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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES Reported ir-eciallr for th Silt I.1KI Hbhild by Western Union Telegraph. A revolution at Munich is threatened. threat-ened. A great battle is expected in a day or two. Three prizes were taken into Brest on Friday. An important. Carlist rising is reported re-ported in Spain. Stores for the Prussians are accumulating accumu-lating at Nancy. On Friday a Prussian force was seen at Arcis-sur-Aube. Samuel T. Simons, dramatic agent, New York, is dead. ' The inactivity of the French fleet is denounced in Paris. The Prussians decline sending any more flags of truce. Over 250,000 beeves, sheep and hogs are now in Paris. The French ministry will stay in Paris during the siege. A French man-of-war was seen off Nantucket on the 20th. The removal of the French government govern-ment to Lyons is suggested. A strong column of Prussian artillery artille-ry entered Chalons on Friday. Herat, the Prussian spy, was shot in Paris on Saturday morning. The Paris Constitutionel says the re venge of France is near at hand. The forts around Paris have been armed, garrisoned and provisioned. Metz was said to be completely invested in-vested by 8 o'clock on Saturday morning. morn-ing. The Prussian general headquarters on Saturday were temporarily at St. Dizier. The Paris Munilfur says if the Prussians Prus-sians invest Paris, France will invest the Prussians. Sir Alexander Woodford, governor of Chelsea Hospital, died on Friday evening, aged 8$. ; The telegraph is completed from the city of Mexico to Monterey, and will soon reach Metamoras. The besiegers of Strasbourg continue con-tinue their efforts to cut off the supply of water from the city.. Ten thousand Prussians attacked Verdun on Thursday and were repulsed re-pulsed with heavy los. The Prussian government of Alsace and Lorraine is said to he exceedingly tyrannical and exacting. It is announced that Belgium will oppose all attempts to violate her neutrality, neu-trality, by force of arms. The army of the Prince Royal has been strongly reinforced from that of Prince Frederick Charles. Thiers has accepted a position on the committee of defense. To him Paris owes its fortifications. Mexican news tells of more revolution and the prospects of still more. Great country, Mexico, for revolutions. There is said to be an open rupture between leneral Trochu, Governor of Paris, and the French government. The little steamer ('it; of Rnynta has been spoken to three times, the last time when sixteen days out ; a'l well. Ten thousand persons are said to be attached to King William's headquarters, headquar-ters, including eighty per.-onal servants. ser-vants. A large body of German troops, suppo-ed lo be the l inJwehrs, lately pas.-ed through Nancy on their way to Chalons. Three new armies are reported organized or-ganized in Germany, one to a."i-t the march on Paris and the others to protect pro-tect the rear. Paris papers urge the people of that city to be calm, resolute and determin ed to defend the capital until relieved by the nation. The arrests of vagrants and suspected suspect-ed persons has been suspended in Paris, there being no move places in which to imprison them. The heirs of Commodore Meade are to meet in Philadelphia to-morrow, to decide whether the claim against Spain will be prosecuted. ' The French ministry is blamed for not ha ing armed the country people of Alsace and Lorraine, who aru reputed re-puted good marksmen. The Strasbourg garrison made another an-other sortie, and captured a large convoy con-voy of cattle for the Prussians and some munitions of war. General Brown, candidate for Governor Gov-ernor of 'Tennessee, endorses mainly the Democratic platform adopted at the last Ohio State Convention. Ln IAbnrtf. says a person who saw the Emperor on the 2oth Thursday affirms that the armies of Bazaine and Mc.Mahon are near together. The New York Jln-ahl'it Paris cor-resp. cor-resp. ndent says a hundred and seven thou-and Prussians have been called home since the war commenced. There have been several earthquakes in South America lately. Several ves-cls were sunk off Valparaiso, as a result of one, but no lives were lost. The assistant secretary of the treas-ury treas-ury has issued orders to buy 7 , M )i I , -MOO of bonds ill September, and to sell i,0"0,000 in gold during the mouth. At a meeting in 1, .union on Friday, to Uiui a nocielv in aid of the Woiindeil of I' ranee and G 'rmauv, vy in pat by for France ; very decidedly manil'.- Ird. I lii jiii Wa!l,ri."c ha i written a letter let-ter in lav. ii of' lie reiioiiiiiial ion i,t Grant lor IVci'lenl. aicl the noiniii'i-lioiiol' noiniii'i-lioiiol' Gieel'v lor governor ol cw Voik. V I, iid, ., v.holc ( hi. ago merchant, died in a physician's office on Friday, from the effects of chloroform, chloro-form, while undergoing a surgical operation. ope-ration. Henry Labouchere writes to the London Telegraph that Napoleon is virtually suspended. Trochu and the committee of defense are now ruling France. The Journal of Xancy depicts the condition of the country as most pitiable, pitia-ble, and says long years will be required to repair the injuries of a few days of invasion. Mrs. Barbara Lea, a widow, of Bradley County, Tennessee, had her throat cut a few nights ago in bed. Two children, sleeping with her, were unharmed. German journals say the landwehr is not yet in the field; French journals say the best portion of thein have been in France sometime and in several engagements. en-gagements. ' A. M. Sudwilder, agent of the Southern Express, company at Columbia, Colum-bia, Ohio, was dangerously stabbed in his bed on Thursday night, lying near the window. The navy department at Washington has published a list of naval officers to be retired and promoted, embracing rear-admirals, commodores, captains and commanders. A belief is expressed that there is a committee of safety in Paris ready to seize the government, assume the defense de-fense of the capital and formally depose de-pose the Emperor. A detachment of German uhlars attacked at-tacked the railway station at Epernay, on the road to Paris, on Friday, but were repulsed with i-evcntecn killed by the national guard. There is great excitement in Memphis Mem-phis over the late duel, in which Hamlin Ham-lin was killed. The press and the pulpit pul-pit at last agree to denounce the so-called so-called "code of honor." The Pru-sian march is to be impeded im-peded by all means; bridges are to be blown up, railways cut, roads blocked, scouts killed, and the advancing foe harrassed in rlunk and rear. The Prussians are said to have thtee limes fruitlessly attacked Llazaine with an overwhelming force to prevent communication com-munication being cut off between their armies by McMahon, but failed. The Paris Opinion Xationa!? says battles were fought on the 23rd and 24th, which resulted in the wholesale slaughter of the Prussians, and that Steinmetz was beaten on the f irmer day and Frederick Charles on the latter. Several registrars of elections have 1-ecn arrested by U. S. commissioners for refusing to register parties who served in the Confederate' army. As they acted under State laws, there is a conflict between the State and Congressional Con-gressional laws. In the Corps Legislatif, on a debate with regard to spies, Jules Favre said he trusted there was no citizen of France so bae as to look for defeat and national ruin as the foundation of his hopes. Such a person he denounced as thrice cursed. The American tiain of ambulances under charge of Dr. M. Simms, with that gentleman's daughters marching at its head, left Paris for Metz on Saturday, Sat-urday, the flags of France and the United States intertwined. It caused great enthusiasm. The Prussians arc said to force the the French peasantry to work in the trenches at Strasbourg, so as to cxpo-c them to the French fire from the defences, de-fences, thus compelling the Frenchmen to kill their countryman. |