New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-30

Young girls stood in the cottage doors, watched
| the soldiers and were not insulted. An Eng
! lsh correspondent describes party OF coun-
| try women pic-nicking on the battlefield OF
Forbach with broken stretcher for table.
| There is no doubt that the German Invasion
canses great suffering to the French, but it is
| established with equal positiveness that few
military operations have e. or been conducted
with greater regard for the rights Of citizens
than those which the Germans are now con-
Quoting Germany indeed marches at the head
Of civilization, and is civilized even in the
terrible and destructive warfare which she
wages. .. Y..... ... .
1t is given out that the Prussians are
friends Of the Orleans Princes, and that they
will not only insist on the expulsion OF the
Bonapartes, but the recall of the BourbOns, as
conditions of peace. 1t is not improbable that
King William and Bismarck are favorable to
the Orleanists, and we know they heartily
hate the BOnapartes; but they are too wise to
endanger their final triumph or to prolOng the
war by insisting on naming the future ruler
of France. '
The mitrailleuses have no longer any ter
ror for the Prussians. They did not create
among the Germans the same CONSERVATION as
that which the American troops for time re-
garded the masked batteries of the Rebels
Indeed the first engagement at Weissenburg
revealed the weakness of the coffee por
guns and the Germans are filed with con
tempt for them. 1t seems that, unlike light
ming, they are open to the objection of stick
ing always in the same place, and after the
first fire the balls can be moro easily eyaded
than the range and aim of the gun can be al
tered.
The indignant cry of NJ. Gambetta in the
Corps Legislatf, ave are governed and de-
"fended by incapables," has found universal
adoption throughout France; and Napoleon Ill.
and his generals, unless they retrieve their
fortunes by browning success, will go down
to ruin together as Les Incdpables. The Paris
papers are filled with illustrations of the in
competence of the military commanders. 1t is
stated in lie Temps, with singular military ex-
actness that in the battle of FOrbach Gen.
Frossard was among his troops for only five
minutes and half" The same paper AYERS
that MacMahOn was not surprised at Worth,
that he knew he was to be attacked, and COM
municated his danger and his inferiOrlty In
numbers to the Imperial headquarters. Twice
he was ordered to "attack." Edmond About
mentions, without naming them, three Incdpd-
bIes who listened all day to the sounds of battle
at Saarbriick, and refused to march az cannon
without orders. 1t is these Incapabtes who are
still in command Of the French army. The
withdrawal of MacMahon nOrthward is likely
TO prove the final and browning illustration of
their incapacity.
An English military paper, which takes the
Napoleonic side in the present war, gives as
one of its reasons for doing SO, the fact that
Napoleon the Third has been the faithful
ally of England, and nobly sprang to En-
glands side when her own flesh and blood
"were, during the American war, ready to
"turn and rend her." We suppose this refers
Immediately to NapOeon's offer to support
England at the time of the Trent difficulty.
But, for our part, we need only say that if
this be considered good reason for support
ing Napoleon in England, it cannot be urged
upon the American people as a good reason
for supporting him.
The German troops in France are not, as
an evening contemporary thinks they are, en-
gagged in drinking the best French wines with
ont having to pay for them" The German SOL
diers are required, by their own orders, to
pay for whatever they may procure from the
people of the regions they march through
Lord Cairns said in the English House of
Lords, when the present war broke out, that
he Thought one of the bellgerents would try
to maneuver the other into violation of
Belgium This is a noticeable remark in
view of the recent movements of the French |
army under MacMahon. He moved his army
from Chalons to the very border of Belgium
and has for some days past been engaged in
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line. But it does not seem, after all, that he |
will be likely to maneuver the Germans into |
Belgium, or that they will be under any mill
tary necessity of violating its neutrality.
Gen. Trochu might az well have quar-
relied with the Emperor him self as with NJ |
Pietri, the Project of Police. Pietri is the one
man in whom the Emperor repOses unrestricted
confidence. He is the sole and exclusive pos
SCISSOR of the Emperors Geographic cipher
and it is he only who is authorized to open
and send all military and political dispatches
of the Emperor. Gen. TrOchu's attempts to
displace NJ. Pietri, are, therefore, "fat bur-
"glary."
Both in our special dispatches and in the
General Press dispatches of yesterday, refer
ence was made to the fact that the authori- |
ties in Paris had made preparations to remove
the seat of Government and Administration
to Bourges on the approach of the German
army. Bourges is very ancient city, located
in the center of France about 100 miles south
of Paris, with which it has railway commune
cation. Six centuries before the Christian era
it was the capital of Celtic Gaul, and it was
besieged and captured by julius Caesar so
years B. c. 1t was the birthplace of Louis
XII, and it was the 'place to which Charles