The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1870, Page 4

4 EUROPE. THE HERALD’S WAR CORRESPONDENCE, Progress of the Siege of Montmedy. Sedan as It Appeared After the i Capitulation. Enthusiasm of the French for the Republic. The Burning of Bazeilles by the Prussians. Facts, Incidents and Anecdotes of the War. THE SIEGE OF MONTMEDY. The Progress of the SiegemTke Belgian Fron- tier—A Companion on the Road— Meeting a Prussian Outpest—Stepped by the Guard— Two Hours at the Outposts. Port St. HUBERT, Sept. 22, 1870, After despatching on Sunday morning my regu- lar letter Lo you I started oi with the determination to try and sec .omething of the siege of Montmedy. itis curious to remark that, although the gallant garrison shut up in this little tort bas made onc of the most plucky vesistances knowa im the history of war, very litte notice has been taken of their bravery eitler in tae French or English papers. Notthat for the last two months it has been my luck to see much of etther one or the other. News- papers duriug war times, when all means of com- manication with tie ouiward world are more or less closed, come few and far between to those who are following the operations of an army. But so far as it has been my luck to see now and again a stray London or Paris paper, I bave hardly seen men- tloned In one of them anything connected with the defence whicv the garrison of Montmedy is making against the enemy. My route from Boullion led me along the Belgium frontier, and within its Itmits, as far as Fiorenville, aud thence to Virton, At later place, which is also within the Beigian fro itier, and some twelve American miles from Monimedy, the sound of big guns could be heard quite plainiy. It seems that both the Prussiaa troops besieging the place and the French force that is inside vhe citadel have deter- mined to economize their powa for it was only now4#nd then, at tatervals of perhaps five minutes between each, that we could hear the booming of large ordnance, which was tnvariabiy tollowed by the sound of asinatier gun. The latter, as we after- wards learned, was the reply sent forth by the French garrison after each shot from the enemy outside. But that the firing ou both sides was pretty continual may be judged from the following fact;— ven as far of us Virton, which is twelve miles from Montmedy, the air ts Med with foating cartridge paper, which is slowly borae ay on the wind when- ever the laticr biows from the direction 01 the be- sieged town. This, so tne inhabitants of Virton tell me, has beea golug on for last twent and when the caononade was at its heavy quantity of paper blown into the towa u vade even the rooms of the houses wi dows were left open. ‘To obiain a guide from Virton to Montmedy was a elinple tupossibiltty, By means of a respectanie bribe I got a man who went with ine as far as the frontier of France, which is about a i ue aud a half from Montmecy, but not ove siep /uriier would he go. However, fortune go favored me that 1 Sell In with a priest—a Jesuit belowzing to the con- * vent of his order at Arlon—wnho was going to try and get into Montmedy, where he had, as hesaid, nol a ilttle work cut out for him in louking after the spiritual wants of the garrison; and in the course ef my many wanderings over the globe I must say what I never met with a better trayeliiug companion than this worthy father, who, in physical strength, | was well cut out for a gre: er, and had been a | missionary in tie East Indies for many year. He was by birth « German, @ native of the Khenish Provinces, but spoke Fr fact Of its being wble Lo tad native tongue made me not ail We sbould be able to get ab any whab Was going on at ihe at Viruon, thi & permit to see 1 hired a carriage look Us as far as the frontier, bub uot one step iurtier would the driver go, although he promised lo rematn ior us tWo days, When, I not suot by (he Prussians, we promised taithraily to make Our appearance aud take him back to Virton. Frou the ionticr viliaze, or hamlet, called Lorgay the roud descends gradually to the valley of tue Mouse, the eastern or southeastern of which 33 guarded by Montmedy. Bue just as we came 10 sight of the town, aud when stilaleague trom it, ed Hipon @ Prussian oNtpos led ae tit, aud Were at onc » WHY LOOK Us at to ivok ab our papers, 2 Singlish, | miu, he could pon LO preiense ©: n of Montmedy. | officer command: allow no one wiat- 10n, Wo pass toward wowed tun a pass [had Kat Sec trom tt a from the same fanehionary requesting a commander I came acrots to be of wha a. ould to me. ‘The ¢ Ha said hE Was Very sorry, | but that le could not allow us to wihough he | would thus nen doy rp to tie | commander sk hia wae imitted—I siege 0 1 lou to go un ty Montinedy. toa ie hil near his Post, where, rip of a good field glass, we could’ see ail that Wes going ob upod vue side, Ob any 1% ye tae town. We acceptor th » and sevol ab once, a | soldier b ent Of at tie Same time to the canip, | there wo our papers to te col indant, and ask leave for ws to sve What Was me siege. Bul, m poine of sa going on at what of a The Prussians are no doubt blockading me theyenter a kind | 1 garrison holding st tien by firg a few shuis out of heavy auinst the foruess. When this takes place } reply to the cannonade an equal | of shots, and Irom ume to tune change programme by sendivg « few shelis on But active procecdings on either The Prits- uulsnomer. the. thetr invaders. side appear to have been discoutinne slans have not carried on the trer began to make at rst, and i ee Tne Pras: French: whereas the latter attest that they can get provisions from outside without the Prussians being | at all the wiser. And this I believe to be the case. | it would hardly be tair to indk n point how the French manage to get out of and ito Monunedy, bot there 1s no doubt that they dv so in sinall parties, ana that iey manage, or have managed nitherto, to keep theinselves pretty weil supplied | with the actual necessaries of lie. The Prassians seem Very anxious 10 take the piace, and one of thelr officers tula me in confidence that before many hours were over Montmedy would be taken by assault, It is, therefore, far trot impossible that ere this letter is printed the place will ha ‘hanged masters. Sill it must be admitted that the French hold out wonderfully veiind sione walls. if they hud done half so well In the field as they have at DSirasbourg, at Metz, at Toul, at Montmedy and at Bitche te results of the - paign might have been different from hat they now are. And the most curious part | of the affair is that ewcit and every one of these gar- | risous now holding out so vatiantly, and, i will add, so scientulically, agaimst the enemy has been made up, so to speak, of the shakings of the army. In Strasbourg there is but one regular regiment of tue line; the rest of the garrison consists of depots of regiments, of recraits that have never um drilied, of Guard Mobie, and echieuy of the déoris of MacMaho *’s army, hen the latter was defeated et Woerth a great number of the fugitives took refuge in Strasbourg, and lave remained there ever where they huve become the bravest of the brave in thé defence of the place. Metz, I grant, is an exception tthe rule, There the garrisoa 18 en- tirely composed of the regalur army corps of Ba- vaine aud Canrobert. But at Toul, at Montmedy and at Bitche the defenders wre all stray soldiers, of various regiments and of diferent arms, who have somehow or other found their way ito certain fortresses aud are doing their best to defend the same, At Bitche (S01 have been told by a soldier who managed to get ont of that citadel with a letter for MacMahon) there are hardiy two men in the gar- rison who wear the same umferm. In about ap hour (after we had plenty of time to gee as Well as We could at 4 distance ail that was going on) the messenger sent to tho commander of he blovkading force returned, banging @ verval | his Kneuist wie with jt at full value. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OUTOBER 8, 1870.—TRIPLE. SHEET. answer to the captain of the outpost. The General said that he was extremely sorry, bul thatit was against ai! the rules of war to How strangers, no matter who might be, into che camp of an army hw was blockading & town or bas Bes chat therefore we must exouse mm ff he de us corey nearer. We tight remain, so he said, ‘@ coup! hours at tho outposts, but not longer, and after that we must go our way. TO this, of course, there could be no reply. As to the Jesuit Fathers’ request w enter the town of Montmedy, he suid that it could oniy be granted upou a request made by the oMcer commanding the garrison, and that even then it would not be listened to unless in ihe cause that there was no other priest in Montmedy who gould eaniuister 4 Letina sopeglation to x] men of the besieged garrison. I was, however, to learn that the day aiter I left Montmedy the re- quest of my fellow traveller had been grauted, and that he had been allowed to enter the fort, mere pledging his word of honor that he carried no ie! lers mato the garrison and that ne would bring none out of it when he came away, d remaiued the full tine of two hours, as allowed vo do, at the outpost. No one could be more civil than was the captain commanding the company, He spoke English perfecuy, and told me that he had, when the Anerican wat was going on, obtained leave of absence, and spent twelve months with the fedoral army, huvipg been present at the taking of: Richmonu. They have not many luxuries or com- forts during the campaign in the Prussian army, The dinner of the three oilicers at the outpost oun- sisted of some cold ham, a@ few bolled potatoes and @ bottle of very indifierentbeer. They had ail three been present at the battle of Sedan, and were gulie confident that if Paris was really besieged by their army the end would be a complete triumph for the cause of Prussia. And yet, although Jeeling certain ol success, they were “not in any way over= bearing in their manner, ‘To mo, when the captain spoke in Buglwsh, he certainly was not complimen- tary to the generals of the Fiench army; but I noticed that when he spoke tn French to the Josult riest—which he did perhaps because I could not lollow wilh ease @ conversation in German—he was Moderate and cautious in wha: he said, wlthough the reverend gentiemen was, like himseif, a subject of the King of Prussia. When the two hours were up { was careful to be ‘the first to say that 1 must go. The captain gave me 4 corporal to conduct me a few furiongs on my road, which {had to go aloaeé, as the priest went auother way to # Village at some tue distance to tne south, At Torny, tue froatier village, & found the carriage Inad leit there, tie driver evidently regarding ine as @ man who had rsen from ile grave. At Virton, where I slept tor the night, it Was discovered that one of the horses was dead lame, and the greater part of the next day was lost in looking for & goaveyance wihch, afier all, could not ve procured for love or money. it 80 happexueil, however, that a Belgian genueman going on to 101x, Which ought to be called Polx St. Habert, offered me @ seat in his gig, and from that place 1 have come on to Kecoygne, a small villuge, about two miles (rom Me railway station at Libermont, where I shail to- nmiorrow yet @ trai to Brussels. FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Sufferings and Trials of Newspaper Corre. spondentsVisit to Sedan—Escape of French freops from Metz—Sedan iu a State of Sieseibe Debris of Machiahon’s 4rmy— Enthusiasm for the Republice tribulations of a Fronch Journalist—Tourists at Sedan The burning of Bazeilles. BovILLon, Sept. 17, 1870. rompuny with two otier veteraus of the pen L have just returned from a two days’ trip to Sedan and tie other towns upon the Meuse. This is the fifth, and J nope the iast, time Ihave had to visit the scenes of the great tight on the 1st September, Jn common with the o:her correspondents of the press in these parts, I look upon a good night's rest as tnuvaluable, and the same is a blessing far more easily attainable in Belgium than in Fraace at the present time, ‘Ihe sound of trumpets, bug!es and drums during your first sleep; the having to arise from your ved, grope in the dark for your clothes and rush out in the cold to see what is the matter, 1s a Kind of enter- tainment of which Iam not fond, and of which Luave had more than enough since f left Paris two months ago, I have had to fly from Incoming Prussians some six or seven times during road re true, there I4, I now fad, more foundation for the | wale, A band of between 4,000 and 6,000 Freel {| prone of ail arms have reached the open ground on | the Meuse, and have passed up towards Paris. Ati rst 1 was ander Uke Lia) fon Lhat these must wave) been prisoners escaped irom the his etd out jast night t eked upon the rod near Monzon a sword. belt und a rifle sting, both or wuich were stamped with themark of tne imperial Guard aud both of Which had been quite recently tung away, Now, as we ali know the tmperial Guard is intact at Metz, or at ivast has only lost mon in aud avouud Chat for- Wess, Luin lod to ‘believe there must be with this dyiny column some portion of Canrobert’s corps, Lt veins (hat these Breach troops now going Nortuward march by night and remain in the woods by day, and that ihey camry with them Uhelr arias and ammunition besides rations upon each mun’s back. The fact of thew benig still armed proves that they have not been prisoners, and.us they carry tholr own rations they must stil! be under some kind of discipiine, They have no guns—so tae peasants Who Nave seen them report—no cavalry, abd are pushing on at a reat DUCE ANd keeping as Close Ad they Can wo the ian froutier, niuch in ike same way that a hunted fox will hug ‘the edgo of the gorse Until he sees a chance of geting clear away into the open country, S0far as I can discover only two men of this mysterious force nave lagged bebiad, at any Tate m the valley of the Meuse, One of tese is & sodier of the ixty-second, the other @ corporal Fiteenth chasscurs &-pied. Both of these corps were in Bayaine’s army, the former in the diytsi-n Montaudon aud the brigade Aynard, the latter tn the division aud the brigade Campbriels, ‘Puls would tudicate that the foxce has reaily Dioken Out of Metz. But, on the Other hand, boti the men say—so it has Te- Pporied to ue, for 1 have hot been abie to sve them— that they were prisoners, but bad given the Prussisus the slip. How then about their ara? SEDAN IN A STATE OF SIBGK. It seems that ou Thursday, the day [ sent’ you the teiegram about Bagame’s report.d movement, the story was fully believed iu Sedan, even by the Prus- sian military wuijorities, and L have good reason to surivise hat they KuOW BOW more than they care to tell. But although the garrison did not turu the peo- pie out of tue town they placed 1, in a state of siezo, as tue placards that | saw on the walls yesterday proclaimed in German and French. ‘This put the in- habitaats in a fright, and they ab onve fed beyend the Beigtan frontier, taking with them all they could carry in the shape of thetr househoia goods, Auother incident tended greatly to increase the panic of Lue populace. ‘The cuimusudant wan ed to see the mayor of the plaice upon pusiness. Lhe latter was uclayed in coming and the commandaut order- ed him to be sent for again. ‘The ole r entrusted with the duty very neediessily and very Loolisuly marched him through the town petween two flies of solviera, ‘Tue povple, of course, saw this, and with ali the reverence Freuchimen Nave for /es auroriés, were horrified. Tuey at ouce conciaded that their cluet inagistrate Was abou. Ww be snoi, and this was ® double reason wily they should leave Sedan. ‘Their reasoning went nofurther tian to demousirate Uiatal the meyor ol tae town is marched through Ute town as 4 prisoner to tue office of the command- ant, the chances are ie Will be shot; and if he is to be shot, then the Inhabitants will be shot aiso. ‘Lherefore it was*that counceting Unis tine of reason- mg with the reported advance of Bazaine froin Metz, first one, then another, then a dozen, followed by & couple of seore of ie WUabiwals determined UO ove Off bag a: sage into Beigiam. Nothing is nore Catching (han & pauic, and Nence it Was tnat the road irom Sedan to Boutilon was, on faursday the campaign, and would rather, save when duty reaify obliged me to be present at these routes, sleep in a piace where I felt sure my repose would nol be disturbed. ‘This is why tho three or four American and Engiish newspaper correspondents now on the frontier always try lo get back into Bel- gium when they have seen ali thatisto be seen in the valley of the Meuse, Some of us go to Fioran- ville, others to Bouillon aud one or two vo Virton, Whenever we want eitier to'write or to be at res In fact, it would be possible te compose letters in France at the present time, but utterly Linpossibie to. send them, for all the regular post ofices are shut upand the Prussians atiow no one to send betters Through what they cali tieir “floid postuniess he has special letters of recommendation to their superior oficers, which I have vot, having hitherto been a Totlower of the French army. ‘The Belgian men do not—#t any rate, not for the present—attempt to cut each other's throats, according to the ruies and regulations of civill war, und there, if an indi- vidual has fair health and a good conscience, he can reckon upon a sound night's sivep. My late—and, as i believe, my last, for other scenes awall ny presence —visit to Sedan was occasioned by a romor which was very generally believed throughout the county the day beiore yesterday. Jallude to the report which Lsent you by telegram to the efect that Bazaine had broken away irom Meiz, and was marching via Sedan to Paris, In contrmation of this wonderful news the whole re- maining population of Sedan and ¢ neighborhood seenied to be on the move into Belgium. For this exouus several reasons were given, ihe chief, of course, boimg that the Prussians at Sedan had done this, that or the outer fo tie hurt ors inuabitants, The night of Without aay sound of fri the 16th passed away from the nvighboricod of Sedan, and the day before Yesterday i got over the elght miles betyeen tils and tie satd forcress before seven o'clock A. Ml. VisiT TO The result of my jouryey be future, so long as T amon iund, follow the good old rule, and believe half what Isee and nothing of what} hear. I had been told that a large body of French troops were to be seen With a good telescope bivouacked between Mont- medy and Stinay. i went there, and not a singie man was 0 be seen. | had heen assured that Sedan itself was tu a terrible state, that the Prussian com- mandant had ordered the gates to be shut, thal the Mayor was a@ prisoner, aud that typhus iever was raging owing to the numerous nuburied bodies in whe sfrects, I sound the place a great deal cleaner than London, the Prussian soidiers quite as etvil to the natives and fay more sober thau our own guards- men; and on going to see tat terrible Turk, the Prussian commandant, I was introduced to polite a Ittie gentleman as ever it was my lot to meet, Who, a3 he came ont of his office, was band- ing a dole of charity to a French beggar. Tie shop- keepers of Sedan are buying and selling, fle and cheating their conquerors, and aepior' the time their very hard fale. The master or the Hotel de la Croix d’Or mouningty told me that le Was wruined man, and in order to comfort hunself charged my compantoa und ¢nyself twelve fran for two smell hanks of iweat, wilh a few potatoes and a bottle of whut im London we should call “Shilling Gladstone.” Bis honse is full from morning to night, He hasapullupon all travellers; for he gives them what he likes and charges them what be Choses. But upon the Pr s1an officers he has two pulls. He not only charg them the prices of the Grand Hotei in Paris for food Ruch as you would hardly give to a favorite dog, but he also makes matters pleasant (for himeelf, be it | understood) to the exchange of their money. They pay him in Prissian me Which he Takes ata willing discount of titty per éent, and he sends 1% through Belgium to Germany, where he pays tor | The Pras- sian great, big, good-tempered fellows know they e cheated, but not being given to accounts they oO they laugh 1t Up WIth the swindl tole, 1 rather think that my fread of the <d°Or is making ® good deal more money than he did before the war broke out, or even before Sedan changed hands aud became a Pressian garrison, As to bread, m and the necessaries of life, they are really—on- les# you go to ¢he Croix @Or fi your meais— very litte dearer than besore the war broke out, aud only @ shade higher than they are in Belgium, that I shall for Warpath on this while, a One Oe, people all easn and charge | far more than they did before ihe Prussians occ pied the place, Of course | except the unfortunate work yaen and women, of whom there have been tn Sedan alone at least two thousand thrown out of empioyment. These U see people, mostly Belgians, have left France and returned to their native vil- Jages, Where they are more or less starving with hunger and utterly homeless, The charity of Eng- land might with great propriety be invoked in their ald; but their employers, the muil owners of Sedan, who make the best brofdcloth in France, ought: really Ww show an example and accept matters as they now are as well as they can—make, In short, the best ot a bad job and work their milis a3 well a3 Uhey can, at any rate for short hours. FRENCH TROOPS #BSCAPK FROM METZ. Although the story of Bazulne dayleg torgga ols jury of the | aud Friday, covered for mies with carts full of peo- ple dying to where they considered themseives safe, HUMILIATION OF FRANCE, The French have nv doubt undergone a very great, and even tertibie national hutuliation; but, as yet, they have not learned to “iake their pugisiment dike men,” ‘They canuot understand, aad can hardly beLieve, that they have been conguered; aud even ow tuerr pride forbids thein to bow Lo the eonqu ror, ‘Tus ef course groauy aunoys the’ Prussiwu and inakes them all the more determined to aumii- ate tneir enemy to the uliier ead. Gn the osher hand, the Prussians, to, are very muci to blaine. ‘taey are bent upou crush. mot only tke military, bat the civil ufe ont of nce. Lhey are deter- imined not ouly to conguer the legions tat Napoleon Vook javo che ileid, bul aiso bo stamp Out bie trade, the industry and tle very Life of ints people. We are told by Solomon that “a kind word turueih away wrath,” but tue Prussians seem determined to in- crease the wrath of tiose tley have conquered by Morreing them ineyery possiy.8 manner. as is the case In every quarrel, both sides are greatly in tault, but J cannot help thinking that ii the Prussians would oniy do #8 the Jederais m America did aiter the great civil war, und forgive a3 well as forget the past, te dificuity would far sooner be brought to peaceable soluilon, After ail wis hard iat every #renchiaan sboull Le made to feel the horrors of ® war whica he was not instrumentat in bringing abowt. The French are an easily vexed and an easily pleased peopie, 1 ain quite sure Uhut if the Prussians would bul treat faeor with a itttle 1e3s arrozance We suculd so0u see this war atgucnd, But itis alteriy impossivie that nperimaneus peace can be insured if the Freuch have to give up Aisace and Lorraine. No oue wo has lived among them, aud wuo knows their national spirit and great pride, can fora moment think tuey Will submit to Such ‘® humiliation, Lhey may ve Taue to do ts; icy may be iorced to agree to What tey are LOt in @ position to dispute, But iw wil only be under protest, and with the detormmaiton reform their aaiitary system, and recouquer waat they nave lost. in both aud Lorraine the very name OL Prussia is bal Kefore these prov inces become peaceable subjects of Pruskin the waole of the presept populitivn must be utterly stamped out, Is Prossia@—i dow’t mean the taking frothy poltticians of Berlin coffee houses, but the real sound ihinking men of the German nation—prepared lo do ihisy Aud ifshe 18, will Kurope stand by Wilh folded arms and s. o ther Poland ¢ changed. it Was commenced by Prussia agalast poieon; it iscarried on—or will be if the giving provinces is lash upon—by wu despotic governnien’ against a repubit When at Sedin yesterday [happenod to call upon n wounded Prussian oficer waum J fad known some years ago in adon, While I was there » Frenet gentieman irom Upernay came t.. ‘Tho con- versation turned upon tie march of the Prince Royal towards Paris, and to Liusirate wiat be told us the Prusstan officer took out a case of maps, from which ke scle«te oy ApS were of Naiform size, as sti as pastebuard, aud ail—there were about two dozen of inem—fited into a case which was perhaps ten Inghes by five. Kach map nf a Freneh prowin € scale of about bir e American nil Of ther porrectness you May orm so: Mat the gentieman from 2 luap Sowa lum the posi- 5 nehes to represented part—oniy par aud was drawn on Ali these maps ing Department at out ior every al if anarmy tnus ago Won eo dsy? So tar as. to “ro COl= ceracd, ihe Y pared with the Pras » could be with grown vp edge this, 1 will not ned to, | B DEBRIS O8 MAOMAHON T who ds staying Nh . an artillery ofleer wao: te army anu 2d of tis im lettor is dated vom aris, on Wednesday 14 and tne writer inorms bis broiner thar Wiousand men, WR thirsy pleces of cannon, fe the debris of MacMahon’s co capital in safety. about a hnadred marched in the grea! over the country in sn hundred eact y a »bject of thetrmarch, which s—by any means 4 ¥ ine pa i They took eleve 1 reac fusion, parties of e somuciow,. How were fed oa the road emis (o Dave Leen a inirac They were nos com- ed, Toreach map worked lor himself, They 4 of all regiments and ail and Ked toxether in the most e wedinary S01880NS—s0 tie letter says, bat f think a mistake, — for i place hands of in thi Prussians the 6th of tis month—they foun r on thousand rations of bread and meai, Bach man took three days’ rations, and off they ried aguin. Vhey had several detours (0 make in oriter Lo avo! 15 bu excepting the Vstekly ch their desti tand to reach Fabout the same time. Here and there on the were joined by wen who had leit diferent various bates, 80 that thelr num a Gro eck oo the tae of aliy ge hot mentioned, mares nein and re Paris safely. ‘The Whole foree got to thelr dc tion withia twenty-four Lours of each oiler, The writer—whose letter seems to bave heen one of the last sent out of the capttal before its gates were Ciosed—regards with ne sisali triuinpn ius teat of so many individuals, Which, as he says trely enough, could sot fave been accomplshed by ony other soldiers in the world. He goes on to tell iis brother how there 18 scl a hope for cause Paris Wilk deicnd itself to Une bitte de huasely, & very young sub-lieutenant, formed part of the force that ‘has got away, and records ti triumph how out of ten guns in his batlery seven have been taken to Pais ip salety. ENTHUSIASM FOR THE REPUBLIC. If we are to judge from tis there may yet be some chance for the honor of the French ariuy being vine dicated; bat | pui more stvesé upon tue enthusiasm of the waole French people in favor of the repiolie than even in this irlumph of the system that trains men to nehave so Weil individually. This spirit Is very plainiy seen among the wounded officers and sokiiers who are now in Sedan, in Glyon: Pouzy and in Belgium. Oye and all declare at that nothing save the republic coutd ever Haye France, but that that republic will aud must save her, And, What is more to tie purpose, we have up here, within the Beiginn frontier, opportunities ef seeing numerous French etvilinns of all shades of political opiuton, They are all of the same way of thinking for the present. They all say that, uo mat- ter what may be the form of government which France may select hereattor, that for the present the repubile alone can inspire popular confidence. The sympathy in faver of the republic which has been expressed by the United Stated bas also been the cause of great rejowing in Franee; but I fear ad raided = hopes — which will not be realized. Aunost every French- Tuan Grwly veligyos that Amariog ig quite ready } Jar orde the Prudsians around Mets waa uh- | to help this country, not only with a moral, but with ap effective support. y argue that if she won'tsend an army she can send a fleet, and that such assistauee will shame England, Russia and Austria into taking action in the cause of France. itis no use wuatever Ming with them that the United States make tt a rule never to interfere in Buropean troubles beyond giving advice when asked, ‘They have convinced themselves to the con- trary, and will remaim of that opinion, no matter who contradicts them. TRIBULATIONS OF A FRENCH JOURNALIST. During the preseat war ihe American, tue Buglish cer’ he ubles of special correspondents, Bowe tave been arrested again and agarn, ovbers have been turned out of camp, and im ve been within an ace of losing their lives, But} member any case that acems to have been #0 par- Wcularly unfortunate as that of a geuticman of the French press that Lmet at Clsya on the day whe! ty: of the way of the incoming Prussian army. utieman 1 allude to Was sent Oat by the ournat Dévats, in order to Watch the final operations in the fleld of MacMahon's. ig We arrived at Rueins on the day L meniion, and lo a from the place two hours afterwards, Me jot to Rethel, and was there made @ prisoner by the French, He waa libe- rated next day, aud was then made prisoner by the Prussians, Who kept bin on parole 1 the town of Rethel until the day of the batiie of Sedan, Of that engagement he wrote a very long description, but his letter was lost on tts wey to Paris, This was enough for tie unfortunate journalist, who passed through Atry afew days ago on is way to Paris, determined tw give up the attempt of seeing any- thing of the war, and having made up his mii at he will do his best (o be present at the sicge of Paris, TOURISTS AT SEDAN, ‘ For the last fortnight the tide of tourists to the neighborhood of Sedan has been om the increase. Ay usual, our british frend: outnumber the rest, and outdo them in extraordinary costumes, 1 saw yes- terday an oe lady walking over that portion of the battle fleld which ts close to tho road that runs between Sedan and She had on @ vel- veleen “walking costume;” her head. was orna- mented with what I bellove must be tae roti Leak ions ever devised by human halr dresser, in her hand she carried @ onid's lance, orna- mented with the white fag and red cross of the Swiss Convention, Whether sie pee id that there Was still an enemy on-the field, aud that this fag could gave her trom being made prisoner, 1 cannot say. But it is really too bau to geo the use that this disuincitve mark is being put to. Every loafer who comes out td see the seut Of war thinks he has a right io wear the badge thut ought to ve conilaed Sonerely to those who belong to the ambulances aad attend upon the wounded, ‘vhere are, vesiaes the phat ei etry German, French and Ameri enn tourists, Rordes of vagabond, Wao come here for what purpose Heaveu only knvws. They are scemingly the scourings of the Belgian, Rhine and North of Frauce cliies, Where they get the money to pay for the journey ig another mystery, for thoy ail seem in utter want. But come they do, giving out that they are going to assist the wounded, and wearing the insiguia of those who really do come for that purpose, At one tune most of these vagabouds used to give out that they Wore special correspond: ents of newspapers, ‘Phat Little game 1 very soon lmanaged to spoil for them, One of them, who could nol speak a word of English, boasted one day at Florenville, that he hae been sent out by the New York Zrivuae, Tho vauves present be- Heved nim, but Tchalienged him to show a single puper of any sort that would establish wit he said, orto write fall a pags of Mogil OF course he couid do neither, ad tie landlord, seeing he was an upposter (tne fellow turned out afterwards to have been & Waiter discharged from a notel at Co- jogne), at my suggestion turned him out of the hotel. Iv a8 Well Le Gid #9, for this tinposter took refuge in a cafe, where he could not next moruug muster half a douar to pay ior his bea and breaklusi. THE BURNING OF BAZHILLE. Ihave new, for the last time, Lope, gone over again the village of Ba. Witch was 80 rath- jessly burued py the Ba the battle of Sedan, aad whic! dence of the Infamous spirit which rules ta the army OL the lavading troops, 1 vow fad that the houses of this unfortunate town were deliberately tired, one after another, after the French army bad gar. rendered, making the deviush deed all the more cruel and cowardiy. The town contained 2,500 Inuabitants. These poor people are, one ali, left utterly homeless, As for the houses, there 1s not one ta which you could tell where any single room siood, A broticr co, Rrespondent com- Pared the piace, the other day, to Lae ruins of Pom- peu, at the foot of Vesuvius. Butl think that the tuwan of Ditetr-el-Kamznat, in Mount Lebanon, wien burned down, in 1800, by the Druses, is a suli better comparison, Ag English general ollicer was present yesterday looking ou at tie rain, and I quite agreed with him whea he said that no such aced of ifa- mous, cowardly cracity has ever disgraced the war of any Christian nation, ven the Prussians aud Bavarians aduti—uay, they openly avow and boast, Liat the town Was not red by sueils, but was dell. erately set Hre to, house afler house, by superior order. An English barrister—a leading mun at the Chancery bar in London—who was also present, Balu taal it was a disgrace to the British press that not asimgie paper Nad denounced this brutal act of Vaudalisin as it aeserved. The excuse given for the barbarity 18 that the people 0: tho village fired upon the Prussian troops, 1am ina posttion to state, upon tbe most posiave evidence, ihat this is julse, utterly false—a Pr lic, retailed by agens of primis that have been bought by Bis.narck, and tn the face of wie civilized wo Iam ready to prove the truth of wot f say. ‘The only men of Bazellie who bad arms were those be- longing vo tie Garde Mobile and the Garde Nationale, These were ordered vy tuetr military superior, wwe general commanding at Sedan, to defend thew Tage if the Vrusst advanced, Tuecy did so, but not until the F infantry came iato ihe place, Zot into the houses aud resisted the enemy to the uunost, ‘Ihe village Was taken and retaken three times, The Bavarians were repulsed and beaten back twice with heavy logs. ‘fils it was that made them furious, and causes them, not in the heat Of action, bul next day, after the army of Mac- Manon surrendered, to comunit this cowardly actof véngeance, by which huodreas ot people, wiiose only crime Was that they were fronch men and women, were rendered beggars. I hope that thousauds of tourisis will come aad see tis burned aowa town. 4 hope that the church, of which only the four walls stand, wili rouse througa- cub ibe Christian world & ory by Wich it will be shown that not even the great united German nation can violate with impunity the laws of God and man. ido not believe that i the wars of the Most barbarous people on earth a more de- liberate and devilish act of crucliy was ever perpe- trated, | trnst mauy Americans will vist thes spot, and will write full accounts of What they see; they do-—if tuey coud he scene, r ales of tie unfor- ople Who Will huve to pass the cong vd only Knows where and how—they will ued runs of Bazeule Cail Bazeilie, water, say wilh ie tital the bia for the veageance of Heaven upon the cowardly hounds Who perpetrated tis diavolivai Darvarily, Ample a8 are the colunmms of the Huxaty, t could Bil every one of them with thorougiily Weil’ authen- cated tules of the misery endured vy Lie people of this place, aad of the hellish craeliy of the savages Who thus wreaked tucir vengeance upon tiem, Aud mark, | beg of you, that tiis was not done in the heat of action by an Infuriated suiiery, vat de- libevately and by order of the superior onic afer ine French army had capitulated, From house to house fatigue patties, uuder ouicers, went in regu wud alter cacu house thoroughiy pii- s then set fireto. If the fire went out work Was resuued again. And while this de- vilish jabor was gothg on- while tue few inbabit- futs Wio bad remaimea in the piace were shot In coid blood—ihe Bavarian bands of military music layed in mockery te French nationat au, the arseliiaise.’? Alter this let those who think they Will be Usiened to preach that Alsace and Lorraine ought to be piven up to the invaders of France; or lec those Who ituve reat of these horrors wonder if the French people have resvlved rather to perish than to allow Paris to be taken by the Prussians, Sometiing ougut to be done by bota the American andthe Eugiisa nation to relieve the people of Bazeiile, and to assist (hem in building tacir homes again. 1 would suggest that a comutitice of both countries shoud be tormed at Brussels or Spa, aud that subscriptions in ald of this object should be sent to the British or the United States Mimisier at the foriner place, Whatis done, however, to help these uuforiunate peopie, ought to be done at once. To get their Leuses built before the winter sets in would be impossibie; but food, bedding aud cloching migat be provided and arrangements wade go that Wiih the spring the building of the town might be commenced. Not only would this charity save hun- dreds Lrom perishing, bul it Would also mark tie de- testation With that ie Anglo-Saxon race oles all acts of barvarism. 1 was giad to see yesterday Unat even the Prussian Oflicers seein ashamed of the Bazeilie business, and say that 18 perfectly true that It was the act of ihe Bavarian corps and its leaders. And a quite certain that no man Would condemn auch wicked cruelty more thea the Prince Koyai, Wie heir to tue Prussian crown. Emile Olivier’s Hetel—Where the Emperor Breakfusted and Slopt—A Dingy Concern— The French Wounded Seldiers—Curious Ideas Regarding the Care of Horses— Prench Friseners W Have Escaped. RECOGNE, Sept. 22, 1870. The lun at this piace will long be celebrated as the house in which the Emperor breakiasted upon the second day of hig captivity, the nameot the landlord, by a curious coincidence, being Emile Olivier. And 1 will certainly do the latter worthy Belgian the justice of saying that his hotel 1s no common one, for it is avout as dirty @ habitation as Europe could show, even including the many vile holes I have had to sleep in during the present cam- paign. Hearing that [ was an Englishman, Monsieur Olivier did me the honor to come out and greet me, offering me as & great compliment the room to sleep in where his Majesty the late Empe- ror of the French washed his nands and reposed himself jwhile. breakfast was getting ready. I am it the room, and write this letter from it; but Tam bound to say that it is, to use the mildest term, the reverse of either clean or comfort- able. Moreover, Ihave not even the honor of hay- ing it to myself, for it contains no less than three beds, in one of which is @ French priest, who snores | as surely Meyer Man snored Yofore, sud iu the other lic have heard a great deal con- | a German.doctor, who has not washed himself, I should say, for several years. The village of Re- cogne 1s a mere hamlet, but ag it contains the only house in the shape of an inn or hotel near the rall- way station of Libermont ft bas a good many visitois, parucularly at the present time, when vast quantities of stores are being sent into Kelginm, and across that country tato Franco, for the use of the wounded, Convoys of the latter, to the number of 600 and 1,000 a day, have also been through this part of the couniry on their way, if French, to the am- bulances establisned at Namur, Liege, Brussets and Ghent; tf Prussians, on their way back to Germany. But, votwithstanding the great care now being shown them, there {s too great reason to fear that the 1038 of Life on both sides kas been far greater than was at first believed. Tho most distressing Part of this fearfal war seems to be ihe uncertainty thatreigns with regard to the fate of so many thou- sands of individuals, ‘There is to-night in this hotel the Prince de Saha- gun, a French nobleman, who has, However, many connections, friends and relatives in the German army. He has been upwards or ten aays trying to find out what has become of hiq brotuer-in-law, Baron stolberg, an officer in the Prussian hussars, but without success, The Baron was known to have been shot in the neck at thé battle of Sedan and to have been obliged to retire from the tleld. He has been traced to one of the ambulances near Donchery, and thence as far a3 La Chapel, asmali village on the French frontier, between Sedan and Bouillon. He was scen and spoken to by a soldier of his own regiment within the Belgian frontier, and said that he was on his way to Bouillon, But le never ar- rived therd, nor has he been heard of at any of the vitlages on the irontier, As regards the Prussiaa army, Baron Stolborg’s case is perht an exce: ional oue, at Tave as regards au oflicer of ‘ak, But among the French troops there are thousan similar instances, iu which tue fate of even generals and colonels is a3 yet uncertam. { met one poor lady at ‘irton yesterday, who’ had tried to gain some information about he: husband in every place where lus rezi- ment had Jeit w wounded man, from Wissembours Ww Sedaa, It was only after nearly a mouti’s frutt- less search that, through the Kindiess of a Prussiao oiltc-r, sue found that per husband was a prisoner in Bavaria. Tue freuch have ceriainiy a wouderful way of not doing things in order, ‘To this day taey have no lists. made up of wio were wounded, or Who were Killed or wito were taken prisouers. At Paris scores of officers and men who Ww to be Kktlled are turnmg up every day; and as toa correct list oF those wio really did fail during the campaign, that will be made up at the day of judg- ment, but not before. What would lave become of the Fronch wounded had tt not been for the succour atforded by the Internacional society goodness valy knows, ‘Their ony, seems to have taken the Seid as utterly unready to do anytolng ior those thatieil as it is possibie to tliaayine. They had a few surgeons, bat noo nearly evouga; and as for tie means of moving tuew Wounded, at Would have sudiced tor @ sham ight at Chalons, and even would uave been too little for that. Bur it seems ail of a piece with what they aave done from trst to last. Never did an army tike the Held so utterly uuprovided with everything 1 wanted, except arms and ammunition, us did the French, You way recollect how, in one of my last letters from Sirusvourg, hefore a shot had been fred on tao frontier, I pointed out the great inferiority of the French to the Prussian artillery. Not only was this te case as regards the guus, especially 80 as respects the horses. Every nian who has ever owned horses knows that they ought never to be leit a single day in the stabics without exercise, aad that, if mut wanted for actuai work, they ought to be ridden out gentiy by the grooms for at least an hour daily. Lue Engitsh, Prassiaa, Austrian, aad in evory oiher army except the Freuch, aruillery and Cavalry Lorses, On Suc days as they ure uot vt dru, are walked out for at least an hour and a ialf oy the meu woo have Charge of them. Bui i can safely assert that during the time MacMahou’s army was at Strasbourg, although tuere were atleast 15,000 horses ia the camp, they were never ouce takeu from their pickels, except to drink. Of course, when tie time for hatu Work and exertion sirived, these ani- mals were found to be worth noiitng, and honce the real reason why the Frenen artillery could never move their guas rapidly to either Lront or rear, aud could never get them out of tae way when a retreat was necessary. ‘But Frencimen have ceriwnily curious ideas ‘about the management of horses. 1 remeimber General Michael, wio commanded the biigade of heavy cavalry, consisting of wie Eighth and Niuth cuirassiers, in MacMahou's army, argu- ing with me that troop Rorses would be in far hetter health if they were never cleaned. And yet this vill cer iad been all his lite—or, at least, all lus protes- sional We—a cavalry officer, and had commanded some of the smuriest cavalry regimen's in the Frened army. Like but too many of his cotleagues, General Michael took tor granted that whatever was done in Algeria must be right; and because the Arabs of the desvrt lett their horses uncleaned by brush or currycomb, he believed that alt horses ougit to be simiarty treated, Beiore leaving this part of the conntry and the negnvoring [rontier it may not ve uninteresting to bow Upon the vast numbers of ci privouers Wao bave escaped from the fra as and are now ou thelr Way to Various parts of Frauce. | an as- sured upon goou authority tat of the 90,000 pris- oners taken when Sedan capitulated at least a tuird have got away and are now inaking the best of thew Way to France, turough Belgium; und tris number might have beeu greatiy increased had not the Parisian newspapers, with tueir usual irrepressible impulsiveness, taiked not merely of the number that had escaped but also of the way in which these es- capes had been effected. Of course the whole tide of escaped prisoners has rolled through Belgiam, gud would have been very much greater had 1 not peen. talked about, or rather written about and ousted of in the French press. And now, having nothing better to write about, these journalistic pa- trois are busy telling the world at liurge where Paris 1s most yulnerabie and what steps are being taken to have the various defects in the fo:tifica- tions rectified. Well may the Prussian oificers laugh aud declare that so long as they can obtain a Pa- risiaa newspaper they have no need of a single spy withia the capital of France. VOICE OF THE EUROPEAN PRESS. Facts, Locidents, Auccdotes, Personalins &c. The North German Corresponden’, duitag Berlin, September 21, pubiishes the following appeal of the Crowi Prince to the people of Germany:— ‘The signal victories of our army have opened up to tue German people the prospect of a gl rious peace, On the battle flelds of Frauce Germeny nas awakened to tho proud consciousness of her mignt and her unity, and this great guin—consecrated by the blood of many thousands of our warriors—will, We trust, retain ils cementing influence lor ever 1 our country. But the entiusiaetic exuliation of the last few weeks has been alloyed with deep sorrow and mourpiig. Much of the dower of our youth, mavy of the leaders of our army have paid the price of victory with their vioodl: still larger 18 the number of those Who are hindered by wouuds, or the almost superhuman ions they lave maae in the field, from henceforth earning thelr livelihood unussisied. The families of sia and the living victuns of the war have the first claim on the gratl tude of the nation. Whoever has shared in the ex- citement of the struggic, and hopes thata new and happy era of peace will succeed the rising of the whole nation in its strength, whoever humbly recou- nizes in our irlumph and the deteat or oar enemies the judgment of God, should now prove the sin- cerity of his convictions by heiping to succor (he disabled soldiers of our nations) army and their families. p ‘The State itself, however liberally it may dispense the nicaus at its disposal, is unable to provide tor the great number of mvalids and those dependent on them, State assistance can ut best furnish only bare necessities; its aciion must be Imited by gene ral regulations, and it can take uo cognizance of he special waats of individuals. Voluntary aid will be largely required, for the losses, like the successes of tnis great contest, are imunense, Aw the present war has created u univer- sai German ariny, 1n Which the sons of ali our Ger- man stems emulate each other in heroism, the care of the invalids and the heipless whom the war be- queaths us, shall be & common concern of Germany, and one in which North and Sousa will equally take part. Former experience has shown that to contribute Money generousiy is not everything. 1% is no less hecessary to distribute the finds both wisely and with a humane regard to exceptional eircumstances; and at the same tine cre must be wken tw snilld late, not tO remove incentives to industry, 50 that ‘the relief afforded may becume a reai venefit aud blessing to the recipicut. At 13 therefore highly desiraple that local and district associations should be everywhere formed, Watch shall undertake vo colicet subscriptions under the direction of & common management. ‘These branch societies Will inquire into tne claims of all applicants ia thelr respective districts, and in case oO Sobeoen provide them with permauent pecuniary ald. As the Victoria National Invalid Institntion, Tounded 1n 1866 for simtlur parposes, has preved its high value and eficieucy in a large part of Germany, Therewith authorize the acting committee of that Association to orgauize and assume the manage ment of an Invalid Lusiitutton fer Germany in gene- ral, to collect fauds, and to establish branch asso- clations, His Majesty the King. commander-in-chief of the German arity, has sighifiea te me, as i 1864 and 1866, his full approvai of this patriotic design. In the present campaign | have nad the satisfaction of as 4 an army into the field, in which the Bava- rian, the Wurtemberger, and we Badepeer fought side by side with the Prussian, and for that reason I may apveal to the hearis of all our German brothers. This work of leve we will also undertake in com- mon, regarding tt ax the prelude to many others which We shall accomplish together in the cayse of our country and that of peace. * FREDERIC WILLIAM, Crown Prince of Prussia. HEADQUARTERS, RHEIMS. Sept. 6, 1570. GERMANY RECOGNIZES NAPOLEON. ‘The Correspondent, which 18 Count Bismarck’s special organ, elsewhere says:— In the eyes of the allied German governments the only lecal ruler of France at the present moment is the Emperor Napolcon, Op (we shh of May last bie authority wasconfirmed by seven milion of and ja, been thrust aside yot by ine nacien di bya on of Lue Corps L gisiasil, who pus them- selves in his place—an Act, be it reciombered, whieh the Freuch people nave nol yet approved of ov con- doned, With tag exception of the largo towns, thé Napoleon dynasty has always been popular through. ‘Out France, and it was parueutarly so m the rarab disiricta. We repeat, What we have already eaid, that Germany has 10 wish to meddle with the Luter. nal Sager of France, but in the absence of proot fothe contrary we must regard the prisoner of Wiihelmsi‘he as the sovereigu aad iegwumate re presentative of France. THE HOKRORS AT BAZEILUES. A Prussian paper gives the following version of the terrible scenes Which occurred at the village of Bazeilles, in France:— We are now in & position co inform our readers how the burning of the village of isazeliies really took place, During the battie of Sedan, about Uuree o'clock in the aiternoon, While the ardiiery tire wad raglig on both sides, sowe Bavarian tr were marching past the village, when suddenly balf @ dozen of musket shots were aimed at Gio from @ house. ‘The Bavarians, who bad been victims of a similar treachery at Weissembourg, immediately broke the doors Open, but the invending assasains had fled. The house was sep on fire “and the Miabiants opened a regul fusilade. on the Germans from every winiow, Ab six o'clock the whole village was in flames Oar soldiers teil frigntiul stories of the ferocity of the people. Men and Women untied ia inussacring Wounded Bavarian suldicrs in the street, aud Wi to bo seen lifuug them up auc throwlug tiem int the flames, ine Village Was destroyed, but com- paratively iew of the mbabitauts perisued, and we ure assured by an eye-witness that ireaca, cr even Engish troops, would have ruthicssly ex'erminated the whole murderous populaion, ‘The smetl of charred Hesh, of which the Duc de Fitzjames speaks in his letter to the /vmes, Came most pte Age the burned bodes of our brave Bavarian brothers, SONERARCE ARSON SEROMA . The Geran press rejoices over the subjolned tele. grams congratulating Fatuerland on her victo- ries:— Among the numerous addresses and telegrams which have been forwarded to his Majesty the King may be mentioned Lie following: — pee ee pi | William, berlta—We celebrated ute OF the victory By aan ‘The Ger.oans. Pliladdptia-—to Kine Wiflam, Borlin—‘Turce cheers for Germany and har heroes A bua tuousand Germaus ia miladelphin. ‘Tifts.—To his Majesty, the King—The Germans of Tiflls rejoice over the glurivus viuiorles gained by thelr brothers under the leadersiip of your alajeaty, aut pray God to con- eas or the yood cate, | A. loud clieer for man arny, our wa's for the faliea! The Germans Bosides these, congratulatory despatches were ree cetved irom tie Norcia Geriaan Eiebassy aad the Germaniahabitanis of Brassels, irom the German auxiliary corps fur Wounded soldiers at Berlin, irom @ thousand Berili cuildren asscmy.ed Unter den in den, irom u popular ureoling at i’ozea, from the ma- gistrates and repeescutaties o! the city of Poislan trom the inhabitants of Cipentek, om the town o! Freienwaide in Pomerania, from patriots in Jarocin, Posen, trom the German sea captains at Portsmoutts, from the merchants aud corporation of Unigsberg, from the werchagts of Stevia, rom the inhabitant Of Dannenberg, Hanover, froin we cilizeus of Bre men, from the Norti-Geraau ships lylug at Riga, ke. W DRAMATIC BNTERTALNMEN THB PRUSSIAS The Aligemcine Zeitung, a paper whose celebrity and respectability do nob prevent it from reproduc- ing some marvellous stories, publises the folowing in aletier fro Baron Vou Malizin, & responsible offices When, shortly before the last catastrophe, Mace Mahou’s army remained so.09 time in Rhems, the Freuch papers repor.et irom that plhice that the farcos fal contributed much to the amusement of the twa and camp by a pantomluae solo repr tulton, entitled, Manger da Pruswen. 1 cannot say What histrionte skit tae furcos showed Oa this ooea- sion, but | recognize the piece: a3 a new version of the “Manger de l’Autrichien,”? whica 1 had the privilege of witnessing tn 1869, This ‘eating’ is by no means figurative; the periormance which so de- lights “the mox¢ civilized people in the world’? ts really a& resentation Of camutvalism. In the first moment, every man of ordinary education or ieeling Tevol(s at suca a spectacle, vue if he is able to over- come his disgust he cannot butwoader vt the talent » of the Afiican in poriraying the cannibal scene. ‘The victim to bo devoured, WAO On the present occa- S10 15 a Prussian, is represeuted as standing before the Tarco and in his power. The gestures of the latter are burrowed from the panther, and are tn- tended to depict te movements of tiat animal In atiucking and devouring its tiviag prey. Closely imitating nls noble prototype, the Tarce springs, often iroul a Considersvie distance, On his victim, Whom he se) with hts hands (or claws), strangies, and throws to the ground. He next bites the imaginary Prussian in the necs to kill uum com- pletely, then goes through the pantomune ot tearing Off tue skiv, twisting and Winding hiutsely with bes- tal savagery around tre victim's body, ai! the time uttering inghtid howls, The jinaleis the devouring process: fils mouta {oums with fary and ravenous- ness; he tears open tne body and limbs to seek the fuitest porwons, wad ivos ihe caicase over that no Ut-bit May escape hum, All this is so naturally re- presented that it is diidicult to resist the conviction that we have not belore our eyés a sirangled and haif-devonred man, L have been assared by medical practinoners that if the Turco had stucied anatomy he ¢uid not repre. Sent with more pictorial accuracy the devouring of the various parts of the body. ii he meets with bones he imitates the crunching noixe wouderfally with Ins throat und palate, aud wien he comes to the fleshy parts the rapidity and gusto with which he maaticates announce ti at once to the spectator. The motions of the teeth, jaws and thcoat are al- ways anatomically correct. ‘’he man 18 at last supposed.to be devoured. Turco rises like a sated beast of prey, expr satistaction by @ sort of mewing, Whicn 1s followed by a growl indiewtive of his readiness to eat up More Prussians if they ave forthcoming, and the ele- gant and edifymg performance is inished. THE BAVARIAN SOLDIERS IN BERLIN, The Bavarlan soldiers who accoupanied @ mune ber of 'rench prisoners have been very warmly re- ceived in Berlin, At the command of her Majesty the Queen they were shown the principal siguts of tue town, and wherever they appeared they wera enthusiastically cheered. A festival was improvised in their honor, at wich the wiole corps, consisting of tweive oiicers and 400 men, appeared. Patrioue songs Wore sung, oasis Were drauk to the King of Bavaria. the King oi Prassia, the German generals, Bismarck and Moltke, aud 4% telegiam was for- warded to the King of Bavarta, expressing the satisfaction felt by the meeting af ociay enabied to entertam the brave Bavarian soldiers aud to thank them for their exertions in the cause of Germany. DON’! CALL A MAN A PRUSSIAN IN PRANCE. ‘Tho Correctional Tribunal of Metz was lately en- gaged in dectding the question whether a man who should qualify another as a Prussian would render himself Hable, under existing circumstances, to pro- Secution for Insait and Geiamaiion. A complains to that etfect having been laid by one of two trades- men the court coudemued tue defendani to three months’ tinprisoument, S00fr. damages. S0fr, fine and costs. —TUROOS BEATING A TRUE OLTIZEN. The Electour Libre relates tue tollowing episode of the recent grand review it Paris vy General Trochu:— On the Place de Ia Concorde Admiral Caillez, pass- ing @ preparatory tispection of tt twenty-first bar- lalion, stopped before a national guard of fis com- pany, Wo Wore on his breast a star, in brilliants, of tue Legion of Honor-—nainely, M. buruy, ex-Minister of Pubile Instruchon, ‘Your plice should be at the head of a battalion,” said tiie Admiral. ‘My post,’? said the other, ‘ts in the ranks of the defenders of the country. Regular soldiers are more fitted for command.’ “We suail meet again on the ram- parts,” added the Admirai, ‘That is our duty,” re- jomed M, Duruy; “we shall perform it with courage, firmness and success.’’ Vhese last words, spoken with much cnergy, became the stgnai of loud accia- mations and cheers from those Who witnessed the scene, ANOTHER MURDER MACHINE, Anew mitrailiense has just been tried at the poly- gon of Vincennes tn presence of a special committee of competent persons. It 1s worked by steam and capable of projecting balls during twenty or thirty hours consecutively without becoming heated. A machine of two horse power is suticient for an im- plement of twenty barreis. The range 1s about the same as the Chassepet, The inventor has offered to make 206 of them in eight duys. THE WAVOO OF THE INVASION. The Journal de VAgriculture publishes an approxt- mative appreciation of the disasters caused by the Prussiau army in the departments of the Kast. The losses sustatned in the invaded districts in crops, cattle, &c., cannot be estimated at less than 1,000 francs per hectare. The sarface of the seven depart- ments now ruined 1s as follows: 464,781 ‘Thus French agriculture: has already lost more than four thousaad millions in the departments overrun, THE SIEGE OF METZ—BAZAINE’S OBSTINACY AND AMBITION. A letter from before Metz, which appears in the Cologne Gazette, 8ays:— Yesterday evening a Prussian captain went with six captured French officers up to the outposts a8 an exchauge .for six wounded Prussian oficers whom Marshal Bazaine recenily Mberated. Ou his expressing & Wish to speak w.th the commander the Marshal faddenty stepped out of the bivouac hut of the front sentinel ana spoke along time with the captain, assuring him he had no thought of a capitu- lation, ‘tue French to-day sent 200 iamished horsea beyond the outposts, With the opera glass a large herd of cattle can be seen feeding in the meadows by the Moselle, between the far-reaching outworks and the inner fortress, and much drilling of French soldiers. The sound of military music 1s also some- times audible. There is no hope of aspeedy aur- render, and Lam convinced it will be 9 tolerable while before gut banner can float there