The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

EMBITTERING THE WAIL

" I woo foolay a very painful story connected with
yesterday',flc t !writes The Times' C.irreaponilent with the
Prussians heft lid Mc's) /lime time since a Prussian Jii;er
was run away with lute the woods beyond Ars by his horse,
sod had not boon heard of since. These woods are lull by
the French. Vesterd .y, io drivleg beck the troops who had
made the sortie from Metz, the Priushins passed through
thme woods. They ten ii ties man erirpal and robhed of
everything, bound to is trre, ant dead front co'd rind starva-
tion. Ido not volicis for the story, but it was to'd to me by
a professed eyt-wiiries•, who gave name! and 0 her
cfrzunistances wh'ch I have wiinesreil testify to the bier.
nets which sgr iva'es the war. I saw four or live peasants
brought up In manacles under an armel cuard. They hail
tired at and stoned a train near Pontia-ti ocm n; they will
be tried and proheilyebot. At A E.y a party of t! lay rtilens,
who had sough' Ant pet fer refreenneni and hat arranged
for the billets LI art WI, An elm; body of troops, were heel at
as they retired VI". e t item were MUM; a metsrigerwms
sent for a larger le.) of trot!!: the people neto driveo out,
and the street in L.1,..11 ti.o oirratie had Loc.r ad was liart
down. Such incilLlits Lr the warfare; the Piesilans,
however, still show Iri t• i • .1. Mows great hum inity and
fairness to the peasants icy ecrapalowly respect the rights
of private property' 'lf I %ere to sin an) tt,log lying in the
street I would not voilturo to take it away,' told a Prussian
soldier to me "

SCENES AT SEDAN.

The following are extracts from letters adirested by the
!take of Mellinger] to it's lenchesa. Writing on the 6th of
September, fr. en Sul in, the Duke says :—"Yesterday I rode
through the hivonass of the captured French army through-
out their wholo extent. Towaris us Prussian cfficers, the
men were obliging a. it courteous; toward. the French officers
they are said to ba leis frienily and gencrally take away
what they are possessi it. no little do they ohey their
cfficers that several of tcci latter begged me to restore order
in the French camp by means of Grrioan troops, even should
some of their soldiers have to tie shot. About 13,G00 hors is
were running loose abut the camp the first few days. Jacinth
frig swarms of Barbary horses. Yon may Imagine the cos.
fusion which prevailed in coast quence. French officers
assured me their lives were not safe, especially at night, as
the horses were continually breaking into the bivouacs. . . .
The cavalry division, the lath Hussar regiment, which at
Woerth overtnrew a hoatile caret', brigade, fell
you two sun sairens of a French cuirassier regi-
ment, and drove a part of them into the Meuse.
. . Here, as at Wcierth, the Prussian artillery di.
thigulshed themselvea by their excellent fire, i was highly
interesting to watch the explosion of our eremitic', which
always reached tle desired goal, while the French went
somewhat with: of the mark." Writing on the 70h from the
same place, We Duke says Beier,' returning to my
spoutera yeatesday I visited that part of the battle-P.a.!
lying acuth-east of Seden, where the three Bavarisu divisions
under General Tenon had fought, and rode through the
villages of listen, 13.zeillea, aril *twine. Thit past of the
field has not been so Yureughly cleared as that betwe.as
Sedan and 11 y. (July the fall en aoldiers have been buried ;
putrefying horses ere still 13 ifs? about on all shies; Frenels
artillery counts with filled oreba ILs and shrapnel are stand.
trig here and there, too, as dangerous toys for chiid.en of
the neighbouring villages, who run als,us the.hattle-field.
Truly heartreiming is the apcesrance of the village of
Bazellies, which to tr.tslly hnia.t down, or rather was burnt
Not a single house was spired. llow many Inhabit luta toot
their lives who can say I In any case all those who hail
taken refuge In the cellars. Taizeilles was one of the most
flourishing villages In Frances, and hail many factories, to
numbered SACO inhabitants :low It is a smoking heap of
rules...,. Toe gcconnts of tbe Belgian and French papers
as to our strength en the Ist of September are troly ridi-
culous In my opinion, ass were scarce:y 20,000 nova
stronger than the French army, which, had it been of better ,
composition es 1 better commanied, might have broken
through our tuella