Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-21
the order just issued requiring military
kilograms to be securely enyeloped.
The Manufacture of Arms. Etc.

The various manufactures of arm
{ throughout France are working with ex
: treme diligence. They send daily to tn,
government large quantities of arms for thu
purpose OF equipping all who wish to go t
. the front .-,
The Seine Garde Mobile has returne cd
from Chalons and is encamped at st.
3 Maur Vincent.
There were two councils of the Minis
4 ters yesterday at the TuiIleries. Gen.
Irochu was present on both occasions.
TrOchu's Address to the Parisians.
Trochu to-day publishes letter explain
ing how he desires the aid of the people.
He says: The idea of maintaining order
by the force of the bayonet and sword in
Paris, which is so agitated and given up to
grief, fills me with horror and disgust. The
maintenance of order by the ascending of
patriotism, freely expressed by knowl-
edge OF the evidence, and anger of the
country, fills me with hope and security,
but this problem is arduous and cannot
solve it alone, but l can with the aid of
those having such sentiments; that is what
term moral aid. The moment may ar
rlve when malefactors seeing us defending
the city, will seek to pillage; those who
| -NAS1e
Irochu's letter to the people; the error of
all Governments have ever known, is to
consider force the ultimate power, the
only decisive power In the moment of
danger is moral force. oh ..r .-
l. An Italian RumpuS. -.
FLORENCE, Aug. 2O,-There was violent
debate in the Italian Chambers yesterday.
Deputy Mellanti accused the Ministers of
violating neutrality of Italy, by sending
Italian troops to defend the Pope. 1I
The Duty of France 10 Fight, not 60
Parley. F.I ..
PARIS, Aug 2O.-Abbe Varron, the Chap
lam Of the army of the Rhine, died on the
field. 't'- .....-
The Journal des Debates replies that Eng
llsh mediation is premature. To fight, not
to parley, is the duty now of France, and
victories are daily expected. Peace dis
cusslons, therefore, will soon be possible.
A Gleam Of Light Thrown ON the
Campaign.
| LONDON, Aug. 20.-The following reca
pitulation of army movements for the past
few days was received here to-day from
Paris:
On Sunday, the 18th, Marshal Bazaine
established temporary line of defense on
the right bank of the Moselle, between
| Foulquemont and St. Etain, along the
river Nice.
After Metz was fully garrisoned and pro-
visloned the Marshal retired to the left
bank of the Moselle, when he was attacked
by Prince Frederick Charles, who, with
seventy thousand men, assailed Bazaine,
Gems. Decane and L L'Admirault.
The Prussians we're unable to break the
French line, but detained its retreat for
some hours, and were at length repulsed
with an enormous loss on the part of the |
Prussian army, which came within range
OF the guns and Fort st. Quiten, command
ed by Gen. Changernais, and were moved |
down mercilessly by the French artillery.
After this battle the Prussians sent flag |
of truce and asked tor an armistice in order |
to bury the dead and succor the wounded, i
which was granted.
On Monday, 18th, Bazsine passed the |
Moselle with his army undisturbed.
Next day, Prince frederick Charles, hay- |
ing also passed the Moselle with his princi- |
pal force, and attacked the French right at |
Gravellette and Thionville, at the same |
time that the Prussian army corps under
Stinmetz advanced obliquely from the
northwest to the southwest toward the
French center and left at Don Court
severe battle ensued. The Prussians en-
deavored to envelope the Frence on the
north and east and drive them back on the
Prussian army under the Prince Royal,
which was then advancing from Bar le
Due.
French heroism alone baffied in this
plan, which if successful, would have left
France with no other defenders than the
raw levies in Chalons. Bazaine's fight on
Tuesday, defeated or modified rather |
the attempt The PruSsian army has been
badly punished.
2OO,OOO PruSsian Reserves.
LONDON, Aug. 20.-The Prussian re- |
sourcesin readiness at various posts amount |
to 200, 900 men
The story that Prince Frederick was |
wounded was started by the Paris Patrie.
The entire confidence expressed in Ger |
many as to the result of the war has |
strengthened American bonds both here
and in Frankfort. ..
The War against an Arrogant
Race. .
The Berlin official organ says, to-day al
though Germany is losing her noblest sons,
she has the comfort to know that the war
is not in vain; that it is one against race
known to our forefathers as full of arro-
gance and insolence, which has robbed us
of our fairest provinces. God will enable
our King to establish durable peace in
Middle Europe in the shape of a united
Germany, the keystone of true morality |
and freedom.
Fighting at ChaIOns-Bazaine Bot
tied at Metz.
n
is reported to have reached Vitrey yester-
day. There was rumors of fighting at
Chalons to-day. Bazaine has been driven
to Metz and his army invested. There
can be no escape for it from capitulation.
Conformation iu Paris.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-A special to the
Herald from Paris to- day says the utmost
CONSERVATION prevailed in this city this af-
ternoon when the first intelligence of the
defeat and entrapment of Bazaine's army
was made known. The scenes that fol-
lowed on the boulevards beggar descrip-
ton.
An immense crowd surrounded the
Chambers with loud expressions anger; the
hopeful statements of Ministers, especially
Montaban's assertion, that a concentration
of the French armies had been effected, and
that the d1spatches read purportIng to have
been from Bazaine were openly charged
as q canard-
Wild RumOrs.
In Paris report is circulated of the in
tended abdicatiOn of Napoleon in favor of
his son, with the Empress as Regent.
Revolutionary demonstrations are being
made in the Boulevards Montmarte.
All sorts rumors are flying. One asserts
a change in the Ministry and the accession
of III. Theirs and other 0rleanists to power;
another is to the effect that the Emperor
has applied to Austria and Italy for succor.
Paris Preparing for a Siege-A Gar
risOn of 100000 Men.
The active preparations of Trochu are
effectual. The garrison of the capital will
number 100000 men detached for
forts, $4,000; custom house, twenty regi-
ments infantry, one battalion of foot and
chasseurs form division OF Is, 900. Eight
thousand sailors are already enrolled and
3, 900 more are on the way.
1t is rumored that they were fighting at
Chalons yesterday, but nothing official was
received.
The News ia Berlin.