, 1870-09-07

md possibly tho tremhl8 of the a1uuety 81
3edan could havn been noticed there. NAmn1
It ,tl.e ;Meuse With tho pleasant Lambre. in
he heart Of .the coal, fnrnAce, 'Elass, and
1ua.1y county, the Pittsburgh region
It Europe. The town is~ presided
Dret- BY a powerful fortress fEecfed
With English subsidy: heights overlook w.
RboEe Kzmur; four bridges csosa the r!varai |
strong, blackeped. cliff scanezy- Is onanipres-
ent, with mu1kF white rivers spreading up the |
E1tts. NauauB Is less thin two houIs' raul fado
from Drossels.
Americans who remember the scenes in tho
rear Of our own baktIe-aelds after defeats,
need not labor to construct, In this wad coun- |
try Of Belgium, the roadside hnd villsge
scenes where the differing dlalecta Of Bel
grum-Wa11oou. Flammand, bastard French.
low Dutch, aud thick Ger1uAn---uniagled in the
tie 1ear tie tall. pale Poles and 3olares, the
small, lean, excited French. the stolialy-
rejoicing nrAndenburger Prutsians: while
arms in 4aiuge, and limping men, and ghastlf
Or EIimy fseea, moved On painfully past the
huts Of wood-cutsars, brushmakors, and
led Hohena and Germans of Parts, with bit
te1ness 1T their hearts; tho frantic and lg-
norAnt French peasa1try chafter1ng Ake
luEatic nsEpies ;-these were tho soeues
across that jagged frontier, under the oaks,
DT tue 112-kHQE. 4luuE k4t pp<4A4tse as4!& A%E4-
courses. These were at seenes for tho
apotheosis Of reign begun BY perjury, nu1-
der, treason, and usuzpation. Here might
Napoleon aud Eugenie, like new-b{oWn
Touchstone AMI Rosaltnd, cay to each other,
had they happily escaped ACROSS tic frontier;
1s 5ess ,ns y ~ Fl s slst xea: q s more
fool L: wncu Was at h"ns I was y better
place: hut travellers must be content"
Metz, where nszaine, the French leader
against Juarez in MEXICO, was cooped up like
Ahen. while Macafahou was making his will 1t
Sedan, Ia about ~ large city a. Providence,
II, l., in population, numbering about sixty
thousand. The 3losel1e River, tributary to
tile Rhine, flows through It. receiving, close
By, Ittle tributary csiled tho Seille. and to-
getheT they mako a flowing stream, across
ranle OF he,nE 1amluod and made to hood Ill
The .nriruue. The Sel}e irayeEees that side
nj the city pea1cst Germany, answering for
ditch IL slv stone auu brick ramparts;
while the 01ospllc, in several arms Of unequal
islands Of houses and dry bars. Tho outline
oI the place il thus ali rampant and
angie. grass.walk and eluice, without which
arc still other ard stronger detaehed forts,
impinging upon the city. The deep arm Of
the Moee1le is crossed by half dozen biidges,
Al it flows through the town, and broad stone
E4
planted with shade trees, li1s the river. Here
everybody walks among lie merry Gales; and,
where tho Moselle quits the city, the quays
lead to tho great artllloty arsenal; where ii
enie1s, there is beautiful public satuen and
square, called the Eaplanade, slosucd with
a1,s.ic-t1ccs, and fruit stands. Midway be
thse" tl,s ouavs! sptd aod at a tie ' esat centre @
of The city, is the Cathedral. one
of the secondary. edificea Of Frame,
in style dnrid Gothic, crosa-shapej. without
cross. 373 feet high, which is also its length.
This church was erected nearly coutampora-
neously With the discovery OF Auersca, aud
it is the architectural gem Of tho city, crowded
with rirpaclce, fFetted work. two tiers Of
1earing brttresees, and Illuminated by rich
in America i would BE- msrge!. C.oso
round this cathedral, Which has been dessehed
from the old houses that used to hem it in,
arc tho City Hall, the Cammandant'a Head
quarters, tho public markets, the Protestant
Temrlo, and tho Mont do, liete. or state
lis Uncle, and your s'Encae in Franco il tho
government. The streets OF Metz are
in pIaccs crooked, steep, and winding !;
but the whole town has been re-
arranged and remodelled during the
last century, and there are consequently few
1 a
| ish population it il. after Paris, the most
[ popllous jewish city iu France. The pr,aei-
pal gate. leading straight TO Ss.rioua IN prus,
| sia, & days walk, is called the s' German 4
/ Gate. There arc eight Eatcs In al. leading
| to tie e7sceiMtc and outer forts command the
| IN Metz, and review. Six forts, Hi1 lune:tes
an ea,theu re1oubt. and several subtcrraneaI
| WAYS, constitute, with the se1riod line OF it,
tersallation, the forttfications Of tho strouges
town in Francc,- defended By the cUnt
bined genius Of yaMban and Conlonsa.sue
corps in modern armies, and the intro
tlueer Of tho system Of carrying
constraetetl in Franco tIirt1!three new for
trcsses, repaired three hundred old ouez, con
ducted ifty.three sieses, aud waa present .
life il very simple and stirring, aud Net;
locke like his tomb, Ono can pass pleasan
three days here, and tho view from high point
in the town is very rare, Of rich plain coun
tEy, ereckled with villages. grain, vineyards
TbionSlllc. Metz claims the lonnr OF ueye
having been c8ptured since il WAS fortified
When tho allies left France, they had tn cfos
tho Moselio on q temporary bridge otcetoi ou1
aide tho walls By the jealous citizens,
Nancy, in the rear Of both alotz and Stra.
+ bourg, Is city with the population OF Ne
Haven, fifty Thousand, and it yielded vithor
| resistance to the Prussiand. It il prettil
built, with vide streets, several CONSECUTIVE
: squares, some bits Of old architecture. mud
, rnmbeF of public edifces. It is a sort c
tourg, its great neighbor across the Yosst
! Mountains, has not far from eighty thousan
; people, much moro pronounced character, III
) more age. interest, luxintness. and Crime.
! will speak OF Strasbyurg in ancthsr letter.
} il there ia any parallel TO the fall Of Nap
, Iron Ill, it Is afforded 1T Nancy by tue IA
!, Of Charles the Bold, who rushed into recl
) less war With the Duke Of Lorraine, aud III
defeated, and his army nearly ai1nihi1atad, |
t the SHiss and Gcrnlla fevisa OF Lorrsi1
? They found tho l,o1y Of Charles in hors
4 pond, where the present railway station,
Nancy asanda- and with his downfall e1pies
!, tie fenda1 sFsteu, as with Bouapa1te's fat
0 it IL to be hoped, wilt expira tha raoderu IN
} periai system. The last Duko OF Lofrsl1
9 ass also King Of Poland. and only ten yea
9 before our Decla ration OF Independence d
6 Nancy and Lorraine become Frenc!l.
!. NOTES on sAPoLgnx's FALL.
i One Of the 1noet extraordinary prediction
q erer uttered concerning the fate OF Napolet
Q III. WAS written BY the acute and iarGe-mindt
o | Dc Tocqucrillc, d sictim OF the coup detaf:
d Itself ~ che Of the Treatest crimes recorded
history, nevertheless It will last for some 1en9
a Of time unless prec!rttascs itsef TO essructio
= s.cns, hare effacet Id the public mad the 'lrei
= Of socialism change requiring time. God Kta
TINT, In the Interval, |: 1uay not end IN mann
b exunragant foreign enterprise. We know It h
: the law oi thetf origin. This goyernHset
Il &c an q xe sra:e pepa' spa
and even It's essence, 70 the recollection OF MI
+ tary elnIr-fa.S government utoe a.ats ,1nttl|
n sl,ssr+ ;afasssee aareaa: il etatr s"ris 70 .es
i. War .rouH astar.dty Dc its dtath but !s dcn
i trottld, perhaps, enst fear.
= - The author Of >'Domocraer in America
:: never spoke with mere peutecostal tong
Y. than in that letter, wri.ten but short tit
= after the coup Fetat. There spoke the il
- pefial Solomon. How much hetteE Eul
With this s,atesmanilke pen than the tricl
unsouud, shallow. Louis Bonapartc.
~ Perhaps the most Awful thonShs II se!as.
e to this defeat il. that Paris, with all its int
y lect and agonizing interest, docs not kns
q il, Dcspotism has pat out the lamps
20 the Journals. The Sreat city Of tEo nill1o
se Of souls /. al dark; the 1mpeEial Gorel
y mcnt, ~ a reporter died a liar and boast
II A. it had Hired, flooding the world ~1sh fal
= Helgium-ittlc Belgium. with hcr one hnr
= red and eighty daily newspa apers, pub!lahed
r. N area little greater than that Of Termo
y What stall postezity, to which this despoe /
;. 70 often appealed. ear about An army With
~ : uar-cuErespondent- the ilila full Of iourn
?e is,s, AID Paris unconscious OF her agony #
u Fr;t4y 70 Sundsr7 With 1u it's faults, v
: : would qra up newspaper light for the til
g. .. night Of despo:isu. GATH
" The Illinois Republican PsatEoE!
al fsuns ths Sprtnafel JasssHaL
It. The Chicago Journal and hepElbticnn
e, l.boring under very palpable' 1nisappreh
n ! ~ $x,4 4h1 nj