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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Five hundred soldiers who escaped from Sedan have entered Toul. The greatest activity prevails in all the departments of France. Garibaldi is guarded as a prisoner in Caprera by the Italians. A portion of the French Baltic fleet is now cruising off Bolougue. Rumors of the capture of Strasburg are afloat. There was heavy fighting at Stras-burg Stras-burg on the IStli, but the besiegers were said to be repulsed. The main portion of the French fleet is at Calais. Favre has no hopes of peace. The great cities of France refuse to be bound by the action of Paris. The Catholic powers will make up a revenue for the Pope. The armanent of the fortifications of Lille is completed. Paris is provisioned for four months. Measures are being taken to light the streets of Pari with lamps, gas being cut off. A general amnesty is expected in Italy. There were four killed and thirty wounded in the capture of Home. The working men of Lyons have organized or-ganized an independent government lor the defense of France. Lyons has voted ten million francs and 200,000 men for the national defease. de-fease. There are fresh complications between be-tween Russia and Turkey, and war between be-tween them is probable. The feats at the fair ground in Augusta, Au-gusta, Me., gave way on Thursday afternoon, and five or six hundred people peo-ple fell to the ground, several receiving serious injuries. The extreme Republicans in Paris have been making formidable demon-trations demon-trations against the government The troops had to preserve order. Fighting near Paris has continued with varying results. The report that the Pruians had occupied Orleans is not confirmed. The manufacture of arms in France, by private panies and in the general armories, is vastly increased. The English ironclad Hot-pur carries one gun weighing twenty-fr. e tons. It is believed in London that the Prussians are negotiating with France to gain time. Engagements took place near Paris on Saturday. Sunday and Monday, with general successes for the Germans. Ger-mans. Minister Wa-hlmrne is instructed to do what be can lor the relief of the suffering Germans expelled 1 rum Paris. Farragut's obsiquies will be held October 1st. Thos. Featherstono. aged ten years, has been sent to State,' prison in New York for twelve years and a half, fir highway robbery. A p:ck pocket stole $2000 in bonds and i200 in mono) from an old lady on 3d Avenue, New York, on Thursday afternoon. He was captured. The Noith German steamer which sails fur Bremen to-djy takes 10,0' JO bushels of wheat and a large quantity of tobacco. It is reported in London that the Pi u-sians were repulsed in their late attack at-tack on Toul, have abandoned tbeseitre. and are marching to join the army at Paris. A naval duel is expected to cjme off in the Jaiiarie.se waters between the North German corvette JA'io i and the French corvette lhipUs,. It is rumored that Napoleon intends to is-ue a manifesto, and that the French Senate will be called to meet at SilllOL'CS. Washington, D.C., has a population of J06,S-0, being an increa.-e of seventy-nine seventy-nine percent, since Go. Jo-eph II. )anieN, of I'cabody, Mass., is under arrest for attempting to viola'e the person of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Shillaber. Litters from Metz, which have been picked up, reiterate the assurance that the place is well provided and the morale of the garrison excellent. 'It is rumored that Lyons will be made the temporary capitol of France, the provisional government being determined de-termined to repress the "Reds. A plebiseitum is to be taken in Italy to decide if Rome shall be the capital of the kingdom. A report of nn insurrection in Lyons against the provisional government is declared to le untrue. I AH thc able-bodied population of Lyons Mid to be under arms, mostly anii'd with old smooth-bore muzzle-loading muzzle-loading inir kcl.H. Prti-.-ia is s'ining up trouble niairiHt the 1'iencli in Algeria. The Arabs are besieging the frontier towns. Immeiiic numbers of the panics mobile are going to thc south of France to join the army there. A large force of the garden mobile is going to Algeria to relieve l lie regular reg-ular troops tbeie. The French are hort of small in mi, cv.:n nin..le loading muskets lioinir fcearce, but. arc expecting large supplies! from Eni'land. Cavalry and artillery are said to Hcuccly exi.it now in the I'k iu'Ii army. Favre is reported to oiler us terms for peace, indemnity for llm i-xiwuaes of the war, the dcmo'il ion of tin; for lie. i'h of Hi r i'Xiii y and M'-lz, and it port ion of I lei French fleet.. New Or'eatu ,, twenty two dcallm on Wednesday, nine bcin from yellow (ltYa. ' i |