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Show SCRAPS OF THE WAR. Many of the Prussian soldiers wear under their shirts a piece of sole leather ten inches or so square, which is hard enough to turn a bullet, unless struck perpendicularly, and is a good defense against the lance or sabre. The Prussians have just driven the poor old Baroness De Eeumont from her chateau for the third time. They first forced her to fly in '92. then again in 1S14, and now at the age of ninety-four ninety-four she is once more obliged to abandon aban-don her home. The Baroness lives a few miles from Montmedy, at the chateau of Grand -Yemeuil, where apartments were prepared to receive Louis XYI. during his flight. They were never occupied by the unfortunate unfortu-nate monarch, who was stopped at Yarennes. A private letter from Paris relates that the Due De Grammont, who has taken to spending his evenings at the J ockey Club, was lately asked there I "How he came to blunder into such a fatal war?" He replied: "I asked the Minister of War, Leboeuf, if he was ready, and he answered, 'Beady ? Aye, and doubly ready !' Otherwise," added the Due, "I should have taken care not to have counselled a war which there were twenty modes of averting." A correspondent who visited Gorce, a village near Metz, just after the battle bat-tle of August 16th, writes : "On en tering the village what struck me as a more horrid spectacle than even the many dead still lying unburied on the battle-field, was a peasant who shot at a wagon with wounded mea. He was seized by the soldiers, gibbeted, and then riddled wil h bullet shots. Thus, he remained suspended, as a deterring example, for two entire days. He was dressed in the ordinary blue blouse as worn here by the laboring classes, and his hand held a stick." Prince Pierre Bonaparte, according t3 the Daily Kcus, has teen loyally working for the dynasty in Corsica. He hiis recruited there an army of 600 Corsican spies, who gradually, in small parties, have all arrived at Marseilles. Mar-seilles. Their mission is to spread themselves about the country, and inculcate in-culcate the idea that the Emperor, who has been deceived and betrayed by Emile Ollivier and certain generals, will yet be the savior of France, and that as a proof of his single-minded honesty, he is quite ready, in pursuance pursu-ance of his invariable principles, to submit his case to another plebiscite. |