Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1870-09-29

nishes the only parallel to the condition of
the staff of the pretty little pleasure house
of the Bois.''
FOREIGN FLANEURS.
Speaking of the usual morning lounge
of the Boulvards this same letter writer
gives pen-and-ink sketch ofsome English
and American idlers there:
In this same district, about an hour
or so previous, at the entrance court of a
vast hotel, hundreds of people of divers
nations and accents are talking of war
nothing but war, My Lord Tom Moody
is here, accompanied by his Fidus Achates,
Sir Carnaby jerks, and others of the same
set. They are full and gurgling to the
throat of cock and bull stories. One of
the lot has an anecdote of uhulan who
appeared on the confines Especial point Of
the compass not indicated) in the morn
ing, and who daringly cut off a couple of
bullocks from drove of the animals in
tended by Trochu for the garrison of the
Notifications. Tom Noddy takes in the
tale with plenty of brandy and soda.
These agreeable youths are longing, if you
please for seige, and for the fun of wit
Messing it, as it were, from an omnibus
box. l thought they were at Scarborough
or after the grouse; but no, nothing would
do for them but to come to grin, and to
say, by Jove, sir'' to each other here.
The American nation is also largely rep
resented. The New Yorker, who is said
to 90 to Paris after death if he is good
! he &C. ali a Str
foretaste of his future bliss when he can.
He keeps to his own drinks, and to some
of his own ways. when on continental soil |;
and-from what | have seen of him
he seems to be considerate and charita-
bic gentleman, who contrasts very favora-
bly, with our own Sir Carnaby jerks"
THE UHLANs.
| So much has been said of the Uhlans,
and so little is known of them, that the
following portraiture of this military type
will be accepted with satisfaction, but with
some grains of allowance for the writer's
exaggerations
''T The French appetite for picturesque
character is happily Unsuitable, and the
artistic insight Of the spectators of the war
has not failed to pick out parsonage whose
individuality is very marked one indeed,
partaking as it does of half melodrama-
tic and half humorous type. This is the
lancer; and the warriors Of his name,
with whom we have hitherto been most
familiar, were the Austrian Uhlans, in
their scanty white tunics, their tight blue
pantaloons and laced-up boots. The Prus-
sian Uhlan of 1870 seems destined to gill
in the French legendary chronicle the
place which during the invasions of 1914
1915 was occupied by the Cossack.
He isa great traveller. Nancy, Bar
le-Due, Commercy, Rheims, Chalons, St.
Dizier, Chaumount, have all heard of him.
The Uhlan makes himself quite at home,
| and drops in, entirely in friendly way,
on Mayors and corporations, and asks not
only himself to dinner, but an indefinite
number of additional Uhlans who he says
may be expected hourly The Uhlan wears
blue uniform turned up with yellow and
to the end of his lance isafiXed streamer
intimately resembling very dirty white
|
in couples sometimes he goes in threes,
and sometimes in fves. When he lights
upon village he holds it to ransom when
he comes upon a city he captures it, max
ing it literally the prisoner of his bow and
spear A writer in Blachacoods Magazine
once drove the people of Lancashire to
madness by declaring that in the rebellion
of 1745 Manchester '' was taken by a Scots
sergeant and a wench :" but it is notori-
GUS fact that Nancy submitted without a
murmur to FIVE Uhlans, and that Bar-le-
Due was occupied by two. When the
| Uhlan arrives in conquered city he vis-
its the Mayor, and makes his usual iDordi-
nate demands for meat, drink and cigars.
If his demands are acceded to he accepts
Everything with a grin. If he is refused
he remarks, likewise with grin, that he
will come again tomorrow with three
thousand light horesmen, and he gallops
away; but in many cases he does not re-
turn. The secret of the fellows success
lies mainly in his unblushing impudence,
bis easy mendacity and that intimate
knowledge of every highway and byway OF
the country which, thanks to the military
organization of the Prussian army, he has
acquired in the regimental school. He
gives himself out to be the precursor of an
imminently advancing army, when, after
all, he is only boldly adventurous free
lance, who has ridden thirty miles across
the country on the chance of pick
ing something in the way of information
or victuals Only one more touch is need
ed to complete the portrait of the uhlan
HIS veritable name would seem to be Hans
Breitmann, and his vocation that of d
"bummer and Breitmann, we learn from
the preface to Mr.. Leland's wonderful
ballad, had prototype in a regiment OF
Pennsylvania cavalry by the name of Jost
whose proficiency in bumming" other
wise looting,' in swearing, fighting, and
drinking logger beer, raised him to pitch
of glory on the Federal side which excited
at once the envy and the admiration Of
the boldest bushwhackers and gauntest
guerrilIas in the Confederate host.
For The rest, the Prussian uhlan doe.
not seem destitute Of many human traits
At some village post Office the other day
he was very particular in making all re-
QUESTIONS for postage stamps, and wanted
them ofall procurable colors. The postmas
ter expressed his amazemcDt. The stamps
he pleaded, were no longer of any use il
province which King William had de.
clared to be annexed to Germany. They
are for my Kinderdlbum' for my chill
dren's collection-quoth the uhlan. Anc
again, one of these wandering specimens
being set to mount guard over telegraph
station, got into talk with the telegraph
clerks children, and after awhile took tn
hand of little faxen haired girl betweei
his two huge brown hands and kissed it