Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-10-20
Carrier Pigeons in ihe Spy service.

One OF our French correspondents writes
The last discovery is that the mesrs ,,f
communication between spies and i.leir
directing bureau are carrier-pigeCns One
of these birds was picked up in the town
81 Gisors SHIRT time ago. The poor
thing had fallen from exhaustion. and he
ng very handsome, WAS cared for bv his
captor, who, on handling him, found be
meath one wing an inscri ption in German
characters, traced with indelibie ink on
the feathers, which. when translated into
French reao: 'CHiL 100 EMP. RET.
me pigeon vas retained, and the autheri-
ties have put a 81, p TO those matches which
were formerly so common between Belgium
and the southern provinces of France.
When We bear in mind that there are ten
thousand of these trained birds which could
convey intelligence in six hours from Paris
10 any of the frontier towns of BELGIUM.
there can be little surprise felt at the
French prohibition OF the sport.
In America, few persons have any idea
OF the fervor with which these pigeon reces
are kept up. Contests from the extreme
southern provinces to Brussels, in ,shicb
one thousand or fifteen hundred pigeons
are sent of, and IN which the first prize il
a service of plate given by the Belgium
hiDgs are not UNCOMMON; aud minor racs S
OF three hundred or four hundred miles are
of daily occurrence during the season. 81
although partridge shooting is forbidden
IA the department Of he Seine. il is per-
fectly admissible to exsernlnsate any of the
feathsred tribe which bear the slightest
resemble, &c 10 q pigeon, belt wild or tame
According 10 the French law, the shoot
ing season Is regularly opened by an edict.
signed op the Prefsct, who makes II coin
side wish the grthesing in OF the crops; bat
although It was published as usual this
year. an aftsrthsugbt told Mr. Chevreau
That 1t would be better to save al the pow
der Tor toe PrEsslsrs, and second decree
suspended the execution OF the first until
France vas freed from her enemies: where
upor va.y wrote unaerthe heasIinis Of The
original proclamation, which was. Ourer-
,Us de- ChGsSe, tie words, A,sr Prussiens.
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Lo1ALTY OF THE f'RENcfI PEAsA srrs..
Herr Waehenhusen. writing from Balap,
near Sedsn, on the 5 fiast 10 The Cologne
Gazette, ssys: The fury Of some t,eaSanss
gcss SO far That sfser twenty of them Iad
yesterday been led bcnnI through The
streets our soldiers were lred at this after
noon from q house In keInIilv And vet
to pretty village of BazeilIes, now bum
70 asnes. IS . fsarfnI Warning. In spite ii
the hatefui. civilization 4 or which the pro-
vinces are Indebted to the second empire,
officers assured me that on entering the
peasants houses they were met by cries OF
'Loiie lire the EnDsrof = aud women il
their pTesence kissed the Emperor's ike.
ness. The Enumbsr of these adrerents if
Is difficult to judge, where the prudent
Conceal their opinions and the fhonehtiess
express them with musket shots. The
mobiles, ho are every ehere organized, are
treated .by onE, soldiers Is regular troops.
bus tbe.peasslats who Ere from the win
dovs sre. generally shot without Ceremony.
IS halters are wanting. M,ny Of them ap-
pear melted to such revenge through see
ing themselves brought. to beegary. and
patriotism has therefore nothing to do with
it. The officers in Sedan carefully avoid
Napoieons name. p =