Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-08-10
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l kARSHAL B4/fiNk AAhES MOVE
| VENT AND KILLS TIyO PRCSSIaNS
| PARIs, August l0.-The Journal Ohctel ssy>
no important &C ion has taken place AT the ,ront
since Saturday. Marshal Bazaine made some
IeconnOissances with cavalry, which have elici-
| ted information of the position OF the enemy.
| In one OF these movements a squadron OF hu>-
| sars encountered a detachment OF Prussi An
| uhlans and drove them back, killing one officer
| and woundng another.
The Bank OF France has increased the rate O,
| scoUnt to per cent.
| NAPOLEON'S MINISTRY TURNED OFT
BY THE CORPS LEGISLATIF.
LoNnoN, Aug. 10, Il NJ News has Just been
| received here that a vote OF want OF confidence
in the ministry was adopted by the Corps Legis-
latif last right, and the sitting was suspended.
| 1t is reported that cousin OF Montauban,
l Count of Palikao, has been called upon to form
| a new ministry.
The same news received last right in detau
in New York, by direct Paris kilograms TO the
| Associated Pre=s.l
General Dumont will take command OF :. di-
| vision OF the French army.
| AN ENTIRE FRENCH REGIMENT CTR
Up BY THE PRUSSIANS.
OF the 18th regiment Of the line, engaged a
Saarbruck, only eighty men and four officers re-
ported a. ter the fight.
FROM BERLIN.
| PRUSSLANS THINK TIE MITRAILLEUR
| HUKBUG, BUT RESPECT TIE
CHASSEPOT.
BERLIN, Augrst 9.-Al rumors of naval
battles heret ofore circulated are false
The opera house Of this city has been given
up to the ladies' sewing societies for hospital
purposes. The building is now nearly filed
with wounded men.
Bankers decline a Prussian war loan, but the
people subscribe tor it freely.
Prussian officers and soldiers think slightly of
the effectiveness OF the mitrailienr, but beney.
the chassepot is a better weapon than the
needle gun.
No NEWS FROM FRANCE-oMINoUsS 81
LENCE.
LONDON, Aug 10, a. m.-Nothing has been
received here from France by mail or telegraph
since $50 p. m. yesterday.
VEL, vOT OF IT?
BERLIN, Aug. 10.-A correspondent OF the
Tc,egroph sends that paper a long, doubtless
apocryphal, and certainly silly account of AN
interview with Bismarck.
NAPOLEON'S DEFEAT THE RESULT OF
HIS MILITARY INCAPACIrY.
LONDON, Aug. 10-The result OF Saturday's
fighting is attributed to the Emperor's military
ncapacity.
ENORMOUS LOSSES OF THE FRENCH
The Prussian advance is obstructed by VII
lagos filled with French wounded. The French
losses exceed all estimates. The Prussians
took multitudes OF prisoners.
Edmund About is reported missing for two
DAYS past. General ChangaI Dier's interview
with the Emperor Is said TO have been very sat
isfactory. Both armies were quiet yesterday.
The French army is concentrating around
Metz. Due d'Aumale has offered his services to
tie Emperor.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL FLEES FEoM
FRANCE.
II is rUmOred here that the Prince Imperial
will be at the French embassy at London TO-
day. Other reports assert that he has already
arrived here.
STIRRING SCENES IN THE CORPS LE-
GlSLATIF.
A special dispatch. dated Paris, midnight
gives the following account Of the scenes In and
near the Corps Legisatr yesterday: DEPUTY
Keratry demanded the deposition OF the EN-
peror. He was called 10 order by the chair
The Deputies then abandoned the hall and scat
tered to their committee rooms. Outside wild
crowd WIS assembled and refused to dispcrse
Bodies OF cavalry and lancers were sta
TONED in all the surrounding streets. The
courtyard or the Tuilleries was thronged with
soldiers around the hall of the Corps Legisla,h
The police repeatedly charged on the mob, but
the latter reformed alter each charge. Bodies
of the National Guards threw down their s-ms
and frateInized with the populace. Other de-
tachments remained passive In the barracks
Marshal paraguay D'Hilliers organized the
troops, and the mob WIS everywhere charged.
The correspondent reports that as he was
going to post his dispatches he heard the sound
Of drums and bugles in every direction. Inside
OF the hall OF the Corps Leg'slatiff the scene was
one Of fear and bewilderment.
The Belgian neutrality guarantee treaty was
signed here last night by Granville and Berns-
TORT. Lavellette awaits authority from Paris
to sign for France.
ARREST OF REVOLUTIONISTS IN PARIS.
PKRIs, August 10.-La Liberte mentions .
number Of arrests by the government, includ-
ing that Of Gaillard Pere. II Is stated that Je-
rome David will accept the portfolio Of the In
terror in the new Cabinet.
FRENCH TROOPS CONCENTRATING ON
THE ROAD TO PARIS.
LONDON, August lo.-Prussia Is organizing D
volunteer naval force.