The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-07

on sign and request from the Emperor re-
placed il.
The Count replied. "Sire, I receive your
Majesty as would my own royal master"
There happened TO be near the place where
the interview occurred, few hundred yards
outside the squalid town of Donchery, hum
BILE cottage of hand-loom weaver, of whom
there are numbers around Sedan. Count Bis
marck led the way aud entered it. The room
was not inviting, and the great Count walked
up stairs. The apartment was filed with
hand.loom and appliances for weaving. Seeing
which, he descended and found the Emperor
sitting on stone outside. Two chairs were
brought out of the cottage, and the Emperor
sat down on one and Count Bismarck took the
other and placed it on his Majesty's right side.
The officers in attendance on their fallen mas
ter lay down some distance away upon small
plot of grass in front of the cottage. The
conversation was a strange one. Bismarck has
repeated it freely, or the principal parts OF 1t.
No doubt it will soon be known. The great
point to be gained was peace, but as far as his
Imperial Majesty was concerned, no assurance
Of it could be obtained by Count Bismarck.
The Emperor stated that he had no power;
could not negotiate peace, could not give
orders to the army, or to Marshal Bazaine.
The Empress was Regent of France, and on
her Ministers must devolve the negotiations.
So Count Bismarck thereupon remarked that
it was of no avail to hold further conversa-
ton on political matters with his Majesty, and
that 1t would be Of no use to see the King.
The Emperor desired to see the King in per-
son, but Bismarck declared it was not possible
to accede to his Majesty's desire until the
capitulation had been signed. Then, as the
conversation was becoming rather dangerous,
and as the situation was becoming difficult on
both sides, he ended it, and the interview ter
minated. Count Bismarck went to seek the
King, and the Emperor withdrew to consult
with his officers"
At $780, articles of capitulation were agreed on
by General Wmpfen and General Won Motlke, and
believe Count Bismarck took part in the delib-
Grafton. The terms were that the garrison and
army of Sedan were to surrender as prisoners of
war, TO be sent into Germany. The officers to be
liberated on parole not to serve again during the
war and all horses, guns and munitions OF
Germany understood to be part OF the stipula-
ton.
and escort of curassiers, attended by the Crown
Prince and staff of general officers, proceeded to
chateau outside of Sedan, and received the En-
peror, who came with his personal followers and
staff in charge of an escort which was ranged on
the other side of the avenue facing the cuirassiers
The King and his captive retired into glass house
of one of the saloons on the drawing-room floor,
and they could be seen by the staff outside engaged
in earnest dialogue. After this interview with the
King, the Emperor had few moments conversa-
| tion with the Crown Prince during which he was
much agitated when aluding to the manner Of the
| At such moment, even to him, the horses were
| worthy OF the Imperial stables. The p0Stillions
we're smart, as if on the Bos, en- route for st.
| Cloud on wet day. They and the two who sat
| behind wore long water proof cloaks, glazed hats
| and the Imperial cocksde. As the brougham
| stopped for moment my courier caught sight of
his Majesty 8 face. What change, he says, since
| Prince Napoleon lodged in my house, in London,
before he went to live in King street. He had his
moustache which had the well-known point and
= waxed ends, but there was none of the nervous
! twitching, and the emotion which shook him for
moment when he was speaking to the Crown Prince
| yesterday of the Kings manner had passed away
Then he brushed tears from his eyes with the gloves
| he had in one hand, and was overcome for several
| seconds.
Normandy percherons, filled with PrusSian officers,
| mostly choked with hoods drawn their kepis
! aid capes. Among the latter General Boyer
| and the Prince of Lemoirs, who are appointed to
| wait on his Majesty. Some ten eleven Imperial
| carriages, char-a-banc fourgons, with superb
| horses and filled with officers, followed; then some
French officers on horses, and after long string of
saddle horses, ridden by grooms, sixty or more in
! number, the rear being closed by troops of black
| horse, trenchmen and women, who stood out in the
rain, and certainly did not venture to show any
sympathy or sorrow, if they felt any. The only
sound was the tramp of horses and the inopportune
jinging of the bells of the char-abanc and horses
| but now and then choruses were singing, the Wur-
| temburgers trudging through the mud, celebrating
the victory, in which, far as they concerned,
they had doubtless with regret little to do.
His great anxiety seemed to he not to be exhibited
to his own soldiers. The result was, however, that
| His Majesty, wishing to avoid one mischief was eX-
posed great humiliation for his had to be
altered TO avoid Sedan, and thus he had to pass
through the lines of the Prussian army.