The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-17 00:00:00

THE GARIBALDIANS AT DIJON.

A letter lea Hamburg paper, describing the night attack
of the Garibsldians on Dijon, says:—" They advanced with
quite theatrical effect. The beating of drums and ringing of
bells formed the chief music, and Garibaldrs Hymn was also
lung. The well-aimed rounds of the Badeners soon silenced
them, and they retired with considerable Inel on finding
that we were well prepared to receive them. Night favoured
their retreat, and next morning showed that they had
suffered much more than we had supposed. The road was
strewn for miles with knapsack, and weapons. The finest
weapons of precision were lying about, of almost the new
syttem—Sniders, Remingtons, Peabodles, ttc. At the be: in-
ning of the tight they showed signal bravery, and made several
attacks: but they were badly conducted, and the arallanta
were exposed to the dettru :live tire of nor artillery. The
corpses were thickly scattered up to Dijon. Garibaldi's
cavalry, about 80 men, in fantastic dress, with red shirts
and white burnous, ventured on a feeble attack, but were
well received by our infantry. To-day some of the prt.
toners were brought in. Garibaldians and Mobiles; among
the latter! saw wild and defiant men. According to a cap-
tured officer, a Ninsrd, Garibaldi commanded in person,
and In spite of his gout was an hour on horseback' but
when the affair hi gan to go wrong the Staff and the
General went off " Another account In the Cariotiht
Gazette states that the Garibaldians were 3,C01 or
4,0u0 strong. and had 400 killed and wounded, besides
losing 200 prisoners. These represent Garibaldi as having
been present In a carriage, the horse attached to which
was killed by an exploding grenade, so that had not his men
drawn away the carriage he would have been captured. The
German loss was 135. The inhabitants of Dloo, while the
fight was going on near the town, plundered some waggons.
and were punished by a fina of F. 8,000. Sit Ctribaldlans who
had escaped were discovered is • muddy canal in the town
where they had passed the whole day. Amid great morel-
men they were drawn out.

ANOTHER FRENCH HEROINE.

Some of the French papers give • naming account of a
heroine from Colmar, who is said to command a corps of
freeehooters in the Vosges. The daughter of an old Guards-
man, she lost her mother early, lived from youth as a boy,
worked in the field and with hones, and shunned all feminine
tasks. She wu taught by some nuns at Itappoltsweller, and
wee to have become a novice, but became governess to a
Polish connt's family, and on the breaking out of the last
Polish Revolution, being then nineteen, acted, in man's
dress, as lieutenant at the head of some hussars. Being
wounded, she was admitted into a convent at Warsaw, and
protected by Bishop Fellnskl. On retuning to France she
became cashier In • shop, and managed the foreign corre-
spondence, but owing to • complaint in the chest again
assumed male attire, and was appointed poet-office clerk at
Lamotte. There she collected a band of volunteers, and ill
carrying on guerilla wwfare. This is the French account,
but as similar stories have turned out to be apocryphal, It
mot be received with caution, though a German letter from
Alsace quotes it without any expresalon of incredulity.