The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-18
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
DEPARTURE OF TR OPS FROM
PARIS.
GOING OVER THE NEUTRAL GROUND.
Cologne and th9 LandWehr Nus
tering.
The Frontier Battle Ground.
correspondence Boston Journal
THE PRUssIAN FRONTIER,
10 An Saturday, July q, 1870.

10 AN Saturday, July Is, 1911.
Sorrows Of a special correspondent
| should think so, indeedl After fif-
teen hours Of simply demoniac riding,
| find myself in the midst of a cohue
of LandWehr, and dust, and German
chivalry, and beer, such as one rarely
sees. / have told you how impossi-
BILE it is to get to the French front;
how we have been threatened with
determination if we ventured into
any French camp, and how we are
driven, In sheer revenge, to go over
to the Prussian side and take our
chances there.
The correspondent Of the London
Times was arrested at Metz day or
two since, and sent back on the plea
that he was a Prussian spy. Imagine
the rage of the Thunderer." The
rage OF the French against the Eng
lish, because of the somewhat sympa-
thetio articles concerning Prussia in
the London press. knows no bounds.
Sala has fed surreptitiously to Ems,
and thence is wildly seeking informa-
ton IN Prussia; Russell is nowhere;
and the Queens expressed desire has
finally eliminated In a proclamation
to the effect that no English gentle.
man shall serve on q French staff.
The last hops of correspondence from
the French side is cut off. Olivier
and his projected official history of
the coming campaign are the great
sensations of the moment.
But you, of course, care little for
our grievances. / am mainly anxious
to give a plain and simple story of
what l see, and no more. There Is no
dependence upon hearsay. Not even
the Prussian newspapers here are al
lowed to say q word about the move
ments Of troops, and as it is abso-
lutely impossible to be at the dozen
points where troops are massed at the
same time, must begin In ignorance.
But can tell you of the recent ex-
cltements In Paris, and of the EN-
peror's last savage pleasantly. He
said, at the dinner which he gave the
Ministers day before yesterday
+" Prussia has taught the world that in
Europe we have no frontiersi" He
really thinks SO, evidently; but he
will perhaps find, to his cost, that
the lesson this stalwart eountry
| Of soldiers is to teach him is respect
| for her already established bound.
aries. The confidence of the
French Cabinet and people strikes
me as painfully exaggerated; and
even the sober military authorities OIL
neutral countries express some sur.
prise at the clustering manner in
which the Emperor and LeBoenf seen
inclined to claim victory as certain
Our orders" said an officer high il
rank in the French army, to a friend
of mine two or three days ago, oul
orders are to march straight to Ber-
lin, and to reduce every fertilization
on the way. We take with us our en-.
aulets and sashes, such as we wear On
gala occasions, for the entree at Berlin
We will never turn backl" This NAV
be taken as a fair sample of the spirit
infused, not only into the officers. bni
the rank and file also. Most of the
troops now down on the frontier are
chatting with Impotence to get into the
field. They are anxious to see close
before them what they consider viii
prove an easily vanquishable foe.
DEPARTURE OF THE " GUARD"
Paris has been ablaze with the gilt
ter of uniforms, resonant with the
clatter of hoofs and the clamor Of
songs since 1 last wrote you. The
departure of the Imperial Guard, or
Wednesday evening, was the culmi