New-York tribune., 1870-08-12
WAR TOPICS.

changes might now be appropriately repeated:
| WANTS A SITUATION, an Emperor who has
served in the highest and lowest capacities.
" Refers for his military character TO the En-
"perors of Austria and Russia. Engages TO
" show the way to any capital in Europe, Lon
| " don excepted. Wishes to have 1t understood
" that his civil qualifications are equal to his
" military. Has studied imperial action and
elocution under Talma Receives ambassa-
" dors with propriety. Speaks all languages
" (including the language of the llalles) with
" Huency Is good writer. Several OF his
papers have been inserted in the MonteW
" Understands perfectly all the ceremonials OF
% court, from coronation to an abdication:
" particularly expert in the latter. Sets up
f1tts to the taste of any nation. Can per-
form funerals il required. Deems it super
" Auous TO mention that any nation wishing
" TO employ him may be secure of the utmost
! "liberalty in the articles OF morality ana re-
| lipion. Has no followers. Pecuniary con-
sderatiOns no object. n. B.-llas no OBJ
election to going to Ireland.-July l. 1915"
The special correspondent Of the Courier
des Etats Unis telegraphs that DE Falllys
Corps 0he 5th) is intact at Metz, not having
been engaged in the battles of last week. az
the enemy falsely reported While MacMahon,
at Saverne has his own corps Ghe lsO ana
Donay's (the 7th) from BelfOrt, making TO-
oether 1000 men. This shows that the French
losses must have been more serious than they
have vet been reported. De Failly was not
engaged. but a considerable part OF his corps
n dispatch from the French headquarters says
five diyisions) Joined MacMahon during the
hattie. and its remnants are still with him, so
| If is only a fragment of the 5th corps that ia
now at Metz. The 7th was supposed to be
| safe at BelfoTt, or well on the way towards
| Nancy; vet it seems to have been drawn into
the disaster and out of two full corps and
five C) divisions MacMahOn has only $1,000
men left.
| Punch has an admirable cartoon of "A
" Vision on the Way The Emperor and the
little Prince, riding by night at the head of
vast army whose shadowy forms fill all the
! background of the picture, meet the apparl-
ton of the first Napoleon, who bars their
progress with a warning gesture.
| Marshal Bazaine has received orders g to
"use all his influence to prevent journalists
" from accompanying the French army into
Germany" He will not find this very seri-
GUS task. Thanks to Won Steinmetz and the
"companying the French army into Germany
seems to have been dissipated.
The proclamations and dispatches rs well
| as the personal actions of King William OF
| Prussia since the war began have been in
marked contrast to those of Napoleon. The
King left Berlin TO join his amy without
issuing single nflammatoTy appeal to the
people OF proclamation of his bloody designs
| The Emperor did not leave Paris until he had
cOncocted tnree-one to the army, one to the
navy, and one to the peOple-in each of which
| indscreet language betrayed his lack of conf
dence. On reaching his army Napoleon de-
voted week 10 enjoying its enthusiasm
| King William was not in his camp night be-
| fore he insisted that the advance should begin.
At his boys first victory the King telegTaphed il
to his wife, giving all the credit TO Our Fritz"
in terms that spoke the fathers pride and
stirred the sympathies of every fathers heart.
| Napoleon could not mention "LOuis's" little
| adventure at Saarbruch without adding, char
| latan like, an allusion to his selfish self. The
proclamation of King William to the French
people of The provinces occupied, which is
published this morning, is additional proof of
the superiority of the King to the Emperor.
1
is no effort to attract sympathy or TO eXpend
it. The PruSsan army, it is simply mtimated.
comes to fight French soldiers, not to perse-
cute and rob French citizens. 1t is that clear
and simple style which leaves no doubt Of its
| meaning its sincerity.
1t was the First Napoleon who, borrowing
the ideas of Paine, framed the celebrated mot
| which declared that There is but one step
"from the sublime to the ridiculous" 1t is the
Third Napoleon who, by his dispatches and
his conduct, illustrates 1t.
Napoleon III. will now clearly understand
what Fouche meant when he told his uncle
that the execution of tbs Duke dEnghien was
"more than crime, it was political fault;'
| or. as Taleyrand epigrammatically paraphrased
| Fouche. "It was worse than a crime, 1t was
"bunderr The French forgave Louis Napoleon
the crimes by which he established his Empire.
VIII they ever forgive the blunders by winch
he has jeopardized it
If the Paris MOnitcw is correct in its ro-
mantle story of Gen. DOuay's death, the man
WAS n maniac, not a hero, and committed NOS
n Gallant deed but-suicide. Instead of dong
his duty. and directing the retreat of his de-
feated column, he is said to have left his
fvinp troops 10 their fate, and deliberately
walked toward the advancing Prussians untii
shot down. Such resorts are those OF cowards'
not brave men, and bring only contempt upon
the poor and simple actor. Men who nave
seen war will read the story OF Douays
| "beroic deothn with no feeling akin to admir-