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Show ! SCRAPS OF THE W AR. It Ls stated that the Austrian ar ! Office, af ter learning of the capture ot I N apoleon, suspended the purchase ot j horses. - ! The Third Zouaves were three thousand strong on the 4th of August. At Kercbshorlen they lost nineteen hundred. Alter Sedan there was but one hundred. The Parisians continue to amuse themselves with renaming their streets. The name of He Alomy, borne by a street leading out ut the Faubourg St. Honore to the Champs Ely sees, is nuw replaced by that of lc.Mabon. The Jovmul d' Agricvlturc says that the departments traversed by the belligerents, aDd comprising an area of over four million hectares, have totally to-tally lost their harvests and supplies. The money loss is net far from a thousand thous-and inilliou6 of dollars already in those departments. At the Hotel de Yillc, M. Gambetta saved a fine picture of the Emperor from destruction by a happy mot: ".My friends, " said he, adroitly twisting twist-ing the obnoxious ponrait round, its lace to the wall. "My friends, we have borne with this original fur twenty yeais; we will be satisfied now with turning biui to the wall. That's all he Ls lit for." When the Prince Imperial reached Namur, in Belgium, he learned, for the first time, the true state of affairs. The L'uunt de Baillet, Governor of that place, announced to him. tendeily the surrender of his father, the tiight of his mother, and the fall of the Empire. Em-pire. The poor boy buried bis head in bis bands, aud remaining iu deep grief for a few moments, rose and said, "Never mind, if only France remains." He then retired to Ins room, and de-su-ed to be left alone. Among the few who escaped from Sedan was M. Peregallo, Chef du Ba-taillou. Ba-taillou. He refused to capitulate, and when night came he got some poor clothing, cut off his beard aud moustache, mous-tache, and got out of the town with some teamsters. After two days of fatigue aud anxiety, during which he was in the irequent company of Prussian Prus-sian soldiers, he was arrested at Meaux for a Prussian spy, aud sent on to the front for examination. There he made known his rank, and was received with warm congratulations. In bis flight from France through Belgium, the Prince Imperial stayed in the Gity of'AIons, at the Hotel de la Couronne. This hotel has a curious history. In 1761 the Emperor Joseph stopped there in his visit to the provinces, prov-inces, so soon after annexed to republican republi-can and imperial France. The Count de Provence, afterwards Louis XYI1I, stopped there when he ran away from France in 17iH. Louis Napoleon, King of Hol'and, stopped there in lSUb, on his way to his Government. Napoleon I. and the F'mpress Marie Louise were there in 1S1U, while on an imperial progress. In 1S15 the allied al-lied sovereigns rested there on their way to Paris. And in 1 S3 1 the Orleans princes, on their way to the memorable siege of Antwerp, were guests of the Grown. |