The New York herald., 1871-01-04
VISIT To BELrORT.

| vAeiA 40 DELEVhAs
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/ On tho Road to Bellorf-License to shoot
Uhians Expensive Lmxury-A Market
| Stree: Scenc-Bcl Ort-FiyLting Before the
| City.
| ALTKIRCH-BALE, Dec. 16, 1870.
This small town. as you may remember. showed q
| strong and not unreasonable desire to be left in
peace but such is not TO be the lot OF any place.
these parts, just now. l came here on my way to
Belfort and made halt, while looking about for
means to approach hat fortress. The whole or
| nearly the whole Of the Haut.Rhin ito its un-
fashionable. Old name is n Prussian hands. Rail
ways If they not for the ordinary travel.
Ter; would think the whole country, instead of
certain fortified places in it, state OF siege;
| that found little difficulty In pushing on
TO the scene OF action This place Is interesting,
however, and repays visit especially just now
The people all seemed quite unable to forget the
boots which the commander OF Mulhouse has
ordered them to send. Their style Of conversation
Is a continual dpropos des bo.tes similar de-
mand having been made Of their neighbor Gopwi-
iers for 40 pairs OF boots and 1000 pairs Of soles
minded them only too plainly and forcibly OF their
own mislortunes. Another OF their great troubles
WAS that spite OF their purely pacific inten-
tions, warllke youth named Fran ,ols Martin took
a shot at q uhian aud Killed hts horse "Ah, sirn
sail nv host man who IN these troublous times is
slowly bur surely passing from the appearance OF
Falsan to the appearance OF phantom; "Ah, Sir
figure 10 yourself that this young fellow, who does
not belong to and who has now lett this place to
join the army, should have brought down al this
misfortune upon US. That General Treskown
really terrible fellow. Just fancy his
making US pay fine OF 1000 francs,
on 1HG e n s
license 10 shoot uhans Is a very expensive lux
| ury in these parts.
| A TRANSPORTATION SCENE IN THE MARKET PLACE
The market place OF Atkrch Is exceedn gly pretty
| and picturesque. and the market women, In their
caps and bright pettcoats, were more so; in truth
| ceS danes when You approach them are lit
| tie Disappointing being apt TO be somewhat
ancle but In the distance they make a Charming
4 picture chattering over their stores l saw an
amusing scene among them last market day. The
place very full, animated and bright; the sun
was shining-an unusual thing that, lately-buyers
| ana sellers Were chatterlng, .gesticulatlng and
rake each other in. All at once q violent
| clattenng made Itself heard land market cart,
in, Standing up nogging his horse and shouting
| lies nnlans les uhians y was all That one could
! hear. 1t was enough. The tidings that the uhans
| were coming Mashed through the place, and with
| discoIdant exclamatiOns they all spraDg up Then
ensued a scene Of indeserbaole hurry and bastle;
| eggs were smashed IN the mad haste Of the owners
| TO store them away; butter ana bandbONes cab
bages shoes, apples and ribbons were tossed pel-
nell INTO the baskets near focks ana herds melted
| away with magical swntness; ducks and fowls
| shrieked III conservation as they were poked into
the first receptacle that came near, W .thout the
l slightest regard for ther feelings. ! myself
an aQitaie old ernere doing her best 10 stuff
1 a lively young cock into the pockeL of her dress
/ Through it all everybody was Jostling eyery BODY
else and advising Or eXclaiming or depcrng TO such
4 an extent that ..contus,on was con,oundSlr Is a
weak word 10 express tue row. AT last there was a
regular stampede ana they Ned In all directions, car
! rying, especially the women, more baskets trays
kegs ana barrels than should have thought hu nan
nature could nave supported at once. But before
tney were fairly en the measured tread OF the mil.
tary became audible, and there appeared, not
uhlans, indeed, but DoIy OF some four hundred
i landwenr nien, wno passed IN proud procession
through the now deserJed market. A more CON-
beheld.
The landwenr did not remain in this town, but
marched out Oh 10 the roads. There, understand,
| they stopped a good many Of the country people
leaving the town. and made good many peasants
accompany them BACK To Beliort, to the poor fel.
lows great horror. They have employed a gsod
many unwilling French hands in their worAs be ore
| Belior
| BELFoRr.
IL seemed at first almost Impossible TO get near
Belfort at all but had visited this place some little
time ago, at the beginning OF the siege and had pro-
hted by some letters of introduction Olllcer Of
distinction there. was now very determined to
turn and present myself to him again. Another per-
son Of my persuasion 20. turning up at Atkrch. We re-
place: | was before; but that does not much
matter, they soon lei you out again. SO thus
journey In spite OF nhisns Francstireurs. Belfort
| as before noticed TO you, Is a very strong and
very important place, the key OF the mountains and
the termination o. the lree railways. Besides the
| great fortress the Rsche de Belfort IL has the
forts OF La Miotte and La Justice, and rs great In
| trenched camp. There are very determined people
| inside, and Ii gives the aerulAns a great deal OF
| trouble. However, we shall nave it by and Dy,r
my General SAID, when, aftes infinite dtfculiies we
! had al length got 10 Treskaw's headquarters. s.It
| l. troublesome, OF courses: but we are skilfuI
dentists ana can extract large double tooth as wen
a. small single one. II is true that the Faubourg
Fourneau is the Only part that has suffered much
/ yet, but tie rest viii follow
/ FIGHTING BEFORE BgLPoRT.
! There was hot nghi the dayw visited Beifort
! the i4rn, the Germans attacking the wood OF Ber.
monl-Grand Bois ana the Village OF Audelnaas.
These, as the telegram will nave AIormed you they
captured, after sorue trouble. Everybody was Ia
high good hunor on account OF hes successes up at
! Fontaiiie that night. u wonder whit NJ GrosIean
the project OF the Haut-R -Rhin he ia now shut up In
! Beliort. where, after tho manner OF projects he
publishes patriotic proclamatons 70 encourage tne
/ Inhabitants M. Grosjean VIII know better tnan
10 believe IL, said General Ireskow; .la WIN Know
better tan we do on the subject. lou kaow the old
pr0Yero, "Cesf 1''oS Jean g,tf en- reDtOatye so1
/ c1tTe.o
I our stay at fontaine was necessarily short
one, and we had To work our way back hear
! Ing the Numbering OF the bomhardmeni all The
way. The defence and attack Of Beort are botb
| carried on most ener2etically; sorues are very
frequent, We were told though Beurt is ivora.
bly, situated FOR them than for steady resistance
within the fortlncatons. The whole situation seems
Dluch az II was when came. some iive weeks a2o
| The Domoardment has produced little effect at pre-
sent, Snd II was eyident to rom the manner and
worus OF the onlcers with whom conversed that
they were not expecting speedy success They all
were quite sure that the place would fall m time
however, anc seemed quite content 10 wait. ave
hbaL nave all BermontGiand DoIs FOR our Christmas
trees this year. observed an officer. A pleasant
Cbfistmas-tilne 10 look forward TO- poor wfeicbss
We wished 70 stay and see some of the siege works
and more CT the operations at Iefort. This how.
ever, We found ifnpraccabe. Our way bacH here
was forced through roads so incredibly muddy that
lbe mind Of man refuses to recognize them roads
., all Atone Seriod we mao an alarm Of francs.