New-York tribune., 1870-09-09

may not be generally known. For instance, the Frehcn
papers keep on saying the French army s perfectly pro-
visioned and it is at Chalons but all the regiments
that have been employed and moving have but story
to tell viz that they have been starved. II Is enough
to their faces TO guess what they have gone through
they gaunt and thin for the color OF their faces
the sun alone could not give It, They have slept night
after night In fields flooded with water they lived
upon cruss Of bread potatoes which they stole in the
fields their boards are grown in short they don't look
like men.
II impossible TO form any distinct idea OF where the
Pussans have got to this time They keep to their first
practice Of advancing under Of the woods which
they could easily do far Ste MenehOuld As for their
scouts and spes they display audacy which asounds
every The Prussian Uhlan saw brought In to-day
was OF five taken at vitry.
THE GERMAN IDEA OF GERMAN UNITY.
LETTER FROM A CIVIL OFFICER IN GERMANY
TO HIS SON IN AMERICA-HOW BISMARCK
HAS SECURED THEIR UNITY, IN SPITE OF
THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
Mr.. Louis Miller of this city has received
from his father German citizen OF Rinten Hessc Casse
under date of Aug. letter. in which, after recountng
the movements of the army to and beyond Worth and
Haguenau the writer proceeds TO explain the prevailing
feeling and sentiment in regard TO German unity We
terday the ideas of the learned German theooan,
David Strauss, this great national question the most
absorbing Of Europe. The letter of plain, unpretend
ing citizen fair representative OF the German race will
have certain interest at this time. Mr. Miller writes
"What Germans have lived to Just now is
paralleed and 80 remarkable, so immense in its
quences that in astonshmen must collect ourselves
before believe and conceive everything. We were
indeed conscious OF the virtue and the intellectually OF
this highly gifted people,, whose achievements on me
fields Of arts sciences and technics, were named with
the greatest respect by all neghboring nations. We
Justly proud Of the excellent national character OF
people with its prominent features OF honesty ana
fahulness which the foundation OF our domestic as
well a. OF public life But, notwithstanding all this
considered ourselves Impractical dreainers ana we
murInur cheated of the fruits OF industry
Our divided political condition was the cause OF this la
affairs does not create OF farreachng views and OF
great energy. Thus remained mere cts snobs) not
withstandng our excellent qualities The better part OF
the natiOn the men among us, who thinking with
moral earnestness about our condition, saw fully the
OF misery but they In vain endeavOred TO stop
It, We were nearly despairing OF our future Inc iall-
Of s4s the dissolution Of the socaed three kings
Frankfort diet which kept down every national eleva
on and under which 30 and some odd princes
ience others with malevolence, but all together
directed with incapacity our national interests
and thus running the national prosperity had c0nfounded
Then our sayir, Bismarck, appeared-the man of
iron, who rendered u.s. even against our will, what we
to-day. After the pernic0us influence or Austria IN
Germany had been broken Bismarck created new ele-
ments OF our culture he deyeoped faculties and eapaS
existence of which we hardly were ourselves aware
Our military power OF defense had for long time been
had had-at least so in the small sfates-hardy any
prsse6t vue to our R little w boys ss Christmas gifts
we believed that thinker and dreamer
was q bad soldier. The man OF iron ap-
pealed patriotism to personal courage, to our
conviction Of and faith in good and To the supe
riority OF bodily strength combined with superior intel
lect, which is popularity OF the Germanc race Then
finally at discovered that not only the
greatest thinkers but also the best soldiers OF the globe
whose bravery based vain ambition, like that
the Romantic rare but moral goodness The worth
of peculiar has been elevated in
thousandfold since know that are able not only
to create, but also to defend 1t with arms in
hand. In the history Of the world no nation
ia mentioned, which with similar rapidity 30 fully de-
veoped its strength. The course is open before u.s.
Few days have suiced to lift from the depth OF
tonal misery TO the highest hight where nothing is left
hinder from shaping public affairs according
national endowment. Our Is great, enVl-
able Our victories however, admonish to earnestness
and humility. To maintain moderation, without exag
geraton fortune, is the adornment Of educated
man as well as OF an educated natiOnI