The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-22
THE FOREIGN MAILS.
THE VICTORIOUS GER4ANs.
The Triu,nphal March Through the
Champs El ysees.

OhaluPS 1ASSSoss
The special correspondent Of the London
Times, after mentioning the difficulties he had
to- overcome In order to get into the Champs
Bysees, writes:
At last, at the bottom Of. the avenue Fried
land, succeeded In passing the charmed line,
and saw, looming through the Jog; tne Arc
de l'Etoile; but even before we could distin-
g,iish its. outline, the distant cheers OF the
German army reached us, a Tong, coatinted,
unbrOken roar, rising and. falling like the
waves of the ocean, and as intermittent. II
was impossible to doubt what those cheers
meant. Thirty thousand Germans were march.
! ing In triumph beneath the arch On which are
chronioied German defeats, and making it
ring with their shouts OF victory. line OF
German dragons at the top OF the avenue
again barred our progress, these multiplied
precautions being evidently necessary to limit
as much as possible the crowd which was az
tempting to gather. At this moment the top
of the avenue Of the Champs Elysees and the
open space near the arch were filled with
troops waiting TO pass through 1T and small
but silent crowd was, collected on It's out
skirts. Suddenly, we were startled BY. q
shot which, apparently, proceeded from
\ the Germans, and caused some little emotion
among the bystanders. Il was evidently fired
In the air, and might, possibly, have been an
accident, but the episode was not reassnring.
By degrees we reached the aIch Itself, and
were witnesses of . spectacle which 40 one
who was present, be he French, German OF
neutral, can ever forget. The broken ground
beneath the arch had been feTeiled; and q
good roadway made through it, and along thls
passage, infantry, cavalry apd arttuefy-the
faces of the men radiant with an eKultatlon
which it Is impossible to describe. For this
supreme hour they had endured and bled, but
now the danger and the hardShips OF The war
had come 10 an end. Their faces were turned
at last 10 the kstherland, and their first step
homewards was thus made he sign and pledge
Of their success. AS the head OF each battal-
Ion came under the arch the mounted of1cers
leading Is reined up for moment, cast one
look up at the lst of victories inscribed ever
head, one glance back to their meH, and then,
waving their helmets high above their heads,
gave the signal for a ringing cheer: In Sc
cond every helmet was in the ar; the norses;
startled BY the sudden roar, pranced aHd rear-
ed; their riders, carried away by the excite
iuerlt, With heightened color and nashtng eyes,
SILL waved their helmets, while the men
strained their throats with their shouts OF
triumph.
Is,yss the only occasion upon which haze
seen the Germans indulge IN military gloria-
cation. They fairly revelled In their triumph,
gpd it was the more legitimate now, because
in entering they had gone nodestly around
the arch, and because, II there were French
men present to witness their own humiliation,
the Germans, by choosing very early hour,
and closing up all the avenues, had done tneff
utmost to confne the celebration Of theirtrl-
umph to themselves. There were, indeed.
were quite OF the lowest class. At exactly 10
o'clock. the procession came to an end. The
last cheer had been given, the last helmet
waved, the cavalry pickets were beginning TO
close In from;the, rear when q carriage and
one horse, containing three German officers
In uniform, who we're evidently none1efq-
tives, and had allowed themselves to be late.
the mob began to close in upon Them and dtry, to
fsghten their horse, SO as II possible to cut them
Off, Yelling, Kissing and pelung them with
dirt. The occupants Of the carriage kept rheif
temper admirably, and beckoned to the dra-
goons to wait for them; In moment more
they were safe, but had they been five minutes
later they would certainly have been murder
ed. Encouraged by this episode and by the
fact that the last dra2oon had his back turned
to them, the mob rushed through the arch,
whisil' Il 7 and bowling aud closing In upon the
retirin,- pIckets. Finding themselves unno-
ticed, they were getting boider, when half q
dozen dragoons slowly faced about. In an In i
stant the yelling csnsiAe were hying IN ail ai,
rectioas. 1t requires only half dozen armed
Germans to look at them to strike terror Into
the craven hearts. For abject cowardice, com
bined with refined cruelty, the last forty eight
hours have shown that low Paris MOB cannot
be matched.
The Review Of the esr"a" Troops on
the Bois de Boulogne.
The German troops having quilted Paris
the column marched by different roads into
the heart Of the Bols de Boulogne, where the
infantry halted, piled arms, took of their
knapsacks and lay down, many Of them to
sleep. Some of the bands were playing. At
length came the review, which is graphically
described by military correspondent of the
London Times:
The troops were drawn up at FIRST In two
lines, each line being foEmed OF battalions 10
close column. When the Emperor appeared
ON the ground and approached the troops.
hearty cheers broke forth, but when he came
close to them and they received the order TO
present arms there Was silence among the
men. and only confused sound OF music, as
many bands at once played the anthem which
NE call s.GDd Save the Queen" From line the
battaliops broke into column and marched past
In quick time. First came the infantry OF the
Guard, for infantry always march past hrst ID
Prussian parades. The men were thickly
bearded. and seemed warriors every one OF
them; as was said by some one, not 80 much
like soldiers as like well made men IN uni
FORM To all. appearance the war has leit
their discipline untouched, and their Gress
was newer and in better trim than that or
some regiments which marched past TWO
days before. AS each regmental color pass
ed, just flung out from Its staif oy the light
breeze, the man who, following his fathers ex-
ample, has steadily made and improved the
German army, always patiently wailing for this
moment, long delayed, but come at last, raised
his hand and saluted the Imperial elstgns car
ried by those who have won him his purple.
An officer remarked, 1.-THE King'- he Is King
still To all Prussians-".knows perfectly well
how to manage parade. The Grown Prince
does not. he does not love war" The infant
ry were succeeded by the Jagers, and the
Jarers BY the ''SchutZen" battalion. body OF
rihemen peculiar to the Prpssian Guard Corps.
The Schulzen lost nearly all their officers IN
the battles before Metz. After the Schutzen
battalion marched the pioneers, the engineers
of the. German armies-men who work IN siege
operations and beleaguer iortresses, build and
repair bridges, restore roads and railways, VINO
know all the arts oil construction and destruc-
ton, and are as ready to blow up house
as to build barrack. They show. perhaps,
less of a martial, defiant Dir than the
infantry, but contain among their ranks
some OF the clearest heads in Germany. Alter
the Pioneers, came the landwehr OF the Guard
-men who have, most OF them, wives and Child
rem waiting and longing for them at home.
The German officers present could not help
uttering their admiration aloud, so mighty
were the forms, so bold The bearing OF The
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