The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-01-05
Items of Foreign News.

Items Of Foreign News.
- The citizen soldiery of France exhibit
spirit of dogged determination TO continue the
struggle to the last.
= The English Government is very indig-
nant at the sinking of six of her ships, by the
Prussians, in the Seine.
The Prnssians have plundered and Pill
laged several French towns and cities. Blois
and Orleans have been visited by them.
- Thirty thousand breach-loaders of the
1866 pattern, are being repaired at the Spring
field (Mass.) Armory. 1t is thought they will
ultimately reach France.
= An attempt was made to assassinate P.im,
at Madrid, on the night of the eth ult. Eight
shots were fred at him, three of which wound
ed him severely.
= King William has sent the, sword that
Napoleon III surrendered at Sedan, to hang
Blucher at Waterloo, in the Prussian military
college, at Berlin.
= The French Minister of Foreign Affairs
talks plain in regard to the probable condition
of England should France be crushed, and
thinks she would be left without a single ally,
and as third-rate power.
- Chadourdy, the French Minister of For
eign Affairs, has been interviewed, and thinks
peace far distant, as to accept the terms offered
by Prussia would be humiliation that neither
the rich nor poor can as yet submit to.
- Two hundred armed strangers have been
arrested &c Versailles, on suspicion of being en-
gagged in the plot to assassinate King William,
Won Moltke and Bismarck. The citizens of
the place were compelled, under penalty of
death, to remain in their houses while the search
was being made:
= The Prussian Government organs say that
Mont Avron is first attacked by the Prassians
in order to obtain standpoint from which to
operate against the adjacent outlying forts Of
Paris. a provincial correspondent adds that
the bombardment of Mont Avron may be con-
sidered the introduction of general Smelling
of Paris.
"A Lille dispatch of the 18th says: The
Prussian victory at Port Noyelles is officially
denied. The Prussians have lost heavily in
battle and from sickness. The villages are en-
numbered with the German wounded. The
Germans are suffering from opthalmia, and 49,
| 600 sick and wounded Germans are at Chalons-
Sur-Marne.
A Prussian dispatch reports that Colonel
Boltenstein, commanding detachment of six
companies of foot, and two squadrons of caval-
~, with two guns were surrounded by the
French nea. Montveire, but, after desperate
fight, cut his way out, losing only one hundred
men, and taking two hundred and forty pris-
| oners.
A dispatch from Berlin, December go
says the garrison of Fort Avron fled into Paris
The King telegraphs to the Queen from Yer
sailles on the 10Th, that the bombardment Of
Fort Avron sienced the eneny's guns. The
railway station at Noisy was shelled, and the
French artillery at Bonuy were dislodgcd. The
Prussian loss was three men.
Pordoony dsnotch of the Doth atafea
that the entire population of the eastern de-
rartment is fully aroused, and assist the troops
in all the battles and skirmishes. The govern
ment is taking measures to arm all the people.
Gambetta arrived at Bordeaux from Lyons. 1t
is asserted that the Prussians are incensed with
the correspondents of the English papers, and
have sent many outside their lines of occupa-
| ton.
= The towns of Auferre, Gray and Vesone
have been evacuated by the Prussians before
the advance of the French, under Generals
Bressoles, Bremes and Garibaldi. The army of
Bordeaux is to march directly on Paris. AS
the French advance, the inhabitants hasten to
Join the ranks, and thus the army increases
| rapidly in numbers. The smaller towns now
resist the enemy as in the case of Tours, which,
in consequence of the combat at Normal, was
not occupied by the Germans. At Argent and
COS Inc fTuSSlalS were rePulSeo ny tuo poPu-
| latiUn,
- 1t has been observed in the hospitals at
Orleans that the wounds of the Germans are
chiefly from pieces of shell-comparati few
bullet wounds-but the French have chiefly
been wounded by the needle gun. The infer
cnce is obvious that the French fire wildly, too
fast, and without aiming and perhaps at too
great distance. The chassepot is bad weap-
on for recruits, and especially for young French
soldiers, impetuous and difficult to control.
! - Accounts received at Bordeaux show that
both the Prussian and French troops have suf-
fered terribly from cold. Strong reinforcements
have been sent forward to all points to replace
the French soldiers thus incapacitated. Vast
quantities of material, calculated to increase the
comfort of troops, have also been sent to the
front. 1t appears that the Prussians commit
ted excesses at Orleans and Blois because the
inhabitants, who have been ruined, were unable
to meet their acquisitions. At Orleans the
Prussians threaten to take away as hostages
| fifty of the prominent citizens unless six hun
dred thousand francs are paid for Che maltreat-
ment of Prussian soldiers
GOVERNOR SCOTT ENDoRsED.-The Hon. A.
P. Aldrich having addressed some inquiries to
an Ohio Democrat, in regard to Gov. Scott, has
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