Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-09-10
WAR SPLINTERS.

The name of General Mcmahon will be
held in respect for the unfnching bravery
with which he fought the enemy to the
last, and when no more could be done
sacrificed his life for cause he was una
Bile to save.
1t must be very consoling to Napoleon
to have good cook in his captivity. The
Queen of Prussia having sent him her
chef de cuisine what more can he ask for
unless it be that he have good boot
black?
OF the surrender correspondent says:
"On Saturday the whole force laid
down their arms. Not a few soldiers in
their rage broke rather than give up their
arms, and the streets were Uttered with
fragments of all kinds of weapons broken:
swords, rifles, pistols, lances, helmets,
cuirasses, even mitrailleuers covered the
ground; and in one place where the
Meuse runs through the town the heaps of
such fragments choked the stream and
rose above the surface. The mud of the
streets was black with gunpowder. The
horses had been tied to the houses and
gun-c carriages, but nobody remembered
to feed or water them, and in the frenzy
of hunger and thirst they broke loose and
ran wild through the town. Whoever
liked might have horse-evcn officers
horses which were private property-for
the trouble Of catching Them
Dr. Russell gives an account of an i'll
terview between Bismarck and Napoleon
near Sedan. He says: There happened
to be near the place where the interview
occurred, a few hundred yards outside the
sdualid town of Donchery, the humble
cottage of handloom weaver, of whom
there are numbers around Sedan. Count
Bismarck led the way and entered it. The
room was not inviting. The great Count
walked up the stairs. The apartmentwas
filled by the handloom and appliances of
the weaver, so he descended and found
the Emperor sitting on a stone outside.
Two chairs were brought out OF the cot
tagc. The Emperor sat in one, Count
Bismarck took the other and placed it on
his Maiesty's left hand side. The officers
in attendance on their fallen master
lay at some distance away upon small
plot of grass in front of the cottage.
The conversation was a strange one,
and as Count Bismarck has repeated it
freely or the principal parts OF it, no doubt
it will be soon known and remain forever
as historic.
The great point to be gained was peace,
but, as far as his Imperial Majesty was
concerned, no assurance of it could be OBJ
| tanned by count Bismarck. The emperor
stated that he had no power, could not
negotiate peace, could not give orders
to the army or Marshal Bazaine. The
Empress was Regent of France, and on
| negotiations. SO Count Bismarck there
! upon remarked that it was of no avail to
hold any further conversation on political
matters with his Majesty, and that ii
would be of no use to see the King.
The Emperor desired to see the King in
person, but Count Bismarck declared ii
was not possible to accede to his Majesty's
wishes until the Capitulation had been
signed. Then as the conversation was
becoming rather dangerous, and as the
situation was becoming difficult on both
sides, we ended it. The interview ter
minated. Count Bismarck went to see
the King, the Emperor withdrew to con-
suit his officers.