Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-13

France, either by way OF BOulOgne or
Dion. They chose the latter route.
He writes again from Dion that he
wis under charge of guard, but was
allowed to stop one night in Dion,
and that he would proceed next day
to Italy.
LONDON, August 12.-From the
best information that can be gained
it appears that the garrison of Stras-
botirg consists Of only one regiment
of the front, and small force of ma
tiOnal guard supplied in the place are
in proportion to the garrison. A
siege is therefore impossible, and the
capture of the place will probably be
an easy matter.
The first Prussian corps d'armee is
at PhilIipsburg.
LONDON, August 12.-The Duke of
Chartres has asked permission to take
service in the French army. He
claims the privilege as a Frenchman
who has learned something of the art
Of war in America and Italy.
The telegraph is authorized to con-
tradict formally the report that the
Prince Imperial is in London.
Mcmahon marched out of Saverne
Sunday night on one side of the town,
Just as the Prussians were marching
in on the other side.
Its reported that Prince dAuverge,
will DECLINE the portfolio of foreign
affairs in the new French Cabinet, be-
cause of i'll health.
LONDON, August ia Berlin cor
respondent of the Times writes that
England has declined to join with
Austria in the league proposed by
Won Beust for guaranteeing belliger-
ents against loss of territory. Eng
lands reason for declining is that the
league could not save the North Ger
man Confederation in case Prussia
should be defeated.
Russell writes to the Times that the
French headquarters were wholly
ignorant of the details of the battle of
WOerth but impressed with the be-
lief that it was decisive and import
ant in its results.
Theirs is reported to have said that
the empire was ended and republic
inevitable.
The Paris Pays publishes a letter
from Charles DesmOntes, dated at
Nancy, denouncing the Emperor's
bad generalship.
He says that McMahOn, gallantly
struggling, was beaten for lack of
support, though there were multi
tudes of armed Frenchmen at hand
eager to serve him. The passage of
the Rhine was undefended. The COM
missariat was utterly inadequate, and
the soldiers were compelled to eat sour
fruit and raw vegetables and take the
consequences.
Prussia to day has Alsace, and to-
morrow she will have Lorraine. The
people are desperate. The soldiers
believed themselves betrayed, and
clamOr for leader.
Luxembourg having asked for a re-
affirmation Of her neutrality laws, re-
ceived reply that the existing gov
ernment is sufficient.
LONDON, August I2.-The nieces of
the Empress have left Paris, the
Echo asserts, without qualification
that the Empress Eugenie and Prince
Imperial are in lodgings at st. Sohn's
Wood.
The 100000 in bullion, shipped
from Bombay to London, is on account
Ofthe abnormal condition of exchanges
brought about by the war.
The Orange anniversary passed
quietly at Enneskillen, where trouble
was feared. Londonderry is quiet.
The Times city article ascribes the
reaction in stocks to the approach of
the half monthly settlement and the
absence of decisive news.
The text of the naturalization treaty
with the United States has been pub
lished.
The Weekly Register has some re
ports, which, however, it gives with
caution to its readers, telling them
not TO place too much confidence in
their correctness.
The Examiner says Napoleon adopts
a course most worthy of his name and
gravity of situation. Reused from
indolent indecision by a stunning
blow, he attains to the greatness of
the situation in the presence of peril
unspeakable to himself, his family,
and the proud nation which so lately
reinstated him with kingly power.
Laying aside cOnventiOnalities he
tells France her danger and exhOrts
heritO the rescue, not for his sake but
for her own.
LONDON, August .12.-The German
forces between Rastadt and Cologne
are said to be an aggregate of $500
men.
According to the Paris Steele,
100000 German soldiers are now in
Lorraine.
LONDON, August 12.-The invest
ment of StrasbOurg by the German
troops is confirmed.
The presence of Napoleon at the
battle of WOerth is positively re-af-
tirmed.
1t is said that the Prussions largely
outnumbered the French in every en-
gagement.
The French claim that at Weissen-
berg 5000 men checked $4,000 Ger
mans, with twenty guns, for four
hours, the former losing 1000 men,
while the enemy lost 10000. They
also assert that Mcmahon at Fresche-
weller had only 10000 men, against
10000 Germans; yet the French only
yielded when 10000 more Germans
were hurled upon them.
The crown prince promises to re-
lease all newspaper correspondents
who were taken prisoners ON the field.
turn to France, but La Patgie says he
has declined the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Silver is declining as the demand
from the continent ceases.
LONDON, August I2.-The Cologne
Gazette prints the outlines of another
treaty proposed by Count Benedetti
to Bismarck in 1866. 1t stipulates
that France shall take possession
again of the territory acquired by
Prussia in 1914, Prussia sustaining
France in recovering the left bank OF
the Rhine from Hesse and Bavaria;
that the guarantee given by the Ger
man Confederation in favor of the
neutrality of LuxembOrg and Meth
erlands shall be annulled. The Ga
zette adds that Benedetti represented
that these proposals emanated from
the Emperor at Vichy in 1866.
UNITED STATES.