New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-30

on the route company troops OF the line was drawn
up the station Marselles waiting transpof taton'
occasionally the tents of regiments encamp
ment by the roadside At AvgnOn passed an immense
transportation train filed with eyies OF che oaroo
Mobile moving south They were packed into boxcafs
like sheep and the euva reminded one Of the pungency
OF a cattletra the Erie. They were Tn high Hp''~
hurrahng. shouting the Marseillase, ana curshe ''
Prussians Their hlarity was largely due 10 BOoo 'oci
and a little perhaps with good 10 the TACT tna'
they were moving In the safest OF all dlrecuoS Wv"
rendezvous being somewhere the southern rontier
replace theireguar troops sent to the front
Ucre I'm Lyons there IL mstaking the fact OF "h'
This morning carly came dispatch announcing ,, "
Emperor had crossed the Moselle, taking the onon'
apparentIy and that attack OF the enemy nau poH
rcpused with great loss Since then there mas Dceh IN
omnous silence but the city IL fun OF enthusiasm an"
unroar IL ia the grand ete OF the Napoeons ana Also
by an odd association of Notre Dame The shops are an
closed the whole population In the streets levy aef
levy of the Garde Mobile IS coming In from the country
and passing 10 the several rendezvous, and the Mar
seillase Is screamed In dozen pGOis, 70 the accompa
niment of drum and buge Unluckily the French can I
sing. They have good lungs, but no sense OF time or
tune Last night I looked into the Casino,
where a fat cantatrice, with youminous bust =,
and vehement gesticulation, leading an i'm
mense assemblage through the Marseiaise No one
could doubt the hearness with which it was DONE but
the dscord would have been absurd II it had not been
what significant. 1t this very lack OF common
consent and uniform movement which left the French 10
be taken detail clipped by sections at WeissenDrg
and FOrbach. Far more than the Germans, WHO hi'o
the instinct Of harmony and rythm, the French heeu con
summate generalship TO lead them TO victory. NO one
can watch the behavior of the people or read the papers
here without recalling the first dark days OF our own
war There is the same stupefacton and bewiiderment
the same keen sense OF shame, the same uncertainty
for the future, and the same clear conVleuon sI"'
the only way through the trouble Is to hght through Inc
most exasperating Of all Is the sense OF heplessh
dependence the consciousness that the SAFETY Oh INC
nation does not depend on the good VIII and strength Vi
the nation but on the capabiity OF the men In
For a week the cry of all France mas Deen Ior seAo
Let the Emperor return Let professional soie I'm
command! The appointment OF Bazalhe mas poeL "
ceved with the same blind satisfaction as that OF nc
Clellan after Bull Run, when we all imagined tla'
scientific soldier was to supersede the military rule OF
Mr. Lincoln, the War Department, and THE TRIBUNE
Yet Bazaine IA scarcely better known than MeCeHah'
and only known through his connection with the ois
astrous campaign In Mexico.
So too there has been developed intense interest In
the sentiments Of foreign atoms. week oil France
said proudly Hands of. This is our affair" To-day
the press Is discussing it's foreign relations with frank
anxiety. In case OF further disaster VIII England
Russia Austria Italy be for against usf III we are
whipped at Metz will they suffer Prussia to enter Fars
and abaso Since Waterloo there mas never Deeh
such lowlness Of heart and such yearning Tor broth
ono thing When this business is over there viii be
memory of the attitude of England during the last fort
night which will last at least long as the Alabama
claims The only consolation the people indulge In Is
the splendid behavior of the troops in action Ihs ac-
knowledged with cordial praise all over Europe ana te
praise Is balm to the hearts Of France. How
strange Two weeks ago any reflection the courage
OF the army would have been received with derision
To-day, foreign eulogies are received with re-
lief and gratitude go" the cry s have not been
whipped, but our generals" When 1t Is remembered
that I'D to the fatal 9TH the Emperor personally in
command of all the forces the future significance OF TINS
feeling will be manifest. Here, at Marsees, there
faction with the Government This morning, while ask
ing the waiter in the breakfast Of the Hotel Coet
fear in rather bad French-fOr the latest war news
an old lady, Just come in with her breviary under her
arm from her morning devotOns at church said to me
Vous renee de lotn-you come from far, Monsieur 7"
Yes Madame, I come from America" "Ah
you have quiet country, yOul But
We we are In misery. What abyss We give all, all,
all Not for our homes, not for France but for En-
peror love" " Have you friends in the army,
MadameP "Ihad," she said, "a nephew" "Do you
hear from hint" "Heis dead-dead at Weissenburg,
with MacMahon." "And you do not love your En-
perori" ave detest him. Don't wei" she cried TO the
waiter And the waiter said he did Out of native po
leness perhaps for it appeared that the old lady
the Countess OF st. Trver and the nephew she named
Colonel the army whose brother the other day
eminent member Of the olivier Cabinet There not
many so outspoken but all France has thought for week
past more profoundly than has been her won't for long
years.