The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-09-24
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THE EUROPEAN WAR.
TROOPS RECALLED TO
PASIS.
PARTICULARS OF THE FIGHT
isG BEFORE PARIS.
WENDELL PHlLDiN DE-
NOUNCES PRlS-
MA.
RUSSIA TO OCCU-
Ply THE BLACK
SEA.
Orleans and Tours to be
defended to the last.
Prussians moving upon
the place.
| ESCAPE Of FRENCH PRISON.
ERS.
Account Of Prussian RepuIses at
TOul.
| Sickness In Texas and mississippi
The People Moving North.
ESCAPE Of FRENCH PRISON
ERS.
Account Of Prussian RepuIses at
TOul.
Sickness In Texas and mississippi
The People Moving North.
Market Reports.
lRepOrted Expressly for the ARGUs.1

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-The Tribune Paris
special writes at is said Gen. 1rochu
attends calling to Paris all troops which are
Uow outside aid not employed in scou,
ing.
The heavy guns of Fort Ivry did great
damage to the Prussians massed In the
woods. The French losses are not YET
published. but are reported much less than
The PrussIsn.
This has commenced q series of strug
g1es which Inaugurste the 8iege OF Paris,
which must now be determined by victory
and withdrawal of the Prussians, or by b
deiea. that will convert every house into u
fortress. The clan OF the Garde Mobile Is
| unquestionable. The resolution of the
National Guard is not less firm because less
ooisterous. The provinces and comunes are
last coming to the rescue of the beloa
guered capital. Three comunes have
already subscribed $500,000, and thirteen
Others 5000, 900 towards the natlonsi
defence. The aspect of the streets changes
wonderfully from day to day. Fewer people
are In them, more shops are closed, more
soldiers out and fewer women. AT 10 p N
the Cafes are vigorously closed, and by ii
the bouIevards are deserted. Ambulances
with wounded soliiers are continually
passing. and we hear grim rumors of houses
n whole streets being ruined. Carrlag,
passing the line of toriihcauons are forbid
den to go off walk for tear of occasioning
Il piosions The dread of spies has not yet
died out. Each man looks at his neighbor
with suspicion. Yesterday morning a most
curious sign of the siege was the number OF
foreign flags flying about Paris. l went to
| the English embassy; there the union jack
Was flying over the gateway in Faubourg st
| Honore, and that there might be no mistake
great black board was put up to inform
the public that t"this is the English EN- bassv.' "
Also similar board in the garden side
warning the Champs EIysees. All foreign
embassies have their flags flying. Every
foreign resident in Paris hangs out the flag
of his nation. The number of flags of
stars and stripes that meet one in everv
street give q vivid idea Of the regard in
which the French capital is held by Amer
cans. English flags are much fewer. 1t is
supposed that ell houses covered with such
will be respected by both belligerents, and
the red cross flags of the society for the
wounded are also very frequent. If any one
sets up q private ambulance in his house
that is, slots one or two beds to the wound
ed, he may hang out the red cross flag.
Among all flags the American is the favor
ite, and Wsshburne is, perhaps, the mos
popular man in Paris.
Wendell Phillips expressed his detestation
| of the late cour-e of Prussia in the National
Standard, Just issued. He says Prussia,
which entered Sedan. borne On the
wonder almost the loving admiration of the
world left Sedan, followed by the loathing
and contempt of two centuries. She IL
bloodthirs,y and greedy, unscrupulous and
overbearing, beyond the Bourbons and
Hapsburghs, the Philippe and Charles Of
bypone days. She is not a nation. only an
oyerproun army, a horde of brigands, too
strong for their civilized neighbors. II
would be hard for humanity itself to weep il
the pes.ilence delivered Paris, leaving Meth
er peasant nor princeling to tell the tale a
Berlin.
The Worlds special at Tours telegraph
a full conformation of the report OF the
Prussisn repulse before Toul, on Monday
night. The Prussian attack was general and
made in two columns, one from the line o
the Meuse. and the other from the line o.
the Moselle The fighting was very severe
Tie fire Of the garrison was irresistible
particularly at the Moselle gate. and the los'
of the Prussians was 30 severe that will
day break they were iD full retrest on 81
sides
Active prosecution Of the siege has beer
abandoned.
kilograms have been posted in the new
rooms here, reporting that the theatre
SLrassburg was set FIRE BY a shell and tw'
hundred persons, who had taken refuge II
the building. majority of them women
we're burnt to death. Also that private
} residences in the city are broken into ant
plundered d by mobs.
The Prussians are in lunette No. 81 .
StrasburR. which had been abandoned D,
the French because of the terrible FIRE.