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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Ui jr;e i ap-'ially lor '.be Silt 1 akf li'Ri!" iy Wlin I ni'jn ftPsroph. Hamburg is full of troops. Seward reached Sacramento ou Thursday and San Francisco yesterday. General Sherman will visit California Califor-nia on September 9th. The Spanish government has sent an agent to New York to learn from the Cuban leaders there, on what terms they will agree to peace. The defeat of the Crown Prince by McMahon announced yesterday morning, morn-ing, between Verdun amd Chalons, is repeated but not officially confirmed. Groups of Prussian .stragglers, cavalry cav-alry and infantry, are coming into Chalons. Trains i'rom Paris to Kperuay are now stopped at Therray, and forbidden to go the entire distance. Strasbourg is closclv invested by the Prussians, yet the French treasurer managed to escape them with over twelve millions of francs. A Prussian Colonel offers to F.mile Girardin a wager that the Prussian army will be in Paris by Sept. 15th. Girardin publishes the letter and accepts ac-cepts the challenge. The French national loan has closed; more than the required amount was received. , The junction of McMahon and Ba-zaine Ba-zaine is again reported, and a great battle expected in two days. On Tuesday Napoleon' headquarters headquar-ters were at Chalons. Grain mills in the valleys of Seine and Marno, with all their contents that could nut be removed, have been purposely burned by the French. The French peasants are destroying the country roads and doing all they can to impede the march of the Prussians. Prus-sians. The prelect of St. Mouhould and all the railway officials there have left. The French army is to be supplied with warmer clothing. The proposition of Koratry to iu-eivii: iu-eivii: the committee of defense was rejected by the Corp Legi!afif by a vote of 'o against 41. Three bnited State- -learners are under orders to reinfoii-e the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean squadron. The North Carolina Siate treasurer i:nd government paymaster have been enjoined by Judge Mitchell, of the Superior Court, from paving Holdcn's soldi.!-. Newspaper ..v.nv.-pondencs are dic-lnis-sd fp.m the Pru--iau headquar ter.. Napoleon has declined the services of Irish auxiliaries, tendered by Jam" Stephens. French telegrams to London occupy from twelve to thirty-six hour in transmission. A Fromh ironclad t-iok two prizes into Cherbourg on Tuesday. The Pru.s-i.in ship YiHaJ'-u ha-been captured oy the French and taken into a Syrian port. Kitthl thousand ."" pani-li tr..o.- are ready to -ai' for Cuba. The last, n.-ws from China ay the 'negotiation-, over the Fren. h ln.a-saere are su-perid.d. The French demanded three uiaud-irins implicated to have them shot : the Chinese refu-ed. A Carli-t risiiiL' in Arr.i-'on.Sfain, is reported. The Par'- riieni-Ti .ue enrolled and numbered ii: the ivgul-ir army. Three 1 i i . have been selected by Puhkao to form a pmt of the coin, mittee of (' !) --. The French 11- r i- b!. ekadii, - Civ haven. Meetings hae been held in several large citie" in England to raise help tor the French wounded. Swiss "Mi-goons have volunteered for hospital duty in the armies on boih side. The New Vork Republican general committe express sympathy with Prussia. Prus-sia. Hill Gurney, a iiot' d counterfeiter of New York, has been arrested, and a large quantity of counterfeiting mate-riaTcaptured. mate-riaTcaptured. Three thousand persons attended the German concert at Cincinnati on Thursday night. There is trouble at the Purlee mill, in Fall River, R. I., and four companies compa-nies of State militia, with a large number num-ber of special constables had to keep the peat on Thursday. |