The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-22
TERMS OF sRM1.wERKLY:
Tho situation in France.

The SltuuIIOu Au EIduCCS,
The dispatches printed in our columns
saturday morning reported Prussian
,,cress Thursday at Mars In Tour, where
IN = aportiou Of BAzAISE's army !YGs sep
nr,,rd from the main army, while The lat.
,rr under his command had been driven
hack 10 Metz. The dispatches of King
WILLIAM, printed in opr COLUMNS tlis Y
morning, evidently relate to thcs same en-
ngcmcnt. They show, if correct, very
importauL advantages, which may be fatal
n BAzArxE, whose communications nrc
severed ind who has TO choose between
remaining coopcd up ut Metz and further
desperate attempts to cut his way out.
4 dispatch from Munich announces
bImKly engagement near Metz Friday.
This is evidently an error, The terms Of
the dispatch Indicate that it refers to the
engagement of Thursday. Itis singular
the announcement comes from q city so
distant from the seat Of war. But no
such battle il announced from Berlin,
london or Paris, md this must be conClu-
sye that no bloody battle wis fought
Friday. Besides, Berlin dispatch re-,
rriycd Inst night states that nothing i'm
porlant hMd occurred since the action at
lErsouviIlc Thursday, except BAzA1NE's
withdrawal within the fortress Of Meta
This account shows that Thursdays ac-
tim gave the French army its finishing
stroke, aud, thai BAzAISE,, despAiring Of
further attempts TO cut lis way out has
resigned himself to siege His only
hone can now he that in consequence
Of PruSsiau disasters elsewhere, the
siege NAV he raised. II the PrusslNns
continue to I've successful elsewhere, the
capitulatun ur Metz and BA2ANE's army
is only question Of time. Tile placcis
said tob well movisioned, and for the or
binary garrison M donh! it Is. But 1t
will liz rcC0llrctcd some ten days ago
when the pcasMtry, fleeing before the
Irusslan advance, were crowding into the
city, the PrcErct forbade Nny one to enter
without bringing with him, forty days
provisions And with agarrls0n Ola hun,
drel nr II hundred and fifty thousand
nru, Metz cannot hold out long, with all
avenues Of supply cut of, as they now arc
Important rs is the intelligence from
Metz, that from Paris is equally clcctri-
flying. After two days without intelli-
gcnce from Baxaine, Paris is profoundly
agitateIl, and must ut Inst llave discovered
tue unwGlcpme truth that Bazaine could
not send ncws ifhe would, and could not
send good news II any. Atter0two days
"fslcnrc from the magnificent ARMY Of
the Rhine, whoseitcturn was expected to
mako the Capital secure, Paris Is elcctri-
icd by the intelligence that the
Crown Prince with his great army
is almost at her gatcs. Saturday
he was announced ut, Yitry, which
MCMAHON had abandoned only the
day before. Vitry is hundred miles
from Parls,s leaving Chal6ns to the right.
Sunday it is announced Prussiaus are
at .Mhrne, 90 miles west of
Chalons, about 20 miles from Paris If
these, TOO, are of the Grown Princes army
itwould seem that communication must be
cut between Chalons and Paris; and that
the force at CAalons, It has not retired on
Paris, or is not strong enough TO take
care Of itself, isin a critical position. Our
readers wint remember that several days
ago It was stated that three corps had
marched from the PrllssiAn right (from
the reserves, If wc'arc not mistakenly to
attack Chalons. Nothing has been
heard Of this column ). since. Per-
haps =, no such, column was dis
patched ;,ubpt IL it was, carrying out
theiaanktng tactics that havcbeep SO sue
cessful at Metz, it is about tine for this
column and the Grown Princes army to
make q junction before Paris; and the
movement would be oil the mme brilliant II
they should meet in the rear Of tho force
gathered al ChaIons. II such events are
tnnsplring, Gen Trochu; does well to ap-
q 'al J. To- =. H b
peal to the people etDE Paris to defend
their city. sag -.sr Er0 ..
But after oil, It remains to be said that
the news is so meagre md fragmentary,
and so uncertain, witltRl, and the move
mcnts of tho armies sIlroVded in such SO.
crccy, that it Is impossible to speak with
confidence Of general movements. The
Crown Prince himself is reported to have
visited his royal father ut point half way
between Metz and Nancy, Saturday. He
would hardly have lolt his army for this
purpose If he had expected any imme.
datc action, though with railway ut his
command The visit need not involve much
limG. ,,, =
That the grand catastrophe Is not fur
otE,-or that 1t is believed throughout
Europe to be neAr-iS shown by tho re.
port tile very latest that ca,nO to hand
this morning. that England and Italy
have determined to intervene jointly I'm a
diplomatic way OF coursC) to save Paris,
and that the concurrence Of Austria in
their action Il moincntarily expected, o.
Rps,ovrn boor that Prnr WlIi,c