The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-02-01
NOTES OF THD WdR.
Stripped Everything.
Herr Wachenhusen writes on the 5th from

Herr Wachenhusen writes on the 5th from
Chartres to the Cologne Gazette:
Four weeks in completely eaten-np districts,
the last eight days in towns and villages in
which absolutely nothing was TO be hunted
up, where on every threshold on which one
trod there resounded the cry OF alarm, "Du
tout du tout, du tout" or, "NiG 6rott, MA
Jleesch," to such knowledge Of languages has
anguish driven the population. TWAS hunger
chiefly which led me to reloln headquarters,
but even there the distress was great during
the last week. II Ithad entered too late, when
the meat and bread rations were already dis
trlbuted, nothing remained but 10 beg morsel
oil bread of one Kind neighbor, and bit OF bacon
of another, which sufficed till the neXHhorn-
ing, when the anxiety as to food was renewed.
The worst days were the last three-the days
OF the battles of Loigni and Artenay-durlng
which I lived on bad sausage and cognac,
wandering about amid the north wind and
snow. a desire to see the army besieging
Paris after eight weeks absence, drove me
back to Versailles, and necessity also, for my
boots were out at the toes and my clothes
torn. Everybody Is not SO lucky as the Bava-
ran Light Horse, who found the material for
q new Sunday uniform IN the green oalse OF
every billiard table, and wherever they met
with one. set their knives and scissors 10
work.
Herr Wickede, of the Cologne Gazette, COM
menting on the hopelessness OF further resis-
tance on the part of the French, which might
protract the war for months, but would only
entail the greatest misery on the country,
says:
The house from which our troops are fred
on is burned down, the village whose inhab-
ltants take part in the struggle is totally de-
stroyed, and the prisoners in arms without
uniforms and not belonging to regular troops,
months in which these Francs-tireur bands
have cropped up many hundreds of houses
have been burned, and very many men have
been shot, whereas this never happened In
The first period of the war, when we carried on
a regular fight against regular troops. Even
the capture of provision transports by Francs
tlreurs does France, as rule, lar more harm
than good. If the troops receive no provls-
ions, they requisition them without more ado,
and. If it is necessary, forcibly to make requl-
sitions, plunderlng and devastation, even with
the strictest discipline, but too easily follow.
MANY things now occur which did not happen
at the beginning of the war, and that this Ia
the case Is chiefly the fault of the French.
II one speaks with any particular French
curses Gambetta and the:whole Republic, and
yearns for peace at any price; yet, II dozen
come together. and any lying victorious report
OF their Provisional Government has appeared,
the entire imposslblity OF which is evident to
ANYBODY with shred of military, statistical,
political and geographical knowledge, they
are Immediately fire and fury, deceive and ex-
cite each other with oil kinds OF sentences,
and believe that France Is still the most pow
ertul country in the world, and that we,
"PrussIan barbarians," cannot be or continue
yictors. The single Frenchman Is usually
amiable, polite, open to any opinion clearly
put before him, and even now, amid an en-
bittered war, and in an enemy's country.
would far rather, as q rule, have intercourse
with the French than with the many German
cigar venders, horse dealers. adventurers
hoping for appointments-in short, with the
only too great number Of Germans who, I'M
der the guise Of patriotism, seek only their
personal advantage, frequently In very repul-
sive ways. When, however, dozen French
men come together, Iney jadulse in political
speeches, and get intoxicated with reported
victories, SO that they can be regarded only as
lunatcs.
He believes, nevertheless, that the end of
the war Is approaching, and that on being con-
yinced that the Germans occupy Rouen and
Orleans the French Will abandon further re-
sistance.
NJ fa,aen ti,ir, monsieur" said my hostess
to me lust now, the wife Of celebrated
French surgeon who manages hospital at
Tours, when had read to her our last official
dispatches from Orleans, and she turned
away weeping. Yes, iJ must end; France
must submit to stern necessity and recognize
us as victors, or it Is for decades to come a
completely ruined country.