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VOLUME X.-NUMBER 1465. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I, 1870. S?X DOLLARS A YKAH. MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES. THE GREAT BATTLE. BBIrGIUM PRE8ERYES BBB NEU? TRALITY. THE EMPEROR TELEGRAPHS THE EM? PRESS THAT ALL IS WELL. PROPERTY OF THE EMPEROR SENT TO LONDON. Englich Reports. LONDON, September 2. A body of 2500 French infantry and 500 cav? alry, with two pieces of artillery, camp equip p?eje and other material, who sought refuge in Belgium, and Eome wounded Prussians who also collected there, have been taken to Bour? ges, where they are carefully attended. Paris papers notice angrily that Prussian victories strengthen London stocks, also that the Crown Prince of Italy and his wife coi grat?late Prussia. Yesterday Frederick Charles thanked his troops on the battle-fleld for their gallantry. The Ninth army, composed ol Landwehr, has already distinguished itself. The Examiner, in speaking of the mad policy of the 14th toward the French policy of partition and repression, says that the safety of Europe demands that France be guaranteed against dishonor and dismemberment, and hopes that the Cwr will interpose and pre? serve the balance of power. A Paris correspondent of the Globe vouches for the truth o? the report that a heavy battle has been progressing near the forest of Ar gonte since 'Wednesday morning. The following dispatch has reached the Em? press from the Emperor: '.IHVRSDAY AFTERNOON*. '.All goes wonderfully well. All of our plans succeed.'' This obtains some color from the Bouillon telegram already sent, and which is uncontra dicted by Prussian accounts. The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Sedan, is equally positive of Frenen suc? cesses. ;^e Civilian, an obscure sheet, asserts that sixteen boxes, containing property of the Em? peror, has arrived and been stowed away In this city. The Times says that the Prussians, rincling their enemies still strong in numbers, are obliged to remain near their fortified towns in order to watch them. The Times' money article thinks that a re? duction of the bank rates to three would be safe. The rate in open market seems to sus-, tain the idea. Prussia Urged to Reject Overtures for Mediation. LEITSIC, September 2. The corporation ol Lelpslc, the commercial and other civic organizations have united in an address to the King ot Prussia, as chief of the German Confederation, urging him to re? ject all overtures ot mediation, and to prose? cute the war until permanent peace can be secured. A similar address will be presented to the King of Saxony. Frenen Reports. PARIS, September 2. The Monde says that five well trained gun? ners are assigned to each of three thousand guns on the fortifications, and that ample am? munition is provided. It ls believed that there has been flghting all of to-day. Dis? patches dated yesterday say that the fortress of Mezieres and Sedan will occupy the utten tlon of a large force of the Prussians ii an at? tempt is made to besiege them. Tlfe journals call attention to the lact that the Prussians say much of the battle of the 30th. when Fairly was repulsed, but make little mention of the 31st, when McMahon repulsed their left and centre. The Prince Imperial Is expected at Maubeuge (a small fortified town, eleven miles north of Avesnes) from Avesnes. A fleet ot gunboats going up the S*ine was lustily cheered by an excited mass of people, who thronged both banks of the river. TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION-MAXY LIVES LOST. LONDON, September 2. Samson, a sea-port town in Asia Min or, bas been destroyed by fire. Twenty-five hundred houses and six churches were burned, and many lives lost. EAPAL INFALLIBILITY-BISHOPS REFUSE IO SUBMIT. FULDA, Germany, September 2. The conlerence of bishops has closed its ses? sion. It was resolved never to submit to the dogma of infallibility. The faculty at Trl burgen, Wurtemburg, are in accord with the bishops. RESIGXATIOX OF A MINISTER. > STUTTGART. September 2. Baron VarmbiLltT, Minister of Foreign Af tairs, h is resigned, and Count Fanta has suc? ceeded .-tin. . AFFAIRS IN SPAIN. MADRID, September 2. A few Carlists are in the country. No trouble is apprehended. The Count dc Chester and others, exiled to the Canaries, have been re? called. GOLD AND BOND MARKET. NEW YORK, September 2-Evening. Gold bas been steady, and fluctuations small, but closed dull and Arm. Governments gener? ally dull; eighty-one coupons 14,'; sixty-twos 13*; sixty-fours 114; sixty-fives 12; new 10: sixty-sevens 10?; sixty-eights 10.}; forties 6. LONDON, September 2-Evening. Consois 914- Bonds S84. FRANKFORT, September 2-Evening. Bonds active at 934a93g. SPARK-i FROM THE WIRES. Three hundred ^rudoy?es of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad stopped the trains on account of the non payment ot their wage*. The strUters captured four engines. The American brig Awzotta and Mexican schooner Minerva wert) wrecked off Mazatlan j ?a the 30th Of August. GOVERN OH HOLDEN TO BE AR? RAIGNED. RALEIGH, N. C., September 2. The Hon. Josiah Turner, through his coun sel, moved yesterday for a bench warraDt against Governor Holden for illegal arrest. ?kc, before Judges Dick and Settle of the Su? preme Court. The motion was entertained, and the argument will close to-morrow. DESTR VC TI FR FIRE. RICHMOND, September 2. Tills morning the confectionery of C. Zim? mer was totally destroyed by fire, and the stocks ol L. Jacobs, dealers in dry goods, and of Baldwin Brothers, clothiers, considerably damaged. Loss $2500, but fully insured. A if ASS MEETING IN NEW YORK. NEW TORE, September 2. A great meeting was held yesterday evening in iavor of the restoration of the seat of local government to Ireland. OUR FROSPECTS. What General Butler Says-Richland Organizing-Radical Fiascos in Co? lombia and Edgefield. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COLUMBIA, September 1. General Butler arrived In this city last eve? ning, just irom Sumter. He reports enthu? siastic receptions wherever he has yet been, and says the Union Reform party will beat Scott ten or fifteen thousand majority. The General ls looking exceedingly well, notwith? standing all the fatigue he has undergone, and he says his health is, just now, very good. The City Council will meet next Tuesday, when the Sprague contract will, no doubt, be taken Into consideration. The feeling of the people, both white and colored, is most bitter against this contract. When our city was crowded with refugees during the war-when we had lour or five times the population we have now, or even had before- -we had plenty of water, and for the same puce as now. If new machinery is needed, the ci y can buy lt, and can put it up. And as for the supply of water not being sufficient, the same argument as above will answer, which renders the ob? taining of water from Broad River simply ab? surd. ' There will be another Union Reform club started and organized in a few days, and soon not only this city, but the whole county will be organized. The clubs are all working quiet? ly, and even our friends will be surprised at our strength, when we show what we can do \t the poils. We have very gratifying reports irom Edge field. The negroes are quitting the Republi? can ranks, and coing over to the Union Reform party every day. A large Radical meeting was called to meet in the village, on Saturday last, which turned out a failure, although it was reported that both Scott and Ransier would be there; even these magic names could not draw them. Cotton is opening beautifully and rapidly. The worm has done no damage, so far, and has been confined to one or two plantations, and in those nothing so far has been injured. There was no Radical meeting here on last Tuesday night, as had been announced. Having ' a band of negro minstrels here, the attraction 1 was too great to allow of the other meeting with any success: LARA. THE WEAKNESS OF FORCE. [From the Yorkvllle Enquirer.) The lesson taught by the North Carolina election is ?pre-eminently this : that any attempt to force the people to express an opinion at the polls, contrary to their convic? tions, always reacts to the injury of the aggres? sor. Governor Holden seems to have been aware that popular sentiment was against him, and he foolishly thought he could force a false verdict by intimidation. He, therefore, raised and equipped a military force, visited Washington and secured permission from the President to inaugurate a military despotism in North Carolina, and began the work of ter? rifying. He proclaimed two counties to be in a state of insurrection, and arrested many citi? zens of these counties, besides others through? out the State, on what charity itself could dignify with no higher ground than that ol' suspicion. When he was confronted in this course" by the courts of the State, the consti? tuted guardian of private rights and liberties, be audaciously set aside their decisions and virtually proclaimed himself the sole arbiter of personal rights in the State. But he did not gain his object. When the day of election came the people of North Carolina, with the bayonet at their throats, (it may be said with? out any figure of speech.) rose in their might and repudiated the tyranny which he tried to establish. It was found that, instead of terri? fying opponents into submission, he had out? raged the sense of right of his own friends and alienated them from their previous sup? port of his administration. So will ii ever be In a country where the people have the power to render a verdict on actB of their rulers. It will, we firmly beliove,be so in thle State, where Ignorance ol what is go? ing on Is the only obstacle, if voters can Xe made to comprehend In time the schemes of our present Governor and his adherents. The militia organization of South Carolina is merely Governor Holdens Idea of force m a very slightly modified form. It has already failed in Tts purpose of terrifying the minority, and the failure is recognized by its origina? tors, who have moreover had their eyes opened by the disaster th<?ir party has sus? tained in North Caioiina. But as it would never do to change front at this stage of the campaign, the machinery must be kept up. We may expect, therefore, the "pride, pomp and circumstance ol glorious war;" but its object herealter will not be to frighten timid Reformers, but to keep up the falling spirits of the Radicals. Voters purposely kept in Ig? norance must be prevented irom hearing Re iorm speeches, and for that reason military drills and processions, which are always at? tractive to this class ol voters, must be care? fully kept up. On the contrary, the appeal of the Reform party is to reason, not to force. All ihey ask of the bitterest opponent is a patient hearing or a fair discussion. If, after this, an oppo? nent is unconvinced, they will oiler no hin? drance to his voting the Radical ticket. And, though the head-centres of the Scott party are moving heaven and earth to prevent their humble adherents from hearing the Reform speakers, their tricks are becoming too trans? parent even for the blindest of their followers. These know that there must be something formidable in what the Reform Speakers have lo say, or the Radical leaders would not be su troubled ut the idea ol their speaking to col? ored men. This idea is undoubtedly correct. In spite of efforts to prevent it. our ealiant standard-bearers have succeeded in getting a good many colored men am jng their audiences, wherever this was the case, they made an im? pression which nothing but argument can efface. Violence, as a means of turning votes, bai? played out, and League Intimidation to prevent colored men from attending Reiorm meetings is last playing out also. Unless the Radical leaders will produce something solid in the way ot argument, they will certainly lose their power over the colored race. We have every encouragement to work and hope for a successful issue to the present campaign. It ie a curious statement row made that three wepks before the battle of Saarbiiicken, th? Peace Society of Pans sent their deputies to daaibnicken to celebrate an international feast held there by the correapondiug society in Prur?ia. It was bell at the station, one of thc first rltc:s in flamee. HEAVY FIGHTING. THE PRUSSIANS ADVANCE VICTO? RIOUSLY. BAZAINE DRIVES BACK A PRUSSIAN CORPS. SEVEN THOUSAND FRENCH TAKEN PRISONERS AND TEN THOUS? AND DISARMED IN BELGIUM. THE PRUSSIANS SLAUGHTERED Al SEDAN. GLOWING ACCOUNTS PROM PARIS - THE FRENCH CAPTURE THIRTY GUNS. WHEREABOUTS OF THE EMPEROR. PARIS FORTIFICATIONS MINED. NOON DISPATCHES. Prussian Reports. BERLIN, August 31-Official. The battles covered so wide a range that de? tails are-contused. It is certain that the Prus? sians captured twenty cannon, eleven mitrail? leurs and seven thousand prisoners. BERLIN, September 2-1 P. M.-Official. News ls still behind. We know that a series of battles occurred on the 30th and 31st, both sides losing heavily. On Wednesday the Prus? sians were drawn under the guns of Sedan, where they suffered terribly before they were able to cross the river. McMahon moved to Mouzon on Wednesday morning. Yesterday the encounter was prob? ably resumed. BERLIN. September 2. LATEST.-The following is from The King to the Queen: '.SEDAN, September 1-3 P. M. "The battle has raged since half-past eight this morning. Our forces have advanced vic? toriously. The Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Corps and the Bavarians were engaged. The enemy was almost, entirely driven into the city/' ST. BARBE, September 1. Since yesterday Bazaine fought the First Prussian Corps. The battle ended in the retreat of the Prussians. SEDAN, September 2. Tlie battle yesterday was bloody. Ten thou? sand officers and soldiers ol' the French army were driven into Belgium, and were required instantly to surrender their arms. Great numbers of wounded have been admitted into Belgium lor humanity's sake. BOLTLLON, August 31. The fighting began this morning. The French are said to have captured thirty (runs, rhere was no positive result. BOUILLON, September 1. Bazaine drove the Prussians toward Setian. Hie French are at La Chapelle. French Reports. PARIS, September 1-Midnight. In the absence of official reports from the commanding generals, the ministry published i compilation of a multitude ol dispatches re? ceived from various Belgian towns up to 8 o:clock Wednesday night. The following de? tails, which are extracted, bear the character of probability: '.On the 30th a series ol' engagements occur? red between McMahon and the enemy near Mezieres, lasting from 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. "Our troops were attacked from the woody heights of Storres, a position we had recently eracuated. The attack, which was vigorous, forced our troops to retrograde, but at 2 o'clock we took the offensive and retained it unlll 7 o'clock, when darkness ended operations. "After nightfall we recrossed the Meuse in order to form again near Dorchery, a few miles east ol Mezieres. ..Thc engagement lu the first day's fighting cost us considerable losses, while Indicting heavy losses on the enemy. Th.> Prussians burned Mouzon and killed most ot tue inhabi? tants. "Next day (31st) the Prussians again took the offensive at seven o'clock in the morning, on the left bank of the Meuse, between Douzy add Dorchery. Our forces retreated slowly until McMahon had drawn the Prussians into an angle formed by the ramparts of Sedan and the heights on the left bank of the river. Here the Prussians experienced heavy losses and were compelled, on account of the mur? derous fire, to retreat. They effected this about noon, withdrawing toward Villemantry, and after several attempts placed themselves on the opposite side of the Meuse. ' "On the morning of the 3lst McMahon cross? ed the Meuse at Mouzon. Everything indi? cates that the engagement will be resumed to? day." PARIS. September 2. The papers report obscurely French suc? cesses without locating them. English Reports. LONDON, September 2-10 A. M. Paris dispatches this morning claim that the Prussians were repulsed In the attack upon McMahon, after ten hours' hard fighting. The Prussians attacked the French from front and rear. The French took thirty trims and many prisoners. The Prussians, ii is reported, have been driven towards Belgium. LONDON'. September 2. Another dispatch says the Prussians were victorious, but this is not generally known. NIGHT DISPATCHES. English Reports. LONDON, September 2. A private dispatch, dated Wednesday, says: ..That after fighting all day Tuesday. Bazaine wa? again driven to Metz. Both sides lost heavily, lt is reported that the Emperor Na? poleon is dead." The London journals of to-day are sadly per? plexed by the late war dispatches. They say that there was another battle yesterday, near Sedan, which resulted :avorably for trie French, and that this siight check to the Prussians only prevented them from going to Paris. W. H. Russell, writes that last week, nothing prevented the Prussians from going into Paris, but that now it is almost impossi? ble lor them to do so. The recent rapid movements of the Prus? sians advance toward Paris ls attributed to their anxiety to get there before the fortifica? tions are further Btrength-?ned and supplied with fae rifled cannon which are being taken from the fieet. Experts regard these guns as most destructive. The Emperor, attended by Nelaton and other eminent surgeons, is with Marshal Mc? Mahon. The French troops which engaged the Prus? sians at Attigny were reinforcements from Paris for Marshal McMahon, and were convey cd by rail, on the 27th and 23th days of Au? gust, from Paris to Bethel, and thence march? ed to Montmedy. and, although fresh when tiley reached the battle-fleld, they were soon routed by the Prussians. Frenen Reports. PARIS, September 2. General Ulrich, commanding at Strasbourg, says that the fortress can and will hold out. The fortifications of Paris are mined, and can be blown up at a moment's notice. The Prussians are losing heavily from sickness, caused by privation. Positive Information has been received that McMahon and Bazaine are able to communicate with each other. A number of sharpshooters, with custom? house officers, crossed the Rhine a few miles below Strasbourg, and captured fire large boats containing much valuable property. All of the Paris journals have published let? ters corroborating the reports of French suc? cesses, but assert that the Prussians are so numerous that the battles must be resumed on a large scale. Both sides have received heavy reinforcements. It Is reported that King William ls Insane, and has been taken to Berlin. It is further reported that a large French army under General Douay has entered Baden, also that the non-combatants of Strasbourg have been enabled to leave thu place through a recently discovered subterranean passage. Calais and St. Pierre will be put In a state of defence. Frenchmen who are taken with arms in their hands are >o receive the privileges of prisoners of war if they prove that they were members ot a military organization, otherwise they will be tried by a drumhead court-mar? tial, and, If found not tc be be conceded with the army, they will have to serve their captors for not ?ess than two years at hard labor. PARIS, September 2-Evening. Uncertain and contradictory reports regard? ing army movements and the recent battles have been received. Pnllkao, in the Corps L?gislatif, to-day declared himself without offi? cial news from McMahon or Bazaine. He had no communications to make at the Bourse, jaai in nil circles fears are expressed that the French were outnumbered; but advices via Belgium represent McMahon as successful and Bazaine fully supplied with provisions. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. [From the Northern Papers ] .ORGANIZATION AND MOVEMENTS OF THE PRUS? SIAN ARMV. BERLIN, August 31. The North German Gazette, ol this city, gives the subjoined statement as to the organi? zation and movements of the armies of Ger? many, respecting which many errors have been in circulation lately : "The Prince Royal ol' Saxony commands four divisions, organ? ized as previously reported. This army has been ordered to move on Paris by way of Rheims, while the third army is moving td the same destination through Troyes. Eight array corps are therefore now moving on Paris. The first army is commanded by General Von Steinmetz, and consists of tho 1st, 7th and Sth army corps. This army is now near Metz. The second army is that of Prince Fred? erik Charles, comprising the 2d, 3d, 9th and 10th army corp?. This is also near Metz. The third army, commanded by the Prince Royal, comprises the 5th, 6th and 11th corps, as well as two Bavarian corps. This army has been directed to move on Paris by way of Troyes. The fourth army ls that ol the Prince Royal of Saxony, and Ts advancing on Paris by way of Chalons. The filth army, under General Werthler, embrac? ing the Wurteuiburg and Baden divisions, is now engaged in the siege of Strasbourg. Be? sides these there ls an army of reserves, partly under command of the Duke of Mecklenburg - Schwerein, on the Rhine; partly under the command ol General Constein, at Berlin, and partly under the command ol General Lowenfield, in Silesia." The Gazette. aRer thi6 recapitulation, goes on to say: "Evidently the Prussians may, with? out interruption, or without danger of expos? ing their rear, move on Paris, while the ar? mies remaining in North Germany are strong enough to maintain order at home and pro? tect the country.1" FRENCH CHAMBERS-TOE PROTESTANTS. PARIS, August 31. lu the Corps L?gislatif yesterday Deputy Johnson, ol' Bordeaux, protested against the accusation of Protestants in France. He af? firmed this was not patriotic, anti said Protes? tants were ready to sacrifice their lives and fortunes in defence ol' the country. The Minister ol the Interior suid that such accusations were unworthy of France. He knew that al! Frenchmen were moved by the ?ame sentiment. He would cans.- it to be pub? lished in all the communes of France that the first religion now is patriotism. This was greeted with great applause. PARIS FORTIFICATIONS. A special Tribune correspondent, passing through Paris yesterday, was allowed to visit the fortifications. In the inner line compara? tive^ few guns are mounted, and they are of small calibre, mostly old 24s and 32s. Tho outer forts, toward St. Denis, are connected by lines of earthworks. Much wood is felled. 1 "am convinced that the government does not Intend to stand a siege, but the people do. The southern railroads are still uncut. Oxen are coming in droves from italy. Coming from Dijon, near Paris, I passed ten-return cattle trains in three hours. GLOOM IN PARIS. Nothing in Paris is so striking as the general gloom of the people, and efforts to push forward troops are incessant. Shattered regiments are reforming. One regiment ol cuirassiers lias been formed ol'the remains of the four in the battle of Woerth, and of another two officers remain, but literally no men. Troublesome volunteers are shipped to Algeria. The Bois de Boulogne has been closed since yesterday evening. Eight hundred wagons, containiug household goods, passed yesterday through the Antegil sate alone. Th-- inhabitants of the environs are crowd? ing into Paris and camping in the streets and squares, unable to obtain lodgings without paying in advance. All Parisians are leaving who can. I was oflered to-day a senator's house for nothing on the condition of occupy? ing it for len months and hoisting the Frenen flag. The working classes are still vainly ask? ing tor arms. Another correspondent writes under the same date: Wo can no longer depend on"the mails. The northern railways are all blocked up with all sorts of luggage, goods, truck, grain and provisions from England. It wHl probably soon be cut by the Prussians, or wholly occupied lor military service. The pas? senger and freight trains are stopped; the ex? press and mail still go. The prefect ot' police has issued a notice to persons wishing to leave Paris that they require no passports. CAPTURE OF UHLANS. It is reported that a strong detatclunent ol' Uhlans Is surrounded in the forest of Marne. They were too far in advance to know when the Crown Prince changed his course, aud were left behind. The capture of the entire body is expected. DAMAGE TO sTRASBOURO. A special correspondent telegraphs from Franklort Monday night. Great damage has been done to Strasbourg. The principal streets are ruins-shells fell on the roof of a Catholic girls1 school and killed seven and wounded four. After the offer of an armistice was rejected and the German flag of truce was fired on, the bombardment was renewed with increased vigor. The fall of the city is imminent. The same correspondent telegraphs from Carlsruhe on Tuesday night : "The inhabitants who have just escaped from Strasiwurg report dread.:''.:! suffering. Most of the people spend the nights !n the cellars. Potatoes are t v :nty francs per pound, and other Ulinga lu propor? tion. Horse flesh is the only moat. General Ulrich declares that he will not surrender mi the city ls a heap o? ashes. The Inhabitants beseech bim to make terms. The besieging forces are Increasing. Their losses are still trifling. One hundred sixty-pounders were placea in position lately. The cathedral is siigiitly injured. Bain has been falling for several days." The sufferings of the inhabitants of Stras? bourg are terrible. They are starving, and are compelled to live In their cellars day and night to avoid the increasing fire of the be? siegers. Another fruitless sortie was made by the garrison on Monday. Prussian sharp? shooters are within five hundred yards of the glacis. Many houses have been burned. The arsenal was for a long time on fire. Tho am? munition was safely removed. The fortress continues to resist. PRUSSIAN MENACE OF ENGLAND. LONDON, August 31. England is likely to have an Alabama issue with Prussia. A not*, almost equivalent to a protest, has been received by Earl Granville. It remonstrates against England's disregard of ber obligations as a neutral; declares Prussia will not accept legal quibbles of the law offi? cers of the crown, and summons England to fulfil her neutral obligations, or take Ene con? sequences. The question is a diplomatic one, the note adds, and must be promptly solved as such. NOTES OF THE WAR. How ParU ls Protected-Description of the Fortifications-The City Safe from Prussian Shells. In 1836, after the Bourbons had been expell? ed r.nd their cousins ol the Orleans family had ascended the French throne, a law was passed by the Chambers ordering the construction and repair of fortresses, and granting a sum of 140,000,000 francs for constructing a double line of defence around the capital. The plan agreed upon provided for double line of de? fences, the interior to consist of a continuous enclosure (enceinte continu?e,) and the outer line ol a series of detached forts, each com? plete of itself and independent of the other, and yet all so arranged as to afford each other the amplest assistance in the event of an attack. Their fires sweeping each other, it is necessary for an enemy to pass between them before he can attach the inner walls, whose guns also sw^ep the open space between the forts. TUE INNER LINE. The inner line of works consists of a series ol bastions, which present ninety-four angular fronts. The line is irregular, but surrounds the entire city, going through the Bois de Boulogne on'the west, and touching the Bois de Vincennes on the southwest. It is twenty two mileB in circumference, and is probably the longest continuous line of bastions In the world. The wall, which forms a part ol the bastions, is also terraced, and has au escarp? ment ol thirty-four feet, laced with masonry. Each ot the angular faces (1. e. bastions) has a medium length of 1090 feet. In front of the whole, and entirely surrounding the city, is a continued losse, or line of wet ditches, lined ! with masonry, and of a depth ot eighteen by a wldlh of twenty feeL From the bottom of these ditches to the top of the embankments crowning the walls, ls a height of about forty-1 five feet. The bastions will have mounted In them an average of about ten guns each, which will make a total of 940 for the ninety- j four angular face.?. This agrees with the dispatches from Paris, which report 1000 guns mounted on the ramparla sine; the battle of Woerth. About one hundred gates pierce the ramparts, th? ditch?1? Uetiiir covered by drawbridges which can be ?vmoved at a moment's notice, or destroyed lu two minutes by the cannon in the bastion*. At. different points in the rear ot thc line are placed exten? sive magazines, well supplied with ammuni? tion for the artillery, and amply protected irom the shot of th? enemy. Since the acces? sion of Louis Napoleon these magazines have been entirely remodelled, and are now abso? lutely impregnable to shot and shell. Until the present war broke out, there was not a sun mounted upon the ramparts, nor was the enceinte complete. To-day every bastion ls bristling with cannon, and the entire Inner works are in a complete state of preparation for an enemy. The heavy guns will have be? fore them a clean sweep of from one and a half to three miles, so that even if the Prus? sians succeed in forcing a passage between the outer works they will be met at the onset by u concentric fire from two of the forts and from the ramparts. THE DETACHED FORTRESSES. These are fifteen In number and are of va? rious sizes. They cover a considerable length of the Seine River, which on the west makes a deep bend forming a broad peninsula. On the southeast the junction of the Seine with the Marne is also covered by a fort. The fif? teen forts combined present ninety-three fronts. Each fort Is a separate and distinct work, intended to rely upon itself in case of necessity, though receiving support from the works that flank it. All are casemates, an'", combined, mount twenty-three hundred guns of all kinds and calibres. Their armaments have been in them for a long while, so that little work has been required for them since there was a prospect of Paris being besieged. Each has its own magazine, barracks, store? house und supply of water, so that should one be captured the two on each side would not be inconvenienced in the slightest degree, while the flankers would be free from the Hank lire of the two forts referred to. COSCLl'DINU KEMAUKS. As announced from Paris, the garrison, in the event of a siege, will consist of 200,000 men. A great deal of unnecessary sorrow ls being expressed at the prospect of Prussian shells battering down the splendid edifices of Paris. It is exceedingly doubtful if auy of their shells fall much beyond the Inner line of works, and lor the reason that they will not be able to construct batteries near enough to the outer fortresses to throw shells into tue Tuile? ries, unless they bring six hundered pounder guns with them, and we doubt much il their siege artillery contain guns of any such cali? bre. Furthermore, to surround "the walls of Paris would require a much larger army than the Prussians now have. Five hundred thou? sand men may do it, but half that number cannot. They may occupy ail the avenues ol approach, but eacn force of occupation would be so far Irom the others that by rapid massing the French would stand a fair chance of thrash? ing the besiegers in detail. Thc Prussian Plan of the Campaign Against France-A Singular State? ment. A correspondent of the New York Herald, In a letter dated Carlsruhe, August 10, says: You, no doubt, remember how lt was all along, until barely a week ago, expected that the.French would take the Initiative In this war. would either cross the Rhine at Strasbourg or move across ihe Bavarian frontier and carry on the war in the enemy's country. You also probably recollect how every one believed that the Prussians would take the defensive, would first occupy the line upon which they would have Landau os a centre, then fall back on Moselle, and finally make a stand at Mayence. Lastly, you cannot have forgotten (for it oc? curred within tin; hut few days) how astonish? ed the world waa when the Prussians, and not the French, .ook the initiative; and then, in? stead of the war being carried into Prussia by Napoleon, it was carried into France by the Prince Royal. The latter change of tactics every one put down to accident, or, at any rate, to the fact of tbe French not being ready to cross the Rhine when they ought to .have done so. Well, I have, within the past few hours, been shown an official document which proves beyond all doubt that from the very first the plan ol the campaign determined upon at the Prussian headquarters was exactly ??ne for line and movement for movement what ts now being carried on. Bismarck and Moilke never intended that a shot should be fired in Mcrmany. They knew a month ago exactly th? state of forwurdnes-:. or rather the state ot' backwardness, ol thc French army. Wherever horses or provisions were being gathered together for thu French, there was a Prussian a^ent taking slock ol the same. At Berliu, and. indeed, throughout Germany, there was but lour person.- admitted to know the plan ot' invading France, and not allowing France to Invuue Prussia. Thew were B.sinurck, Molli..-, Blumenthal and the King. The luea was. of courwe, fostered that the Freucti would certainly In? vade "Fatherland," iur by so doing the national spirit was reuJered all the more inteuse. The secret was well kept, so well that throughout Europe every one believed Prussia would have to act upon the defensive, and that French armies would be fed on Ger? man ground. And this belief worked in anoth? er way for the advantage of Prussia. It made the French ah the more careless about r lng for the feeding of their army. Tl lleved that in one or two days at mos taking the field they would be"in the va the Rhine or that of the Moselle, and hi the crops and stores at their disposition what it I tell you what I have myself s a document which admits of no possible that so long ago as the 23d of July, the day upon which the Prussians woult the frontier in force, and the very places they were to cross were already t and named by the initiated few directed affaire ? What If I tell you tht advance upon WIessenburg, the subse following of the French troops, the br? of their line by attacking them somewb the valley of the Saar and the forcing of back upon Metz or Nancv, if they wet utterly beaten before, was 'all mapped c a master hand in the great art of war tr days ago? It is impossible for me tc where or how I got the Information; but I say is the fact, and one hardly knows to admire most, the head that plannet attack upon the enemy that expected to invader, or the marvellous secrecy with the intentions of the Prussian leaders concealed so long as there was any rea? doing so. The Horrors of the War. [Prom the London TImes.l Those who can detach their minds fror tlcular Incidents of war to contemplai progress as a whole must acknowledg strange and, we may almost say, terrible ation of the snectable. Take the m France and mark upon it the course of tl vancing army during the past week. SU and surely the dark blue columns have ? onward, covering, piece by piece, the ea departments, ana pushing their way int heart of France. The whole armv lias n with the unity of a single being. WI noise, without haste, but without halting moment, it has appeared resolute to a< plish a preconceived design. We see ii character of the advance evidence o; attack, attested to us by many other pi that the plan ol the campaign settled before a hostile column had tered upon French territory, for lt bea every step of its progress the impress single mind. The effect is enhanced b contrast presented by the armies ol tl fence. Ever since the betrinnlng of tht their movements have been distracted, attempts purposeless, and their efforts c quently ineffectual. Other nations may their lines of blue and red moving with than machine-like regularity and force, organization of the German army goes ft yond this. "Infantry to perforate the fo tillery to smash him. cavalry to lacerate and at the same time the Brethren of bearing the red and white cross of neutr to drag him from the field of death; Siste Mercy to tend him, doctors to cure, pries comfort his soul, all follow, each in Its a; priate order. There is even a corps of g diggers, who are under command, and s in their appointed functions, burying ' were friends and foes, but have become re ciled in death, and-so runs the inscriptlo the heights of Forbach, as in the orcuarc Sadowa- '.Ruhen zusammen in Gott.1 " No more awful implement of destruc than the German army has ever done its tined work. It has the physical force ol J tion brought together and driven against foe after much training and discipline, and such a ready concurrence of every man IQ army, that lt acts os a single man woult under the volition of his heart and brain, result is seen at large in the advance from Rhine to the Saar, from the Saar to the selle, from the Moselle to the Meuse; it ma studied In detail on the heights of Spich and among the vineyards of Woerth. ' regiments had exhausted themselves li saultlng the Speckler Berg, when the 40th vanced and scaled lt at a cost ot GOO men 16 officers, while the C7th sacrificed OOO i and 25 officers, in breaking in upon thc trenchments at Forbach. The work had to be done, and it was don no greater sacrifice than was necessary, at atty sacrifice that was necessary, ghastly spectacle after the battle of Woert described by a well-known correspond who, not unused In the annals of war, fays have seen many fields, and the more I se them the less I like them." Along two mile road ?ny the trophies of death, and though service of burial was continuously kept up the companies of grave diggers, the harvest! proved too heavy for the reapers. "Th will, I fear," writes our correspondent, vi two prophetic accuracy, "be many more such scenes and worse." Before the campo of 1870 comes to a close, how quick soever approach of the enemy may be, the great strover will have laid low thousands more his victims. The Battle of Woerth-Incidents or t Fight-How McMahon Lost t Battle. [Correspondence of the London Telegraph. Whatever could have made McMahon cept a battle under the circumstances, I : utterly at a loss to conceive. A glance at I two armies seemed to show how utterly 1 possible lt wotdd have been for the French do more than hold their own. and even to litis must have cost them dear. But tri compels me to state that the vast superior In numbers was not the only reason why th lost the litrlit. The Prussian troops are. without exceptic in the highest slate ol discipline; the Pren are the very reverse. Tiley are brave tc fault. I never knew men fight better or c spise death more. I saw one regiment Zouaves, which was 2000 strong when it we into battle. It lest an immense number men. and the survivors were finally surrour. ed by the Prussians. They fought like devils; and I don't thli there could have been two hundred men 1< when they held up a white handkerchief a: were made prisoners. The Prussian office themselves admit the reason why they tot so many prisoners to be that the French we all detached, were here and there in small b dies, and were all cut off In detail. The Prc sians seemed to me never to lose their form tion; the French seemed really never to hai hadaoy. Their system, or wanto! systei might answer very well against undisclpline tribes In Algeria, but as they are they never w be able to face a regular disciplined Europea army. I repeat that, as regards their braver even to a fault, there can be no doubt waa ever. But in these days courage is not tl only requisite for a soldier. In saying that McMahon's information wt of the very worst kind. I am merely repeatin what every French officer I have seen sine the fight told me. It ls hardly to be believe? but it ls perfectly true, that the maps of Alsac furnished by the Prussian topographical di partment to every officer in the army were ir finitely more correct than those used by th French headquarter staff. But most to blam of all the military dnpartments seems to hav been the "Intendance." Prussian officere hav told me that, ii* the French army in Strasbonr had crossed the Rhine about the 20th ol' Julj and with a hundred and fifty thousand me had made a forced march upon Mannheim, th results of the campaign would have been ver different. I believe the fighting portion of the arm was perfectly ready to move on that day, bu there were not two days' rations ready fo them. Nay, 1 have been told by French pris oners that it was only on the day before th battle of Woerth that the Chef d'Intendance c McMahon's army concluded the contract fo fresh meat for the men. Some days befon leaving Strasbourg many of the regiment! officers told me that the army sincerely hopet the present campaign would be the last ii which the soldiers would be led by the Inten dance, and that it was lullv expected they (th< French) would revert to the old system, tha worked so well under the First Empire, b] which an officer in each regiment was ap pointed to purchase food and provide for tnt wants of the men. How thc Nobles of France Rally to itheii Support. Tue d'Orl?ans are winning Uareie tvithou coing to battle by the noble stand they take ii thiu momentous crieie. The Gaulois publishei a private letter from the Prince de Joinville full of devo:cd patriotism. I give it in fu*J : BRUXELLES, Angnst 10, 1870. I devour tho journals, my dear Monsieur Bsiobei - they teach m> nothing new. Both niiL-flarti eviu-?iitlvproo-inne; for a decisive con? flict. 'Ve have ?til gr -at reamrces; for, after all, the Corps alcMitbon is the only one dis? abled. FroBsanra baaanff?red but'iit'lc. and the others are iutact. Over and above thcae forcee there ia the rage of geeing the enemy on our territory. But we must be commanded. Will we be? The troubles in Paris make me shudder wita horror. I cannot understand the Chamber. I cannot understand that a word should be spoken, an act accomplished, that has any other aim bnt that of coming to the assistance of our armies, the only hope of France at this hom*. Whatever the present government may be, while the chane? of resistance ia left ns, it ia better than a provisionerv one, from tho single fact that it is organized. And. if this resistance cannot be prolonged, it is the prea er* government only which should be forced to yield tn the law of the conqueror. Bnt any? thing rather than this alternative. 1 have received no reply to my demand to go over and serve in the army under the Emperor. I wait with an anxiety which yon must under? stand. I have jost read that the citizens of Weissenborn fired on the enemy daring the combat. The brave fellows I if every one would do the like-if they succeed in patting Paris in a state of defence-if oar army can find a chief to direct it, the efforts of the Ger? mans will find themselves exhausted in the very centre of France, and they will encounter their Borodino there. Nothing is lost, and I allow myself to dream of a treat national movement by which France will drive the ene? my from her soil. Honrs, minutes axe precious. I do not con? sider that I Uve. I pity yon sincerely, for to oar intense anxieties are added those of the father. Yours, ?fcc., FBUIOOXS D'OBXEABB. ; How Prance has Been Swindled? [From the Journal of Commerce.] It is related of the ' Cz ir Nicholas thfct, shortly after the Crimean war broke ont, he was strolling through sn ordnance yard at Sebastopol, surveying with pride the pyramids of cannon balls piled np there, when he idly chanced to strike one of them with his walking stick. It gave back a strange, dull sound. An examination revealed that it was made of wood, and the same exaggerated wooden nutmeg im? postare had been practiced by the contractor in supplying all the balla there stored away. Following np this clew the Czar ascertained that jobbing and fraud pervaded all depart? ments of the army service, and that, except om paper, his empire was in no condition to con? tend with the allied powers. Napoleon's army and military equipments and provisions ere. not as deficient and deludive aa those of Nicho? las; bnt they fall far short of what he and the world expected them to be. We question, in - the first place, whether the active army was anything like 400,000 strong. We have never been able to Agare ap more than 250,000 or 275.000 regalar French troops ia the advance on Prussia; and we believe thal the actual enu? meration of the men at his command was the principal reason that induced Napoleon to stand on the defensive instead of attempting an invasion of Prussia. Somebody-or some military ring-has been deceiving the Emperor and getting rich on: of the rations and supplies of & paper army. Then, too, the reserve of 400.000 men, which were eapposed to be capa? ble of taking the field at short notice, why bave they not been available to reinforce the regular army more promptly? Because, we venture to say, the War Department WoS Ufti able to furnish them with rifles or muskets of any description, to say nothing of chassepots, equipments, and uniforms. More than a year ago we read the statement that France had ever a million cbassepots in her arsenals; and tbe government factories were said to be still turning thom out. But immediately after McMahon's defeat, complaints began to be rife that France was short not only of chnssepota bat of arms of every kind. The French com? missariat ie worse, il possible, than any other branch of the service, if we may believe a tithe of the statements made by correspondents. McMahon's army was represented to be almost starving tor some days, and that, too, in a region in easy communication with the capital. All these deficiencies and weaknesses in ihe ? French army, disclosed by the light of events, astonis'.i those who believe that, since 1866, France bas been making unremitting efforts for a war with Prussia. Either she has had no serious intention of fighting Prussia in all that time, or the Emperor has been grossly doped by his fivorites, who have deluded hov? into the belief that France waa prepared "to con? front every eventuality" (to quoto from hie speech to the bodies of State, January 18,1869.) and havo profited by his credulity lo amass fortunes. Miscellaneous. Gustave ReyHari has organized a volunteer corps for the defence of Paris, composed of writers for the press. Leboenf, the deposed French commander, is now derisively called "The stranger's guide to Paris." The Journal Officiel publishes a decree dis? missing from office the mayor of Epemay for issuing a proclamation advising citizens to make no defence. The Patrie est?males the Prussian losses at over 145,000 men thus far. Huonville has cer? tainly been resupplied with stores and ammu? nition. Bismarck is reported to be at Spandau, near Berlin. The French have eent to the Spanish minis? try for information in regard to the organiza? tion of guerilla bands, probably with a view of us mi; that method of warfare against Prus? sian invaders. It is reported that the Princess Clothilde, wife of Prince Napoleon, when urged by the Kins of Italy to leave France, replied she would not abandon the country of her adoption at such a moment. To-monow is the last of i he three days within which German residents mnst leave Paris. After thal date the police are to search carefully each arondissement to see that thc order of expulsion bas been ob? served. Many arrests of alleged spies axe made daily. Tbe Standard, in reviewing the situ?t ion, says: "Tue Prussians are strong around Rheims, while immense masses of them have passed to the northward. It is impossible to say whether tbe report that the King is moving on Paris with a heavy force is true or not. Equally doubtful is the rumor that the French ministers of war and the interior have removed from tbe capital. The news is all uncertain and conflicting." Previous to tbe departure of the American Ambulance Corps, Dr. Evans, the celebrated dentist, made an ill-tempered and heated speech, opposing tbe appointment of Dr. Sims as a member of the committee to supervise the movements of the train. After the adjourn? ment of the comm ttee a personal encounter took place between the antagonistic physicians, daring which Dr. Sims ohaetised Dr. Evans quite severely. The rencontre, from ihs standing of the parties involved, bas produced considerable scandal. ALL A.HO Ci ISLE STATE. Mr. Lucien Dargan, second son ot Dr. T. A. Dargan, of Darlington, died on Saturday last. A stabbing affray occurred near Ridgeway last week, and resulted in Discing one of the combatants hors de combat. A terrific thunder and lightning storm oc? curred at Winnsboro on Monday last. 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