The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-09-06 00:00:00

WAR'S DESOLATION,

De. Russell writes treads Mend Is Hnrene the
Prince halted in an orchard by the roadside. close to •
small fsrmli.use, and them as stood under tho dripping
trees, in the wet, for more than balf.an.bnur, biting
hard rations and ineotl. I turned into • barn
for shelter, into %Vela came pr.sently the Crown Nitro,
the Duke of Saititt '.burg, owl Gent rot YOU MM. ut.,al.
The peasant who was in onar,m of the farm—perhaps
the former—bad been inveighing fiercely again.t the
Germans, hat hi. went out before the Prism came in.
"i.e hoe R„i Gnio.taese wed vie fail pas la glum
fist co”tet Emprrear I .Vass Goa Dieu/ Se Majeal
fir I,4mcwr la guerre (mare lea Francais. His troops
eat us up. What si.nifies to me how I 'tie? They do
not cut our throats nr burn our villages, but they carry
odf our fikei and leave us to die of hunger. Here arse
nay hero full of grain. An tifficer comes to • ,rt• it off.
I entreated him to have eimu.:ll to sow the field.. n.•
jutt ready. lint. no ! not a grain I aranvi die. /
allons inowqr de fo‘ei—lntra. ton. r. An, I he harked tWQ
bonen; straight (tom his eyes at the first Prussian he
would get at.
THH OPINIfiNr; OF if: EDMOND Anour.

Th. Soir contains the followin! &slide by M. About :
—" Well, perhaps everything is for the h. it. If the
person of persona power la 4.1 kn.,t. the fie.t elements
31 the sot of war, if Mar-hal 1.. fund lad had . Om. if
he had I. en rca 'y, ii ilia -Sr. of our at,,,.. had
been :AMMO, it steed of 2101100, at the outset, if the
milli ins tot...wird to In etoolied hot Hot b. 5, 4,4044.41
Or put aehl•• durin • a hog so rat 44 VW.% we ttttt 1.1
have heatAi the inva.ied the
provinca s ; we should have taken SaaritrucP:, ssarloui.,
kleyen.:-, and Cobl-es ; should Itarr. ii40r4941
In the CAtlifft 'rats of Ti. vis aid! rolove. ; the
erist would have collecte: ei.ough of rri-nt balls 10
m.ike • chael fur his goilleher, the tot Pius IX.
And af,er ? Why the ratiiiisizir would have ended,
lite the most glorious of ile• Serino' End is', in a
negative reselt. The King or Ptitad • wou'd 1. 4th liked
for pi me. the Eoperer wool 1 Wee thiown Model f
into th•• 44111444 of hi 1.0e..1 brit Cr. 111.411L41.en the expri us
train to Ii vi' ttin•opli in Park. envoi • stou.d
auhataidially i nisin whit she is, and weuld continue
1.. pursue •er end. Frioice would Rittiagarti•e with
joy, glad to give hers If U.. note.. ',edit, int.. the tisbile
of the c torte r. r 441 'he wiode Thre.a wont:,
repeat lo r :LOW! r lienti•ril would spr U on tho
trape.e. a to w I: .olleic'••• would rill.. het•ef to nu.
heroism of pie lic tails. mut w ci mild I aye seou for.
Rotten the ;Si WU liver., a. 411.' et.. 00 lkil,oool. within au
zasy victory Gest.. Patis would have remithieli per-
m5...1441 thtt war,.. an extern .1 thing, Telt ante,in.e to
follow at a di.moce in the paper.. &hit as Penile and
varied in emotions at the tentsoces if N. XAV or Is
Montepin, or the Nimes of tower Tropmann. As 10
4:11r411.4., it liron'4l plitm .ed u-; for ti itt paint
dr th refuses nothitia to view. who triumph, hut i. wood
cinsider U. wore diNt ethic (hit •ver. leteLibr, ti en.
-on invincible 'tiny 11, the hands of • 414. miner, whose
itOakitiation 1411.4t0r• Liu e -5 t 4,14- W. 44, from
the math to the ''nib, wit • tteat 4re of canton
mitraidela•es I'e pt.' ii n't Ilk.. that ; etch hAta
nut for himself awl tonitwra it, Inc tone the cid
twin used in C•tholio in'eruirots—Aiefic stilt., e,ht
fibi. Selfish Etiope would have pito 4 these poor
hot shot the carom:shed are ever noich to
be pitted. We do not fleece or kill them after li..
hive 'aid down their arum The vietorii aid the ,ecund
Einpire have been wan at our own tape. ee. Fiano.e
ini..gincs it id slasys rich enough to pay Vv. T.,0
Fit itch army would make tl.c wend 44 the seri I with.
nut ettithing the paw of • doe. NO tout.:, TI-..
Prti-su.n, would have appeared inter.et,ng ; M. de
Iti•mark would have wept ; eseitho.,llto I Ades, whiter
tbsn milk, Imuatitv Mallets, aid bosom 41
And sins:met, would have had lejewelied at Mortimer',
ant C..st•ff•tit', thee, crocodile teats. Mut it is we
who are wdeluer..4;ii is Prance that it inc.,., 41; it is
Paris—stint beautiful Paris e. loved of ti.., world—that
is wresting to reao tin Pitta,l•ll cannon. 'lll.s
thunderclap bee enlightened France :old Europe, and
things h•ve changed their aspect. W. did net know
our enmities ; we w, re i:mucert ennugli t, heliere them
sumealnit like out.ellvea. They Live take, off the
meek in the firtinkennem of success, and uow we can
.-ead their soul.. Th sde yore° oh a King win offue to
God all his •ictorits, 4-yen r 114.0-0 he has hut Iron. those
squirt-en g. metals who sputter the philosophic !analogs
a Kant and Help I, and vaunt that they will civilise us
with their sabres ; these spostlee of Right who
stuff their pol.kets with Stolen crowns ; them Genwin
natriots, who have bathed their arms in German blued
to the elbows, are mero barbarians in uniform, brizi ode
disguised as soldiers: Tartaffes in harness. /MAMA in
Awing boots—lying c 'eruption mid deletion are their ,
favourite weapons. They have taken from modern
Meditation only the improvements which have been
Introduced into the art of dernictino ; they prewrve
the low inetincts and unruly appetites of tte severe;
they honour the spy, shout as an inturgcnt the citia-n
who &fends his country ; they punish devotion awl
heroism as crimee, i.n.l insuit c .ureee in white. tune.
Sons of the G .th., Ovehones, who pillar 0 Europe at
the end of the fourth mom, y, descendants of Abide
who twice lie-. ce.l Rome beton sacking it, they have
retsibed all the ni mu.r. of the berbarians .stieetttte
anotiunnt of honour. We know now what they ant
from us—everything we pews'. Aa yet they have
ruined only two provirces; titey2isrc how marching ou
Paris to make a gruel map, Th., are iloddri.g before-
hand toe £40,000,000 in the bank. They count on the
absutd oentretisetton of the country to be able to court
three or four tine as num'. when they 'hull be guar rs
of Pali... Thus it is that Greek and Italiin Itae it.
!nat. a Am family " sing- when they have got the I.
of it int., their filiby hands. %VIM daference h. there
hetve eu King William and • reemittio or a Tait.'
Atvantaki., The mine, that there is is tW44.11 a iv *0
thief •nd • small °i.e. T 1441 404511,1 of &Niel, are
nawches, nouneuvres lint under the the!, if
lone., echidna always, and attacks when tone to 4.41,r,
eur.fi.gret on. pillage. Eauce is a sate
if all this now. We 'now the rim, of rim alt that we
havt. to deal with, owl ailiCe ihey te•11 1.1'1"
Pulls of out Ha a, we •liail aerMuay Upoll our-
"in•-ii oest oy the Pru•sisin hr t, then
tnsd•••• htnn g companionn who have entered
If' will 'let leave it. If tin ylt 'To so.. touch over our
mil all th. ir Tittle ielu
. • ke en as they beett. so touch
the l'etter for us. We s .
i.. 11 ti:en oto Berlin to crush
i
le t.
tee. 114014411i11 1111 I 41 f u hai•in All
the
Le even hot 1 1.,.,, !It .11 .stelec.. that ii/raial
Ilt•te lcly Of Wurtende r.{, Ilivaria.
to r m triartht s which own their
a e4441114y le'sf It was to who ere d them about
yaleis of • la. li.e,Viaui inane h.
indOlg4 41 ttso Aid ilni Wintemb Igen. lIAVe alto
.4 invadied us. And the,e
eabsret•ke-ner..
these enzuniete of Baden
bouti with, the,, • ku.ves who blackened our
stinsail«r our inot..7 'h. *wit ro or
the booty of the nobt. i,„,f • have coma ti pile
Mean are the raven. ~f an their t'
all h.ck with ascii—tie. i 11.," .7. We will eel Alice'
evil to the G. ttuAb F4"l. We theind LO
become its enemi hod if Vrari L'Ult if we let`e
pt Ity crwhiog a 1 114, et iv.. (trill a-
-Ist of Janosry, 1871, must 5.., p.„` "
r
""I' /*neje. the
ot" .I 110 f t
th. Ilehens tier, a, 4.f all 11,,
feudal rim-. of all there nic 1t..1 Jeau""'
h.
Lice i-11 Our • astern root,, ra 6. russo7 .661"n:oust
and inimal. ii tor a oentiny. We •1•••11 411104.94 tort to b,c due tire athoh4
ed.
lewd., a republican srstimMey of for,
IN:wiling eh 11 ughr she, fl
of Pluvial, co non II •Hi 41• Us a- a/4 e. i. 1792
1.74) tool if any of ti. no wen oho call
piovidenti•l" snout I c me to off r tie his servia„. if
3u undertaker of pu lit safety should their.. to take Da
himself out happilleag and our glo7. we "ill reply.
Wo know you, toy Ira, n I; take yourself off."

TUE GEIIMAN LUSELS.
The .ik•nee hf the official rel...rt. a. to the Germin hones in
the n.•••• To. Walk.. I. to he att.thute.l to the faet that they hare
h.. eta to he ne A 11.• .11 wan. nth-,,
to in • I It, Ala, 30 St • illit hItS
l'• ,•1 o•• 1 51,,.,,.. h t.l •I
• r. I t tlat• !•:11 IL, .2. •••••• I ate
• • An- unte it, Alkt,i 1110 (Up a.a Prom all iatt.•%. Awl the
• . 4t1;...1 h.• r t• • troll. lei:Attu.. In the
...t .1., Metz Mt. Pr11t.111..,1 i.l t'rry nealy.
It nut quit*. UN.t/lal wore. WI grimier put Ut killod and

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wounded. Thl.l make. s total lo•-• 44 530.0110. truly e howy
price to pty for the yietorieo the &Trove, have raine.f.
wile of an .4 11.1.0.04.111Ciiirooner, in a letter ontten, it
iv raid. on for hulun,r aothority. that in the battle
if the loth the viry flower of the Priooian nobility ierhdtrab
The gr.ut lioo. it oe inn mot wood by a invoked battery
if mitrailiviews owitilm lire upon the advancio; Prinatau
cavalry.
WAR NOTES.

A private letter from Paris mlates that the Due de
nremont who ham tAk, it to trending hitt evening at
the c:ah, es• lath Ike•i there " Row harmere
to blunder midi a total or•r?'. Ile replied, "1
. cked the Ilini.tt.r of W .r, letteut, if ho poa ready.
? Aye, and doub'y ready r
ttherwi..e." ad.lol th''l ',,c. "1 110411.1 have taken e ire
mt tli t,c c owailed A war ahLh there WCIU twenty
modes of mg taw."
.1 h.. falhooin4 4 the tron•latinn of & letter found
edged in the hauls of a Frenels etptain who died on
the field of battle at Woerth .—" My dear Papa,—
:quo° thou beat left I do Out cease to think of thee. I
aer oo sod, net to be able to see the., and kiwi thee
cry moraine; but hope touch that God will pee.
serve thy health, and that thou with return to kilts thy
dou,:hter. I Cut very good in order to make no a little
for thy absence. Adiru, bust beloved papa; 1 embme
Gut very tenderly.—Thy daughter, who lona thee,
MaRGUeRITE."

The Governor of Paris him Wined an order to the
alninending officer of Engineers to proceed with the
demolition of houses and .Intsch of every kind within
the ra line of the fortitioation4 which 'mild in any why
interfere with defensive operation*. The materials of
the deninli•heil building* ore to be dispowd of in ouch
manner that they shall Wool no cover to an approach-
ing enemy.

A Saxon officer, eery severely wounded. sought
sh. Der in tho house of • peamut in the neighbourh ood
of St. Marcel. The unfortunate man. exhausted from
f.viLmo. Nllli lose of blood. Varw himself upon a bed and
fainted. Whil-t in this stet, of helelissuess the womsn
to whom the !lonic belot.gt d d.liherately go' his
yes out with • fork, as.d then deliberately left him to
li.. a horrible death. He lingered long enough to tell
his &arks! story to • Prussian ambulance train.
The Princess Cloilia has refused to lean Paris. To
an invitation to visit Italy. she has replied that ehe
would consider it as an net or weakness to separate
herself from the Dripress and quit France under the
pr. s. tit. grave eircumst•nres.

r The Kriaian corre7eo-74-ent. of the Dairy. News say. :
It is well known that when the Emperor
wag 'Wire "1 d.lre not wait upon I would" shout the
war, the Empeese, like another Lady Macbeth, "acrowtd
her c 'wage to the aticking point, and ur.ed him on.
M.. add to her entuatrque that she de7l this as a
holy war, heratia.•i, w.wag,d ae.tthat Protestant
Power, an.l the pr..t.cts and their sub .rdlinatel, who
how Ver..C,ite Pro*.st,nta, do so because they think to
please the Emprt !rent.

are.,edin, to or.. of the most widely circulated of
the French journals, tip. French Proteatuitoa,c in league
',lb the Prussians, and the accusation fines such belief
in imme parts of tb reentry th..t no Protc.t.nt parer
dare 12,44 the are:hold of his door aft.r sunset, and
Protestant laymen are in terror for their lives. This Is
eVecially the state of matters in the provinee of La
Vendee, well known in connection with • loniser
religinuo tar in France..
In these times of coutributions to the fund In all of
th.. sick and wounded in war, the conduct of • French
gentl man descry.. honourable mention. Count Bra-
Maki. Mayor of Montresor (Indre-et•L'Ure), who had
already sutecriberl sums of 10,000 f. and 25,000 f. to the
relief fund for the woona,4l. bas now increased his
contribution to about 500,1100 f.
A young English lady, who was staying at Rm.:lnane.
lately distingui.hed herwlf by shouting out " Yirt lu
Prusse l' to a French crowd who were passing her win-
dow singing the "Maneillaise." She was summoned
bef 're the authorito a for such conduct, to tang to
cleats a ihaturbanee. hut got off with an apoloo—a
warning to her for the future.

It turns out on sovestmation that it was not a
PIMAII4.II who attempted to a.assinate Marshal )I,mthon
at Chalons. as utizht have been suppos.4l from the
ml. ilm furni..bed by the Corti,i4. It aerialu that e boy
was ban.lling a pistol, Wll.ll he accidrutally fired it
EOM. 0,1014 who Wert* passing, aurl hence the rumour
of an atkumt ou the life of the commander of toe lat
orpt

Tilt Pot, it publitlies the following " A traveller
I rtwiny relates the following ineident, of which
he we an eye-sit:les.. On the 114 a ennader•bl.
nuteber id men, num. n, and chitdren resembled in front
of Count de [Sodium/ler hotel in the Wilheliustra-ne,
Berlin. and ?fur more thaii an hoar they oiled out tit
• B.imi f Brea I The persona inhabiting the building
iii rinestiiin having hown themselves at the window,
'Bread? Do you sok for fool? o,and xi rib
it 4 P,re. At there inhuninii word, the crowd rushed
mainst the house a 13.1 broke all the windows with
a.ont Is f quit od .ereral cuarges of the pellet, to sleet
the street."