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Show LATE NEWS. An Armistice Agreed On. Napoleon on the Campaign of 1870. ' GARIBALDI TO THE RE PI BLHS. Conditions of the Armistice. FOREIGN. Versailles, Li. The Constitutional publishes the terms proposed yesterday yester-day by Thiers and accepted by Bismarck. Bis-marck. The latter offers to the French an armistice of twenty-five days, to allow a general election to be held throughout France; the armistice to be based on the military condition existing ex-isting on the day of the signature. Tours, 3 The Figaro of to-day publishes a version of Napoleon's pamphlet pam-phlet on the campaign of 1S70, and the causes which led to the capitulation at Sedan. The Emperor recalled to mind his manifesto, issued just after the declaration dec-laration of war, and the misgivings with which he listened to the cry "On to Berlin." He says his plan was to mass a hundred and fifty thousand men at Metz, a hundred thousand at Stras-burg Stras-burg and fifty thousand at Chalons, and to cross the Rhine near Hagenau with a large force, in order to separate Prussian Germany from the Northern Confederation. He hoped to win the first general battle and form an alliance between Austria, Italy and France, and in imposing neutrality on Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemburg. The defects in the French military system and the delay in bringing up men and material, defeated this plan. He enumerates the difficulties encountered, but acquits the war office of blame. The Germans having had ample time to bring their forces into the field, the French were outnumbered and put on the defensive. A new plan was necessary, involving a retreat on Chalons. This the regency disapproved disap-proved as discouraging to the public, and the Emperor was urged to resume the offensive. Yielding his convictions convic-tions and McMahon's advice, the plan was adopted. He alludes to his situation situa-tion after he had given up command of the army, and when his name and authority- were ignored at Paris, as painful. He acquiesced in the march for the relief of Metz, though aware of the danger of that enterprise. He describes the operations and battles preceding the surrender at Sedan, and gives the fact of his interviews with Bismarck and the King of Prussia. The pamphlet closes with a declaration declara-tion that the German successes are due to duplicity, numbers, improved artillery, vigorous discipline, re-pect for authority, and the military and patriotic pat-riotic spirit of the people, which absorbs ab-sorbs all other interests and opinions. It censures the loose habits introduced by the' African wars, in which the Irench regular troops had been engaged, enga-ged, which it enumerates as want of discipline, lack of cohesion, absence of order, carelsness of bearing and excess of luggage carried by infantry. The efficiency of the army was weakened, too, by the excesses of the opposition in the Corp3 Legislatif, and of the republican re-publican p.ess introducing into it a spirit of criticism and insubordination. Loudon, 3 Gen. Garibaldi, in an order of the day, reproaches the republics repub-lics for their failure to act for mutual defence. Switzerland, he says, is kept down by the cash boxes of her great bankers. With her lifted fineer she might have kept Prim from Madrid, but she allowed him to slaughter the Spanish nation. Referring to the Uni ted States, the General say.-: "One of Washington's great family barely permits per-mits the republic to fling a word of sympathy to the brave descendants of Lafayette. Thou who first proclaimed the emancipation of races, classical land of lioerty, home of the exile, wilt thou abandon in this struggle of giants thy sister nation, who marchedi and will again march in the van of human progress." He continues "France is in ruins, because her army of braves was led by the stupidest of tyrants. But the nation is here; it has risen as one man, and will make the autocrat of Prussia repent his inhuman butchery." The order closes with an appeal to the soldiers, declaring that their courage is unquestionable, but that they want the coolness and discipline, so indispeu-sible indispeu-sible in war. Tours, 3. The conditions of the proposed armistice are the following : The duration will be twenty days ; the inhabitants will be at liberty to bring in food, during this interval free elections will be held in all the depart-menu. depart-menu. The Paris government, owing to the events that have taken place lately, is resolved to consult tho peoplo of Paris as to the maintainanco of the authority conferred. The vote was to take place to-day. |