Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-14
WAR VIEWS.
GIeanings from the correspondents.
CROSSING THE MosELLE.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys came

CROSSING THE MosELLE.
''Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys came
marching"
The refrain of our war song comes to
me to-day continually, for during the
FIVE hours from 3 this morning, there
/ has been a column of troops passing the
stone bridge over the Moselle, and
| streaming through the streets and over
the hills west of the city. First there IS
/ a ponderous regiment of infantry--these
Prussian regiments are equal to oul
brigades-all the drums and brass
! horns in front then another and au-
other; then a battery of breech-loading
steel field guns; then cavalry, regiment
| after regiment, dragons, lancers, cui-
rassiers; then huge columns of infantry
going at a steady, slashing pace, that
sensibly shakes the town. The array
going forward is something tremendous.
AS an expression of force it is prodig-
ious With all Difference to our Amer
ican volunteers and the nimble and
game S0AQiakS of France, these Prussians
march with a cadence of step and weight
of movement exceeding anything that
| have seen in America or in Paris.
This is a venerable town, on both
sides of a beautiful river, having several
handsome edifces and picturesque
streets, the Cathedral especially being
large and old, and elaborately orna-
mented Its occupation by the Germans
is historic, and they are, in all ranks of
the service, sensible Of the significance
of this march across the Moselle. So
as they draw near the bridge they dress
the ranks, straighten up for a grand pa
rade, the music strikes up some one of
the grand German-opera marches, and
they go through with majestic bearing
In many respects this triumphal march
over the Moselle and through this city
resembles the march of the National
soldiers through Nashville as they moved
to the conquest Of the further South
The boys had their grand parade through
the superb capital of Tennessee, the
bands playing Yankee Doodle, and the
regiments, when they had a good chance
giving their several versions of the way
the soul and body Of Old John Brown
marched on.
1t may be worth while to put in par
enthesis right here that while 1 was hur-
riedly writing the few lines above, three
regiments, two infantry and one cavalry,
passed my window-for | am in a house
to-day-and when l commenced this
note, ten buglers on gray horses, lead
ing a regiment of lancers, rent the air,
and looked out to see forest of Ian
ces, their steel points shining keenly and
their green and white pennons hutter-
ing. l-Azlfrat HiakSkeaR to tie CONNER
cial, from Foltt-a-1z0NSSOH.
THE GERMAN SOLDIERS.
Perhaps it would do some of our
American Know Nothings-the parties
with slim legs, who are fond of distin-
gushing all Germans as id Dutch
men IA deal of good to look upon two
or three hundred thousand of those Ger
man soldiets. There is not the look of
our conventional or stage Dutchman
about one in ten thousand of them.-
Nearly all the officers and a great many
of the private soldiers have highly intel
ligent faces. More fine specimens of
splendid manliness-siX footers, every
joint in the right place, coat and breech-
es full of good musician be selected
from regiment of these soldiers; than
from a like number of. any soldiers
have seen, with, perhaps, the exception
of Sherman S army as it marched through
Washington after the surrender of Lee.
About the German officers of the line
there is a good deal of the German
students style. They have not been
campaigning yet long enough to be
thoroughly sunburnt, and many of them
wear spectacles or eyeglasses, and their
clothes are cut with that precision for
which Partisan tailors have a reputation
urwarranted by their achievements.
They are young men, well made-hun-
dreds Of them would be sensations in a
ball room. Each Of them carries II
speak, Of course, Of the officers on foot)
an oilskin knapsack, flask, and a
waterproof coat. In this rig, with their
swords in their hands, as the music
struck up on the march through Pont-a-
Mousson. they walked proudly beside
tbe biq bows who carried the needle
GUNS stepping in perfect time with the
music. which was often as magnificent
and thrilling as was ever blown through
the horns of war, joining the soldiers in
their triumphant singing, There are sad
faces among the soldiers, and pathos in
their thoughtfulnesS, when the fiurries Of
excitement are over. but the prevailing
expression is one of the most serious and
dangerous resolution. They are stalwart
and hardy, round heads, eyes far apart,
cheeks tawny and full, mouths square
and rugged with teeth sufficient for all