New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-05
YESTERDAYS Evening Dispatched

WASHINGTON, October full New Or.
leans mails have been received. including
dates to the twentyninth. Four days mails
reached here simultaneously.
BERLIN, October 4.-The Parisians having
ordered that no prisoners be taken, because
they consume supplies, Prussian command
ers have no prisoners taken.
All the villages around Metz have been
destroyed by the late cannOnade.
Navigation of the Baltic will doubtless be
safe before steamers starting from America
will arrive.
LONDON, October 4.-Paris letters received
here to-day say that the Prussians threaten
Point du Jour. The bOmbardment Of the
city from the west is imminent. The books
OF the great libraries have been placed in
cellars. Watchmen have been placed in
Notre Dame to look out for fires.
Tours, October An encounter recently
occurred between q accommodating party of
French and Germans north Of Paris. No
particulars
Commandments of forts south of Paris re-
port large masses of Prussians passing
westward toward Versailles on the twenty
eighth. On the same day no Prussians
were visible from the tower Of Vincennes.
LONDON, October 3.-Jules Favre having
asked Bismarck in the name Of the diplO-
matte body now in Paris for permission to
Stuu WcfklN IL lEOUl LuC CITY, ttuu VI
have notice given them when the lombard
ment will commence, received an answer
from Bismarck refusing the latter request,
on the grounds that it was an unmilitary
proceeding, but cOnceding the former in
case the contents Of their dispatches were
unObjectionable. Bismarck. however, Ques-
tons the prOpriety of conducting diplomatic
negotiations from the heart of belligerent
city. This latter idea is obviously, that of
the neutral powers who had removed their
representatives to Tours.
MADRID, October "a decree signed by
the regent, Serrano, has been published,
permitting religious instruction i'll the
schools, but exempting from its operation
the children Of parents who make objections
to their instruction therein.
COPENHAGEN, October IA session Of the
Reichsrath was opened by the King to-day.
He congratulated the Assembly and the
country on the maintenance of neutrality
by Denmark, and expressed the hope that
pending questions with Germany would be
so settled as to secure the independence of
the country and strengthen the relations of
Denmark with her powerful neighbors. He
intimated desire that the session he brief
New YORK, October 3-The Times
special letter from Rome, dated September
twenty sixth, says: At his own request, the
Pope has been furnished with a guard of
Italian troops, who have charge of the po
lice matters of the Vatican. He wanted to
take his usual weekly airings in a carria 80
and on foot, but previous to Saturday was
dissuaded from doing so by General Cador-
MT. 1t has been said already that the Pope
has expressed Il wish to bless the Italian
troops on the great square of San VietrO.
One OF the first DEGREES of the Junta was
to vote the erection of a monument to the
noa nf thnaa Who lost THAR in,
two patriotic enterprises Of 1867 and 1870.
for the liberation of Rome, and likewise
commemorative tablets of all the Romans
who have died in exile or on the scaffOld for
the cause OF liberty. A medal will be struck
and distributed to all soldiers of the army
OF liberation, when the King is crowned.
number of measures for the internal
Improvement of Rome are under cOnsidera-
ton of the Council, and credit for q public,
loan will be opened for this object From
all this the people are led to believe that
the power and dignity Of the ancient Latin
empire has been restored with the reSccu-
patton of the capital
General CadOrna has ordered that the Sow
ereign Pontitf shall receive the same
military honOrs that are rendered toI
crowned heads. Military honOrs are alsoI
to be rendered to Cardinals:
People are flOcking from all parts of Italy
to Rome.
Five newspapers have already been
started here. and the political journals of
Florence are sold about the streets. The
Romans are bewildsred with this avalanche
of political liberty.
Our correspondent at Frankfort writes Oh
the second instant, that sickness is notably
increasing in the Prussian army. Large
numbers of invalid soldiers are constantly
to the East
New YORK, October 3.-This morning
solemn mass was celebrated at ST. Stephen?
Church for the soul of Gottschalk, the cele4
Dlated musician and composer, who died of
yellow fever at Rio de Janeiro, last Decent
Der. The body, enclosed in rosewood
'ase WAS removed from the vault where il
lad lam for the last six days, and placed
before the altar, surrounded with harpA,
'rowns and other emblematic devices,
ormed of flowers. The music was Cher,li
,inl's requiem mass. Burger conducted thd
hoir, which numbered about thirty. II. III
)ansorth was at the organ. The church
vas crowded to excess, and most OF thd
musical notables were seated in the aislcs
he remains were finally inferred iii Green
"ood Cemetery.
;, Feiiieres, the town where the King of
russia has taken UP his headquarters, ii