Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-17

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army, and their inhabitants answer
with their guns to the arrogant sum-
mons OF the enemy. The national
defense commences. See your Ma
tioual Guards, Guards Mobile and
volunteers, who are on their way to
the Vosges Mountains; there shall the
Prussians find their. graves. They
have asked for war of races, and
such they shall have" -
The % nStittItiOnnei says the plan OF
conquest of the Prussians cannot any
longer be matter of doubt. The
German Empire takes advantage of
the Hohenzollern dynasty to inau-
gurate its policy Of spoliation of the
French territory, in the departments
which the chances Of war have given
to the enemy.
The King of Prussia commands at
present as territorial sovereign.
The Prussian government, which
pretends to be so we'll informed about
men and things in Paris, does not
seem to be very strong in the towns
of Alsace, which well know how to
find the means to rejOin the national
flag.
In the place of cOnseripts all men
from sixteen to fifty years rush to
arms.
PARIS, August 19.AAlgeria is de-
clared in state of siege.
PARIS, August 1.-THE council of
war to act in the cases of the Nillette
rioters assemblies to-day.
The officers of the Bank of France
to-day announce the arrangement of
q special service for distributing coin
| to certain establishments throughout
France, where employees are to be
paid.
The Gaulois says that the public are
astonished to find the dispatch an
nouncing the engagement at Tongue
vile signed only by Napoleon. That
Journal adds that it was countersigned
by BaZaine, but the latter name was
suppressed in the publication of the
dispatch, which is regular in every
other respect.
Seventy-fve arrests have been made
in the Villette affair. 1t is supposed,
however, that many of these vaga-
bonds were not actually concerned in
the disorder.
Edmund About, correspondent of
the .SOir, has been heard from. He is
alive and well, and will soon return
to Paris.
General Cansade, commander at
Lyons, has issued a proclamation
warning the people against any fu-
ture disturbances, and announcing
readiness of the authorities to represS
them.
The Sub Prefect of Verdun tele-
graphs as follows to the Minister of
the Interior:
"VERDUN, August 16, 6p.m.-No
news from Metz.
"Nothing is known to have oc-
Cured to-day.
"All day yesterday the roar Of can
non was heard between Metz and
Verdun. Persons who reached here
from that direction say that great
battle was being fought, opening at
daybreak, and that the Prussians
lost more than 10000 men in the COM
bat, and were completely defeated.
During yesterday morning, at the
extremity of my ACCOMPLISHMENT,
twenty-eight kilometres from the for
tificatiOns of Verdun, they were
seen directing their retreat to the
South"
Though this intelligence is trans
mitted by authority of the gov
eminent, he has not been able to
verify it, and this is given to the pub
lie under reserve by the Minister of
the Interior.
LYONS, August 16.-The Courier
has long statement of a popular de-
mOnstratiOn which recently occurred
here. Yesterday about II am. pOpu-
lar commotion, arising from the bad
news received from the army, took
place in Place Croix Rouse which
ended in a deplorable conflict between
the police and the people. The parti-
culars of the affair have been much
exaggerated. The origin of the
trouble was an old notary, L'Entillan
by name, well known for political
eccentricities. This person clambered
upon the pedestal of a cross in the
centre of Place CroiX Rouse to make
speech to a group of laborers. His
hearers were few at the start, but in a
short time large crowd assembled,
and cries of Nive lie Republique were
heard on all sides. Though called
upon to stop by the police,
he persisted in his defamation,
calling upon the audience to defend
him by the aid of stones. The author
tiles seized the orator, however, not
withstanding the violence offered.
An officer having drawn his sword
from his scabbard, was struck by one
of these infuriated people in the abdo-
men, from which wound he died in a
few moments. Five or six policemen
were also wounded. L'Entillan and
other principal rioters were arrested
and taken to prison between two files
of soldiers. The mass of the pOpula-
ton of the place CrOix Rouse took
no part in these violent proceedings.
1t was caused by a few turbulent char
acters. These demonstrations are gen.
orally denounced.
PARIS, August 16.-The Journal
Otfciet contains a decree declaring
CherbOurg, Brest, LeOrienne and
ROchefOrt in state of siege. The
French left two dispatch boats in the
Tiber in evacuating Rome.
PARIS, August 16.-The Bishop of
LuXemburg and several clergymen
have gone to Metz to administer con.
ISOLATION to the dying.