Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-09-26
ALEXANDRIA VA.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER &c, 1870

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.-Thc report OF the
c.n;,nIation OF Toul, on Friday evening, after
a long and desperate resistance, IS confirmed.
This stronghold is about twelve miles west OF
Nancy, on the main line of railroad from Stras
burg to Paris. By the capitulation there fell
into the hands Of the Prussians 2,240 men, 1877
guns, 4S riaed cannon, and the garrison sup
plies Of other arms. etc. 1t is reported that
Bazaine has offered to surrender Metz on con.
dition that he be allowed to leave with his
arms and baggage. He further engages not
to take up arms for three months. A dispatch
from Beauvais, by way of Tours, announces
that battle ragged all day Friday between
Port Disc and isle Adam, few miles north OF
Paris, but no particulars arc given. The re-
ports that civil war is raging in Paris are dc
MED Gambetta, who still! remains at the Capt.
tai, denying that any fighting has taken place,
and other reports from French sources assert
ing that the Red Republicans and the chiefs OF
the Provisional Government arc now united
for tn, common defense. Strasburg still holds
out
dCCOuulS lEOW 1OQto keptCSCut luoI shS Soa
ference between Favre and Bismarck has been
productive OF no favorable result. The inter.
view it is said has drawn from Bismarck the
only terms on which Prussia will consent even
to an armistice, which, according to manifesto
issued from Tours by the three members OF
the French Provisional Government at that
place, require the cession of Alsace and Lor
raine as far as the river Meuse, and also the
surrender OF the lortresses of Strasburg, Toul
and Mont Valerien-the latter fort being close
to the walls of Paris The manifesto denoun-
ces the conditions as ''insoent )" declares that
rather than accept them Paris would bury her
self beneath her ruins, and exhorts the French
people to respond by resisting to the last ex
tremity. Dispatches from Berlin repudiatc the
intention on the part OF Germany OF permanent
lyretainipg Fort Mont Falerian as menace to
Paris. The Journal fist. Petersburg denies that
the neutral Powers encourage the obstlnacy OF
France, and declares that Russia approves the
terms dictated by Prussia.
The election for members of the Constitu-
ent Assembly has been indefinitely postponed.
General Ripley, tornery Of the United States
army, has been employed 10 strengthening weak
places in the Notifications of Paris. Six hun
bred and fifty thousand German troops are
now on French territory, consisting of twenty
one army corps. Very few landwehr are Of
the number. Three fresh army corps are un-
der arms, but have not yet lett Germany.
Madrid papers Of the Oath publish maui
festo of Senator Orenz. in favor OF forming il
legion to aid France. He says that the candi.
dslure OF 10 person in the PrusSian interest,
for the throne OF Spain, can now he admitted
A London telegram says that local junta
will govern Rome until the plebscltum Is ia
ken. General Marmora has assumed com-
pletiscitum will be taken on the 81 proximo.
The political prisoners at Rome have been Ii
berated; among them Petroux. after seventeen
years imprisonment. The Berseglieri occupy
the Vatican Gardens. La Marmora will pro
badly be the Royal Commissioner at Rome.