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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Garibaldi has retired from Dole. Sheridan has gone to Constantinople. Constanti-nople. Turkey keeps preparing for a big figbt. Vienna journals are strongly anti-llussian. anti-llussian. New York State has a population of 1,370,846. A defeat of the army of the Loire is reported. Bazaine Ls to be tried by a commission commis-sion of enquiry. The French havo met serious losses before Montmedy. The U. S. steamer Totntmee will sail for the Pacific shortly. The Germans claim buccosscb at Montmedy and Chauveney. The Germans attacked Erereaux on Saturday and were repulsed. The French fair, in New York, is expected to realize $100,000. The Ab'-nd Port denies that Austria made any proposition for war. The French lost 000 killed, wounded and prisoners at Chateau-dun. Armistice negotiations have been reopened re-opened with hopes of success. Two thousand balloon letters from Paris have reached New York. French frigates are cruising In the North Sea and English Channel. The French loss at Preux was sixty killed and n large number wounded. The departments of Orne, Euro and Sarth, FraiiT, are covered with snow. Military executions for mutiny are aid to be common in the Frwneh lines. Bavaria is allowed to enter the German Ger-man Confederation upon her own conditions. con-ditions. Secretary Jtobeson thinks Spain is better prepared with a naval force than the United States. The American generals in the Prussian Prus-sian camp nay Paris must fall before the. 1 0th of 1 leeemlier. The uaval firee of the United States is in the same condition as last year, but is somewhat reduced. It is stated that the Italian government govern-ment has declined to join the diplomatic diplo-matic move against Russia. Italy has ci. .eluded to keep out of the Russian affair, and the people sustain the government in so doing. The French report several skirmishes near Paris and on the road to Tours, in which the Uhlans were repulsed. It is said Prince Frederick Charles and the Duke of Mecklenburg are retreating re-treating and the French advancing. The Tours government say German shipping has been nearly driven fn m the Pacific ocean by French cruiser-. The German ship Estnfitte lately entered en-tered Havre, France, not having heard of the war, and was promptly seized. Bismarck is said to be very vindictive vindict-ive towards Gladstone, because of the latter's comments on the Prussian policy. pol-icy. Fegnir's tobacco factory, Baltimore, was burned on Saturday with a loss of 03,000. John Hayes, a fireman, was killed. It is rumored that an attack was to be made on the Prussians before Paris yesterday, simultaneously with a grand sortie. It was a small affair between advanced ad-vanced detachments on the 17th, near Dreux, that gave rise to tke report of a battle. It is said the French army of the Loire has succeeded in successfully turning the right flank of the German army. A fire in a four-story building, South Water street," Chicago, on Saturday, destroyed nearly $50,000 worth of property. A party of Garibaldians, under llic-cioli, llic-cioli, surprised the Prussians at Cha-tillon Cha-tillon and killed and took prisoners the entire forco. A member of the British government govern-ment is credited with saying there will be no combination of the powers against Russia. Gladstone ha evoked sharp criticism criti-cism by writing to the London Times on the political situatir.n over the sig-ture sig-ture "Scrutator." America is insuffieiestly represented on foreign naval stations. The Secretary Secre-tary of the navy will urge an improvement improve-ment upon Cengress. A fight is reported in the department depart-ment of Aisne, on Saturday,with equal losses. The French retired in good order, or-der, the dispatch says. At an engagement at Sarcy, on the 16th, the Prussians lost 200 men in a fight with Frane-tireurs and Mobiles, the latter losing fifteen. President Grant says the first he heard of the reported dispatch to Mo-ran, Mo-ran, concerning the Alabama claims, was in the morning papers. Russia has not yet committed an overt act necessary to justify war. A" mere demand would not constitute a breach of the treaty of Paris. A furniture and shade factory was destroyed, and seven dwelling houses damaged by fire, in East Twenty-ninth street, New York, ou Saturday. Secretary Robeson will urge a powerful power-ful increase to the fleet, especially of vessels fit to cope with the strong ironclads iron-clads of the great maritime powers. The jury in the Vanderpool case, trial for murder, in Michigan, failed to agree and were discharged. The,e ls great interest manilested in the case. Paladines is receiving largo reinforcements rein-forcements of men and arms: His army is reported to number 200,000 men, and is increased about 5,000 daily. An imposing iron-clad Russian fleet is soon to appear in the Dardanelles, the vessels to ba bought in the United States with the Alaska purchase money. Mails "between Cologne and Sedan were twice attacked on the 14th, by Franc-tireurs, and compelled to seek refuge, one in Belgium, the other in Sedan. Paladines having secured a very 6trong position, it is said, will await an attack by the combined armies of Prince Frederick Charles and the Duke of Mecklenburg. Mrs. Avery, wife of a prominent Chicaeoan. left home on Fridav last. in a condition of insanity, and was next heard from as jumping into the falls at Niagara. The governors of Illinois, Kentucky and Dakota have appointed delegates to the approaching immigration convention, con-vention, which is expected to number many of the leading men of the conntry. Treilhard, the new French minister to Washington, has taken steps to secure se-cure proper authority from the present French government, without which he cannot De recognized by the United States government. |
