Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-21
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
Associated Press Reports,
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Gen. ManteuMeI Marching on Hayre-
The German Advance Checked
Reported Repulse Of the Pru..
SLAMS by Gen. Fafdherbes.
rslesraphed Esclusiv.ly to The Eyeni.g sssr.

1eleordphed Izclusiuely to The Evening Stay.
PARIS CONFIDENT.
LONDON, Dec. 2l.-Adyices have been received
from p ars down TO Saturday, the 18th instant,
The army and citizens were still calm, resoIute
and confident Of success. Provisions were plen-
tiful There had been no disorders whatever.
THE GERMAN VICTORY AT NUTS EX-
AGGERATED.
The first dispatches announcing the German
victory at Nuts, in the Department of Cote
Dor, on Friday last, were greatly exaggerated
The number OF prisoners taken, Ii now seems,
was eco instead OF 5000, as at first reported
ANOTHER GERMAN ADVANCE OK
HANRE CHECKED.
The news this morning from the German
army OF the north Is important General Man
teuhel Is again marching on Hsvre, this time
with much larger force than before. The
French report that they have taken measures
to resist. An engagement is reported to have
already occurred at Bolbec, only IL miles from
and the Prussian advance was checked. The
PTussians have bOmbardsd Masle, a small town
in the department. of Aisne. Thence thew
marched eastwardly TO Vervins.
GERMANS REFUSED BY GEN'L FAID-
HERBE.
The Germans, on reconnaissance recently
frsm Amiens, attacked the corps of General
Faidherbe, in that neighborhood, but were re-
pulsed with considerable loss.
The PIussians evacuated Beaumont and Ger
guigny after a late engagement. There has
Leen some fighting at Bray. TWENTY-FIVE thou
sand Germans are at Montdidier.
TURKEY CANT MANAGE RUSSIA WITH
OUT HELP.
CoHsTANTINoPLE, Dec. 2O.-It is officially
stated that the reports that Turkey had deter
mined to act upon the Eastern question indie
pendently Of the Powers, are without founds-
ton in truth.
THE PROPOSED EUROPEAN CONFER
LONDON, Dec. 2l.-With respect to the forth
coming meeting of the conference of the am
bassadors Of the great powers in London, q 4.
stipulated that no topic foreign to the oaestIon
Of the revision Of the Paris treaty II 1855 be in
troduced into the deliberations, The Adhesion
of France to the conference g still awaited.
PARIS HEROICALLY DEFIANT.
LONDON, Dec. 2l.--fCable, from private sour
ces. There is no latter war news from France.
The reports OF yesterdays mobs and riots in
Paris, lack confirmation, and according to the
that city continues hopeful, not unmixed with
Net. Notwithstanding the fact that famine 4. Al
most at hand, the citizens and soldiers are
The rumors Of French victories in the aeld
have An effect almost as sustaining as food, and
the upanimity among all classes in support of
Trochu is most wonderful. ON the cspitnIstion
OF Tbionville 5000 French troops we're parolsd
A ma ority Of the besieged we're much enraged
t OF me surrender, and some Of the
but were dissuaded from their purpose by the
Appearance OF women and children who on
their knees besought submission. During the
action 50. 600 shells were thrown into the citv
involving damage to the amount of over
g., 900 900.
Bark Burned NJ Sec BY LiEhtning.
NEw YORK, Dec. 2s.-The ship Charles. from
Antwerp, reports that on December Sth, In lati-
tude IS. longitude 81, she fell In with the bark
A. b. Wymap, from Savannah for Liverpool. on
HrA md ffsnE M hAr s..-
beaing fourteen. The Wyman was owned and
built In Boston by Jacob Bennett, and had a
cargo OF s,Io bales OF cotton. She WAS struck
subdue the flames were unavaiing -
End % . Murder Trial On 'Frisco.
SAN FRASCIsCO, Dec. 2l.-John W. TYLER
Who killed another gambler named John Doh
son, in Montgomery street, San Francisco. in
July last in an ARRAY growing out OF a Quarrel
at prostitutes ball, vas acquitt I'd to-day,