Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-10
From the Evening Post.
no Great Uprising I'm Germany.
INCIDENTS OF TIE WAR FEVER
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INCIDENTS OF TIE WAR FEvER.
MISUNDERSTANDING
Germany, July 20. 1870.
,,u,srkable sight has been presented IN
ce-.snv ever since the declaration of war
y" a. 18th. Up 60 that date tourists from
III Its of Europe and America were spread
az Hi PI1crsts i'm every hill and valley, the wa
- nlaces were at the height of the sea-
son ne gambling tables were crowded from
r. opening till close, and the neighborhood
VI ~ Rhine was as full of English as ever.
D.. the news of war changed the scene most
thorourhly. The English were the 6rst to
,aLa wing; the Rhine steamers for Holland
,rars oyercrowded at every trip, and railroad
deno,s were filled with the baggage-boxes of
returung tourists.
paden- Baden was one of the first watering
,laces 10 be affected, and then Wiesbaden,
Ems and Homburg. The streets of the lat
,ar city are almost as deserted as in winter.
TIE tables are but thinly seated with gamb-
ie-s and the hotel and boarding house keep
o.. see with tears in their eyes the fight of
their lawful booty. In Ems the panic was
eycessiye. Three thousand tourists are said
IN have left there in a single day, and the
Freneh guests are said to have carried white
bandkerchiefs on their hats or attached to
their walking-sticks up to the time that they
couh get away. For this year the " tourist
trade =" has received check from which it
will not soon recover
LOSSES BIZ WAR.
The loss to the commercial world is i'm
mense, especially in the south, where rail
road communication is entirely suspended as
regards commerce, being unable, in most
cases, TO forward even inland goods, so great
is the necessity of forwarding the troops
southwark. Business is entirely turned up
side down, we may say thousands of the
Young men are called away from their desks
,Sna stores workmen are called in or volun-
: 5y the score, and in this neighborhOod
Me closing of several manufactures has been
the result.
But the farmers will have the most cause
20 complain of the evils of the war. The
harvest, which, in South Germany. is only an
average one, stands ready for the scythe
just as the call comes for the reaper to put
on the uniform and enter the ranks, and
horses and wagons are taken away from the
fields to move the trains instead of the grain
to the garner.
In the valley of the Rhenish Palatinate
the people find themselves in a very unpleas
ant position, aud expect every day 70 see the
armies engage in battle upon their fields !;
but even here there is no lament, and from
war browns the regret for material losses.
From the remotest valleys here and every
where in Germany the peasant youth, the
" blue smocks," as they are called, are re-
spending with a will to the call to arms.
THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE PEOPLE.
p All along the course of the Rhine these
81 blue smocks have come into the ranks by
thousands, transported in most cases in open
cattle wagons, furnished with nothing more
than wooden benches, often with nothing at
all The young men of the commercial and
higher classes have shown readiness to fall
into the ranks deserving of the greatest
praise. Carloads of young men liable TO
military duty, who have been living in Eng
land. France, Russia and other European
countries, come in every day. Few have
failed to respond, and fewer still have had in
view the penalties for non-appearance in re-
turning when they might have escaped.
have heard of fifty young men returning
from London and more than two hundred
from Paris
The enthusiasm among the German stu
dents is only equaled by that shown in 1913
In Glessen the lecture rooms have been de-
serted and the professors found themselves
without audiences. The University of Zurich
has lost two hundred German students who
responded Immediately to join theft regi-
ments, and as many more are reported to be
on their way to Berlin to enter one of the
hussar regiments as volunteers. AT the KEEL
University the students left 10 a man. In
Leipsic some hundreds have enrolled them
selves and others have been demolshing the
windows OF the editorial rooms of an anti
war paper. - all the higher institutions of
AtenrntTaas. without afHeaDesscn ct country. the
enthusiasm among the German youth Is the
same.
GENEROUS OFFERS
The greatest readiness has been shown by
individuals and cities in offering their wealth
aud services to King Wilhelm and the Ger
man cause Berlin has placed a million
thalers at the Kings service for the exigen-
cies Of war. Hamburg has placed million
marks for the same purpose. The same city
Is also opening a national subscription, the
amount to be placed at the disposal of the
h King for patriotic purposes, the first cOntri-
button being Eve thousand thalers from a
single firm.
In Aachen a non Prussian German offers
one hundred dollars to every volunteer up to
three thousand thalers. A Dresden merchant
has offered prize of fifty thalers to the sol
der through whose fundamentally the first
French cannon shall be captured and an
other gentleman offers hundred thalers tl
tue que W NJ dpbuIS1 tuG AASt AEChNu chdLi4-
ard. Some Bremen citizens offer thousand
thalers to the first battalion OF any HsnseatiC
| infantry regiment which shall capture q
| French cannon. But such cases are too nu
merous to mention, and | merely give thess
\ to show the feeling of the country.
! Public assemblies have been held in all tbs
| large German cities. In Lubbock, on tn,
| 18th, more than twenty thousand of the in
habitants of the city and the neighborhood
met upon the wide plains outside of the city
gates, and after an address the assembled
multitude, with heads uncovered and hand
raised, swore to sacrifice their wealth anC
blood for the Fatherland,
The different societies for the care of tn,
wounded and sick soldiers in war have beer
called into activity again. The Knights o
St. John have made extensive preparations
Societies for supporting the wives and chill
dren of the reservists and landwohr hay,
/ been formed. The Queen Of Prussia has Sc
noble example to the German ladies. Sh,
is the protectreSs of the - Society for th
Care of the Sick and Wounded in Times o
War" and to the Fatherlsnd ladies, she says
- The Fatherland expects that all ladies vii
do their duty Send aid first of all to tn
Rhine. The Queen.
The King shows an example of courage {
bis people which will not lose in effect, an
his sons are equally Jealous in their patriot
I1ym. The appointment of the Crown Prime
I to take the command of the South Germa
armies meets with great favor.
THE KINGS EXAMPLE.
An incident connected with the King
which has only just been reported by th
Berlin press, deserves mention here. Th
Official declaration of war arrived from Pari
at seven O'Clock on the evening of Friday
the 18th, and at eight the King arrived a
the Potsdam depot in Berlin, where man
Il thousands of neonle bad met to WELDON