The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-09
NOTES OF THE WAR.
ARMY IN THE EAST.

BoURBAKI's ARMY IN THE EAST.
The movement of General Bourbaki and the
Lyons army against the forces of General Werder
in the Vosges mountains is one Of the most
formidable expeditions when the French have
set afoot, and promises greater success than
either the march from the North under Faid-
herbe or from the West under Chauzy. The
Bordeaux correspondent of the London Stand
ard, writing ON December Is saws in regard TO
the force in the East:--
81 hear that from Toulon, on the 18th instant,
no less than 5000 men went forward and there
is no doubt That Toulon, Marseilles and LYONS
are furnishing very large contingeuts. The last
two towns would between them be able to send
forward $4,000 men. Bourbaki's army, two days
after the retreat from Orleaas, was 10000
strong. 1T is now probably nearly double that
force. and If its advance be delayed for another
fortnight it will probably be nearly 200, 900
strong
GEN CIANzY's ARMY At LIE MANS.
The army Of General Chanzy, which was
lately driven from the Loire, has apparently
concentrated at lie Mans, the most important
railway station west of Paris; aud here his
forces have been greatly increased, preparatory
to the proposed advance upon the capital. The
lie Mas correspondent of the Loadon Standard,
writing on December 20, thus speaks of Chanzy's
numbers and their appearance
From what can make out, General Chanzy
has about G0000 men with him. aud there are at
least 100000 here, so that the French ought to
make good stand, for the troops | have seen
he-e are, on the whole, very fue body of men,
and. if well led, ought certainly to defeat the
10000 PrUssians who are advancing on this
place. From what l can make out, the great
want of the French is artillery, and their ofli-
GERS hint that what they have is not made the
most use OF. An engineer officer, who was at
the battle of Beaune Ia Rolande told me that
forty guns were allowed to remain on the pla-
teau that commanded Beauue witcout firing q
shot, and columns of infantry were hurled at
the village without shell being thrown into
it, and the Prussans having strongly fortified
the place. The French were repulsed with dread
full loss although the guns referred to might
have knocked the whole place to pieces in half
an hour.
''Tbe appearance of the men whom saw
to-day was most pitiable-their arms, useless
from rust; many without boots several COM
pletely done up; the cavalry even, if possible,
in weree state than the infantry. In many
cases, the soldier helped the horse, not the
horse the soldier, to cover the ground; for the
wretched ANIMALS, hardly able to crawl along
had to be led through the streets by their
owners. AS to the artillery, they were to be
seen nowhere. True caught sight of few
pondescrpt feld-guns but gunners to use them
/ utterly failed to observe. The only men who
really seemed in anything like fair condition
were a regiment of gendarmes. Both they aud
their horses looked very WELL but they have, L
should think been spared as much possible,
seeing that they are the best corps France at
present possesses.
PROVISION SUPPLY IN PARIS.
The captured staff officers of the Saxon
Crown PTit Ce related, on their release, that
they had been sumptuously entertained in Paris,
and it was inferred by some correspondents,
whose letters we have published, that there was
plenty in Paris The London Times cores
pondent in the capital intimates that the 'deli-
cacies of the season" are still to be had by
those in the secret but that the general supply
of good food is sufficient is not proved by this
sort of evidence. The correspondent alluded
to says, under date of December 14:-
'Those who have the courage to go to the
restaurants can still get meat without stint as
to quantity, aud by no means bad as regards
quality. AT first-class restaurants such as the
Nosin-one finds either beef good an imi-
taton of it that it is impossible, with all ones
skepticism on the alert to detect the forgery.
have been told in answer to my inquiries how
meat could still be got that great number of
private spectators, many of them belonging to
the socalled poor classes, have contrived, either
on the ely or on some plausible preteXt, to keep
a cow or sheep up to the last moment, in order
to sell to the reStdUrdteuTs ready to pay high
prices. Among rich people the amount
of private provisions slowed away
is said to be very great. They
astonish occasional acquaintances by offering at
breakfast, quite a matter OF course, fresh
butter, eggs, milk, and perhaps cold beef or II
chicken. 1t is at first hard to repress the I'M
charitable suspicion that they must be in secret
communication withVersaiIles, but the mystery
vanishes when one learns that ones host had the
forethought, when the siege was about to COM
mence, to fill garret with poultry, and find a
quiet corner, out OF reach of inquistive eyes, in
which to stow away COW. l hear that the
Government agents are beginning to ferret out
these supples-rather indiscreetly, however,
commencing by asking significant questions
about them, instead of quietly seizing them as
soon as the right moment for confscation ar
rives.'