Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-24
THE w Ar
THE w All.
The Great Impending Battle
Germans Closing their Lines
SOO,O0O French against mem
Seine Minor French Successes
TrOehu upon the Armistice
Prussia Annexes Wurtemb'rg
Turkey Yielding to Russia
The Great Impending Battle
Seine Minor French Successes
TrOehu upon the Armistice
Prussia AnnexeS Wurtemb'rg
Turkey Yielding to Russia



LONDON, Nov. 2S.-0n the 18th inst
the sharpshooters in Gen. Trochu's army
made q successful sortie from Paris as far
as Champsigny, three miles southeast of
Vincennes. at that point large body
of .Prussians were dislodged, and the
stores collected there were destroyed.
The Parisians returned to camp without
serious loss. ~.
All foreigners, including neutrals, are
forbidden to leave Paris. The Prussians
had already forbidden them to pass the
Prussian lines.
Renewal of Armissice E.umors.
Rumors are in circulation that a renew.
al of efforts for an armistice were made
lately. --f
The stories that the manufactures OF
NJ. Schneider, at La Creuzot, had been
sold to an American company, are author
itatiyely denied.
French Successes.
Versailles dispatches of yesterday re.
port several skirmishes South of La
Loupe, in all of which the French were
successful. The SD French regiment
captured one gun from the Prussians.
A special from Havre says: A column
of fifteen hundred Prussians advanced
from Nantes, along the north bank of the
Seine to Vernon, where 1t was encoun-
tered by detachment of the army of the
North and routed. There were fifty
killed besides a number of prisoners.
The Germans Reducing their Lines
NEW York, Nov. 23.-World's special
The advices of the abandonment or
the part of the Germans of the invasion
of Northwest and Southwest France are
confirmed.
Dispatches from Berlin to-day state
that all the German forces are concentra.
ting around Paris, to form a defensive
circle from Etamps via Chsrtres Dreux tC
Nantes, with Frederick Charles on the
south, Duke Mecklenburg on the west,
and Gen. Manteuffel on the north.
Disposition of the French. Lines-An
Army of 3OO,OO0-A Great Battle
Imminent.
Tours, Nov. 2S.-Last night Beur
baki arrived-a great battle is imminent
The design appears to be to press the
enemy's centre at Etamps by column o.
1OO.O men moving from Angervill'
while simultaneous attacks will be mad,
all along bis extended line west and north
west of Clamps.
A correspondent visited the entir,
French iue, from Nevres to Rouen
There is an entrenched camp at RoueD,
with 10000 National Guards and Mo
biles, and from there one unbroken line
of entrenched camps extend to Everux anC
Lemsus. Between Lemaus and Boulver'
there is an extremely strong force, amount
ing to 60 guns, manned by sailors anC
Mobiles from South France. Lemsus il
garrisoned by Pontifical Zousves. From
! Lemaus the lines extend west to Orleans,
| and northwest to Augerville.
The correspondent is forbidden to Civ
further details, but says the whole
strength is under estimated at 300, 600
while the equipment, zeal and disciplin,
are perfect.
| How the Armistice Failed-A Prus
sian Surprise Repulsed.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 29.-World's specis
by balloon Monday, from Paris says tn
| French reoccupied Cretei on the 18th.
Trochu, in circular says that an ar
mistice was about concluded on fsvora.
Bile terms, when the riot of the S1st ult.
| inspired Bismarck with fresh hopes ths'
internal disorders wonld compel an un
conditional surrender. He announce
vigorous and decisive action, but withou
fixing the date, and invites the popula
ton to rally around the standard of tn
| Republic and resist poutrsrce.
The Prussisn attempted surprise o
D. Issy was repulsed with great loss.