Your ShelfYour Projects

News and Miscellany

8%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 11.

Read the full edition

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
BERLIN, Feb. 21.—Official returns received at the War Office here show that during the month of January the French lost 850 pieces of artillery and 350,000 men. Of the latter, Chanzy lost 25,000, Raye 12,000, Faidherbe 11,000, Bourbaki 30,000, the Army of Paris 150,000, and the Army of the East 80,000 who entered Switzerland. The loss of the Germans during the same month was 10,000.
VERSAILLES, Feb. 22, via LONDON, Feb. 23, 5:30 A. M.—The emperor received M. Thiers to-day, and Gen. Chanzy was present at the interview. A peace is considered as concluded, though it has not yet been signed. The Germans will probably enter Paris on Sunday next, but without triumphal ceremony, and they will not remain long in the city.
LONDON, Feb. 23.—A Paris dispatch of the 22d says that nothing is known of the Prussian terms of peace. The Figaro says the terms are conciliatory.
PARIS, Feb. 23.—Information has been received from Versailles that it is determined that a portion of the German army shall march through Paris on their return home. M. Thiers continues vigorously to oppose this, warning the Germans of the responsibility they will incur. A placard was posted on Monday in the students’ quarter, appealing to the inhabitants to make a last struggle should the Prussians enter the city.
PARIS, Feb. 23.—Nothing positive is known as to the condition of peace. A financial journal says it is materially impossible for France to pay an indemnity of eighty milliards of francs, or half that sum. Thiers and Favre are at Versailles to-day. M. Leon, they say, will probably be appointed Prefect of the Seine.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—A letter from Neisse, in Prussian Silesia, states that the French prisoners have been compelled, during the cold weather, to sleep in the country under small canvas tents, and it appears that the sufferings caused thereby have been intense. It appears, from the writer’s statement, that over 500 of the unfortunate men were recently frozen to death in a single night.
BERLIN, Feb. 23.—The Prussian Cross Gazette says that Emperor William will return to Berlin as soon as the preliminaries of peace are settled, and Bismarck, Moltke, and Roon, will follow at a later day.
SPIRITUALISM has lost its chief apostle in the defection of Andrew Jackson Davis, who discards the term medium as applied to himself, and claims that all revelations made by him have been made solely by means of clairvoyance.

THE TERMS OF PEACE.

We have only rumors yet of the terms of peace determined upon by the representatives of Germany and France; and as they differ so much, it will be necessary to wait for an official announcement from Versailles or Berlin. The French have probably made up their minds to yield territory, either by ceding it directly to Germany, or allowing Alsace and Lorraine, Nice and Savoy, to be neutralized.—Detroit Post.