that I have found a new Minister. That 
was this M. Ollivicr, who now makes this 
war against us.’ ‘ If. is terrible, indeed; and 
I think your artillery is very formidable.’ 
‘ No, sir, it is not superior to yours, but we 
make different use of it from what you do, 
placing it more freely with the advanced 
posts. Your aim is very good—too good, 
indeed; for we have lost, I think, more men 
than you have. I have regiments which 
have lost twenty-nine or thirty officers. But 
we have taken prisoners, and that restores 
tion; and, next, because I do not wish any 
ill to the French.” 
“ What do you want, then ?” 
“ What I want, and should like, is to go 
back to my country and sec my wife and 
children.” Then tears. 
In every house where the enemy’s soldiers 
have eaten or slept, there is weeping. A 
heavy father, incorporated in the laudwehr, 
or landsturm, I don’t know which, who was 
taken from a bakery in Saverue, said to me, 
with tears in his eyes, “ Why can't I end 
are a fine, strong-looking set of follows, 
whose services, it may be hoped, for the 
sake of humanity, may not be called into 
requisition.” 
How a I'riiNBtnn Spy was (.'aunlit in Parin. 
A letter from Paris says:—■“ Only the day 
before yesterday a man was apprehended, 
who was employed as a common laborer 
wheeling earth to and fro in a barrow, to 
form the revetment of the newly-constructed 
wall of circumvallation. Stupidly enough, 
he had not observed the precaution of soil- 
tory.’ Is it. victory because the Emperor 
just escaped being made prisoner? Is it 
victory because our army was not cut in 
two on the Moselle? Is it, victory because, 
after four days’ fighting, we at length shook 
off an enemy which all that time harassed 
our retreat? If it is victory, where are the 
prisoners, the guns, and the flags to show 
for it? If the Prussians should take the 
Emperor prisoner, let them keep him. Not 
a p;u - ticle of our national genius or honor 
will go with him. Let his wife and son share 
___________ with 
B j Prussian soldiers. 
fense; but, covered 
on tlie point of lull¬ 
ing, when the King 
ordered him to he 
taken alive. The 
Prussians obeyed with great difficulty, and 
look him before their master. ‘ What is your 
nam^V* asked the King. * What matters 
a name? I am a Frenchman.’ ‘ You are a 
ilutr Department 
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. 
(We continue to extract from the correspondence 
of our own and foreign papers., such paragraphs as 
best give pictures of the state of things in Europe.] 
The Crown Prince of Prussia nn«l Two 
French Journalists. 
Two French journalists were taken pris¬ 
oners aud brought into the presence of the 
ity of his glance 
convinced you of 
his decision. A full, fair beard softens the 
somewhat stern expression of his features, 
lie lias great simplicity of manner, and af¬ 
fects rather a kind of bourgeois style of 
speaking, thinking, and general behavior. 
He was dressed in a black tunic, with red 
collar and facings, without any embroidery 
or gold braid, upon the shoulder a small 
epaulet to iudicate his rank, but no other dis¬ 
tinguishing ornament. He wore a small 
black cap bordered with red, and the whole 
uniform was severely simple. lie speaks 
French with great purity, without foreign 
accent beyond a slight German intonation 
and occasional hesitation at certain words. 
“ ‘Do you speak German, sir?’ said he to 
me. ‘No, Prince, not sufficiently.’ *1 am 
sorry for it, as otherwise you would have 
heard in what manner our troops speak of 
yours, and in what esteem they hold them.’ 
‘ 1 thank you very much for that opinion.’ 
‘Oh, it is quite deserved. VYe have all ad¬ 
mired the tenacity and the courage which 
have been evinced by even the humblest of 
your soldiers.’ Then, with much delicate 
consideration, and almost making excuses 
for mentioning the facts to us, lie told us 
that they had taken between 3,000 and 4,000 
prisoners, thirty guns, six mitrailleuses, aud 
two eagles. ‘ Among the prisoners,’ said he, 
is Gen. Raoult. 1 went this morning to 
sec him at Reichsofen, where he lies wound¬ 
ed, his hip aud thigh being broken; I fear 
that he is now dying. He is a brave officer, 
and he lias given me some addresses in 
Paris to which he wishes letters to he sent.’ 
‘ But, Prince,’ I observed, ‘ the other prison¬ 
ers also have families.’ ‘ I have thought of 
that. I have had them supplied with writ¬ 
ing materials; the letters will be sent un¬ 
sealed to our consul at Geneva, who will for¬ 
ward them to France.’ 
“ ‘ Prince, we thank you on behalf of the 
mothers whose grief you are about to as¬ 
suage.’ ‘ I do not like war, gentlemen. If I 
'I'M 10 CROWN PRINCE OIP. PRUSSIA. - liiiiAADINGf TiiliL.JSGfli A.M.^ 
e, the campaign beside my decent, oven ? I 
iu am the head of a flourishing house; I em¬ 
ploy five bakers’ hoys; I have a wife and 
r- three children. Is my proper place, now, 
v- under the llag, a mark for French bullets ?” 
A musician, who is perhaps a composer of a 
in comic opera in his own country, showed my 
in valet the photograph of his wife, and cried, 
It “ She is pretty, it seems, that little German 
ie girl, and she has two cradles to look after.” 
re How Paris Uiatcrs wore Armed. 
The rioters at La Villctto, August 14, 
were mostly Germans, especially Badois; 
'• the remainder French. No doubt exists of 
L > an extensive secret organization. A Paris 
w correspondent writes “ They were armed 
not only with long-barreled revolvers, but 
V with daggers made out of long files, the 
JC blunL end of which fits into a heavy, clumsily 
‘ ll fashioned handle, loaded with lead sit the 
a * butt. The weapon is most formidable. The 
I blade being triangular, internal hemorrhage 
I is induced, and a wound made with it is al- 
most certainly fatal. The polico have dis- 
‘1* covered numerous deposits of revolvers and 
lC daggers of this kind, and upwards of twenty 
er individuals, not connected with the La Vil- 
16 lette tragedy, have been apprehended, upon 
10 whom weapons identical witli these were 
d found. Il is asserted proof:-*, exist of a direct 
h* connivance of the culprits with the agents 
of M. De Bismakck, who is accused of 
seeking to create riot and confusion in Paris, 
■y with a view to discourage the army on the 
2S frontier.” 
II Pompiers in Paris. 
A Tribune correspondent writes:—“ Paris 
If ’ has become peopled with firemen, or pom- 
lo piers, within the last few days. They have 
e come from all parts of France, speak all 
m kinds of patois, wear all sorts of uniforms, 
according to their several localities, but all 
: n distinguished by the bright, brass helmet 
and red feather. They are all soldiers who 
a ' had fulfilled their term of service, hut whom 
the perils of the hour have again called into 
activity. Being a well-organized aud tried 
at body of men. they are of the right kind for 
;d garrison duty. They will be drafted for ser- 
at vice in the forts and on the walls, and will 
as be lodged in the barracks at present occu- 
i: pied by the active employes. The artille¬ 
ry will he served by the sailors and marines 
of the navy. All these men are, it is said, 
_ well trained in gunnery practice, and are 
:e therefore specially adapted to garrison the 
a- forts, and to do duty on the ramparts. They 
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