Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-17
The Germans at ST. Cloud.

Herr Wschsnhusen, writing to the Col
ogne Gazete from St Cloud. on the 18th
ult., says:
One day is much like another here. On
our side the most perfect silence, accord
ing to orders on the French side the
greatest animation. They dig and scrape
until the blood gushes from their fingers,
and Of an evening they sing before our
eyes their can can and their "Marseil.
laiss," and other pretty songs, leap and
shout half the night. until We are tired OF
IT, and are as merry as If the world had
never treated them better than nov. be-
lieve the Corps Francs and other volun-
teers have already piundered half the
suburbs, and have taken to the second.
hand dealers all the stolen articles that
were vendible they have, therefore, glo-
rious tine oft. The mob amuses itself,
and the heroic youths, the gandins and
petits creeks of the boulevrrds, give them
selves up to gallows humor, which will
last until everything becomes stopsy-turvy.
Yesterday and he day before we observ.
ed something like cloud Of smoke, from
| which q: times some Jets of flame shot mp.
IL Was SAID to be the Bois de Boulogne on
fire, but 1t was in quite northeasterly di.
rection, and. judging by its duration, il
must have been very destructive. Yester-
day afternoon, when our outposts, after
eight days service, were discharged, the
1 ehassepots, according to their custom, in
duiged in a paroxysm. They fred wildly
at Us, the cannons of the forts were thun,
dering the whole afternoon, and if any
body merely raised his head above the
level of the battery, dozen balls or SC
| whizzed around him. They prac.
tice shooting IL this manner; les,
so. of course, in battles. Perhap:
they were celebrating the fall OF
Strasbourg, which they must have learned
yesterday. The Investment of the capital
IS so hermetical, even for diplomatists
| that Russian and an American courier
have vainly tried to enter Paris. Theil
passage Was rufused on one side, and bott
| must anluse themselves at Versailles q.
best they can. Our position at st. Cloud
Is the most delicate in the whole line O
siege. Not because the charpie which thu
Empress and her ladies plucked with theil
delicate hands is still lying here; not be
cause everything reminds one of the sud
den and contemplate fall of q dynast,
which so perversely led its people to de
struction; but because 1t is supposed tina
there are subterranean communication
with Paris, by which intercourse is Carried
on, and which must be detected.
/ have already told you that whereve
We enter Sbandoned villages and towns til,
Iciocks still stand on the mantle-pieces. bu
no longer indicate the hour. At st. Clout
this silence has its peculiarly interesting
feature. 1 found clocks on the console Ia
b'es OF the Imperial chateau which also
rked the day. These recorded ssSun
g., 4th Of September. The end of thu
fe, was also the end of the dynasty. /
I is q pity that the splendid grounds Law,
gone to rack. The flowers hung dow
their withered heads; the pheaants TIL
about the park and look in vain for tn,
hand which used to feed them In tn,
apartments the finest pictures are tori
rom their frames, probably by the faithfu
servants In the hunting-box still hans
two oil paintings, IN which the handsom,
Eugenie, on horseback, surrounded BY ri
l,adors and matadors, is depicted as pre-
siding over a bull fight
THE Newbrryport Herald thus describe.
tae aurora which has attracted so much
attention throughout the country az as,
'TeniDg, as soon ss Tithonus had retired
for the night aud was enjoying his firs1
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