German Feeling Regarding the War.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 47, 5 October 1870, Page 7

German Feeling Regarding the War.

, The Berlin correspondent of (ho Daily News gives the following description of the feeling of the people in that city on the news being published that war had been declared :—“ The furv of the people is beyond description. I went last night from the Potsdam railway terminus, through the Friedrichstadt, to Unterden Linden. The hour was a quarter past ten. It was with difficulty that I could pass through the dense crowds in every street; and the streams of private carriages and cabs were obliged to proceed at a slow pace, because everywhere stopped by groups that read and discussed the extra sheets of the newspapers at the only possible places, namely, in the middle of the carriage road. It was an hour before I reached Unter den Linden. Though this street is fully 200 feet broad, aud extends over the length of a mile, it was filled to the brim of both pavements, and on the central promenade. Before the King’s Palace, at the eastern extremity, the people kept continuously singing the National Anthem. In the numerous restaurants and gardens, it was difficult to get a chair. This lasted till daybreak. All the houses displayed flags, and at some places an illumination was attempted, but was at once stopped by the masses, because the occasion was not one of rejoicing. Men, women, and children, grouped in families, sat in the restaurants. The conversations one overheard turned partly upon the necessary family arrangements, and were accompanied by the tears of mothers, sisters, wives, and brides, who took leave, of their beloved ones. Notice had already been given at every governmental and municipal office that this time no exception whatever could be made with regard to young men belonging to the wealthier classes of society, this being altogether reserved for the most urgent cases happening among the more indigent. Government themselves prefer to forego the services even of such young men as are the most necessary in their offices, and even functionaries of the postal service, and of the police, have to take up the musket if they still belong to the army. The activity of the people is as great as that of the Government. The ladies are rushing to the offices of the Order of St. John, to the Countess Ttsemplitz, and to the hospitals, to offer their services as nurs -s. They complain of nobody having been on the snot to inform them what they have to do. They were told, at the offices of the Order of St. John, that for the moment the number of professional nurses, sisters of charity, and yrev sisters sufficed, hut if they persisted thev had to pass through a three weeks’ drill at the hospital, and prepare clothing fit for the occasion. They are ready to do so, and are just now making the necessary arrangements.” From Bonn, a correspondent of the same paper writes on the 16th July;—“ Last night more than 1000 students, being the entire number in the town belonging to the University here, presented themselves before the authorities, and asked that they might be instantly enrolled in the defence of the country. Public feeling is serious, but firm. Men, women, and children are devoted to the defence of the Fatherland.” A telegram from Munich, dated July 17, savs :—“This afternoon, an immense crowd went to the King’s palace, notwithstanding the rain, and expressed their gratitude for his most recent patriotic resolutions, and his fidelitv to his confederate duties, and gave numberless cheers to his Majesty. The multitude, uncovering their heads, sang popular hymns and Arndt’s song, 4 Was ixt des De.utchon Vaterlnnd T The King, with visible emotion, bowed frequently from the open window,” A hundred and twenty black swans have been seen on the Wairarapa Lake, Wellington, Putting the Flash Out.—The Bev. Thomas Allen, who was the first minister of the church in Pittsfield. Massachusetts, was at the battle on Bennington, and carried a musket. Once, wh-n asked whether he actually killed any m.an if Bennington, he renlied he did not know ; but observing a flash often repeated from a certain bush, and that it was generally followed hv the fall of one Stark's men, he fired that way and put the flash out. A Logical Be.hnff.—TV,e foUnw'n" is an anec. dots of Thackeray and a Scottish literary mannoted for his “hom-ntimisnesa —“Thackeray and Angus B. Beach met at a dinner-na-tv, when, much to the dislike of the latter, Thaeker.av persisted in m v 'nonne : n" his n.a~"o > T?notch,’ instcadfjpf, Pe-aek. ns he liked to he called. At. summoned nn eonrae* to state that' 1 was net T*notch, hut pp-nrl- Thackerawmade no observation for the moment, but, n-afoh>ng a favorable onnortnni* v, be held out a reach to tbo o-vum- e f the northern I name, and said, ‘ Mr Be-nck, may T offer yon a pe-ack f "