The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-03

the road to Argenteril, the field telegraph
has been cut, and the inhabitants will suffer
terribly for it, rs it is death to interfere with
80 important q means Of communication.
The inhabitants of st. GERMAN are very ILL.,
disposed, and not only write on the walls
such inscriptions as this, "Le sieS dune
g,uade rifle ct ie to,abeau dune grandc armee, }"
but tell the English and American residents
that as soon is the PrUssians are gone they
will cut the Threats of the ''sdcres strangers"
The palace of Versailles has been turned
into hospital, WHITTIER the wounded in this
mornings engagement are now being brought
in.
Pru~siam Po~isi~n In the Forest OF
lsOnsly-The frenrh Forts ~ seen
From German Lines.
BoNpy, September %.
arrived here yesterday morning ON foot,
not being permitted to come on horseback
for fear of drawing the French fire. When
arrived at the outposts near Bondy, found
that they commanded an excellent view of
the French defenccs of the east Of Paris, viz,
Forts Romainville, Noisy, and ROsny, to
saw nothing of some detached Outworks con-
Meeting Forts Noisy and Rosny. Having
established myself at a "VOrpOst' by show
ing my pasport-from Gen. Podbielski-and
nv cisar-case to the officer on duty. pro-
ceeded to make thorough examination of
the French position through my field-glass.
On our right, about half mile distant, was
the burning village Of Bondy; about a couple
of hundred yards from where We sat was
Fort Romainville, and Immediately above
the village was Fort Noisy. In and sur
rounding all the forts there were innumer-
able tents 10 be seen, and with good glass
We could plainly distinguish the French
soldiers moving about. The Saxon officer in
charge of the pickets said that he reckOned the
French in front of him at about 30, 600 men
--''but what sort of men they are l know
not, he added.
While We were talking Fort Rosny opened
fire, sending a heavy shell into the forest on
nrr Ieft-ihc Forest de Bondy. AS the
! Crown Prince of Sixony had gone in thatdi-
| rcc'ion an hoiir or so before, it is very pOssi-
bic that the French fired on catching sight Of
His ROYAL iIighncss and his staff The
shells fired were very heavy ones, and sung
nerrily through the. air. A good specimen
lay some fifty yards off on the road to our
left. This was an unexploded 11O-pOundcr
stccl-pointed shell, studded with lead, and
fired from thrcc-groved riflcd cannon. 1t
was about eight inches in diameter, but a.
the officer frbid me to touch it even with my
pencil for feaI of its exploding, i cannot be
very accurate to an inch or two. Along the
! road which we traversed To see this she'll
| were the marks where others had fallen the
day before.
! II seems that on Tuesday night the French
expected an attack and therefore exhibited
two very powerful electric lights, one from
Fort Eosny and the other from Fort Noisy.
By the aid of these lights the German senti-
nels could see plainly by the naked eye what
was going on in the French camps-thc
scntinels changing guard, the men round the
tents, &c. As the German outposts are
nearly all in houses or under thick trees,
whence they can see and not he seen, it is
more than probable that the French did not
learn much through the electric light.
The Imperial kerrets-MOr OG the Tn.
! iIerieS Letters-The lseD1amger Sean.
dal-A Letter from Maxtsmb1tan.
Tours (0e' 2, Correspondence cftae Ne~ York Tri-
| bune.
You have already received, I suppose,
| COPIES of those two letters Of Marguerite
Bellanger, which were found in the imperial
cabinet at the Tuileries, tied with rOse-col-
III
handwriting, "Letters to he kept" You
must not suppose that story-in many of its
phases the very old stOry-of Marguerite
Bellanger is altogether a revelation TO the
Parisians. What is new is the questionable
part PLAYED by the First Judge of the En-
pire in an affair of this kind. But all Paris
can attest the truth of the reiterated statement
,f IL, L.. Lover bat no
had done Every great deal for her." Mar
g,,erite Bellanger's horses, carriages, dogs,
iewelrv, and loud dresses were all well
known in the Bois de Boulogne, and every
cabman knows the snug and gOrgeously
furnished mansion on the Rue de Verneuil,
where. within stones throw Of the Avenue
DIES Champs ElyseeS, in which he took his Of
fetal promenade with the Empress, the En-
peror was wont TO pass hours Of idleness
with Marguerite Bellanser. Only at the be-
ginning of this year, and some time after
President Devienne had effected an arrange
mcnt, a husband was found for the lady. On
the occasion of her marriage she objected that
her hotel in the Rue de Nernuel smelt Of the
stables, and thcreupon the Emperor gave her
4 sumptuous palace IN the avenue de Ia
Refine Hortense, which in her marriage set
tlement, published in the Figure Of the time
was valued at million and half Of francs.
Her sale in the Rue de VernueI produced
300, 900 francs, and she bought in some mag
niiicent gobelin tapestry with the cyPher of
the crown, which the auctioneer put into the
catalogue To excite curiosity. The husband
assigned to her was an employee in linen
draper shop; but as his function waste keep
the books, she rather Witty said Of him
I. fr-.1s-,,,,.,, I.,, r
Writing this, As | am now doing, in the very
house tnow hotel in which Madame de Ia
VALERIE was BON, can only wonder that
.joye,.sstcs du Loi, INDUCED in by the late sue
cesser to the throne OF Louis XIV, should
have required such a penderous machinery
as that of the Intervention of Chief Justice
To hush them up. The antecedents Of Louis
Napoleon BOnaparte are such that no addi-
tional instance of the breach Of
the seventh commandment could
damage his reputation. From
variety of circumstances believe the expla- |
nation Of the extreme anxiety which made |
him invoke the assistance of President De-
vienne to be this: At a time when the Prince |
Imperial was in very had health, he was Ger |
tainly under tie impression whether truly |
or not that he was the father of Marguerite |
ItiIanStI Joy. ImIEaribS his gIiei W her Il
at the prospect Of being deprived Of posterity, |
she, in melting moments, got him to listen |
to her comPlacently, when she said that her |
son was his, and that apart from social con-
ventions which he might override, the direct |
line of the Napoleons was in any event as
sured. The Emperor, who had 50 long been |
in the habit of treating France as his wash |
pot" and who had reserved to hims IL by |
his constitution an absolute power to adopt |
an heir to the exclusion Of Prince Napoleon,
might very well have caressed the idea over |
a cigarette that if he lost his legitimate son,
his power and might would be equal to the
achievement Of F1ebiseite conferring his
adoption on an Legitimate one. Later, the
Prince Imperial got better; the Empress re-
belled against she Marguerite Bellaneer scan
dal; and q moment came when the Emperor
thought it expeslient to obtain disavowal
from Miss Margaret of his paternity of her
child al any price. NJ. Devienne, at the
time when he sOiled his ermine with this
dirty business, was First President of the
Imperial Court, e., the Second Judge of