Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17
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War was called "grim visaged'
and his "frOnt'' declared "BEink-
led'' in the daysofthe bluRdeFbass,
.he long bow, the cross bow, Ae
the helmet, the shield,
&c. What must it now be?
AGrim visagedr indeed! II is.
Gorgon headed with every hair
IN engine of fearful destruction.
Killing In the army is no longer .
it has become simply 8 pas.
time. The struggle on this con.
tinent, which certain politicians
say is not yet quite ended, called
~requisition many of the mod
ern conveniences for taking human
life rapidly and with ease. But it
has been reserved for France and
Prussia to call into review the
very poetry of killing By whole
sale. That horrible war bug bear
the ''needle gun" which Prussia
held in terrorum over the civilized
world, has not fallen behind ex-
pectadous, as the thousands Of
slain Frenchmen do so truthfully
testify. To match 1t, however,
was the chdSsepot, the beau-ideal
arm with poor dead Du Failly.
Then Napoleon had his dread
mitraHlehr, which by the turning
of a crank ground out convenient
death with the same ease and rapid
ity as an Italian organ grinder, dis
penses,. what he graclously chooses
to denominate music, from q barrel
organ. These engines were all
shown to be effective to the fullest
extent, and we presume their in
ventors are frantic with joy OF
the genius which enabled them
to plan this easy and whole.
sale destruction of that which
God with so much care and love
created in his own image. Not.
withstanding oil this, however, it
appears as II death cannot be Sc
cured even yet rapidly enough to
satisfy those who thirst for it in
the present European war. The
telegraph yesterday, announced
that the Prussians we're preparing
to send up balloons, from which
nitro glycerine viii be dropped in
70 the French magazines. This is
entirely a novel idea. The novel
ty and originality of the idea Is
sublime to the fullest extent. We
will not take into consideration
the butchery Of man that is en-.
tirelv q matter Of minor impor
lance. II is the grandness of the
conception. II has given a bias
civilization q new sensation. l
has put a new creature upon exhi
bition. 1t is to the inditteren
and selfish spectator Of the va
what Worcestershire sauce Is Il
the inert palate. 1t stimulate
when nothing else will. Man ba
followed, with death, his fellow
man with every continuance, upol
the ground; lie has swept out up
on the broad bosom of the oceal
and robbed him of that which al
the nations Of the earth can neve
restore, and now is reserved t
this era to witness tn
spectacle of contending armie
meeting in martial array il
mid heavens there to destroy an,
defy. For, of course, If PrussiI
fights poised in the air, Franc
must meet her upon a commoI
battle spot. If, from balloon
floating above the French army
the Prussians can hurl death-dea.
ing missiles, then France, too, mus
prepare, man, and equip her aerii
fleet, and send il to cruise in th
same localities. Is not the cor
ception grand? Even Alexandei
who cried because there were n
more worlds to conquer, quaile
when he was called upon to attaC
an army of Indians mounted upo
} elephants. So, too, were the RI
mans, under similar circun
stances yet the genius Of bot
enabled them to set to fight thel
! horrible monsters. Now, hoy
{ ever, France and Prussia, spur
+ ing mother earth, have sprung d
} fiant on to the bosom of the ci
s cumambient air, and there, q
t throned upon the tempest, thro