Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-04
LATE NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

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EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
| LONDON, Dec. 29.-Ball DON advice
from Paris down to o'clock, a. m.
9th inst. Citizens and soldiers are il
excellent spirits, and still determines
ON q vigorous defense.
The intense cold weather had sus
pended military operations in good part
Preparations are making on larg,
scale, and Important events are looked
| for. These preparations had imbuet
the inhabitants with an increased conf
dence
The Saxon battalion has been dis
lodged at Marion Blanc.
A dispatch from Strasbourg announce,
that the Germans have stormed th.
French fortress of Belfort twice re
Gently, and in both cases were repulse6
with considerable loss
The Prussians have evacuated the
left bank of the Seine. There is still &
large force at Toettel
The Germans evacuated LYONS or
the approach of the French. The
French now hold the city. They claim
that the battle of Port Noyelles was {
success for their army of the North.
BORDEAUX, Dec. 29.-Advices from
Paris state that new Notifications arc
completed by the French beyond
Mount Valerien, which throw shells
beyond Versailles, and that therefore
it is now considered untenable fo,
Prussians.
BERLIN, Dec. 29-It is stated that
the French prisoners confined in the
fortress near Rhine, conspired to re-
volt and escape last evening, but the
project was discovered and defeated.
LONDON; Dec. 29.-It is reported that
the Crown Prince and the Duke of Sax
ony have been sent to Amiens to assist
Gen. Monteuffel The Germans are
now near Gambray. It is said that the
French Army of the North have left
Arras, retreating toward Vitry, and it
was thought they were falling back on
their strongholds in the extreme north
of France.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The Romanian
Government declares its independence,
and repudiates the treaty of 1854.
New YORK, Dec. pa London dis
patch says Earl Granville has received
dispatch from the Prussian govern
ment at Berlin apologizing for the out
rage on English vessels on the Seine,
stating that q pecuniary indemnity
should be given if he demanded it and
announcing that the military command
er who was guilty of the outrage would
be court martialled and dismissed. =
BORDEAUX, Dec I25.-General Faid
herbe, commanding the Army of the
North, reports as follows to the Minis
ter of War: The Prussians gave us
battle on the 23d inst. We were well
posted between Beauvais and Canty.
Our troops fought admirably during
the entire day. The villages were taken
and retaken. At 5 p. m. our success
was complete. We drove the enemy
before us with the bayonet. During
the night the Prussians entered some
of the villages in the valley, but they
did not try to attack our position.
Other reports say Gen. Faidherbe
was successful on his right and left
wings, and his army slept on the field
of battle, but the result was undecisive
The next day the enemy showed no
to renew the fight with
Gen Faidherbe.
BRUSSELS, Dec. pa special to the
World says: Gen. Faidherbe has fal-
len back across Valley Holler. During
the battle of the 23d Monteuffel storm
ed Beaucourt, Mantmedy, Davorlrs,
Tiechencourt, Querrene, Noyelles, Busy
and Vacquement, the French yielding
only after a desperate resistance. The
French $500, including prisoners.
IT, 1f
six English ships in the Seine, by the
Prussians, for the purpose of obstruct
ing navigation, created great indigna-
nation throughout England.
The British Vice-Consul at Rome has
presented the Prussian commander of
Nal protest against the act of spolia-
ton committed upon British subjects
in the city.
Meziers is surrounded by $1,000
Prussians, and a siege is imminent.
BORDEAUX, Dec. 27.-A dispatch from
Poictiers, 25th, says 10000 Prussians
with artillery occupy Blois, and have
indiscriminately pillaged both public
and private houses. There are 10000
Prussians at Orleans, which city has al
SO been pillaged. The Prussian officers
and men were all engrged in the work
of plunder.
A dispatch from Alencon, of the 25th,
says the enemy evacuated Ebeuf and
Bourgthoroude, at which latter place
they had an entrenched camp.
No news from the army of the Loire.
MADRID, Dec 26.-Rivero, President
of the Council, has resigned and is sue
ceed temporarily by Senior Sagosta.
FLORENCE, Dec '26.-Prince Amadeus
accompanied by Minister of Marine, has
started for Madrid. General Cialdini
follows, and is to receive in the heSpanish
capital, the title of Duke of Goeta.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 27.-The steamer
City of Baltimore, at Queenstown,
from New York, reports having passed,
800 miles from Fastret, black steamer
with white ports, with loss of her
crew. She was bound east under sail,
but wanted no assistance. She is
thought to be the Virginia, which left
New York Dec. Sd, for Queenstown and
Liverpool.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-Latest advices
from Versailles are, that the fortifca-
tions of Paris still waste their ammuni-
tion by an Intellectual cannonade on the
IfuSS1dn pOSlGlOnS. manbeu11e1 Is IN
active pursuit of the French army of
the North and has captured some pris-
oners at Albert. 1t is stated that the
Belgian civic guard will be reorganized
as Mobile guards.
Eight persons were killed by a rail
way accident near Hatfield this week.
LONDON, Dec. 25.-Balloon advices
from Paris TO the 22d are received.
There had been no more fighting. The
French loss in the sortie of the 21st is
reported at about 800 The confidence
of the inhabitants is undiminished
LONDON, Dec. 26.-The working par
ties in the opposite heading of tho Mt.
Gents tunnel are within hearing dis
tance of each other Greetings and
hurrahs were exchanged through the
dividing wall of rock for the first time,
at quarter past four o'clock, Christmas
afternoon.
BORDEAUX, Dec. 24-There is grea!
excitement here at the conduct of the
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