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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. (ion. Banks is renominated for Congress. Con-gress. Alexander lliiinas is dying of paraly-is paraly-is at I lieppe. Jefferson Davis and !. M. Pullman have arrived in .New York from Kuropc. The eivie guards ;i Marseilles are troublesome ami disorders arc reported. A rumor comes from Orleans thai the Germans there are reheating on Pari-. Tie- ',,, iniihoriti,., Hiking active ac-tive step o -eeurc a l.elilig supply of food. , 1 '' 1 -tii "I ilie I'l-us-iau nnuy when n tool. I Means Wa ca leulaled ,-it men. Ih -1;-r- on i he Ink. . ,n-e reporli d from ('hie-o.o. dnrini' lie- late -lormy weal her The Germans have almost entirely left the left bank of the Loire to can-centrate can-centrate on the right bank. The Americans now in Paris, at the request of Minister Washburue, will be allowed to quit the city. Gambetta has ordered railroad companies com-panies to have trains ready for moving troops at a moment's notice night or day. Rumors are afloat of a Bonapartist plot to impede the national defense of France and promote the triumph of Prussia. General Pilsach announces that on the 12th he attacked and carried ie-tuil, ie-tuil, driving out three thousand French mobiles. General Werder reports thai the French in his fiont have retired to Belfort and Dijon. Cily Marshal Donovan, of New York, has been arrested for a violation viola-tion of tho registration law. B. 1". Butler has been re-nominated for Congress iu the .".til Massachusetts district, with only one of an opposition. opposi-tion. Another sortie from .New Breisaeh caused the Prussians to withdraw from their position, with heavy losses in killed and wounded. Both parties in South Carolina claim the election, and the official returns are not expected for a week. The contest was very close. , The Union Reform party carried Charleston, in the late election, against the Republicans, by a thousand majority. The report that the Prussians at Paris asked for an armistice to bury their dead is confirmed. Five persons were injured by the j fall of a building in eist. New York, i during a gale on Tuesday. Baziile was burned by the Germans, it is said without provocation, and eighty persons perished in the fl.inics. Not a house was lvft standing. It is denied that Bourbaki has received re-ceived command of the army of the Loire. He is in favor of peace on any terms. The Republican gains in Ohio in the late election reached H.GiA) ; the Democratic Dem-ocratic gains 4,400. The widow of Admiral Farragut passed through Chicago on Wednesday Wednes-day en route to San Francisco. j There is a report in London that a peace is arranged, though not announced. an-nounced. There is another race iu progress on the Mississippi between the steamers Hubert E. Lfc and A'lfco The surrender of Metz is reported . from Berlin, but the report needs con- finnation. The ministerial organ f Prussia says Franco must sue fir peace or submit sub-mit unalterably to the terms proposed. The lbA-,.,- Gn-rlf, of Berlin, has been conti-catcd for complaining of the illiberality of government. The paying teller of Win-low. Lainer j .V. Co., prominent Wall street, N. Y., bankers, has absconded, anil is a defaulter de-faulter in 00, OCX). The firm are making mak-ing no exertions for his arrest. The SV. L'lHruitt, saiN-d from New-York New-York for Havre. takes to France 4n,u rifles and a large quantity of small arms, condemned cannon and howitzers howitz-ers lately purchased from the I'. S. navy. j Bismarck announces to foreign friend- ! ly powers that the military operation,' of Pi ussia in France are not li.r i on-I quest, but only to secure such new i boundaries as are indi-pensibie to the j better protection of Germany, against ! future inva-iou by France. The gam-on of Mniitiin-ly in a late I sortie surprised the Prussians, made j 4ml prisoners, and captured n military chest with 20.00II francs and two wag- : ons loaded with chi-sepnt-. The m-xt I day they attacked an artillery train, I capturing a numbcrof cannon-, ' The general commanding ihe am. yj of the Loire has issued an order de,-!ar- 1 ing ho will shoot soldiers for iiisid.or- ' dination, and asking his men to shoot ' him if he fails in his duly. I Seventy delegates from fourteen departments de-partments of western France, have resolved re-solved by sixty-six to four, to recognize no authority but that of the government govern-ment at Paris and Tours. 1 The confectionery manufactory of Page ifc Co., Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Chi-cago, was burned on Wednesday night, with a loss of sf, j, i h)i i, mostly insured. The screw prop Her Tmonniln went down about eight miles from Buffalo, during a severe gale on Monday night which swept the lakes. The extent of damage and loss of life by the storm is not known. The efforts of the Prussians to throw ' up offensive works against Paris urea failure, the electi ic liidit revealing (heir movements at night, and the gun, of the forts sweeping the country around. The Germans before Paris are in four large masses opposite different I sides of the city, and have thrown up intrenched works out of range of the forts, on which their advances fall back when sorties are made from Paris. The Prussians made enormous requisitions requi-sitions on Orleans when they occupied it and seized all the guns and horses in the city. The soldiers ato greedily, drank the best wines and wasted what they could not use. |