Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-09-27
Prince Napoleon on the " Grand
Army" of the North, and on
the War in America.

ale, of Paris, Aug. 10, dated New York,
July 81, which is ascribed to tho pen Of
Prince Napoleon, then and now making .
tour Of observaionin this country. From
this letter we make the following extracts,
as eostsined in translation in the New
York herald
You will probably inquire, among what
classes Of the population volunteers are re-
cruited, aud what ID the metiye that imyels
the volunteers to enlist--patriotism or the
elevea dollars G month?
confess that have not seen enough
volunteer regiments to hazard sn opinion
on that point. The opinion of those who
look upon the worst side of things is, that,
in contrast with the persoWaeI Of the mill
tia, which represents the middle, industri-
Gus, honest, but not very wsr-liks class Of
the population, the volunteer army will on
ly present the scum Of emigration, and
will be recruited among that floating mass
United States, aRd whom work disgusts as
well in the New ss in the Old World. 1t
is certain, ON one side, that it is not the
millionaire BANKERS of Philsdelphis and
New York that become simple Zousves
and, on the other, that foreigners prevail
in the new corps.
Hence the tendency which you must
have remarked to nstionaliEe companies,
and even regiments. France, Scotland,
ireland, Germany and Italy have given
their names, varied in thousand shapes,
to great number Of corps, the elements
of which have been furnished by those
countries respectively. In the clashing of
warlike nationalities, that which eclipses
all others is the French nationality, per-
soni6ed, of course, in tho Zouave. Eve
rything at New York is in the Zouave
style-fashions, hand bills, theatrical spec
tsclcs. More Zouaves (the uniform Of the
Imperial Gusrd) are met in the streets Of
New York than in the streets of Paris. =
Whole companies are really composed Of
Fre1chmen, who have served more or less,
and who seem to took down upon all other
soldiers-American, English, German, DC.
from the top Of the tower Of Solforino
or the Malakof. Ishsuld be sorry to pass
rash judgment on brave compstriots, who
appear to me very careless, very gay, very
sociable; but can not help rejecting up
on what series Of adventures have been
able to bring these Parisians from the
Place Maubert TO the shores Of the POto-
mac, there to risk their lives for the great
er glory of President Lincoln, at the rate
of eleven dollars per month. Seriously, l
do not believe the eleven dollars go for ev-.
crything. At first, with more clearness Of
vision than Americans, English and Ger
mans, they appeared to me to reckon little
ON the eleven dollars but what l can GER
Sify is, that they are quite inse elsible TO the
glory OF the flag with the thirty -four stars
and the fate Of the unfortunate negroes
You zee by this what the weak side Of all
this organisation is: it is not an affair of
appreciation, it is not an affair of arithme-
tie. The weak side, the very weak side,
is the eleven dollars, For 100000 men,
and on that footing, the expense is ave- and
a half millions Of francs per month, or six
ty six millions per year. For 100000
men, the expense is quadrupled--two hun
dred and sixty four millions per year
And recollect that this enormous figure re-
presents only the soldiers pocket money /;
that the provisioning of American soldiers
is more abundant and expensive than with
US by nearly double that, in fine, the
most frightful dilspidation and disorder
confessedly reign in what 10 called the mil
itary administration, and which is really
only continuation of measures adopted
from day to day by localities for the pur-
pose of supplying the prime necessities of
the troops. So the North Americans esti-
mate the cost Of the war at over a million
dollars day. That is enormous for a
country reduced to about twenty millions
of inhabitants, deprived of its great ele-
ment of commerco-cotton-a enjoying
doubtful credit One thing that is GER
tain is, that the militia soldiers have as yet
seen nothing of the pay promised them
that at New York there have been distur-
bauces caused by the tnmultuary demands
of soldiers wives, to whom the pay of their
absent husbands should have been handed
and who have made useless outcry for it
even at the doors of the City Hall.
When the great battle of the 21st was
fought at Manassas Junction, the direction
of it was given to General Mcdowell with
out its being easy to say why; and what is
sllll lOsb Lhul 0Ous bNOtei
the generalissimo, brave, capable and
esteemed soldier, gave the order to the
whole army to attack the enemy and to en-
gage IN general affair, without going him
self ON the field of battle. reserve to my
self to write you hereafter on the strange
position of the armies, well on the Poto-
mac as in the provinces, and | will endeav-
or to learn the truth on the subject Of the
battle of the 2lst, which was so shameful
an affair for the North That which can
tell you is thav here, at New York, they
have taken the matter very unconeernedly
They have not appeared the least discOur
aged or humiliated. Tho regiments tha
fed, abandoning everything-guns, baggage
&c.-return to tho city daily because theil
term of service has expired, and because
they confess they have had enough of war
Never mind; these brave people enter, AM
are received as conquerors, with music a
THAR haad nrocAssiOnA and aCclamatlOn