The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-05
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
FIVE DAYS r NEWS.
General Summary--EIections, &c.

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San Francisco, bound for Bakers Island, we have
received dates up to the Goth of October.
Tours. October I9.-The journals to-day pub
lish the details of the occupation of Orleans by the
Prussian army. The acquisitions enforced were
enormous, not only in money and provisions, bu
all the guns and horses of the city were taken
The soldiers who were quartered upon the inbab
itants fed greedily, drank the best wines, ano
wasted what they could not use.
Bishop Dupanloup constantly interfered in favor
of the citizens ; he went. himself, to the Prussiar
| commander to obtain a mitigation of the exorbitant
acquisitions, but in this he was entirely unsuccess
full.
The correspondents of the journals. in their de
tails, say the Prussians were well provided for, and
should be comfortable. The officers were seen
studying the maps of the country carefully. The
strength of the Prussians was calculated at $4,000
1t is understood that the Germans have almost
entirely evacuated the left bank of the Loire, to
concentrate on the right bank of Orleans.
There are many German tobacconists, bakers
and provision merchants. but these men were moi
disturbed. The jewellers have Just cause OF com.
plant. The richer inhabitants were shot, and the
soldiers CHARTERED upon them. They wilfully ruin.
ed the finest furniture and objects of art. Some Of
the most splendid residences of the city were
Quilted. The greatest indignation exists among the
citizens.
It is rumored that the Prussians are retreating
toward Paris, seemingly to avoid a combat with
the French force gathered on the right bank OF the
Loire.
At this hour (noon) no official news has been
made public from Orleans.
A Papal nuncio is expected here to-day.
1t is reported that the Americans now in Paris,
at the request of Minister Washburne, will be al
lowed to leave the city.
The news from Marseilles is unfavorable the
Garde Civique is troublesome. 1t is expected that
the Commissioner will go onward from Tours TO
suppress the disorder.
Gambetta, Minister of the Interior, has ordered
the railroad companies to have trains ready for the
movement of troops at a moments notice day or
night.
LoNDoN, Oct. l9.-Rumors of a conspiracy OF
the Bonapartists impede the National Defence In
France and promote the triumph OF Prussia.
A despatch from Versailles announces that Gen
eral Pilsach, on the lzth. attacked and carried
Creteuil. driving out 5000 Gardes Mobiles.
General Won Werder reports that the enemy re-
Gently, in his front, has retired to Belfort and
Dion.
Tours, Oct. l9.-Minister Gambetta has returned
here.
A despatch from Belfort announces successful
sortie of the garrison of Neu Briesach and the
withdrawal of the Prussians from the position they
held. after considerable losses in killed and
wounded.
The garrison of Montnedy made another sortie.
in which they surprised the Prussians, taking 400
prisoners, and capturing a military chest with TO-
600 francs. and two wagons loaded with chassepots.
The following day they attacked an artillery train
and captured a number of cannon.
General Palladines. commanding the Army Of
the Lire, has issued an Order OF Day. declaring
that be will shoot soldiers guilty of INSTRUMENTATION,
and asking his men to shoot him if he fails Ia bis
duty.
Dispatches from Paris are full of details Of the
measures of the authorities TO insure a lasting sup
ply of food. Cattle and sheep are well sheltered.
Many horses are killed daily and their flesh pOtted.
Care is taken to keep up the supply OF vegetables.
The stock of potatoes is enormous.
The f~ortresses keep up a continual fire, destroying
the batteries OF the Prussians as fast as erected
within range. Every effort is made by the enemy
to throw mp offensive works, especially during the
night, but the electric lights reveal them. and the
admirable fire of the marine gunners levels or rem
ders them untenable.
Garibaldi has arrived at Belfort, where he was re-
ceived with enthusiasm by the soldiers and citizens.
Advices from Paris to the 18th, confirm the report
that the Prussians asked an armistice for the burial
of the dead. This shows how effective the last sortie
was.
General Leferte has resigned the Portfolio of the
War Department to take command of the Thirteenth
Military Division, headquarters at Bayonne.
General Pourette, just from Algiers, takes command
of the Eighteenth Military Division. which includes
this city.
A dispatch from Mort, in the Department of Deux-
Serves, says seventy Delegates from fourteen Depart
ments of Western France met there, and resolved, by
sixty-six to four, to recognize no authority but that
of the Government of Paris and Tours.
Alexander Dumas is at Dieppe, dying Of paralysis.
Schneider, the new Director Of Posts and Tele-
graphs, is making liberal reforms in the administra-
ton Of both Departments, and has already set aside
routes for the present.
The Journal de Besanc0n explains how the report
Of the arrest of Lutz, the Red Republican leader,
rose. A Prussian officer went to Besancon, and, as
suming the name of Lutz, thoroughly examined the
fortiications. He was ON the point of leaving when