The New York herald., 1871-02-22
FACTS, lNGIDEgTs AND PERsoyALA FROM
TEE CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN PaEss.

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FACTS, lNCIDEaTs AND PERsossLA FROM
TEE CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN PaESs.
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! The Congress Of Republican Journalists held at
| Toulouse ON the 2lst OF January comprised repre-
sentatives from the press In nearly every great
| quarter OF France, ana the resolutions they adopted
were OF the frmest character with reference to de-
tending the honor of France reorganlzng the eoun.
| try and resisting all unreasonable demaads on the
| part OF It's INVADERS
4 The German army cantoned around Paris requires
for It's daily consumption l4s ooO three-pound loaves
OF Bread 1020 qulntas OF rice or barley sos beeves
1,o2o qulnrals OF bacon la qunals Of salt $500
quintas Of OATS $4,000 qulntals OF hay coo quarts
OF brandy or other splrituOus liquors. Each army
corps, consisting OF from 5000 10 O,000 men,
ceves every ten days sixty quintals of smoking
tobacco, 100000 cigars for private soldiers and
$4,000 cigars for officers Nearly all this immense
mass OF supplies has to be brought from Germany,
distance Of some hundreds Of miles, every army
corps requiring daily the use of Ave railway trains
OF thirty-two freight cars each.
The passing winter has been unusually severe
throughout Northern and Central Europe. In Swift
zerland all the lakes were frozen and there has not
been such good sleighing on the highroads since
1858.
The Swiss are establishing special government
factories of improved firearms, cartridges and
cannon. The mountain republic seems to be fully
aroused to the necessity OF providing for It's own
defence.
Paris retained much of its gayety during even the
worst hours OF the siege. The Ga,,lo published,
among other things, restaurant advertisement, as
follows:-
Wtae at ten sous the utre ct eGu-de ssus-ttrans-
latable either "and at higher rates. or with
water on TN
Observation-Disclosures either "roast beef'' or
| Rd-goW Ge nlOnton-translatab either .smut-
ton ragout" or "rat with a mutton favor.')
Two hundred and thlrtytwo officers and 25, AGO
soldiers among the French prisoners OF war now
held In Germany were born in Alsace and speak the
German language. The population OF Alsace and
Lorraine, numbering 100000 constitutes hut the
thrtieth part OF the total Of France, and yet the
French military prisoners OF that origin constitute
fourteenth OF the wnole count. Could We take
this as criterion the inference would be that
| those two provinces furnish twice as many soldiers
| relatively as any of the rest.
Count Bismarck, 1t seems, occasionally responds
to untimely queries by whisting and other slgnlf.
| cant but noncommttal signs. correspondent, at
Versailles writes to Of the German papers that
| when the Count was coming away from his confer
ence with Jules Favre he met by distinguished
officer who asked whether there would be peace.
The statesman, In reply, merely puckered his lips
and whstled the buge signal "Rest arms y "Only
an armistice, them" said his questoner Bismarck
shook the three hairs that adorn his Uranium ana
whisted the hunting call, ''Tally no Tally ho p'-
meaning that they were in ut the death.
Among the French corpses found on the field after
the last terrible sortie from Paris many OF the
National Guard, elegantly uniformed in fine CLOTH
with gold watches, rings, &C., delicate linen, and
hands and complexion that denoted the gentler
ranks of life. Many fair home was desoate for
these unreturning brave
The armed forces still actually afoot and In q
good condition OF discipline and equipment on the
French side amount to nearly 4oo 900 men, and this
number is hourly augnenting while the armistice
lasts.
Several OF the German papers are crying out,
Germany Is depopuated. All her stalwart males are
| being drafted away to the slaughter house in
| France.n
| Father Hermann, noble spirited priest, who Tor
| five months devoted himself to the care OF the
! French sick and wounded prisoner at Spandan has
died OF exhaustion. He was distinguished men,
Der OF the Carmeltes man of great piety and
energy combined. universally respected and be-
loved, and he author Of beautiful compost
tions in music.
or forty eight Sisters Of Charity tending the small.
pox patients in the Bicetre Hospital at Paris eleven
1ied Of the hideous malady. Volunteers from the
terhood were called for to ll Their ,aces and thirty
three instantly responded, What is the heroism of
the battle field compared with this9
Vesuvius has, for some weeks past, been threaten
ening fierce eruption. and volcanic symptoms are
rife in all the region surrounding Rome as well as
at Naples.
The Prussans are excluding from the French ter
ritory under their control all the Swiss journals that
comment unfavorably on their proceedings.
An enthusiast In the south of France is predicting
q terrible calamity to fall upon the invaders Of
France the complete rescue OF that country, tre.
mendous revolution and o religious war in Central
Europe ana Italy, In which both Russia and Great
Britain will take partial to happen within twelve
month,
Ex-Queen Isabella OF Spain has requested perus-
sion to accompany the first party that VIII pass by
rail through the Mount GEMS tunnel.
In Southern Germany the peace feeling has made
great progress, and the King OF Bavaria mas OIL
cially spoken on the subject.
The science Of aerial navigation has profted
greatly by the experiences or the French Sew
eral aeronauts at Paris confidently affirm that the
problem OF sufficient motive and guiding power
has been solved. Science also wins her victories
while men are nghting.
In the far East all Persia is ringing with the splen.
did festivals and joyous incidents OF the Snahs
recent general tour through his dominons Bagdad
is having gay time, and the pageantrles of good
Har0un al Raschid seem to revived, with all our
modern appliances.
GENERAL SIGLL AND TIE ST. D0MlNGO
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