The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-26
THE WAR!
PRussiAN DISPATCHES.
Camp al ChalOns Deserted.
Bazaine Escaped from Metz.
transportation Of Wounded.


LoHDox, August ~ Our special cor
respondent from Rheims, Monday, says
Chalons camp is so completely deserted
that not stragger is 10 be seen. W.
found them again on the road to Rheims
which is crowded with troops of every
arm. As We approached the city we
SAW the French army encamped paral
lei TO the road from St Mohould, and
separated from it by the Noir Vesle
They are camped on the right bank OF
the Vesle. looking down the stream.
will not pretend 10 say what this move
,n,ut meant. but 1t looks a. ii part al
least of Razaines force had escaped
from Metz, and are expected to join the
Chalons forces at or near Rheims
There is rumor that Bazaine is pass
ing through Grande Pre- and NouSiers
What makes it look probable is the
strong force OF light cavalry here, two
hrigades of chasSeurs and hussars. They
are probably the advance guard.
Since began this letter news has
been received at the Prefecture that
Bazaine with part OF his army, is in
fact retreating bv Nouziers, very hard
pressed 10y the Prussians. He was
OBLIGED to abandon his retreat on Yer
dan. the road TO which was completely
in the possession of the PrussianS, and
that is why all prisoners and munitions
we're sent back from Nerdun to Rheims
If anv force has succeeded in reaching
Nousiers, or Is on the road thither, they
must have escaped from Metz on the
northwest, or is perhaps that column
which we believe had got past Gravel
otte before the Prussians seized that
road on the 18th. But no word has
come direct from Bazaine for two days,
and nv belief sthat he is cut oil. At
any rate, his nearest line OF retreat was
closed. and if he has been driven off
into the Ardennes, there is no telling
when the expected junction of his forces
with Mcmahon can be accomplished;
and if they join, who is TO command,
for neither will serve under the other.
Discomfort is spreading fast among
the troops, and even among the Off
GERS. who are discouraged by the fail.
IRE of Bazaimc thus far To unite with
Mcmahon.
This letter, although written two
DAYS ago and arriving this morning by
post, supplies later news OF the position
OF the French forces than has been al
lowed TO come by telegraph, &c, lends
an air of probability to the extraordi-
nary story that Bazsine has made his
escape with part Of his forces from
Metz, cutting through the extended
lines of the Prussians-a story OF which
there j. as Vet no word Of confirmation
from the Prus-ian side.
French kilograms both dated yester-
day morning and evening and received
in London simultaneously this morn
ing, place Mcmahon first al ChaiOns
and then at Rheims. The latter Is
true, as the above letter shows.
have the highest authority for con
tradicting the statement OF the French
that the PrusSians had sought permits
sion from the French to transport their
wounded through LuAemburg The
French insist on this a. an implied
admission Of defeat. What happened
was this The Prussian Government
applied to know whether they would
consider the transportation Of wounded
men through Luxem purg violation Of
its neutrality. The English Govern
nent asked the French authorities If
they objected The French replied YES
because it opened Prussian railways 10
the transmission -! troops
and supplies.
Prussia reioins that three-tiithS of the
wounded We want 10 send are French
If Won object we must attendto our own
first. Nor are military trains capable
at being employed for the wounded.
Gladstone favors the Prussian view. but
Hammond, the Under Secretary OF For
eign Affairs, opposes it on technical
grounds. and if the Preach insist on
their views nothing will he done, and
the French wounded will have their own
government TO thank for needlesslv pro
longing their suiierings.
The reported meeting of Foreign Am
4assadors in Paris to consider the pos
-ible terms of peace is wholly discred-
tied. Prussia would consider meeting
held in the enemy's capital gross dis,
courtesy. Such an initiative would be
regarded as serious, il taken into Lon
don or ST Petersburg, but in Paris al.
most as a violation OF neutrality, and
Prussia neither believes the statement
nor would listen for moment TO any
such proposal
In battle of the 10th inst, Marshal
Bazane was wounded in the cheek and
General DeCaen in the .eg
The French Military Position.