Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-09-02

We 10 ret often ;4iIA Of Paris as vailed
cry, but its offences are In fact f.. m.lab.e.
The + rtif1ltous are thus described
& double line q tefeRces. consisting Of an out
var line Of detached forts. and Az inner line If
fort 81, detached it Is tue, but CAPABLE O. sup
Per ting one another. Ga ,ne inner line Of works
AZ nlucty-tour angular fronts. he inc, which
s twenty-oHe miles il crcum.eren-e IS tie long
ct line Of bastions IN the world The Tali.
which forms part Cf the bssti0us, is also ter
raced, AMI has an esq .rpmelt of tl.rty-iJcr feet
faced with masonry. Each Of the angular faces
has medium length Of 300 feet. In front u
the Whole AID entirely surrounding the city is a
continued f1sse, or line Of wet bitches lined with
. masonry and Of q depth Of eighteen feet by
width If twenty feet. From the bottom Of these
bitches 10 he top q the emolnEmsnts GROWING
the walls is a height of about f1rtv-fve iest. The
bsstions vii have mounted in them an average
o. about ten guns each, which VIII make a total
Of $40 i97 the n.rety-.1ur angular faces. This
agrees with the dispatches from Paris, which
report 1900 guns mounted on the ramp2rts
since the battle Of Woerth About 700 gates
pierce the rluparts. the bitches being covered
by drlwbrilEes, which can be reno we'd az mo-
ments notice or destroyed in $50 minutes
By the cannon in the bastions In the rear
of the iiue Ct works are the magazines
much strengthened by Napoleon, with line
If r1ilrss5 c5nnee,in- them II j. said
to aid thee that the melancholy but nee
essary steps Of CELEBRATING the Bots lie Boulogne
IN rnt ~ f5rtiirerio1s ~ - ,,-c
requires q great amount Of work. which Is now
being carried on The result viii be that any
l.1I' i lo'es W" a.. niIIy 's ave % penetrate
rf;sbeI
Ortsile Of the described area +ss detached
f,-,s ovts,.jir- 7Ior,, tho Sai-a er,l The Me-
The f,rts ,.,,e- q front ,f tbirt,,-fra -rirs.
which sr,l5 cornpel a base;ging force IN cover a
s,.,,a ofa+ least fftv-fve miles
Tho garrison in cssa az saiga will ,orsist IF
1a0 006 NC, ~ nm ~ 400 ain IA ,l,o ~
80
In c-ncl,.;or If NAV, "a. s,s+aI tl,, eys, If tho
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NATIONAL WAR ScSGs.-It IS singular and 1
rqrhers on,inous that the Narseillai.e sbou1j /
NAVE ~ ii were ~ -Hsp "a''o-' ioIceI HseH /
prominently forward as the necessary vent Of The I
feeling Of the nation On the present war. and /
.5,. ,ba F,,roro- vbo hos g, al. /
SUPP ess'l It, sH'i'' nave io1uu IT poiiuc 10
court public favor by adopting II as the nstonal /
10 rVgz m q n f.-r|
a young French engineer officer, namei BJuget .
de Lisle, and was first called " The Song Of the
Army of the Rhine. When 1t was performed .
for the first time on the grand square AZ Stras-
burg, the enthusiasm caused by II was 50 great
that three hundred volunteers enrolled them
selves at the Hotel de Vile. 1t spread rapidly
over France, and Was sung by Barbaroux and
his companions as they marched from Mar
settles 10 Paris, and from tins circumstance 1t de-
rived the name OF the Aarsellalse. 1t was the
best recruiting sergeant the French army ever
had Csrnot, the Minister Of War, said TO Rou-
ge, de Lsle, . Your Marseilisise has given TO
the republic hundred thousand defenders. 1t
served the First Revolution faithfully; but when
the Imperial regime Of the First Napoleon came
into full operation, it was laid by for more
commonplace songs, and PGrtd7t Pour
Ia >yrie, the composition Of Hortense
Beauhsrnais, the mother Of the present,
became fashionable, II not popular On the
restoration Of the Bourbons this song was prohi-
5i,ei along with the Marselllaise, and other re-
Itself heard very Unexpectedly once more in
! CO.. "neh 'ne DDdi u -. Neie eApei.eu from
on that occasion by the famous singer. AdolDb
Neurritt, amid as much enthusiasm as that dis
played recently, when Madame Sass sang it on
the same boards. In 1870, under the ministry