Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-01
MA RSHAL BAZAINE'S TRIAL.

progress at Versailles, France, promises
to be one of the most imposing and
eventful of modern military trials. In
the presence of his peers, and sur
rounded by the greatest names that
| France can show, this weather. beaten
soldier, standing at the very summit of
French military glory, proudly awaits
the sentence of his countrymen. What
| that sentence will be has already been
| foreshadowed by a remark of Duke
| d'Aumale, the President of the court
martial-namely, that the accused would
almost surely be convicted and after
ward pardoned. That Marshal Bazaine
was a coward no one who reads his dis
tinguished record can for moment
believe that he made some errors in
judgment the French people are united
traitor to the country remains to be
proved. If condemned to death, there
is scarcely doubt that he will die like
u brave soldier but, in view of his dis
tinguished services, it is generally be-
lieved that he will be pardoned. Mar
shall Bazaine is charged with treachery
to the arms of his country, in that he
failed to relieve Gen. Froissard at the
important battle of Forbach that he
failed to exercise due vigilance and
promptitude in the defense of Metz;
that he committed fatal blunders during
the progress of that memorable siege,
and finally, that he capitulated against
the wishes of the soldiery and the
people, and in the most inglorious and
suspicious manner.
Whatever may be thought of Bazaine
by the general voice of his judges, it is
clear that the opinion of the people
must be decidedly against him. When
the Marshal left Metz to proceed to
Nancy, it was difficult to prevent the
good people of Metz from lynching him
Upon the walls of the citywere sketched
in chalk, "Bazaine and Cofiiniere,
traitors and cowards." Upon the ques-
ton of his military guilt it may not be
out OF place to quote the words of the
London Daily Ne,cs' correspondent
(no mean authority, as given at the
imte: =" His policy is explicable enough,
viewed in a military light. His cue
evidently from the first has been to keep
the fortress so as to be able to maintain
his resistance. He has made effort
after effort to get his army out, and his
penultimate proffer to Prince Frederick
Charles was to surrender the army and
allow the fortress to stand. When this
was rejected, what good purpose could
it have answered to dcplete the forts to
enable the army to hold out a little
longer in its fruitlcss efforts? Thus far,
on military grounds, no one can blame
him; but that he has let men starve
while he had food anywhere that he
could give them constitutes very grave
moral responsibility. Such is the
opinion of close observer at the time.
What will be the opinion and decision
of his peers remains to be seen.
LACONICS For TIE LADIES.
WHISPERED advice to young ladies who
would conquer during this hot weather
Keep your powder dry.
A HIBERNIAN of a poetical turn of
mind says love is regarded as flame,
because it is tinder sentiment.
ECONOMICAL Syracuse ladies fortify
their trails with sheet iron, and the boys
greet them with a Whoop! 7!
A CHERRY VALLEY lady's beau wanted
to borrow five dollars of her, when she
Immediately put VITO on his further
visits.
AN old bachelor says that women are
like parrots they are willing to be Gagged
up, if they can only have a ring to play
with.
A MILWAUKEE man, who paid $3.50 for
his wife's molars, being complimented
on the "pearly" appearance of herteeth,
growled, scripturally, eyes ; pearls of
great price"
Two young ladies of La Crosse were
standing by the side of a ditch thirteen
feet wide, which they didn't know how
to cross, when their escort said ''Snakes!'
and they cleared it at a bound.
A New YORK paper, in an account OF
the voyage of the Juniata to Greenland,
, describes "the effects of blubber on
the female FORM" The effects of female
blubber on the male form are known tc
! be melting i'll the extreme.
) The Canon City Times tells the whole
story of Anna Dickinson's ascent of the
Rocky mountains after this fashion
, GA plain, closely fitting corsage, short
i skirt, extending just below the knee,
: trousers wide at bottom, a few inches
longer, blue stockings, with white arrow
n worked from ankle up, low quartered
: shoes, like a gentleman's Oxford ties,
+ Anna made Government pack mule fee
t that life had no further charms, for she
!; rode to the top in the same style as hen
: escort! Mercy! and did she? To be GER
!, tainly, madam, and was none the worse,