Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-31
TELEGRAPnIC SUMMARY.
ENGLISH NEWS.

rains, which must impede operations to-
day. HIH
The lie Temps correspondent says there
is no hope for a triumphant issue unless
the Emperor and Prince Imperial cease in
reference and return to Paris.
The Prince chatters about military move
ments to everybody, and lets out important
events.
Paris Journals say that dispatch has
been received from BaZaine declaring his
intention to remain i'm the vicinity of Metz.
Without giving further explanation, the
dispatch admits Bazaine's communications
were at one time endangered, but asserts
them now secure.
LONDON, Aug. 23.-It is reported that
the Crown Prince has abandoned the
march on Paris and gone to support the
Prussian armies west of Metz, which are
threatened with formidable attack from
Bazaine, reinforced by Mcmahon.
Private advices assert that the Chalons
army is moving towards Thonvillc, with
desperate effort to effect u junction with
Bazane.
Escaping the Prince Royal, and passing
the German army north of Nerdun Me
Mahon was left TO the choice of two evils
either to leave the road To Paris open, or
by holding it sacrifice BaZaine.
\ special to the Courier deS Etdts UHiS,
dated Paris, August ~, says preparations
for combat are in progress along the lines.
Paris is virtually in a state of siege, and
it is generally conceded that the issue of
the campaign will be decided under our
walls. If we are able to hold out for a
week-and we are able against an enemy
destitute of material for carrying on a siege
ali France will come to the rescue of the
capital
LONDON, August 24.-The Prussian Off
GERS i'm the field do not believe that Paris
will resist. They expect that instructions
will follow their approach, resulting in the
displacement of the present authorities.
when peace can be easily guaranteed.
LONDON, August 25.-Strasburg is well
defended, and fully supplied.
Correspondents concur in the opinion
that the French will only treat for peace
beyond the Rhine.
1t is believed that deputation from the
Corps Legisatif has gone to the Emperor
with demand for abdication.
In the absence of official news it is be-
heved that the Prussians will not attack
Paris, but turn their attention to the re-
duction of Metz and the destruction of Ba-
zaine, and leaving the Crown Prince to cut
NcMahOn's communication with Paris,
and check him from moving to BaZaine's
relief 1t is further believed that the
Prussians are strong enough to disregard
McMahon's endorsements, composed as
they are of raw recruits.
FRENCH NEWS.
PARIS, Aug. 23.-The La Lidcrtc reports
BaZaine as having succeeded in reaching
the railroad from AIezieres to Montmedy,
finding trains filled with supplies waiting
him at Seldom.
The Paris journals continue to urgea levie
EN- masse to eXterminate the invaders
The French gunboats are recalled from
the Rhine to the Seine.
The opinion of the NdtiOnei, under the
caption of keep Cool" predicts the Prus-
sian defeat as the result of the pending
combination.
Dysentery prevails in the Prussian
army.
Ten thousand Prussian wounded have
been sent to Berlin.
The Constitutional, in answer to a state
ment made by the London IImSs that the
French are in desperate condition, shows
that that journal draws its conclusions
without waiting for complete or authentic
reports of recent events, and defies it tc
decide who now is in the best military DO
sition, Bazaine or King William 1t adds
that the hostility of the Times is account.
ed for by the fact that the proprietor's son
married Il daughter of the Prussian Am.
bassador at London. Some persons say
in addition to this, that paper has been
heavily subsidized by Bismarck.
The Constitutional says officially, that
without going into details, we may affirm
that work on the Notifications of Paris il
progressing with wonderful rapidity, ano
the elm is immense.
THE Prussian papers represent Paris as
not the Paris of the period between 179.
and 1915. They will discover their mis-
take. The capital proves now as ever thai
she is the heart of France. She is ready
TO receive the enemy. Neither spies MOI
battalions can break down the wall of de
Tense which her danger has created. If tn,
Prussians advance to the ramparts OF
Paris, they will find this out"
1t is reported that a Prussian SPY neal
Rheims, installing a General officer fol
Marshal Mcmahon, fired twice at him
missing him, and dangerously wOundina
another officer by hia side. The spy wa,
secured
Themorale of the city is vastly improved
with no more singing and shouting, bu
more volunteering, and all the citizens ar,
providing themselves with arms Tn,
wounded who return receive oyations.
Letters from Paris represent that Blu
reauocracy and red tape interfere sadly
with every branch of the French service
PARIS, Aug. 4.-The Prussians attacked
and killed some Bayarian soldiers on tn,
frontier.
The Presse says thegreat powers arc
officially Informed that peace l. impossibI,
while the Pruisian soldier treads Frencl
soil.
The Figaro wants the electric light,
on the Paris rtmparts.
A dispatch from Mezeires yesterday saw.