The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1870, Page 4

Bpecial Despatches by Mail to August 23. Bonapartism and Imperialism Toppling to a Fa!l. Paris Preparing for a Demo- cratic Rebaptism. REPORTS FROM THE BATTLE FIELDS. | Btrategie Contrasts Between the Pranco-Ger- | man and American Wars. King William and General Grant as Commanders in the Field. THE NAVAL COMBAT OFF RUEGEN Movements on the Baltic Coast and Hopes of the Pol The European mail of the steamship Siberia, to | hand at an early hour yesterday morning, supplied | our special correspondence from the seat of war, with interesting letters from writers in various other points of Europe besides, dated to the 23d of | August. Our special history of O14 Worid events ts | thas, as usual, quite interesting to-day. | NEW YORK HERALD, fault of Messiours les Politiciens if he (s not destined to pass the rest of his eventful life in the calm se- clusion of his ¢/-devant mountain home, where he way serenely meditate on the rise and fall of em- plres, Perhaps, inspired by the classio neighbor- hood of Lausane, where Gibbon wrote his immortal work, the “Dechne of the Roman Empire,” he may | set to work and edify the world by @ composition far more interesting and couched in s style still more replete with grace and eloquence. All this may come vo pass before the leaves of autumn are strewn upon the ground, The kingdom of Louis Philippe, which seemed so firmly rooted, passed away in a t. Why, then, may not the empire, with all its Thudeur, topple headlong gown In another month his moment a vei hing. Fe elved Oy ve Ths. war a territic blow, ceived by the events of wnoh bas erecked Ly it hag not yet fallen wo pieces, Can i ever be cemented agalo? That is the conjecture of the nour. Karely three months since the leaders of all the various: non whieh bey gicrpally struggling to er SENSIOLL supreme pow: ai ‘ee tplepatt pel Wager eros up their last hopes in utter despair, e plebtscite of last May, with its seven millions and a half for the empire and its one million and a half for all the opposing elements, put an end to furtner conflict, ‘The nation, in almost its entirety, decided to maintain the government; and w reject finaily all ‘This vote was a crusbiny The republicans, Orleanists, Jutioniats all felt that their hopes were indefinite! deferred, and they sut down in melancholy to rum! nflte over the gloomy aud distant future. Little Mey dream what a short ninety days would bring forth, What their umited efforts for years h utterly failed to do Napoleon accomplished for them m three brief weeks of war. 1 blic opinion which has always been the broad and solid founda- tion of her er has in e t measure deserted him, and if It refuges torally to him to Iimwhy then he 1ust imitate the sage example of coon, which decided to come down the tree when he found Captain Scott was ‘taking aim at him.” The unconcealed soy of the party leaders oyer thid unexpect good luck is indescribable, and it reminds one not a little of alot of hungry | heirs oer at be bed of Netley cor Whose delight peers throu evel eamen' their would-be lugubrious wieages- sf has happened in some such instance ; that the expectant heirs were cut off witha peuny, and in others that they fell to Sighting over the prize, which tinally fell into hands that had never anticipated it. The politicians of Paris look radical, and ure busy making their arrangements and laying their plans to take session of the vacant edifice of State, just as if the empire was utterly defunct. But is itso? That is the main question, ‘There are sume elements of vitality that still manifest themselves, apd they are important. ‘THE PEASANTRY AND ARMY. The peasants of France, that count by millions, i whose possession of the sufrage makes ther co-operation indispensable as to any future form of government, still, a8 all accounts say, continue to cling to the empire. If they do then the Emperor will retura to the Tutlertes, @ wiser and @ sadder ‘The London Post of the 23d of August says:— We have reason to believe that the statement pub- lished by the London Times yesterday, In a telegram from its Berlin correspondent, 14 absolutely un- founded. The Queen has not written, “in reply to the Empress Eugénie’s letter about a week ago, re- | retting her inabilliy to inediate;” nor has ler fiajeaty “observed that in constitutional England mediation must proceed froiu the Cabinet, but that | Vie Cabiuet did not think the time come? ‘This re- | Ply ts on the tace of ita fets 1 the Queen would | Never write toa foreign 50 n concerning the “thoughts” and opinions of her responsible advisers. | ‘The letter to which this reply has been invented was never received by the Quech und Was never written yy the Empress, The story is a libel upon both sovereigns, but im the case of the Empress Eugene ac ig a cruel calumny, whic, if believed tn Paris, might lead wo consequences too horrble to contem- plate. ‘The Moscow Gazette, which, like the other princi- pal Russian papers, has during the war been a steadiast adherent of France, deciares that, although | France commenced the present conilict, it was really | originated by Prussia. [t says:— Awar with Frauce was absolutely necessary t Prussia for the tinal unification of Germany, * * She fel! this faval necessity hanging over her for more than three yea nd ut last seized the oppor- tunity When it Was ripe. ‘the war Was prepared by dine astute policy of Berlin, not only at home, but aiso in the enemy's camp; ana When all was ready— when France was isolated abroad and disorganized and betrayed at home, and cousequentiy quite in- capaole of entering on a great Wer—she was goaded Jato fighting, and m such a manner that it seemed as if the provocation came from herself, The Prus- sian declaration of war was put into the mouth of irritated France, Who Kuew not what she satd, ‘The London Times says that England has “now the opportunity of seeing how much 4 nation can do pod “how yayot Seon Ae Sede esalst be put on thetr defence and made to fight tor their lives? We are the only unarmed people in the world. No reasons, except those founded on false security, blindness to change, indolence or pure folly cau be given why every man should not have a certain degree of military training. There can be no doubt that there is in the country a vast amount of warlike ardor. The question is how to deal with it and how to turn it to the best account.” The Pall Mal Gazette of August 22 has the follow- ing:— All Europe has veen confronted by a new and starting fact, A colossal imtitary Power has une pectedly risen up among us. We say has unexpe edly risen up, because the most favorable estimates of the Prussian military organization had not pre- pared us for anything like the reality. Many people thought that we result of a war between Prussia aod France would be to dispiace the latter from the position of military pre-eminence she Was supposed Wo have regained under the second empire. But if the contest ends as it has begun it will do very qmuch more than this. It promises to place Prassia Jn & position such as France has never held except under Louis XIV, and under Napoicon |. There 13 much the same sort of difference between this and the position France has lately claimed to hold as there 18 between the Uitramontane theory of St Peter's supremacy and the Anglican theory of his primacy. Our Dublin correspondent writes that the publica- tion of the King oi Prussia’s letier to the Pope in answer to the proposai im: by tts Holiness to me- dtate in tavor of pr it} rather turned the sym- pathies of the Irish Catholics, which were previously #0 strong in favor of France, in the direction of Germany. Two Naples journ the Nvova Patria and the Piccolo, state tifat mi was in that city before he went to Palermo, where he was arrested. ‘The authorities were inclined to detain him, baving a Strong suspicion who he was, bu! tinding that he bad an English passport, in wich he was called Henry Zannith, they let him go. 0 * PARIS ON THE EVE OF CHANGE man may be, but return he will, Another great ele- ment isthe army. How that will go when tue war isoveris more dificult to say; but I will venture to predict that 1 will not go the way the poltticians would like to jead it, If the army abandons the | empire 1¢ will aspire to put some fav at the head of the State, Ou the plebiscite of the army entire voted for the empire, minus 40,000. dissentients . It victory finally perches on the German standard then it may be questioned if Lhe peasants and sol- | dicry will continue loyal to the man who bas brought so much dishonor and calamity upon them, though, to the honor of the common people be it said, wey are never the first to abandon & cause of a man who 1s only unfortnnate. If it turns out that Napoleon Was (oreed into the war against his better juagment by men who sought his downtall—and this 13 the prevalent notion now circulaung among the French 3—then Napoleon may tide over the reverses war. But granted that he ts obliged to make he literary retreat I alluded to, what then? WHAT WILL FOLLOW BONAPARTE? Ay, “there’s the rub.” Shatl we be treated to anotiuer republic of ighly respectable character, aud that will be all that Plato’s fancy painted? ‘That would do very well. Trade and commerce would take It at once by the hand, but Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc and Rochefort, &c., would attaek It just as they did the republic of 1348. Shall we have a conatitutional monarchy, with one of the Orleaus princes for King, warranted “to reign, but not govera:” ‘This would do very well, too, Everybody would be satisfied with that, except the Fe pen’ gentiemen just named, who would assail ‘us detested importation of English monarchy with more violence than a moderate republic. The revo- lutiontsts, or the “reds” school, some of whose leaders Lhave enumerated, propose a republic of “unlimited liberty,” when everybody can do what everybody pleases with everybody’s person and things, in other words, the system known as com- munism or socialism, inat has been explained fn the theories of Louts Blanc and the teachings of Prad- homme, whoxe motto, you remember, was that “pro- theft.” The legitimists believe there is only ny antt and that is to go back to the old aireny Hane, and that let 4 gon of the Count de Chambord, who HEF AU Ba, his chateau im France, containing 440 chambers. as a@ hospital for the wounded. These are the parties, the principles and the pretendees who are devout, as they say here—that ts, on two legs, one of which js ready to Kick over the empire and the other pre- pared to hop ou to the site ir has occupied. So you see in observer of passing events has something to occupy his mind besides the terripie yea that is raging in the wterior of unhappy prance. GENERAL TROCHU. The last sensation in Paris is the new Governor General, ‘trochu, Whose chief reputation hitherto is more of a literary kind than military. He wrote in 1867 a book on the French army, which had a great success and gave prominence to hisname. Le is sald by some to be a republican and by others an Orleanist, and that he proposes, when the moment comes, to play the rdle of General Monk, go famous in English history. He is already criticised for writing too many proclamatiens, showing that his fondness for the pen is greater than for the sword. I have given a general and iinpartial sketch of the situation, wud it affords abundant material for speculation. WAR CONTRASTS. Contrast of the Continental and American War Struggles—English Views of the Two Great Miltary Epochs—What will be the End of the Franco-Germaa War t=Tie Rapidun acd the Rhine—King William and Geucral Grant. Lonpon, Angust 28, 1870. There has been from the first taking up of position by the French troops 2 remarkable resemblance be- tween the armies of France and Germany in their relative positions at the beginulng aud in their sub- sequent moveinenis and the forces of Grant and Lee in the final campaign which terimtnated the re- bellion m the United States, In the contest now raging the French were the | first in the fleld on the line of the Saar, and might have been expected atany moment to cross It and drive the apparently unprepared Germans across the Rhine and back to Berlin. In the American re- The News from the Armies—Pablic pointment—Lmperintism Vaniwhing in the | face of Democracy—Napolcon and Louis | Philippe—What w Bricf V Can Efe Loppling to the Fall—What Will Come After | Bonaparte. | Disape | i | Panis, August 22, 1870. | For the moment we are cut of from any reliable | intelligence of army dovements, The determina- | tion of the government, at the urgent request of | Marshal Bazaine, is to suppress all information, | whatever may be the impatience of the public of | Paris, who are always clamorous for news, and very { naturally, too. Bazaine is celebrated tor his reticence. He isin the habit of keeping his own counsel to | such an extent that those about him are always | ept tn profound ignorance of his plans and inten- fons. One of the first things he did on taking the command was to take possession of the telegraph to Paris and to put an end to all private despatches, Since the battle of Thursday jast, the 18th, the Prus- slang have got between bim and Paris, 80 as to save nim any further woubie about news reaching here a8 to lis movements or even whereabouts. The gen- eral impression is that he Is pushing north of Metz, intending to make Thionvilie, a fortifed place, his base Of operations. ‘The object of this movement is to facilitate his junction with tie new army of Mac- Mahon, some 150,000 strong, which has left Chalons, ' podoubdt, for this purpose. If Bazaine and Mac- Mahon join their forces they will be able to take the offensive against the German army concentrated between Metz and Verdun. Whtie the war Is carried on with great activity In the interior the politicians are making an equally determined campaign to obtain a victory over the empire, which has certainty lost tts prestige, if not entirely divested of all hope for the future. The tremendous reverses of the war has hamillated French pride to that degree that will demand a complete expiation at the hands o! all those who can be hela justiy responsible for them. The Ministry which incited the war already patd the forfett of its criminal folly, as it is now regarded. The Emperor still survives, and what his fate will be it ts somewhat prema ture to declare. ‘To lisien to the politicians of the various parties you Would be forced to consider that the unfortunate Emperor had nothing better to do than pack up portmanteaus and depart for his old quarters in Switzerland, where he stil retains nis mmavernal chateau of Arneuberg. it will Kot be (ue , betllion the Confederates were the first in fied on the banks of the Rapidan, and evidently tntended to cross, and attempt to drive } the United States armies out of Virginia and across ' the Potomac back to Washington. Delay on the part | of Lee gave Grant time to” make his preparations and lo take the offensive. Delay on the part of Na- poleon gave the Prussians time to prepare so effcc- tually that they, like the federals, struck the first blow. Iam counting out the attack on Saarbruck, which was only an affair of outposts, and, but for (he theatrical use which was made of it by the Em- peror Napoleon, as unworthy of notice. GRANT. General Grant passed the Rapidan, and engaged the enemy at the Wilderness and at Spotisylvauia, | and, though he met with heavy loss at both places, Dusted on victorious to Gold Harbor, where he was again successful, but with the loss of many lives, So dearly did his success here cost him that but for the timely arrival of reinforcements he would have experienced a check which would have Leen fatal to his further progress. KING WILLIAM. King William advanced, and fought and conqnered at Wissembourg, at Woerth and at Forbach, which Places combined stand for the Wilderness. He pur- sued his advantage on to Metz, the battles around which, with the engagements in its neighborhood, very much resemble the series of encounters kuown as the battle of Spottsyivania. The crossing of the Moseile was like the cross- ing of the North Anne—a old movement, which, by its very audacity, had the effect of paralyzing the enemy. like Grant again, King Wiliam, moving forward and concentrating as he progressed, turned all the strong positions oi the Frenoh, and ts now advancing on Chalons, bis left by St. Dizter, his right by Veraun. If a greac battle should be fought at Chalons, as was the case at Cold Harbor, the parailel in the general outiines of the two campaigns would be complete so fal In the event of the Germans being victorious the task before them of moving on Parts would be light compared with Grant’s in moving on Rtchmoud. Notwithstanding the accession to his strength which he received at Cold Harbor, so obstinate was the resistance of Lee that he was compelled to abandon his intention of moving directly south- west upon Richmond and jeaving Cola Harbor. As he had left the wilderness and pottayivertia on his right, he marched through the swatps of the Chickahuminy, Which had been so fatal to lan, and throwing himself across the Jan laid siege (o Petersburg, to the soath of Richmona. ‘rhe result is @ matter of history, At Chalons aaa Cold Harbor the parallel ends, No James river or Aypomattox intervenes veiween Cialous ana Paris; France, with | prepositions to sapersede tt. | no strong place like Petersburg, guarded by a for- midaple river in its rear, bars King Willtam's way, Once past Chalons yiciorlous. he could reach without further impediment the walls of Parts, It took Grant months after « De tamer to capture Richmond. It will take iiltam days after Chalons to enter Paris, com parallel between men. In the one case Jeiferson ‘is fed and became an eaile from his country, which he had hamefully betrayed, to return after @ few years humbled and forgotten. In the other, Napoleon will fee froma pedaie that he has cajoled and led to destruction and disgrace to some place of safety, whence he will never go back, WAR WEAPONS—GERMAN AND AMERICAN. There are other subjects of reflection connected ‘With these two contests, and with wara im general, which themselves, At the beginoimg of our civil War smooth bore muskets, with buck and ball Conreaet, and brass #ix-pounder guns and twelve- pounder howitzers, with round canister ‘and spherical case, were the arms which ‘were issued to our volunteers. Before these were replaced by Springfeld and Kudeld rifed muskets and Parrotts and mans one commander alter another was tried and found wanting aud set aside, some justly, some without adequate cause, and only toa &@ senseless clamor. Be that as it may, the loug period that the war lasted gave time for the development of military talent and gontes, With Ohassepots and needle guns in the hands of our troops at the beginning of the war Grant and Shermag, it 1s no disrespect to them to say, would most likely have ended their career as they began—colonels or at most brigade command- ers; Hancock and Sheridan would have been still offi- cers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and Meade and Wright of the Engineers, while the host of uthy, fresh from West Point, who by delay got an Opportunity to show what was in them, would per- haps never have seen thelr Dames in print outside of the pages of the United States army list. With these improved arms, armies moved by railroads and heraided by eiectri France would never have bad @ Napoleon the First, England a Welling- ton, nor the United States # Grant, RAPID WORK TO-DAY, So rapidly is the preseut war iu Europe, now raging, proceeding to Its end. that it will have to be fonght out with such commanders as the French aud Germans have fot and it cannot be doubted that Napoieon is inicrior to King William and Bazaine and MacMahon the rest to the two Prussian Princes, Von Moltke Alvensieben and Sieinmetz. The budding heroes of St. Cyr wili not be granted time to become colouels, generals, marshals und emperors, ‘Young france’’ Will not huve an opportanity of distinguishing it- self and attaining nigh positions. THY DIPLOMACY—BISMARCK'S CHANCE. It 18 not only inthe Inequality between tie com- manders that the French are at a disadvantage, Bismarck has provea lumself a3 a statesman supe- rior to Ollivier. COOL AND CON! Bestdes the fact that te French there is in their and phlegm, which in the days of smoota- bores pluced tiem at first at @ disadvan- tage when brougut tn contact with the quicker movement of the French, found now one of their greatest elements of success, They fire their re- peaters with as much deliberation ag if they had to ram down every clarge, and always have amniuni- tion tn reserve when the impationt Frenchmen have | blazed away their whole supply at random, ‘The Prussians learnt to use their needle guns effec- tively in the short campaign against Austria which terminated at Sadowa; the French are ouly now learning Lo use thelr Chassepots—a lesson more ditt. cuit (0 thei than to the Geridans, from their more excitabie disposition. The Germans are rapidly acquiring the ¢lan whic bh distinguishes a conquering foree. Tue Freach, wea- ried and dispirited, bave not yet been worked up to fe nd the courage of desperation. When they do, and are backed by a population fast becoming unite with but one purpose—to save the honor of France Germany may find the dismemberment of France which she now clamors for a thing impolitic, if not impossible. The improvement in wespons has made greater celerity in tactics absolutely necessary, and this has, in its tarn, to some extent, affected stratezy, in action 1f not [n principle, in so far as the wulu! or accidental neglect of some point of strategi- cal Lmportance May be more quickly repaired. FUTURE W. 5 Deadly arms and rapid movements if they do not render war impossibie, will at least confer upon | mankind the inestimable beneiit of making them short, and the spectacle of 100,000 men slaughtered m Lhree weeks may convince the rulera of nations | that they had better think twice before they drag their respective subjects into war. Every widowed wife, childless mother and ‘phanea family in Fance and Germany, aad every other country en- gaged in war, are ¢xaimples of the sufferings brought \ NG. is outnumber the proverbial coolness whe | On people in its train, and tt will Come about surely though slowly, that some international trtbunai wiil be established for the settlement of disputes of nations which will prevent the re-ort to the arbitra- ment of the deadly Chassepot, becdie gun or Martlui, | | It ig probable that General Bazaine intended to fall ‘These destructive arms are alter all the avant cour riers of “peace on earth. TROCHU’S FIRST ORDERS. The Defeuce of Paris. General Trochu addressed the following procia- +o tho National Gnard «f FHCs, Nattonal Guard Mobile, troops and seamen forming the army of Paris, and all the defenders of the capital ia a state of siege, of which we hada full synopsis by cable telegram: — PaRIs, August 19, 1870, In the midst of events of the dcepest gravity 1 have been appointed Governor of Varis and manaer-in-Chiel of the forces united for its defence. The honor 1s a great one; the peril, for me. is not less 80, but I trast to you to restore, by energetic efforts of patriotism, the fortune of ‘our. urmies if Paris shouid have to undergo the ordeal of a siege. A more maguificent opportunity has never offered itself to you (o show to the world that a long period of prosperity and enjoyment has not enervated the public sp and the virility of the nation, You have belore you the glorious example of the soldiers of the Atray of the Khine. They have fought one against three, in herole combats which excite the admiration of the conntry and penetrate if with gratitude, ‘They wear before you the mourning of those who are dead, Soidiers of the Army of Paris—My whole life has passed in the midst of you in @ close union, trom which I now derive my hope and my strength. 1 do not appeal to your courage and your constancy, for ‘¢ all well Known tome. But show by obe- by strict discipline, by the dignity of your and by your attitude before the population, that you have a profound sense of the responsibility you age Be the cxXampie and the encouragement of all. The present proclamation ts to be placed on the orders of the day by the chiefs of corps; It is to be | read on two consecutive musters to the troops as- sembled under aris. General TROCHU. Vice-Admiral La Roncicre Le Noury issued an ad- dress to the seamen under his orders charged with the defence of the furts of Paris, 1t is as follows:-— + PaRis, August 18, 1870, Np SEaMEN—You have been summoned | to Paris to co-operate with our brothers of the } Nationai Guard and the army in the defence of the capital. The country counts on your courage, de- votedness and discipline, You will show that the virtues which animate seamen are the same whether in a bastion on land or on the deck of a vessel at sea. You wiii be on ine ramparts of Paris what you were jn the trenches betore Sebastopol; and should the moment arrive your pawiotism and your yalor will by @ supreme effort prove that you are worthy of Delag chosen to deiend the heart of our | dear country, | Vice-Admiral LA RONCIERE LE Notry, = | OFFICERS 4 ' ' | FRENCH WAR LOANS. What Napolcon Raised from the People. The Paris Temps, of August 22, gives some yparti- culars concerning the condttions on which the for- mer war loans of tue empire were contracted in France, Itsays:— On what conditions were the loans of 1854, 1855 and 1869 effected? Jn the first of those years wo appeals were made to public credit. That voted on the Lith of March was for 250,000,000 of francs, at the rate of sixty-five francs twenty-tive centimes per cent; the number of applications was 93,000 for @ total Of 467,000,000, of Wich 65,000,000 in 60,000 subscriptions of fifty francs each. That of the 3ist December was for 500,000,000, when 179,000 subscribers offered —-2,000,000,000 of francs. The loan of 1855 was for 750,000,000, still at the same rate, Nearly 317,000 applicanis resented themselves: the sbare of France was four times the capital aemanded, and 600,000,000 were also offered from foreign countries, The war in Italy in 1859 reqnivet only @ single loan of | which, it is true, could no longer be called a corps, 600,000,000, The price was about five francs lower than im those of the Crimean war. because the movement of affairs had lost much of its intensity since the pretended marvels of the early days of the empire, and because speculators Weré much more alarmed at a struggle on which France entered alone and for unknown results, than at the expeai- tion of Sebastopol, which was so costly, but which was undertaken ip alliance with England. But the low price of rentes only rendered the subcribers more numerous; 245,000 presented themselves in Paris and 445,000 in the departments, the amount applied for being 2,/00,000,000, Since that date loans without any political character have been raised, In 1868 the State and city of Parts made simultaneous appeals tocredit. The rate of the former, all deductions Made, was 67f. 83c.; te government cfered 19,500,000 francs of rentes; 332,000 subscribers applied for more than 665,000,000, or a caoital of 1,500,000, 090. As for the city of Paris it issued 15 cent 400f, bonds at 845f; 459,000 applications were made for a total of 146,000,000, and had to be paid on subscribing the amount deposits termed the double of the total 000 three per a of the joan. Those resulta were looked upon as marvelions, although they proved nothing more than the grow- ing taste of the public forthe small profits which the most humbie subscription permits to be realized in the public loans, aud also the forethought shown by each in increasing his demand as much as poasible, in order to provide against the chances of a reduction, Are We Prepared ¢ The France en Orient gives the subjoined account of a Conversation which occurred in the French committer vamed to exinmine the yroject of tire UKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1870.—TRIPLE SHI. declaration of war previously to bringing it before the Chamber:— & cone p& KERATRY— Marshal, are we prepared? ARIAL LE BOUP—Quite so, Count DE Kxuatay—bo a a me your word { eingare that suckle i ea ? Think a of Wh ie wo a erie, to tar aks | ge ina struggle | wittioat having "foreseen: 1 aud “provideu agalast | everything. Manspal Le Basur—I give you my worl of honor | that we are completely ready, (Movements of salis- faction). M. DE CasBBAGNAC—One word more, What do you mean by those two words “being ready?” MARSHAL Le Baeur (with emphasis)—I mean by | thom that ifthe war lasted a year we should not not lave to purchase even @ gaiter-button, WAR FACTS AND INCIDENTS. | i | By the European mail of the 23d of August, re- ceived yesterday morning, We.are enfbled to con- tinue our interesting narrative of war scenes and | incidents fromthe Old World battle nelds and cities. Fire and Sinachter at Metz. A correspondent of the London News at Pont-a- Mousson telegraphs as follows:— I witnessed the great battie of the 18th of August. The French were completely driven back toSt. | nentin, and they ¢6n be seen from the front of the | German position, The villages of Vionville, Fla- vigny, Rezonville and Gravelotte ure much burnt, and'scem like $0 many siaugiter houses. fields round about are literally covered with dead bodies. | ‘Three thousand Prussian cavairy, in charging the | heights beyond Gravelotte, suffered terrible losses. ‘There are still large numbers of the French dead on ihe battle fleld of the 14th of August. ‘This shows | ‘that that day was as disastrous to them as the 16th proved to the 'feuth division of the Prussians, now no more, The Battle of Pange. By the mall we have two officjal accounts of the | bate of Pange. The first, dated Herny, August 16, 1s as follows: This morning his Majesty the King, accompanied by Baron Molike and the other generals of the royal headquarters, u8 also by Count Bismarck and Count | Kutusom, the military member of the Russian Em- | bassy at Berlin, inspected the locality of yesterday's Sgn. It ts situated between the eastern ramparts of Metz and the villages Ars, Laguenexy, Borny and Colombey. At Coligny, west of Pange, Where the headquarters of the Seventh corps d'armée were, the King, with bis suive, mounted and proceeded at once to the battle field, It appears that on the morning of the 14th the French army were stationed east of Metz, occupying three different camps, and stretching over a space of at least nine kilometres, back upon Chalons, and that it was only owing to | sundry difficulties with which he had to contend that we still surprised nun at Metz. Attwo o'clock inthe afternoon General Stemumetz ordered the sventh corps arm e (Westpaliaas, General von Zastrow) to proceed to the atiack, AS on previous occasions we found the French behind earthworks and in rife pits, which, while protecting them from our fire exposed our Woops to the full effect of their | deadly aim. ‘On Ulis occasion, as on some other preceding ones, it was observed that the French, when crouching in rifle pits, tire more calurly than in the open, aller tile other we had to take the pits and iatrench- ments near Ars, Laguenexy, Griquy, Borny, Colom- bey aud some other hauilets, which, surrounded | with hedges, present considerable dificulties for | attack. The fight was long, vehement and very sanguinary. Ae the French stood on the defensive, and only ‘popped up out of their shelter to fire, their dead have nearly all been shot in the head. In one rifle pit alone we found 781, all laid low by our sharpsnooters. Our losses, 100, are considcrable, as We did not break of the engagement tll Jate in the evening, by which time we had deiven the French into the very glacis of the foriress, When tne ene- my began to yield, immense confusioa set in in his ranks. After a short time he had entirely disap- peared, most of the slightly wounded managing vo effect their escape with the rest. As we have made prisoners of nearly all regi- meuts of three pruncipal corps untted under General f tively commanded by Generals on, Frossard and Laduirault), it seems that we had nearly (he entire force opp tous. Yester- day’s fir ut, nailing the French army to the spot at Metz. wilt be the more proitfic in results as the has already occupied Luueville and penetrated even tv Pont-2-Mousson. in tie meantime we are constmucting a railway from Rerailly, south of Metz to a certain polat horueast of the fortress, which will enable us to utilize the Saarbruck-Metz-Nancy line, even though Metz remained in the hands of the enemy. Though a temporary construction and built tn the light style oy the American pratrie railways, it ts a grand enterprise and occupies thousands of laborers. Our dificulttes in the task are the greater as the mhabi- tants of the neighborhood have been mosily drafted into Metz to work on the new fortifica- Wong. Yhe second report, dated Pont-a-Mousson, Au- gusi 16, reads as follows:— ‘The royal headquarters having been removed to- way from Herny to Pont-t-Mousson, are now sla- toned in the midst of the three opcrating armies, of which the one under General Steinmetz is before Metz; the other, under lrince Frederick Charla, has got far beyond Pont-a-Mousson, and the thi under the Crown Prince, has reacued Nan basis of future operations now is the Soseile, be- tween Nancy and Mets Taere is litle doubl that the engagement near Pange, on the 14th, will be aliended with the most important consequences. Marshai Bazaine, being obliged to fight by our troops comimg up with him, probably kept quiet on the lath, because he had determined to 16th, the Napoleon's day, by a battle. He ac- cordingly in the night from the 13th to the lth, drew his troop together into one continuous ine, and it seems awaited the arrival of the Jmperal Guard, under General Bourbuki, on the 15th. However we Jett him no time for the execution o: his plans, but ourselves proceeded to the attack, in the afternoon of the 14th. We found ourselves in front of the four corps Lad- mirault, Fatily, Decaen and Frossard, the later of ¢ ird, ‘The having been almost crusted at Saarbrac! three corps Warmée forming the First Ari under General Stein (Westphalians, Rilinelauders, und East Prussians), the Seventh or Westphalian corps opened the ight. The engagement at first was little more than a skirmish, but by the new French practice of fighting from rife pits became very bloody, and assumed unexpected properuons, Eventually portions of the First (fast russian) corps W@armeée became involved, when the French were drivda irom pit to pit, from totreachment to intrenchment, and at length were compelled to seek | shelter on the glacis of the outworks of Motz. As we advanced upon them they lett their ditches soe enough, but only to seek cover in another trench prepared a litle fnrther back. ‘This aud the telling effect of the Chassepot, when managed with more deliberate alm, as it usually is by the krench from under cover, retarded our prog: Sull, as we steadily galned ground, we reac the giacia by the time darkness set in, It was owlug to this very radual advance of our men that the French had Unie atiowed them to retreat. ‘the fact of their retreat is sufficiently proved thelr not 1eappearing on the 16th, Ip all probability | bd tl rds under Bourbaki aud ar ng of on the bigh road from Met: ¢ is Just possible they will have two en. counter ow nd army, Which has turned to Tht- ancourt from Pont-t-Mousson, and {fs likely to stop them long vbetore they come in sight of Chalons, e BATTLE OF VERDUN. Of the French Account of the Engagement—“Never Did Men Kill Each Other with Such Kage.” {From Galignani’s Messenger, August A communication from Verdun, of the 19th, has the following:— Another combat of giants, obstinate and murder- ous, took place yesterday, lasting nine hours and a half. The enagement of the 16th nad the result of preventing the junction of the corps of Prince Fred- erick Charles with that of General Steinmetz, The vanguard of the latter was driven from Voncourt, while the entire army of the Prince was dislodged from Gravelotte, Vionville and Mars-ia-Tour. The army of Sieimmetz, however, suffered but litte, cousequenuy Marshal Bazaine adopted measures for observing closely the jeast movements of thia dangerous euemy. Without abandoning the Vast platcau made famous by the victory of the 16th, be caused a part of luis force to advance to the north in the direction of Briey. The nats fer spec- tacie which the French soldiers had already wit- nessed at Forbact was repeated. While they occu- pled the heights of St. Privat and of Sante-Marie aux-Chenes, seeing nothing before them but a | Gravelotte. | his departure handed over to Marshal sort of valley, the slope of which facing them was crownel with woods for a distance of a league, they suddenly perveived a sort of movement in the brushwood, and a gicam of bayonets shone beneath the trees. Jt was the enemy, who had passed two days and nights in the forest of Moyeuvres, and was now leaving it. But Marsnal Bazaine ts as well acquatnted with those ruses-de-guerre a8 the Prussians, sid was able 1n time to piace himself m position. Ateleven o'clock precisely the lines from born sides opened fire on each Otuer. Caunons, mitrail- Jeuses and muskets were all engaged. The Prussian shelis made frightiul ravages amoug the French, while the mitratilenses of the jatter sw down ‘he hostile soldiers rank aiter rank, as Borny. Several regiments used up thelr cartridges and more than one batlery expended Its munitions. Never did men kt each other with such vage. Night alone ins terrupted the fir The French had not lost an Inch Of ground throughout this combat, fought at a disiance, while ever since seven o'clock to say where the enemy would be found was mere guesswork. He had falien back, ever silent and sombre, into the forest. This 19 one more victory, bul the losses are considerable on both sides. ‘This morning at five o’clock the Fren still occupying the same positions (rom aux-Cheénes 10 Privat, tried th shot, but the enemy did not ansy ch soldiers, ainte-Marie- ood Witt cannon The Prussinns at Verdun. A letter from M. Waciter, an old soldier, dated Verdun, 15th August, gives us the following laform- ation in the Pau Mall Gazette: “Yesterday, the whote day long, we exvectod | Marshal Bazaine’s advanced guard at Verdnn, whore immense scores Of all Kinds Nave been accumulated, Isaw notiung arrive but inhabitauis, gendarmes, &c., WhO unanimously declared that there had Leon heavy fighting on the 17th and isth me the wer nood of Vigueulics de Fresnes and Conftans. The Prassians occupied the imperial and the de) mental road froin Metz te Verdun wileu nu The dillvence from Meta arriving this the north. had to pass by Briey, to west of MolZ. What astonished me tad inspires me with serous reflections 18 not to see a single man come iu from Marshal Ba- gaine’s army which Prince Frederick Charies is trying to cut of from Qialons. Tired of waitiog for twenty-four hours, only recetving vague mnornin, Ure | | information, I intend to seek our the Marahal, trast- | ing to ny good star, 1 am all the more anxious to have information Lecause one of the clieis of the army pow at Verdun assures me that General | nf Decaen’s wound has obliged him to resign bis com- mand of the Third corps, which the Emperor before ebuoul, If this news be confirmed it will be received even worse by the army than the public, although I consider the Marshat’s proper place is at the head of a corps Marme d@arinée, aba T have this fact from a certain source, that every time the Emperor moves along the Une of raibeay @ delay of Wirenty-four hours in the victuailing of the army occura, in consequence of (rains being shunted to lave the line clear for his Majesty, This when 160,000 men of the army of the Moselle are on hail rations, when Lorraine and Alsace are a heap of ruins, ana all Fraace ts mourning.”* After writing this letter, which ts chiefly interest- inz as showimg Marshal Bazaine’s communications with Verdun tee rruniad. aud the Emperor appotut- ing Mashal Leboeuf to a command, M. Wachter, Whose faith t his star did not last long, returned to Paris, bringing with him a letter d: the 19th. In this letter he repeats his astonishment at not having seen even a single Freuch trooper or straggier from Marsbal Bazame’s army at Verdun. ‘The environs,” be adds, ‘are literally peopled with Uhlans, who in- fercept all communications with the east. As the reportg brought in appeared = exaggeral tried to join army, but failed in the attempt. At a short distance from tain we were stopped very polltely by # Uilan, to whom I remarked that we wére jaofensive citizens going on business to the neighboring village, He replied with the tone and air of a well-bred man, that his ordera were to let po one pass. © * * Adad from the village of Formery, Whove curiosity was excited at seeing me taik to ihe Uhian, came up and told me that all the rouds tu Metz were stilctly guarded, and that I must give up ail idea of getting to Metz, On returning to ‘erdun | reported what had happened to Colonel | Debbecques, ished, * * 1 give these details to show that the Prussian ad- vanced guards are closing nearer and nearer round Verdun, where the people ure without news from Bazoine's army.” Verdun, M. Wacuter thinks, wiit be weil and successfully defended by peral Guerin de Walklersbach, PRUSSIAN FIELD DESPATCHES. who appeared in no wise ast n- ® Victory With “Herribie?? Butchery. {From Galignani’s Messenger, Augast 25.) A very decided change seems to have taken place in Marshal Bazaine’s position, as, tustead of pursu- ing his work of concentration on Verdun, he has falien back to the north of Metz, Jaumont, of which the Minister of War spoke in his statement to tie Legislative Body on Saturday, is a village situated about seven miles northeast of Metz, on tue railway | from that city to Thionviile. No official account of the action of the Isth of August has veen published by the French authori- ties, but the followlug 14 the Prussian ¢ concerning it:— BERLIN, August 19—7 P. The Queen has received the tollowing ¢ from the King:— Bivouac, NEAR REZONVILLE, August 18—9 P, M. The Frenca army, occupying a very strong posi- tion to the west of Metz, Was to-day attacked under my ieadeiship, and after nine bours’ fighting was ; completely defeated, cut off from its communications with Paris ond drove back towards Metz, WILLIAM. ‘The following are previous Prussian despatches, dated from the headquarters of King William Pon?-A-MOUSSON, 18th—11:20 Mov Complete calin has prevalted during the whoie ot yesterday, The Germanarmy maintains the posi- ons gained by the vic ory oi the 16th, The object of that battle was completely attained. The cavalry of the ‘Third corps d’arinee attacked tn the morning, Without waiting for the sapport of tne infantry; after having been rejoined by the latter it fought tor six hours, resisting three French corps and a part of the lnpertal Guard until the evening, when the ‘Tenth came up to its aid. The cavalry of the Third attacked with great vigor, broke the French ranks with the sacrifice of many lives and drove back the enemy on Meéiz, Many prisoners have been taken, including several officers of the Imperial Guard. General Sheridan, of the United States Army, ts at we King’s headquarters. es aaa. iat 18, 1870, BERLIN, A The French armies have been’ cut off by the victory Of Marsta ‘Tour. Tue mam body, driven back on Meiz, 15 nd up vy the first and second German armies, The Prince Royal, with the third, is free to continue his route toward the west and to give bat- Ue at Chalons to General ‘Trochu, reiniorcead proba- Diy by the remains of the corps of Macizhon. evisive events miy be shortly expected, CoLoGNn, August 18, 1870. Prince Frederick Charles, with 80,000 soldiers, has victoriousiy combated, near Verdun, 189,000 French, commanied by Bazaiue, Frossard, Decaen, Ladmi- rault and Canrobert. The butchery was horrible, as he fight lasted twelve hour: he defeated French have been driven back on Netz. ‘Their losses amount to 25,000 killed and wounded, 2,000 prisoners, including two generals; seven guns and two eagles. The Gerimans had 15,000 killed and wounded. THE CRISIS IN SWITZERLAND. From the Land of War to the Homes of Peace—Milltary and Political Kxcitement— Sympathy with the Freach—The Command- ers at Strasbourg. BASLE, Switzerland, August 17, 1870. At length }have got fairly out of Germany, and to-morrow will go forward, by Vesoul and Chau- mont, to Chalons or Epernay, or wherever the great battle that is to settle this campaign is to be. What a delightful sensation tt is to be once more indland which is at peace with the rest of the world! ‘The Swiss, however, suffer a good deal from the present crisis. They have one hundred thousand under arms, aud (his town swarms with little fel- lows in uniforms, Who may, no doubt, be very ready, but who ure also very, very rough. The sympathies of the people, as well as of the trading classes in Basle seem to be entirely with the French, just as my worthy friends of Carlsruhe were altogether on the side of the German. From all I hear there is not a Prussian soldier in ail the corner of France that is near this frontier, and no French troops nearer than Belfort. Strasbourg is rene and declares it will resist to the bitter end, The French troops in the garrison consist of 10,000, all told, of which 4,000 are troops of the line and 1,500 are artillery- men, ‘The general commanding the place is General Uhrich, not a very young, but a very resoluie man. Under him General Moreno, lately promoted from the coloneley of @ corps of zouaves, commands the Bisquet, ana Colonel Ducarre is the commander of the town. The Baden troops surrounding the town sent @ second time to ask General Uhrich to sur- render three days ago. The General received the officer sent (an Englishman in the service of Baden, cailed Winslow, whose brother was one of the first victims of this war) by Von Beyer, and took him to the window of his house, out of which the inhabt- tants were shouting out jo surrender!’ “Down With the Prussians |’ ‘Vive la France When Mr. Winslow had seen this, the General asked him whether, even if inclined to do so, he, the General, would tink of surrendering? ‘The officer said he could not, and took his departure. If the French can manage to hold Strasbourg until the war 1s over it will be much to their credit; but J greatly donvt their being able todo so. The town 43 well provided with four, and there is h meat enough to give the people three meat meals a day for seven weeks, so J am told, Water, too, the town has in plenty. It isacurions fact that the French General Uhrich, who commands the garrison, 15 of a iamily originally German; ana General Von Beyer, loc besieging the town, is of a family originally ‘ench. My next letter will, I presume, be from within the sound of the French cannon, ‘There are a few French officers here on leave, men who Were wounded. but not taken prisoners. They scem to regard the state of affairs in their own country as by uo means desperate, and argue that the Emperor will still Grive the Prussians over the frontier, and will yet dictate terms of peace at Berlin, [ admire the pluck of these gentlemen, but Lown frankly that I cannot see une force of titelr Logie, THE BALTIC COAST. The Prussian Ports Eftcctualiy Blockaded— Exciting Condition of Atiairse—News trom Tilsit—Volish Revolution—Indusiry Despite of the War. Mewes, August 16, 1870. The blockading feet has not yel been seen of the coust, but active preparations have been made all along from briister Ort to Memel to give signal of its first appearance. Tar barrels, slaves, &c., have been piled up at every prominent height on that narrow strip of sandy land running from Krana to Memel, to be burned as signal lights at a moment's warning. The narrow strip of land is called the Kurischo Nehrung, xnd divides the fresh waters of the Ku- rische Haff trom the sea just as a similar narrow strip terminating opposite Pillay divulea the tresh b, vasants and gendarmes iy Pe iy ine | BA from the Baitte, Memet, Piliaa ana Dantale are the only arbors where an attack or landing gan be entected. Thave skirted along the entire coast from Bris ter Ort to Meimel, which offers at many points One resorts for sea bathers, but the waters are we shallow, rocky or dangerous (0 offer any tempta- fons to the French marines, Memei has a tine fortified harbor, @ lighthouse, and an interior line of foriificatious ing a clear sweep of the sca and harbor. “Many Ria roofed houses have been iowered im front of these fortifications to avoid obstruction, and the “bone and sinew” of Memel are drilling, target firing aud cae the fortidications from morning tilt nts { is hardly advisable to state the number of troops | and power of cannon, althongh I have the statistios \ by ioe, but it is quite Certain Unat Meme! is weil pee- pared for an attack, Correspondents and strangers are looked upon With much suspicion, @nd it is next to tnposatbie get an insight into the coast detences, ‘The natives of Hast Prussia are a hardy, entiusias- tic race, wud ready to & man to meet tae enemy. Ajong the coast every man has his revolver with Lito atall tines, Memel is the centre of trade on the Baltic Sea for the export of wood. There ig also a large trade i leaiher and salt. Strange to say, there is no railroad connection with Memel, and the want 1s severely felt among the population, number. ing perhaps 20,000, and no boats are Mg et port ut present on account of the French flees hovering northward in the Baitic Sea, ‘TILSIT, There is great excitement at Tilsit and other towns on the Ruysian border, on account of the discovery of firearms, ammunition, &c., buried iu chureh- yards, vaulls and cellars, belonging to Polish revolu- Uouists, ready again to battie lor freedom. Sines {he beginning of the war the Poles in Germany and Russia have been very much exctted, sympathizing with the French, upon whose aid they rely im assist. ing them in another struggle against Russia. Seve- rat noble Poles and Russians have been arrested. jo nn & close Watch is kept on the movementa of prowinent Poles in sympathy with their oppressed countrymen, ‘The feeling of hatred is deep and bitter against the Poles throughout East Prussia, aud one heats now and then that there will oniy be peace when that race is rooted out, stem and branch. ENGLAND'S NAME. England also comes in for her share of German hatred. The Germans accuse Engiand of giyiug them very Cheap sympathy and selling to Frauce very dear war materials, EN ROUTE. Tleave this evening tor Dantzic, via Kénigsberg. My war uews from Dautzic may be more stirring thar heretofore. The Baltic is as effectually block- acded as though the french Meet were in sight. No steamers are leaving the ports, and my journey on the oust has been effected in country wagons alon; the beach, within reach of the sea waters, ant through the Kuriscie Bait by boat. ANDUSTKY AND WORK, This portion of the Baltic coast is rich with amber deposits, Whole forests of antedcinvian trees lie buried beneath the occan and im the Kurische Haff, and colonies are establisged at Brister Ort and Swartz Ort for the purpose of reclaiming the amber, Which is brought up in pure intaps, mixed with the charred remains aud pieces of wood, roots and tree limbs, some oF which are petrified. Atsome leisure moment I will devote a few linea to this interesting subject and the manner of diving for amber, paving passed a day ana night among be rough divers at ana near Sriister and Swarca rh. AT WISSEMBOURG. Raden Courtesy to « Herald Special Writer— Over the Rhine—Rural Scenes und the War Aspect—Prassian Ovcupation—Field Guides. WISSEMBOURG, August 15, 1870. Thanks to the courtesy of the military authoritica of the Grand Duchy of Baden, I was passed over the Rhine to-day and arrived here afier seven hours' travel by private conveyance, as no passenger trains other than those for troops and supplies for the armies before Metz are now ranning. The country road passes through the Bavarian Pa- latinate aud throughout 1s lined by small villayes and plersant, theifty-looking farms and farm houses. Although it was the route by which the Crown Prince’s army passed over on its way into French territory, I did not observe any traces of injury to it or of damage done to the surrounding country. A pass, praylug all “the civiland military authorities” to let me proceed on my way rejoicing to the “Kriegsschauplatz,” was duly recognized at ail the picket stations and prevented my molestation ettner from the peasants—-who are rather sly just now of strangers dressed in ctyilian’s clothes—or from the squads of soldiers met going to and returning from the seat of hostilities—some on foot, some on horse, some in waguns, some limping along, with gun on shoulder, and others borne in the ambulance carriages. All these men and vehi- cles were so many of the palpable signs of aciive operations of war which one snuffs from afar on Nearing a battle fleld. On the wayside, however, notwithstanding the movement, all was quiet, and all were perfectly civil to me, though I could net claim to be one of ‘es militatres,” fighting for the Fatherland, and although I observed several glances of anxious inquiry addressed to my individuality by the passers. Provisions were not to be had along the route, for the soldiers had eaten the inhabitants out of every- thing but house and home, and drank them out of beer. No beer! When that word can be sald ina German land you may depend upon it that it has been visited by something akin to the locusts of Egypt in the devouring line. Fortunately I had some eatables along with me, and luckily there was not lacking cool *‘wasser’’ to wash down one’s throat an ample amount or dust. On arriving here I found myself entering through the portal of the old brick wall of fortification be- fore I knew it, almost, my attention having been very suddenly attracted to the breaches made at the gate by the Prussian cannon balls at the precise spot where the first fighting was begun iu the village at the sole command of two French subordinate ofticers who had perceived that their wily antagonists had stolen upon them entirely unawares, The place is filled with offers and men sent or left here in detach- ment to take charge; £0 not only the streets but the houses are filled with them. While I write, in a small nook of a chamber, secured after considerable difficulty, I am almost stunned by the continued clatter of military tongues speaking m the loud language of the Teutonic race. I had, not many moments ago, the pleasure of sitting at tabie witn the same military gentry, among whom I found doctors, lieutenants, captains, generals, Bava- rians, Wurveniburgers, Prussians and Badeners, all eating together as one happy family—myself and an Kuglish journalist being the only civilians at the board, The ceremony observed wus strictly aud prodigiously Prussian. Whenever one oficer would enter or withdraw he wouid tor- maliy and repeatedly bow to all the others, and those in turn would get up and bow to him. Now and then, tn the midst of # dialogue, two interlocu- tors would bob upand down fn their seats witha reciprocity almost machine-like, something having been said between them to induce such a compli- mentary ceremony, 1 further observed that the Prussians, although in the minority, carried of the honors; they are the heart, soul and major nucieus of the Whole German ariny, and accordingly a strong delerence ig paid to them by the oficers of Bavaria, Wurteinburg and Baden, however equal they may bein rank. Prussia militarily leavens the whole mass: itis only Prussian discipline and obstinacy that las descended from Fredertck the Great. ‘L never saw finer or more intelligent-looking men as they merrily sat at table drinking the sour little wine of Alsatia, while deeply and openly deploring the fact that no beer was to be iad hold of. Most of them goforward in the morning. ‘They seem to ve very much rejoiced and at home upon Kranco- German soil, TO THE BATTLE FIELD. The guid who voluntcered their services as lcerones on the battle field claimed to be both French and Germans at one aud the same thme—and possibly with some reason, as the frontier lines of Bavaria, Baden and France all pass through and around the town. I was soon made aware that they were lar more fluent in German than in French, which they spoke with a decided Germanic accent. “Tam a good Frenchman,” said one, “because I speak French, and Lam equally as good a German because I speak German. 1 told the General so.’ Then you are poth a Frenchman and a German?” Yo—oui.” A watk through the streets afforaed the usual sight of a place occupied and abandoned by an army—an_ abihdance of debris, straw, ttle, guns and cannon (three of which were Nap’s’ guns, exptured im the fight—one a mitrailleuse), empty railway cars, standing on the switches, old kKnapsacks, canteens, &c. Continuing the walk for Miteen minutes outside of the village wall Treached the top of the now famous Glesberg, or line of hill bebind the city where tne storming of the French position occurred, and where, as all Ger- many now fondly hopes, the proud French empire was shattered and crumbled In the dust. Not that they think the whole job was done there at one fell blow, but that it was then and there that ft was ren- dered possible and feasible—begun. The position is astrong one, It is an eminence commanding the village and the whole country roundabout, looking north or east towards old Father Rhine. On this position the French forces were encamped, but not even protected by the least show of a breastwork. The peasants even say Lucy are vadly commanded—. “aa commanded: ‘The German masses debouched on the plain suds Genly, and stormed the hei¢hts before the French could even muster together what few men they ting Frorf the best accounts, it cannot be at the French never. expected the Crow: yuke tae alfcuaive: hence they alluwet at the point, douvied Vring