New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-09-15

IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
BANS, Sept. Woe to the uckleSs
people who find themselves. to-day wandering on the
face Of this battlc-tossed France Everything is upset
Nothing be calculated in this country where
everything used 10 proceed with cOcklike regularity
Even in Ills faraway The makes itself felt
and stranger would need to make very little eXertonto
learn by the most annoying Il might be by the most ter
rble. experience what is 20 De- IN country where '
widest passions are excited by q of INVASION Inc
recipe for getting this experience j. simply 20 nave "
nature o red or reddish or even faven beard WIN
complexion 20 match; speak French with an EnsuSn
OF German accent and having provided one ''i VIZ"
sketch book aud pencil, 20 go 'ut for uaS
II doe not make much difference what Is tne "'y'''
selected but II the town happens % be an Ola one away
fron, the cat NJ war and with merely the vestiges on
its ortitlo and ditch. ic lre'Gue remains Oh us
medieval history and utterly useless Tor tue WARFARE Oh
TODAY the amateur would do ven % seat himself near
there and begin to draw. But instead OF going on with
an imaginary illustration let M ~ once give yOn names
that will make it real to YOU
Our young countryman, Henry r. Newman, an artist
whose uututored work-uo hut those most I'M
fashionable teachers Nature ana Diligence ever taught
him TO handle "A brush trace h- 'nes-has made him
DEAR % small company whose tastes do not follow
those OF the crowd Paris last Spring to seek
master. He brought with him letters that opened a
good many doors which never opened except from
within and after little was admitted to G6r0mes class
the BeauxArts the strength of his work done IN
America. But Newman's application was made just as
the class at the end OF its summer term ana the va
cation which would last eight weeks, was close al
hand Accordir ely. having gonS through the form OF
entering the class and smirChng his first sheet OF draw
ing-paper with charcoal and having got through with
the inevitable breakfast in the country, which every new
conner has 10 give his classmates, Newman went on to
Chartre having heard that there could not he better
place for study. with its glorious cathedral its quaint
and streets and its romantic old mOat. When
he went there had yet been declared. and for
many days before and after that unucky day
when Olivier, like the other fool in Scrip
turc. scattered frebrands, and said Gam l not
in spOrti" ("I enter on this war with
light hearth Newman pursued his quiet work without
the least moestation But before long the French peo
pie everywhere bitter with that flea called "the
spy and, since they have had rest day
night but spy great boards under muers in all direc-
tons OF course they found out our young artist
who. a. Ink would have it. lad found The old mOat
very interesting place and getting UNANIMOUSLY with
charming drawing of it, when, one day, an old male
husybody came up 10 him, and after addressing him
with few remarks in ncomprehensble French rushed
off proving and crying out You ere a Prussian!"
Newman had had warnings enough beforehand of what
coming, II he had only needed them, but when boys
had hooted at him in the streets, when people had
growled at him when passing when stray stone had
SHE'D it,clf at him round corner, he had too lightly
thought that this the famous French poteRess he
had heard 50 muc about, and gone his way. To-day
however know what French brutality is. IT'S
what you come at in every Frenchman if you
scratch the skin. No sooner had the old busybody
piped to the Chareres folk his He's Prussan w than
they began TO dance about Newman, and he soon
surrounded by crowd who, in surprisingly short
time, Lad whipped themselves up into state Of mind in
which they would doubt have found it perfectly easy
to have eaten him up, body and boots, sketchbOOk,
easel. and all without any need Of cooking His delicate
complexion his light faxen beard his blue eyes, his inn
he ftp he in
study ing the forncatOns-a these fatal circum
stances that, happening few weeks later, might very
easily have produced serious consequences As it was,
a strongarmed kindhcarted lOud-lunged woman el-
bowed her way into the fuming crowd and began dis
an -Ouud and fury, and which, to Newman slgn-
lied nothing She displayed to the mob the drawings the
artist. Industry had amassed and proved, to her
tfaci on that it would be impossible by their aid for
PIussaus capture Charities. Finally, her native eo-
quence 81 subdued the crowd that they skunk away,
leaving Newman for the moment free but he soon found
IL would be impossible to continue his studies in the
open air and not belonging TO school that thinks
ture can ne portrayed any profit except cash profit
in shuup studios where large bowls Of pictorial soup
made too often out Of few stones in the shape of
sLetches) he decided to pack up his things
and be OF to switzerland at present the only place in
Western Europe where the fine art OF throacuttiug
not in full practice. And there he is at present in Luz
Cerne.
suppose that all things considered one ought not to
he hard upon the French for their panic about Prus
spies Charles Harth, who shot, the other day,
in the courtyard of the Military school, confessed him
self spy when taken, and really denied it after
ward; and there are facts enough to prove that
King William has studied well in old Fredericks book,
who said that the French had spy and twenty cooks
while ne had cook and twenty spies. For 1t is plain
that the Pssan system Of espionage has been long
duced to great perfection For several years Prussans
have been residing under pretext another in all
me border towns and villages making themselves thor
Oughly acquainted with the topography studying mill
tiry positions filing their maps and memories with the
roads lanes and fOotpaths and also making themselves
familiar with the and resources of the inhabitants
Clerks in cOuntng hOuses, servants in inns, men in
breweres. students who passed the Summer in wander
ing over the hills sketchng the scenery, companies Of
scientific with hammers and baskets bent on geOogi
cal pcnic all these recognized to-day in the persons
Of PrSsan officers entering the French border towns
and villages at the head of scouting parties or with vic
tOriOus troop. 1t is said and to doubt it,
that Prusian General has visited during the last
year. all the and villages likely TO be attacked in
Of war, in the disguise OF an old beggar match
seller Another story is OF Prussian officer who, dis
guised as a French admiral visited Of the forts
Paris was received with all the honOrs. shown all
the works and in parting made speech full Of patriotic
sentiments the soldiers, which received with great
applause The cheat not discovered until some days
aerward, of the officers happened to mention
the matter 10 the Minister Of Marine! In another
the Prussian spy not successful. Dressed
French officer, he visited tent at Generals head
quarters and dined with his brother % officers.
Something excited suspidon-he arrested,
tried and shot. The Prussans do not however,
eyentirey spies Internationally get IL in every
way. Every German soldier has an album contain
ing pictures Of the French officers and soldiers with their
uniforms carefully deneated and cOlOred. order that
he may know with whom he dealing by what troop he
j. attacked whom he takes prisoner aud whom he has
Killed. Inc Prusans have the best maps OF France that