The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-07
THE WAR.
LAST NIGur,s DISPATCHES.

SELL > ACCOUNT OF THE SURHENDEh Ot NAGO-
LEON.
PARIS, Sept. 6.-Gambetta, Secretary of
the Interior, has given orders to closely watch
the Count de Newiercke, former superinten-
dent of the museum of the Louvre until are
produced all the missing paintings which have
been stolen from time to time under his ad-
ministration.
Orders have been given for the arrest of N.
Pietri, late prefect of police, who is suspected
of determination to oppose the authorities.
Seals have been placed on the cabinet of Mar
shal Valiant, minister of the Imperial house
hold. The Marshal and his secretary left last
night.
The following dispatch is offical
ST.. MENEHouLD, Sept. 5.-McMahon's army
really numbered 100000 men, and it is xtir-
pated. The transportation to Germany Of the
prisoners of war, including several generals,
has commenced. The advance Of the enemy
on Paris continues.
The sub-prefect of Mulhouse telegraphs to
Paris that the enemy are at several points in
that neighborhood, and volunteers are hasten
ing out to meet them.
The Gduiois says the report that Jules
Favre has gone to the headquarters of the
that he did not appear yesterday at the Minis
try of Foreign Affairs.
The great French cities accept the republic
joyfully. DEGREES absolving citizens from their
oaths to support the Empire and abolishing
stamp duties on newspapers have been is
sued.
All the officers of Paris have been ap-
pointed and installed, and large number of
projects of departments have been ap-
pointed.
Victor Hugo, who has arrived here with his
sons, receives ovations wherever he appears.
He made short address last night, exhorting
the people to keep calm and offer determined
resistance to the enemy.
The Princess Mathilde was arrested yester-
day at Puys, in Normandy, and was conducted
to Dieppe, where she is under guard. Her
baggage, consisting of siXty-two trunks, has
been retained for examination.
The Journal 06iciel publishes the following
proclamation to the army:
When general comprises his command he
is relieved. When the government puts in
peril, by its own weakness, public safety, it is
retained. This is just what France is doing
Ill dDOnSDlllR Illc u1 TASTY, ISopOuolDiO lOI
our misfortunes. She has done boldly, in the
face of all the world, this great act of justice.
She executes the decree under which all your
conscripts have been summoned, and in the
same act secures public safety. To save it.
| self the nation needs now but to rise en- masse,
and henceforth to count on two things only
| its own resolution, which is invincible, and
| your heroism, which has never had an equal,
and which, in the midst of unmerited reverses,
has astonished the world.
Rally around that glorious symbol which
eighty years ago drove back all Europe before
us. To-day, as at that time, the name repub-
lie signifies the intimate union of the army and
| the people for defence of the country.
Signed by the Ministers.
| PARIS, Sept. 6.-[Special to New York
| World. There were no disturbances to-day
except a deplorable one in the vicinity ol
! Clingancourt, where George Augustus Sala
| Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph
on his way to make tour of the Notifications
was mistaken for a Prussian spy, set upon by
the populace and nearly killed before he could
| be rescued.
The first act of Favre, as Minister
of Foreign Affairs, was to send dis
| patch to the United States government, ask
ing the moral support, sympathy and good
| will of the first republic of the new world, IL
| the name of Washington and Lafayette, to the
first republic of the old world.
LONDON, Sept. Cit is announced to-da!
that Bismarck has declared that Germany doe
not want Alsace or Lorraine, but only the de
struction of the Notifications of Strasburg ant
the French Rhine frontier, a small war indem
nifty, and reduction of the French army.
is reported that France is prepared to offe
the abolition of all standing armies on bot
sides of the Rhine, except for garrison pur
poses.
EoNDON, Sept 6.
DIR. Russell writes to the Times from Seda
on September 3: When the Emperor, VIII
had passed the weary hours of the night
looked out in the early morning, he beheld
forest of steel and iron on valley and hill-tops
batteries posted on every eminence, cavalry o
all the plains, and as far as his eye could reac
hosts of embattled Germans, and his decisio
was taken at last. Attended by few of hi
staff on horseback, his Majesty proceede
along the road from Sedan in brougham
Count Bismarck was in bed in his quarters
Donchery, when an officer rushed in and an
nounced that the Emperor was coming to NEE
him and to see the King.
Count Bismarck rose and dressed himsel
you may be sure, in white peaked cap with ye
low band, dark uniform coat with metal bu
tons and yellow facings, and fastened to NEE
the Emperor. He was in time to stop the ca
riage on the outside of the town. Twas ava
on the field and therefore cannot, of my ow
personal knowledge. state what occurred.