New-York tribune., 1870-11-05

| ,ho roo, ripped of the stone jambs Of doors
| made . sieye Of the house. Fortunately for
| tho owner, no was enabled to exungnish enc
| a,o. caused by the bombs and Shells but
to others were able to do the The night of my
arrival hearing music at distance. waked toward
and fonnd tvaa military band playing In front OF the
| Hotel villa de Paris, where Gen. Werther was dining
with his staff considerable crowd was gatneied III
the street to hear the music and to stare IN at he WIZ
dows al their conqusror but they saw HUE 10 ohcito
their envy The company sat In slarse roo" the WIN
dows Of which were well broken, and which wss dmy
us,,ed NV a moor moderator lamp and two candles, ono
at each end OF the table The works were destroyed
aut early In the SIEGE and since the Town mas oeh
lighted by lanterns which are hung up NJ the WINDOWS
and DOORS Fortunately, these latter nights we ha'o
enjoyed splendid moon. which makes gas anu ian'ernS
alike superhu0us.
The old people in Strasbourg, and the SICK sunereh
oatt from the siege not only anxiety, hut from
the necessy OF spending much Of their time IN tho
cellars Many. very many, were killed OF mal'nen IN
their houses the streets IL has been reporter tna
| the Bishop OF 5trasbourg died during tho sieee'
| but it i, not true. made particular In
ouiriea about it, and learned from the very oblging
| sacrtstsn of tho Cathedral that, though he was
very ILL., he has now quite recovered his health.
Az he IL rich comfortable persoDage the greatest
wine grower in the country, doubt he was made very
uncomfortable by living in his cellar. but such an expe
rence and then ia excellent thing for bishop
that have authority that cannot be disputed that
though the priests srasbourg behaved pretty weh'
connng their magnity TO pcrsuadng the servant gr'
that the Prssians being Protestants would roast al
Catholics who refused TO change their religion rs soon
they had conquered the cityyet the priests IN the
villages did their best to rouse the most malignant pas
sons people by preaching fiery sermons against
tbe Pr,isans from their pulpts. In some of the neigh
boring villages bodies of dead German soldiers were
frightully muated by the peasants urged on by the
| priests and wounded prisoners were cruelty Killed.
To-day, Oct. g. ! told that In French village IL
Prssian soldera killed the other day by drinking
the water OF that had been poisoned, ana that
the village burned to the ground by order OF inc
German commanding oficerl While am cOntradcting
the story bishops death may contradict another
viz that OF the burning to death Of 200 people In the
theaer The thester burned but there was nobody
| in IL.
Unbappy, cannot contradict the report OF the fate
OF the library Unless the custodian put into some place
safety the hundred books whose loss would he felt
"a irreparab-and it seems incredible that he should not
have done sohere no scrap nor vestge OF the coec
ton left The outside walls Of both the library building
the Temple Neu tas it called, though but i'll
the thirteenth century, standing though probably it
will hardly be safe to them again but the two build
ngs which were in fact one the library being only sep
arated from the church by "a partition wall, are COM
pleely gutted and the roofs Of both utterly gone
The Temple Neuf the building on the immense ROOF
OF which the storks used to hold their great Autuna
caucus when they came to fix the day OF their enigra
ton This year they frightened by the noise OF the
| bombardment and left much earlier than usual
our party under the conduct OF Mr. Krger, the Amer
lean yiceCon at Strasbourg, gentleman who knows
his native city by heart and whose uDtirng goodnature
and quiet readiness to make sharers in his wide infor
nation made his assistance Invaluable to us, went the
rounds OF the devastated quarter, and OF much beside
together with the greater part Of the works. defensive
| xfaif IL Ia
| strengthened by the letter which Miss Barton had
brought from Carlsruhe with her to the Commandant
got ls express permission The first place We went
10 visit the Temple Neuf where Mr.. Kruger hardly
hoped find the tombstone Of tho old Dominican Tauer
| standing and where hardly hoped TO find anything
left OF the old walfrescOesa Dance OF Death sad tn
he by Holbein. The last visit Mr. Kriger paid to the
| Church was with Professor Hitchcock, who was very
eager to Tauer's tomb. 50 we went III, through
breach In the wall OF the choir and cambered over the
mighty heap of stone the ruins OF the groned roof and
arches and their supporting coumns-Miss Barton her
friends in America will he happy 10 learn, merrily re-
jeetng all help-even from THE TRIBUNE, though she
declared it had long been her guide-but making her
way over the stumbling blocks as easily as the ighes
Of u.s. And there in the corner. the tombstone stood
unharmcd least Of the frescoes the one near
est the tomb, reasonably good state but the others
are, | fear. past preserving. But they never were
painted by HOlben imagine, 10 whOn, as everybody
knows q vast deal is falsely attributed
| A very interesting point in promenade with Mr.
Kriger was when reached the Of Prince Louis
Napoleons attempt 10 win the garrison Of Sras-
bourg his side Mr. Krigor gave ns brief animated
account OF the whole Transaction, showed MS where
every thing took place and explained the failure Of the
attempt which. for few moments had serious look
The sympathie OF part Of the garrison already
secured, and the rest might have been over H. en-
bodeDed 10y his success the adyenrcr had not dared To
enter that portion Of the ncosure which was under the
direct control of the Colonel commanding who had the
presence Of mind 10 declare that this person was not the
old EmperOr's nephew at all, hut an iDpostor and at
arrested him and sent him of 10 prison. Looking
round the widespread ruin, the Of this shame
fu attempt of his to disturb the peace Of his native
country and bring a civil war. Itself ruin now. like
all the rest and surveying all this misery, the fruit of
this mans ambition and vanityit hard to for
give old Louis Philippe for having pard0ned him when
he had once been deservedly condemned to death.
Although spent the greater part of day going
over the f0rtcai0ns and the Prussan works following
the parallels and bitches, and zigzags. taking the two
mnettes again by storRi and crossing the moats on
panks that supported by fragments Of the ruins Of
Vaubans masterpiece and entering the town by heaps
stone spntered timber, and wrecks OF iron
had once been picturesque old gates with sounding
names; though the wide fertile fields about old
strasbourg where hundreds and hundreds of industrious
| farmers and their families used through many
Summers, to gain their living each cultivatng for
himself his private garden patch In these vast unfenced
meadows, and. after, bringing in his produce through
the "Gardeners Gate" az the fishermen In the sleepy Ill
and saunerng Little Rhine" brought In their haul at
the Fishers Gate"-tbOugh these happy olis
plowed with deep trenches. and hesped with mounds.
where death had walked instead OF the farmer and had
moved down for grain, and sOwed corpses living
seed where picked up bombs for fruit raw the
holes where had burrowed like rabbits giving and
taking DEATH resting from slaughter and though
the boatnen in the sleepy III and sannterng Little
.bf he hYf had into thca.