The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-18

| Il G&rl8 gossip mas IT. IHAL 16OO1 ?
wife is a Prussian, and the General Is
confined in prison at Vincennes.
The steamer Haswell, while on a
passage from h4mburg for Sunder-
land, was fred at by French IRON
clad. near the Elbe. She paid no at
tention to it, and kept on her course,
| ghen the Frenchman gave chase. and
fred a second shot, which induced
her to show English colors and heave
20. She was then boarded by a
French officer, who, after examining
her papers. suffered her to proceed.
A Prussian loan of 10000, 900 tha-
lers is announced at So.
The French government has issued
notification that all peacefully dis
posed natives of Germany desiring to
remain In France may do so, on con
dltion of taking out permits Of resi-
dence.
LONDON. August 1.-THE exhibit
ton of 1871, in this city. will not be
postponed on account of the war.
Wallenberg. az officer of the Bank
of Stockholm, and late member of the
international Conference of q uniform
standard of coins, weights and meas
ures, has written a letter of inquiry
about the adoption of the twenty-five
franc piece, with fixed alloy Of one
tenth as the monetary unlt.
There was much disorder at q politi-
cal meeting in Dublin yesterday, but
there was no violence.
Mitchell, formerly Attorney Gene
raj of Ireland, is dead.
The press urge the Government to
take action on the pstition of Liver
pool for hsrbor defenses.
Advices from Rio Janerio states
that peace with Paraguay has been
formally proclaimed.
PARIs, August 1.-THE following
official dispatch has been made pub
lie:
"METz, August II, 3 3P.M.-We had
serious engagement yesterday, the
18th, near Gravelotte. We gained the
advantage, but lost heavily. Grave
lotto is a small village six miles south
west Of Metz. aud two miles west of
the MOselle."
VIENNA. August IL. In conse-
quence of the abolition of the Con-
cordat the Papal Nuncia, has been re-
called.
LONDON, August 17.-The Brazil
liam government has made extensive
contracts for the importation of cool
les for ten years.
special to the Herald.I
LONDON, August 1.-THE French
army of the Rhine has received the
coupe de grace near Metz, and is now
ia a disastrous retreat towards
Verdun, In a shattered condi-
ton. The soldiers individually, are
desperate at the incompeteucy of
their generals.
The Emperor is yet believed to be
the actual commander of the army.
SAARBRUCK, August IL, via Berlin.
| King William has appointed Gen.
| Borin Governor General of Lorraine,
and Gen. B0hlen Governor General
of Alsace.
LONDON. August IA dispatch
| from Carlsruhe, the headquarters of
the Baden Army, dated August 14th,
says that the people and garrison of
| Strasbourg have labored with zeal to
arm the ramparts, aud clear the gla-
els, aud barricade the entrances, but
the beseigers have destroyed much of
their work.
On the 18th three slight conflicts
| took place. A detachment of Baden
troops set fire to railway train while
il was standing in the station, and
one of their batteries approached
within three hundred PAGES of the
fortress and fred on the ramparts.
The Baden troops lost three killed
and seventeen wounded.
LoNDea, August 1.-THE steamer
Sentinel. belonging to the Tyne
Steamship Company, has arrived in
the Tyne with q general cargo from
German ports. This is the tenth
trip made by steamers Of that COM
pany since war was declared. The
Sentinel. on Saturday, passed the
French feet, who are blockading the
Elbe, without molestation. She,
however, dipped the British ensign
to which the French feet replied by
hosting and dipping the French en-
sign.
The French bIockading SQUAD
ron consists of ten large iron clads,
nine of which are anchored ia a row
southwest of Heligoland; aud one of
them, q paddle-wheel steamer, is
cruising in the roadstead.
The news of their approach was
taken to Hamburg on Friday after
noon by a Norwegian vessel. The
Hamburg authorities at once ordered
lighter with torpedoes, which had
been lying in readiness, to go down
the river to Aux Haven aud await
i orders. They also dispatched two
fast steamers, the Aux Haven aud
Heligoland. to the mouth of the Elbe
to reconnoitre.
/ The Sentinel met these vessels on
Saturday morning, south of Heligo-
land, steaming as fast as possible for
Hamburg, with the news that the
French ships we're close to the Island, |,
and that real blockade was effected.
As the Sentinel passed the feet, a
French cruiser was overhauling a
screw collier bound inward.
Great activity was apparent on the
decks OF the ironclads, but it could
not be discovered whether the moving
figures were soldiers or sailors,
At meeting Of the Tyne shin in
surauce societies, yesterday, a formal
resolution was adopted not to insure
vessels bound to ports under block
ade, or the approach to which has
been rendered dangerous by the reno
val of the beacon lights and buoys.
Tribune speciaLJ
LONDON, August 17.-Our special
correspondent writes from Berlin. on
Sunday: THE attempt to raise ma.
tioual loan of 120,000,0OO thaIers has
broken down. Up to yesterday. the
subscription had reached 80. 600 OO0
only, but this loan did not pretend to
offer change of favorable invest.
ment. 1t was issued as a five Der
cent. loan. at fixed price of 50 with
out provisions for a sinking fund, il
being left to the option of the North
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