Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-22


fire" with the army was a dramatic
mistake which the Empress, we be-
| lieve, will take care shall not soon be
repeated, and the best thing that the
Prince can do with those telI-tale bull
| lets picked up on the field of Saar-
bruck is to throw them away.
1t appears that all the correspon-
dents of the London journals on the
ground agree in the statement that
| the French soldiers swent into the
battles before Metz in a starving con-
| dition. If this be true the swindlers
in the French: .:Commissariat Depart
ment have, we may say, upset the
empire.
The field for the French in their
war against Germany, the ap-
proach to the seacoast, the river
mouths and inlets of the North Ger
man Confederation are mostly inac-
cessible to the heavy draught irOnclads
OF the French navy, and against gun
boats on all the threatened German
rivers it appears they are already
| provided by lines of bulks and by
torpedoes, with all the latest improve
ments. Unless, therefore, the French
iron-clad squadron can bring that of
Prussia to an engagement it will have
but small opportunities for glory in
this war.
TERRIBLE STORY.
1t appears that three companies of
the Tenth Regiment were returning
from the exercising ground in the
Burgerwerder, and whilst crossing the
Oder in the ferry boat, another barge
| full of soldiers ran against it with
great force, precipitating the men into
the river, where the current was run
ming with great violence. The men
in the ferry-bOat, in endeavoring to
save their comrades, rushed to one
side, by which it was capsized, and in
a moment the whole of the five hun
dred soldiers were immersed and
seen struggling for their existence.
Though they were all good swim
mers, they were so impeded by their
arms and accoutrements-bein in
heavy marching order-and so con-
fined by want of space for free action,
that great many sank to rise no
more. Fortunately, the crew of a
timber barge lying near the spot, with
great presence of mind, launched a
number of spars and boards, which
many of the soldiers were able to
grasp, and though carried down a
long way by the current, they ulti-
mately effected landing. More than
twenty of the men were dragged out
| of the water In a senseless condition;
but as many of the army surgeons
had fastened down to the scene of
accident, they were all restored to
| life, with the exception of three. The
swimming master of the regiment was
occupied for long time afterward in
diving and bringing up number of
muskets, helmets, knapsacks and
other military pharaphernalia.
RAILROADS as ENGINES OF WAR.
In Germany the cars intended for
the transportation of troops, horses
and batteries are provided with from
three to four axles and six to eight
wheels. Each axle is calculated to
bear the weight of from twenty to
twenty-five men or two or three fully
equipped horses. One field piece or
one army wagon is reckoned for every
two axles, or two pieces or wagons to
every three aXles. For the heavier
trains two locomotives are employed,
both pulling, or one pulling and the
other pushing. Such double train,
say the military journals of Prussia,
with thirty-eight to forty cars, will
convey a battalion of one thousand
men along with their ammunition
wagons and the horses of the officers.
One OF from thirty to thirty-two cars
will transport either a battery of field
artillery of six guns and two hOwitz-
ers, leaving half of the ammunition
wagons and the two leaders of every
six-horse team to follow on a single
train, or squadron of one hundred
and fifty mounted men and one hum
dred and sixty horses, the riders
accompanying their animals. A
rocket battery requires only a single
train and one locomotive. Upon
carefully calculating weights, time
and distances, the conclusion is that a
division Of ten thousand men-eight
battalions, two regiments of cavalry
and two batteries on the German
| plan-might be carried one hundred
| and twenty miles on long summers
day, a double track and turnouts ex-
isting, and all things in good order.
This, at least, is about the rate at
i which the Prussians have moved
toward the Rhine, only that by pc
culiar effort they managed to get
nearly twenty thousand men through
on each railroad line in the twenty
four hours. Thus, in the lapse of ten
days, they presented two hundred
thousand men on their frontier, in adj
dition to such troops as they had al
ready in station near the scene.
Thus, as time ard distance are
abridged by science, so is the contin-
4 txoDoo of xxrroncr oud onDroocio,, Sborf
eDed in the same proportion. Light
ming gives the order, steam. conveys
the force, mechanism and chemistry
strike the blow. Armies, smitten as
il were by the blazing sword of the
archangel, melt away in a fash of
light and O wreath Of smoke, and EN-
pires founded upon force are swept
from the scene. Those only which are
rooted in the hearts of men, and es-
tablished on the eternal rock of truth,
fsurvive. I'D
1 EXCITEMENT IN IRELAND.
A dispatch from Cork, Ireland,
states that eight or ten thousand peo-
pie assembled at Treaty Stone, LINER
lex, yesterday, to express sympathy
with France. A brass band attended,
and profuse display of banners was
made bearing various Inscriptions, one
being, "God save France and our
Holy Father, the Pope" Resolutions
were passed expressing the hope that
France would come Victorious out of
the struggle, and declaring that the
splendid example of France, whose
people surround the flag in irrefraga-
bic unity, should admonish Irishmen
to sink their differences and unite for
the interests of Ireland in q spirit of
| patriotic devotion. A speaker who
I ventured TO say the Irish would de-
fend Queen Victoria evoked great up
roar and indignant denials. Another
defied England TO go to war, and de-
clared her forces were shattered and
disorganized. After the meeting two
thousand persons paraded IN military
! order, preceded by band, and carry
! ing an enormous French tri-color,
The police did not interfere at all.
In a Belfast telegram we read /:
Some disturbances occurred In Derry
! on Saturday night and Sunday morn
ing. The working-men had an lexcur-
, sion, and on their return at ten O'clock
Saturday night, their band played ma
. tlonal airs, and crowd which fol-
| lowed, cried, $40 hell with King
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