, 1872-11-08

yet se Il in ironical comment upon the events o1
the day, there vas great joy in Metz the evening
your correspondents WAS there. It vas an ami
were celebrating it IN grand banquet. While
! the conquered we're hur1ying to the frontier, the
'conquerors we're celebrating themselves with
| eating and feasting and music:
One circumstance that fills the Prussian mind
| with anger is that most Of those who have left
| Metz, especially from the farm lands around,
I have been in receipt of large sums of money
from the Prussian treasury. Tho war, Grave
lotte, and other transactions of that nature des-
things-crops. and grain, and homcsteads, and
all means Of life. And Prussia, meaning to be
lind to the sufferers, and reconcile them to the
new rule, paid them large indennities. In some
cases more money was paid than the farmer had
ever seen before; more than his whole farm was
worth. These eimple~nainded agriculturists took s
the honest Kings money and Immediately de-
clared for France. The thought, therefore, that
Prussia is really paying the expenses of a good
part Of the emigration, that the ungrateful
Frenchmen are really crossing into Franco with
the Kings money in their pockets, gives the
Plckelhaubers deep anger, and may account
for their rudeness to tho exiles. AThev
take the Kaiser's money" says Pickelhauber
ruefnlly, and then run away" "Yes," SAYS
the the frenchman IAN Why don't you let US stay
Paris. AL the Germans who left there durins
the war to fight France are returning, and va
don't say, either be Freuchmen or leave par;a
They stay, and become rich ; and yet ne are not
allowed to i, remain here. where ne were born.
without telling Lie and saying We are German
How is that p "oh, that" says Pickelhanber lt'
Il is quite different matter"
FROM TINS unlovely military town Of Metz. |
which must hencefortb be garrison. W. s1reen |
1oTn e TO-, to Aulhouse, the Lowell or Manchester
argest town in Alsace after StrasbnrrMnot ~
'id town, as towns so in these countries. hut |
II sudden growth like all manufacturinr cen.
ers. IN 1So0 it had 5000 inhabitants. It the
Il me , ot the var there were $4,000, proportion
ope. This is the centre Of the cotton industry.
round it IS q beehive Of towns as industrions
nd enterprlsing Is Lowell, and Lawrence. and
'ynn You can fancy how much it has crown
men yon IL know nes that thirty years ago
! 1855, 1000. 900 when the war came22000010
spind1es and 40, 900 looms! Your 1ady read.
rs hare no doubt heard Of the calico and iaco-
ct OF Alsace, its beauty and usefulness.
here are forty manufactures which do this
orlz making annually 10000. 600 yards, valued
en Of the world, proprietors renowned for their
forts to insure the comfort and efficiency of
leir employees. For, in addition to cot
" there are manufactures Of porcelain
ell annexation has fallen like g. blight upon
AZ. Many mills are closed for the want OF
iilled workmen. Others are being removed to ..
aris; still more to Switzerland where conven- !
Mt Understanding may be had-proprietors.
anufacturers, and families, with their money.
I'd machinery, and business, crossing the from ,
ar, and this may be said Of Colmar, the next l
= = IN Importance, peopled With 81, 900 souls :
Aed, ior some reason know not, 1.-THE Athens :
Alsace,"-a quiet, old-fashionod place, where
and retired heroes live The Young
en- have fed; nor do they fly with pleasant
oughts. A lady, born in Carlsruhe, wife of
'lnar exile, was sitting at the table d'hote in
tncy- '.Ah!' said an acquaintance, shave Il
for?" was the angry reply. ST never want :,
see those brutes again. This, my son, now
must one day ayenge the wrongs of i
ance, and ! mean to make him military I
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