The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-20 00:00:00

POOR FELLOWS !

'I rode over to Saarnrack to-ti3y, about eight Mile: learn
this place, to elaw the battle-kid ltf city a my readers
happen to know Aloenhott al well as i do, they will recol-
lect a certain height sailed cm ,ar'a Comp, the scene of many
a mimic comhet. Well, that !a aside the hill which on the
greet do; was three times 'domed hdore it could he wrested
from tie French as I can deserffie it—with, belt understood,
not quite Bo bluff a summit, and here and there a tree on it
This centre hill was ft ankeri on either side, • little to Its
rear, by two others, thickly coveted by Pr trees. In short,
a strouger position for a Invisloe to take up it Is impcsdble
to imagine. In front of theso hills are °pert plains for at
leaat a quarter of a mile, which the Pruesisna had
to traveret 'ander Pre before they rwchti come to the
charge, to give you an of the steepness of
the abrolote hill itself, ;,an only say that I was obliged to
dismount at d lar."l my horse up it. 'the whole ground for a
mile to ettenniference was strewed with knatneks, rouche,,
b•;.;mets, rifles, kepis, and the 01 'eared and one accoutre-
ments that complete a soldier ka, As I arrived a party of
countrymen were ellenteiring the body of a captain in the.
P. u-step tern;, under the superintendeme of tlot cleruyin 51
of O Awe! a lE, to whom his sorrowing relativ,s had
written, beggieg that hie body might be seat home to
them. Three French officers were found to bate been
interred with him whose picture/eine 'appearance eir di four
days In the earth had harely destroyed. Pon,: f -flows, they
were gently I del back In their last resting-place, and the
little cross, aPh 'Three lwa:o French officers rest here' in-
/scribed on it in uncoil, was stuck again at the head of the
grave; and to we left them. Towards the summit of the
hill the trees were riddle I with shot, all, however, high tip,
Which would be natural from the men Ming as they
ascended the hill. I 'hen came Upon aoo, her grave with a
cross and • Prussian heltnetstoek on it On the tot Suer were
three words,—," Hier reken topfsre A-lieges, Preto, is hod
Frao.relso." A little further on a grave with the 'bird° Merin-
lion, "60 French and 2. Prusgans, hod drei Schritten am,.
reehts Der Fnt:lzo:ische4Li.uteolot Borman. Tnen I came
to a French tumbril with three deed horses by it, which
render the reason of its being there clear wont& Prow
will it be creaited that, amid all these sad traits of
human suffering, Crowds of country women watplered
chattering and leeching, and that I even came up in
a party picuicing among the debris of blood stalled
uniforms, eon of wham had made use of a stretcher,
chick had evitlently done Its duty copiously, as a table f
These people, so long as they aro not molested in their
oleo homes, seem perfectly iniinferert as to what hap-
pens outside them, and. If by theme the blast of war should
pass them on one side, look upon an es-urchin El a battle-
field as one of the piramntest trips that can be made. I saw
• little ruffian of a boy walking snout with a Pros den helmet
on Vroitah which a bullet had paned, and he was pointing
out to Ms coofieres in a patois half Germ., half French
what antic:ape he had hatt—l'iouse Carnapoudent,