of: Uhalons. and nearly ninety miles
in the same direction from Metz. It is
ninety miles from Paris, but has no rail
road connection with it except by the
circuitous route uia Compeigne. From
Rheims, it is, however; a short run by
way of the railroads to any of the sea-
ports on the Northern coast of France.
Mars Ia Tour, where the battle is said
to have been fought on Tuesday, is ten
miles directly West of Metz.
Verdun, which the Paris dispatches
say the French army has retreated to, is
thirty miles Northwest of Metz, on the
direct road to Chalons.
EFFORTS IN BEHALF OF PEACE spe
cial despatch from Berlin states that an
other attempt has been made for peace
between France and Prussia. The Queens
messenger arrived at Berlin yesterday
with proposals for peace from the Eng
lish Cabinet. The Emperor of the
French expressed his readiness to treat
for peace, and proposals are made through
Lord Lyons. The King Of Prussia and
Count Won Bismarck have been teIe-
graphed to at headquarters. The King
replied that if Napoleon wished for
peace, he must ask for an armistice in
the usual way. The issue must be de-
cided either by arbitramcnt or war.
TERMS UPON WHICH PEACE WILL BE
GRANTED. New York Herald has
received the following special despatch,
dated London, August 10:
Telegraphio dispatches direct from the
special correspondent ut CarIsrue, re-
ceived in this city to-day at 12 o'clock,
give the conditions upon which King
William will grant peace:
LIST. That King William, of Prussia,
must be declared Emperor of Germany.
I'd. That the Province of Alsacc, to-
gether with the city of Strasburg, bs
annexed to the Grand Ducby of Baden.
30. Bavaria must receive full money
consideration for her services, and shall
be reimbursed all her expenses incurred
in prosecuting the war against Franco.
4th. Napoleon to be deposed from the
French throne, and the Orleans family
reinstated thereon.
These conditions are universally favor.
ed in England and Germany.
NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.-The Ger.
man soldiers have done their work so
rapidly that the diplomatists of Europe
seem to be preparing the labors which
will devolve upon them as soon MS it be-
comes possible to seriously discuss peace
propositions England, Austria and
Russia have common interest in pre-
venting protracted war. Independent
OF the industrial prostration and tinnn-
cial arrangements it would occasion,
they look with disfavor alike upon an
enormous increase Of Prussian power and
the outbreak of desperate and aggres-
sive revolutionary feeling in France, and
they will naturally desire to avert both
these dangers. The period has arrived
when the first Napoleon predicted that
Europe would become either all Cossack
or all Republican. Of the ascendancy
OF Russia there is 70 immediate fear, and
if the continent is to be shaken to its
centre by revolutionary agitation,
France must take the lead In Italy and
Spain, there are many elements fayora-
BILE to such movement, and in Germa-
ny they are held in abeyance, by the
force of the prevailing demand for unity,
rather than extinguished. But infuriated
and desperate Frenchmen can do more
to set thrones trembling than the agita-
tors Of any other country. II they begin
by deposing their Emperor, follow up
this demonstration by waging war in
their old fashion against the present in
vaders, and proclaim with sincerity that
the French banner shall again become