New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-27

NUMBER FIVE,

the free city of Hamburg, IN Vle s"tliLleA Va
1915. we're considered the welcome guests OF
that community and treated accordingly
The paople of that commercial place he'd had
the experience Of the soiourn Of all the differ
e,t military corps who, from the lapse of time
from, 1905 to 1875 had traversed its territory
or taken quarters in their very midst, so that
twas easy to them to perceive the difference
Of treatment between the former commanders
of armies under the authority Of the French I
emperor, their ostensible protector, and the
in command of the allied troops, who |
had come to restore to the free burghers their
ancient republican Constitution and regime.
Hence, under the rule of these latter, they
were their own masters, although the Rus
slams and other military corps were quartered
among the citizens, but the civil administra-
ton was wholly under their exclusive compe-
tenee, and there were in fact such harmony,
such friendly relations existing between the
civil and military authorities that no one
knew but what the old order of government
had been entirely re.estabished. Let us now
state to our readers some particulars respect
ing the military forces, then sojourning within
the city of Hamburg OF in its immediate en-
virons.
The officers Of the Russians being all from
tie class Of noblemen or rich landholders,
were generally men Of education and speak
ing besides their mother tongue the French
language, which is taught them in the mill
ta1y colleges in which they are all educated
from the age Of ten years TO that Of eighteen,
when they are placed in active service. As
for the common troopers they are composed
mostly Of serfs formerly belonging to the
great land owners Or mobiles, but held to milf
tary service when required by the orders Of
the government These men are little edu-
Gated but Of naturally docile disposition and
| with all very obedient to their Chiefs SO that
the people, the citizens generally, were mostly
| agreeab1y surprised at the general behavior Of
these troops, who contrasted indeed very
much with those that had passed successfully
through the confines Of the Hamburg terri
tory under the command of French generals.
For the men of these latter, no matter to what
nationality they might belong, whether native
French, or italian, Belgian, Hollandish, Dutch,
Flemish, Brabant Lorraine, Alsacian, ETC.,
most Of whom could understand and speak
| the German language, would in general be
very insolent, exacting and domoneering, Jas
though they were in an enemy's country,
whilst yet Hamburg territory had either been
neutral or even finally incorporated in the
great empire itself This latter circumstance
made little difference in the behavior of the
| troops, and it must be said to the praise of
the Russian military that even their militia
or what is called the Landweh,
composed of the very refuse Of the
landed serfs, observed in general the strictest
military discipline whilst quartered in the
midst Of the inhabitants. Under these cir
eumstances, it is no wonder that the memory
Of these different behayiors Of the several
army corps should have left rather favorable
impressions with regard to the military of the
Russian empire, and hence it is that every one
in and about Hamburg felt well disposed to
these foreigners. We may be inclined TO- en-
large upon this subject when proceeding
farther in the course Of this, our narrative; for
the present, let our readers give us leave TO-
return to our German merchant, who, after
enjoying himself in the midst Of his family
circle and olden friends, now seriously be-
thought himself upon some new and active
mercantile enterprise propositions We're
then made him to form q new commercial tilTn
~ the then rising maritime harbor Of Odessa,
situated upon the Black Sea- between the two
considerable streams, on rivers, IN the south
of Russia, the Dnlester and the Dnleper, and
also N close vicinity Of the river bag. Ihls
hourlshIng commercial CITY which, IN the late
war N the Crlmets was at the mercy 81 the
combined French. and English Heet, might
have been totally DESTROYED whilst only g
small or unlmportant fort was cannonaded,
This II same city, IN 1915 promised to become,
in the south Of the Russian empire, what st.
Petersburg is now in the northern part OF that
country, that is, the first commercial place ;
and even at this day, we may expect to
see it arise to a most magnificent destiny,
when once the whole regime OF the
present Turkish empire shall have been
brought under the regeneration or reforming
process which IS awaiting that country We
say then, that our merchant had very serious
thoughts Of directing his mercantile efforts to
that quarter Of the world, when all at once a
singular circumstance determined him to re-
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