The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-03-07
VI. Ofcourse, all securities, even those

VI. Ofcourse, all securities, even those
Of the United States, are liable to occas-
ional slight fluctuations in current,prce-
the result of outside circumstances, and
not of any change in real value. But the
same causes which now render Northern
Pacific seven-thirtes an exceptionally y
strong and desirable security will natur-
ally sustain them in the market 80 that
those who wish to convert their bonds in
to cash can do so at any time without
loss. Indeed, with their superabundant
security their high rate Of interest, and
the provision that they will always be
received at ten per cent. premium in pay
ment for the Companys lands, $40
per cent. Northern Pacific Bonds are far
more likely to go above par in price than
to fall below.
GeueraI Mantcufel
Edwin Freheire Won Manteuffe, the
commander of the 1st Army Corps of the
Prussiaus, was born in 1909, and entered
the Army,in regiment of dragoon guards,
in 1927. He became Major General in
1858, Lieutenant General in 1861, and
General of Cavalry in 1866. In 1865,
he took the command of the Prussian
troops in Schleswig on the Obewessel: and
may be said, by his rapid movements, to
have opened those operations on the Elder
and the Elb which had such important re-
suits on the campaign. He was also en-
aged in the Austrian war iu 1885, COM
manding the troops in South Germany,
and made short work with the armies of
Bavaria, and other smaller German
States.
We need not follow up Mantcuffels
actions up to the capitulaton Of Metz.
Immediately after everything had been
settled at Metz, ,Manteufel's First Army,i in
conjunction with the Eighth Army Corps
under General Won Goeben, were at liberty
to commence active field work throughout
the whole of the northwest provinces of
France from Metz to Dieppe, and to pre-
vent the French Army of the North from
coming to the assistance of Paris. Up to
the time of writing, these two armies have
met with comparatively little resistance,
though they have had plenty of sharr
uv.k occasionally, and not without some
loss on their side. Day after day towns and
fortified places have been entered and taken
possession Of by the invaders. Requisi-
tions, in the shape of money, rations,
clothes, boots, wine, and cigars, have been
made in style that has caused Manteuffel
to be dubbed "the Great Requisitionist. "
The maintenance prescribed by royal
proclamation for the German troops dur
ing its occupation Of France differs in
several respects from that supplied to
Blucher's army at Paris in 1915. As
then, each man receives one pound of
flesh, half a litre Divine, or a litre of
beer, or else dram of brandy. To this
is now added thirty grammes (rather more
than one ounce) of Coffee the consumption
of which was at that time unknown in the
army. The allowance of tobacco is
doubled-sixty grammes instead of thirty
grammcs, or five cigars; of bread, one
pound and half, instead of two pounds,
as required by Blucher's intendent, Rib
bentrop, who also ordered six oth(a 10th
exceeds half an ounce) of rice, and hence
acquired the sobriquet from the French
soldier Was to recclFc 'iwvnG ;oeu AZ.
vegetables, also two 10th of salt and six
10th of butter or bacon. This is now
changed to half pound of bacon. In
the cavalry, each horse is to receive daily
two kilogrammes of hay, one and half
kilogrammes of oats. Households pay
compound for the billeting of troops on
payment of 2f. daily for each soldier.
For acquisitions on the march vouchers
will be given. The daily allowance made
to the captive French officers on parole at
the fortress towns is fixed as for the Aus
triau officers taken prisoners in the cam
paign Of lS66-for staff officers, Is. g.;
other officers, Is. 3D., daily.
The Prussian army has its own arrange
mcnts for feeling its way through hostile
country. The commander of the advanc-
ing corps selects clever and determined
officer, and in the Prussian army such
men are numerous. Some fifteen or
twenty picked horsemcn are con6ded to
him, and the officer then takes man pre-.
viously acquainted with the country to
serve as guide. The spot which the
patty josiIoo to investigate hos boon ev-
planned to him and pointed out on an ex-
cellent map carried by the officer. The
place is often twenty or twenty-five miles
from the Prussian lines. To the rear Of
the first horseman. who is ordered to pro-
ceed slowly, following by-roads and some
times going across country, at distance
of two hundred PAGES, follow two light
troopers. A hundred PAGES behind them
comes the officer, followed at short dis
tance by eight or ten of his men, charged
to protect him if necessary. The rear
guard is like the advance guard. If the
foremost horseman is surprised, he fires
off his carbine, and the band takes to
fight, with the exception of the officer
and his escort, who advance to reconnoi-
tire before flying. Even in the case of an
ambush, it is almost impossible to pre-
vent two or three of the scouts getting
back to camp.