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Show SELECTED. Ho,v (He Pra.,u, mk. Re,inUt. t ion . Kdward Kin?, the able correspondent correspon-dent of the lioeton Journal, wnt Iroui Auiiena : The Prussians, who, as you know are very near us, do not leave very pleasant, memories behind tnem. The gieat trouble arises lrom the aumber oi requisitions made. As soon as a town is taken, occupied, stormed, or peacclully surrendered, a certain number num-ber ot soldiers are poured into it. luese cenerallv arrive at r-j hungry as fiends, tired and 'cross! bood-natured lads from Pumerania, wild, bearded, but generous university youths, inflated masters of philosophy horn some two-cent college, shopkeepers shop-keepers lrom Berlin, and ferocious, swaggering -'rfchhssingers" are poured in the midst of the gawdy and timid trench countrymen. The - Mayor" is sent for. Every little '-cross-road" in i ranee has a Mayor. Presently he comes before the superior officer, with his scarf of authority on. and a few lean and starved National Guards (all in diilereut uniforms, and with old-tashioned old-tashioned guns), at his heels. Hi0 pitiful show of authority provokes the laughter of the Prussians, who, however, how-ever, set seriously to work. ''We want so many bushels of grain, so much wme, and so many meals." Generally Gen-erally there is not so much provisions tor twenty miles around. So the trembling Mayor gets together all he can, and the soldiers are billeted in the SWcTor felialfH 6e3 m the unto have nam wo'i SJsMfr themselves tn out i 'PI l eime mgut. . t .V1'"! offieer who speaks f ren;h (and there is always one), calls the inhabitants around him in the principal square and announces in a loud voice that German money mast be taken by every one; that a Prussian thaler is worth three francs and seventy-five centimes, etc., etc., and that auy obstiiiaey on the part of any "subject "sub-ject ' will occasion difficulty. The Piussud flag is hoisted on the highest point, and when the troops go away they leave it there. If the next entree of the soldiers finds it torn down they hold the Mayor responsible. Holding him responsible often means imprisoning imprison-ing him for a week or dragging him to headquarters, or even shooting hinr but this latter punishment has been inflicted in-flicted in, I think, only two cases. Ihe number ot soldiers billeted on a house is always at once doubled if any objections are made. A village is usually usu-ally stripped bare by three visits of I soldiery. W hat do you suppose the inhabitants do ? The suck their fingers fing-ers and murmur "Patience." Only the Bavarians seem inclined to drunkenness, aud sometimes they commit com-mit crimes whieh are frequently pa-sod over in silence as "accidents of war " liut an exceptionally severe punishment punish-ment is roerved for any soldier who u-es violence toward defenseless rrench. |