New-York tribune., 1870-10-08
WAR NOTES.

hospitals.
On some of the freight cars which went to
the front loaded with German soldiers was inscribed the
sentence: " Not to be kept dry"
One of the captured French mitrailleuses has
been placed in the Industrial Exhibition at Cassel. 1t
ought to be labeled "PEBpie e'est Ia pair"
The Germans are just now saying to each
other Napoeon's humiliation is wilhelmsh0he" Will
helmshGhe in German signifies Williams exaltation, or
Williams hight.
The German soldiers have joke about the
battle Of MarsaTour They call it the battle OF "1ar'eh
RetOur." II MorSch RetOur anything ID means
march backward.
French postmasters in the conquered prov
inces will be allowed TO retain their positions II they
will sign agreement promising fidelity and subordina-
tiOn 10 the head of the North German Mail Department
The German soldiers have given the fusil-
lading Of the French new name. They call it pea
Rain" because they say that the shot comes a. thick
and fast peas thrown by the handful into your faee,
and they wonder that any ever get through II al'e
The especial literature of the war is already
beginning to he forth by the German press Prof
Felix Dahn has written and printed "Kriegsrecht" the
Law Of War; and Julius Springer has volume on
"Alsace AID Lorraine considered as German Provnces
The reply of Abd-el-Kadcr to Count Bis
marck declining the position offered him in the Prussian
army and which was published in the Ganois OF Paris
is formally declared To bea forgery count BISMARCK ho1
having solicited the services OF tie Desert Chief
The first five mitrailleuses taken by the Ger
captured by two Hessian companies, the ninth n and
eleventh of the SID Regiment at the battle OF Worth
The battery was st9Ted % Py e and odh b as made
Captain Oh the battlefield
As an instance of German forethought, we
early the latter part Of August the Royal
Printing Office at Berlin had finished and forwarded 10
the front 5000 copies OF the specified plans OF the forth
cations of Paris. They contained all the latest add-
ton and also the improvements which were in course
OF construction.
i, &C
from KGnghcre that the captured French officers strut
about the streets haughty conqucrors and that ID
is really humiliang To behold the ciyities which are
showered on them by the honest country people Wien
stops to reflect how the Germans would probably
have been treated by tcn, had they arrived yic;ora
instead Of being vanquished.
When the loud shouts of the German SOL
dlers proclaimed the German victory at Sedan, Prus
soldier Of hercuean frame, who lay the ground
morally wounded and unconscious, suddenly revived,
and, compTehending the situation by superluhan eN
comrades aud then suddenly sank down again. falling
oyer The body Of a dead Lrer hman with the last life
Lately an Englshman who served with the
Germans in the campaign OF 1866, made friendly call
Gen. Won Motke at that veterans headquarters. In the
Of the conversation he remarked in sympahzng
tone Tr campaign viii probably inure your health,
the cy and his usual half SMILE 1--WE stand any
thing a. long as We are young You know" Tue General
While a Hessian and Prussian regiment
were marching through the towns of Faulruemont and
Rcmy, in Lo rainc soldiers OF one or both tho
regiments appropriated various articles that lay in their
way, without, however, doug any personal violence.
Reports of tie occurrence being brought 70 headquarters,
Won bslnafch or rlCred minute investigation OF lho
affair and IN addition To tie usual penalties for such
marauders.
The cODgratuatory dispatches from Cincin-
natl and Philadelphia Published in fun in the Ger
man papers, which also acknowledge similar communi-
cations from the Germans of Ths; from the North Ger
man Embassy and the ,ruan inhabitants OF Brussels;
the German auxiliary corps for wounded soldiers at Ber
lin; thousand Berlin children assembled inter dejs
Linden a popular meeting at Poren; the magistrates
itans of C0penck; the town Of Freienwadc in Pome-
raua patriots in Jarocn Poscn the German sei-cap.
tans at Portsmouth the merchants and corporation OF
K0ngsberg; the merchants OF stetni the inhabitant.
from the North German ships lying at Riga.
Mazzini, according to Italian papers, has since
his Imprisonment only been allowed the Of pen
ink, and paper and that only TO write TO his sister
few lines to say he was we'll Newspapers and
books are denied him, and none OF his friends are
allowed to see him He is now 65, his health has
thread, depending much on the tender Of his
friends. Two ladies had asked TO be imprisoned with
him watch him. and ready TO consent 10 tse
strict imprisonment he undergoes AT first hopes
held Out To one Of these ladies', sgnOra CarOtta
Benettini but she has since been refused.
The passion with which the French soldier re-
spects his flag is yiydly revealed in story Of Sedan.
At the moment Of captuation, captain, lieutenant
OF Zouaves, and brave sergeant resolved that the hS
which had been left in their keeping should fall into
the hands OF the Prusans So they took the emblem II
France to pieces conceang the banner under his
uniform the other putting the balls into his pocket and
the third keeping the eagles Alter the captuatOn t
was agreed that all the relics should be confded 10 tho
OF the sergeant who, being an Asacan could speak
German. The brave sergeant then managed to escape
from his captors TO don the guie Of peasant and 10
obtain basket, IN which he placed the memorials Of
French glory He then covered the precious relics vita
peasants and, thus guarded against detection he man
aged to pass through all the German lines and TO reach
Paris.
The story of an old French officer coming
to redeem relic of his martial days thus told bya
correspondent writing from vaux:
We had iust finished dinner aud were smoking me
post prandsl cigar when an orderly came Ia 70 ~ na az
NduI. Monsieur le Comlnandant sara ne, du III t
s,eurs les ofeers beg OF you you 70 SeW Nc moments vii
not deain him long" chair was ~, %ri Ia
you perceive an old soldier Of France, althouRh am
sorry to say that my years aud my haIn sefN'e '"
retire to MI Seace village Of Lorraine not too fr n
for TO hear the rtteae ana re'rG I DIIe " e 'o
gone BY My poor country is IN your hands am 700
nueh Oh sT % chi 10 me mat the inhabitants OF Yaux
shoold ar once bring all their arms 70 the guarhouse
MINI co,slSte OF fowng piece and dagger It is ON
a., of This dagger that now come To disturb You.
GpufSgle you all know how an old soldier prizes the
rsJe VINO has fought and died by his Side come TO
claim your fOrbearanoe and your Kindness IN such
.Tse 'That dagger given 20 my father by the En-
vsrcr NanoieOn l. the bloody held OF AusteTltz. L
have worn u al my de IN ~ may 9asa 9Sht g & action
hefc he used 10 hang, and come to beg you 10 give
the soldier back mementO that TO you Is USELESS hut
that remind him Of comrades dead and gone OF
hand fought fields and lonely bivOuacs. II have asked
10, mue excuse the trouble have given YOU in listen
ing story; II Is possible for YOU grant NV
request accept the thanks ol an old soldier who, like l
ALL has ghi and bled FOR his country" ICED hgr'v
add what oas The sequel An orderly vas immeiiat..y
dspatth hel fOr tlr muChpriZod oVSr, the Old FreA a