Litchfield enquirer., 1871-09-21
-~@ . @- - THE CONQUERED BOVINCEs.

1 We clip the following fin correspond ence of the N. Y Foe. Bt and Boston
 s,o@'"m, regarding ihe feelg in the French
 provinces lately annexed t Germany. 1 PREUsso-PHoR
 The reawakened hatredof the French against the Prussians grFs and grows
 more noticeable day by ty. They have recovered from the prostrion. mental and physical, which the overwslming defeat of their armies and the disasr of civil war occasioned, and resentmets now hot and fierce Tn their minds agailt the foreigner.
 The Prussians are not theeasiest masters i'll the world. though amsure that they show less of arrogance anmore of self-re- straint than would Frencholdiers in simi- lar circumstances. In allhe villages and towns, from the walls of Iris eastward to the Rhine. collisions smal or great occur 1 almost daily. The conqurers have carte 6Lanche from their offices to use their swords freely and we'll yha attacked, and when lnsulted simply ts hake arrests upon the spot. So the palen tell stories of fights between soldierJ aId peasantry with what sad result for the later you can imag- ine When a picklehan fedoes happen to get himself killed in a ltreet or public house brawi, summary execution pays the penalty. Thus thipgsare going swift ly from worse to worst. The authorities on both sides frown uppn his unpleasant ness, and try by decrees and proclamations to make the upper dog lenent and gentle and the under one paeif; and resigned. Not so, however, the people or papers. Any sally against the oppessor, whether of tongue, or pen, or fist, t applauded loud and long. The most conservative and tim Id of men and prints ate jealous in feeding the hame.-Jougnal.
 . THE RETURNING PRISONERS.
 One of the saddest sights to see is hand ful of French soldiers returning from their German captivity. Little squads of two or three walk down the streets from the sta tions to their barracks every day. They recall to you the return of the prodigal, though in their case there is no one to give them welcome or kill the fatted calf. A Frenchman has at least one of the prover- bial qualities of magnitude. These captives look crestfallen and sad and sometimes emaciated from wounds or sick ness They have no arms-only meagre ERGgAifn nfasas ovefgrown with beard, and their hair unshorn and intended Without such terrible marks of suffering as our men brought back from Andersonville and Lib by, there is yet something deeply pathetic in the sight of them, and above all Tn the neglect and forgetfulness of them which Frenchmen show. Most of the prisoners are back in France again. Between three and four hundred thousand have returned by land, and about twenty-two thousand by water. Twenty thousand have perished in captivity, and twelve thousand are sick in German prisons now.-Journd.
 METZ.
 The tourist who visits Metz. as he would Paris or Thionvi!le or Strasburg, to see ru. ins, would be disappointed, for the town was not subjected to a bombardment. The only outward evidences of it's agonizing ex perience are the presence of Prussian troops and the demeanor of its citizens. sometimes dejected, sometimes violent. The loyalty of Metz to France is something extremely touching. It is far more pro nounced than that of Strasburg, and Ii looks forward with fond anticipation to the moment when another war will release Ii from the hold of the foreigner.
 "We have nothing against the Prussiar soldiers themselves" remarked a Messin tt me, ''but we are French and never will be anything else.
 ''Then you think there will be another war?"
 Another war! Certainly! In less thar ten years France will have the left bank o the Rhine, and Alsace and Lorraine again."
 "And Napoleon?"
 ''Never Napoleon again. We have hat enough of the Bonapartes. Pos.