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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Eugenie has gone to Hanover. Napoleon, it is now expected, will go to Hanover. The French Constituent Assembly is to be called for the 15th. Excesses by the people are reported from various parts of France. A Polish Garibaldian legion of 500 men is being formed iu Lyons. The Prussians have 'determined to occupy Normandy, Picardy and Brittany. Brit-tany. Twenty-three illicit stills were captured cap-tured in Brooklyn on Wednesday and Thursday. Troops are to be employed in New Orleans, if necessary, to enforce the election law. More heavy raids by the revenue officers, of-ficers, on illicit distilleries in Brooklyn, are expected. A Paris decree declares the children of Jail citizens killed in the war adopted by the nation. President Grant is determined to carry out his Indian peace policy to the fullest extent. A fight occurred near Paris on Sunday. Sun-day. The French lost 1,200; the Germans about 400. The "Beds" in Paris wanted to overthrow the government when the armistice was proposed. The bombardment of New Breisach and Fort Nortier is being carried on with three batteries each. George Smith, colored, for illegal registration, has got six months' imprisonment im-prisonment in New York. The French and German war-ships in the Chinese and Japanese waters are to abstain fratn hostilities. AIphonse Gant, the newly-appoiuted administrator at Marseilles, has been wounded in an attempt to assassinate him. All meu capable of fighting, who leave Lyons in anticipation of a siege, are to be considered infamous and dealt with as traitors. The Crown Prince of Saxony is to undertake the reduction of Verdun and Meziers. This is the Prince who was killed and buried some time ago. A tin box containing $100,000 in U. S. registered bonds, was stolen on Thursday from the safe of W. J. Hoppin, a lawyer of Wall St. New York. The amount of revenue taxes col lected in the United States for the year ending June 30th, was $108,560,-107. $108,560,-107. New York State paid over thirty-six thirty-six millions. The Journal of Tours declares that the more the facts in regard to the surrender of Metz are known, the more evident it is that Bazaine s course was treasonable. ' 1 here was another riot in Paris a few days ago, instigated by Gustave Floureus. Trochu and others of the government were in the hands of the mob for several hours. Dr. Sims says the Prussian accounts conceal their actual losses. At Sedan, the Bavarian contingent, 60,000 6trong, lost 15,000 men, the same number num-ber that the entire French army lost. The rumors concerning the ill-health of Napoleon and the sickly constitution constitu-tion of the Prince Imperial, before and" since the war, are said by high medical authority to have been false. The wife of Henry Miller, of'Tay-loratown, of'Tay-loratown, Morris Co., N. J., first poisoned poi-soned her husband and then herself a couple of days ago. Her son by a former for-mer marriage is implicated in the affair. af-fair. Favre, in a speech after the declaration declara-tion of the surrender of Metz, said the army of . Paris would soon break through the lines of their besiegers and join hands with the troops of the provinces. prov-inces. The steamer Yurnna, from New York for Galveston, foundered on the night of the 20th ult., off Jupiter Inlet, Florida, and all on board perished per-ished except the second mate and four men. Dr. Sims, late surgeon of the Anglo-American Anglo-American ambulance corps, who has been through uuch of the French war, describes the condition of the French army as wretched from the very commencement of the war, and without with-out a general who could command more than 20,000 men. |