The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-07-30
THE WAR !
Proclamation BY Napoleon !
Not to Follow the Army
RUMORED ABDICATION!
THEPRUSSIANS MOVING
THEPRUssIANs MOVING
WORE ENGLISH NEUTRALITY

Berlin, July 2S.-A detachment o
/ French troops, consisting of three com
panies OF infantry and eighty horSemen
attacked half a Prussian regiment o.
infantry AT Rockinger. The French
troops were repulsed with the loss o.
one officer and eight men One Prus
sian soldier was wounded,
PARIS, July 29.-The following is the
proclamation of the Emperor t" TO
army Oh assuming command in person
.SoLEierS Il come to take my place
at YOUR head, to defend the honor of the
soil Of our country. You go to combat
against one of the best armed OF Euro
pean countries, but other countries as
valient as this have not been able
to resist your valor. 1t will be the
same to-day. The war which now
commences will be long and
hardly contested, Tor its theatre
will be places hedged with obstacles and
thick with fortresses, but nothing beyond
the persevering efforts of the soldiers OF
Africa, Italy and Mexico. You will prove
once more what the French army is
able TO accomplish. Animated by sen.
timents of duty, maintained by discip-
line, influenced by love OF country,
whatever road we may take across our
frontiers we will find upon it glorious
tnth .t.1l
show ourselves worthy of them. All
France follows YOU with ardent prayers,
and the ewes of the universe are upon
YOU. Upon our success depends the
fate of liberty and civilization. Sol
dfers let each one do his duty, and
the God Of battles will he with us
Signed NAPOLEON,
At General Headquarters.
MErz, July %, 1870.
BERLIN, July 29.-The Prussian
Government has also declined to allow
foreign military officers at the army
headquarters.
The North German Gazette says of
English neutrality: England supplies
France with cartridge, with which to
slaughter Germans.
PARIS, July 29.-The French papers
are furious at the restrictions placed on
the war news by the Government.
The early abdieation of the King OF
Prussia is rumored here.
The Empress, on returning TO 1t.
Cloud, toasted Theirs, under whose ad-
ministration the Notifications of Paris
were constructed, whereby France is
today enabled TO send one hundred
thousand more men to the field than
she otherwise could.
The proclamation declaring the de-
partments of Moselle, llaut, Rhine and
Abastin. in a state of siege, was Off
cially promulgated this morning.
LONDON, July GA dispatch from
Pesth announces that Count Andressy
Yesterday assured the Diet that in all
circumstances Hungary will act with
Austria.
The Times SAYS: The drain of gold
is subsiding. The amount now on the
way here from New York will go a long
wav to counteract the tendency Of the
pressure in the money market.
LONDON, July 29.-Street rumors of
successful negotiations between Lord
LYONS and Grammont, at Paris, where
by the preservation of peace is assured
are again in circulation today but not
generally credited
The war panic on exchange continues.
Six more failures We're announced to-
dav.
BERLIN, July 29.-rhe Government
has recognized the Continental Tclc-
graphic Bureau OF Berlin as its official
reporter. The Bureau war bulletins
will lie posted throughout Germany.
This establishment is the principal
agency in Germany for supplying the
Associated Press exclusively with news
for the press of America.
Count Bismarck recently submitted
to the Government at Florence, proof OF
Napolcon's double policy towards It.
ally.
PARIS, July 29.-Food and forage is
said to he scarce in Germany.
LONDON, July 29.-rhe advance in
the rate of interest at the Bank to five
per cent was a precautionary measure
rather than proof of actual scarcity OF
money. There have been thirty failures
at the stock exchange during the war
panic The depression in the Liverpool
market is still very great.
LONDON, July 29-Count Bernstein,
the Prussian Ambassador TO England,
to-day makes public the statement that
France in 1866 offered to lend Prussia
300 900 men TO use against Austria If
Prussia would surrender to France the
territory between the Rhine and Mo
selle The rejection Of this proposition
by Prussia awoke the Emperors sym
pathv with Austria. These offers,
which Napoleon now finds it convenient
to repudiate, have been repeated since
1866.
The Times has an article on the re-
call of Mr.. Motley. The writer says
FickIeness is the reproach of Republics
Mr.. Motley has been here two wears,
long enough to be endeared to every
Englishman, and now is recalled. Mr..
Motley is respected not particularly be
cause he is an American, but as man
1t is a matter of congratulation that hi:
recall, however unworthy the motive
/ gives him back to literature.
There is further rumors in circulation
that the Catholics Of Austria will EN-
brace Professionalism unless the doctrine
of Papal infallibility is considerably
qualified.
The British Government is quietl,
but actively preparing to meet an,