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Show LAST WIGHT'S FLASHES. The French troops are blamed for using too much ammunition. The defences of Paris continue to be most energetically pushed forward. Seventy thousand volunteers left Paris on Sunday for the army. Paris is said to ha7e 130,000 men and 600 guns to defend it. The steamship Pennsylvania was burned at London on Saturday night. Mnllhouse is still in the hands of the Frenoh. Austria denies haviuz moved troops to Transylvania, as reported. Paris, Berlin aud London are trying which o.in lie the hardest. All are adepts at the game. Farragut' 8 body is embalmed. Porter Por-ter will succeed him. The Paris journals demand the expulsion ex-pulsion of all Germans from French soil, in consequence of the discovery of Prussian spies. ' The cholera now prevails among bo:h the Spaui.-h and insurgent forces in Cuba. The feeling of patriotism in France is s'aid to have grown intense. There were great demonstrations of respect to the memory of Farragut in Chicago. The l'ra itms are believed to be trying to reach Paris by brvakinc through the French lint: and attacking the forces at Chalons. The Kmpress Recent has commuted and reduced the sentence of 1,041 convicts con-victs now cjtilined in penitentiaries of France. The French have captured a North German bark and taken her into Cherbourg Cher-bourg as a priae. The principal native chiefs of three provinces of Algeria, at the commencement commence-ment of the war, mudo application to Napoleon to be permitted to march and fight side by side with the French troops, nnd to open a subscription for sufferers by war. The French are said to be drawing the Prussian army as far iuto the country a3 possible, so that after it becomes be-comes demoralized they may fall on it and inllict a fatal detent. They are alleged to be well satisfied with the situation. Tho New York German Democrat throws cold water on the enthusiasm of it.s colleagues, and thinks the Prussians havo more work before them than many seem to imagine. Secretary Cox has made a final order or-der in the McGarrahan case. It is to 'conic up in the regular order of business busi-ness and be disposed of on the testimony. testi-mony. A proposition in the Corps Iogislat.if to place tho defense of 1'nris in charge of u committee- appointed by tho legislative legis-lative chambers was defeated, less than sixty voting for it. John Davidson has walked a hundred hun-dred nod five hour, in Qiiiuey, Ills-, without eating or sleeping. As paralysis para-lysis has since set in there is one more fool's life in danger. j |