The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-26

A Paris dispatch of Wednesday, midnight,
Prince Royal is reported 10 be at Nancy. Moth
log has been received from Metz or from the
armies of Mcmahon or BaAaine. [Sezanne is
but 65 miles west of Paris.
A London disp Atch OF Wednesday says:
"Cbalons has been abandoned. 1t is said that
the forces of The Crown Priuce will to day get
as far as Rheims, meeting with no resistance
while Prince Frederick Charles moves on to
Paris direct"
A Berlin dispatch OF the same day is as fol-
lows:
The Govern ment has received dispatch
dated Bar lie Due last evening" to the effect
that Chalops has been evacuated by ,he French
and that the Prussan columns are west OF
Chalnns and advancing rapidly.
Its said that the Empress has become very
unpopular IN Paris on account of her hieot,y.
1t IS believed that deputation from the
Corps Leg;slatif has gone to the Emperor to
demand his ahdication. The Corps Leg;slatif
is now permanently guarded by troops The
announcement of The organization of a provis
,olal government for France is imminent
The Josract Official to-day publishes an ar
ticle winch the following is an extract:
Dor potts are Zee and or fleet w'rf strike
body il he North and Baltic Seas. Our COM
merce and industry are active. Our credit is
good. There can be 10 comparison OF our
frances with hose Of the. enemy. Prussia
LOOKS Tor ttreachery and encouragement here
and uneasily wondHrs at the prompttude of
the nation in arming ard organizing, and I'M
dersiands by this time that the more the strug
gle is prolonged The better is our situation
Our resources in men and money are mex
hanSt. he Tuonoh invaded Franco the
entire nation. The neutral powers remain
friendly, but comprehend that there cannot
DOW be question o. mediation.
La Steele, commenting on the news that the
Imperial headquarters is at Rheims, says:
Who cares? MeMahon o Gan only. have one
Imperial headquarters cannot only be snn nne
fluffy and embarrassment, but a preteXt for
losing battles. The crisis is too dangerous to
talk of an Imperial headquarters anywhere
near those of the Commander-in- Chief
The following dispatches were received
from Berlin Thursday. The Crown Prince is
near ChalOns. The enemy has evacuated bis
camp at Chalols-suI- Marpe. The head OF the
Prussian columns have a lvanced beyond thee
camp destroyed by the French army, and is
now continuing IL, outward march,
The Prussan government has abandoned
the idea of transporting the Prussien wounded
by the Belgian and Luxembourg railway
routes to Germany. The neutrality OF the
neutral powers adjoining Prussia will be strin-
gently observed.
Paris dispatches state that the French have
set lie to odd destroyed the abandoned en-
cam pp,ent Of Marshal Mcmahon OF Chaloas-
sur. 'iarne.
= London despatch says the bombardment
OF Strasbourg was reopened Wednesday, The
Germans are entrenchnga thousand yards
from the fortress. They captured the railway
station to-day.
dispatches received at Paris state that the
whole of McMahon's army left Rheims on
Monday. Marshal McNIahon stated upon his
departure that he preferred to leave the road
to Paris open to the Prussians rather than
aoandon the nucleus for his forces and take |
the responsibility of not going to help Bazaine |
to extricate himself from the region of Met