The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-20
NOTES OF THE WAR.
INSIDE PICTURES OF PARIS.


A correspondent of the London Dniy NelUs
says:-'The presence of the Prussians at the
gates, and the sound of the cannon, have at last
sobered this frivolous people. Always acting,
they are now acting the part of Spartans 1t is
somewhat amusing to see the stern gloom on
the faces OF patriots one meets who were singing
and shouting few days ago-more particularly
as it is by no means difficult to distinguish
beneath this outward gloom certain keen relish,
founded upon the feeling that the part is we'll
played. One thing, however, is certain, order
has at length been evolved from disorder. Ex-
cept in the morning hardly any armed men are
to be seen in the streets, and even in the central
boulevards except when there is report of
some success or during an hour in the evening,
there are no crowds. In the fighting faubourgs
there is a real genuine determination to fight it
out TO the last Men, women, and children are
all of one mind in the quarters of the working
men.
THE FRENCH INTELLIGENT CoNTRABAND."
"Villagers who have slipped through the lines
and who play the part of the intelligent contra
band of the American civil war are our inform
ants. They represent the Prussian army with
out food, almost without clothing bitterly
repenting their advance into France, demeral-
lied by the conviction that few of them will
be again in their homes. We are treated every
day too, to the details of heroism on the part of
Mobiles and Nationales, which would make
Achilles himself jealous. There is, we are told,
wonderful artilleryman in the fort before st.
Denis, the perfection of whose aim carries death
and destruction into the Prussan ranks.
CRITICAL AMERICANS.
Americans who are here complain very
much of the Parisians in not using the spade
more than they do. Earthworks, which played
so large part in the defense of Richmond, are
unknown here. Barricades made of paving
stones in the streets, and forts of solid masonry
outside, are considered the ne plus ultra of de-
fensiye works"
INSIDE OF sTRAsBURG,
A correspondent of the Pail Mall Gdxeite
says:--"A few hours of occupation by the Ger
man troops ssuffieed to change the aspect OF
affairs IN this city in very suggestive fashion.
Strasburg was Immediately declared free from
all acquisitions. Further, large quantities of
fresh meat, bread, and wine were sent into the
town, and everything was supplied which could
be required by the sick and wounded. Germany
has now for Strasburg the tenderness OF a
mother who greets child wounded by invOlun-
tary maternal severity. There never had been
any serious want in the hospitals any more than
there had been hunger in the city; but the peo-
pie were getting TO the end of their resources,
and another week or two would have told a
serious tale."
Atl WOMEN IN THE ARMY. 4-p
Two well-known actresses on the French
boards, ,Mad'lles Massin and Mignard, have EN-
listed In The National Guards as cdntORtsres.
Several of the male actors have already enlisted
either in the National Guards or Mobiles. Gene
raj Trochu is said to be descended from Racine.
RIvALLING MARX TWAIN.
The war map supplied to the French officers
is said to rival that produced by Mark Twain.
II is mixture of absurd geographical blunders
rest of the country is represented, would be
nearly five miles wide, and does not rise, as ID
commonly believed, in the Alps, but proceed:
from the Lake of Constance. Some of the
French papers, indeed, console themselves with
the reflection tnat, disastrous as the war ha:
been, IL would have been much worse had the
Emperor fulfilled his promise of leading BIZ
troops into Germany.