The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-21

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attained; let Industry perish and he arts be
eXiiugnished-that is the affair on he inhabi-
tants, not ouls.
But of Srasbourg the PrussiA officials
speak with solicitude; they intend TO render
IL happier and more flourshing Than ever.
Slras6ourg, decayed under France, shall enter
upon an era of prosperity such as French
cities have never known. powerful uniVer-
sity, richly endowed, shall draF tLither the
most celebrated professors of Germany. What
has become of these magnificent promises!
Fifty-two GermanH have replaced in the uni
verslly fifty-one Frenchmen, as veil known
and better Informed than their successors.
| No distinguished man OF Germany has been
vii irg 10 accept the Prnssian t6trs and en-
counter the unlavorable disposition OF the AL
satans. Even of those more obs.ure profess
sors, gathered up from everywhere some have
alreaoy taken flight, mortified with the void
around them and their deserted lectures. Iu
fact there are no scholars, and In order
| 10 supply them special scholarships have bpen
created for Strasbourg only. IN solte ofthese
advantages, 30 eagerly announced, only those
inhabitants have remained who are detained
| by their necessities. Here, as everywhere. rich
and though many of The larger industries
| have not ceased their labnrs, as this would
have ruined thousands Of families, yet In Al
SAGE the current of emigration has been as
considerable aa In The environs OF Metz. The
villages OF the French Vosges are peopled
| with the new comers. Epinal mas lOO0, St.
| Die, 250o-the whole department As. 600 more
than before. The population of Nancy has
greatly Increased, and many large manuiac-
| tories have Teen transferred thther.
There are In the ceded territory whole VII.
| lages where neither workmen nor factory
masters dare 10 spend the night. Every eve
niug thousands of men pass over into france,
who thus establish that they are Frenchmen,
| and return on the morrow 10 their labor. In
| the suburbs OF Metz women drove the plough
and sowed the helds 10 OCTOBER. Eltire VIII
lapAs In German Lorral1a, especially In the
envrOns of Bitche, remain deserted.
Those who stay are In general no less hos
| tile 10 Germany than those who 60. Tney be-
long principally 10 the middllng cltes, VINO
have only house or few nelus LOT iaeir Es soie
properly, and 10 quit them is ruin. Tne
| workm IN has his strong arms aud tools,
which 20 with him; the rich can spare part
OF their reyeuue-but these have nothing
else. Theirs is a sad lot. The relations OF
family, friendship and Deighoorhood, 40 dear
10 the dwelers In provincial towns, are broken
ND Iby the numerous departures; they remain
Isolated; and the home pleasures 10 Wnlcn one
takes refuge ln the midst OF public sorrow,
are dried up at their souEees. AS to outdoor
enioyments, they have been unknown for the
last TWO wears 10 Alsace. The spring fairs,
which drew together a large concourse OF
people, and amused whole department for
month, are treqnenled only by Germans. On
the German public fete days the Frencn re-
main within doors with windows closed; even
the workmen take their dinners 10 the shops,
that they may not meet them. ltls ike ven
Ice under the Austrian rule.
Even In German Lorraine the peOple nave
scarcely spoken that language since tne COZ
unest, and the mistake OF the victors IN re-
6ap,izlng the towns-calling ThlonVlle Dled-
enhofen, Chateau.Sslins Salzbnrg, &C., &C.
only makes the inhabitants hold more strong-
ly to the old names.
Ihe emigration has carriel of 30 many
youths that they find almost none for the
Prussian army. In the greater part OF Inc
towns aud villages rot o man has awaited
their conscrIption. At St. Avoid three pre-
aenled themselves, all inarm; at Sarre. Union,
one able bodied man. At Metz, where the
there were this year only htty-seven, of whom
tfty.one saved themselves In France. me
Germans give different figures. They claim
twenty volunteers In Melz. Nothing ls more
exact; but they neglect to mention that these
5Ss Of srnaay na Isss me
conquest.
Boys of sixteen and eighteen have fled In
groups, not waiting for their turn TO arrive,
One, living on the banks oil the MED, SAID 10
his mother, who slroVe 10 retain hlm, III
you keep me, will throw myself under the
bridge where the water Ia deepest" Another
replied to the eplreat;es Of his family, XIII
me, will pardon you my death; but II you
make me Prussian will never pardon you" !"
Generally no Resistance has been made to tne
departure of the youths, though they took
with them all the joy and even The support OF
the family. Those mothers who had wilt
messed Prisslan reviews at Comar1 Stras-
bourg, &C., did not Wish, at any price, to expose
their sons 10 the same severity.
The last straw added 10 the burden OF those
lett behind Is the Imposition of Two new taxes
None on the culture Of tubacco and the other
on The price of salt which, coming on people
go exhausted already, s not likely 10 pro.
mote better feeling. After all, the ground OF
Alsace. Lorraine may belong 10 the Germans,
but their souls will be French still.