The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-05

THE sARsRUcK AFFAIR.


1HE SARBNUCk AFFAIR
IMPORTANT DENIAL
| LONDON. August 4.-The Paris CORE
spondent of the Daily News, writes on
Tuesday Enthusiasm for war has
entirely disappeared in Paris. II il
now evident that war with Germany
means prolonged struggle against
one million armed combatants, deter.
mined to defend their country, and il
possible TO give the French such a
lesson that hereafter the Emperor s
peculiar mode of making his reign an
era of peace, by attacking his neigh
bors, will be rendered impossible.
The announcement that the fortif-
cations OF Paris are to be placed in a
condition of defense, and the Emperor 8
admission that the war will be long,
have singularly dampened the ardor Of
hose that imagined that within a fort
night the glorious peace, which would
re-establish the supremacy of the
French arms, would he signed in Berlin
We are still told that the Germans
are trembling at the idea Of encounter
ing the Mitrailleuse and Turcos, but
| the legend has lost its effect.
LONDON, August 4.-The Daily News
gives an important contradiction to the
statement Of the Paris Debates, respect
ing the secre treaty. The Debates says
! that the treaty was not secret, but as the
project was reduced to writing, and
, vaguely formulated, it was within the
cognizance not only of the governments
of France and Prussia, but OF the English
and Belgian governments. 1t lis Said that
il was in the hands Of the English Gov.
ernment from the very beginning. To
this the Daily News responds with
ont any fears of well founded contra
diction: We take upon ourselves to
assert that our Partisan contempo-
rary is misinformed. The text of the pro-
jected treaty was never in the hands Of
the English Government, and first
came under their eyes when it was
published in the Times. The News
suggests that any member Of Par
Lament who wishes to be officially assur-
ed of the absolute ignorance OF the for
eign office, has only to put the question
TO elicit Il distrust by negative an.
swer
\ special from Paris, dated Tuesday,
SAYS that DR.. Melton joins the
army on a pretext OF forming All am
bulance corps, but everybody knows
that he goes as a special attendant
upon the Emperor, the state Of whose
malady does not permit him to dispense.
with his most trusted physician.
LONDON, August 1, Noon.-The eff
GERS Of the Bank OF England have just
announced "a still further advance in
rate OF discount of one per cent. The
minimum rate is now six per cent.
PEsTH, August 4.-The Diet OF Hun
gary Yesterday emphatically declared
in favor of Austrian neutrality in the
Franco Prussian war.
BERLIN, August 4-The officers OF
the Union Club of this city have ac-
cepted q large wager offered by NJ.
Thomas that the French would he in
Berlin on the 18th Of August. The
Prussian reserve of one hundred thou
sand men is encamped in front of Ber
lin. Forage is scarce in the Rhine pro-
vinccs and the Prussian horse is suffer
ing severely.
COPENHAGEN, August 4.-The Danish
Government still struggles hard to pre-
serve its neutrality, but popular excite
ment is intense and perhaps ungovern-
able. sympathy for France among all
classesis very marked.
PARIS, August 4.-The heights taken
by the French at Saarbruck form a key
To the railway approaches to Trevis.
Hence the importance of the conquest.
LONDON, August 4.-The ports Of
England are rapidly filling with North
German vessels anxious TO escape the
French cruisers.
A circular has lately appeared from
Senor Segaste defending Spain as inno-
cent of the cause of the trouble between
France and Prussia The document j.
well received.
PARIS, August 1.-The Duke of
Grammont has issued another circu-
lar reaffirming that the aggressive
proposition originated in Berlin.
France made none On the contrary she
commenced her disarmament. Count
Won Bismarck bases his proposals on
his anxiety about the plans Of Russia,
giving details, which Duke de Gram
mont temporarily withholds. The
Duke concludes that owing to the false
hoods that Bismarck has already utter
ed through fear, he has lost all claim
/ to he believed hereafter
METZ, August 4.-Fourteen Prussian
soldiers, captured at the attack on
Saarbruck, passed through this city
late Yesterday afternoon. 4 part OF
them were on their way TO Beliort and
a part to Thonville, where they will
/ be imprisoned The Prussian wounded
are cared for the same as the French.
LISBON, August 4.-The Gazette Of
ficially publishes the decree Of neu,
tralitv of Portugal
LONDON, August A deputation
from Newfoundland waited on Earl
Kimberly and asked that the British
troops now in that province be suffered
to remain as protection against a pos
sible Fenian attack The Minister re
turned discouraging answer intimating
that the colonies must rely upon them
selves.