The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-27
IN SOUTH GERMANY.

| Travel Under Decentralization, Bavaria
| and Wurtemburg National for the North
| An Exciting Adventure-What n Indy said
Of Napoleon-Detour b. the Way-Ulm and
| Its Dcfences-Prussian March to Victory.
CARLsRUHE Dgchy of Baden, August O. 1870.
Travelling In Germany since the declaration of
Is 10y no means an easy matter. The fast trains
have gone out OF existence and the few slow ones
which stop at every station only run by permission
OF the military authorities and OF very distant and
irregular intervals have been compelled TO lose
foar days time IN getting to this place from Switzer
land, a trip which, in ordinary times would have
been easily accomplished inside Of twenty-four
hours, and yet have taken the most expeditions
route now open. Here, at Carlsruhe, almost reach
the limit Of railroad travel the Rhine being only
five miles distant and passenger trains no
longer running beyond that river The town
OF Maxan, the limit In question, is some
twenty miles distant from Wissembourg just
captured from the French by the army under the
Crown Prince OF Prussia; and, as this town seems
to be the point on which the three great German
armies are concentrating. the railroads will, OF
course, lie entirely al the service OF the military, and
the intervening ground Will have to be crayersed
horseback.
FEELING IN SOUTH GERMANY
The war is altogether as popular in the kingdoms
of Bavaria and Wurtemburg and the duchy OF
Baden as in France ITSELF and it wou!d be safe to
assert that the French and German peoples have
forced their governments into hostllities-not the
governments the people. There is greater evidence
here than in France of military preparations, nearly
the entire ablebodicd population being apparently
engaged In drilling; but notwithstanding the vast
bodies o! men have passed during the previous
four days. every individual is armed with the needle
gun. entered Germany by the old city of Con-
etap hara thp unciIx a
held some three hundred years ago, at which
John Huss was found guilty Of heresy and
sentenced TO the stake. The immense hall in
which The council was held still stands in admirable
preservation on the shores of the lake. and the
house wherein Huss resided is also well preserved
as one OF the "lions" OF Constance The city has
quaint, medieval look and were 1t not for the mod
ern costume of many OF the citizens and the blue.
coated sOIdiery huriying to and fro in the narrow
streets one might rub his eyes and fancy himself
back IN the times OF the Tudors.
AN UNPRoMISING ADVENTURE.
had not been one hour In Constance before an
individual Of the female persuasion sometimes
known as wOman enlightened me as TO the state OF
German feeling In regard to the war. had occasion
to enter store with the object Of making q
purchase and my acquaintance with "Deutsch" not
being quite intimate as with French I used an
expression IL the latter language for the purpose Of
more fully explaining my wants. ] was being
attended 10 by man, his wife small child aud the
female IN question: business being 80 bad In Eu.
rope generally that four persons considered by no
means too many TO help one customer Tue old lady
thereupon continued the conversation In French with
perfection OF volubility: but when came to settle
for my purchase she accused me OF being French
man and engaged In spying out the nakedness OF
Constance. laughed aud produced INV passport al
proof OF nationality but that too, was insufficient
for the excited patriot. she ting that anybody
| In these times could obtain such papers, and that
she herself could not be mistaken. Women, like
lunacs and topers. easily satisfied with proper
humoriDg, ana this light OF other days. at length
began 10 give piece Of her mind In regard to the
| French Emperors policy and intentions which dis
closed an Intense hatred OF all belonging to nm and
his countrymcn. From time to time she was en-
dorsed by her three com panOns and ut last quilted
the store with perfect convection that the war; IL
Constance, at least, was a popular one, aud that
Judging nv this one family, the Emperor Napoleon
H. has little cause 10 expect sympathy from thu
/ peoples OF Southern Germany. And THIS impression
has been fully borne out In my journeylng thro g
| wultemburg, Bavaria and the Duchy OF Baden.
TUE FORTRESS OF UI.M.
! MY nearest route to the scene OF war would hav
! been via Schaffiausen and the railroad In the Rim
1 military and I was therefore compelled TO make
| pretty wide detOur. recrOssed the lake TO Fredt
| ricshayen aud aztec waiting several h0urs " VIA