The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1870, Page 4

4 tion as to what troops are left to protect nor we likely to huve any until another action of im- p portance ives f the corps th he (adver But, int absence of i ation, we will give our @ | reasons tor a whole corps darmce DESPATCHES BY HAIL TO AUGUST 20. French Report of Bazaine’s Re- treat from Metz, Tho Strategy at Verdun and a “Heavy Blow” to the Prussians. KING WILLIAM'S FIELD DESPATCHES, The Great Military Leaders---How They Appear and Fight. “CROWNING CATASTROPHE.” NAPOLEON'S How the Emperor and Prince Im- perial Escaped from Metz. MacMahon ax Fre Rides in Battle. BAZAINE’S EARLY LIFE. Interview with MacMahon on the Field. The Diplomacy, Finanee and Legislation. INCE The Cunard mail steamship Java, from Liverpool the 20th and Queenstown the 2ist of August, arriveg at this port at an early hour yesterday morning. The Java landed our general European correspon- dence and newspaper dles dated to her day of sail- ing from England, ‘The English jonrnals of the 20th supply the follow- ing items of general news:— Admiral Sartorius has again written tothe London Times reiterating his views as to the destructive and irresistible qualities of powerful steam rams in na- val warfare. Her Majesty Queen Victoria arrived at Balmoral on Thursday. The Attorney General of England (Sir R. P. Col- ler) was re-elected for Plymouth, without opposl- tion. Sir Dominic John Corrigan was elected in the rad- ical interest member for the city of Dublin, in the place of Sir Arthur B, Guinness, unseated on peti- tion. A Prussian despatch dated at Wiitow on the loth of August, sa; A division of the fleet, consisting of the ship of the Inne Cyrilia and gunboats Dragliebiltz and Sala- mander, jas been engaged in a combat with four French iron clad vessels and a despatch boat, to the east of the island of Rugen. ‘The Prussians suffered no loss. The Freuch fleet, which fs still opposite Dornbusch, came from the east, and was first met by the Cyrilla to the north of Dawerort. “Land my nepliews unhuit. Battle won.” Such is the laconic despaceh by which Marshal Bazaine in- forms Madame ia Mar‘chole of the results of the French suecess gained on the 16th of August by the French army over Prince Frederic Charles ana Gene- ral Steinmetz. The Bishop of prelates who o lshed, on his return to his Re urges his fock to “ma . G the only one of the Swiss | batted the infallibility dogma, pub- | 3e, a pastoral letter. | 1 the sacrifices de- | uate the horrors of | war, not say one word rflative to infalil bittty. the Live of harvest r The conty ance of rita week im August, is telling most pS Aud our food prospects. nine ¥ will bow da und verify che forecast from wt quences to the great droughts of 1741 to 1844, and w we recently reprinted, ii disproof of the wea + the thir nd th » Were su land and the Preston, B ered at ail, or id and'southern parts the long and severe unt to res to Torquay, ce Palk, M. P., Sporting de Lagrange’s horses in tr states that albCount if, including ro, Mortemor, Condolier, L’0ise, Boulogne, Q¢n- éral, Turquoise, Croisade, &c., together with tho stallions G eur and Montaguard, 1 at Alvert Gate on Monday, the 6th their engagements, under Lord From the fact of Monar pearing in th imferred that the Count’s retiremer ii be only temporary—dependent on ‘without rese egy at Verd Rivted en the Prus- agles. Severely ms r Despatchea Ly-ilis atastrepbe?—Tbe ¢ im their tho Hail- Ja Kdonae ed ing detalis, French and , in written D special nt ae At FLOM i Situation on August 2O~ Question of nce ihe er, August 20. ation ag to the fact ed som Metz, iy aud without peror bad arrived the river Orme, about » twelve from Verdun and dey Uualons, | the organ ef the Sitaation in the | in Actionm | would be left Re that fortress, ‘The frst object of the French must necessarily be to endeavor to meet the Prussians at whatever point they select, whether Ohalona or elsewhere, with equal ees ae will Ong Ao pocomeenet ore easily at any other pol ei nc free ean be made to permeated adnan larger Prussian iorce, Now te ry vanotag beyond the Moselle, will have to draw their suppl cot er than such munitions de vouche—fe an forage—as they can collect by requisitions iu France from German territory, Great convoys must cone stantly pass the Moseile to the armies oy its left bank, aud the capture of these convoys we make the Prussian troops ran short of food, of amrmani- tion, of hospital stores, of everything, who think that the day of fortresses ts . Metz 13 an example to the contrary. In the first place it has detained the Prussians for @ week. In the aecond piace, 30,000 French soldicrs plas Mets ‘will be equal for the next few weeks to 60, ) Pris sian soldiers. At bat not least, it closes the railway from by which or vi and Mani 5 Ute Kine from Radon, ad ao ou aa it ny 80 as by a few thousand National Guards the must keep @ considerable force to protect Near the jancuion of Wendenheim from, ry and their convo} a paseing, that way f: destraction. even Toul, ah see ake it evon 1 few days, would close the in to the Prussians, ‘and, 10 more= at present to draw suppilea from Germany. eempt by the salans to interrupt the re- treat of the French 18 also confirmed by ¢ ) French despatch which announces the Emperor's arrival at Chalons. Two divisions are oill- cially reported to have endeavored to harass the army on the march, and to have been repulsed. This coincides with Couut Palikao's statement of the pr2- vious day, and the more confident tone of the French telegrams leads us to believe the Dews to be true, A theory was A prounlaeeet yesterduy gerd based upon the telegrams of the actions of Sunday, that the French were flying in rout, short of subsistence, which they cannot draw with certainty from the country in which tuey are for the mo- ment quartered. lt foliows that they must guard these convoys from the ability of | capiure, The next point is, that only tine ot retray by which these supplies can be drawn is that which passes through Wissembourg, and thence by Haguenau to Vandenheoum; where it itrunsim the main itne from greshours to Paris, which passes through Saverne, Saarow uneviile, Nancy and Frouard. ‘This last named town is on | the Moselle, less than forty miles from Metz. Sup. | pose now that the French have a f 30,000 | corps men in Metz, with communteations by the bridges | within the fortifications (o both banks of the Moselie. ‘Then the Prussians must leave two corps to observe this one corps and protect the communications of ; the maia Prussian arty through Froward—because ; uf they only jeave a corps on owe bank, the French corps can ey out im the night on the orher benk of the river and march upon the railway, or can ea- ‘age the Prussians upon one baak with au its numbers, while its other hall passes down the opposite bank and ents the rat!- way. WU, on the other hand, the Prussians divide one corps between tie to banks, the | whole French army will sally out upon one j bank and defeat the half corps opposed to it. Thus | 1t becomes necessary for the Prusstans to leave to hold Metz double the force which the fortress contains, This is one of the great advantages of a fortress On a great river, commanding the passage of the river on both bauks. We believe the French to be retreauing in perfect order, aud that there 13 no such number of ?’russian troops across the Mo- selle a8 could prevent the completion of their move- ment. It is all very well to talk about cutting off the French retreat, but a retreat cannot be cut of except by superior or, at all events, equal numbers. ‘rhe Bavarians tried it once with Napoteon. They threw themselves across his line of retreat at Hauad with inferior numbers, and tLey were simply cut to band Have we any reason to suppose tiat the ssians have pusbed forward in such force as to be able to stop the French between Ktam and Chalous? So far as we can judge there is uo reason for such an idea. lany &1 ents, indeed, polut the other way. The French must nave been able w get rapid inteiit- gence as to the appearance of Prussians at any point west of the Cees. and Kazaine ¥ ould surely not bave delayed at Metz solong as to be intercepted by supertor forces in lls retreat on Uhatons. He Las timed his movement so as to delay the Prussian lect to the last moment, and thus gain time for the con- centration at Chalous of iresh troops—and now he retires, in time tt may be; and apparently has been, ‘w strike a heavy biow at auch Prussian forces as at- tempted to annoy lis march, and to get clear away to the Meuse. It is worthy of notice that Etain, th town at which the French were said wo be concel trated yesterday, 18 not on the most airect road from Metz to Verdun, but on a road rather to the north. ‘om Graveloite, a village four or five mules | west of Metz, LWo ronds” branch of;¥ one runs Ubrought Mars la Tour, Harvilie and Manheulies direct to Verdun, passing @ little to the north of ¥resne; | the other strikes oi in a northwesterly direction by Confians, and thence along the leit bank of tre Orne to Etatn, sore teu miles north of Fresne, | Whence it descends ina southwesterly direction vo | Verdun, Itis probably some ten miles further to Verdun by this roaa thin by the other, Why, then, we have beard it askea, (id the Marshal ehoose ity His own despatch, received at two o'clock tuis inora- of. When within a march of Verdun noad against Bieininetz who came down by the north, and against Prince Charles, who advanced in front. The army of the Hereditary Prince was too far off towards the south, at Toul, Commerc, y and an peace Bir-le-Due ti led, Ba- | at the expense of Belgium. on this point chey ir-le: lo be tmm ge rehend a bl O fm ref zaine, therefore, had with the 70,000 men of Sweinmeta and the 225,000 of Prince The Marshal, posted onthe go roads from Metz to Verdun, awaited the enemy in a fine strate- cal position.’ These two roads are only about re and a half miles distant from each other, zaine, on the hills which extend between them, stationed nis right towsrds Vionville and his left towards Doucourt; and from thence menaced Gravelotte, the poiut trom which the two routes mm wh diverge on leaving Metz. ane fon sd Bazaine was | made a dash in to await there the effo! Steinmetz and Prince Charles to form a junction and repulse the | ceeded from, s0 43 to havamore space) for grea! mangu- vrea were impossible, as the, only, from Thion- = to! 8 ate or tour gues free, gkground, with the manger of laving the ‘Movello ia rear. Tus Marshal received on the 16th the shock of Stemmeta at Doncourt an that of Frederick Charles at Vionville, The enemy was repulsed with losses which must have been enormous. Prince Frederick Oharies must have hi greatly, for he Was wounded. and will bav This is @ victory of first rate importance. Bazaine has prevented the nasnedes, of the two hostile armies; Stemmetz may still be abl me 1 but if the French Marshal's plan is to prevent a serious junction he ts free to do so. Aud now What is he about to do? If he had before hun the amar ape Shree ts OF oniy Steinmetz and Prince Charles Le might resume ine offensive. Bat there ¢: on the rignt the 4 the the iorce now form. army. Prince Royal, Ly ii y aralyze | engaged in chee! the armies of Prince nT ary a oe fn bed Onaries and Marenat Sieipmetz. A stall officer gal- (this Tast, in’ ¢: the Marshal? Tnat is the question. Accordin; to cirousiances unknown to us, Bazaine wi gither retire at his leisure on Verdun and Meuse, or mutntain himself ‘boldly where he is, or advance onward, Which last course appears to ‘us hazardous on account of the disquieting presence of the Urown Prince near Toal, In any case the Mar- shal in his despatch does not say where he ts gor he merely announces @ resumption of hts ma! What is certain 18 that he bas gained two brilliant victories, t he has repulsed Steinmetz and Prince Charles, and that for forty-eight hours he prevented their edeciive junction; and that he has the road open to him on Verdun, the Mouse, the Argonne and Chalons, These are admirable results obtained by am army very inferior in number. Among the wounded at the three engagements of Borny, Gravelotte and Doncourt, Generals Decaen, Duplessis and Bataille are mentioncd. M. Fouruter, colonel of the Forty-fourth of the line is among the killed, Colonel Zentz, of the Sixty-third, wounded, has been made a general on the fleld of battle, Of the | two other higher officers Killed General Legrand commanded tue division of cavairy in the Fouria corps darmée (General Ladmirauit’s); General do Montaign was at the head of a brigade formed of the Second and Seventh mounted chasseurs, ~* o» Ki Willian at Metz. BERLIN, August 16—Afternoon. The King of Prassia sent the following despatch tothe Queen, dated Heerny, Monday, 7:30, even- ing, of which we had a synopsis oy cable telegram. The following 1s a verbatii report of the royal despateh:— i returned from the field of battle at Metz at three o'clock to-day. The advauced guard of the Seventi army corps attacked the retreating enemy at about five o'clock yesterday evening. The latter made @ stand, and was reiniorced gradually by trvops from tae for- tresses, The Tlurtcenth division and a part of the Fourteenth supported the advanced guard, as also part of the First army corps. A very bloody ught ensued along the whole lune, and the enemy was thrown back at all points, The pursuit was continued up to the giacis of the outworks, The nearness of the fortress aliowed the enemy in many Instances to secure his wounded, After our wounded had been secured the troops marched to their oid b.vonacs at dawn, The troops have all fought with inredibhe, aud admirable euergy, and also with en- thasiasm, i uave =een many, and have thanked them heartily. “The rejoicing 1s really atfec!iag. 1 have just spoken to Generals Steinmetz, Zastrow and Manieutfel. A Speech of Marshal Bazaine. A Paris journal publishes the following speech addressed by Marshal Bazaine to about one hundred troopers When he weut to inspect the cantonments:— My CHILDREN—1 have but one fauit to reproach you with—you fire too just. At Wissembourg, where your ammunition falled, you had what would have lasted the Prussians three days. Let us reason togetier a litle, Where are we? Full on our line of deence. From Thionvilie to Metz, and from Metz to Naney, we hold the ground. Behind this line what have we? Another hine, that of the hicuse, sehind the Meuse waat have we? Tne Champagne, a batile field that we know, do we noty After tue Champagne what have we sully The Ar- Do you remember the Argonne? Do you ber Valmy? Tae Prussians remember it, and au 1 need tell you. And alter the Ar- ‘at do we find’ The network of rivers iiustrivus by the campaign of 1814, iatersected by tie Alsue, aud ing, telis us that on Tuesday a very severe action took place at Gravelotte, but that the the advantage, alvouzh’ sufferme ner is probable that, retreat betug hls obj he prefer- | red to retire along the reverse bank of the Orne, so } } i that his left tank would be effectually protected by 2 Orne from the Prassian cavalry, while lus own cavalry and large favking parties would be throw out [rom te soucnera road. But, indeed, tt d follow that telegrain, wie speaks of the bulk | of th renirdted about bt yd | prechuc : provability of a large portion of my being on t mn road. n must have rau answer of rcoln, Who bh i him for marching his army by ats insiead of keeping to one along the bank | ofariver. “If,” he said, i nad marched my wiote | army of 109,000 men by one road it would have oc- | cupied with! tis train Silty m iu lengch, and t enemy might have deiea'ed the fro U long be the vear coud have reached the scene of action.” tt 38 volerabiy certain on the whole that aine’s | ircops moved by both roads parallel vo each othe or nearly 80, and UUs, if his left dank were tireatene: the troops iactng to receive the aituck Would (ali ba! ideteated on We restos the army on rond,or if Victorious,wouid re. elve the support of tue | | nortiern portioa, hastening up atthe sound of tie | guns, The Fred ave pl before an enemy at Ct to have beea caught napping on Uus march, how- ever badly Ueir outpost duty was performed at Wissembourg. But it muse be remembered that we have, 88, Ouly the | Prench version of the g j We stil believe the | Pre neral wili_ make good tielr retreat to Chaions. — If ho other reason, because It seems to us liupossible that the Prusé On suMciend Numbers Of Woops to Ine ually, because ot this auestion of Which seer pites, teresting to civil so. tiresome and 7 and wich pool r serves, DULY rea the bottom of ali military operations— 0,000, FussanS OF inore eannot push on of France at ate of twe governil: ol supply of rations—“A starvin e@ tian nove. The men plunder wad yes of their oflcers, The officers themsel ented, and with the ariny that a reat double {is numbers f should LOW he-ttare to French of half its strength? And whence ave the {supplies ‘as they advance in such outcry that has been dramed it possessed? How long wili it that one hue of railway to supply magazines we are ers under- 8 depend upon the question of sup “ALL army,” it has been said, j its belly. 1 saying 19 | sooner does want seb in than | wake, and discontent and ne creep ii. The Prussian a vance slowly in order to draw supp Weare not to suppose that every Prussian ¢ re yee Which has been heard of on th | bar Moselle means that alarge Pr } force is at hand. The territory south of practically d of Frenel : | mens of ny at cen he miles that thy } ted in | Want of i report that M } nad no rattous y » veturm to postal ra » ermpitars: tne con ys the blam entirely on the satene ys some One blumed when food 4 beyond control. win i far frown lway to dey | e's Bat Charles Wounded. ris Pat Result of Daz u plan ary, without ows gain that p ui LOW entirely ull the movements of au army | upplies, | nd We know (here evere retall- | he retreated | 1 position 10 few leagues Marne, the Aube, (he Seine, and even the Youne and the Arnnieocon, Weil, this is not ali, for be- hind Metz, bebind the Meuse, belind the Argonne, | behind the Champagne, beuind our valicys of te there 18 /avis, and belind Faris France, nee—that ts to say, four million armed citizens. a patriotic heart tu every breast, and @ thousand sin the Treasury. Sambieu! i: seems hardly ary to puto so many th 3 Let us advance gaily, without hurrying ourse We have p.caty of tine. It 18 needioss to say that this harangue was re- ceived with cathusiam, All tried to take the Mar- } shal's hand. jie took that of the colonel, suook it Vigorousiy, and continued the inspection, Tes, no Paris and London e particu- oceupy a prominent position im th It seems that he fatie thereupon enlisted as a pri ldier eventh of the Ine, and started in 1831 says, to un- finding @ force at Lo: ville, te Jou. id | ante aaa, neuter ie to communicate with | the most remote from the Moseilé. ti anes were already in motion it was tound || Ure, Porn ayn en yer ee Pony ee ppt to advance. For a time ack on back; but in it,as in that | were speodly.. Forbach showed that no theatrical triumph was in store for the French arma, —__ Napoleon’: frem Capture. [From the (Dub) Times, Irish btin) August 20, It 1s now no esoiet that th ie cour or unter last the Prussians on hearing that the Jeepapor: lest Metz en route, as it Wax understood to. lons, the hope of capturing his Majesty, It was about cr alg od three when the ror M where ‘at the house of Colonel Henoegn, staff encain} ing on the lawn. Adways capitally inf Bt in NA lane Piding fatiselves. du the waile Cee ee een the French engineers blew " raliway ridge under this 2 the and the Unians being COE, BAS, Emperor the house of @ farmer named four A. M., Prince Imperial and drove away, ‘at Gravelotte in E z z E 3 tae valap Prussian eg through Cond break- fasted at Etain and entered Verdun without further molestation. At this moment Marshal Bagatne was Hehe a aaa "ae "sae ne for w Prinze Imperial, and hi any escort. ra train. “Sire,” said the station master, “I have nothing to offer you but a third class cat > “f -will content myself with that,” repiled the Emperor, who took bis seat on the hard board, refusing & cushion irom bia carriage. He asked for a on. of wine, and the station mas- ter washed out the Ly lead pl used at vreak- ror adrink, faut and gave the Em who was vere fatigued, The Prince I demanded 10) wash his formed his abiutions in the stationmaster’s g) using his pocket handkerchief for a towel. On the morning of the 17th the W#mperor reached Chatons, and there are divers reports abroad as to the reception he met with in the camp. some of the : i ES : z if Who was at the storming of the Malakot, may owner forlorn, and who haa never wounded, again with Oa ia @ horse that he faintea in a ditch. After this last effort he lighted hig cigar and personally ai dBastrovs ee in ‘whicn guns Tost, 01 i the muddy nature of the ground re! the age Ol arullery General Abel Douay’s Death. General .bel Douay, whose loss 18 much regretted, is said to have perished tu the following manner in battle at Forbach:— When the battle was lost he stood on a mound watching the last reziment of his division as they descended the hill, deoum ted by the enemy’s fire. He had done everythimg witch was le to re- a a oe peor a wi - oar en dispersea them in vartous “To the enemy,”” was followed by a band- ye A ‘arpibie Are, Rpannd Sram, te san atruck down the men, electrified by the stoical More enave. ted to persuade their chief to and at , Dut he pol his sword bed valk esd nil ence balls which killed those marching by . but allast he staggered, a soldier pu: forwand was and caught him in oo his arms, and General MaeMahon’s Address to Mis Soldiers. of the day, which, as the French papers give it, has ‘m0 date elther as to time or place:— SoLpigks—On August 6th fortune betrayed your courage; out you only lost your positionsaiter herotc reaistance witch lasted nine hours. You were but 36,000 aguinst 150,002, aud you were overwhelmed by numbers. Under such circumstances @ defeat ts | naive and history will say that at the battle of ‘rosohweiler the Froneh displayed the greatest valor. You met with great losses, but those of the enemy were still considerable. If you were not pur- | foe. The Emperor is pleased with you, and the hole country is grateful to you for having worthily sustained the honor of the flag, We have gone through severe trials, Wich we must try to forget. evening papers say he has retired to Ruetms, and such is the case, ‘The Garde Mobile is said to have flung at hiv such epithets as “Assassin,” &0, BATILE OF GRAVELOiT.. French and Prussian Otticial Reports. By the European mail of the 20th of August we have the following French and Prussian war de- spatches describing the battle of Gravelotte. They come additional to our special cable telegrams al- ready published :— FRENCH NEWS ACCOUNT. Metz, August 17—Evening. A serfous encounter t.ok place near Graveloite yesterday. We gained a victory, but suffered great toss, Verpun, August 17—4:50 P. M. A telegram received from Briey reports incessant figoting tn che direction of Mars-la-dour, adding that it appears to be @ formidable baitle, and that large numbers of wouaded Freuch aud Prussians are being conveyed to Briey. On the other hand it ig announced that a body of about 1,200 men of the Prussian arullery and cavalry is eucamped — the plateau between Briey and St. Jean, and is sending out scouts, who have entered Briey. ‘fra- vellers whose accounts deserve belief, coming froin Mars-la-Tour, state that a serious encounter took piers, between the French troops and a large num- er of the corps d’armée, resulting in the repulse of he latter upon the Moselle, under the vigorous attack of the cavalry of the Guards, It is rumored that et: Bataille aud Froissard nave beew wouaded. FRENCH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. Vexpos, August 17—3:05 P. M. The Marshal, Commander tn Chef, sends the fol- lowiug despatch to the Minister of the Interior:. HEADQUARTERS, August 16, 1870. This morning about nine o'clock the corps d’arm:e commanded by Prince Fredericg Charles directed a very vigorous attack on tae right of our positions. The division of cavalry (Forlo’s) and ihe Second army corps, commanaed by General Froissard, well sustained the attack. The corps echcloned to the right and left of Rezanville, came up successively vo take part in the action, which lasted until night fell. ‘The enemy deployed constderavie forces, and sev- eral times returned to the aviack, but Was vigorously repulsed. At the end of the day a fresh corps Qarmée sought to turn our left. We have every- where retained our position and inflicted considera- ble toss on tus enemy, Our losses ave also serious, General Bataille is wounded. In the hottest of the fight a regiment of Uh!ans charged the staif of the AMagshal, aud twenty aeu of rae escort were placed horse deconba. The captain Who commanded them was killed. At elght o'clock in the eveniug the enemy Was repulsed along the whole line. The nuln- ber of troups engaged 1s estimated at 120,009, GERMAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. Point-a-Movsson, August 17—7:10 P, M. Yesterday Lieutenant General Alversieven ad. vanced with the Lhird Army Corps stward of | Metz, on the road to the enemy’s retreat towards Verdun. A bloody fight took place beiween the divisions of Geuerals Decacn, L’Admirault, Frois- sard, Canrobertyant the Lmperai Guard and the | Yenih corps successively, supported by portions of | the Eighth and Nintn corps, a der command of Prince Frederick Cha Notwithstanding the great superiority of the enemy tley were driven back to Metz, after a liot fignt lasting twelve hours. | The loss of infantry, ¢: y and artillery on bouk | sides is very considerable; on our side Gene als | Von Doering and Van Wedel have been killed, and Generals Von Rauet and Von Grueter wounded. | His Majesty $ to-day on the Meld of bi isiy main. | tained. VERBY, evolsme ble, says a London jour- Kac¥ ‘Whoever else was respou } nal, for the disaster at Woerth, tt is quite evident Marshal MacMahon was not. High testimony to his ordiug to King Louis XVIIL, was the marsbai’s baton. ¢ In 1931, non-com- Jawsioned officer In 1833, enant 1s34, maut in 1835, he thot 4 f § a the service of Ptiippe Quee smiall the mode a | louta a war of | taught him t ; aris and ren- dered him cele! ng men, Having { left a returned to it as @ Captain in 1839, Where in 1810 he obtained a com | pany in the Chasseurs d@Oricans, waose pattalions been Lori He Was appoluted chef n In 1844, and 9 little tim actor OL in the provinee of € stof the Fifty ards of the Yoreign Legion. The Cri war found him at its commencement id sent nim back, after two yers, geueral 1. He directed te expedition of ksnburn, that place was piured commanded it. » war of Jialy at the head of a dl. isiou oi the First corps, Wiueh, under his command, elaved most brilliaauy and one of his regimens perished aumost totally, with 1 ead; ) in tae i { captu it | 1 divisi nd when 101 Mexico, and elsewhere, fo be uomuated promoted im 1864 Wall 1807. ud of the ne Tmperial ub year. tant, the two 3 St bus on Tunraday anys hopes lave entertained of making rleken dowa, 1h nad ait. was coin- MND Cabos 7” Ont W | to have taken b. that bacalne mi; good bis retr ta nine Lours’ § pletely deieate with Parts aud ¢ had left what dirce Nit is Guicult wo tell : Thy thither every. whatever Third ¢ cost. his crowning for days it i e has been tm: sable realiz bectations Went tu loneth of tis rewully, corps | st of te | 3 of Paris are | ability and dash is pouring in from aul sides, even | the Pru 3 admitting that he handled his troops | niagauiucent)! Oue correspondent says:— As to MacMahon the sq are unagimous and | entiustasi! as lulched tie | beart of e 3 every one, “It ins tats cat. paign, alt 3 haupered | aud us tc he hal got { on vlated Lun. ‘Laey ‘The drat Corps will be reorganized, and by the help of God we wiil soon take a briliant revenge. ‘The Marsital commanding the First corpsd'armée, MACMAHON, Fictd Interview With MacMahon, Eamond About, dating at Saverne on the 7th of August, say: One guesses that our artillery must have been rudely tried when one observes catssuns pass with- out ther yee But see here, one, two, tree regi ments of the line, quite firm, toierabily complete in numbers, rifle on shoulder and knapsack on back, Behind them, itis Marshal MacManon, calm, digui- fied, almost siniling, and fresh as a rose. Isalute him as Le passes; he responds without recognizing me, One of nis aldes-de-camp, M. @Abzac, names me; then he stops, and tells me, quite sluply, in few words, the story of bis defeat. “{had outy 35,000 men, and I found 150,000 men in front of me. We have given way before num- bers. They have killed or wounded 5,000 men Abou:, but we shail have our revenge. Explain this tu the public, But where are you going like this?” “To Saverne.” “You will get yourself captured, The Prussians will be there in two hours.’ “I have my wife and children there.” “God preserve you, thea! Do not fail to say that the morave ol the troops 5 excellent." We shake hands; Iexchange a few pleasant words wih M. d’Apz: and 1 search vainly in we ranks of the staf ag it movestor the laughing aud sympathetic iace of M. de Vogue, orduauce oi ficer. Tuis fine young man, full of ‘promise, was killed by a bullet through the heart; both of them by the side of the Margual, who was reckless of lis life. How MacMahon Rides in Actious—Light a Cigar Afterwards, ‘The end of the battle of Woerth is thus described by a correspondaent:— In front of those. battalions which had escaped massacre aud the shame of surrendering en mas: betore tose decimated regiments, rose MacMahon, holding bis sword by the biade and brandishing it lixe # club, He wildly spurred a large black charger covered with foam, the third he nad mounted. His Uuntiorm was torn to rags, his cravat had been cac- ried away, his shirt was open, exposing his breast. This mau was superb. He forced his great black charger into the circie of fire through which he had just oroken. ‘Tne chasseurs came back With loos- ened rein; ibey passed aid repassed severai times through the enemy's lives, wich they overturew and sabred. ‘The officers took the big black charger by the bridle, the soidiers cried “Vive Magaianon 7 and the Marshal, standing up in his stirraps, took In at @ glance the Meld o1 batde, ttt a cigar and organized his udupicavie retreat, At seven o'clock We were ia. @ capitas posiuon, but MacMauon had returned to th? front along the Valley where the Prasstan arin, quite exhausted, was unable to pursue ita marc ‘This nan, Who trom dawa had been in the sadidie, and Who had been lighting tor thirteen hours aud nad seen ali his orderiies fall, Wt another clyar, dis- mounted aud passed tiree hours in helping tie hos- plval mea to attend to the Wouuted, The Great German Leaders, Tue following is the trausiativu by the Loz i] Times of a ietter received in Eagland trom a German In May euce:. HOPEL D’ANGLETERRE, MAYENCE, August 14, 1370. Whon the lirst inteiligence of victory avrived bere at Mayence, eight days ago, the King of #’russia aud his three Ministers, WhO ure now at Saarbrick, 1 Mayence inorder to be nearer tue seat of war. Khaving made a short excursion to Wiesbaden, Franktort, Cologne and Mannheim, I returned, i to my conifort aud pleasure, to Ma; , Abd OK pled my dormer roows at Uie English hoiel. Since iny last letter te n deeds of arms, vi aud the capture of bourg; and 3, the b throughout the whole c | | | H wy Of the King i TuM.ties Of ouse:'Ving ium daily, aud Mo.tke, and the alintster of War, Von ikoou, Who were luing IM tle English Lote ut the ; Bane tie as i eli. Af you could have seen tue | two last meationed, who how hold, Liay © esuay in their firm grasp and divect su dumeutvus € would have clearly pe | ceived on the 3 what cubuence they fei in the) su gon with the une 4 Dburuag che st wre Thad went suc . Re red that we WALL sand littie ariny, wi are Unis reache ve met mbors Ue enemles of France. Ti folowing appreelation of is conduct will show tivat he 5 full, ual fo the ta posed upon iin, Had be been j would have won one of the greatest, batues 1a our rien hoe | MacMehon:— In those te} we find } one briiant military | figure, a true 1 Aisa | kodand Ma W jt ches we found tat he foug le itis man aguins: man, | butone Ke fougi not during an nour | ora day, but irom the sd to the 6th, in a foreign iL with enemies, He was almost sur. | appears, Several thnes. atiacked | those masscs of troops, whose fallen ranks were fied up at once, He tout, he resistea, he with stood hy K; there wasno disorder ia his arm i iémm—epic and the glory of Pre vive new lusie from thls Home iowing disclosures of the Mfontleur, a } d empire, shows in what sort of LOOT stons. His troops ght hours Tuo Dulles holes, Me had nof nad and long sins. e onfe, as nied Lin. de had not a thatea e ¢ soon jomed by an om- whit |. cer wked the t Wi turns to his auth n’s stad at tae batt hat well contest , ordering his sta to Tremal hivaseif at the head « t siag, however, insisted on His ng hin, and . de Vouue oMpans Afori- | it wus them Wat General Coulsou and by asother corps @armée he | * contains the following on | and lad a sii darshal tere by rail, An aut of Nancy, personally acquainted with the | Of the. Oairassiers, Hits e noue | mon ¥ + will instire fo and then 16 cau'be once more Wuly Bald, “ | Gouguered i | A London p on the manu | cording to the London Pruver rum of the “Ben vouson, KCL POs jon of are diligent frou tue fT pabusies ab adverlisemeny OF deorr- TOOULS 10 tue Straud ai a guluea ek, Wacre Javest editions of the newspapers are availavie, and where ‘spec JonS ab Lie seal OL War Cami have every iachuy | jog producing their “sp {| War Corres, sden t | ircetroi personal danger aud unhinde i obstruction. AM Uns ib very ames says Lie | Writer, but it cannot -be sald’we are mba position (0 ule db Kogusu creduaty. - blustiingiypractised eved in yaad We i nh vabiu one event paper Wied | means ¢ } eacn ev tuposs: wich a fresh F fin What 1s Called) a “il to coudemn too Rdmond About on Phe reader will bear taming tha | Journalists adveniui the 7th nageme re 18. already ir | About points at tne reu 1 of having DUITSe 0 Of the, reserve prof Frau 1¢, wishes to colonels to make thei { and capiaws to make them coloue the wretched traditions of tle Sec Kaye tulug by iavor: ict qerit ouly be Marshal MacMahon published the following order | , | enjoy the same powers as thosl exe ‘ SF account, The army no longer wishes to obey war! ienoaseonnee te come er roper time and panes, Emperor enemy, ‘ror the nation, north ‘armny whiclt 1, deprives Dim ‘of his authority (andar), vas logio and plain grammar. Already ts of 5 those model electors, cry aloud:—“Tis will teach us to vote ior the official candidate.” We should not be tn danger, perhaps, if we had answered “no” to the pl yr should teach us what he if ter can they of clothes will yee —how ives—how 0} e ihe ememy— those thousands of fooly who have tad a care only to egret rsons? ‘The enemy must have rich hat of booty—a paymaster’s cheat, ao can wits of relics of all kinds—untt Passes, sabres, helmets, rides—whtoh stig the: weet camps. Oid soldiers oat their heads Like conscripts. It boy strutting inatantc with three good conduct stripes on the sleeve! “Anownee carried @ Chassepot given to him by a ; en others had tneir biouses full of The beadie makes a collection Of trophies at the town house. The women 1 the streets Lave powohes: children trundle the hoops of “rune to vans wounded troop horses limp to the flelda, there to Perish of bunger if the knacker does not arrive to put an end to their suiferings. Adark picture this! The writer adds some traits which deepen its sombre coloring. He saya:— The young men of Soe Villages ara dg' in bun- dreds iene the Prossians should press tem into their Tanks and entrench themselves behind them as the | hosts of King Cambyses did behind their sacred ant- mals. And yet not a Prussian cannon had been heard during the day, nota Prussian gun seen. It 1s @ blockade by an invisible army. The diary ends by the expression of a patriotic faith in the elasticity of French arms, They may bend back to the Marne to rebound to ue Spree. “Amen,” winds up M. Edmond About, Aid to the Wounded. The Paris correspondent of the London Medical Times and Gazette learus that up to the 16th of sued, the reason is that you did great mischief to the | August the Société de Secours aux Blesses Militatres has received 2,123,748 francs, and that thelr primary expenses for the establishment of eight‘ambulances amount to 560,000 francs, and they have aliotted 1,200, 000 francs for these ambulances, at the rate of 60,000 francs per month for each, that they have faves in relzet to towns 12 the neighborhood of husti- jes About 98,000 francs, that they lave expended 200,000 franca tn fitting up places of refuge where they even wanteu aid tn the nourishment and trans- port of (be sick by rail, and that tie cost of organt- gation and publication comes to about 60,000 francs, ‘They have also sent to different places on the frou. tler 21s packages of linen, blankets, &c., weighing 7,029 kilogrammes, and 2,400 beds, ‘There are tn the devot 5,250 beds, about 5.450 kilo grammes of various goods, vesides wine, sugar aud. medicine. The Dend on the Ficld of Battle. A special correspondent visited the fleld of battie at £orbach immediately after the battle was over, and thus describes what he saw:— Proceediag up the hill I found the Prussians lying thick, while every here and (uere the gray coat aud red trousers of the Twenty-lourth French infauiry appeared. On the top of the first ridge there were hitie heaps of French and Prussians mixed, white On the second ridge the French uniforms lay thickest, | Upon reacuing tue brow of the bili a heartrending | sight met my eyes. It had evidently been the last stand of the Twenty-fourth, for their uniforms, mingled with the Prussians, lay to tae number of seventy-five iu @ very small space. Facing we road, with a smile om his face, lay the major of the Frenci regiment. In one hand he clasped a sergeant’s, and in the other a lock of hair, wrapped ina bit of paper. Both the sergeant and he must have been shot at the same time. The woods to tue leit were, as 1 anticipated, tliled with wounded, whose piteous cries were heartrending te hear. On the cresi of tle hill the Prasstan -unijorms lay very thick, Ieounted more than 150 to about thirty of the French, ‘Chis was the hard fought for point, and where all the slaughter took place—l say advi- sedly slaughter, for tt Was nothing less. The unfor- tunate men Were still belug carried into Saarbruck- en at tweive o'clock to-day. Lleave you to imagine their sufferings all night long without a drop of wa- ter. All brancues Of the service seem to have sii- fered, for | picked up @ lancet. and some surgicai in- struments close to the body of a doctor who nad evi- deatly been shot while attending to a wounded maa, Here I saw a French soliier of the line, lus face stil bearing a stern, determined look upon tt, even in death, While close by his side lay the protector of his Fathertand, with his lace to the enemé and his bet- mact ib Lis hand. DIPLOMACY AAD -F Another Diplomatic Revelation. The Int’pendance Belge contains the following:~ An Austrian monthly review, the Doutsche-Un- garische Monatsschi ict, publistes & document in continuation of the revelations made by tae German corning the projects of the inperor Napo- ct uz to iat3 jouraal—upon which we i respousibility of siatemeut—the proposi- uons Which the Huy xe Napoleon made ab Saiz- vourg im 1887 to tae Comte de Beust were as foi- Jows:— Fi The Emperor Napoleon undertakes to give active Austria in case that Po, auds of Prussia o tae Tres of Prague, or wishes, in to compe: by for 1a to do BO. of alliance, oileusive aud defensive, a Siaies agd Prussla shall - be’ co: Y theTreaty of Prague, and the ue of the treaty of Prague, shall be 4 German Co.federation, under the Joint protectorate of Austria and Krauce, with a federal paritameat suing at Vicoua. Lae inperoe oc Austria, in the Southern Confederation, will vd by the King of assistance the wirict exe invited to form the Northera con! ratio: called upon’ to evacuate Mayence, eon ifom tae Southery States. That Of lieeae sieunied: to. the north of rom xtbera Confederation to that of the Souch, wand the Suthers States will, together form joa, W a will hat ower to enter into com- ies, On the one twnd with France, and on the ° Northern ia refuses to carry out the Treaty of , and to put an ead to ali conventions fh contradiction of this treaty, France i deciare War #galost Prassia, After ihe ve- teas Viussia will have to cece to Franga, the ¢oal basia of 1 as the territory of 8 ‘The southern part of opti f the territoris roruek, a wit be obligatory on Vrussii. pel this ‘vote to be re ¢ territories pronounce their former sovereicua, these to cuter inty the Northern Coated- spevted, Incas hs favor of the ast wil have the ri, ation oF of tires reaty of thia the fart tele 8 ng be not ea: theun, refusin tion in Paris, August 18, 1370. ern ia which the i ted Governor of Me ander-in-Chiei of the forces city uader martial law. Paris ch belongs to her, for sh centre of great evforts, great si at in the umpies, 1 come 10 a: task with my whole be the honor of my ie and crowning point of a carcer ined hitherto unknown’ to most ¢ faitia In Le SHEcess 13. ou one condition character, without be struck with Im- ; and L understand by liy of the street, but. tha fds; the deference > quithority; the res separable bo the s ed secuvity of a na Vthe — prillt | whieh ‘hae rei f resolute desunier. ) ali men, to all $ known in ine army, ntry, [ ere | view, £ atuie!? ral PRO ocbws Commis ‘ance met imsession Au- nthe chaiieaae cr of Wat, asce ‘ochu to