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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 10.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
LONDON, Feb. 12.—The copy of the correspondence relating to the war, to be submitted to Parliament, shows that Favre’s party were always willing to conclude a peace on any terms which did not include a cession of territory; that Germany pursued the war for territory; that England has been continually urging peace on the French terms; and that the Orleanists are confident that the Count de Paris will be King of France in a few weeks. The government state that they will be able to dispatch 115,000 men at once in case of war.
PARIS, Feb. 13.—Everything has been arranged at Bordeaux. A committee to negotiate a treaty of peace has been selected, and the draft of the treaty has been approved by Bismarck and Moltke. The treaty will be signed immediately and the German troops will march through Paris to Strasbourg station, and there take trains for home. The trains will follow each other as rapidly as possible. The Assembly will then adjourn to Paris, and proceed with the reorganization of France.
PARIS, Feb. 13.—The departments not occupied by the Germans are ravaged by bands of francs-tireurs, who are pillaging travelers and houses. Terror reigns in those departments.
LONDON, Feb. 13.—Provisions in immense quantities are continually arriving, and soldiers are used for unloading trains.
BERLIN, Feb. 13.—The Prussian Cross Gazette judges from the result of the elections in France, that a resumption of war is not to be expected, and thinks there is scarcely a doubt that the armistice will be prolonged.
LONDON, Feb. 13.—The steamship Cuba, that sailed from Liverpool on Saturday, had on board, the Earl de Grey, Lord Tenterden, Montague Bernard, and Viscount Goderich of the Joint High Commission for the settlement of the fishery question and Alabama and other claims of the United States upon Great Britain. The commissioners are accompanied by a number of diplomatic attendants.
BERLIN, Feb. 14.—The Kreuz Zeitung estimates that the French elections have resulted in at least a two-thirds vote in favor of monarchical institutions, and says that scarcely one-third of the number chosen to the Assembly are republicans. The imperialists are also badly beaten, and the future of France seems to be between the Bourbons and Orleanists.
LILLE, Feb. 14.—Railway communication with Paris is partially suspended, and trains hence for Paris are stopped by the Prussians, but trains from Paris bound north are not interfered with.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 14.—It is stated that Gen. Faidherbe, in a recent communication to the French government, urged that the Army of the North is in readiness again to meet either foreigners or internal disturbers.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 14.—It is reported in diplomatic circles that Germany has refused the request of the British government to communicate the conditions upon which she is willing to make peace.
It is reported that the armistice is prolonged until the 28th inst.
LEIPZIG, Feb. 17.—A petition to the French National Assembly is circulating among the prisoners in Germany, expressive of a desire for the submission of the question, whether the form of government for France be a monarchy or a republic, to universal suffrage.
LONDON, Feb. 17.—The Paris Figaro says it is reported that the German propositions for peace run thus: The cession of Alsace and Lorraine, and a portion of the department of Doubs, and an indemnity of one and a half billions of thalers, the Prussians to keep all material of war they have captured, and the French fleet, and the colonies to remain intact.
DISCREDITABLE revelations are making concerning the provisional government. It is said that the members hold immense sums of money made out of stores of provisions, and that in the Hotel de Ville 43,000 bottles of wine were drank.
Provisions are pouring in, and prices are low.
A TELEGRAM from Bombay says the steamer Gen. Putnam, from Cochin, bound to Bombay, foundered in a cyclone in the Indian Ocean, and 53 lives were lost.
CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 14.—Much excitement prevails at Columbia, in this State, owing to the late outrages by the Ku Klux in the upper counties. A body of 500 masked horsemen surrounded the jail in Union County, on Sunday night, tied the jailer, and took out ten negroes, prisoners confined on charges of murder and arson. Six of these were shot, two hung, and two are missing. The pretext for the crime was that the prisoners were about to be removed to Columbia on a writ of habeas corpus. Much indignation at the lynching prevails among the masses of the people, without regard to party.
THE census returns of the whole country are now very nearly complete, and show the population to be 38,307,399—nearly 38,500,000—exhibiting an increase of seven million during the decade.
IN the battle of Sedan, 200,000 French were opposed to 300,000 Prussians. The line of battle was five miles long; 250 mitrailleuses answered the Prussian artillery. Five villages were burned. The Meuse was choked up with corpses. The losses were frightful; they were estimated at 80,000 killed and wounded.
A PESTILENCE is raging in the region of the Saskatchewan, in British Columbia, which, in proportion to the population on which it feeds, calls to mind the terrible scourges described in the Old Testament, and the ravages of the plague in medieval times, or, in oriental countries to-day. It is the confluent small-pox. The malady has been so fatal that 2,000 Indians and white men have been carried off. Some villages have been almost depopulated. At Big Lake ten people died every day. This would be equivalent, doubtless, to a daily mortality of 200 in Detroit. The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Catholic missionaries and Sisters of Charity are doing what they can to assist the sufferers. They are also threatened with famine in consequence of the absence of buffaloes this season, on which they depend chiefly for food.
THE bombardment of Paris killed within the walls of that city 44 men, 16 women, and 26 children; and wounded 107 men, 72 women, and 29 children—a total of 86 killed, and 208 wounded. The casualties, as a general rule, occurred in the streets. The expenditure of powder and shot was prodigious. On the night of the 16th of January one man was killed, and four men and nine women wounded. But it required 189 shells to accomplish the comparatively small amount of murder. After the range of the Prussian guns was ascertained in Paris, orders were issued, based upon scientific calculations, which served as “a guide to the besieged.” They were to avoid the northern side of one street, the western side of another, the southern side of a third, and the eastern side of a fourth, etc. The crowds which gathered at the shops for food seemed to be most exposed. Five women were killed at a butcher’s, one morning—not to be served up to his customers, as one might think at first—but by the shells, while the victims were waiting their turn to procure a breakfast.
SUNDAY DECLARATION IN CINCINNATI.—The Sunday question is occupying to a considerable extent the attention of the clergy of Cincinnati. Rev. F. W. Browne has lately preached an earnest, able, and from a hasty reading we should say, discriminating sermon on Sunday newspapers, Sunday libraries, and other matters involved in the question of a right Lord’s day observance. The Ministerial Association has discussed the theme with a good deal of energy and evenness of sentiment, although some difference of opinion in detail has been manifested.—Interior