Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-09-17

Midnght-The lotest intelligence received
in this city announced that the Prussians have
been busily engaged all day in burning woods
and all surprise membranes at Joinville-le
Pont. All communications with Paris are
now destroyed, and it is anticipated that a
summons to surrender will be sent to Gen.
Trochu, commanding the troops within the
city tomorrow.
LONDON, Sept. 16. -
A special despatch from St. Denis states
that the Prussians in apparently countless
thousands are rapidly marching on Paris
An accurate calculation places the number OF
the invading army at 100000. The creates,
agitation prevails in the n,ighborhood of ST
Denis, which is about four miles north o.
Paris.
1t is reported that railroad trains leaving
Paris yesterday and to-day were attacked
and captured by the Prussians, and that sew.
eral passengers on board were killed and
wounded.
The French have uselessly destroyed all
the works of art on the highways and rail-
roads leading out of Paris, and no,with-
standing the wholesale destruction of pro-
perty, the advance of the Prussian army has
not been delayed single hour.
Paris journals to-day persist that media
ton is possible.
The Prussinns are massing up some dis
tance from the city.
The measures of the defence of Paris ar,
now great that it is expected to act strong
! ly in favor of peace.
New YORK, Sept. l6.
! A London despatch to-day states that 81
thousand picked troops have left Paris t
attack the Prussians in open field.
BERLIN, Sept. Is.
! Midnight.-A council of the representative,
from the various German states now allieC
with Prussia, in the war upon Frunce, wa,
! held at Rheims to-day. 1t was resolved b,
that Council that the reparation of the border
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine from France
must be made the primary basis tor the set.
tlement of the present war. The representa-
tives from Bavaria and Baden objected to the
proposed enlargement or territorial agrandise.
ment by Prussia.
PARIS, Sept. l6.
The city has been declared in state o.
siege.
Non-combattants are to be repelled.
Pont Wise since Wednesday last.
The forests around the city are entirely
consumed.
BoNILLoN, Sept. l6.
| Canrobert's force which lately cut through
the Prussians at Metz, are now marching
towards Paris. They are 5000 strong.
Marshal Bazaine himself has gone to Sc.
dan.
Civilians are withdrawing from Stras
bourg.
LATEST.
Special to N. Y. Herald
PARIS. Sept l6. A profound peace has
come over the city, occasioned by feeling
of isolation. We now for the first time realize
that we are cut off almost entirely from the
outside world, are dependent on our own eff.
forts for our future fate. 1t is believed that
if the present mail gets throughit must be the
last. 1t is probably the last that will be per-
mitted to leave the Capital. The only hustle
now is that occasioned by the tread of troops
passing from one part of the city to another.
The last vestge of old Paris, full of gossip,
life and dissipation, has vanished. Earnest
work and contempt of death must be the loi
of all that remain inside the walls of Paris
The people are terribly calm. There is nc
outward evidence of fear, no bravado or flour
ish Even where the spirit of patriotism
breaks forth audibly it takes the appearance
of tierceness and desperation.
Last night passed through the Office o
the Electeur Libre, the semi official organ o
the government. The compositors while
waiting for copy stand in line practieing the
manual exercises. The men are absorbed
earnestly in the work. l passed through d
large portion of the city without single po'
liceman visible. yet order and tranquility
were never more perfect. The only change
which is painful enough, is that of the streets
from their former marked cleanliness. The
garbage is unremoved and the sidewalks un
swept. Things more momentous occupy the
attention of the people. Life and death are
in the balance.
BoNILLoN, Sept. 16.
Marshal Mcmahon, accompanied by Gen
Chasol of the Belgian army, arrived in thi.
town to-day.