New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-22

Whvn he continued not In sufficient force 70
oppose them minute They will attack us with about
200 600 men from Metz, and are only about
CO. 600 AZ Marohenoir and Pontou" speaking 10
ocer this morning who had just been appointed officer of
ordnance under his father Lussac the
famous savant GayL ussac This General is take the
command OF the Sixteenth Corps instead OF Gen. Pour
Get who is deprived" Why " deprived" nobody knows,
Generals deprived" nowadays as easily as they
are constituted. Nevertheless the present instance,
IL was pity Gen. Pourcet appointed TO the
command He is too Old can remember him old
man ten years ago. Now he is obliged 10 put on
his spectacles fumbllngly, whenever orderly
brings him any paper 70 east his eye over;
and In short he ought 10 have been superseded long
ago. As for Gen. DAurelles II would that he has
been OVERRIDING the discipline business judging from the
feeling that exists toward him In the army When was
at salbris there military executions almost
day. An officer assured that In one month he had
had 1l3 shot and that he firmly believed in the first
battle some OF his would shoot him II they got
chance. There II is. The army certainly did want dis
ciplning but the Establishments which have been in
ficted have called out vice among the men, that OF
arevengeful spirit against their chiefs
One thing scertan and plainly visible every day
the officers OF the army and ALL dislike and despse the
Republic exceedingly As for the general officers, 1t was
omission the part Of the people in power to-day not
to change every officer from general Of division up
ward iuclusively-that H. IL they wanted to be well
served. do not TO say that these officers Will not
fght, that they would leave their country to perish
because IL is governed by Republic but their position
and their feeling not coniormabe.
met here to-day NJ s. S. Lee of Baltimore and Col
Elphinstone who belong the AngloAmerican Society
for the Relief OF the Sick and Wounded. They have
come here from Tours 10 what could be done. They
were very much delighted at the preparation at the
chateau for the wounded
NOV 81 have been to Marchenoir, where certainly
the French forces are in despicable numbers The
headquarters OF the sixteenth Corps still at Marchcn-
DIR but the troops eoheIon by division from the
Forest Marchenoir TO Mer where the headquarters OF
the Fifteenth Corps The Seventeenth Corps s in pro-
OF formation. The description and service OF the
army certainly very different from what existed In
MaeMabOn's Scarcely had left Blos before we fell
In with outposts. We stopped our way there
ten times at least and return this night there
seemed no end the 'Qui wives ~ and yet were
the rear OF the army told this vedette and outpost
service Is being done perfectly well in front.
Marchenoir is miserable little place The forest in
front of It, abouour miles distant is the extreme left of
the army which is supported onhe Loire at Mer. The
position is thought good The spy mania has broken out
again at Marcbenor. There lie Provost there, COM
mendary OF Guidannerie, who is a very fend An en-
ploye Of the auxiliary transports who was in plain
clothes was taken up by ignorant soldiers in some
part the camp and brought TO this Provost, who not
whstandng the mans proving by his papers that he was
employed by Government and commissioned. kept him
prison three days This Provost has had three or four
people shot very slender proof and without form OF
management II Is sckening 20 hear OF the military exc
cutions which take place Yesterday poor Sergeant
Major shot for having taken hen. He bore other
wise good character and his SUPPLEMENTARY arrived
few hours after his execution