Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-05


CompIete census returns from the State
Of MARYLAND show the population TO be
7s1 .O54. an increase of $4,000 since 1860
The gain is principally in Baltimore ana :
few interior towns.
Census returns from the principal cities
and towns in Virginia are as follows
Richmond, 81, 093; Norfolk, 1924; Pc
tersburs, 1888; Lynchburg, 1873
Portsmouth, 1882; Alexandria 1876
Fredericksburg, 4,046; Winchester, $50
The North Carolina Senate, sitting as
Court Of Impeachment, has ordered the an.
swer Of Governor Holden to the articles OF
impeachment to be fled on or before JAN
uary %, and that the case will stand for
trial on January 30.
Porsi1n Intelligence.
A London dispatch Of the 21st states
that attaches of the Foreign Legation, who
had arrived there from Paris, confirm the
reports that the food in the latter city will
last two months.
After severe engagement on the 10Th,
the city of Tours surrendered to the Prns-
slams. 1t was announced at bordeaux on
the 21st that the Prussians had that day
evacuated Tours, retreating towards
Chateau Renault
A Berlin dispatch, received in London on
the god, threatens that, unless Paris should
soon surrender, regular attack would be
begun.
DISPATCHES from Vienna on the ed state
that the Turkish fleet was underimmediate
orders for service, and extensive warlike
preparations had been made.
A Versailles dispatch says another great
sortie was attempted from Paris on the
22d. Three divisions of French troops is
sued from the city and commenced Wig
orous and well-directed attack upon the
German lines, which gradually fell back
before them. The Germans were snbse-
quently reinforced, and the French troops
were forced back from the position they
had gained, and were finally repulsed and
compelled to withdraw within the city.
The bill ratifying the vote of the Ro-
man people for annexation TO Italy has
passed the Italian Chamber of Deputies
by a vote Of $50 TO 20.
The most satisfactory observations were
taken of the suns eclipse in England on
the 23d. H# 3e
A London dispatch of the 25th says !:
1.-THE total effective force OF the German
armies now in France is set down, in
round numbers, at 100000, half Of which
is now before Paris; and 100000 on the
sick list 1t is estimated that 800, 600 Ger
mans have been killed or disabled since
the beginning Of the war;"
King William telegraphed the Queen
on the 25th that General Manteuffel won
victory on the 23d, near Amiens, taking
900 prisoners, and commenced the pur-
suit of the French in the direction Of
Arras on the Goth. sts
A dispatch from Susa announces that
the Alps were pierced through on the GOTH
and that the workmen from both ends Of
the Mont Gents tunnel joined in congratu
lations upon the completion Of the great
work.
A Geographic dispatch from the com
handing general of the Saxon troops be-
fore Paris announces that the lombard
ment of Fort Avron commenced on the
9th. This fertilization is the most ad-
vanced of the French outwOrks east OF
Paris, and crowns Mont Avron at con-
siderable elevation, six miles from the city
walls.
A dispatch from Versailles on the 23d
says scheme for the assassination OF the
King OF Prussia, Won Moltke and Bismark
had been discovered there. "a Hp
London dispatches of the 9th give ac-
counts of an alleged outrage recently per-
petrated by the Germans upon Q number OF
English subjects. Six English vessels,
which were lying at anchor at Duclair, a
small town on the Seine, were fired on by
the troops, and the crews being unable to
offer formidable or prolonged resistance,
were at last compelled to surrender. The
Germans then boarded the vessels, and,
after securing the crews by binding them,
they proceeded to ransack the ships for
valuablcs and other plumber. After secur-
ing everything Of any value, the invaders
took the vessels into mldstream and scut.
tied them, with a view Of impeding the
navigation of the river. The London
,Shippiag Gazette of the 9th declares that
the government must instantly demand an
explanation and redress from Prussia
The expedition sent to Oran, Africa, TO
observe the eclipse is reported to have been
a failure. +tll, if i@ 4t" '5
Congressional.
In the Senate, on the 21st, bills were in
troduced- Increasing the pensions to soldiers
and sailors widows and children twenty per cent,
from tho first OF next March; to equalize and fix
the salaries of certain Bureau ofhcers; to incor-
tp0rate the American Loan and Trust Company
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