The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1870, Page 4

EUROPE. Special War Despatches by Mail to August 13. The Battle of Woerth as Re- ported for the Herald, brothers, or lovers in this fearful war.” 1 never saw @ more heartrending scene than Iast night, when hundreds of French soldiers, who had escaped with their lives from the affair at Wissembourg, were busy writing to their friends that they wero alive, and telling of the death of their fellow vit- lagers, One gallant fellow of the Seventy-fourth regiment of the line was busy writing to his friends in a smal! village of La Berrie, in the centre of France. He told me that tnere were not more than ‘@ hundred families in his native village, aud that he had to record the death of no less than seventeen fellow so!diors who came from the same village. WOUNDED, some wounded Prussians have (half-past eight A. M.) just been brought in and taken to the hospt- tal, where that blessed flag—the red croga on @ A Fierce Fight and Defeat of | white ground—nangs out as o sign that there, at MacMahon. Twenty Thousand Men Killed and ‘Wounded, any rate, Christian charity is supreme and that no one should injure the building, Four Sisters of Charliy are already busy at work tending tne wounded with that wonderfal care aud charity for which their order is 80 famoys. MACMAHON’S STRATEGY. MacMuhon has (nine A. M,) got his wish, { think. ‘The whole of the Prussian corps d’armée seems to be upon him. He stlil holds off, as if to draw them on more and more, Bombs and shells are exploding A FRENCH DIVISION CAPTURED. | every minute, tne Prasatans evidently trying to drive Sixty Thousand Germans Invest Strasbourg. THE FIRST ACTIONS, SAD RESULTS OF French Defeat, Doubt and Destruction Both on the Field and in the Fortresses. Germany in Its Hours of Triamph. BAVAL MOVEMENTS IN THE BALTIC. Denmark, Schleswig and the Coast Fortresses. PREPARING FOR BATTLE RUSSIAN INTERESTS IN THE STRUGGLE, AUSTRIA Eastern Europe German an Slavonic ? By the European mai! steamships Pereire and Scotia we received a conttuuation of our special written lustory of the progross of the war between France and Prussia. We pui ters of our writers to-day. The great hattle of Woerth dg detailed as 1. was seen on the fleid, and the fignts a series of the let- at Haguenan and Saarbrack are reported. The Prussians lost v heavily indeed, bat MacMahon’s army was demoralized, ‘The naval operatzons in the Baltic—highly important movement-—are detailed in avery spirited manner. Austria was preparing for war, Russia was watchful. One result of the great conflict now raging may be the partition of Eastern or Middle Europe into two grand dtvisioas— German and Stayonic. PGS BATILE Flerce Datilo at Woer' anerDefont of the Wreach Corps Under MacMahon— Retreai Upon the Vosges Mouataias—Tweone ty Thousand Kiiled and Woanded—A French Division Taken Prisoners—Strase bourg Invested by Sixty Thousand Baden and Lavarian Treops—Coneral Blamenthal aud the ermece Royal of Prussia on the March to Strasbourg—Unly Seven Thou. sand French Lroops io the Fortress. Worrra-Sor-Sau ) ARMY, 0.) ADVANCED Post, MACMAHON’s August 6, 18 A GREAT BATT: posted my letter yesterday news was ‘ te Prussians commanded every road between this and Haguenau—and conse- quently between this and Strasbourg—and that the letrers could nos be sent off; for no man would risk taking them. I ha therefore, got an old pen- After having Dronght in ti sioned soldier, for @ large consideration, to take my | package on to Reichshoffen, about ven mites trom this, where the rati to Strasbourg 1s still open, and the road to which is all along the Prench lines, THE POSITION. At the time of writing—seven A. very much as they were, MacMahon occupies the heights above tis village, an] his lines extend down towaris the forest of Haguenanu oa the one side, and to Eeicishoffen, near Niederbronn, on the M.— other. He has been largely reiniorced during the night, aud is evidently tempting tne Prussians to attack bim. The Prassians are in great torce, about 150,000 strong, and MacMahon has altoge me 90,09 under him, The troops are in @ pirits, We were awoke at half-past three A. M. by a sharp attack of the Prussians on the French outposts; but they retired avout an hour later. If the Prussians don’t attack him, MacMahon must attack them, 1 am in the village of Woerth, which will be the key of the position in either ¢ There is a rumor that the Emperor and the army of Metz, the Imperial Guard, has arrived; but I am not able to say whether such is the case. 1 must correct an error Tmade in my letter yesterday, which you will receive with this, The general killed on Wednesday last at the affair (Wisscmbourg) of which I guve you an account in my last was General Abel Douay, com- manding the Second division of the army, not Gene- rat Montmarie, who was only wounded. The French troops beLaved most admirably, but they were out- numbered ten to one or more. Most of the division lost all their baggage. The Chassepot carried mueh farther than the needle gun; but the French troops were too rash and would not take advantage of the superiority tuey had over the enemy. But the affair was a surprise on the part of the Prussians and a complete route of the French dtviston en- gaged. However, the troops are all wild to take their revenge. PRUSSIAN SIGNAL OF BATTLE. I have been obiigea to siop, for the game has begun, and | must try to get this away before It 16 too late. ‘The Prussians haye just fied unree bombs into the village, and the panic is terrible to see. The #illage church, about twenty yards from this, is on fire. I believe, after all, the Prussians will attack MacMahon. The Prussians are now (seven A. M.) entering the village in which we are. A couple of their men are at the door of the inn. Tt is eight o’clock A. M., and I must delay sending this. The messenger cannot leave at present. We gre in the very middie of it. MacMahon is on the heights, ana is evidently drawing on the Prussians to attack him in his position. . Tonee knew a young English lady, of the romantic and “gushing” order of beitugs, who, on her first ‘wisit to. America, wrote to her parents at iféme, ‘It might be of interest to you to know that I write ‘these lines within sound of the great Niagara.” In like manner may I write to the readers of the Heraxp, “that it may be interesting for them to know that this letter is written crouching behind the wall of an upper room, Chassepots, rifles, needle guns, bombs, cannon balls and mitrailieuses sound- ing inl my ears as I write, which I-do apon my knees, chairs veing short in these parts, and ina room crowded with poor, pale, anxious and yet brave Women of the village, pgHt Of Whom LAVE Gon matters are | the French army from the position they have taken up. The French game 1s evidently to fire now and again and to seem as If their strength did not admit of thelr doing more than defend their position. ‘This letter is written by fits and starts, but 1 need hardly say that the scene passing on around me does not tend much to care in composition. My ob- ject 1s to jot down events a8 they happen and to send of this letter as Soon and as well as I can. ‘The canuonaie upon MacMahon’s position 1s (quarter past mine A, M,) getting hotter and hotter. ‘The smeli of gunpowder 1s fearful; the dul air scems impregnated with it, My two fellow corres- pondents are with me and are most indignant with the stupid law of M. Olivier, which forbids news- paper correspondents from going with headquar- ters of the army and condemns them to do their work, a8 we are now doing, at the risk of liberty, if not of life, ‘The courage of the poor women under this {earful trial astonished me more than I can tell you, They are pale, anxious, ‘rembling. But not @ word es- capes them, nor do they so much as dream of cry- ing or screaming. At the first alarm this morning, the village streets being full of people, there was 3 ttle calling for children and looking up of hus- bands, but since the strife began in earnest not a word has been beard. As yet the battle is confined to a huge duel of big field gues. MacMahon is answering with batteries the Prussian guns, and will then, no doubt, make & dash with his infantry. But itis no easy matter to silence the immense amount of artillery which the Prassiins evidently have with them. Butevery hour that MacMaion can delay the main attack improves his chauces, for there is no doubt but that the move- ment I mentioned yesterday, of drawing on the russian army and then catting off its retreat ex- pt upon the thine, is what the Marshal intends to do—if he cau. But he has evidentiy a very tough and a very strong enemy to deal with. Some of the wounded Prussians say that a great part of the Crown Prince of Prussia’s corps, com- manded by the son-in-law of Queen Victoria, is with them, having arrived last night; but this, of course, requires coudrmation. I believe that the engage- ment now going on will decide the fate of the cam- paign, Not very wisely I have been for the last twent minutes (ten A. M.) on the church steeple with my fleld glass, but a very significant hiat in the shape of a Prussian shell made me take my departure therefrom; but not before | saw an immense body of French Zouaves and Turcos descend the hill, the galiant MacMahon himself leading them, and divide like aimighty stream and take up fresh positions. THE COMBAT RAGES—FEARFUL WEAVONS OF DEATH— THEIR KEPECE, The battie is raging, but ta farther oi, near to where the Prussians had their position this morn- ing, ata village called Lieb-lranenberg, and as I write the repeated discharge of the mitratileuse tells a tale that (he Preuch are getting at theireuemy. It 18 Curious enough tat Close by here, at a place called Freswitain, General Hoche (who tried to invade lre- laud with & French force in 1795) sought # splendid le agaist the Prasstanos 1791, wiin one of famous armies of the French republic, of ich the world thas seldom since seeu the like. Hoche commenced his fight with only 3,009 men, enemy having at least 10,000. He had not a sin- gie cannon with him, but offered 600 1ouis d’ors for every Prussian piece of ordnance that was brought hy in au hour his men, ragged and barefooted as ihey were, had captured from the best troops then known iu Europe po leas than six pieces. Last night MacMahou's headquarters were in the ver} Sule house, the presbetére or parsonage, in the vil- luge of Freswiilain, where those of General Hoche Were ln 1791, ‘the French soldiers know this and take it as a good augury. As (he batve of tis village is not unlikely to be- come iamous it ts as well that { give you the right speilg of the name, which, by the way, was not spelt nghtly mm iy letter of yesterday. Itis called Woerth-sur-saur, and is, as iis naine implies, upon Saur, close to the Vosges Mountains. A more beautiul eliey, or one richer with all the most beautifal giits of nature, could haraly be found in the world, ‘he muabitauts of the village are well to do janded proprietors, Alsactans ax to race, honesi, hard working and thricy. Their villages (for the wuole plain is full of well built houses) and Jands bemg made the theatre of war 1s a terribie biow for tiem, But they are kind and bospitavle to the soldiers of poth armies, Another look from the church steeple at half-pasi ten A. M. ‘Tae battle 13 sal raging, but the cannon on both sides is heard now and again. ‘The fight is one of infantry against Infantry. The French have | descended upon the plain, but they seem to tind it very hard work to disivdge the Prussian infantry from the position taken up. MacMahon, as I said belore, has a siubborn foe to beat. He does not seem to gain Upon them, aud the danger of this is firing or advancing, may get ty the end of their am- munition ve.ore ths proper une, | (hat the Preach, Wito catinot be stopped either :rom | { 10:40 A. M. The big guns are at work, but chiefly on the French side. General Lart » With the Fourth divi- sion of this army. corps, has now come down upon tle Prussian flank, and is iguting tercely wiih their reserve, tat has just beea brought up to support the Cenvre Of their position. | cannot exactly make out why ti ch reserve artillery on the heights has begun Lo Gre, ior to dos0 they must Bre over the | heads of t ow people. fhe hospital aiready full | of wounded aud dy gmen, What devil’s work there | is, to be sure. As the battle seoms to die off at one point (eleven 11 A. M.) it rages fercer and tercer at another, Ten tninutes ago ti as no firing near Une Villages, now it is getting hotier and hotter upon every side. A great number oi Prussians are being broughi in fearfally wounded, but [ have not seen anything of the French wounded. The Prussians are brought in vy their cour ine, stout, well dressed men, with spiked heimet and blue tunic, so often depicted. It seems Lipossible ior either one or the other side to give in, for verily two mighty .iauts have got to lighting between them. The Prussian wounded say that taey caanot resist the French weapons. The history of the fight must beywritten at a time When heads and beatts are cooler than at preseut. ‘The massacre on both sides has been tearful. In one spot, 1a a Wood about a mile from where I write these lines, the Prussians resisted manfuily for a long time, but had at last to give way wo the mitrail- leurs, 1 can see with @ glass ineir dead bodies ty- ing there in masses. ‘They fell where they stood, doing their duty bravely. “But to what ena? And what aa end many of them have had! MORNING, Tam far from being a rich man, nor am { person of very sensitive tcviings, and 1 believe, without toasting, that without being a hero { have @ fair amount of animal courage. But I would not go through again wuat | have since I wrote the tore- going paragraph—1 would not have my very soul disghste’ With the sight (and the deadly sickening smeli) of huiian carnage and buichery which I have witnessed since 1 put down my pen last, not to be made the wealthiest nian in New York. How to relate pe T have seen—how to depict in language which shall bring facts home to youryread- ers, as If they themselves saw what I have seén—is my great autticuity. About eleven A. M. yesterday the whole nature of the battle seemed to change. The Prussians became the attacking party, and, much to the surprise of every one, the Freuch gave way and retired to the rising groand behind Woerth. For three jong hours the village was the scene of the hardest struggle of the day, A Prussian division occupied it and the French tried hard to dislodge them, but without effect, by tirtng from above with shells and by repeated advances of the French out- posts. The house in which I was, the Hotei of the Uneval Blanc, was in the very centre of the towa, and, of course, was very soon riddled with balis, At first the host and bis family tried to keep out they unwelcome missiles by shutting all the doors and Windows, but the Prussian light infantry with the ends Of thelr muskeis smashed ali the Venetians and glass so as io prevent any oue firlag at them from the inside of the houses. A party of abont twenty, drank with excitement of the fight, rushed at the house, baoke open the door aud Peter to fire a vouey intothe room. I am not ashamed to say that with the family of my host—tne latier being infinitely more atraid than either his wife or sister, mother or daughter—I fled to an inner room, a kind of cellar, a litile below the one oor, where we all remained for about two ours until the worst of the danger was past. ing that time it seemed as if iieil had been let loose among us. Right and left, front aud rear, the etrect of wy Kroueh | 1 he NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, , es ae’ AUGUST 24, at rae artillery continued to vomit forth destruction and death. The ertes of the wounded were fearful, but no one dared go to help them, for even to show your face at the window was to receive a well aumed Dul- let from a needie gun, ‘The Prussians had got into their heads that come one had fired at the: trom the houses of Woerth, an idea which was without any foundauion whatever, But the bails from the French Chassepots on the rising ground carried so far that the Prussians post~ tively belleved they nad been fired at from the town, and were furious in consequence, The mits- take Was one which cost several ent persons, ntlemen who had gone to the top of the tower of the hospital, 1n order to see the battle better than from where'we were. Fortunately tor myself I did not accompany them, although much pressed todo so. | am ake certain that they had uo arms with them. One of them had a revolver, but he left tt at the the other hud no arms whatever, Moreover (vere voth far too fy, and judicious ever to they yuna it ed a foily as firing upon troops ad- vane! ¢ lato a towne jut the Prussian iers— from ail J can learn—-beleved that they had dono to foreseo, I should say, after having in some di seen what the Prussians have done, and what they can do, that they must end by utterly crusiing uke French army, and by marching direct to Parla. THR LOSSES, During my hea tay weary march on the frontier yesterday | was able to pick up some turther detalis of wnat the actual loss oa both sides Was on Satur. othe Prenel The lost in killed and wounded not more than — men; the Prusslins more than that num. pa yrench iaie iab ore ghd id prercd of 1(,000 men taken. ‘The Prussians lost. no. stores. oF guns; the French lost six mitrallleuses, twenty-five other saeoee, of cannon, 400,000 francs of treasure, Sie touree es, which in ths ouch aru take ta G ihe he ach army take the ers. ‘The Prussians admit that the French fought like heroes, aud I can bear witness to the fact on what I saw with my glass from the top of the steepie dur- nee battle. But they seemed not to have suficient discipline and to have fought very much ing up to the tower took them prisoners ata’ marched thei i Soe reat, | 4 nent after many es e Fed Oe valieve, what their men tell them, and at once rushed to the conclusion that they had beea red upon by the poople of Woerth. Upon the bare assertion of these meu several of the most respecta- ble persons in the town were arrested and carried to the rear. STILL. MORE FIERCE. Presently the battle began to rage hotter and hotter in the upper part of. the town. Knowing 8 1 did the position of the French army | felt certain that MacMahon had drawn on the bree in order to give tnem battle in the position he had himself Chosen. For a time the Prussian infantry continued to pour into the town by the littie a ro just before the nn, By companies, by battalions, by regiments, by brigades ana divisions they passed, all in ex- cellent order, all looking wonderiully ciean after baying paased the night uuder heavy rams in the open fields. SPLENDID APPEARANCE AND DASH OP THE GERMANS. 1 never saw finer, stoutcr, better dressed or Letter driied men. But What astonished me was their number, They muSt have taken at least an hour and a half to pass at _@ smart pace, the drummer of each company beating & pas de charge in frout of his company. *I saw at once that it would take—to ‘use @ vulgar expression—‘‘ail that MacMahon knew" to beat these men, 1 only from their numbers and thetr freshness from fatigue. Half an hour jater, long before the greater part of these treops would have reached the French position on the rising § Geta the sound of-cannon waxed fainter and far- r Off. Presently tt could hardly be heard at all, and then as 1 saw the Prussian cavairy and light artillery push through the town and make for the Freuch Position | instinctively felt that MacMahon bad fal- jen back, and the star of France was on the waue for the present at least. And Iwas right. ‘The Prussians commenced to enter the town, not to pass through it, but to remain aud establish their nuspitals. ‘Ite hotel in which L lodged was quickly flied up with the wounded, the dead and the dying. It bas been my fate to see not @ litile service in the East, but such fearfally ghastly Wounds as those I have seen this day it never entered into tue mind of man to imagine. Men seemed lite- Tally to be mashed into bloody, shapeiess masses of gore, In many instances the poor creatures could not be recoguized, all their featares being utterly de- stroyed. In others, afver cutting off taeir bloody clothes the most awful teartngs away to the very bare boue of flesh and muscle were made visible. Dosens were brought in but wo die, What became of the Freuch wounded I could not tnd out, but along, long train of French prisoners being escorted to the rear and consisting of more than six thousand men, mixed up with about oighty oiliccrs of their own, confirmed what I had heard from a wounded chusseur a pied, that nearly the whole of General Ducrot’s diviston, consisting of the Thirteenth chasseurs, the Sighteenth, Forty-tiith, Ninety-sixth of the line and his pet Zouaves, had been surrounded and captured by tue Prussians. PRUSSIAN COCUPATION. I have (August 8) tried four times to get this letter away. Twice {have attempted myself to get to the Prussian hea .quarters, and try if I could not induce the authorities there co seud tt with their despatches; but, although [ got @ pass, 1t Was impossibie to get on beyond a certain point. The whole place 1s in the utmost confusion. The Prussian soldiers are masters of the situation, and every one of them seems todo exactly what he likes. Even with ap by ee vane 1 have been twice arrested asa spy, and once all but shot py a drunken ramian because I deciinea to give him a pair of large untanned riding boots I happened to have on me. ‘To get to the Freach headquarters is utterly impossible, for Mac- Mahon has fled, noone knows where. ‘The local post office is taken possession of asa hospital, the postmaster has fled in terror, and | have every rea- #on to believe that a tong letter which I wrote on Friday, the Sth—giving an accouat of the defeat of the French the previous day at Wissembourg—will be, or rather has been, lost. ‘Twice I have tried to get some one to take what I have aiready writien to some French town, for this place is now, a8 I said, entirely under the Prusstaus. But both times the letter has come back Ww me, the messengers being afraid to go on beyond the bare outskirts of the village, 1 have managed to get trom tie Prussian commandant of the place a passport which will allow me to pass any Pruasian post free, and 1 hope in the course of the day to be able to get a guide and a conveyance of some sort which will enable me to reach Hagueuau, the nearest French gurrisoa, where 1 shall dud both telegraph and post office. At Hagueaau. HAGUENAU, August 8—9 A. M. After a great deal of troubie, and with not a Iiitle didicuity, [managed to get here on a country cart in about Uiree hours Tomy great surprise the Pras- gians are ip possession ef the place, and are in full march towards Strasbourg, winch is said to be in- vested by 65,000 Buden and Bavarian troops. At this place the wires are cut, the rails are taken w as they liked. ‘They despise, utterly dis; tactics or regimental order, and they have feasted the con- sequences, Not but what, as I gail before, they Were greatly outnumbered, whicn they ety | were. ‘The Prussians fairly “doubled them up” outflanked them completely. And I belleve this will be the result of the cam, However, the moral power and experience of the French army is utterly broken, and TP doubt much whether it can ever bo puton the same footing as before, ‘The very best corps d’armée, under tue most renowned leader they had, has been not defeated, but routed. ‘There is not a Prassian Ip ment but that has more or less French trophies in 4s possession. ‘Their Chassepots did weil, certainly, but they seemed to have rushed on to fire them, and to have got #0 near the enemy before tney used them that they lost all the advantages to be gaiued from them, aud then it was that the superior nain- bers of the Prussian troops told in their avor, But the wounds received by some of the latter from the mitrailleuses were fearful to behold, and the vest thing to wish those who had received many of them was that death would quickly put aa end to ther suileriugs. Marshal MacMahon’s position on the heights above Woerth eee gee one, 80 good that the Prince Royal, I learned yesterday from one of his stati, hesitated to atiack him. But he didso, and this Was what the Freuch leader wanted. But when the attack commenced the Prussians believed their enemy to be much stronger than he was, and the French were not aware that two whole corps of the German army with nearly the whole of a third corps in reserve were before them, As I said before the French were outnumbered by three to one at the very least, and they had among them some regiments that had been beaten forty- eight hours before at Wissembourg. The Prussians were alliresh. MacMahon certai was attacked in the position be had chosen himseif; but then he never knew until late in the day the real strength of the force he had to contend with. He then com- menced to retreat, but bad taken no precaution to secure his rear, everything in the shape of baggage, stores and tents was more or less in confusion, an it ls exactly in such @ retreat as this that French twoups always fail. 1n five minutes the retreat was almost a rout, in haifan hour it was completely so, and then came the encmy’s cavairy, which completed their disaster and their enemy’s victory. MACMAHON, Had the Marshal known what was before him in time, he would have been able to fall back upon metz, Or, ab any rate, apgn such a position as would have allowed another corps d’armee, either from Metz or Colmar, to join him. As it was he wus taken almost at once. ‘The loss of prestige and the moral effect to the French army has beea enormous—more than it will recover in fifty years. "As a mititary uation,” said @ French wounded oiicer w me the other day, “our name has gone forever.” PRUSSIAN MORALN, As regards the Prussians i regret to say that in some instances their conduct when upon French soil has not been by any means what it ought tobe. At one village near Woerth they shot in cold blood four of the Innabitants and two Catholic priests, who when questioned the previons day by a meh otlicer on patrol duty had tola what or about the enemy. The superior officers of the Prussian army— the captains, majors, Colonels ana those higher up— are exceedingly civil and obliging. But the men are terrible ruttians, and the junior officers are most overbearing and rude, After the affair at Woerth one young whelp ofa lieatenant arrested me aad wanted to take me five leagues to _head- quarters, because, as he said, I mast be a French spy. He very panty .0ok to himself a revolver and a field glass of a uch genticman who had been staying inthe same room with me, and declared that because | had trench money on me 1 could not bean Englishman. By great good luck [ taiked him into letting me go, or I should now have been writing from 1oside the Prussian fortress at Pots dam or elsewhere. STRASBOURG, T must now try and get to the siege of Strasbourg, which t hear begins to-lay if the gates are not opened, 1 do not think they will be kept shut, for the garrison consisis o/ only 7,000 men, and there are 65,000 men round it, and many more are on the march. The siege train took up ten smiles of uhe road last nigat. NAPOLEON’S HEADQUARTERS. Searching for the Imperial Ensign—All Round and at Nancy Again—Change of Position of the Army—Saarbruck and Forbach—Can- nonading and Narrow Uscapes—Disaster to the French—The Wounded, the Dead and the Matilated—Trains Fall of Disabled Men— Nayoleon ia Council of War—MacMahon’s Defeat Anuounced to the Troops—Jotn Bull in Trouble in Camp—ihe Democracy Still More Fierce. Py and the post oflice is not at work, ali the French officials having fled in terror. I have taken the advice of a German gentleman from Carlsrune, who has offered me a s2at in a carriage he has with him, and will go back with him to Woerth, thence to Schloss, wnere 1 may find the Prussian headquar- ters, and if not, to Wissembourg, or at apy rate on to where I can find post office or wires, or both, at Carisrahe. CARLSRUKE, August 9—8 A, M, After exactly twenty-five hours on the road I have got to where I can send letters and telegrams to London, The laiter has gone already; the iormer goes now. But before despatching it, as | have some little time to spare before the post goes. I will give a résumé of the last few days and an account of what I can only coasider to be a complete defeat of the French arms, THREE DAYS’ OPERATIONS—COMPLETE DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH. ‘This is Tuesday, the 9th of August. Less than a week ago every one not m the confidence of tne Prussian autiorities belleved that the Frencit would cross the Rhine, carry on the war in their euemy’s country, and that thelr ul- Umate success was pretty certain. A fortnigut ago, with 150,000 nen weil ta hand, they could have done this, and might, pe ps, have reached Berlin; bus the protouged delay at Metz and at Strasbourg, caused, ag 1 told you in move tan one of my late lett by tie utter failure of their Intendance, has been their ruin. 1 have it from excellent Prussian authority that cven a week ago the authorities at Berita Cully believed that the French would cross the fronnier, and 11 wad oniy when tiey again and agaia delayed doing so that tt was determined that Germany should take the initiative. A glanee at the map will show now very simple, and yet how ciever, the Prussian tactics have been up to this Lime. ‘'hey crossed the frontier in turee very large armies at Landau, at Wissembourg and at Lauterbourg. The one that crossed at Wissem- bourg had, on Thursday, the 4ih, the affair at that piace with General Douay’s division, of wich I sent you an account and a telegram early the next day. ‘The French treat the affair as one of no consequence, but there can be no doubt it contributed greatly to their defeat two days later at Woerth, for the moral courage of their very best troops Was then broken. I was at Wissembourg yesterday on my road along the frontier in search of @ post oflice that would re- ceive letters, and can only say that the multary authority that Would leave suvh a post unoccupied by all save a mere nomioa. garrison on the eve of war deserves the greatest possibie blame. But the French wii not lovk to small details, They are brave, and kn Henaeiree tu be such, but courage will not do everything Iii this Fould, 2 ‘The Prussians beat them at Wissembourg by over- whelmiug numbers. Tey were as three to one to General Douay’s division. But iney would never lave risked @ battle against such an immense German force had they kuown that 1 was there in such num- bers, This was caused by their excessive vanity. They will not take the pains to discover where the enemy is and in what force. It was the very same thing at Woerth. From conversations I had tne night before the battie with Marshal MacMahon’s staf, I know for certain that it was generally believed the Prussians had about 60,000 men present, in- stead of which the whole of the Fifth and Eleventh corps d'‘armée, numbering at the very least 150,000 or 180,000 men, under the Prince Royal, were there, and to these Marshal MacMahon could only oppose his own corps d’armée,whicn was minus the division of General Douay, that haa been so broken up ou the previous day “seers The Prus- On Saturday last. at Woerth, long after MacMahon's army had beefi wttér)y beaten, {resn troops that bad never been eng at all came pouring tn to the Village, and taking up thelr above to relleve the bri tha’ had been engaged in the fight and aliow them to Petarn to camp. And all the nextday (Sunday) and @iJ Monday column after column of fresh troops arrived tn the place, | over and above the immense masses ef Mey that werescen moving in the direction of Hagu tras- bourg, and in pursuit of MacMahon. lam quite cer- tain that the French never could have calculated the number of men they had to meet when they en- tered upon this war. - Yesterday, coming from Woerth to Carlsrube, @ distance of fiity mules, the continued siream of m- fanty, cavalry, artillery, pontoons, stores, fleld tele- graphs, provisions and ambulances never ceased for one single minute. And all that has nothing whatever to do with the German ariy that ts invest- ing Strasbourg, or with the other one that has gone north to Metz. ‘The whole frontier 1s literally ative with reinforce- ments that only left Germany after the defeat of sland army under the Priii al has since it en- | te nce driven the Frenc! aire it like @ he: of sheep, always from diot of sizer numbei ition on the heights | Nancy, August 9, 1870. Imperial headquarters not to be found. I am in search of them. The tmperial carriages despatched by train inoue direction, his imperial Majesty in gnother, and your correspondent back at Nancy. Discretion, they say, is the better part of valor. I feit convinced that the cloud of foreign correspond- euts would be kicked out of Metz, as their brigade was evidently a sort of nightmare to the military staif, { therefore took ume by the forelock.and thus escaped the imperial boot, But a few hours elapsed alter my departure before that pedal adornment was morally applied to the persons of my consréres, \ They have still the mark, and are, too, suffering to return, which I, on the other hand, intend to do as 800i as the authorities have recovered their senses, POSITION OF THE ARMY, Before referring more particularly to the day on which journalism went its way from Metz vowing vengeance and blue murder, | will tell you, for the sake of history, the chunges of position effected in the French army since my last, sv that your readers may follow vhe campaign onthe map. I told you that the advance of Prince Frederick Charles from Metz on Sierk had been the cause of much move- | ment among the troops, which had again returned ; towards their previous positions. Without doubt, | however, 1t was considered that the valley of the Moselle was sufficiently covered by Ladmurault’s corps d'armée, and the oid plan was again resortea to, of concentrating the army between Forbach and Sarreguemines, and to occupy Bitche in force, so as to hinder the enemy trom passing between the corps of de Faiily and MacMaion, which occupy, the former the eastern part of Lorraine and the latter the north- ern part of Aisace. The third corps, under Bazaine, of which the headquarters were at Boujay, moved to the mght, to be echeloned between St. Avold and Sarreguemines, behind the second corps d’armeée, under Frossard, and the Fisth, under de railly, Marshal Bazaine installed himseif at St. Avold, | the Garde “kept ts station at Boulay, and the corps under Ludmirault took up position towards Sierk and Thionville. The evident object of the French army, as 1 before told you, being to march on Neukircnen and Homberg, seizmg the | vailways for Mayence by Bingenbrack and for Man- helm by Landstahl and Neustadt, St. Avoid be- came the left of Bazaine’s corps. The events of the last few days have, however, de- stroyed the plan of campaign proposed by the French, Tne Prussians have, as yet, carried every- thing before them. Zhe reverses suffered by Mar- shal MacMahon have made Marshal Bazaine the cen- | tre of attraction, and should disaster attend him the | blow will be indeed crushing to the hopes of the na- tion. In all wars generals have ever risen equal to the emergency, and the question which now occupies pubtig attention is, Will Marshal Bazaine prove him- self equal tothe task? The people have not, how- ever, enttre confidence that he isthe “rising” man, and should ite be able to withstand the tide of tr luck, which appears to have set in against the French arms, it will be cousidered a miracic, aud he will be considered the savior of hts country. Gloomy,” oy . It is really paingal to ObServe the tnlversal gloom which now overspreads the countenance of the lively people of la belle France. GO where you will you hear the sad expression, “Notre panvre FPrance’—you have been betrayed to escape mal- treatment at the hands of an infuriated populace, Yesterday the press correspondents ‘‘skedaddied’? from Metz, My last letter contained the course of events so far as We were permitted to know them up to five P. M. on the 6th inst, With the exception of a shade of gloom on the countenances of the superior stat, everything appeared unchanged. There was no con- MacMahon. Had I not have seen tt I never could couid have been brought together in s0 short a time. It ts true we live lu days when no man can tell what 28 ROPE BAY REARS SOF: Dut v0 Lat Me At, Ia poashble. J sete manger In the court yard gf ype Grgpd Hotel } distigared bjaagelt firmation of the reported success of Marstal Mac- There ts a ratsed terrace before the windows of the Dur- (ie believed that such an immense multitude Malwn nor of the rumors which foretold disaster, 870.—TRIPLE SHEET, de l'Europe, the headquarters of Major Generat Le Beruf, on whitch staf ofMfeers, generals and ladica of wietr family have been wont to congregate each evening since the commencement of the war, They there discuas coffee, the chasse café, local gossip, war news and the fragrant weed. Onthe same ter- race, sitting at a table not within hearing, the cor- respondents of the English press have usually met to “pump” each other of the news which with diffl- culty, in spite of the lynx-eyed severity of tue au- thorities, has been obtained during the day, and thus transmitted for wonder-loving John Bull. OMINOUS SOUNDS—TRAINS LOADED WITH WOUNDED. I was sitting there on Saturday night. About ten o'clock the movement of vehicles toward the ratl- Way station was a suro sign that something of im- Portance had occurred. On arriving at tne railway @ Strange scene presented Itself, The neighborhood ot the station -was crowded with Messins and Mosdines, attracted thither by a morbid desire to witness the arrival of the wounded. The roadway was rendered impassable by thousands of the ex- cited population, who, on the departure and arrival side, stared with astonishment at the small, natty ‘@mbulance carts, drawn by a single horse, and con- structed each to contain two unlortunate suffering atoms of mortality, as, stretched side by side oa comfortably arranged mattresses and pillows, writhing in agony, but protected from the weather by @ canvas awning, they would be conveyeu to hospital. These carta, on two wheels, which ride easily on springs and contain only two wounded 80.dlers and a driver, are singularly well contrived. Then there were the larger carts, drawn by four horses, and several hundreds of mules, with pack saddles, saspendea to either side of which were light tron bedsteads, that, when not in use, could be folded up into compact form, but when required could be let down in a second, thus affording a com- fortable means of conveyance {for two meu in a re- clining position. These sure-footed animals are conducted by sol- diers of the military train, who appear strongly at- tached to them. Both men and beasts nave but landed a few days since trom Algeria. A brigadier of the corps, a shrewa, intelligent fellow, with bronzed complexion, said: —“We only recefved the order in Algoria on the 28th of last month to leave for France, and here we are on the 8th instant at Metz in readiness to fulfil our mission.”” it was a splendid stariight might. Under the shadow of the railway station were the ambulances and the pack mules; without the railings was a, cavalry bivouac. Ratlway trucks, laden with bran new canon of large cailbre, shining like new pen- nies and destined for the fortifications of Metz, which, iftruth must be told, are not complete, formed the back ground, So sure have ail, botn mil tary and civilians, felt that the Prussians would act entirely on the defensive, and had withdrawn from the trontier, that to compiets tue deienves of this stroaghold no immediate steps have been taken. Kleven o’ciock—midnight struck—but the train of wounded came uot. Yeopie looked anxiously at each other, and inquired 1 any accideat had hap- pened, ‘Lhe rumors which had been current that the Prussians nad been driven back; that 10,000 of the euemy, or, according to some, 4,000, had been surrounded by MacMauon 12 @ wood, to which he had set fire, were doubted by no one; but it Wa> ad- initved on all hands that the French must have had many wounded. Where were they? Why did whey not come? Their arriyal would be worth sceing—a sensation for the moment. Time wore on and the people grew impatient. At last @ telegraphic despatch arrived from a sta- ton betweea Mets and Forbac! ‘send down no more trains—the line interrupted.” Still the crowds remained in anxious expectation. There was, With- out doubt, some encombrement on the line; but that would soon be righted and then the tram would come, pufl-puff-puting, witn: its living ireight of agony. The expectant and excited people gazed down the line to cateh the first glimpse oi the long delayed train, but it came not. ‘There were suil te bearers of the wounded on the railway platform, sleeping soundly on the stretchers on which the mutilated bodies of war's victims would svon be borne, aud some of the sightseers went into the railway bar, eat, drank, smoked, sang tie “Marseilialse”’ or recounted war sensations to pass the ume. Others slept on the stone steps or benches of the station, or bought glasses of wine and bud cigars from an itinerant veader, who was cuie enough not to let slip tis midnight opportunity of paid thy: o cereal We were a mot ev crew, cou) of inilitary otficers, correspondents, ladies of fair fame and covowes of none at ail. ie NEWS FROM THE ¥RONY. cater an artist of an illustraved #rench newspaper ariived irom some place in the neighborhovd of lor- bach. How he had ever reached Metz with whole bones and unbroken skin was to his hearers and himself a mystery. He had heard awful cannonad- ing from one o’ciock until seven o'clock P. M. He and iriends had crouched mm the bottom of thetr car- riage to avoid the balls. The russians had taken Saarbruck, and us for Forbach it no longer exisied. {t had been consumed py fire, My friend was more or less fnghtened, considerably faugued and excessively dry. He cuasoled bimselt “with @ series of “beers,” vecame drowsy, slept, aud Forbaci, 50 faras he was concerned, Was lost wo view. At hal/-past three o'clock I returned home, annoyed at being unable to obtain any autnentic tn- formation. Not that 1 comd have forwarded it wih any hope of Its reaching you. ‘he post w.s entirely stopped; nothing could icave Metz, A telegram { despatched to Nancy yesterday morning bas not yet arrived at its destination. DEFEAT, ROUT, DEATH AND SHAME. On the morrow the French awoke conscioas of dis- aster. In the streets were groups of excited citi- wens, some of them gesticulating flercely, others looking dreadfully crestfalien, Sletz was in mourn- ing. Bad uews bad evidently reached the wwn. ‘The cathedral doors, at the large entrance (that in- congruous excrescence which disgraces tne fine old Gothic structure), were wide opeu—there were thousands instae—the Kmperor was expecied, but be came not. His Majesty was presiding at a councit of war. An oficial bulletin was posted outside the com- mussariat Of police to the effect tiat Marsal MacM: hon had met with a severe check, and bad falien back on Nancy. ‘Their most favorite general (MacMahon) defeated ! He who' had never jost w battle! All hope was gone. THREATS AGAINST NAPOLEON. Then followed threats against the Emperor, whose fault the disaster was dec.ared to be. His Majesty, long before the first disparaging remark was ul- tered, had on Saturday gone hunself to see the ex- tent of the defeat. He passed tnrough Naacy, bat finding that it was impossible to proceed beyoad Saverne, where he wished to consult with Mac- Mahon, he returned, looking paie and dispirited. Emperor and peopie had, in good truth, enough to make them unhappy. There hat been fighting with MacMahon’s corps Warmee, and the French hud lost the day. The Prasstans had not only recovered Saarbruck and Wissemvourg, but were at St. Avold, about twenty miles from Meiz, Ou the previous day MacMahon, to reirieve his fortunes, uttacked the Prussians with, at firsi, success, put later im the day he was repulsed, and the army under Gener MacMahon Was again defeated. With regard to ine ailair at Saarbruck, the corps under General Fros- surd had been nearly cut to pieces, This roused the Messius to veugeance. ‘the Mayor called on the people to assist.in making the trenches, and there was a meeting of induentiat citizens held in the court yard of tie hotel, at which it was resolved that every zen should enroll in & voluueer guard for purposes Irrespective of political opinions and solely tor the defence of the country. PONFOSION, ANGER AND MISTAKES. The inhabitants having now béen raised to the highest pitch of military ardor, all hope of tranquul- lity for strangers in the town was at an end, Ail except the iunabitauts of the place were regarded as Prussian spies, of whom, without doubt, several have paid a visit to Metz. In the Rue de la Garde I met a party of gendarmes with five prisoners chamed together, accused of being spies. J walked aiong the quays to the Prefecture to see 4 the Emperor gave auy sign of “life.” 1 saw the Prince Imperiai at one of the windows, Tegarding with imterest the crowd reading tie notice amixed to the wall of the Central Polive office announcing that MacMahon had experienced a check «aud appealing to the patriotism of the peop! “A eau! & Peau! & Peau!’ shouted another mi coming across the bridge from the direction of the Cathedral, and folowing two Bendarmes, between whom marched a hat less, half-starvad, pale-faced friguiened wretch. “A Veau! aveau! wl'eau ! yociterated the mob, with clenched fists raised on high, But for the pro- tection of the authorities the iiserable, skivering being, whose crime, if any, had not been proved, Would have assurediy been thiown iio the river. l retraced my steps to the Hotel de Metz and found some of the Kughsl correspondents tp strange ex- citement—four of tue consreres having just sent a note saying, “We have been arrested; take steps to release us.” The Graud Prévot was appiled to, and that oMcer, who is 4 Perfect genuleMan in every gonse ot the word, ordered indi Aglare One of them, an artist for'a London journal, mauaged to } profit by the order, and, mingling in_ the crowd, escaped unnoticed. The other iwo, father #nd son, were notso fortunate. dhe forme portly look- ing gentleman, with hair ¢ close, but stilt wearing an enormous gray he, Was the sub- ject of especial as evidently a eu; ys Prussian military a d had to endure ee as of the wari minds of the atrighted “Meas! er tus 2 looks on the practically exbibiced men by shaking tiair" Yace of the unlucky journg@, ie ry eX- hibiting their nails, which, 88 a faithial chronicier of faci Bay Were of the dirty, nibbled order, As fer lite! ‘6 )fRe- viously, When the weather Was @ had confided his beard to sieur le coigeur, tie same ltold you was in a terribie of the non-arrival of lus wigs when in disgnise. The threats were so loud hy deep when the father and his son attempted to leave the guard roomon the Place d’Aruses uvat they were forced to remaim Chere throughout the day. hi the meantime General Cofintere, to Foon had been that morning confded the defence of the piace, repudiated the order of release wluch bad Aven by the Grand Provot, Monsieur le Comte de Saint Sauveur, Spies when taken siould be shot, sald tbe General; if an Englisaman was 4 spy he should be taken into the place and be “Shot, shot, shot |" ‘The lives of the “Britishers” were ai & discount, ‘The father racked his prains to remember somo snatches of the prayera of nis youth; the son was attacked with diarrhoa, ‘hcir lives were nos worth an hour's purchase, the more especially as since there was a chance of obtaining their blood in exvinien, of their ceaeen the accusations ies, Tapidly. The editor ot one local papers arrived. Nerney Gre spies,” said be; “they bought to my own know three copies of my paper, and nobody ever tm the hope of Cyeoia LatOraHGd.--shloos them," nother 1. & police mouchard, in piain clothes, swore he iad ‘sceu them taking ont a in the seme Ot on Sarvs. Oveasions, when ey alWays Occup game bench they must be spies—shoot them, ‘the howe aad fears of the prisoners rose and fell as the aldea-de- camp of the Grand Prévot, or Ue senerat in com- mnand, arrived at intervals throughout the day. ‘Tne former brought with Wim the assurance that the Grand Prévot would exert bimsell to save ther lives, and prayers'were laid aside, ‘The com. + forted the populace with the promise that should be shot, and the prisoners prayed steady. ‘At last the Geaeral came in person to lake stock of his vicuuis, “Wuere was the third prisoner,"’ quoth he, “who had dared to rob the gallows of its due r* A sketco pook .ad been found upon him. it had been given buck to him. ‘*Who had taken upon june to restore it to its owner’ What was “A sketch of the i zi oa Emperor's Carriage,” sald the “Was it well done?” “YR,” “Then he must bea spy. Find fiim.’’ “His dame ts Sempsoug; there i ioe lune a Ey hg = “Now, ne General. to the patriarc! nalist, “if you can prove that you in aor a 1 shall order your release at once.” ‘The closed his meutal prayer book. But,” coutinued the General, *‘that ts tapossible. You have heard the overwhelming: of your guilt, You aave bougitt locat beware jou have three times taken coree in the same ; Moreover you were ar- rested in company of anotuer spy Who was actually pbpraning at the time.” ‘Ine patriarch prayed fer- vently. “Yes,” interposed the detective, ‘the Emperor's carriage.” “When caught the sketcher must be hanged; these other spies may have the option of being suot,"’ said the Geueral w, sir,” addressing the unhappy cvrrespondent, “who are you 1?” “Lam a ‘special,’ replied the elder. This tg my Son; our papers are en régle; here are our pass ports. “Have the kindness nos to forget the sketch of the Emperor's carriage," interposed the detective, Who Wembled at the thought of the spies’ escape. “All our movements are known ty the enemy through che English press; but we learn nothing of the movements of the Prussians. if an Eogush Journalist be shot it will be a caution to bis com Jreres,” said the General. ‘Someboay spoke to you in German aod you replied in tue same language. You are a Prussian,” “Oh. that be d—d!? replied the portly Britisher. hh? you admitit? itis muck bewer tur you to make a ciean breast of it.” “No, Ldouw’t, i am au Englishman, German.” “Please to remember the sketch of the Emperor's carriage,” sald the mouchard, “Well, you can speak German,’ resumed the General. “By what right do you speak werimant Your son speaks German; how dves that Dappenr? “He was educated in Germany.” “Please to remember the sketch of the Emperor's carriage,” in.erposed the detective. ~ «where was your son educated? “At Coblentz.'"” “At Coblentz? Ehrenoreitateiu, tne strongest place in Kurope. AQ! ha, ha! You must be spies, How 1s it tual you speak Loth English and French #? ‘The british lion, woo had still early prayer on the brain, replied inadvertently, ‘“rhey were given to me by my godiathers and godmothers at my bap- tism.”’ Then correcding iuuwself, he added, ‘No, L don’t mean that; | simply wish to say that nearly all Englisbmen speak several languages. 11m no spy, neither 1s my son. We are here tu report facts, and have no inchnation to atford any information respecung the movements of the Fiench army wiich may be of service to the enemy.” “But,” chimed in the detective, “please to remem- ber the sketch of the Emperor's carriage. The lodg- ings of the prisoner who made ft have been searched; here itis. Here 1s another of the county evideatly taken from some window in the town.” “En! But at any rate he ts a good draughtsman,"* said the General. “Is he not yet retaken’ How is At that he draws so well?) “Why, it is his proiession,” repited the patriarch; “he us the artist sent hereby an illustrated London 2 “But the fourth prisoner, who is hey’ ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. “He has arrived frojn Florence bui fifteen minutes since to represent on@ of the London journals, He is no more a spy than I am.”’ F “Wuere ave his papers?” demanded the ofticer. They were produced and examined. A pi from the English Embassy in Florence had not been vise by the French, “It was declared trregular, and the possessor Was ordered to leave the town by the neXt train under gurveillance of a gendarme aid to take the shortest route for the Itahan frontier. Thus ended the butterfly existence in France of one of the Loudon correspoudents, “But please to remember the sketch of the Em- peror’s Carriage,” Was again tie stereotyped excia- mation of the wouchard, “1 am sure i inust be some secret correspondence. The carriage may mean the French army, the wheels ts divisioas, the spokes its strengtb, the ——”” “Tatsez vous done,” exclaimed the General; “ne miembetez pas,” The prisoners are released; but they had better make the best of thelr way out of Metz and the neighborhood. This advice was fol- lowed to the letter. other correspontents, but the scare among then ts great. Their number becomes beautifully less, and each train for Paris curries away one or more mem- bers of the Engilsh press. ‘The excitement at Metz was sufficient to excuse anything, and so far a8 the uuthorities are con- cerned but little apprebepsion need have been felt; but mobocracy was becoming supreme, and all strangers have been ordered to leave the town. The raliway station was crowded with families on tne Way, many of whom have beea loug resident in Meiz—a waiter at the hotel, of German origin, but who has been @ resident for tweaty-five years, among the number, Tu PONT-A: r drove across the cou to» Pont-’-Mons:on, Along the road there was gencral consternation. At the house doors the women were employed makti lint. ‘The entire dearth of news had frightened everybody. At Pont-a-Mousson L took train—it was five hours behind time—for Nancy, which, in ordi- nary umes, is but one hour distant. We started at ten P. M. and arrived here at halt past three A. M.: In the carriage Were a lady, her two daughters, one of them married Lo an officer, aud her grandchil- dren, They haa been travelling for several days irom place to place, not knowmg where to bend their steps for safety. They heard that the Pius- slans were here, there and everywiiere, but could obtain no reliabie Information. ‘they had heard that Forbacit laa been burned; they ilved ciose to that p having # chateau la the neighborhood, which they feared was also destroyed—iheir home Was lost; they were flying irom place vo place uke a covey ol frightened parinidges, NANCY. On arrival at Nancy 1 tell in with a captain ot aruuery aud a captain of one 0. the gunvouts on the Riune, ‘The gunboatin question ts as yet not put together—it is portable, and at present stowed uway at strasiourg, like the bits of a dissected child's puzzle. Both oitcers were bound tor Strasbourg. ‘They attempted to get there on the previous day, bué were unable to do so, the railway between Strage- bourg and Saverne having vec broken up, it Raid, by et captain of artiilery has left lis and chil- dren—Heaven knows where, He 1s to command & battery and 1s id great spirits at the chance of speedy promotion, You would imagine that he ts out for a holiday. The gunboat captain 1s exciiable, as are all frenchmen. On learning ot the arrest of sup posed spies in Metz, he exciaimed, “if a man sup- posed to be a spy Was arrested and brought betore me I would order him @ la porte! douee ballest Boum!” “You had better wait until you know for iu that he was a spy,” said the artillery piain, Gundoat, however, is not a bad fellow, He hag not yet leit. Yesterday evening he went for a stroll in the town with aaother gentleman, aud goon dis- covered that he wax tracked asa spy and followed to the hotel door. le was farlous when he enterodt the house. 1 could not help asking iim how he would like to hear the order @ la porte! douze bales? Boun! J, said Gunboat, mistaken for aspy! 1am an officer tn tue impertal navy. Lucky for the scoun- dre} that he dig not address ine. See, 1 opened my knife and kept {5 ready in my pocket. If the canaiue had dared to accasé me of being a spy I would Lave ripped him open. Boum! THE WOUNDED. The wounded are arriving in, large numbers, the inhabitants offering beds and every accommodation ia their power; but ally seldiers and civitians, are complaining bitterly of mismanagement, and. de- claring that they have been betrayed. Even the Major Gencral and Minister of War are not free from the accusation. Marshal MacMahon, on whom alt had pinned their faith, who has never unt now veen beaten, Wept with disappointment on the field of battle) he citef of his stat kilied. at his side, @ colonel and a snbaltern in one of the regiments deserted to the ¢newy, another corps cub to pleces, returned with orly thirteen men leit to teil the tale; the Prussians lytug in massea where they tell, swept down by the mitgailieuses: the aim munition running suort and ihe rr! still pressing: on with indomitable perseverance. Throtgh force of circumstances the Murshal suieréd deteat, and no one can thik the Jess of the brave old soldier that he could not cheek the tears wich coursed cack other down his weathered cheek. FRIGHTENED TO DEATH—OTHER SAD SCENES. On a bed, attended by her relattves, in a room of whieh Window 1s open—and | thus can sec us £ write—lies a lady at death's door through tright, m UBSON, “clipper” required put a few shi the nead of the young journal hog. On the present occasion i satisfied the growling multitude w gaye facil She comes from the neighborhood of the last battle. That young iady in mourning now going out of the door with her friends 18 tue Ly ter of a general who was killed the diay | fore yesierger, Sho does mg as “an They took train ior Nancy with ‘ They dre both eapltal tellows. j fe