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THE WAR.
‘THE BATTLEFIELD OF SEDAN.
- The following is taken from the letter
of the Special Correspondent of the Dub-

Freeman: _ :
Aboot four or five miles from Sedan,

Was the commencement of the great
battle fields ofSedan, They were easily
recoghized by the extinguished camp
fires, extemporised huts, the latter con-
sisting of branches placed on an angle
against the side whence the wiud caine ;
haversacks and pannikins strewn over
the fields. By and ly 1 passed fields on
each side of the road where severe fight-
ing had been, They were divested of
very green thing, and had been so trod-
den that nothing was left but the bare
earth, whilst all over were scattered let-
tera, baggage, helmets, caps, shoes,
Hoots, &e. By the raised soil, there
Was no mistaking the spots where thous-
andsofthe dead soldiore had been buried,
and by the numerous crosses made of

THE HERALD, C

HARLOTTETOWN, - -

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- + WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1870.

DEFENCE OF PARIS.

Siuce the fall of Metz, the interest in the
war centres around Paris, ‘The news which
areive aim there comes by balloons or
carrier pigeons, or by the underground
Telegraph. ‘The Prussians naturally enough
try to keep their plans as much a secret as
possible, Intelligence must, therefore, for
these reasons, be very meagre,

The second balloon, which arrived from
Maris, brought the fellowing news from the
capital: — ‘The defence of Paris continues
to be carried on in splendid style. ‘The in-
habitants display admirable patriotism, and
the National Guard make every day fresh
progress tu discipline and soldierly spirit.
The Prussians ave oblige to remain on the
defensive, and have been compelled to fall
back behind the plateaux of St, Cloud and
Mendon. Before taking the ofeasive, Paris
aWaits the support of the departments,”

The Government of the National Defence
orders bolers of spirits in Paris to bury them
beneath sand, Court-yards and wpper tloors
of houses are to be cleared of combustible
materials, unnecessary curtain hangings,
books and paper hangings to be removed,
easy menus of necess to roofs of houses to be
provided, and sacks of earth kept in readi-
ness to close openings in basement stories;
ample reservoirs of water are to be provided

#traw, or of one rod nailed over another,
where were the last resting places ef the
«flicers who had so nobly led them, The
common soldiers were uncoflined, buried
Gn tens and twenties, with norecord over
them to guide their friends to where
they lay. But with the officers the ar-
rangement was different. These were
each put up in a rade coffin, with their
wane and rank upon a plate on the lid,
and either buried singly or in threes or i ‘os
just described ; and upon that part Of| extensive scale; more than two hundred a
the holy ewblem thrust below the sur- | qay having been killed in the last week in
Tace, were engraven the names of the september. It is foresight and prudence
dead. This arrangement has already rather than the actual failure of supplies that
enabled relatives to find the graves, and | has limited the amount allowed for daily
in many ‘instances, to transport the be- | consumption. Mont Valerien commands
loved remains to Fatherland. a oS ee | scape -conghathcsnt
Jast week, as posige Ai halfa dozen cof within tt ‘perimetre of six inmates of all
fins, containing the bodies of deceased tye German works, and has destroyed the
a paw 0 ops on = ~~ batteries which the gga had ne
ween Sedan and Libramont. Onsuch ored to construct. The castle of Meudon
occasions, there is always a guard of is completely destroyed, and Prussian
honor.to the Belgian frontier, and an- engineers haye been dislodged from Clamart,
other from the German frontier to the Bas Meudon and ono Dag Besides
home of the deceased. Tho expenses | Villejuif, Cahan has now also been retaken,
incurred are borne in the first instance 4s Kuil and Bonqeval. Ginevillers has been
hy the relatives, who are afterwards re- | freod from the presence of the enemy by 2
imbursed by the Government. 1 am cavalry reconnaisance, and will henceforth
here reminded of avery tonching story | be protected from their return. On the
with which I will conclude this letter,  etstern side a very vigorous cannonade has
about four in the morning, to give our ts evactiate Champagny. ‘The circle formed
horses a couple of hours’ rest, 1 and the | }y the Prussians around Paris, therefore, far
rest of the company were startled by a. from narrowing, is becoming every day
fine old gentleman stepping into the more enlarged, to our advantage. “As re-
room and sitting down without speaking  gards the manifestations alleged to have
aword. French soldiers who were pre- | been of annnirclfical charact r, with which
English and Beigians who had smuggled Koon of an’ insignificant character. ‘The
arms across the frontier into Belgium, | saydard says if telegrams from Tours of
became uneasy, ‘The question was asked the state of Paris be trae, the position of the
with bated breath whence had he come, city has certainly changed for the better to!
and whither was he going. By and by an enormous extent. The Prussians evi-
one slipped out and returned with the dently cannot erect batteries, which Pa
intelligence that there was a coffin out- | Receary gp ony sy oe hes nf te eae
side upon the cart which had brought “3° B4M* Fe Close as Mey expecken
the strange gentleman. ‘The latter soon on
os — and va ster and
forwards in front of the house, as if im-
atient to resame his journey. At gives the following account of the Excar-
ength he spoke to me, and in a little | ~ va
time he told me that he was an English-
man, and was taking to Germany the
body of an officer killed on the Ist Sep-
tember. Atthe outbreak of the war the | i :
aficer was going to be married to his|ment of the siege. Neither party, coule
to be delayed, and he had to harry off to_ plan, they yet inflicted great loss upon the

and buckets kept on every story to extin-
guish tire from ae, Colonel Lievd Lind-
say was permitted to enter Paris on Wednes-
dav. General Buraside has had several in-
tesviews with Count Bismarck since his re-
tarn from Paris, The /atrie says that the
Prussians around Versailles have no camps
but sleep in the woods, ‘The Parisians are
now curtailed in their food. The latest
letters state that the daily supply of meat is
fixed at 2} ounces for every person in the
eity, and that the butchers’ shops are open

The correspondent of the Dublin Freeman

MENT AT CHEVILLY:

The battle of Chevilly, on the morning of
the 50th of September, was by all odds, the

join his regiment. The friends were in- jnomy, and showed the Prussians that the
formed in due course, of his death on the | young Mobiles are_no mean antagonists to
battle-field, and desired that the body encounter, ‘The charge across the plateau
should be buried beside that of his fath- of Villejuif, once the rising ground of L' Hay
ers, The gentleman got a letter from | and up to the entrenchment of ¢ hevilly,
the Prussian Ambassador in London ee a ae pod ad ibonaea
2 ’ * és ‘! b . *

the Prussian Commandant at Sedan, re- gave wn instance of valour worthy of the
questing the latter to afford the bearer | jays of chivalry. ‘The place of attack seems
every facility mn his attempt to find our | to ‘have arisen from the public (rossip after
the grave of the dead officer, After a’ the battle of the 25rd ult., it being rumored
search, so prolonged that he was about | for some time after that the Orleans Railway
to delegate the duty to others, the gen- Wis — and communication established

* : jwith Tours. After the attack upon Villejuif
— ae pode pina oP | the French held possession of the redoubt
being pulled ont, showed that the © of Haute Buyres and Moulin-Jaquet, both
ceased slept below, and the Brave was being within range of the heavy guns of the
accordingly opened, the plate on the) forts; while the enemy held the rest of the
coffin lid read and the body taken out. | plateau of Longboyou, the pickets being
It was, indeed, that of the affianced of) posted in advance of the village of L'Ilay.
his daughter, and it was to her and to They still held com nlete possession of
the relatives at Hunover that he was Choisy-le-Roi, upon the Seine, and of the

; main road from there to Versailles. Strong
transporting the mortal remains. entrenchments were thrown up at Choisy to

| protect the passage of the Seine, and at
No onecan doubt the ardent sympathy. pgp og =e the He gee valley

: m ‘J ‘ 4 non (Oe tae evyre. ConsideYing the large con-

of tho Hinerve ys k gots and ste brave ; centration of troops at Versailles, it was sup-
soldiers, But tho Afinerve, as must posed that only a moderate force remained
~~ honest Frenchman, feels degraded | yon this platoan, and it was thought pos-
ree poe ag 3 S Pesach of a nani sible to drive the enemy from Choisy-le-Roi,
valli at the head of a French army, who,

eet smn me

across the Seine, by cutting the line in the
in his usual buncombe or bombastic) middle and driving the foree at Chevilly
. ; ' ‘ Me rsitilles. ieners
_ 7 a - ns pom . — £88 | Vinoy could force the enemy from Chevilly
ee ne terms-—then, 88Y8 |i, this direction it would prevent a concen-
the Minerve, let France perish ! tration «of the force upon the plateau, and
* If Garibaldi,” says our respected leave Gen. Exea to chase the Prussians from
contemporary, “continue to parade at Choisy-le-Roi and the line of Railway.
the head of the French armies, his mouth | Phursday mg a og above 9 ag
fullof impicties and insolent threatenings eee ieee e ana ie eee rea of alae
i order of & ready to move forward at break of day.

against the social order o Hurope, We ‘raking a lesson from former experience,
can but invoke fresh humihation for the troops were put in motion without the
— Beogeee they are doomed coor aon tor drum. But in ho
to m on, France cannot, at one | instance, again the enemy were warned o
and the same Raccckcoceuer > means | the attack, for the forts opened fire before
of Garibaldi, and remain untouched in| the army was fairly moving, sending a
her honor,—Rather may she perish than shower of shells to rouse every German
hersel! all otornit if iti sleeper from Choisy-le-Roi to Chattillon and
disgrace re Had oe _ pty A ba . life, Chesitly. Be conoquences ers that ~
such | French had barely reached their own ad-
vi has ceased to be Catholic, and we vanced pickets before they were greeted by
are no longer French.” eg ~ _ the deg a ‘
. . Which continued a running fire until the
— fp y ad ot tolgy he the feel-| “itlage of L'Hay was reached. ‘There 1 stil
ng Py vel b hotter fire was encountered from a body of
the crusaders” will surely never sub- jafantry, bat it was also driven back, ‘and
mit to vr antgead of being led by a Gari-| heyond the village the Prussian artillery
baldi for them, less dishonoring began to work. The first batteries limbered
poco? | it be for them to allow their tothe rear in haste before the advancing
to become a province of Prussia, Freneh, and in a few moments came the fire

end re French made a eh von ila:

which was swperb. The Prussian batteries
were oan ly served, as usual, and above
the rear of the artillery and infantry fire,
could be heard the rattle of the mitraifleuse.

|The Prussians have been driven back as far’

| the full extent of their loss,

i

most serious engagement since the commenc- |
Neither party could

‘and sons are

the line andthe Gardes Mobiles of La Vendec.
A large majority of the dead bore the num-
ber “35” upon their eaps, and three-fifths of
the loss was borne by the troops mentioned,
The younr Vendeans behaved like old
soldiers, vied with the regulars in daring,
and showed greater coolness and better order

line, Even the Prussians say that the con-
duct of these young men—mere lads as yet
i—-was very remarkable, The Vendeans
‘have shownthe enemy that the Gayde Mobile
is not to be despised in even a hand-to-hand
encounter, ‘The leader of these gallant men
was Gen, Guilhem, who, at the head of the
ath, fell dead upon the field, the first gen-
eral oficor iitled in the siewe. Tle Was a
man universally respected and beloved both
as acitizenand a soldier, Eutering the army
asa volunteer, when only 1 years of age—
he won each of his grades in battle upon the
tields of Algeria, of the Crimea, of Italy, and
of Mexico.” Gen. Guilhem was 55 years of
age, and leaves a wife and Ovo children,
Ilis brother went out yesterday to get the
body, and found it covered with flowers, the
enemy intending to bury it, with the honors
due to the rank of the dead, and with the
respect which a brave enemy always gives
toa brave man who falls upon the field of
honor, At the same time, and as a part of
the general plan, an attack was made upon
Cholay-te-Rtal, by the forces under the com-
mand of Gen, Exea. From the first moment
that the enemy was encountered, a terrible
fire was opened by the infantry, artillery
and (attrailtouss, which must have inflicted
severe loss. On this side, also, the French
charged up to the very earthworks, but the
fire directed against them was not so accur-
ate as that at Chevilly. ‘The enemy was
less contident, anda force of men, 30,000 it
is supposed, believing that the works had
been carried, tled across the Seine. Seeing
this force in confusion, at the forks of the
road by the Carrefour Dompadour, Gen.
Exea turned his fire upon it, inflicting a
preceptible loss, Subsequent reports show
that the enemy lost heavily at this point,
But meantime the men in the redoubts rallied
and as the force began to press back across
the bridge, Gen. Exea found himselfobliged
to retire, fecling that the batteries were too
strong for an assault. At the same time,
also, a force advanced upon Creteil, but, for
some reason or other, returned without doing
anything of consequence, and with the loss
of men, The losses in this engagement in
killed and wounded will reach 8,000, 1
ventury to say. If lam correctly informed
—and I got the news from a neutral general
oficer who crossed the lines yesterday—the
Prussians confess to a larger loss. An
armistice for the burial of the dead was
agreed upon. Yesterday morning the chief
of the general staff went to L'Hay witha flag
of truce, to male overtures for an armistice,
but he failed to get an interview with any
of the generals. Several times he was told
that by orderZof the King, there could be no
interview except a Cretiel, across the Seine,
This leaves the inference that the Prussians
desired to gain time to take the most of their

}own dead from the field, in order to conceal

under the tire than even the troops of the |:

The Herald,

Ot aang Paty att taf aa tet ee

Wednesday, November 16, 1870.
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ws eereaianperresimnrsonaraunssaanetaiersinnes

We have heard with satisifuction, that
some steps have lately been taken by our
City Council, in order to furnish the inhabit
ants of Charlottetown with wholesome water.
It is impossible to exaggerate the importance
of such a measure} and the sole wonder ‘is,
that it should to this time remain unaceom-
plished. Any one who looks at the sur-
roundings of the public pumps of the city,
must be perfectly satistied in his own mind,
that the water which is taken from them
greatly lacks purity. They are stationed
in places into which must percolate much
that is pernicious. Asa rule, the natural
wells and fountains which have supplied the
rising village with water, are found to be
dispensers of poison to the large and popu-
lous city, City magistrates are careful,
therefore, to order all city wells to be filled
up the moment the inhabitants have been
supplied with water from some rural dis-
trict. We know not what report the En-
gineer employed by our civic authorities has
made; but we would say from casual obser-
vation, that there ean be found in the im-
mediate neighborhood of Charlottetown,
abundance of wholesome water, sufficient to
supply it for many years. + The cost of the
works necessary for its introduction may be
an obstacle, Yet this, when compared with
what must be expended by cities elsewhere,
will be trifling. Qur soft soil will offer few
obstructions which the pick and the spade
will not remove, The civic taxes are light,
and no one would gradge an annual assess-
ment in order to secure for his household
the inestimable boon of good water. We
believe that many householders pay now in
the course of the year, more money for fresh
water than they would be called on to pay
under a water assessment; and even though
the sum were higher, the health, comfort
and convenience secured, would be cheaply
bought. )

The introduction of water intu every house
necessitates waste-pipes, and waste-pipes
entail the adoption of some system of sewer-
age. This would indeed be a great boon to
the city. At the present time, even the
rudest attempt at drainage is discernible no-
where. The removal of whatever is offen-
sive seems to be left ina great measure to

The moral)
strength given to the Mobiles by this
engagement is very great, and a strong:
fecling of emulation has arisen,

}

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FRANCE.

Tt seems well nigh impossible to arrive at-
anything like certainty of the condition of:
Vrance generally, or of Paris in particular, |
The minister Gambetta declares Paris to be |
impregnable to an enemy. Meussin, he con- |
tines, relies upon sedition and famine} but
sedition, he says, will not arise, nor famine
either. We hope he is right.

Of the state of France, the following is the
gloomy picture drawn by a French journal-
ist —

“Daring the five days that Thave travelled |
to obtain an accurate iden of the eondition |
of our unfortunate and beloved France,
have been able only to collect one single im- |

wression—a feeling which is bitter and eruel- |
y true—that impotence exists everywhere. |
mpotence—the child of disorder, of ignor--
ance, of frivolity, of want of experience, and |
of pride—is our evil; it is this which is |
bringing us to loss, fatal and terrible coming |
loss, if we do not halt on that descent upon
which the faults of the Empire and our two)
months increasing reverses have east us. |
Where is our brave army? On the walls of
towns and villages are posted the successes
of the Franes-tireurs, glorious bulletins stat-
ing that the enemy has been conquered, and
has left two Uhlans on the battle-field. Let}
the truth be told; our gangrene is impotence, |
and must be amputated. When a man
svizes forcibly upon the power which has
heen wielded by men whom he considers in-
capable, he has but one excuse, which must |
be to do better than his predecessors. If he |
do not better, he must be dismissed; and_
let us spenk the word. Nearly all the men
of the Government of Tours are unfit for,
their task; they must be dismissed... «|
I have seen the army of the Loire, and 1.
have conversed with its generals. The an- |
tagonism of civil and military power paral-_
yzes everything, engenders irritation, and.
will lead us to defeat. There is no order, |
and the Government is incapable of supply- |
ing it. At Nevers they have guns, but no-

. iv :
carriages for them, Nothing is being done, |
while the provisions of Paris are being used,
political feelings are opposing each other,
and the Government goes from one fault to
asecond, And during this time the general
disorganization of France terrifies those who
desive to assist us, who anxiously inquire |
which is the true Government of France— |
that of Tours, of Lyons, of Marseilles. We,
are lost if we do not speedily put an end to
this impotence,”
PROSPRCTS OF PEACE.

Whatever value, says the Daily News, |
may be attributed to peace negotiations |
which reach us from Brussels, it is obvious
at least that they step in at a very viliar
crisis in the history of the war. The state
of affairs in France has now got beyond the
a of military calculation. With the
dispersal of the army of the Loire, the Ger-
mans may be said to have encountered and
beaten all the opposition forces about which
any definite statistics could be had. Gen-
erals Von Moltke and Von Roon have sue-
cessfully carried out their programme, and
probably wait at this moment for the capture
of Paris, as the climax of their planned cam-
paign, Outside and beyond these ealcula-
tions, nevertheless, the Germans are con-
fronted by an unknown quantity, No man
ean tell what strength or will of resistance
rests with the French — Thatis a
problem which it is impossible to solve; and
yet on the practical solution of it, should
these rumored peace negotiations be broken
off, depend the fortunes of the war, and the
terrible contingencies which hang about a
prolongation of the struggie. There is no
general on the Prassian staff, or on any

private enterprise, or to an individual sense
of propriety. This, in a few rare instanees,
may be well and effectively done. But the
instances wherein it will be badly and in-
eficiently done, will be greatly mere nu-
merous,  Noisorve and poisonous vapors
will be exhwled. The currents effeeted by
a fall of rain will carry along the surface of
our streets, matter which should have had a
way made for it some feet below the surfaee,
and in event of the force which pears it
along ceasing, it will rest, and roused per-
Hrivpe fete nation Dag the oegreretat Durning
sun, breathe forth disease and pestilence,
We have ourselves known every house inan
aristocratic street of a large city infected
with disease from a disarrangement of the
sewerage. In London, the poisonous vapors
exhaled from the gratings over the sewers,
killed in one day five persons. If Charlotte-
town escapes such startling effects, it is be-
cause its population is less closely packed
and less numerons, than the population of
Edinburgh or London—not from a greater
respect pald to the observance of sanitary
laws. Even as it ix, we are sure that every
medical practitioner will bear us out, when
we say that we are, by our inattention to the
proper drainage of the city, securing a wel-
come and an additional virulence to every
epidemic that may appear amongst us,

We, moreover, congratulate our civie
authorities in haying begun at the right end
of their sanitary measures. They are look-
ing around them first of all for en efficient
supply of wholesome water. ‘They are seek-
ing to find an expelant power before they’
enter upona systemofexpelling. They are
going to introduce what is eminently healthy,
in order to drive away what is decidedly
noxious. This is consistent with reason.
A current of fresh air introduced into aroom
under the requisite conditions will purify,
and that too by expelling the foul air, In
good drainage the same result’ must be
brought about by the adoption of « kindred
process, A strong and constant, and living
stream of water should be made to pass into
the drains. This would dilute the impuri-
ties and carry them forward, without suffer-
ing them to stagnate and putrify. We trust,
therefore, that when the water is brought
into the city, it will be in no stinted supply,
but in plentiful abundance. The rain-fall,
also, is a most valuable auxiliary to sewer-
age, Were it properly turned to account,
another very important result would be se-
cured. Our streets would be made passable,
and would not, as they now do, wear for
several months iu the year the appearance
of mud-lagoons. ‘The rain-water at present
is allowed to run as it lists, and find its level
anywhere at all; provided it be notin our
collars. Ina good system of draining this
would not be the ease; it would be taught
to find its way into sewers, and aid in driy-
ing away the refuse and impurities, The
disinfecting agents, flushing of sewers and
other operations resorted to in large cities
to keep the drains clean and healthy, are all
rendered necessary by the scanty supply of
water sent through them. This need not be
our plight, except perhaps in an exceptional
year of drought. We have made no remark

other staff, who ean say whether the France
of 1870 ia about to show herself the France
of 1702, or the France of 1814.

A peace party begins, the Aeho states, to |
arise, ‘The Landwehr men will long to re- |
turn to their families. ‘Their families will |
yearn for them, and complain that husbands
away home,
needlessly humiliating France., Count Bis-
marck, too, has suffered it to be very appar-
ent that he desires the advent of : and

we may be confident he will waive a
point or two in his demands in order to ae-
celerate And when ham in Paris

upon the engineering difficulties to be pver-
come in the operations here alludedto. We
have taken it for granted that they can be
overcome, and that an attempt will be made
to overcome them, That the attempt may
be crowned With whhvate success, the first
requisite is to secure a plentiful supply of
wholesome water. Our civic rulers have
done well, thetefore, to turn their attention
in this direction first.

ee

A correspondent pf the Ialifax Citizen,
writing from Sydney, C. B., informs that
paper that on the Ist inst., a plank fell from
the western bell tower of the Roman Catho-
jie Cathedral in St. John’s, Nild., striking
two women on the head who were passing.
mangling their heads ins fearful manner,
and killing them instantly. One of the
women leaves two children, the other was
unmarried,

GARIBALDI REDIVIVUS.

cet tee,

Wr could scarcely have anticipated, when
we sketched the “ Dramatis Persone” of the
then opening tragedy, that the now almost
obsolete figure of Garibaldi would enter
upon the stage to take its part in the catas-
trophe, But so it is, and we have in the
event another proof of the trite remark how
much stranger is fact than fiction, even the
wildest fiction of the imagination. France
has had many disasters to undergo, but who
could have predicted her coming to that of
placing her demoralized forces under the
command of Garibaldi ? Te has been her
open antagonist in the fleld; he has headed
movements in Italy in 1848 and 1867,in which
combatants under his orders spilled French
hlood; and he has for years past been chiefly
known to the world as the enemy, or rather
as the scurrilous insulter, of her religion,
her poliey, and her dynasty. It may, in-
deed, be, that France has need of Garibaldi :
he certainly possesses a reputation of a cer-
tain kind; and now that her Emperor, with
his Paliknos, his De Faillys, and his Le Baufs
—the generals who trained her armies for
the field and commanded them there tu their
first defeats—now that these personages have
disappeared in disgrace, now that the brave
MeMahon is disabled, and the loyal Trochu
shut up in Paris, France does not possess a
single commander in the field whose name
is even known to the general public. It
may then bea gainto France to have en-
listed Garibaldi in her cause, But what a
gain! And what a humiliation to her that
it should be a gain!

We have said that Garibaldi has a reputa-
tion ofa certain kind, Some how or other
the general public has, ever since 1847, ac-
cepted him as the type of an accomplished
and successful captain. Butisthe judgment
of the general public infallible upon the
point? ‘To judge of the merits of a military
commander is a point of military science,
and on such points itis needless to say that
military men alone are competent to pass
anopinion, TIas any military verdict ever
pronounced Garibaldi to be an able com-
mander? Ifso, the fact is unknown to us.
Onareview of his career, we find that his
chief admirers have all along been seditious
mobs, foreign conspirators, hysterical wo-
men, and eccentrie dukes. It was the des-
perate cause of revolution which he despe-
rately espoused, and not any real service
which he has rendered to that cause, which
has given him notoriety, When we remem-
ber the burst of enthusiasm with which
* Cicerouacchio” and his pariizans received
him at Rome, we also remember that he
had not then done anything ostensibly to
merit such enthusiasm, Of course, in the
secret working of revolutionary sects there
may be dark exploits done of which the

world never knows the authors, but which
may crive a eont of anbtoerranctun .UaGUN TE

certain individuals; but, as regards public
reputation, Garibaldi was certainly almost
a nobody, when he became, in 1848, the
soldier of the short-lived Roman Republic.
Whence then the enthusiasm that greeted his
debut on that stage, unless from the source
we have hinted at? What, however, was
that enthusiasm: when compared to the fa-
rore with which he was reecived in this
country, where, in fact, he enjoyed the great-
est of his triumphs? Who does not remem-
her the excitement of London and the pro-
vinces at his arrival, the dinners, the recep-
tions, the ovations at the Mansion House
and the Crystal Palace, the homage of the
noblest and the fairest, when even Royalty
itself honored him with notice more distin-
guished than has often been bestowed upon
illustrious distress, and when in the House
of Lords, a high Tory and High Church
Prelate stretched out both his hands to the
sworn foe of priests and kings.

But all that was merely the fervour of the
hour, and the contagion of popular excite-
ment. It was soon over, and after a hint
from across the Channel had cut the illus-
trious foreigner’s career mysteriously short,
England awoke out of her delirium, hence-
forward safe from eatching the disorder
again, In fact, it was both thought and
said at the time that much of that British
gratitude was meant in payment for services,
not rendered, but to come, and which never
have been rendered. Garibaldi has not
done Rome the damage Protestant England
expected of him. His blows, though struck
with good-will, somehow failed of their effect,
and the Pope has seemed none the worse,
but rather, if anything, the better of them,

Unless it was supposed that Garibaldi
would prove the soldier of the Revolution
and most effective adversary of the Catholic
Church that has appeared in our time, we
own ourselves unable to account for the
public interest manifested in him in 1848,
1864, and subsequently. Expende Hanniba-
lum. Let us briefly review, without malice,
but also without partiality, the career of the
man to whom France (or at least a consider-
able part of the nation) is now looking in
the hour of peril, and we shall find it to
consist of a succession of defeats, with hard-
ly a single gleam of success to chequer the
gloomy history. In 1852, his first enter-
prise as an abettor of Mazzini, in compass-
ing the death of Charles Albert, was a fail-
ure, and caused his banishment; so was a
renewal of the attempt two years later,
when he was condemned to death. Eseap-
ing from prison and reaching Tunis, he was
taken into the service of the Bey of that free
and enlightened country, but failing in pi-
ratical enterprise, or whatever other duties
his Moorish patron niay have imposed on
him, he became a privateer in one of the
innumerable and unintelligible South Ame-
rican wars of that period. In this he evi-
dently failed, for he was taken prisoner and
tortured; and we next find him heading a
band of Italian free-lances against the Die-
tator Rosas, whom he did not defeat in bat-
tle. In 1847, he had the impudence to offer
his services to Charles Albert, who of course
rejected them ; and the rejected of Sardinia
became the champion of Roman republican-

where he obtains a command during the
French intervention on behalf of Victor
Emmanuel, It is stated that he had under
his orders a body of troops called (if we re-
member rightly) ‘ Alpine chasseurs.” Their
name matters but little, for in point of fact
they effected nothing, though we hear of
theb: presence at Varese, Camerlata, Como,
Brescia, and elsewhere. ;

Now comes what we must own as the one
military success (as his admirers would
claim it to be) of Garibaldi’s career—the
descent on Naples with 1000 followers, an
enterprise which resulted in the expulsion
of the reigning Sovereign and in the Free-
booter obtaining the honor of being the first
at Gaeta, to salute Victor Emmanuel King
of Italy. But it has to be noted that there
are here two conditions which seriously de-
tract, when the facts are known, from the
military credit of Garibaldi. They are, the
British co-operation, and the treason at Na-
ples. Tad English men-of-war and their
crews stood aloof and refrained from aiding
the assailant of a kingdom that was at peace
and in amity with England, and had there
existed anything like an ordinary amount
of loyalty and honor amongst the ministers,
officers and soldiers of the King, Garibaldi’s
enterprise would most certainly have been
crowned with a very different issue. Fight-
ing was no doubt wanted for the completion
of his enterprise, but Garibaldi did very lit-
tle of that fighting; Gaeta was, no doubt,
heseiged and taken, but not by Garibaldi or
his thousand. However, let the success
stand for what it is worth; anyhow it is a
solitary success. The subsequent history of
our hero is too fresh in the memory to need
even recapitulation here, It is a history of
defeats and disasters; not military ones on-
ly. Aspromonte and Mentana tell their
own tale; but the attempted insurrection,
on behalf of the Hungarian rebels, so coolly
extinguished hy General Klapka, and the
utter failure in the Chamber, where the
“testa di legno” had to be kept muzzled by
his own friends —these things afford but
slender proof of the intelligence needed to
save France, or even to command a French
army.

Would that we could see it otherwise !
Bygones might well be bygones, could we
see in the arrival of Garibaldi any real hope
of safety for France, or even of real loyalty
to her cause. But the manifesto of Gambetta
this week, shows that what is uppermost in
the thoughts of those who now bear rule is
rather the establishment of Republicanism
than the defeat of the Prussians; to exploiter
the gigantic effort now making by France
for hey national existence, by forcing those
who fight against the invaders to be really
fighting in favor of the Revolution. Tt is
a hard trial for the Catholic soldiers of
France, the faithful men from Brittany and

Normandy, and the 400 Pontifical Zouaves
whe owe «oraaced vo ive taken service in

their eountry’seause. Garibaldi’s command
will tend but little to simplify their dilem-

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FOR THE FRENCH
WOUNDED.

Cowsvt General Gautier, of Quebec, has
remittedto France upwards of #6000, collect-
edin Canada, Nova Scotia and New Bruns-
wick, in aid of the French wounded, and the
widows and orphans of those killed in battle.
Newfoundland has contributed very hand-
somely toward the fund, and we regret that
Prince Edward Island (a portion of whose
inhabitants, at least, have received substan-
tial benefits from France in her prosperous
days) has not thus far responded to the
charitable call made upon her in this behalf,
We trust, however, that the opportunity will
not be allowed to pass away altogether
without manifesting, in a practical way, our
sense of sympathy for those who have been
disabled for life and whose homes have
been made desolate by this terrible war.
Atrifle given in this way will not be missed,
and may be the means of assuaging the
misery of more than one poor family, bereft
of its bread-winner by wounds or death,
ITumanity, to speak of no other considera-
tion, requires it at our hands, and we trust
that whatever may be given, will be given
speedily and ungrudgingly. Dr. Hobkirk,
the Consular Agent of France, for this Island,
will receive subscriptions to the fund.
Whilst upon this subject, and with a view
of stimulating the charity of our readers, we
may copy the words of a New York paper,
in reference to the sufferings of the French
people. The Herald of that city, says :—

« The giant spectre of famine looms up in
more gigantic and gastly proportions every
hour over the once fair land of France. The
nation but yesterday so mighty is ‘hard
bestead and hungry,’ and neither rulers nor
people know whither to look in this hour of
their tribulation. ‘The trials that have fallen
upon them are almost apocalyptic in their
suddenness, their completeness and their
terror. With the threatened dearth comes
the nameless horror of the ‘ pestilence that
walketh in darkness,’ which falls upon all

RELIEF

hot-blooded races driven to despair. ‘The
hour seems close at hand, indeed, for the
beautiful, the imperial city of the late Na-

leonic empire, when ‘the keepers of the
oan shall tremble and the strong men
shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease
heeause they are few, and those that look
out of the windows shall be darkened,’ and
all the proud nation shall share in her sor-
row,

«This is a terrible contingency for Chris-
tendom to contemplate—a momentous lesson
for ambitious princes and statesmen to pon-
der. It cannot be underrated or fail to be
comprehended. Let us hope that its instrne-
tion will not be thrown away, Yet again,
mingling with the abstract idea thus pre-
sented to our minds in the agony of indivi-
dual suffering, not among stalwart men
alone, but among the innocent and defence-
less victims of the war—the aged and intirm,
the wounded and the sick, feeble women
and helpless babes. At the thought of their
dark, dire, irredeemable destitution, the ve-
ry heart of humanity thrills with pity. But
on this side of the Atlantic we have never
yet confined our sympathies to mere com-
miseration. As for the Greeks in their hour
of misfortune; as for Poland and Hungary,
when both starved and bled; as for
Ireland, when her homeless children were
eo the highways or in

pest-houses of their native » which
should have been the Island Canaan of the
north, the hand of American bounty was in-
stantly and repeatedly extended, so let it be
held out now over the stormy sea and thro’

the wintry , to stricken France. And

there is no to lose. Every day of delay

may be fatal to many a poor brother,

sos of dnestee eaienating boxe an been
ized twa to aid the and

web’ in butte Germany and France, and

famished regions, and of the still more

native subscriptions have not been wanting;
but the imminent pressing need at. this mo-
ment is for help in kind to whole masses
of the French population. Let, then, the
concerts, the discourses, the lectures, the
exhibitions that are wont to be offered for
minor churities be turned toward the re-
sponse to this one terrible ery for help from
hose Who wre ready to perish in an allied
fand, the carly friend of our own republic
and so long the intellectual guide of Chris-
tendom. Our Legislatures, national and
State; our municipal bodies, our boards of
tradey our moneyed corporations, our orders,
clubs} and societies of all kinds; our agri-
cultural, railroad, mining, and moneyed
princes; our teligious congregations, and
the whole people, collectively and individu-
ally, could perform no holier or higher act
worthy of our civilization and our progres-
sive age—more full of solacing remem-
brance to each heart, more in beautiful ac-
cordance with our Christian profession,
more fraught with glorious auspices to us
and our children, now and hereafter, than
to succor our fainting brethren of France
and exorcise, with the white hand and the
gentle word of Charity, this grim spectre of
fumine from their doors.”

Comment upon our part on the graphie
picture thus presented to us, is unnecessary,
We leave the subject in the hands ofa hu-
mane public,

Revirw.—We have received a copy of a
report on the Sherbrooke Gold District, to-

gether with a paper on the Gneisses of Nova

Scotian, The report is of the most careful
description, It enters inte minute details,

and furnishes tabulated statistics of the re-
turns from the mines for each year, from
1865 till 1869. Lithographed geological
maps, neatly executed, are bound in along
with the report. The paper on the Gneisses,
is also illustrated with carefully prepared
maps. At the end of the work there is an
abstract of a paper on Gold-mining and its
prospects in Nova Scotia, by Henry Youle
lind, M. A. It was, we are told, read this
year before the London Geological Society,
and the Society of Arts. The publication
will be most valuable for those who take an
interest in the studies of which it treats, as
also in furnishing reliable statistics of the
success of our neighbors in Gold-mining.
nem ti ae

Tue United States’ steamers Neipsic,
Frolic and Guard have returned home from
the Dominion fishing grounds. They report
that, at one time, eleven British ships of war
were on the grounds, but no misunderstand-
ing occurred, Five American vessels were
properly seized for fishing within the pro-
hibited limits. The catch was not so good
as in former seasons.

Correspondence,

alt lt

‘To tne Eprron or tne Herarp,.

‘There appeared in the Progress of the 24th
ult., over the signature of * Norwegian,” a
communication which was, throughout, eha-
racterived hy abourdity, etupldity and false-
hood. “ Norwegian,” in the first place, with
a degree of unpardonable effrontery, deliber-
ately states 2 notorious and palpable false-
hood, in asserting that Mr. A. Callaghan
addressed meetings in this part of the dis-
trict—meaning ‘Tignish—where he indited
his self epistle. The truth is, sir, and the
pa a of Tignish well know it, that Mr. A.

‘allaghan never did, at any period of his
life, address a a meeting in ‘Tignish,
convened for political purposes ; consequent-
ly, the assertion that Mr, A, Callaghan ma-
ligned Mr. Bell's political character at public
meetings held in Tignish, Kildare or Alber-
ton, isas void of truth as its contemptible
author is of manly principle and common
sense,

Again, that pitiable and stolid object,
designating himself ‘* Norwegian,” evinces
a lamentable and utter disregard for every
principle of truth and honor, when he asserts
that Mr. A. Callaghan publicly condemned
the — system of education, and advo-
cated Denominational Schools. On no oe-
easion did Mr. Callaghan speak disapprov-
ingly of the present system of education;
nor did he ever designate it a Godless sys-
tem. But Mr, Callaghan is of opinion that,
besides the common schools, we should have
superior educational institutions, wherein
the youth of the Island, after acquiring a
preliminary education, might, if wishing to
qualify themselves to engage in any of the
learned professions, avail themselves of the
advantages of a superior education.

‘That such institutions should be endowed
by the Government of the Colony, becomes
obvious to every rational man, when he re-
flects on the advantages that would accrue
to the young men of the Island—many of
whom possess ability, but who, from limited
means, are unable to expend the large
amount necessary to enable them to pursue
a Collegiate course of studies. But should
the Col “es of the Island be endowed from
the public revenue, it would, undoubtedly,
have the happy effect of rendering the board
and tuition cheaper to the student in these
institutions, thereby placing the poor, as
well as the rich, in a position to ayail them-
selves of the henetits of a superior education,
Now, sir, Mr, Bell has publicly avowed him-
self opposed to the subsidizing of any supe-
rior educational institutions, and in promot-
ing that intolerant policy, he is to a great
extent impeding the ess of the youth
of this Island, But Mr. Bell being of a tem-
porizing disposition, may find it as conye-
nient, at some future crisis, to renounce his
eos policy and advocate endowments, as
1¢ did to join the present Government, and
cecede from that portion of the Liberal party
who, throughout, op; the grant ques-
tion, thereby sustaining him in the views he

consistency in this matter, is too glaring not
to attract public attention, and ultimately
bring on him the just reprehension of a dis-
cerning public.

Had the electors of the First District
selected Mr. Kelly for their re ntative
in the Legislative Council, they would,
judging from his antecedents, have a more
progressive legislator than they at present

rossess, in the mapregresive Herbert Bell.
jut I presume the time is not far distant
when be r. Bell's peony ey will re-
gret the great error they have mitted in
ae him to a mod in the Loglalative
Jouncil,

Before concluding, sir, permit me to con-
fute one more unfounded assertion made by
* Norwegian.” Ile states that disappointed
office hunters labored to malign Mr. Bell's
political character at the various public
meetings held in this part of the district a
few days previous to the election, and that
the most conspicuous of those were Messrs.
A. Callaghan and Joseph Muyphy, ef Lot 11.
As I before stated, Mr. A. Cal n did not
speak at any public meeting held in this
part of the district. Mr. Joseph Murphy did

accompany Mr. Kelly whilst ex in
this part oft the district, whieh hekacta yatibes
oo to do; but it was not peaapaedl o-w se
of seeking an office, as is meanly a y
stated by “Norwegian.” If Mr. Murphy
recommended Mr. Kelly to the electors of
Tignish and vicinity, as a gentlemen of com-
onion, cons and j » he

what he may feel justl | He
told an honest Be ary so doing, he
does not now stand before the public in the
unenviable of an wnserupulons liar,

whom | as you do, Mr. * Norwegian,”
1 am, sir, é

MTORR WALT FT AUKSON,

November 1, 1870,