New-York tribune., 1870-08-12


jeopardy, by any accounts OF French defeats IN n'
columns shall be very much surprised But there vii
e no lack of OF all sorts true and false ana IL the
American papers with their lavish expenditure OF
money! and tho ingenuity and persisency OF those VINO
are working for tho. do not succeed In keeping "a thfr I'm
ggenuty and persistency have lost their old power
Is sald but rdmmneated ON the day war was
The Emperor not much OF hypocrte ana does mp, 10 ~
MANI filings for policy The soldiers. however Deng
French peasants, are very superstUu no
& nriests before they go off to the war. The church
they most cotton to "Nore Dame dcs vctoes III tn9
% tbcm p The greater number contened themselves
with going in crossing themselves with holy water ana
yn, few sos To the box, while scores or others
houg6 candles of the old woman who sat there, as IN
every church. provided with tapers Of all sizes, from
stick OF maccarOn up to a br0om-stick, and sticking
them up before the statue of the Virgin whose shrine
was pretty sight pots on pots Of flowers real and
hearts, and its small forest Of blazing candles The
soldiers and co. all day. and. as hey leave the door
mother in the cottage at home. "Goodby Notre Dame
When come Wen come and see you again, and bring
People say and fully believe IT, that this popular
but it does not show itself in the same way that
with good deal of enthusiasm; this the ease the
other day at Marseios with the troops coming from
Agers, but there such interest shown in them by
the higher classes best people, and all our people
used to show the soldiers whom they came and went in
the great cities and larger villages. Tie Government
here, has been used TO taking every detail OF life
under its CONTROL and snubbng those who tried to give
exercise to such public spirit they might hayo-pubc
spirit being thing almost unknown in Francc-that
when there is real need Of tho help-moral ana ma
teria Of the higher classes-hey don't really know now
to give IT, In direct imitation OF Sanitary Commits
sion and other agencies for taking care OF the soldiers
health comfort societies have been set on foot here
and subscriptions started for the purchase OF Wine
spirits tobacco clothing dcleacles ana m eyeTytng
cannot be expected to supply. Money is forthcoming
very literally, and gifts in kind are very abundanty sup
Piled No matter what may think OF the war IL ls
good to such spirit this manifested, and 1t Is to
he hoped that as much wisdom will be shown III dspcns-
ing this bounty there has been generosity IN
supplying it. The other day, | heard two market
women with their heads together telling a pi,liul
story that could believe, hut which has since been
confirmed, namely that detachment Of go men arrived
o'clock, almost dead for hunger they had been aI a
and all the night without food and when they arrived,
there was no provision made or tneir VAIL %
Some citizens hearing the cros Oi le men sachJu
bakers shop ncar by. and fed the men-for wonder
they were not arrested! AZ Bellevue near mGlupi,
long train i'm which soldiers packed like sheep. ana
last week, numbering heat and the sight OF these poor
fellows pitlable They were crowded over one an
| thorities at the station shut of all aeees; by
Tcn sd at nf fhe p'Ce men ' they is hSd want wanted TO-
but am bound to say that nobody appeared to want TO-
try to start subscrpton-twould not have taken much
to give them beer wne but as some OF the cars III
road managed TO hand them in some beer, of which
they were only too glad They told me they were from
hated TO them treated so, and hated 10
think of them going on such useless deatGrIand But
nobody seemed TO get beyond Oh Mon Deu!' or an
Z" Oh les pauvTes gdreOns! and that didn't qnench
thirst Still, don't blame the people for their inertia;
il has been carefully drilled into them by tho Govern
ment. To have tried TO give these men good quenchc
all round would have been "meddling, there would
have been an attrOupement," and God knows! per
haps complot with, this time, TRIBUNE man really
in it
received the Roppd neatly puts it, " with that en-
thusiasm rhich Il is di0icH 10 deSctbe! Speaking
of the Empress am afraid you will think that my
fatherng her the late Lord Clarendon was rather
sanderOus; but since writing it, am assured again,
from another of almost appalling respectabty,
that the rcdOubtable Clarendon, who was then NOT
Clarendon but Villiers, not only the fathef OF
Eugene, but Of sister of hers, who Is dead. Inc
liaSOn between him and the Countess Monpo was car
rcd on 10 the knowledge OF all the world when he was
English EmbassadOr in Spain, and nobody minded III Is
keep from wearing mourning unless indeed because it
is not becoming to her c. Z.