The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-12
$4,000 Prussians i'm orIeans.

Tours, Oct. 24.-Orleans is now occupied bv
25 600 Prussians, with go pieces of artillery.
The enemy had made fresh acquisitions on the
city. e e.
The Government avoid giving information of
the French forces on the Loire, but it may be
stated they are in motion, and the result will soon
be known.
Some of the journals have particulars of the al
legged massacre of the French garrison which re-
Gently capitulated at Scissors. The soldiers are
said to have been all shot in the woods near the
city-butcbered in cold blood. The government
has faith enough in the story to make it the sub
jet o! official inquiry, with a view to retaliation.
The following news is made public by the min
Istry. The Prussians while preparing to besiege
La terte, st. Aubin, suddenly retreated leaving
behind all their utensils and quantities of stores !:
they went towards Laon. 1t is said that a mes
senger arrived in the German camp, and his in
tellIgence caused their sudden departure. 1t is
also said that the Prussians suffered a defeat with
heavy loss at a point in the neighborhood of La
terte, and that the troops were hastily withdrawn
to reinforce their beaten army.
Operations in the Eastern Departments.
BEsANCoN, Oct. 23.-Gen. Cambriet's dispatcb
to the Government states that the Prussians acain
attacked at Chattillon lie Due, where thew were
repulsed the day before. At night they retreated,
and We hold the position We have taken many
prisoners.
The bombardment of Schlestadt commenced ON
the 18th. Some houses were burnt.
st. Quentin Evacuated-The Massacre at
re - S%Oissons.
ST. QUENTIN, Oct. 2i.-This city was evacuated
yesterday. The siege of La Ferte was also aban-
doned. The corps under the Duke of Mecklen-
burg is returning to Paris.
The mutiny among the Scissors prisoners has
resulted in bloodshed. Seven Mobiles were killed
and three wounded.
Luxembourg.
r- o. OIL a r.
SAYS A permanent committee has been consti-
tuted to defend the neutrality of the Duchy. The
population is indignant at the disposition of the
Tours Government to cede the Duchy to Prussia,
instead of Lorraine. rBI- l- |
enc Dispatches.
New York, Oct. 4.-The census as comnlete
is stated at 926, go.
The annual report of the Board of Missions of
the Protestant Episcopal Church is presented and
shows a deficit of $135, 900.
Horace Greeley is confined to bed by a fever re-
sulting from exposure on his recent trip through
the West.
The Assistant Treasurer paid 81, $40, 900 of
interest.
The English Mission.
WASHINGTON, Oct, 24-The latest rumor is
that Senator Morton has declined the English
and that it viii be rendered to CressweII.
and should the latter accept, Col. Forney will be
made Post Master-General.
Cuba DesOlated by a Storm.
New York, Oct. 24-We have received the
details OF a terrible storm which desolated Cuba
week. From one to two thousand peonle
we're killed or drowned. $4,000 head of cattle
we're lost, and several vessels were wrecked. In
alone over 400 houses were DESTROYED.
Among the most horrible features of this calamity
was the uprooting and sweeping away of a GENE
cry and the scattering OF the eorpses through the
ADJACENT country. l.
Fast Trotting to Wagon.
NEw York, Oct. 21.-The trot at Prospeet
Park to-day between Geo. Wilkes and Goldsmith
Maid was won by the latter in three straight