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GERMAN-FRENCH WAR. 



CENSUS OF 1870 (Continued). 



There are 124,935 white, and 343, 641 colored 

 persons, ten years old and over, who cannot 

 write ; 220,053 are male, and 248,523 are fe- 

 male, while 21,899 are white males 21 years 

 old and over. The true value of property is 

 $268,169,043. Public debt, county, town, city, 

 etc., is $15,209,212. Value of farm produc- 

 tions, including betterments and additions to 

 stock, $80,390,228. Pounds of wool pro- 

 duced, $846,947. 



GERMAN-FRENCH WAR. *At the be- 

 ginning of the year 1871 France found her- 

 self in the lowest depth of despondency. The 

 people of Paris felt discouraged in consequence 

 of the failure of the sortie of December 21st, 

 the abandonment of Mont Avron, and the tem- 

 porary silence of several forts. The severity 

 of the cold, coupled with the want of fuel and 

 the steadily-increasing scarcity of provisions, 



* Continued from the AMEEICAN ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 



1870. 



added to the general depression. The news 

 from the armies in the field was no less unfa- 

 vorable. On January 2, 1871, Mezieres sur- 

 rendered to the Fourteenth Division of the 

 Eighth Army Corps, and thus the Franc-tireurs 

 lost their strongest support in the Ardennes, 

 and the Germans obtained control of additional 

 railroad lines. On January 5th Rocroy capitu- 

 lated, the garrison of which place, after the 

 surrender of Mezieres, had withdrawn to Givet, 

 leaving the defence of the fortress to the resi- 

 dent National Guard. On the other hand, the 

 defeated Army of the North recovered more 

 rapidly than had been expected. On January 

 2d, Fuidherbe, with the Twenty-second and 

 Twenty-third Corps, was stationed near Ba- 

 paume, between Amiens and Arras, and fell 

 upon the Thirtieth German Brigade. Gen- 

 eral Goeben was reenforced by the Fifteenth 

 Division and the troops of Prince Albert, 

 Jr., before he could drive the French, after a 



