New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-22
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!" there N no regular service organized; ar1 goina
to send out by the train instructions 10 get the
employees together and the trains going . and be-
showed me circular Of dozen pages filed, - II
the manner of the French, with tho minutes
Instructions "You can 90" he continued, eff yc's
viii accept all the responsibility, and sign a written
release tOboth compssies. the West and the North
of oil claim for compensation on account OF acedents
which, he CONSIDERABLY added, "ap extremely
likely 10 happen We send you as far a.
Buchy, tl@re You will fail into the hands Of
the Prussians; :" aud the shrug which accompanied
the last bit of information indicated that he for hi,
part, did not consider such prospect agreeable 10
another moment the release was written and sQned
my p0rtmanteau aud 1 were prt into an empty
compartment in one of the two carriages which
posed the train, and were of. VI. Bissons parting
word was, If you have good luck, you may reach
Paris day after tomorrow; but you know Of ooarss
that nobody is allowed to go In"
ON THE ROUTE.
Il IL hardly worth whils / feaI, TO relate the bs
tory OF my Journey 10 Dieppe, far AZ IL mads
by railway The real difIculty had been in gettins
started When once permission had been givon the
official who had refused became eager TO help me orr
In fact, he took me nEder his wing as far az boehH
and when sought out the Prussian commandment ~
that post for leave to go on ina military tram,
found my Frerchman already in his Office pleading
nv case. The Prussian made no trouble at all about
it. could 90 as far as Amiens, probably Az far "a
Chantilly but his jurisdiction knowledge did no
stretch beyond Amiens. / asked about proyisOs
trains. He knew of none. When the military trafa
arrived az I3uehy, coming from don't know where
] found perhaps dozen civilians, mostly
French among the German soldiers II
seemed 10 me that the Prussians were neither
taking great pains 10 get provisions forward, noi
Offering any obstacle to ordinary travel so far as they
had means of Transportation. The people with WHOM
1 talked in the train had passports, bnt nothing
moro. They had come from Belgium mostly, aas
were bound for Paris, with no particular idea hov
they were 20 get there. From Dieppe 10 Buchy, ans
thence on to Arniens looked out for signs CT tin
wholesale destruction Of which We had heard ~
much in England. There In not much To be seen
Here aud there railway station has been eleanes
out The official who accompanied our tram to DIS
tribute tho circulars | hsYo referred to, asked IA
employf at one such station where the furniture q
the offices was. 1T has been taken away" wa The
answer "When ~ "On the 9TH December" ID
not remember tho date; but l presume it was ons
about tho 9Th December that Dieppe and the adJaceIs
stations were occupied by the PTussans. NootheT en
ulanaton seemed to be thought necessary. Ofcoursel
don't mean to suggest that the Prussans lave mo-
made havoc of many village; but it happened tha
in this part of the country such villages Were seldom
to be seem The telegraph wires were partly down
but at least two were left along the whole rodta
Here and there q switch wanted q rail, and soma
times the train was shifted from the up to the dow
traek. On tle whole, we got on without mucl
trouble, ana at q fair paco. We had left Deppo att
in the morning. We reached Ami1ns via Cleres ani
Buchy, at 2! o'clock the same afternoon. At AmieA
we were within two hours and half Of Paris.
IA bnra thof q
interesting FOR Paris, became moro or less persons
one As there had been traffic, the bufets at tla
stations even the largest were completely deserted
but counted on finding the at Amiene still frn
nisled. Travelling from Dieppe, where had Ia.
no Sine 60 think Of breakfast half way 10 Pars
without chance Of getting anything to eat |as
least n novelty. When We rolled into the ADaieu
station we had no notion whether were to so OF
directly or wait. / looked into Che buffet IL
buffet no longer but huge German sE1bulano
filed with wounded. There was time "a
run up the strees, and a bakers shop WE
not far off, where bread eonld be had; an'
along the entrance to the station were German sns
lers, whose display of yellow gingerbread wa
very considerable. But al the hotels and caie
which cluster near the great Amiens station wen
either closed o. empty IL helped one to reaiin
that there really was question about the supply
provisions. even ct that distance from Paris. ives
on TO Chantly There was nothing in the Cham
tDv hotel but bread and butter. Thence to GoreeSs
some twelve miles outside Of Paris; and at Goness
there wa3 nothing People a5 Amiens were per
mitted 10 buy tickets for Chantly; and nc Chsnilll
for Concise, without any objection or tounalita
From Amiens our civilian troop was reenf 1rcesi bi
four or five French women bound for Paris, viii
their husbands and such n collection of baskets as
bundles, and fOot-wsmers, and canary biris II
cages. was wonderful TO behold Men and woneI
and canary birds were safely landed at G0ntSse auOd
~ o'clock On Thursday evening.
NIGHT OF TROUBIja
The station is mile from the Vi Iags the Villas
is deserted the station it.ef pure military post
The silent, not to say surly rgcaa lat, who was tn
only officer TO be found. had not Ford Of French Il
offer in reply 20 the torrents OF questions whicl
bubbcd about him from the Gro sd of b3wilderc'
passengers. All the rooms of the 5ia,ion were eitha
military Offices OF ambularces; g could not entd
any one Of them. We tried t. nI our way outside
hoping spite of tho darkness 10 hd house still n.
habtal. or a stray carriage, or jt least somebodi
who could and would tel us wherL 20 go. sensines
barred every exit it was ri htary trap int
which We had fallen unawares. 1 In line, we come
not get into the station nor out of It; aud VI
had our cboice between number OF sboHs ahf
freight cars in which e. pass the. hIgh.'
for getting On 10 ST. Denis as we had been lea
hope and thence to Paris there was not the stla's
possibility OF attempting is that night. "ait"
TIL the crowd had melted away, and then, sho~i"i
my Prussian pass 90 the Sergeant asked 70 see 'n
| commandant al the post. The Sergeant waH cav
enough at the sight of the name signed AT the o''
tom Of the paper and took me forthwith upstairs,
! the bed room of that officer / have reason 10 Do
,eye him to be Major in the Prussian service au'
| am sincerely sorry that don't know his mama !
| world publish il rs that Of tho only German Offices
from whom ever had To sAuure anything like rndo
ness. 1t may or may not interest his s.Ipcr'ors "