The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-01-14

night. lo-tttS lllSlS 10 a. NChSS N'SS3
and the bombardment is not so heavy.
The return fire of the French is weak.
The Germans lost 25 men last Sun
day. The column, advancing on Lee
mans reached Fort Calais yesterday,
meeting with slight resistance.
BERLIN, Jan. 9.--Gen. Won Werdcr
has been heavily reinforced.
The Prussians in the department of
Youne are concentrating at Joigny, on
the Paris and Lyons railroad, and re-
Inducements have arrived there from
Germany.
The fighting when Dunjoutin was
carried by storm, is described as des-
pcr:,tc ON both sides. The German loss
was heavy.
NEW YORK, Jan. n.-Nille De Paris
arrived at Aspinwall.
"A correspondent says lam inform
ed by Cuban officers, that a plan is Or
ganized to seize the steamer Ocean
Queen, from New York on the third.
Gen. w. A. G. Ryan, of Cuban celeb
rity, sailed in the Ocean Queen under
the assumed name of Ashburry, after
shipping upon the Queen two thousand
| cases of arms and ammunition. Two
or three hundred Cuban troops were
| expected to go aboard as passengers,
and during the voyage seize the steamer
and land the troops and arms at some
point in Cuba, and then release the
steamer.
| Two hundred United States troops on
aboard the Ocean Queen, for California,
alarmed the Cuban troops, who re-
manned ashore.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Brussels
Echo of to-day says: The militia are
again summoned to the Belgian from
tier. The staff officers have already ar
rived in the neighborhood of Long
Roy.
The Prusssians continue the invest
ment of Givet, near the Belgian border
BERLIN, Jan. 1O.-Letters to London
Journals assert that the London Confer
ence is likely to consider the question
of peace should Paris surrender during
the session.
BORDEAUX, Jan. 1O.-The MOniteur
publishes the following from the army
in the East
Icoe,g7ae,1t, Jan. "a battle was
fought north of this place to-day, end
ing at O'Clock in the evening with a
victory for the French. The night pre-
vents us from ascertaining the full
extent of our success. The General
commanding bivouaced i'll the centre
of the battle field, and all the pre-as-
signed positions are occupied by our
| troops. We carried Villers Excl,
which was the key Of the enemy's
position, with shouts oflong live France
and the Republic.
LONDON, Jan. 1U.-English travellers
bear testimony to the generous treat
ment accorded to French prisoners of
war in Germany.
The British government has ordered
experiments which are now in pro-
gress, to ascertain the applica bility to
the guns now in use with the new kind
Of gunpOWtler. 1t is said to be uncom-
mon in strength.
| VERSAILLES, Jan. 11.-AdTiccs re-
port Chansey retreating at all points.
The bombardment of Paris continues
vigorously.
A Herald special reports the French
works at Bellancais destroyed.
Fort Nogent has recommended firing.
| Fourteen guns of Fort Issy We're dis
mounted.
Shells are thrown into the Paris and
Lyons Railroad station.
| Paris will fall from hunger and weari-
ness-never from artillery.
| Madame Cespedes left the President
in the interior several days before her
capture, waiting for Il vessel on which
to embark and leave the island.
| The King telegraphs to the Queen on
the 11th:
| "Bombardment slow i'll consequence
of snow storm and heavy fog. Personne
capitulated with three thousand pris-
oners. Gen. Werder defeated Bourbal>i
on the 9th, south of Vesoul, and took
800 prisoners.
LONDON, Jan. II, 5:2O p. m.-Impor-
tant news is just received from Versail-
les. The German columns operating
against Chansey have driven him with
in one mile Of Lemans, after Il serious
engagement in which cannon, 3 nit
ralleuses and 1000 prisoners were cap
tured.
| The loss of Gen. Wcrder's army ut
the storming of Vellers Excl was only
| 200 killed and wounded.
A large German army is forming in
| the eastern departments of France,