The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-09-08
ErCncIi Prisoners IN Berlin.

n correspondent OF the London News
gives a vivid account Of the reception Of
French prisoners coming by rall to Berlin.
10y a crowd OF so 900 people. The victors
seems to have been good natured, as
indeed they could well afford to be, and to
have EXTENDED to the prisoners q welcome
that le>embied a triumph more than the
prelude to imprisonment:
4 a tremendous but merry and good ma
tured yell received the red trousers OF ths
4 French infantry and the blue costume OF
4 the Iurces. In each carriage there was
one frussian Private of either of the two
regiments who Stormed the Geissburs
/ goats hllI) at WeiSsenburg, his helmet
adorned with green houghS. The French
were partly squatting~ but their guides in
yltcd them to stand mp to show their re-
! spect for the people of the capital. While
I they were slowly passing before me | ex-
amlned the expression Of their couuten-
/ ances. 1t was mostly that of a shy curios-
lty and OF embarrassment not unmlXed with
pride. OF course they could not under
stand what the people, IN an enormous con
/ fusion of voices, said to them, but the un:
| Spcahable comlca. grin OF the strcet>boys,
] sint!mg "G ;hc should rs Of each other, as
al events gave them a hint of it.
At last one successful cry got the upper,
hand, for which somebody had furnished
the boys with the necessary French, aud
which they addressed to evety turco or
zouaye after the manner Of Les lampions.
Lee chats les chats Where are TIE tom
cats? had become the iay0rte refrain of
the2jnveuile voices. 1t Was easily observa-
bic that with the boys the French, far
from being considered as naughty and hn>
initiated enemies, were extremely popular.
In few minutes the boundless hiliriiy of
The lads communicated itself to the French
themselves, thClr officers excepted, who
Ind themselves in the interior their first
class raiiway carriages. | left the young
ladies handling in refreshing drink to the
tawny fellows of southern France and Of
the Atlas. The prisoners got each a largo
BASIN ot 60at cIoa az rt- more than a quar>
Ter Of a pound of boiled beef, bread and
thIng-l tasted them MYSELF the very
best quality As eight hundred had been
expected instead OF five hundred, the
strongest appetite could be satisfied. Sup
per finished, the ladies' presented cores
pondcnco cards to the prisoners to write to
their friends, with q promise that they
should bc safely forwarded either to tho
French headquarters or directly from
DrnsSeIS 4 greater number of the French
than was expected could write; for those
that could not the others acted. 1t rem
dcled the French extremely at their ease
to hc waited upon by SO many pretty and
elegant girls who ali fiuentIy spoke :
French. VI hen the ladies' came to tuIco,
they salutcd him partly with Salem alei-
kun, and the astoniShed reply, "Aleikum
n AR was given with the hand on the ,
The German soldiers who accompanied
the prisoners we're enthusiastic in regard to
the battery with which the French had
fought, after the Geissbcrg had been
s,Ormcd. They nnintcd out fourteen men,
belonging to the Seventy fourth regiment
Of the line, who were the whole remainder ot
the regiment lett standing on tie battle ,
field, but who refused to surrender, and
who, deprived of ammunition, kept on
nEutiug at the pui", "f .h~ Layonot A
the lru>sans Did not like to Kill them, ;
they rushed at last in a body upon them,
and threw them down wrestling. Nous
av0ns chelChc la mort, said one of them
general don't VOLTA lc chcval " The train
had brought the horse Of Gen. Douay.
Ask him." said Prnssian private, .
why he thinks they were overpowcred. "
That vas a SagaclQus question, and the
reply Of the intelligent aud well bred :
frenchman told the tale Of the whole war
1t was, we were too weak in number; we
had (on an advanced post neither cavalry
nor sufficient artillery with US, aud finally
we had no ammunition"
That is the thing" said the Prussian:
TASK him how many cartridges he had
got"
Eighty" was the Frcnchman's reply.
Now tell him that |, who had ouly
sixty, had forty five left when | took him; :
and tell him that the strength of an army
consists Of non and Of cartridges, aud that
firing away eighty cartridges is ust the >
same as losing a man. They did very ser ,
ioas damage to us at the beginning
regiment lost Coo men; but at the expense
OF such a number Of shots that we knew
they were more weakened than we were"
When this was explained to the French~
man he said; Il knew it, too, but too late
We never before fought against such
troops "a yours We must no longer skirA
mish as We have been accustomed to-
What Napoleon Coycts.
s writer in the Boston Advertiser, in dis RI
cussing the objects and probable result Of the