The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-01-07
NEWS.

n~inetT-tWO to elghty-tWO to remove the
capital to Rome within six months.
AMrENs, December PA German vic:
tory is reported at Halle, southeast of this
CITY, over the army of the north, sixty
thousand strong. Fhe Germans carried
several villages by storm, and took one
thousand prisoners
NEW York, Dee. 26.-The battle which
opened so favorably for General ~F"idherbe,
at Noyon, On the tw%enty-third instant, i
reported to have ended on the twenty,
fourth, with a complete defeat for him.
Tours has been again entered by the
German troops.
slams to the number of seventy-tive thou
sand passed Though Nogent-le-Rotrou, re-
firing on Paris.
LoSDoS, Dec. 26.-It is. estimated that
there is now SOC, 900 effective Germans
soldiers in France, half of whom are before
Paris. ...
Both French and Germans claim a victo-
ry in the battle Of the twenty-third, near
Amiens. The fight appears to have been
indeciSive, and the French, though they
slept on the battlefield, withdrew the next
day.
Advices from Paris, to the twenty second,
report no further fighting, The French
lost eight hundred in the sortie of tie
twenty first.
BORDEAUX, Dec. PA dis. latch sroas
Poiters says that 10000 Prussians, with
artillery, occupy Blois, and have indis-
criminately piIiased public and private
houses.
There are 20, 900 PrussianS at Orleans,
where the officers and privates are plum
dering.
LONDON, Dec 27.-Messiers is srrroun-
ded by $4,000 Prussians, and a seige is i'm
minent.
BERLIN, Dec. 81. king William reports
that Gen. Manteuffel gained a victory near
Amiens, capturing 1000 prisoners.
No fighting at Paris. %
Loso0a, Dec. 26.-Mount Gems tunnel
approaches completion. Working parties
opposite the shafts exchanged greetings
through the last wall OF the rock or Christ
mas afternoon.
New York, Dec. 2T.-Werlds cable
LoNDoN, Dec. 27.-A dispatch from Yer
sailles, of the 23dr says: A scheme to assas-
sinate King William, Gen. Won Moltke and
Count Won Bismarck was discovered here
a few days sine. A nanber Ct strangers
arrived in the city on Wednesday, when
the gates were closed and citizens ordered
to remain in their houses on the pain Of
death: patrols then searched every place
and arrested two bundled persons, of whom
70 were armed with guns and pistols.
DRESDEN. Dec. PA dispatch from the
Commanding General of Saxon troops before
Paris. announces the bombardment of Fort
AKRON. 1t commenced today. This for
LITIGATION is the most advanced of the French
outworks east of Paris, and crowns Mount
Ayron.a considerable elevation six miles
from the city walls.
BORDEAUX, Dec. PA dispatch from
Susa ~nnounce that the Alps were pierced
through yesterday, and that the Worklnen
from both ends of the mountains, tunnel
joined n congratulations upon the compile
ton Of the work.
HAVANA, Dec. 26.-Two thousand sol
diers arrived yesterday from Spain.
. LONDON, Dec. 27.-The French Army of
the North is at Arras, having evacuated Cor
bic, Alberto and Ascheux.
BORDEAUX, Dee. 2S.-The Prussians bonn
St. Calls or the 25th, after which
they entered the place and committed
many disorders.
VERSAILLES, Dec. Effort AKRON is
$500 yards east of Fort Rosney. Tt is a
new work mounting naval guns, the fire
fsom which reaches the towns of Cheltes,
Mont Venette and Clishy. The fire from
this fort to day, was accurate but not des-
t%rnctive.
VERSAILLES, Dec. 2o.-The lombard
ment of Fort AKRON continues. The
French reply with vigor, but the fire is
Ineffective.
MADRID, Dec. 9s.-Last night, as Gen.
Prim left the Cortes, eight shots were
fred at his carriage, wounding him in three
in The left arm and right hand. No
BORDEAUX, Dec. 29.-It has been officially
announced that the Prussians hastily
evacuated Dion.
LILLE, Dec. 27.-The reported Prussian
at Port Noyelles is officially de-
The advance guard of Garibaldi's army
entered Dion thissmorning.
VERSAILLES, Dec. 2S.-Mont AKRON has
,een silent to-day, but the forts in the
,cighborhood reply to the Prussian guns.
The PrussiaDs on Monday occupied Ba-
,areme, four miles southeast Of Arras.
BERLIN, Dec. 29--The Government OR.
,ans say that Mont Avron was first at
acked in order to obtain a standpoint from
to operate against the adjacent out
ying forts OF Paris.
VERSAILLES, Dec. 20. via DoNDoN, Dec.
'0-The Twelfth Corps occupied Mont
ivron after one days bombardment Z
BERLIN, Dec. 30-The King telegraphs
he Queen from Versailles 18th, that the
guns. The railway station at
Noisy was shelled, and the French artillery
t Bondy d~islodged. The I'russian loss
Fas three men. The garrison of Fort Az
on has fled into Paris.
LONDON, Dec. 30.-Evening-The con-
srenee on the Eastern Question has been
ndefnatily postponed, as France has re-
lsed TO take part and the absence Of one !
f the dignitaries of the treaty of Paris {
7onld render the meeting useless. 4
From private sources, Tours estimates !"
he entire number of French troops att
so. 0 men,.
The Germans. invested the fortress pf
in the department of Somme, On
Wednesday after sharp fighting. r
German reinforcements now on the Eay l.
, France number 10000 men.
MADRID, Dec. 30.-Gen. Prim is rapid
progressing toward recovery firm his
-ounds. Seven of the eight flsfimbed
ed in his shoulder have been Extracted,
nd his condition is comfortable He has i,
nwaver suffered the inss Of twA timers. "a