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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The new French loan has been all taken up. The troops in Paris are divided inte three armies. Nine French war vessels are off Heligoland, Hel-igoland, in the North Sea. Nine thousand more Spanish troops are preparing for Cuba. Large quantities of provisions still leave Liverpool for France. The negotiations between Bismarck and Thiers lasted five days. The French government has ordered the arrest of'Bazaiue and his officers wherever found. As the Prussians keep shooting French peasants, the Italian zouaves give no quarter. Accounts from various parts of France say the entire population ia rising to repel .the invadurs. Rev. Maxwell B. Gaddis has been indicted by a Cincinnati jury, tor defrauding de-frauding the internal revenue. Chief Justice Chaso continues to improve in health and is expected soon to resume his seat on the bench. The French are said to have 800.U00 troops in aud around Pans, of whom 650,000 are well armed and drilled. The roads to the gates of Paris are defeuded with barricades of masonry, mounted with guns of the best description. descrip-tion. It is said that every Frenchman will join in the war with desperation, lather ihau yield. French territory to (jer-nianv. Bismarck says that he and Thiers had agreed upon all points under discussion, dis-cussion, except the revictualiing of Paris. Heavy cannonading was heard on Monthly in the direction of Mont Billiard and Bellefort, on the Swi. frontier. When Bismarck's terms were reported re-ported in Paris the people shouted "No Armistice ! Resist the I'rus.iians till death I" llie lull returns ol the Paris vote on sustaining the covernment show that 557,996 voted "aye," and 02,638 voted "no." The villlage of Auxon, near Bcsan-con, Bcsan-con, was twice captured by the Prussians, Prus-sians, and each tiuio was recaptured by the French. The room of .J. T. Joy, in the St. Nicholas hotel, Detroit, was robbed on Monday of $50,0U0 in bonds of the Chicago & Iowa R. R. New York was quiet on Monday night, with 5,000 troops quartered between be-tween East and North rivers, and the prospect of a pcaceablo election. An attack on the forts around Paris will not bo possible bofore the 20th, and no bombardment of the city can take place until the forts are captured. The ground between the Paris forts and the encicnte of the city is said to be honey-combed with mines, filled with powder, ready to bo exploded by electricity. Reports from French sources suy France is every day growing stronger, while Prussia daily has more difficulty in supporting her vast armies on a foreign soil. |