The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-03
Foreign Intelligence.

hNhHhN" AN'HH
Recent Information from Cuba, which
has reached the s%ympathizers with the
revolutionary cause in New York, repre-
nenta the situation IA favorable 10 tho In.
surgonts, who are said IN he still holding
their ground
A London dispatch Of the 25th says
that Troohu had notified Napoleon that
the will Of the people was that he should
not return TO Paris that his dynasty was
at an end and another dispatch Of the
same date declares that the feeling in IA
vor of the Emperor was growing in
France, In consequence Of the Prussian
demand for his abdication.
Prince Felix Salm Salm, a MAYOR in the
Prussian Guard, distinguished for services
In the American and Mexican wars, was
killed in the battle of the 18th at Grave
lotte.
A Prussian Colonel mas written TO
Emile Girardin offering a wager that he
would be In Paris by the 10Th Of Septem-
Der. Girardin has published the letter,
and announced that he has accepted the
wager,
Cable dispatches on the 96th state
In Substance that tho Prussians were
steadily advancing on Paris that eight
departments Of France were in possession
of the invaders; all available approaches
TO Paris were reported to be undermined
Ba2aine was surrounded In Metz by Prus
sian troops, and was expected to be com
PEELED to capitulate, being short OF provi-
sions Prince Napolcon's demand for as.
sistsnce had beccn declined by Italy the
French Chambers had adopted n law
providing that all able.bodled men, be.
tween 20 and 90 years of age, be enrolled
for military duty without liberty to pro.
cure substitutes; sixty thousand dollars
had been received at Paris from French
residents in the United States for the
wounded, and a large sum from Con.
%s,antinople; the b~ombardmont Of Stras
bourg continued, and the besiegers were
making rapid progress the town of Kehl
on the German side of the Rhine, was
nearly RACED to the ground by the SHELF
thrown by the French from S~trasbourg
Baron Gerolt, Minister at Washington
of the North German Union, received {
telegram from Berlin ON the Goth, charg
ing the French with having fred upon
flag Of truce sent to Toul TO procure sur
gical assistance in behalf Of wounded
French soldiers.
The fortified town Of vitry ~surrtndere,
to the Germans or the morning of tn
95th, with a French loss Of 10 guns an,
$50 prisoners
M. Theirs, after q long continued re
fusal, has yielded to solicitations, and &C
cepted, amid much applause in the Corp
Legislatif, the rendered position on tn
Committee Of Defense, conditioned on tn
hearty sympathy and cooperation of tn
Chambers,
A Paris special to the New Yok Heral
on the g8th states thSt enc hundred an
seventy thousand men Of the Prussia
army had been killed and wounded dul
: ing the war.
II was reported in Paris on the 9Sth ths
on the 25th the Prince Royal Of Saxon,
! with 10000 men, had made an unsucces.
tul attempt TO capture Verdun. Mem.
I hons main army was at Sevoy on II
: ssth. Tho Emperor was at Renionyill
e and the Prince Imperial at Rethel.
Prussian scouting parties were
Meaux, n hour from Paris, on the s7t
The Prince Royal of Prussia has issued
proclamation to the people of Franc
wherein he says: Prussia makes w
against the Emperor, and not against Il
" people Of France. The people have not
4, ing whatever TO fear" He also say
"only surplus food will be taken for Go
b; man troops; that only which is not requ
ss cd by the peaceful French" Paris te,
'. grams assert that the invaders "comn
h fearful pillage and unheard.of outrsges
a. they move along"
Austria has concurred in a declaratl
of neutrality, as proposed by Engla
r. and accepted by Italy.
IN According to official dispatches recai
ed in Berlin, a great battle was fought
the n~eighborhood of Stenay, northw
of Montmedy, on the 2Sth, which Is s
IN TO have terminated in Q victory for
Pmssians.
In 1t was rumored In London on the .
ne that the Emperor Napoleon was shut
he In Metz, where also were 10000 peasa
and $4,000 wounded soldiers.
The opinion was gaining strength
ird the 2oth, that the movement toward P
CHI was only q feint, the real object Of
ioi Prusslans being 70 envelope McMs