The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-09-03

morning, saying that MeMahon and Ba-
zaine are in communication.
LONDON, August 29.-It is rumored that
the French ambassadors at neutral courts
have asked for the interpositicn of great
powers to guarantee the French dynasty |
Military articles in the London Times which
have attracted so much attention, are On
deTstOOd To be written by General Burywine |
a French frigate is cruising in St
Georges channel. Parisians affect to be.
lieve that the approaching Prussians will be
at length taken between tao fires and ex-
terminated. King Williams suite at the
army headquarters consists of abOnt one
thousand persons, of whom eighty are court
dignataries, servants, attaches Of postal and
telegraphic service, engineers, members
corps legis!atif etc, make up the rest. Bis
marck's train is almost as ample as the
Kings The Times says Paris must and
will be saved by the removal of the seat of
Government his is Indispensable, owing
to the predominance there Of violence,
which is irreconcilab!e with public order
and military movements The Times guess
tons the tactics of Mcmahon In moving
to the northeast and thereby leaving an
| open road to Paris He might, at least have
/ threatened descent on the advance Of the
/ Prussans.
! LONDON, August ga large number of
! Irish field hands suddenly left Lancashire
for Ireland, just at the beginning Of harvest
! The circumstance excites fears that mischief
| is again brewing in Ireland.
LONDON, August % BY dispatches from
our special correspondent at MOntmedy we
have news of a great and bloody battle,
| which was begun on the evening of Sunday
in the immediate neighborhoOd of Mez:eres
| There Is undecided fighting now going on
| hptwnn0 (,horlpyilln and 1 rda
Sixty Thousand troops have left Paris to
join McMahOn, and have already passed be-
yond scissors. They are in excellent Or
der and best Of spirits, and feeling Of con-
fidenee seems to animate the entire force.
At Madrid important consultations have
taken place between the regent aud Minis
tiers. a coup de etat is daily looked for.
LONDON, August ga French war
steamer is anchored here. Her officers have
refused to act on an Official notice to leave.
The Emperor is now at I@esthemville,
about twenty five miles north OfthalOns.
Marshal McAIahon is near Stenay.
Uhlans occupy Montnedy.
1t was reported that General Won Stein
metz had been displaced because Of the
great losses incurred, and that his force has
been incorporated with til t of the Crown
Prince. 1t now seems that the report Is
false
2
, fourteen miles north Of Chalons-
The Prussians now in the valley of the
Aube are concentrating at Sommey.
There has been fighting all day at the
village of Ducas, between Stenay and Yer
den. Firing was steady from morning till
night. No particulars received
LoNDON, August ga strong anti Bon 20
aparte feeling exists in Madrid ia conse-
qUence of a revelation that before the war
with Prussia Napoleon had engaged to re
store Isabella to the throne of Spain in re-
turn for the cession Of the Beleariac Islands
to France.
A fight occurred at Lisbon between
French and German citizens, during which
many were killed
Prince Napoleon had long interview
with the Austrian ambassador while at
Florence.
LONDON, August 29.-There are ten thou,
sand peasants and fifteen thousand wounded
soldiers shut up in Metz The Pruss;an
Landwehr is investing Thionville The
Hrussians hold all Southern Alsace a tele-
. gram to the London Times says the Prus
slams are advancing on Paris two hundred
and twenty thousand scrong. They have
cut the railway at Lanes La Gravelle. The
Bots de BouloCne are filled with cattle. to
be used as food in case of a siege. Wells
the Scotch areOnant, has been summoned e
Prussian headquarters.
LONDON, August % -Advices from the
scene of war report the EmperOr's head
) quarters at Vauzieres. The enemy are
moving northward and will encounter Me
Mahon west of Rheims and Epernay. Il
is said the French advance repulsed the
PTussians at Attyquey, a few miles north
west of Vauzieres. McMahon is reported
In Ardennes forest and Bazaine between
Metz, Glory and Etern The latter dispatch
states that & eneral Stenmetz has marched
northward from Metz, pursuing Mcmahon
, to prevent him from disturbing the Prussians
! whilst investing Metz.
: Two German merchant vessels have taken
! refuge at Sarmouth harbor, where they are
l blOckaded by a French irOn-clad in the
ofing. A North German schoonr from Bra
zll has been driven into Laughs Willy, Ire
land, by frigate now cruising outside.
German towns are filed with French
prisoners who are treated with all kind
ness
The Belgians are indignant because the
railroads of the kingdom are practically
monOpolized by the French for the trans.
portation of cattle and breadstufs into
Paris.
? Official dispatches state the Prussia1
army continues its movement on Rethel and
Vauziers.
LONDON, August 29-It was Bismarck
who gave the order that there should be nc
halt on the march to Paris The King &C
, guessed, though his generals favor looking
e after Mcmahon and taking Paris afterward
= The Parisians defy the enemy to come on
r and they assert that they will never see the
e inside of the city except as prisoners
| BERLIN, August 29-The prisoners taken
t on the battle-felds who are now arriving
here are 50 numerous that the fortresses are