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Show GENERAL. A Sorry View of the French Camp. Tl e Tr.'Lun 's spec al from Chalons, on U touesday, writes: The road is wed with stragglers and drunken sol-d.ers sol-d.ers of the garde mobile. The latter He being drilled with the greatest icspaicli, on y a portion being armed, he remainder are exercised with st.cks. i he camps aie full of wounded from the front, lc is believed here that Prussia has offered peace. No uews is allowed to reach here from the runt, and constant suspicious are expressed. ex-pressed. The wounds made by the Prussian guus ars not severe, but the effects of the u.itrailleurs are feaiful. ihe same correspondent writes on 1 huisday moiuing : T he duorder here in every department is very great. Eugl'sli papers often speak of mismanagement mis-management i.i the English army, but if these writers saw the state, of things nere, they would think the English management was perfect. Now that every uue is called to arms, it appears there are no ai ms to giie them, aud .t is actually contemplated issuing to a part of the garde mobile old fl nt .uuskets. There are only fifteen chasse-jots chasse-jots here for :he company at this camp, and the rest are told to look on .vh.lj the fifteen are taught the use of diat arm. Caniobert'o corps lias been sent to Metz; he expects to join it lioui l'aris. A Big Fire. Chicago. Aug. 12. A tire at nine o'clock this evening entirely destroyed the extensive paints, oil ani glass vaiehouse of Heath )c Milhgan, 170 & 172 Randolph street. The build-,ng build-,ng was five stories h gh and filled ith goods. The most energetic cftorts of tin; entire fi.e department were le-quircd le-quircd to prevent the spread of the James, w hich raged terribly for over an uour, threatening the destruction ol die whole block, on which were some of the finest buildings in the city, in-c in-c uding one occupied by the Western I'nion Telegraph Company. AUermau on the South. Washington, Aug. 12. A large audience listen-'d to an address at Lincoln Lin-coln Hall, to night from Attoruey-Ge Attoruey-Ge eral Akerman upon the war and recoustiuc.ion.- The meeting was under un-der the auspics of the Southern Republican Re-publican Association of Washington. In its course he said that With the exception of a few outrages of unusual character, perpetrated by certain lawless law-less parties, there are few portions of the world where the masses of the people live in greater comfort and are in mineral in a better condition than in the Southern States. The address was maiiiiy of a political nature. Clti-inlts Discover)-, Brooklyn, Aug. 12. The Eayleun-nftii.ices Eayleun-nftii.ices a remarkable di-covery by sew.r dingers, tvent -four feet below tie- .-u l'.ce of Monroe street, of the body of a pet ri fie 1 whale, with which w..s loiuid an li' u b ix cont lining a sin.il sum of o d Spanish go d colli. |