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the franco-prussian war. 
[WE continue to extract from t!ie correspondence 
of our own and foreign papers, such paragraphs as 
test give pictures of the state of things in Europo.J 
Celebrating the Republic. 
Our readers know that immediately fol¬ 
lowing tlie capture of the Emperor Nauo- 
i.eox and the surrender of Marshal Mac- 
Mation’s army, the Corps Legislatif, by 
formal vote, declared Impend forfeiture, and 
proclaimed a Republic. Thus, in brief space, 
was a peaceful Revolution accomplished 
amid the enthusiastic applause of the Paris¬ 
ians, who cried, wept, laughed, shouted, em¬ 
braced, kissed, danced, and sang; they 
marched up and down, soldiers and civil¬ 
ians, men and women, boys anti girls, wav¬ 
ing flags along the. Boulevards, with torches 
in the evening, and making every possible 
sign of popular gladness. Such was the 
temper of the capital of France after the. 
news of her amazing defeat. Our engraving 
gives a spirited representation in one part of 
Paris—a scene common to every part. 
The Prussian Scout*. 
M. About writes from Bnvernc:—About 
two o’clock it was easy to see the scouts on 
every little hillock, or coming round about 
slowly, one by one, or two by two, along our 
roads. 
At last, at half-past four o’clock, a move- 
people in the main street an- 
Almost i in¬ 
's go slowly up to 
the aiithorf- 
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nounced to me the Anal result 
mediately 1 saw t wo hussar 
the bight of the Casino, when 
ties of the town were assembled. 1 
them, one hundred paces oft', three 
were seen, and these five risked themselves 
in the midst of 5,381 souls, if the guide book 
lolls the truth. 
One of the two first, whom l never lost 
sight of, was a simple cavalryman, with a 
very short and stumpy musket; the other 
must have been a sub-lieutenant, from the 
stripe on his sleeve. His only weapon was 
a sword. Both of them seemed young, and 
were rather good looking than otherwise. 
They went slowly forward, looking to left, 
to right aud behind them, with a distrustful 
but haughty and conquering air. Their eyes 
said, “ We are conquerors; the people here 
may kill us, but if we leave our skins here, 
there is an army of 150,000 men a little bit 
olF, who will avenge ns.” 
The Mayor came down from the Casino, 
and asked them, in German, what they 
wanted. 
The officer, in a sharp, harsh voice, asked, 
“Are there soldiers here?” At, the same 
time the soldier covered the chest of the ex¬ 
cellent Advocate and Mayor Ostemnum with 
his weapon. 
The Mayor put the uncomfortable look¬ 
ing tiling aside and said, “ If you wouldn’t 
cover me in that way, 1 could talk more at 
my ease.” 
The. officer asked drily a second time, 
“ Have you soldiers V” 
“ No, sir; I am the Mayor of the town —” 
“ That is nothing to me.” 
“ I shall tell you everything you "wish, if 
you will come with me to the Town Hall.” 
“ We have no time. Have you any 
wounded ?” 
“Yes, a few in the ambulance.” 
“Much wounded or not?” 
“ Borne much, some little.” 
“ Have you any troopers’ horses?” 
“ None.” 
“ I saw some in the plain of Monxviller.” 
“ They are all either runaways or sick, 
w hich is why our soldiers abandoned them.” 
“ Very well!” 
The officer then turns bis horse's head, his 
orderly follows him. The three other hus¬ 
sars, who had meanwhile bought some wine 
and some sausages, grin, pay for what they 
have had, and disappear. 
Twenty more came back at a quarter past 
seven. Their leader went to the Mayor and 
said: 
“ We must have, at ten to-morrow morn¬ 
ing, 20,000 loaves of six pounds each ; or, if 
not, we must have 100,000 francs down.” 
“ We shall do everything that is possible.” 
“ Good evening.” 
After that they disappear in every direc¬ 
tion, wander through the streets, gather to¬ 
gether again, and go off, to come back in 
greater number to-morrow. Our enemy is 
like a prudent player, risking little first., then 
more, then a good deal, but always safely. 
Would that our leaders would profit by the 
example, aud get into the way of feeling 
about a little before putting their last six¬ 
pence down; on the table. 
MncMalioti in hi* l.nst Hattie. 
A French officer who escaped to Belgium 
says:—"To relate what MacMauon did is 
impossible. Steel, lire, melted metal, ex¬ 
plosive balls, and l don’t know what other 
! infernal mixtures the Prussians there made 
'■% use of for the first time, appeared to stream 
!*■ off or rebound from him like hail from a 
^ roof. He went to the front seeking death. 
K 1 Leave me, my friends,’ lie said to us all, 
CELEBRATING THE PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC ON THE BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS, PARIS, 
A fine wire attached thereto is made to 
surround two small cores of soft iron. As 
the electric wave, produced by a few pieces 
of copper and zinc at Valentia, passed 
through the wire, these cores become mag¬ 
netic- enough to move the slightest object. 
A looking-glass, half an inch in diameter, is 
fixed on a bar of iron one-tenth of an inch 
square, and half an inch long. On this t iny 
glass, a lamp is made to glare so that its light 
is reflected on a tablet on the wall. The 
language of the cable is denoted by the shitt¬ 
ing of this reflected light, from side to side. 
Letter by letter is thus expressed in this flit¬ 
ting idiom, in utter silence on tire wall. 
There is no record made by the machine, 
except as the patient watcher calls out. to a 
comrade the translated flashes as they come, 
and which lie records. It seems a miracle 
of patience. There is something of awo 
first place, it is a simple shoe—imagine the wlir 
Oxford shoe without laces, and you have the late- 
exact type; over it he has a gaiter of brown 
leather, lacing up to about four inches above 
the ankle, thus rendering a strong support 
and holding the shoe firmly in its place. The 
shoes, from the small amount of stuff about 
them, can ho made of the stoutest leather, 
and yet he half the weight of any infantry 
soldiers’ that l have ever yet seen. 
“ Moreover, from the fact of their being so 
open, they are dried in half the time that it 
would take to dry even a pair of shoo ling- 
boots, The gaiters are made of supple 
brown leather, and take up no compass in 
the knapsack; the slices lie on each side of it, 
outside. Another advantage is, that in com¬ 
ing off a march the soldier takes off his 
gaiters, and is instantly in most comfortable 
slippers, while in wet weather the trowsera 
can lie tucked up clear of all mud, still leav- 
I have heard 
the dying wretches boiling oil! Blie was 
subsequently captured and shot. The same 
paper that brings this fearful story, tells us, 
on the authority of the L' Opinion Nationals, 
that a nun, ill succoring a wounded soldier, 
had both legs taken off by a cannon shot. 
HiiMpicioiiN PiiviMiin*. 
A Paris letter to the New York World 
says;—“ I never saw people so suspicious of 
each other as everybody now is. Each per¬ 
son in the street is afraid the other person 
will arrest him. An American clergyman 
was arrested in the Avenue des Champs Ely- 
secs. He had just drawn money from his 
banker, and was making some note of it, 
when he was arrested as a Prussian spy. 
Ho was kept two days in prison, without 
ing him a well protected leg. 
it said, ‘ Oh, but the mud gets into the gait¬ 
er.’ What if it does? It is washed out at 
the end of the march, and fit for use in 
twenty minutes afterwards. When I com¬ 
pare the shooing of the French soldier, and 
think of the thousands that England lias 
spent on the very indifferent article that she 
now gives her men, it really makes one 
doubt whether the clothing department at 
home ever dream pc of looking at anything 
but their own sealed patterns. Prussia 
knows full well how far her rival excels in 
military equipment, but cannot afford to 
alter her dress, except by degrees. She was, 
1 believe, on the point of forming some new 
alterations when this unexpected war broke 
out.” 
Women and t.lm Wav. 
It is a terrible thing to hear of a woman 
being shot in cold blood, by military author¬ 
ity, and yet such a fate is reported to have 
overtaken a French vi vandiero lately, at May- 
ence. A private letter written to London, 
and printed in a newspaper in that city, says 
that this woman was passing some German 
soldiers who were mortally wounded, and 
duccd. His head dress is light and pretty; 
ids long, gray coat, relieved by tho different 
facings, is warm, and at the same time, from 
its looseness, cool; his trowsersare large and 
loose; and finally we come to the much 
vexed question of the infantry boot, which, 
in all humility, I declare has only been suc¬ 
cessfully arrived at by the French. In the 
