AN OFFICER KILLED.--Lieut. Col. Germain Metternich, of the Forty-sixth New York Volunteers, was killed at Tybee, Ga., on the 13th inst., by a drunken soldier. The de- ceased was born in the city of Mayence, in April, 1911, and received a thorough military education in the national school of Prussia. In the time of the revolution he espoused the cause of the oppressed people, and fought as a colonel under Franz Sigel, whom he ac- companied in exile to this country in 1849.
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