Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
Three strange Pictures.


there is smoothing new under the sun"
Ii be is correct. and we must be ortho-
dox enough to believe that be is, or was,
and keeping steadily in view, that faith
is one of the cardinal points of that
creed which is to connect US with the
happy unknown future, then our pic
lures are not strange in point Of fact /;
they only seem so to US, because We
never saw them before. If he is cor
rect, such pictures have been exhibited
TO the people of the old world in other
days, with other people for actors. HUI
man nature is unchanged; it is as 1t
was when the first man was made
there is nothing new in it under the sun.
Our first picture IS in France, and it
exhibits so much that is frail and foul
In humankind that thinkers almost
conclude that France has been given
over directly to Satanic influences, and
as a consequence, is working under
the qualities which he imparts to his
loyal and loving subjects.
The two central figures in the pic
ture are Asrsh.ls McMabon and Ba-
zaine, the former as the head of the
French government, with the prospects
Of any day becoming its recognized
Emperor, the latter condemned to be
shst as traitor, with sentence COM
muted TO twenty years. imprisonment.
These two men were the pillars in the
Empire of Napoleon I'LL, which King
William SO suddenly knocked to pieces,
and both surrendered to the latter with
large armies. These marsLals we're the
pride of Napoleon's army, and were
expected to march from one end Of
Germany to the other. The result,
however, was different, for when the
Germans got among them they were to
the French as Taurus was to the crock
shop. Fragmnets of the French armies
few hitber and thither, while the two
great bodies centered at Sedan under
McManon, and at Metz under Bazaine.
Napoleon was with McMahon at Sedan.
A few sound German knocks induced
McMahon to surrender fully equipped
army of one hundred and twenty-five
thousand men with the Emperor of the
French Empire.
Bazaine was at Metz, and of course
after McMahon and Napoleon were out
of the way, all of the German forces
were centered about him. The mar
shal fought well, desperately, but it was
all of no avail. He was met on every
side and shut up and besieged. After
8 time he, too, surrendered an army of
one hundred and seventy thousand men,
and thus the Napoleonic Empire was
entirely broken up. A sort of Re-
public took its place under Thiers.-
After time he Was displaced, and Nc
Eahon, one of the marshais Of the EN-
pire, was installed in his stead. Mean
while Bazaine, who was as loyal as Nc
Mahon, was subjected to trial, and last
week sentenced to be shot as q common
deserter. The sentence has, however,
been commuted, and instead of its pen
atty being imposed, be will be impris-
oned for twenty years somewhere not
yet designated What picture.
A second picture we find Lele at
home among ourselves, and the cause
of it is found in the capture Of the Nir-
ginius and the murder of large num-
ber of those found on board of her.
A shudder of horror at the barbarity
of that execution ran through the coun-
try. The whole people were indignant
and demanded satisfaction, which will
be rendered, it is hoped, without the
calamity of war. The central figures
m III fs:s -T1i pic;Iffe ;Iffe are the loudly clamOrlng
men for vengeance agsls.' those who
"ipsulted our flag aud defed our gov
eminent" They are the same men
who, few years ago, tramplcd the flag
they now manifest SO much concern for,
under their feet, and svore that rather
than live under the government, the
honor of which they express themselves
ready to die for, they would emi CRATE
to Cuba, Spain, South America, any
where indeed, so that they would not
be under the rule Of the Fandals OF
the North. What = picture. How
powerfully it speaks for the humanity
of the Government, and how silently
but Overwhelmingly it condemns the
late Rebellion.
The third and last picture Of the
group is found in the Congress of the
United States. There, As the repre-
sentative of the Southern view of civil
iIation, and q central figure, may be
seen. Alexander Ii. Stephens, ex-Vice
President Of the defunct Southern Con-
federscy. If the Rebel government
had been q success, the wsrld would
not have been greeted with the sight of
any Northern man who had been prom
inen. in the government against rebel
lion being allowed seat in the Rebel
Congress. Their notions are not of
that generous and :orgiving kind.
Just the other day Ny. Stephens
made speech on the salary grab ques-