, 1870-12-01

ugar, cigars, md tobaccafor the garrison.
shlch averaged, mora CT Is, about 5,000 ,r
ntn. The way it 2av, andn which It Is still. 4
loae is this Ths Maire tSes the ofiesr OF
,uch Al one, living number.o And so. At the .
sama time. il III officer, hseeeiTes IN money
1t the rate Of sir flxncs pe dag, which ID IN 7
lieu Of provisions to With he Ia entitled
The officer as it often hapene, poekass the
1oss sof' to ha n' 5.. s snd sss
Kitchen and cellar can afford;
without saying even 60 mua ~ - thank you:"
The eo,diers receive their Eoyisions Ia kind, 6
which they either bring or srin8 not to thels r
direc,iy .. Indirectly. o7ary oa of tho cost of
control tbs distribution OF be provisions Is
we'll as Of the forage, which theg buy from {
whoever they can. but the atJ has TO refund (
al moneys expended. Nov, 90 fAr 20 good;
to III such customary var lF.sa as a1e gen
eta1ly practiced ID Europea{ waIs. but tnelr
troubles begsn with. the inAg11atiou Of the
civil prefecture, and The renewal hsthes o. ina
noyA headquarters. a resfiAhoa for save.
ralhundred thousand cigas esne sfter al
their tobacco and cigars hae been takcn pos
ackeion Of by the military Next cams Z
reputation for 25o, 600 l,ntdi shifts. IA all
the etores Of Versailles the city authoranes
could find but 2ss, which vere delivered 10
1
The night f1osts Of the a6taneing aatumn
brought With them . requation for $3.50
bllnkets. All the dry gooda houses Of YER
sailles could not produce m:fe tEan aboat
eeveIty-fve. The Maite, consequently. VAS
ordered to send notes to al! the inhabitants,
in which thay were required e.rh to send three
blankets to the Maitio, 1t the same time
threatening them that, in cise OF refusal,
they would have forty men biltetedupon them. |
Ny cd American friend, II. Dsa*etes: for
Of ysr4aillea. csn testify 10 tbs, for h.. TOO,
lad to send hia three blankets TO the AAire, |
in slita Of bis AmtTican h,E. which he keeps
floating from his window. Tie French, to- tbs
great misfortune OF the Germ,n Quartetmss-
ter Department, hsve the folly Of u.ing more
they could not collect more than about 23s Of
the former article could tell you OF l gFeat
many more regulations OF things and arti:les
too numerous, and. At shs same time, too
riaienloas, to mention; but wil conten. my
aands Of c.nales,lcks. This Mas
poser for Monsitur Mire. Whence
| should he get them he inquired OF himself
and OF his byssanding City Fathers. ons OF
sns sns ' Mites % ear Which esd he eae:t u ii
It once lighting up his countensnee- Tho
| vet5 rext morning aAw the reputation for the
required candle~stieks asied N tho shape Of
tig cart load OF little bits Of square boards,
|
larSe enough to eontxin oandle- 'Icf so.1t
Lss ehandes.eTs," sud our triumphantls
srillps Feerchnaan to tho not little sstonfahed
auar,cfmaster, who this time eopfesscd him
sell cot = little nonplasse1
Ba. uos comes the funniest Of ill. Aftes
an these regulations have been nude, TIE
the ver.aili.ise, II dnd that you have fallen
short in the filing of onr requi'i.tons 70 the
amount Of 63o, 900 francs; hence, ehell out,
and it you have not got the money, 50 AMI
borrow it." That thus has caused great CON
pie, sou may well believe. But our PE1ssia1
Project, who IL. by the way, the son-tu-lar 9
: YOU Room, the Ptnssixn Minister OF War, dit
not content himself with drawing the money
out Of the public treasury, but went further
and csu5ei levies OF money to DO made upol
, ning]e iudividua1a and claeees. So. for in
: stance. 1t wAs learned that certain VeE
saillaise, who wes abeent, hnd in his ce1ltrs
choice LOT Of wines. The Maire vas crdere
to open tho cellars and furnish these winei
blos OF tho Princes and high German dign
. ta,ies. The 3isi1o refused 10 comply with th
orders by which single individual is pcke
J out to tear the weight Of requfsitlon- Sil
I he: It ahau not lend my cloak OF otlce t
cover up what would call legalized rol
berry,, .s.
!, Tie wood merchants drew also tha epeei
4 s4tention Of the Pte{cct upon themselvs
a Hc found upon the boHks Of tho prefecture
charge Of eone thirty thousand francs stau
: ing against the wood merchants Tor No3d so
I b. tho government Hs sent them notices
d come apd pay up their debt due to the Frent
: Government. They very NATURALLY refused, 4
/ two reatnns, the first OF which WIS, III
J. they Lad gwen for said debts their bills OF
% change, which Monsieur le Ptefe:s could \
10 produce, II said bills Of exchange we're neg
Q tiablo papers and therefore in ci1culatlo
Ii The secsnd 1eason for refusing Was, that, ev
'p il tho first did not exist, their payment
" debts due to the French Government Into t
n Prussian Treasury, would hardly be recoSniz
At as valid by the former, honco they would la
10 tory Illustrations Of the many high-hand
y 1,rocc edings, to as to conrincs you Of the n
o1 that the Germans veil underat&nd the mai
= inE Of tbs aasge. "Inter orn'a sils"t aqts.
q While engaged upon writing this, Ieal
g. that Thiers has again been to Pans, and !
in tu1utd after \ Low hours. still believe II
q negotiations are all the while being casEi
OF on, and that Ill reports and rnrno:a are p
pcse!v circulated to mfslesd both French !
u Germkn civilians. Il is not sln2st oszt:
= thst a"'asts an .rmis.sce Or peace be soon
" | carcd, the German Reacl'staE will meet N
ay CTR OF I.oris Quatorze, and, perchancs, tn
ha yoTv balls Of tho ..Jeu de,faume," tlls Fl
lts Gull Hall O. the French nation. With
% members Of Tho German Parliament, th
&c, will come to Versailles, At the ean1o time,
ies i,e.de OF the ltt1o kiugdcna and dactle-,
80 allies Of tho King of Prussia, The ,gr
n,- Ttiauion Ii al.eady being prepared fog tho
~ n ception Of His Msl.sty the king Of n,val
oe- I wonder w}1.ther Wagner ~i,h his Mssl
.le sanger will be In Lbs Kings train? II wo
IL. be a splendid chacce for him to sound il
er- shcssrer. whese, heretofore his music
ron seldom, II ever, tolerated.
!he So you see Versailles has good prospect
'cg becoming historically still more famous.
TO intention ls. evidently, to declare the unity
lsn the great German Empire in the very city
'Ws holder Of the rast greatness Of Franco: T,
Aud dam haA tcen already tranap1snted- aluI
or and Dresden will socn fullo1. The old '
70 rior chief Of thia camp aSgn can cay. not
I = that his headquarters a.e in the saddio,
mt; mt slso that hie whols government Is y bis e.
one te1ium, I" Polizeiehef," etc ,. that meet
H." eyo wherever you turn, plainly chow that
1e onIv tho great asny, but that Berlin and
AZ AZ whole of Germany ara governed from
ms tailltH-
for / juet learn Of teraral arrests ~ hayiug
sion I mas by the Prretian military Anthorit
ana Nupe, La Soural, the First Secretary OF 1t
= n Gon Of the lste French Embassy 1t De1iio,
1lch Who had tha rnisfortune Of boing ths Cal
jus. Of the declaration Of wzr, WAS arrested IN
lect house Of his mother, reading in Versailles
and was sent 10 the German fortfeas Mojen-
10 ! Mnn.. Do Renald, the son OF tho frat
y n'1a eurcur oe9etal Of ths Court Of Caas.
tore ana Aoas. n4AeI tue ,,I Soos.n y.
osn+ o1 the ne" fAtls ope3a riouee' tne io'
~. ior RECEIVING - letter 11oM
i'm. 1Mhet, Hno u IN fA1sa. Anu tne l~ttet
~. not learned tue seAeon *ny. estatsl Q,
vnn nave been aIeaoJ before Afsa.ea Hna sa
nn- Gt1hsng, among tnem tae eato1 o. Ae pos
tha hnp. oe'n9 sPahl1fn. VA iottoetH n.
,,nt tacne q tne aP1raso Aebatloo ~ ste1
,hs be MADE blsmafk aoqnansanee, Q. Hm' =,
kloo ChlucellOr 10 dinner, on the yaay eye O