The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-04 00:00:00

The SORTIE of the NATIONAL GUARDS,

Persons who have laughed at the National Guards—and
who is there who has failed to jeer at the fat citizen, as they
puffed their way to reviews and parades in their glittering
accoutrements i—meat now change their theme: for the
National board has shown that it can tight as bravely as
'fumes or Z mayee, when drivers into a corner, or goaded by
the taunt, of their fellow citizens, writes a Correspondent,
who thus continues :
They marched up to the tumult upon La Junthere,
the other day, as bravely am! coolly ale their own
Zonaves, or our liort.lauders, and though their wonted
HOW " THE TIMES" WAS SENT TO ill luck has again clung to them, their great deeds must
be recorded with praise and honour.
PARIS. On the evening of the 18th of January the whole
communication bee city was astir, the streets were alive with armed men
Atternpta to establish a ready
of Paris and their marching towards the gates on the southern and
tween the bele-aguered inhabitants
lints have western sides of the city. A treat sortie had been
relatives and friends beyond the German
given rise to many contrivances w hich are not unlikely resolved upon ; France was to set her life upon the
to make a new era in the history both of aeronautics hazard of the die. The National (loathe marched out
and photography. Among them may be menfioned chanting tho " Marseillaise " the " Mourir pour la
the ingenious des ice by it hich the matter of two Patrie,"and the 'Chant du Depart," which rang like a
whole pages of The Times Was transmitted from Teon. knell upon the ear. Many of the Mobiles were escorted
don to Paris, awl which was accomplished by photo: by their famines ; grey-haired men marched on, their
d
graphy. Those pates e f the oaper which Colltained C 111- aughters shouldering their muskets, their little children
munications to relatives in Paris, were photographed bringing up the rear, bending under the weighty knap.
with great care by the London Stereoscopic and Photo- sack, stored with brown bread, saucepans, tent poles,
graphic Comnany on pieces eif thin and almost trans. and other campaigning gear an .l provender. When
parent paper, about an inch and a half in length the drawbridgem were reached the tribes of wailing
by an inch in width. On these impreseions there women staggered home alone ; the men tramped forth,
e only two legible words, bivouacked in the mud around the slopes of Mont
could be even by the naked ye
"The Timer," and sit narrow brown bands represent. Valerie-Is, and at dawn General Vinoy marched with
ing the siz columns f urinteel matter forming a page his division to storm the heights of Montretout, which
of the newspap o
er. 'Under the microacope however, be gallantly carried by dint of cthd tel The right
the brown spaces become legible, and every line of the whir, under Dom t, was leen firtunate ; wlidst
was found to have been distinctly copied Vinoy's eoldiers were spread over St. Cloud driving
newspaper
and svith the greatest clearness. Tire photographa the Prussians before them, Ducrot Was waiting for his
were sent to Bordeaux for trausiniabion thence by artillery.
. When received there they Unfortunately the Prussian batteries were all ready
carrier pigeon to Paria
were magnified, by the aid of the magic lantern, to a and were unmasked at the Carrieres of St. Denis, and
large sizt and thrown upon a screen. A staff of e'erks raked the advancing corps horribly ; but they tnarched
immediately tranrceitall the meesages and sent them bravely on, stormed and took Bugenval, and FO on to
off to the places indicated by the ad vertieers. The La Jonehere, where the Prussians poured a deadly
success of this experiment gives rise to the hope that the fire fr. in the Imuiholeil walls. The ground was nut
new art of e impressing printed matter into asmall c im. figuratively, but literally covered with the bodies of
pass will Lot stop here. If a page of The Times can be the dead. Rat La Jonchere must be taken, and
compressed into a epace little larger than that occupied it Wart taken ; but at what fearful cost to both
by a postage atatnie, the matter of an octavo volume sidee! General Bellamare, who commanded the
might be maile toeover not more than two of ita own centre, wag ordered to take the farne of La I_llgeo ie,
page ~:, and a library ci ul.i lie le doce el to the dirtier shine whieh he failed to mice mp'ish, but the French liag
of the email, at prayer book. What a relief A would be waved in triumph from 1\ loni retout, La Jonche re,
to the learned pereons who frequent the Library of the the Emperor's faro, of La Fouillouse, Prince Itlurat's
British Minteum, if, inbtead of having to make fatigu'ng chateau of Bugenval, and from all the villas around
journeys from letter A to letter II of the ponderous St. Cloud.
catalogue of books, they had its many hunthe el volumes I witnessed the battle from the heighta of Mout
reduced to a epace a yard eqiiare, over which a neje ro. Valerien, whence I debcended, after th brilliant
is
" %AVE LA ia.tXcE:" scope could be hurriedly pasestd. Such suggeations are remilt, 0 aid in picking up the slain, of whom some
An eyowitness of the last battle between Faidherbe and now occupying the thoughta of photographers. 3,000 were strewed about the plain, but we were die.
Von Goehen settee as follow. : --" At the battle of st turbed in thie dreary teak by the audelen return of the
when the French ermy wipe in full retreat, Monsieur -----
i Meetly,
FeulUant, the enieer In command of the mounted noels ,I foe, whoFe cohorts were seen sweeping along the heights
the Army of the n his lieutenantM
, onsieur Andre, PRUSSIAN FIELD ARTILLERY AND in overwhelming masses fromi Satory and Versailles.
seeported by Major 'Richard, side de-camp to General FRENCH MITRAILLEURS. The firinz was reautned with nfernal intensity, sO we
laidherbe, refused to retreat, summoned around them, were cormtrained to carry 1.11 the wounded whom we
amidet a !Werra of balls aril shell.. all the trumpeters The Military Correspondent of The Times makes thine bail picked np, and to leave the rust to writhe through
they could end, and ordered thera to sound a charge, remarkit on the Prusaian field artillery and French the night bearele their happier comrades, who would
amid cries • Viva a Fear ce—Victory is ourP.' Such •, _,
Mitrepoieure :-- not live to Fee the great miPery yet in store for poor
was the effect on l
the straggling trove that several
battalion. rallied and filed off at double quick time in The Prussians have neither shrapnel nor time fuees France . She lost some of htr best atd bravest, as
ter this war they will athyt both. Their common shells wal sasher mist illustriona citizens in thiP glorb ue, but
the Faubourg et Martin, deploying to the right and to M
to with percussion fuses answer very wall so long at the range almost fatal day, for the troop, were forced to retreat
the left, and o nvelling the Fruntan eherpshoo'era
fall back In diem der. it, three dittereet occasions the lammlerate, the ground hard and nearly level, but they de and to take shelter under the guns of Mont Valerien.
heights commanding the Boupy•road were taken by the 1110 t burst at all when the range is long and the ground Nem, M. de Leans es who fought bravely, was
French troops barefooted, without cartridges, and showing much broken Soft soil is especially destructive to their '
a tiola frunt to fresh troops that arrived on the field of (halts action ; either le It, or le banks of earth, or seediest a b ikg 1 te' father,i.' 'cl', b
p c e up by is who accompanied the am er.
not later then half-east two o'clock. It was in the eight aide, they penetrate like a 0.4 and burst, if they tenet at all, lancee. I legnault, win se astounding picture of 'eel ii
only that those brave seldieri retired within the barricades without doing the slightest 'Carnage. To arrive at the tree created such great sensation at the last exhibition, was
vsJue of thnecessaryth
atrailleur it is necessary to leave e charmed slain ; so was the gallant old Count Coriolis, who, re
which 14 company of Engineers had onstructed at the .
entraece of the to-,101, and there they checked for along circle of headquarters and ask insert' among the men who gardlese of his seventy-eight years, enlisted as a private,
ti theth e done of the enemy, and by so doing gave the have to face It life also necessary to take int, consideration and died the death el a hero. The Count de 'Monte
me
rest et e army an opportunity of Meting Its r
oughtle
etreat to Ha bad service by t French gunners, who are too hot and . ,
thsa t, he
make perfect artillerimen but there Is a 'Orison waitir also among th
ren e slain, with M.
en'Lanloie
-- mass ea evlderice to prove that the Germans would rather Elevee te (I l actor of tLe Fch Theatre) ad the
HOAXING TI 1E SENTRY. face a large number of Infantry than Mat a &reit mitraill vs. C. rate de Hochehurne, who haft leveed hie chivalrous
They try to disguise their feelings under the appearance of life and expended his fortune to fighting for the l'rake,
' .111 the German soldiers are not wise men. As I crossed joculerity, as when they say, '' II we are to be killed it fell pierced by two bullets. I ascertained fine fact
the bridge at eartronylit yesterday, the sentry asked sic for h d
matters little whethei we are kit very much ire
not " hut -,`
my 'legitimation' tile a great nulrance to have to unbu I find among the fighting men a general agreement that the ttcn only on the day after the engegereeet, when Count
one's great-coat: dig cut a pocketbook from So an inner mitrailleur, especially when behind a little CO Sr. Is very dam Binge:trek accorded us two hours' respite to bury our
poekat , and unfold a pasthe s sufferinglt CODelderablyto from chafes w
fir oes. d
at A bold dash against Infantr
mitraille
y causes the ChassetOt to dead, some hundreds of whom might have survived had
shod the corners end folds. Is possible Neste this we IPA been forced to leave them to the miserably on
be e random ,or even In the air. Tne ur, ed owe laid,
sometimes ty exchanging a little badinage with the sentry, shoots steadily, for it has no nerves. Iw as told yesterday by a
she, if be can be made to laugh, tslua you for granted end the plain.
general that she Germans will certainly adopt the crew wee- ........---_
bids you go on on this occasion I jocularly told the man pen In some force or other, after the war, for positions In the
tea 1 was 'Jules gam, on my way to a good dinner at the field, and I observe that there is nice: triumph over one
Pavillon Henri (Matte, In Sr. Germain ' Ile laughed, hut mitrallieur taken from the enemy than over many guns.
would not relent ; anti I had to show him my pass after all. The Instrument Is capable of much development, and it
01 coons it contained ivy name and occupation, and it should not be mounted tin such heavy carriages as those
seemed quite superfluous to explain that the previous utter- of the French. All the reverse, of that strange nation have
ance was a ' goak.' To fly great surprise. on returning to not yet taken the habit uf boasting and exaggeretion out t f
these headquarters to-day, I learn that a telegram was re- them. The Getting was destructive enough di the two days'
celve.l yesterday afternoon irons Slirtrouville, setting forth lighting at Chanae, but when French aoltlit rs talked of
that a person calling himself Jules Fevre had justpassed the sweeping whole battalions away they were drawing heavily
bridge there ! No doubt the same telegram has been sent to on their Masighoudon.
Versailles Your comment may he that the lack of wisdom .......--- .
war displayed not by the sentry, but by his interlocutor."—
Correspondent of Daily Sims.

CambraL

THE WOUNDED AFTER THE BATTLE.
The Corresp ndent of the Daily Telegraph gives then
following description of the ire %W u% sufferings of the
wonoded after the battle of St. Q rentici
As we rode into St. Qientin the Krankcnlid gee were
still s-arching on the hattlerield for the wounded.
Poor fellows ! they had lain out all night in the mud,
with the rain and snow poming down upon their
mangled and ill-clad bodies. One poor fellow had just
been found lying in the furrow of a ploiughed field. His
groans had attracted the attention lif some labourers,
and they hail c trried him do wn in a blanket to a house
by the wayside. In this little house consisting of two
rooms, lay the dead bodies of four mill the living frames
of six Frenchmen. Of the four dead, three would
met aseuredly have been saved if proper medical
assiatance had been at hood; tar to the six living, there
could he little chance for them without iminediee
, medical attention. A Prussian ambulance passing at
that in, ment, I stopped it, and asked the doctor .
to attend to the roan just brought in. He imme-
diately did so, and, whilst euiployed in probing
the wound, a French atubolsnoe, with a French
doctor went by. I immediately ran out, and told
him that six wounded men lay in the house, reviring
immediate care and attention. The &utter dig-
mounted acid entered the house; and then the
Prussian, being required elsewhere, left the room.
and handed over his charge to the Frenchman. I
was just congratulating myself upon having bt en
the means of perhaps sating one human being's life,
when tin French surgeon came out hastily, took
off his hat, and said, " Monsieur, il iiy a rien a
faire avec cos iniseraliles-lit!" Now, the Prussian stir-
geou had informed me otherwiee ; he. hid even gone so
far as to say that there was every chance of recovery
for at least there of those who lay there suffering the
mtat dreadful agonies; he was, moreover, a famous
stir,eon, whi se word might be implicitly& pended up .n.
Imagine, therefore my indignation at the conduct ot the
French doctor. "'ire,' said I. "I do not know who
you are, or what you are, wbe.her you are an
nary or or a hospisal assistant ; lout this much I do
know, that you Khali not leave this boos-s till the wants
of those Well have been attended to." Then, taking
the bridle of his horse, I gave it to an orderly if
Hussare, with hair-nab.. to remain thore until each
wounded man had been cartel for, rut into a waggon,
and sent into Sr. Quentin. Ido not exaggerate when
I say that the conduct of the French military medi-
cal men here is, with a few exeeptiona, be-coon
contempt. In St. Qieritin alone there lay 2,00
wounded—the theatre was toll, the hospitals were bill,
and they were still pouring in f rom toe villages around ;
yet you might go into Le cable and find French
milit ery stir Jr is I.lllDgillg about, sm.king, drinking,
siol playing lonliards, whilst their country men, who
hail el .ne their duty like men, lay groaning upon beds
of pain.

3IETZ AND NANCY.

A cone: pondent of the Cokgne Gazette, describing a visit
to Metz and Nancy, states that the guns on the wells of the
former town are now pointed inwards. The inhabitants,
however, seem to acc.• nimod ate themselves to ciroumstances,
the communications iii almost every direction are restored,
and the streets are perfectly safe at any hour of the right.
Some of Marshal Baraine's stores of ammunition have lately
been dug up, a peasant having bAray ed their pl:ce of con•
cealment. Provisions are enormously dear. The country
round has a very melancholy appearance, the fields being
deserted and the villages nearly all destroyed. Unlearn help is
forthcoming famine will certainly prevail in the course of
the year. All eruptive fever Is prevalent, hut in Metz in a
mild form. it was formerly the custom to hang out black
handkerchiefs from the boost a where it raged, hot this her
been discontinued, there being so many of such houses.
Ti phus also has made many victims. Nancy is occupied by
Frusalan end W lirtemherie troops in small force Some
alarm was lately felt lest General liourbakes march should
take that direction, and there has also been an alarm caused
by a small bend of Francr-Tireurs, who, however, took to
tiv.ht before A atm g patrol. Two officers who were taking
a long walk were warned of the vicinity of this band by the
peasants, who knew what would be the fate of their villages
were soldiers surprised and killed In them. The attitude
of the people of Nancy was rather threatening when the
French advance was expected, but this hope was soon dim •
appointed.