The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-08-30
LATEST War NEWS.


morning Metz was completely invest
ed. Marshal Bazine, who is in com
mand there makes no effort to force .
passage.
: Deserters report the extreme demon
alization of the garrison. The Prus-
slams are strongly entrenched before
the place.
Paris, August 27.-The new Govern
or of Paris, Trochu, and the Committee
of Defense. are now ruling France abb
solutely. General Trochu is capable
of becoming another Albemarle.
One of the city journals this evening
has a remarkable editorial, of which
the following is an extract:
Next to the news of the near ap-
preach of the Prussians to the walls Of
Paris, that which most occupies the
public attention is the possibility of an
open rupture between General Trochu
and the Government. 1t is reported
that the Empress has demanded the
dismissal of General Trochu from the
position of Governor of Paris, but we
can affirm nothing positive. 1t is
nevertheless true a person has been
permitted to express carelessly, in the
presence of the Empress, the opinio n
that Trochu had been asked to retire."
London, August 27-[Cable special
to the Heraldl.- A private letter has
been received from Paris, in which the
writer expresses his belief that the
Committee of Public Safety have been
prepared to seize the Government. I'M
dertake the defense of the Capital and
formally depose the Emperor.
Henry Labrouche writes to the Daily
Telegraph from Paris that the Emper-
or is actually suspended. His Cabinet
remains in power only because its
Chiefwas thought to possess admins
trative ability. The Corps Legislatif
is supreme, Vet it appears to lack ma
tional confidence, owing to the met H.
DDS of its election.
Three new armies are just organized |
in Germany. One will march on Paris |
with the Prince Royal, the others will
remain to protect the rear.
London, August eS.-The following
official dispatch is dated, Barbecue,
Saturday night:
The garrison of Vitrey surrendered
on Thursday morning.
The Prussians captured sixteen guns
and two battallions of the French.
The Garde Mobile were annihilated
by the Prussian cavalry. Seventeen
French officers and eight hundred and
fifty soldiers were captured.
The Prussians had one Major severe
ly. and three troopers slightly woun
ded.
Paris, August os.-The Journal Of
fetal of France says; 1--WE learn from
a certain source that before ordering
the army OF the Prince Royal to march
on to Paris, the King held at Pont-a-
Moussen a Council of war, composed
of Generals and Princes commanding
the PrusSian forces. The advice of all
was to remain in the territory con-
quered, fortifying the right bank of
the Moselle. The King alone deter
mined to march on to Paris.
The Prussians have declined to send
any more flags of truce to the French
on any account.
LONDON, August 2s.-The army of
the Crown Prince at Barbecue has
been Joined by a part of King Will
liam's united army, which is moving
and will probably be before
Paris on Tuesday or Wednesday.
NEW YORK, August ga cable
special to the Herald, dated at Berlin,
August 18th. says the disposition of the
different German armies is as follows:
There are eighteen corps d'armee,
10000 men each. The first
army. under General Steinmetz, has
he First, Seventh and Eighth Corps
1t Metz.
The third army. under the Prussian
Crown Prince, has the Fifth, Sixth and
Eleventh Corps. and two Bavarian
Corps, marching on Paris.