The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-25
Negotiation Of q French Loan.
WAR MISCELLANY.
A German Opfonfon Of France-Th,
Prussian Flag ON the Towers OF Notr'

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Prussian Flag ON the Towers OF Notre
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The Berlin Post In q recent article on the
decline and present condition of France, observes
that the French people appear to have lost every
sound criterion for judging OF men and things;
and this Is one OF the saddest symptoms OF the
moral and intellectual decadence Of France. 1t
says 8: -.....:.......,---.-.......
The French OF the present day, with few excep-
tions seem absolutely Incapable OF sound OBJ
jectiVe consideration Of things. In their poltlcal
dislikes they SANDER tner ansagonsS oss ~ a9 aG
aggeration, and sometimes by the stronger means
Of palpable falsehoods. BY constant eilorts 70
impUse on others aud themselves, they even seem
to have reached the enyiable position Of, believing
their own fabrlcations. Al this points to az In
tellectual as well as q moral decline. The ma
tiou that boasted Of its wit, its intelligence,
and its chiysrous spirit Though 1t Is true these
vaunted qualities were always rather superficial
than lnternal) has no nobler virtue left II than
personal courage In the excitement Of the com.
bat 1t has ben attempted to attribute this moral
corruption to Bonapartism alone, though UNJUST.
", for modern France and Comparison were two
inseparable IDEAS Had 1t not been 30, would the
former have endured the latter for twenty years? :?
And now these republicans boast OF their VIC.
tory over Napoleon forgetting tnat nus iai dld not
ror and almost annihilated the armies OF France,
though the Parisians are not ashamed to repre-
sent the perfectly harmless proclamation OF the
republic as wonderful development Of the ma
tf6nai power Of France. -.
So Incapable are the French Of seeing things as
they are, that they have by this time quite for.
gotten that Is was they who declared war, ana we
who were attacked. They threatened US WIN
punder and ana ooasseq SS .ey TSev
announced their intention of 7dissolving the
North German Confederation, conquerlng tne
Rhine Province. and revlving the .Conlederatlon
OF the Rhine. No sooner, however, had we eX.
ercIsed oG. undonbted right as conquerors, and
invaded the intending invaders, than they. raised
q CRY aboat the violation OF the sacred soll' OF
Tas 10 Q, ea a ther
pleasure, and with perfect impunity, viii never
cease till our banners float from the towers OF
Notre Dame. Not till Paris Is In our hands Will
French prtde:be broken. France Will NOT flse 70
avenge Paris as Fayre has prophesied; she Will
accept the peace we dictate In Paris.
French Military Decentralization.
The Cologne Gazette. In an interesting article
on the French army, as formerly was and asst
nowts. thus criticises the French soldier OF the
present day :-..7,s .-,..,.
The Frehcn soldier has, in consequence Of his
mode Of life lost all military virtues; his discip.
line is weak; his ambition b. blunted. lam assur-
ed that when McMahon marched through TINS
pface lRhelmsJ the French soldiers, tired OF carry
ing tQeir 8rfH6, THREW tucIu iouS ooo
sneered :inI the faces Of their officers. have
everywhere found proofs Of the vandalism OF
which the French soldiers are guilty In their
own VILLAGES and towns. i have met townspeo-
ple who openly declared that they would
rather have twenty Prussians as enemies
than five Frenchmen = as defenders HOW
careless the French army can be In presence OF
the enemy was seen at Beaumont where our
men SURPRISED q large French encampment IN
broad day, while the meals were being cooked.
They had not even outposts-. what tle
French soldier is In camp, he is on the msrch+ He
cannot march; he therefore makes very little PRO
Sress day by day. Marches five miles Tor three
or four consecutive days. such as our men nave 30
often made In this campaign, would have gar
nished the roads with the whole French army.
the French soldier Is all the more exactng lcr tnls
He bears priYations unwilllngly, gruubles when
.they are put upon him, and uses force against
big own countrymeu In -. order toe OBTAIN
what he requires. The patience land endn-
rance which our soldiers showed In this war
whenit was necessary. to do without bread and
even water wouli be incdmpresensibe to the
Frenchman. 1t is true, and cannot sumclent!y
aceeptuate this, that the French have fonght
brayely-and who wo1ld not fight with sucn
weapon as the chassepotH Where our artillery
PLAYED upon them vigorously they always lel
away from each other, their officers had no power
over them. What we have suffered from them,
and God knows iG is mach, Was brought upon US
by their fe lriul wea pom. which was pale deatn
itself to our men, which smote upon them 80 ike
hail that happy chance only preserved any from
wounds or DEATH.