The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-01
WAR ITEMS.
,rrs n1sMARcK.

p,cunoSp MAN SEES BISMARCK.
:, conway writes to the World
| c,an, F,lkbery Tor TalqucmonD August 10 !:
| 'io % While was looking at the King there
| ,,s,cad Inv me and approached the royal
49, a man who seemed to be him.
| ll ait Kind of walking cathedral-a great
| stn oc man, several inches over six feet
+, hrieht. and powerfully built. So soon
~ he turned ! knew IL was Bismarck. He
turned Just before entering the door and
scanned the street. Amongall the uniforms
were two black streaks; they were repre-
sen!cd by myself and an American journal
| ist in whose company | happened to be.
Seeing us, the Chanccllor-he was in simple
gold-held up his finger to stop US just
! as, after taking good look ut him, we
were moving off. Wcapproached him, and
! he met US halfway. Where are you
from ?" he asked. / said, "Wea are Amer-
cans, and arc writing for the press in that
country" He then said "You are vel
come. We are very glad to have American
writers among us and with our army. The
ONLY thing that the authorities and officers
will expect from you will be proper papers
of lcgitimation. You have these! Very
| we'll then the freedom of everything Will
be accorded to you. The only thing. we can
You see, we are very much crowded with a
vast army in IN cnemy's country. You will
have. gentlemen, to depend upon your
selves for moving forward; but for every
thing else for all the help and protection
YOU rcquirc-you have only to come to us
here
After some conversation Of q general
kind, which cannot repeat here, the Count
shook hands with us and we departed. The
King, also, who had been from the first
leaning from his window, and could not
have helped hearing, bowed to us ana
waved his hand; and General hrau>kl, OF
his household, Informed the Amerlkaner.
that in case they found no food on the march
they must come to the Kings headqIar-
tiers, NJ. d. G.
PUBLIC FEELING IN FRANCE.
A letter from Chalons to the Tribune says {:
"As write. parties of Mobiles are passing
under my window, and one OF the group
shouts 'VIue rEmpereurH to which the
othersall answer hythe last word which Cam
bronze is said to have pronounced at Water
loo. This kind of chorus have heard Seve-
raj times to-day. The army, however, IS
steadEast and devoted to the Emperor
know and as | am writing heara group
of men talking in very dissatisfied way OF
the law which now calls back to arms the
men who have already paid their debt of
service.
THE TURCOs-AGAIS.
Of the Turcos the French speak in tone
of bitter complaint. They .pilfered what
ever came in their reach, and even the pota,,
toes they stole from the fields, and devoured
them raw without boiling them.
1t is related that at the battle of Woerth
an officer Of CuiraSSierS had his head car
ried off by ball. notwithstanding. the
body remained upright for short time,
and for about one hundred metres the de-
capitated horSeman appeared as II he was
charging the enemy.
FORMER LYSCHBURGER KILLED IN THE
EUROPEAN WAR.
Information has been received that AL
bert LippSchutZ, formerly resident OF TINS
city, met his death ut the battle OF "oerth.
He lost leg in that engagement, which
terminated fatally. Deceased was quite,
young man, and while here lived in the
store of Mr.. Randolph Guggenheimer.-
Lynchburg Firyinian.
IMPERIAL PILFERISG.
Aprop6s of this subject, we find suSpl-
ciollS and suggestive paragraph in the Paris
correspondence of the london AerS. The
writer saws a: "1he essential thing for
governors whom Gods grace ana the PEG,
Dlc's will have placed over us Is to fail
with full till. They see the impossibilitv
of continuing much longer the melancholy
farce which they have enacted for nearly
nineteen years.
Preparations are, it is more than whls-
percd, being therefore made to carry OIL
national treasures Of every description. y
siege, people say. is absolutely necessary to
cover the retreat OF the Imperial family
into state Of private opulence Which Luz
culus or any pro-con>ul retired from Dll>l-
ness might envy were he alive. The blouses
and the bourgeois, when they see the
covered wagons Of the Garde Mobile taking
mattresses for the wounded soldiers from
the TuiIleries, growl significantly, and with
bitter IRONY wonder how many pictures OF
the Louvre collection will remain to
France: where the crown jewels, the
bronze, the tapestries. the mallchitc tables,
the rare porcclains, and other valuablas be-
longing to the nation, will be against the
treaty of peace comes to be signed between
Prussia and the French Republic. The
association of Count Palikao'S name With
the looting of the Summer Palace is an un-
fortunate circumstance for the reputation
of the Empire while such charges are III
Sinuated.
THE FRENCH AND THE GERMAN SOLDIERS.
Mr.. Halstcad, who was first i'll France,
and saw the French armies, and then went
to Prussia and saw the German armies,
compared them in letter TO his paper as
follows:
"Certanly there is plainly superior
strength III the German soldiers. They
stand in the ranks heavier, taller, hand
somer men, than the French, and their
good looks are given all advantages in their
uniform, which is splendid, and incompara-
bly, more stylish, brilliant, and martial, than
that of the French. In Switzerland
| noticed a deep tinge of green in the uni
forms. Here the. blue predominates, and
the facings are red. The buttons fairly
sparkle, and the browning glory of the uni
form is the helmet. | do not know what
is the objection to the helmet us Il cover
ing for the head. 1t mav he uncomfortable,
but upon Il tall, tine fellow, it gives him Il
finish, suggests the splendOr OF ancient
armor, and blaZes with heroic associations.
The eagle on this helmet is masterpiece.
- presume there are no troops in the
world that will compare with the Germans
| in the appearance they present, and it seems
that they arc asserting this supremacy over
the little game-cockS of France. The
French people were not taking the war
wish sufficient seriousness. Napoleon re-
peatedly admonished them Of the terrible
job they had on hand, but his words did
not make much impression. The amount
of singing they were doing was prodlgous,
but | expect the French army has been
trained too fine. The soldiers believed too
much in the superiority of their chas>epots
and in the marvellous caDarity OF the mi