The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-20

or show them any sympathy. As significant
illustration, / record the fact that out of 130
French of1cers-l say off1cerS-who are con-
fined at Konigsberg, II cannot write their
names. Their special business of marching
at the head of civilization has evidently pre-
to write. ] copy this fact from an official
statement. As another Illustration of the
standard of, the school OF education of the
two armies. / will mention the extent Of the
correspondence Of some oi our troops in the
field. According to statement made by the
General Postofice Department, there are In
Berlin above 45 clerks working exclusively tor
field service. They receive from and send to
the army 200, 600 letters per day, and daily Tor
ward, besides, 10000 thalers, consisting In
great part of money letters of one or Two thai
-ers each. The mall matter for our soldiers is
daily sent from Berlin In two lots, containing
1888 mail-bags altogether. Since the mobillza-
ton of the army, 10000 600 corresponding
cards have been distributed. These cards are
about six inches by tour, OF stiff, good paper,
and have the blank Of the address printed In
front, while on tile back there is room for
short letter, which may be written in pencil OF
especially adapted for short communications.
On the whole, the field post service Is admfra-
bly, organized and conducted. 1t Is performed
by the active field postof1ces. Every one OF
the thirteen CORDS has general field post0H q
and four ield-p0st expeditions, viz: one for the
general and staff command Of the corps,.two
for the infantry divisions, and one TOR the re-
serve. Besides, there are special offices for
the headquarters of the King and tor the chief
commands OF the three great armies, TOR the
six cavalry divisions, and for the four landwehr
divisions. All the field postoffices, amounting
to seventy-one, and the whole 1perS0Rrel OF
about 1000 men, besides many hundred
wagons and horses, march. along with
their respective divisions, conducting their
post department. They receive the letters
from home for the soldiers, assort and pre-
pare the feld-post correspondence for dlstri!
bution,i which must take place In regular
order, beginning with the battalion and SO on
downward. They likewise receive and 'regu-
larly collect the letters which the soldiers
write home, and assort them for the different
routes they have to take. They keep up the
Communication between the troops in the
,enemy's land and home. There are field post.
offices along the military roads. Each OF the
three armies has one field postmaster for the
military roads, and two inspectors; they are
under the chief command of the military
roads, which has to secure the connection ol
an operating army with its base Of 0foperati0ns
and with the territory to which the latter be-
longs The chief command of the military
roads Is charged with providing the meane
and expenses of the transport of the mails
While no letter has been lost which was writ!
ten home by the soldiers in the field, 1t hap;
pened here and there that, on account OF the
inaccurateness of the address, a letter written
to the soldier has been lost or miscarried. AZ
a rule, it can be said that every letter which,
besides the name of the soldier, had the num-
Der of his regiment, has been delivered.