Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-09
Weekly News Summary.
FOREIGN,

EVhExdNs
Gable dispatches on the 26th stat
in substance that the Prussians wer
steadily advancing on Paris; that eigh
departments of France were in possessio,
of the invaders; all available approache
to Paris were reported to be undermined
Bazaine was surrounded in Metz by Prus
sian troops, and was expected to be com
PEELED to cspitulate, being short of provi
sions; Prince Napoleon's demand for as
sistance had been declined by Italy; th'
French Chambers had adopted Law
providing that al able-bodied men, be
! tween 20 and IS years of age, be enrolled
for military duty without liberty to pro
cure substitutes; sixty thousand dollars
had been received at Paris from French
residents in the United States for tht
wounded, and large sum from Con
stantinop1e; the bombardment of Stras
bourg continued, and the besiegers were
making rapid progress; the town of Kehl
on the German e lie of the Rhine, was
nearly razed to the ground by the shells
thrown by the French from Strasbourg
Baron Gerolt, Minister at Washington
of the North German Union, received q
telegram from Berlin on the 26th, charg'
ing the French with having fired upon a
| flag of truce sent to Toul to procure sur
gical assistance in behalf of wounded
French soldiers.
| The fortified town of Vitry surrendered
to the Germans on the morning of the
25th, with French loss of 16 guns and
$50 prisoners.
NJ. Theirs, after long continued re-
fusal, has yielded to solicitations, and &C.
cepted, amid much applause in the Corps
Legislatif, the rendered position on the
Committee of Defense, conditioned on the
hearty sympathy and cooperation of the
Chambers.
A Paris special to the New York Herald
on the 28th states that one hundred and
| seventy thousand men had been killed
or wounded so far during the war.
1t was reported in Paris on the 2Sth
that on the 25th the Prince Royal of Sax
ony, with 10000 men, had made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to capture Verdun. Nc
Mahon's main army was at Seyoy on the
29th. The Emperor was at Renionville,
and the Prince Imperial at Rethel.
Prussian scouting parties were at
Meaux, one hour from Paris, on the 9th.
Austria has concurred in declaration
of neutrality, as proposed by England
and accepted by Italy.
The Prince Royal of Prussia has issued
proclamation to the people of France,
wherein he says: +" Prussia makes war
against the Emperor, and not against the
people of France. The people have moth
| ing whatever to fear" He also says
"Only surplus food will be taken for
German troops; that only which is not
required by the peaceful French" Paris
kilograms assert that the invaders "com-
NIT fearful pillage and unheard-of outrages
as they move along"
According to official dispatches receiv-
| ed in Berlin, great battle was fought in
the neighborhood of Stenay, northwest
of Montmedy, on the 28th, which is said
to have terminated in victory for the
| Prussians
| It was rumored in Lendon on the goth
that the Emperor Napoleon was shut up
in Metz, where also were 10000 peasants
and $4,000 wounded soldiers.
The opinion was gaining strength on
the 29th, that the movement toward Paris
was only feint, the real object of the
Prussians being to envelope Mcmahon
with their left wing and crush him
Heavy fighting had apparently been 60
ing on between Chalons and Verdun
Esince the 25th, the forces of Mcmahon
and the Crown Prince being engaged. A
great battle near Mousson was begun on
the 28th.
A Berlin dispatch of the 29th states
that the prisoners of war arriving there
were already so numerous that the for
tresses were full TO overhowing. Camps
were formed at Wittenburg and elsewhere
to receive them.
A dispatch from the Prussian genera
headquarters, dated at noon on the 2Sth
declares that Bazaine's communication
were completely cut of, and all telegramI
printed in Paris as from him were manu-
factured there. News from the French
War Office on the 30th states that Bazaint
was not shut up; that he had 100, 900 me1
that MacMahon was 10000 strong
and that they were stealing two marches
on the Prince Royal, who was two day.
ahead of Prince Frederick Charles
Another dispatch says: "Not only ha.
MacMahcn failed to form a junction with
Bazaine, but wedge of Prussians has beer
driven between the two armies. This hu
man wedge is now thicker than ever be
fore, and MacMahon now finds himsel
separated from Bazaine by two powerful
German armies instead of one."
: Late adyices from Shanghai state tina
the negotiations for the settlement of tn
Tientsin affair were progressing. Th
imperial authorities of Peo Chu Lee admi
: that the conduct of the missionaries a
,, Tientsin was inoffensive, and that the.
were wantonly attacked.
Paris is reported as being fully prepared
to resist an attack. Gold was again cir
culating on the S0th.
An American newspaper correspondent
writes that the treatment of America
. journalists and travellers by the Germans
as well as by the French, has been mos
a..&o~;no rybc,, oo.,onarad with that he