, 1870-09-07
THAT OkEUH O GtEk0 Vt 2El &Ae
Ardennes.
A Minute description Of tue
Country.
Sketches of Sedan, honlmr DR., -Atziefts,
Donilion, Luxembourg, and tht
Upper MeuAe.
Frontier Scenes and Associations.
Pictures of Metz, str1lsbourG and
Nancy.
a Tourists Nap Of the Campaign.
Notes ON the TFnr.
Pictures of Metz, Str1lsbourG and
Nancy.
a Tourists Mp Of the Campaign.


[Fnau ocR oFs CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, Sept 1.
bfy note-booAs and reco1lections OF trip
male tlree summers ago in tho AIauso coun-
try, enable mo to present you With vicw Of
the region on and about the battlefield o!
sedan. To this is also appended IN Amor
can idea Of Metz and StrasbourG, WHARF tho
French still hold out.
nnoAn 1ASnscArE VIEW.
Under the EApoleons France has been dt-
vided Into eighty.niuo small Departments,
which arc supposed to hare oblitcrated the
ancient rrovinces, and hence, instead Of raul
ing that to-day's battles were fought in North
cru Champagne and Lorraine, sou are told
that they occurred in tho Departments OF Ar
dennes, Meuse. and 41osel1e. The Napo1cons,
with their hdgetty mathemAtico-military ten-
denotes, have cut up these old historic Prov
inces, Just ~ il Illinois was decreed OIL the
Of Haut-Rock, Bas-Rock, Hautn Illinois, D1E-
Illinois, ssugauson, Vermillion. Embaras, Has
Kaskia, Big Muddy, and Skillet Fork Bat for
The LIST two eonotous teema, could nuke
very respect. able Franco out Of you. II you
were 10 DO made State Of Provinces father
Peor1A District BoursonAais ]; tie Cairo nis-
tYics, 4Et;Ypt and the Springfield. sr State
Capitol District, Itretee, because Uf the bar
gaius which have teen made there. wna!d
orer Ill rour old towu Aa!a, market housea,
aud hay-eca1es ; pnt q gems dar1ae7F guard
| ip Ill the villages gtyc Chicago 1urco gar
sisun ot forty Thousand wild Indi1nians and
regulate the price OF tnsuips. and the rates
for t1anshirnaent Of grain, by stringent de-
would be, TO shut up, except when my wife
and myself rode ps7t, when ny oh2eholders
| the same in every sSn and diepeusatlon-
! would give tho signal for the cheering.
should Suppress TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1T
once, and mako It = penal offence to
refer to my former Itl1yi 4sapoleonecs, Is
found in theso prczent letters. Then would
| dig up the Nauyoo Temp!t,, to lind materials
for lie Of tbs rasernsE "nath." whom I
should dtAguleo under the name uf Goliath,
wl,ou he. Of col.sc, resembled. would cua-
-ptoy everybody, or interfere with everybody
eise's employer nr cunployc. ion should Aave
what sou have been logging fos, strooE- gov
crnment, just Is France had bhfore the Prus-
z42.,r Il It their cards. ar F. G"
To BE- less vivid and more pfeciae, aoHoyur,
France is shaped like tall imperial crown, or
coronet one of the most compact nations in
The world; five sided, and the onf; sidea
Which eau bo tncu1ced in our day are the two
OH tho eaat, from the North Sea to the 3Ietl-
iteransa,, about 5co miles ot frontier; Less
than 200 miles of this frontier. right in the
angle Of the crow1:, il nos feae.b2e for inra-
rsou by the (;esrnans-the neutral States Of
Belgium and Dutch Luxembourg joining
FIn1,se for 200 miles Shove, snd neutral sSit-
| zerland extendi IS 4 hundred miles be1om.
to corcs Lo,l1on, aud Switzerland is Austria.
hastiou. The old provinces which adam
the German and Belgian frontier are Alaace,
nar1ow strip between the Sosges and tho
Rhine. ono hundred miles in length. Behind
. it, Lorraine, broader province, rea:sieh n{
on on 10th sides Of tic A1osolle, and also cover.
!, ncarly a hundred nlilss Of rrussian and Bel
gran frontier. Next to tho west, the long
province Of Champagne covers some fitty
] miles Of Belgian frontier. 6trasboufg il ths
ial Of Lorr.ino. Rheims Wss the Chief Ept..
J csrA city Of Champagne. These proyinces
were all acquisitions Of France, though Cham
! i'asnc was acquired several hundred years
l ago. Nancy, now in pntssiau iands, ii COZ
eFs' @ TOW toward I'd, The frontier; by tie lori lori
I. Mosele, which river. ncar Thionsillo, escape
d through Luxembourg and Belgium, to iois
3. tic 1iliue iu Prussia. Rheims is covered /,
r close BY, into Belgium. Detwccn aIeziere
Q | and Ihionsil!o arc Sedan. Montmedy, an
1 LonEwy-forsaied toWps-the whete four COZ
nccted By railway right along the ftontici
u McxicrLs iB soyentydTa miles from Thior
e vile; and the whole sccnc af operations Jus
alung this ine-the pritsians Mt tho Thor
d wills enl eoopine Dazsine up in Metz, an
Il / apasing whatever troops they could to teit
10 force their armies near Me-ieses, ut the otht
'e end, whcro ihoT we're putting the screws 3oF
70 upon Msc1Lah0n-
Il ILLINOIS INVADED TT THE rRrss1Ass.
4, Il was exacsl: as il Chi:ago wero alttz ar
= Dearborn were Thluurllle, sta outpost. II
III t,sc OF communication Eould be Il
n Ghieaso d.1en.. 1..;,. EallEoaa;; i; q;
:" represented by tue Wisconsin bouada1
n fur 3iontmcly: aud, between the two, sou
sucl. station NJ lattott OF pecatonica would
as Sedan. I1'ese distances correspond vp
I'd nearly. and 30 does tho space hetween the II
= limos Of rai! and the Delgian and Wiscons
frontcrs- You may farther imagine. for Il
~ srAu1 Altakegy Of this campaign, that L
d. rruss'an army had entered France in diasra
,ts,g ,atsng ye1E lndans mS ontisr
u bcsieged strasboarg, far behind. ss 1utlianaI
sr- liz; aud marched upon Paris: At 10
ia leland, with another army. Getting
~, Tar a. Cha1ous l'eosia1 With the Paris ar-
1t. flying French stmF on their Hank at I!hci'
In 1.asalfcl, atd Push on for the capital, Or
~ surn and cut OF 3laeMAl.on befora he al
Is have made vide deiorlr nlonE tbs Bolgi
he | tW1sccnsin) frcntieT, and raised the alesc
he Dazaine at clieaso. Choosing the Inter p
1
H. conveteing courses, like tho rays Of IN
tu-.i ve1tcd, xide-oren fan, with tlle han1,e set
- Rockford. They would th1s seize all t
~ 1oada TO Rock Inland {ra1is). ID MacM al,a7
H. rear, toreetall him in reaching Chicago Nat
or, altI compel him to fight at Freeport tMcziesc
,,,o and along the ztilroad, nearly 10 I.ockfo1l
E''o meantime also cutting him of from I
as, boundary to tho north. And thus, on t
ed edge Of France, NAPOLEON fought and yield,
near by that Holland where lis father L
been King uear hr that Waterloo wht
Lis uncle became ulfn.
,rk AErESsEy, TIE DA1TLE-F1E1n-
cf. -Theee tloody battles round tho iiafnl,
- and fcEtress-towns Of tho 3leuse 1uver. in 1
-he Department Of Ardennes. North ChanlpeS'
ISIS began with the collision Of the ar11ics
conditional capture Of the Whole French re
I'd ,,ant, including the man who made tbs war
ON the following Saturday forenoon. SO nj
nr men have never been captured o'.tright
-. | modern warfare. 1t was as il tie whole
hat shetm4n:s army, moving to reinforce Gta
ne, had lain down ita Arms to Joe Johnston, .
~ President LINCOLN hal been amongst
~ ~ prisoners. The First Sapoleon never Won
1th abeoluto and clean victory. The frog ,
led stoned BY the boys till be lost the possess
fri | OF bis faculties, and then jumped down
1"4 biggest boys throat History nnd digess
are are alike called uron for parallel case.
ses THE REGION Round SEDAN
Nv The three Hye1n - Rhine. Mosclle, =
| AEuES-OEA
OF Cumberland, and Tcnnc.tee Rivera. !
ith ! French, answering to tie Rebels who bet
~. the war on tho Ohio, vero 1epulscd past
'ne Cumberland, and finally InoFed up un
to Hood {MacIahon) across the Tenness
lcir which. few Of them eyer 1cc1oesea.
10" one Of these European rivers on which NO
or little stcfe yet it is longer thau the Susq
hxnpa. Or the Illinois, aud nearly rs long
~ tho Cumbarlanl in an I5a uailes-aud Il
Of It drains 5000 square miles. and holds on
rfs. bsnks towns n large as Liese, Nauus, II,
txicht, ;Dort, and Rotterdam. FlaxiuG no1
lao ward through the rolling plstns Of ChAmps
lst, and Lorraine, it passea tho high road to T
;np midway between Metz and Chalons. and t
ente1s gradually deepsniog ,<a1ley OF nd
var covered With ok and ctIer woods,--tt
but | ridges sometimes widening and holding
his tween them low, ua1t6y, half-inunds
et'' stretches Of meadow. The Neuse now
}aa- | at Dun, it Is within nooud Of tho whistle
h;,,, | the railway between AeziArea and Metz T.
Steuay to Sedau. tho hills are only on its
BET and thA railway and los stretch Of .ncsd
,rns country arc on It's right. Between Mon.
sha< and Sedan tho railway crosses the -Aeuse,
ctosscs it twice agaiu before reaching
re- ziefea.
ring The department Of Ardennea, whe.e Mac
fats hon vas entr1pped, Is sixt5-three miiea
.eE sixty in Dimensions. aud contasna 34a, Ill
'hns pie. The Rirer Meuse .111na through
eigo north eorntr Ct it toward Belgium; the A
= th.;. esu vs;ess md th;s e.ns' :;
luad The Mepso, = few miles below Saian. Il
quarry. : grazing, and manufacturing e,
-. t1y, and not fertile. Slate, chalk, Hmest
'tHe undcrlieit, The natne Aracnues ia also
she nlied to aHeatern l1iy1sioa Of The slste
tag- teau Of the loxsr hhins, soma Knobs OF w
t,s rise to the leigit Of 1900 feet. Haath, 1aa
j, ,'."- void, and barren. growing amongst tall
bltc, teaus Of slate, EranRaeke, and 1i1oat'
euce make tho essential features OF this reg
IS pee se w f., st.,a ~ ~ T,tnrs ~ !e u,
;ym- either to the people OF the1audscapesv bee;
nee the region o. Ardennes ia forest