The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-27

town. and certainly dt f6s women,
were in their ranks. - They sentFin two their
number 70 Uric: ne refused to; see SO much as
this moderate delegation, to say nothing Of he
huge bulk Of their Constituents. he would fight
to the last. The tumult became deafentng ON the
announcement OF this declaration. The grand
square, the entire space Ii frcut OF the house In
which the General happened to Se .waa naled with
the angry crowd. They refused TO stars..Th fee
BILE attempt Of the dlspirited soldiers TO disperse
them were not calculated TO alter Their determine.
they laughed, they wept, they alternately embrac-
ed and shook their fists at the tsoppB Who had de-
Tended them so well. Such was the state Of
things during the -wholelof ltaat afretnoon OF
the 21th. Every one was rife for decisive
action of some sort. ye. 10 one seemed 10, know
what to do. There was no leader. The dis
affection, as have shown, had this pecHllartty,
that 1t was spontaneously geperatedtn the breast
the horrors OF this most crue, SSegesA.At length
the Germans themselves gave the signal for which
we had been go long walting:.AsA e :aaell, more
enough directed on the batteries otsthe citadel,
burst amid mass or sbroken masonry stones
throw from the Citadel Squar Asnmdef and q
cry ran through the crowd, and. than from the
man man borne, aloft on the shoulders eompans
ions towards the cathedr6. door ms seen waly-
ing jsheet or table cloth at fheeendi or pole.
The little man who had the, sheespand the; pole In
readiness within his house, bad at length done
what the Others could notdo; nahada -
..9E MADE Uf Hfs MsDs' s,ss'y'
An aid.de-camp of General glFids snn moye-
ment towards the cathedral DOG. and whether I
forced his way into the crowd, and ~ the tnmlr
,nent danger Of his life wranche d tnenag rom the
little citizen,s hands, There.wasaa slouds angry.
egs ne ae sa s e bs Sesssa
soldier do 1t: will hoist itsmyself;,,S EiSe
minutes afterwards, or az about on the after-
noon OF Tuesday the 9th of Septefabers' the dsg
drai T ali tower. @ The Germans must nave Been long
and anx1ousy On the lookout for tts The frtng
almost Immediately ceased. Asoienan and almost
HOLY oALI .;1
fell upon the troubled crowd as 9 messenger from
the General rode forth to meet the. German officer
within the lines. Men shook. hands amid the
fortune had, jpss befallen, them. q The. beer
glasses were brought out Of the cellars. For the
frst time during four weeks the little children
were seen In the streets. Punctual 70 the minute,
at the German army came and took upfts posi-.
tIon st the gales, without entering them, whiles
the French army piled arms inside. In TWO or
three hours this operation was atan end, aud the
armed to do the bidding OF their conquerors.
And wilh.a tap OF drum and steady foot.fall the
Badeners marched In infantry, cavalry and bat
terry upon battery OF artillery, which made
tie right. There was nothing iaccid entail In
this immense display Of guns and soldiers
oficers Of , rs at the nrst entry offshe troops into
tire town. The accident, for! believe y
had made deep Impression on The German mind,
and every regiment entering strasbourg after the
was at an end. was yet prepared, on the first sig
nal from their oY1lcers, to have swept every tho:
'roughfare. with grapeshot, and; to. haVe shot or
bayonetted the population e man Bnt happily
crowds we're far too great to admit or the least
possibility OF treachery, unless the traitor were
prepared to 0verwhelm his own toWns1nen IN the
ruin of bis foes and by alittle aiter noon on We'd
nesday Strasbourg passed, withoutsny further in
cident Of blood, from the French1nto the German
Keeping pending the full dress occupation on the
3orb, whChtwas but tame stlar How shall
THE CONDITION OF THE TOWN,
when at length found means to examine 1t at my
leisure. Surely on all Gods earth was never be-
fore such destruction deliberately wrought By. the
hand Of war. The breaches dai thei solid walls OF
chssms ehs aiqa sroaEh @ which Couple 81 regiments
might pass abreast In, loose order. 1.-The nave Of =
.a... :. THE GLORIOUS CATHEDRAL -
(Happily the rest Of the structure is intactl had
near the spire, and the;wh0le Of the door WIS
covered with mass OF debris, for. the presence Of
which really ind tdfmcuna 70 .accEunt. seeing
that the injuries have spoken of-the only ones
the cathedral has reeeiyed-have displaced but
little Of the actaa1 material Of the building. sup
pose that for seme days the air itself must have
been heavily charged with floating rubbish from
the eyer-crumbnng walls OF the houses, and that
this had found its way through the holes In the
roof to the pavement below. Happily broom
and pail OF water will soon set all this to rights,
and with the traditional two men and boy en-
ployed for week on the roof, Strash0urg cathe.
dral Will be ready for worshippers and for visitors
once more.
-, .r,..,..y.f The THEATRE. y a--t ',-i'
HeW shall speak OF that2 AL that the human
mind can realize In horrors and In terrors has
come to pass there. The theatre, as you Stated
early In che Siege, was burned to the ground with
200 people who had hurried to 1t for shelter nom
the PrlssIau shells. The loss Of this great num-
ber viii seem less 81 rprising when we remember
how easily pleasure seekers fell victims to- panic
terror even In time Of peace. Some three hun.
dred people were In the theatre In all, anu when
the first alarm Of FIRE was raised, these rushed,to
the door and struggled through the narrow pas
sages with the usual result. few got out, the
rest were left behind till they were sunocsted by
the smoke and consumed by the flames. But why
should dwell on the sickening details I can.
not trust myself to tell you what scene that
theatre presented when we visited 1t after the ca
pitulation. $3.50.