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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT j Bazaine Interviewed. The Marshal (Speaks for Himself. Capitulation of Jew Brei-sach. Brei-sach. Prussia Snubs Austria. FRENCH VICTORY BY THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. Orleans Hecaptuved with Heavy Loss to the Prussians. A RUMORED ENTRANCE OF AUSTRIA INTO THE WAR ON THE SIDE OF FRANCE. Trochu preparing- for another an-other Grand fortie. GENERAL ISEYVS. More Election Returns. FOREIGN. New York, llj. The Herald's special spe-cial from London f to-day says : The Herald's correspondent from Cassel, writing ocn the 7th inst., gives an ao-count ao-count of an interview with Bazaine. The Marshal said, in defending himself against personal slander, that he had a way of his own, which never failed. Said he : Let Gambetta call me a traitor trait-or to my country. I shall not answer this babbler, who never smelt gunpowder. gunpow-der. To do so would admit his right to sit over me in judgment. Time will clear up the case, and work out truth and justice. Bazaine said his relations with the Prussian officers, after the -.surrender, were excellent. Ho should be grateful to Prince Frederick Charles for ever. Ihe latter said to Bazaine in parting : "If your personal honor should ever be assailed, call on me to defend it." Bazaine said a proclamation of the Republic in Meta would have paralyzed paraly-zed all action. Ho could then have counted no longer upon his best troops. When his spies brought him the ''abominable doings of the 6th of September," Sep-tember," he sent inquiries to the Prince to know whe'.her it was true ; but confessed he did not believe even him until he transmitted a copy of the Journal Official. Bazaine then told his soldiers that the Emperor was a prisoner, that the Empress and young prince had left France, and that Gen. Trochu stood at the head of the national nation-al defense committee. The Republic never was proclaimed. In reply to a question concerning his political creed, Bazaine said : ' I have sworn loyalty to the Emperor and the constitution. The Emperor is a prisoner, but the constiution is in France. Neither I nor my comrades will ever acknowledge acknow-ledge any other government, until we previously obtain a discharge from our oath by the Emperor." He also said, "I reported to the government at Tours and Paris everything that occurred oc-curred at Metz always the strict, naked na-ked truth, but nover received a reply or notice of any kind," Bazaine stated that he had beaten the Prussians often and severely, but the final result was always unfavorable to him. In answer to the question if hunger at last forced him to open negotiatioas, he replied : "Even if it had not been hunger I would have done it. One day I learned that not republicans but a mob governed in Paris, Lyons and Marseilles. One day I learned that the army was insulted, and the memory of men reviled whom I venerate. : but it was hunger, and nothing but hunger. You would have been mistaken were you to think 1 took the responsibility upon myself. I acted only as executive execu-tive of the council of war, whose members ascertained the orjinions of the generals, colonels and majors of the army previous to making up their votes. I had daily slaughtered ojij horses, fifty of which I gav to the inhabitants in-habitants of the town. I called the council together on the loth, and again on the 12th of October, when it was unanimously resolved that by the Kuh I must commence the steps of capitulation. capitu-lation. I now requested permission of th.3 I rince for General iioyer to go to the headquarters of the King. It was granted after some dcla; You have certainly seen in print that his mission resulted in a failure. I proposed to march out with the army, to fledge our honors not to fight again in this war, ind to be permitted to convene and protect the French Chamber against a second autmpr by the mob: Bisman k named it street loafers. 1 dete-r politic. We only wanted to do what Gatnbetta d'd: reestablish re-establish our loyalty 1 y falling together to-gether the representative body." Bismarck it s ris ytf.i .are agreed to baiainc's proposition-, but M'ohke rejected them, 'lie belt red the Marshal Mar-shal could not prevent the departure of his troops, who would then materially mater-ially strengthen the tor.-. - 0f the Fran-co-tireurs. Ra;aise n-.thir said: I have yet to teil you tiit a council of war had no authority to make peace, which should be solely the province of the government acknowledged by the chambers. One of the conditions ot capitulation was that the honor of the army should remain unsullied. We obtained its acceptance, and our terms are better' than any allowed to troops who have capitulated during the unlucky war. There was no chance whatever to make our way out. Our artillery horses had been slaughtered, and also our cavalry horses. The troops were despairing. Our casualties from August 14th, not counting the sick and missing, amounted amount-ed in the Rhine amiy to twenty four Gensrals, U40 officers, and 42.339 men. Look at the hole in my epaulette! epau-lette! Why did not this confounded splinter of a grenade go deeper ! 1 weuld not have outlived my reputation as a soldier: nor would I as a Frenchman French-man have known that day of everlast ing ignominy the 4;h of September. The correspondent adds : I may mention a funny communication made by Bismarck to General Boyer. at the conference between them. "General Burnside has just returned from Paris." he said, "and has given me a description descrip-tion of affairs inside, characterizing the city as a mad-house, inhabited by moti-kevs." moti-kevs." London, 11. Late last evening a report was received here that the garrison gar-rison at New Breisach had hoisted the white flag. The rumor was confirmed here to-day by official dispatches announcing an-nouncing the capitulation of the fortress for-tress yesterday afternoon. Five thou sand prisoners, including 10V officers, fell into the hands of the Germans. No guns were captured. A roundabout rumor from Berne and Berlin states that Garibaldi has surrendered to the Germans. No particulars. par-ticulars. The report is generally discredited. dis-credited. A sharp reply has been returned to Austria from Belgium, in response to her note offering mediation, on the ground that Austria having armed at the beginning of the war was disqualified disqual-ified now to act as a neutral. It is generally thought Prussia will prefer the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine to any guarantee the neutral powers may Eee fit to make. Prussia's relations rela-tions with Austria and Russia are not such as to render any guarantee of theirs acceptable. There is great distress among the poorer classes of the French, owing to the government having seized all the money in the savings.banks. The dismantling dis-mantling of Alt Briesach has already commenced, now that the French works on the opposite side of the river are all in the German hands. The Baden artillery has been thanked by the Prussian government for its gallantry. Tours, 11, New York. 11. A dispatch dis-patch from the General commanding the army of the Loire, received by the minister of war last evening, lias just been given to the public as follows : " e have taken possession of Orleans after a fight of two days. The aggregate aggre-gate losses in killed and wounded do not reach .,00U; those of the enemy are much larger. We have made more than a thousand prisoners thus far, and are continually adding to them as we follow up the fleeing enemy. Among the property captured are two cannon of the Prussian model, twenty ammunition wagons, and a treat num ber of vans and provision wagons. The hottest of the fight took place around Coulmier, on Wednesday, the 9th, notwithstanding the bad weather and other unfavorable circumstances. The elan displayed by the troops was remarkable. re-markable. General He Paladiues, on occupying the city, issued the following congratu" latory order : "To the officers and soldiers sol-diers of the Army of the Loire : The action of yesterday was a glorious one for our army. Every position of the enemy was vigorously carried, and the enemy is now retreating. I have informed in-formed the government of your conduct, con-duct, and am instructed to return to you its thanks for your victory. Amid the disasters iu which Fraucc i plunged, her eyes are upon you, and she counts upon your courage." Let us all make every effort, in order that this hope may not be mistaken. Signed, d'Aureles de Pa!adines,eom-mander-in-ehief ; general headquarters. Nov. 10th, INTO." London, 11, :; p. m. Tho stock market has been greatly depres-ed this afternoon, by rumors that Austria has joined France against Prussia ; that the French troops have retaken Orleans, and that the French fleet have made important captures. Berlin, 1 1. Deserters from Paris say Trochu is preparing for another grand sortie. Versailles, 11. lienerul You Dor-taun Dor-taun having evacuated Orleans, reports the enemy not advancing along the Loire, as previously rumored. |