The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-21

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.

THE INVESTMENT OF PARIS-BATTLE NEAR THE
CAPITAL AND REPORTED FRENCH VICTORY
BISMARCK ON PEACE-THE TERRIBLE SUFFER-
ING IN FRANoE-APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR AID.
Tours, Sept. 2O.-All telegraphic communica-
tion with p Paris ceased yesterday.
The journals here express apprehensons that
Tours may be attacked, in which case they say the
government will remove to Bordeaux.
M Thiers started to-day special train for
While here he received dispatch from Prince
Gortschakoff, inviting him in the name of the Gar
to come to ST. Petersburg, and urging him to hasten
The wife of Bazaine is in Paris, and received a
letter from her husband a few days since. 1t was
fell outside the Prussian lines. Its contents have
not been made public:
Tribune THE distress is so great in the De-
partments of the Moselle, Meuse, Meurthe and
appeal for aid to all the neutral nations, especially
America and England, saying the people are de-
pendent their crops and their CATTLE and nothing
is left, houses, stables and barns having been de-
stroyed, and their fields and meadows tramped
has been seized and their laborers pressed into the
army.
starvation and pestilence mpend You, our Ameri-
can brethren, must know the desolatOn in which
we live, yet you have been quickly restored, Your
Our resources cannot compare with yours, and
consequently our sufferings are unspeakably
greater. We implore you to send us aid. This APP
zeal is signed by the mayors and other civil aud
ecclesiastical authorities of the numerous villages
ORLEANS, Sept. 2O.-[Special to the New York
Herald. IAN engagement took place at Visions, in
which % 900 French, massed near the northern part
of the town, were attacked by 10000 Prussans who
were moved down by the French artillery, but
erder. The Prussians will fall back on another
A dispatch from Berlin to the Manchester Ex-
aminer says "The report of Russias arming is re-
garded as simply sensational"
The Eastern Budget, Count Beust's London or
gan, this evening contains a dispatch from st. Pc
tersbuTg which says: "The reports that Russia has
protested against any diminution of French terri
81 can positively state that there are no signs of
extraordinary activity in the military department
here. The troops are all in their usual garrisons,
and even the force in Poland has not been in
"No one believes that Russia will take any active
part in the present war. The feeling, however, for
General Cl1seret is placarding the walls of Paris
with an intiammatory address against the govern
ment.
Lyons, that in case of the surrender of Paris, her
right to capitulate shall not be recognized by Lyons
and that the people will defend the country to the
last
The Paris papers compute the personal income of
A Florence dispatch says the Chambers will short"
ly convene in that city to receive the pebiscitum
The submarine cable between Prussia and Sweden
has been cut by the French.
LONDON, Sept. 2oI[special to the New York @
marck, dated September 10, reterates the previ-
unofficial statement that Prussia will not
dictate what government France shall accept, but
cannot conclude peace excepting with govern
ment having legal authority and able to guaratee
the terms TO be observed.
Theirs has accomplished nothing by his appeals
to prevent the dismemberment of France by neu-
trail inservention, which totally rejected. The
only other point pressed that the present
French government is the best possible, and il
it Is oyerthrown, it will be followed by far
repugnant to the other Powers. Earl Granville
replied that he was aware of this but could wait
BERLIN, Sept. 18.-[Special to New York Tri-
bune.l .l--Al the reserves have reached their regi
ments. The corps which has gone to storm Toul il
at Strasburg, being Bonapartist, has greatly re-
laxed his zeal since the proclamation of the Re-
public There are signs OF the capitulation Of
Metz. The cattle plague is still spreading with
alarming rapdity, and cases are reported at Rheims
and Nancy. Communication is uninterrupted By
rail frum Homburg, in the Palatinate, to Nancy
A branch road, being built around Metz, connect
ing Saarbruck with Pont-a-Mousson and Nancy, Il
nearly finished. The heavy siege guns needed a
Psrs cannot be carried forward until foul is re
dueed.