New-York tribune., 1870-08-22
SCENES IN PARIS.

HANDS CLAPPED FOR SAARBRUCS BUT WRUNG
FOR wEISsENBURG-PARIS WILD WITH EX-
CITEMENT OVER REPORTED VICTORIES -
MARIE SASS COMPELLED BY THE CROWD TO
SING THE MARSEJLLAIsE in THE STREETS
THE ANGRY CROWD Ar oUND oLLIVIERs
HOUSE WHEN THE TRUTH WAS KNOWS.
[PROM OUR OWN co8RE sP0NDENTl
PARIS, Aug. 6-I witnesst ID to. day scene
SO extraordinary that, a2thoug h wrote you only
Yesterday I must writs again to describe 1t to you.
You know all about the fghtf at saarbruck md you
know how that insignificant iaffair which, there Is
every reason to believe, got up merely a
political maneuveF, q, sep to Cerberus-for the peO-
ple were getting very fsvsrsh sand impatient for battle
was magnned beyond a tru proportions, that
wondered what the Parisnna would say do If they
should be 80 lucky asto gain real victory. Sensible
Frenchmen and there plenty OF them, high and low
saw through the effcial game as the details
reached Paris and there t doubt twas owing to the
revusiOn Of feeling in influential circles that the Govern
ment pretended to be angry at the publication, in the
Libert<, Of the Enperers dispatch to the Empress.
the Governments account OF "Saarbruck" had been
true and the victory athat trumpeted the dispatch
would have been thoaght fne as 1t is now thought
fustian.
We had hardly done clappns hand,ior saarbrnck,
however, before began 10 wiring than for Weissen-
burg. I dent know that the French are more mer-
cural than own people, even than the English 1t
to that, as remember, the alternative OF feel
ing hope and JOY to doubt and despair in the early
seeing to-day in Paris streets. But then, think we did
not, in the beginning Of our dreadful struggle allow
ourselves to get such high horse the Parsians
have mounted to brag ourageously TO dsparage our
| enemy to such extravagant degree we did not-I
hope-nvite many people to admire, and to help us
eat our hare, before had caught it, as our French
have indisereety doing and therefore we did not
deserve to be laughed at cannot help admitting,
this gallant nation has. say gallant" without mean
ing for an instant to defend the moral or on
any grounds hold there is excuse for IT, and be-
leve the French will meet the fate OF every people that
in these days, take arms without call from Heaven
! Rut no one can deny the French bravery.
sti tits great pity they cannot have little self con-
troll On the night the news that Wesenburg was
lost entered the little courtyard OF the house In the
pretty Paris suburb where am staying and as came
up TO the usually cheerful chatty group OF freneh ades
and gentlemen what kindly peoples what pleasant
waysD could not keep my heart from falling to see
their downcast faces how decaely they put out Their
hands land pressed mine In sympathy, how doleful II
sounded-"Enfn, Monsieur, nous sommes odffu'
glad have brought ray Of comfort with me IN tht
shape Of o gathered the cars TO the effect thai
McMahon had retaken weissenburg; twas something
though nothing but "they say" yet II brought BACK
little cheerfuness 10 the downcast circle The next day
Saturday when returned to town. found that the new
Of Friday evening confirmed, and that my oHdft
The general gloom something really painful u
Witness and the feyersh state Of anxiety communicated
itself TO every There official news and In III
absence people ready TO believe the worst the
we had from London by the way of Prussia An er
rand called to the extreme eastern end Of Paris and
going there nothing particular to remark. The poo
pie were silent they usually about II o'clock
Summers morning; the only point where there wa'
ANYTHING extraordinary at the OF the Rue d.
Rcheeu where 800 400 people were gathered staring
paris fashion, at the shutup shop aud broken window
| na,as of Leon Il Dreher's exchange oice-money
changers 10 the Embassy OF Russia-shop shut up AM