portable—pieces of canvns, six or seven feet 
by two, stretched over a couple of slender 
poles—others on large light wheels, and fur¬ 
nished with a hood like a Bath chair, with 
cushions for the head mul shoulders, and 
holes for the heels. These elongated Bath 
chairs are so light that, they may be lifted 
with ease over ditches, or carried by two 
men, one before and one behind, over heavy 
ground. It, is satisfactory to see that the art 
of solacing the wounded in some measure 
keeps pace with maiming the sound. 
Slierl'lnu ami rlii* French. 
The following reasons arc given why Gen. 
Rukrtiun was not allowed to accompany 
the French armies: — The actual reason for 
refusing our Lieutenant-General in camp 
may not, however, he known. It, is simply 
that if Rheiudan is permitted to ride with 
the Emperor, it fixes a precedent as to 
otllcers from neutral nations. Others could 
not he refused, and France does not know 
how soon site may find some of the neutrals 
in the field Against her. The case of Eng¬ 
land is in point. IfSiUSRIDAN were allowed 
to accompany the French army, English 
olllcers could not he refused, and, as England 
is stirring and angry, and talking of circum¬ 
stances under which she would take tip 
arms, there must not, be a precedent fixed 
that would admit English officers to French 
camps. 
Miiminniinity of the frown Prince, 
A charming story is told by a foreign cor¬ 
respondent of the Crown Prince of Prussia. 
After the battle of Wicsseivbourg, several 
hundred prisoners filed in with high heads 
and stern looks, poor fellows! Gen. YON 
Bittenfield and his stuff looked at iliem 
coldly. Suddenly, the Prince of Prussia 
rode up, and when he saw the prisoners he 
took off his hat with serious respect and 
bowed to them; then, turning to Von Bit¬ 
tenfield and the others, said :—“ Salute 
courage, gentlemen; never in my life have 
I seen anything so brave as these soldiers, 
whom ill luck has played falsely.” 
Tin- ChaHHOpoi In Actual t’se. 
Of the clmssepot in actual use a private 
letter from the field says:—“Nothing could 
he worse than a ebassepot at short range. 
We see the Frenchmen spitting on their 
cartridges, sticking their fingers into their 
guns, and giving every possible sign that, 
after a few shots, the chasscpot gels so foul 
they don’t know how to treat it.” 
The Tiircnn. 
In the system of drill instituted in the 
army of the Second Empire, dependence is 
not placed so much Upon the combined 
power of serried ranks as upon the activity, 
dash and fighting capability of the indi¬ 
vidual soldier. Algerian campaigns have 
had something to do with this, modern arms 
of precision more, for it seems to have been 
a theory with French commanders that bat¬ 
tles would henceforth lie won by lines of 
skirmishers, who, scattered wherever cover 
was available, would by a rapid fire prevent 
any attack in mass by the opposing army. 
In such a system as this the Tureo was ex¬ 
pected to do gallant service. Agile, daring 
and fierce, with a natural talent for skir¬ 
mishing, a certain native ferocity which 
stood him in good stead when the final rush 
was to lie made, and a reputation for savage 
ferocity when the battle was over, lie was a 
terror to the Germans whose hamlets lie 
was expected to ravage. 
The tide of battle, however, has turned in 
another direction, the Turco advancing in 
Ids peculiar acrobatic fashion, of which we 
heard so much in the Italian campaign, lias 
been met by the close Prussian ranks and 
been beaten. At Woerth these troops played 
a conspicuous part in many respects. They 
fought like tigers while fighting was possi¬ 
ble; we hear of them dropping as though 
dead, and when the enemy’s line had passed 
springing up and shooting them from be¬ 
hind, as the native troops are said to have 
done at Assnye. On the field of battle, 
when the victory was won, they were again 
conspicuous. Tales have been told of cruelty 
to wounded enemies, of mutilation of (lie 
dead and dying. While they are lying nl- 
iix department 
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. 
[We continue to extract from the correspondence 
of our own and forciirn papers, such paragraphs as 
heat give pictures of the state of things in Europe.] 
Wrinsina Frcneli llcnrts. 
A correspondent with the French army 
sends a letter received from Paris, from 
which wc extract:—“I went to see my 
brother Tuesday. In crossing Paris, groups 
everywhere. Near the Hotel do Yillc there 
were people enough to fill the Place as far as 
the Tour St. Jacques, all this crowd waiting 
to hear the dispatches. Going up the Rue 
du Temple ami the Faubourg du Temple, l 
met poor young women, with their lit lie chil¬ 
dren, accompanying their husbands, who 
were setting off for the war. flow sad it. 
was to see these poor young women, not 
able to tear themselves away from their hus¬ 
bands, and their little children hugging and 
clinging to their fathers to keep them from 
going! Continuing to Belleville, always the 
same groups, hut peaceable and sad, as if 
they were all awaiting death. It was easy 
to see in all this quarter that the workmen 
are without work, nearly all the workshops 
shut up. 
Gen, Von Moltkc’n Opinion ol Ihe French 
Officers. 
A letter appears in the Saint Public of 
Lyons relative to the instructions which the 
Prussian and French officers are respectively 
obliged to possess, in which the writer 
quotes the opinion of Gen. Vox Moltke on 
French strategy and military education. lie 
says“ Gen. Von Moltke lias always mani¬ 
fested t he greatest contempt for our strategy. 
1 remember having heard quoted some of 
his very words addressed to a French officer 
on a mission to Berlin :—' Do noTtulk to me 
of your milit ary education in Africa. If you 
have never been there, so much the better; 
when you become General you will he glad 
of it. The war you have been carrying on 
fur forty years against, the Arabs is a gueril- 
lcrio of an inferior order. Never any skill¬ 
ful marches, no feints, no countermarches, 
rarely any surprises. With that school you 
will do noth lug more than form other schools 
like it. The first great war will demon¬ 
strate your inefficiency, and were I not in 
presence of a, man of your merit, sir, I 
should not hesitate to laugh at your ignor¬ 
ance of the trade to which you devote your- 
f«*l Vi*H. 
“ ‘ Among you—do not deny it—a pioneer is 
almost a ridiculous person, and in general, 
Ihe workingman is one of mean intelligence. 
Jlore, on the contrary, the most conscientious 
studies are in the order of the day, and the 
lowest Captain knows as much as your staff 
officers who ate so brilliant in the ball-room. 
Have you even a superficial smattering of the 
elements of the military art on leaving your 
special schools? lain tempted to doubt it. 
; Como, now,’ continued Gen. dk Moltke, 
taking the other by the band, ‘ 1 wager that 
you do not, know which is the most valuable 
piece of furniture for the chamber of an of¬ 
ficer in garrison. Come with me.’ So saying 
the old Prussian led his interlocutor into a 
small bed-chamber suited to a sub-lieutenant; 
a small bed without curtains, three straw 
chairs, shelves of books from the floor to the 
roof, and in the, middle of the room a black 
wooden hoard on an easel; the ground 
strewed with morsels of chalk. ‘ It is with 
this that we beat our adversaries every morn¬ 
ing,' murmured the old tactician, who was 
destined to give afterward so severe a lesson 
to Gen. Fkohsakd, the Professor of the 
Prince Imperial. ‘And for drawings, here 
is all we want,’and M. di; Moltke exhibited 
some geological maps. What a singular 
conversation, when one thinks that it took 
place in March, 1870; for I copy it literally 
from a letter dated the 21st of that month. 
AVh.it may we not have to say about the les¬ 
sons to he derived from it? We shall profit 
by them at a later period.’ ” 
A Sketch of Kina William nml HiMmnrck. 
Murat Halstead writes: — The real 
master of those imposing legions, whatever 
may he said of rank or title, is the big man 
Bismarck, whose good English I heard the 
other day at 1st. Avoid, and whose restless, 
daring and piercing eye especially told his 
character, and was the indication of his 
force of intellect and will. 
By the wav, I believe there was not much 
said in the brief letter from St. Avoid about 
flic personal appearance of the King and 
Bismarck. The King’s headquarters were 
in the post-office, fronting a small square 
paved with stone, and overlooked by a 
weather - beaten church tower. Walking 
through the square, we happened to sec the 
King at the window, looking out as if he 
wanted to see what might he worth ob¬ 
serving. llis Majesty reminds me of Gen. 
Burnside. His razor gives his portly chin 
that delicate polish, that perfect cleanliness 
and soft brilliancy that the steel imparted to 
our General’s facial foundation. Then he is 
bald like Burnside, and wears mustache 
and whiskers in the same style. He lacks, 
however, the upper part of that dome of 
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L’HE FRENCH TURCOS ON THE M/Y liCII 
coming could ho seen for two or three miles, 
white as aclialk mark, gradually descending 
toward us, and made very conspicuous by 
the usual rows of tall poplars. The team¬ 
sters still on tin;road, and filling it, as far as 
we could see, turned aside, giving room for 
the King’s escort and carriages. The caval¬ 
cade came on, full tilt,; the guards in steel 
jackets, and flowing plumes and drawn sa¬ 
bers, staving by, every man erect,, and star¬ 
ing straight ahead, the horses trotting togeth¬ 
er as if they were a monstrous machine 
worked by steam power. As the first car¬ 
riage whirled by, there was a slight cltcer, 
hut not for tlie King. Home said it was for 
Moltke. Perhaps it, was, hut till that I 
could make out. plainly was a very long and 
slender pair of boots, miraculously polished. 
The King came along presently, bowing 
easily in return for the greeting he received ; 
and after him was another tempest, of caval¬ 
ry, and a whirl of the wagons containing the 
luggage or Ills Majesty, and then the team¬ 
sters crocked their whips and tore into the 
road, swearing as teamsters always do, and 
got up a diabolical confusion, in the midst of 
which officers galloped and whirled their 
horses, yelling like mad, in the vain effort to 
out-curse the teamsters. 
Skill of Urn stria II Spies. 
A French paper says the Prussians are 
wonderfully well informed of everything 
that goes on, even to the smallest details. 
Rome days ago a regiment of Uldansentered 
a village through which the French army 
had passed four-and-twenty hours before. 
The French had with great difficulty ob¬ 
tained 8,000 rations from the country people; 
the Prussians required 25,000; they were 
told that it. was impossible to comply with 
this demand, and that by completely d e- 
spoiling the inhabitants it would he impossi¬ 
ble to collect move than a quarter of what 
was claimed. The commandant pulled some 
notes out of his pocket and looked through 
them. “ Where is Schultz ?” said he. 
“ Here 1 am, commandant,” replied an hon¬ 
est fellow, reddening with pride at finding 
himself known to so powerful a person. 
“ You have three cows, a hundred hens. 1 
know where you have hidden your oats; 
you withdrew your flour yesterday. Be so 
good as to fetch all that, and he quick about 
it." Thus the -commandant called all the 
inhabitants, one after the other, and proved 
halt! head that gave our General’s photo¬ 
graphs such a fine finish. Then the King is 
erect and tall, like Burnside, and gracious, 
too. 
Bismarck may he taller than the King, ns 
T believe he has the reputation of being, hut 
lie is ho burly and is surrounded by such fall 
men, that he has not the appearance of the 
great bight that 1 expected. When I saw 
him lie was in uniform, wearing a dragoon’s 
saber. In the midst of the splendid uni¬ 
forms surrounding him, Bismarck’s was not 
notable. His cap was white with, I think, 
a red baud; and ho moved about, casting 
Ids eyes here and there, and jerking Ids 
sheathed saber with sharp energy, like a 
man whose nerves were strung until they 
wore tingling liy the excitement of immense 
and pressing affairs. An officer who spoke 
English had been conversing with us, and 
when wc left him to walk away, Bismarck 
called him and asked what we were about. 
Being told whom we were, he strode direct 
to us. AVIien lie was manifestly coining to 
us, I was at a loss to conjecture what fell 
purpose he might have formed; hut, no 
doubt having nothing better at the moment 
to do, lie choose to be polite to two Ameri¬ 
can journalists. 
He is said to lie fully aware of, and to en¬ 
joy especially, his great reputation in Eng¬ 
land and America, and, as lie speaks English 
quite well, it is a pleasure to him to give 
himself the exercise. His appearance gives 
some warrant for the rumors that Ids health 
is bad. His complexion indicates an unre¬ 
liable sanitary condition, hut the excitement 
of the war will no doubt carry him through. 
Did l mention in another letter, (I believe 
that I did,) the curiosity with which the 
King looked, from his easy chair at the win¬ 
dow, upon his Chancellor, with Ids left hand 
on the handle of his saber, conversing with a 
couple of strangers, whose toilets had been 
very imperfectly made. The old fellow had 
on his Burnside look. 
AYe saw the King again at Faulquemont, 
taking as a point of observation, a bridge for 
the turnpike over the railroad. It was near¬ 
ly sundown. The wagon trains were filliug 
adjoining fields, and the smoke of the bivouac 
fires of half a dozen regiments of infantry 
and some batteries and cavalry, was settling 
in a blue haze on the little valleys south and 
west. The road on which the King was 
to them that lie was as well acquainted as 
themselves with their resources. It is need¬ 
less to add that the 25,000 rations were 
made up in an hour’s time. The Prussians 
act in this manner everywhere, thanks to 
the skill and number of their spies; and 
this explains how such great numbers always 
seem well provided with food. 
The Prumriau Sniilini-y and Spiritual 
Coin IIIIIM. 
Dr. Russell writes the London Times: 
After the destructive columns, come the san¬ 
itary columns, and finally What may he called 
the spiritual columns. Infantry to perforate 
Ihe foe, artillery to smash him, cavalry to 
lacerate him, and, at the same time, Knights 
Hospital lore, hearing the red and white cross 
of neutrality, to drag him from the field of 
death, Sisters of Mercy to tend him, doctors 
to cure him, or if it bo too late for that, 
priests to save his soul. Everything is or¬ 
ganized here. There is even a corps of 
grave diggers—dead-buriers, they are called 
—who are under command, and have to do 
their duty like every one else. The sanitary 
and spiritual columns give almost a religious 
aspect to Uio warlike procession, which, as 
it moves away over the hills, looks more like 
a procession of pilgrims approaching a holy 
shrine than of soldiers invading a hostile 
country. Of the Krunkcntrnsjnr, some are 
men of the Landwehr, wearing uniforms, 
others are students from the hospitals or uni¬ 
versities, in plain clothes. All exhibit the 
red cross, worked or stamped on a white 
cloth, which is tied round the left arm. 
Besides the Sisters in black ancl white, 
there is a corps of Sisters who wear dark 
slate colored dresses and white hoods, with 
butterfly wings, and, like the Kraukentr/if/cr, 
display round the left arm the red cross on 
a while ground. These admirable women 
have already done excellent service. They 
were on the field of battle, on the night of 
the (3th, before the firing had ceased, and 
l liis morning, as the clock struck five, I saw 
a party of them walking through the streets 
ou their way towards Forbach, beyond which 
town there will soon he more work for 
them to do. All the sisters march on foot, 
each little company preceded by a priest or 
a pastor. Most of the Kmnkentraffer go 
also on foot, hut a few of them ride in 
wagons in charge of the litters and medical 
stores. Tim litters are of two kinds, some 
