The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

BAZAINeS STRATEGY!

" All the talk I bane h.d with Frenchmen Is concentrated
Ins tittle dialogue which I hod hi the Fv2ro of tii-day na
occorrii g netween two veritable Parisians. 6a). one, who
la dlrpote I to take a dark view of ails ra, • Bat I tell you
that the Pi (lion, are ado ~icing no P Ilia fried, I
ell
of hope, rip lea, C hat of that, since Ills part of Basaine's
strategy ?' 'Bit,' returns the other, 'tenet If th. y enter
Perla ?• 'So much the better,' is the reify, 'Since it Is purl
of 'tents.'. plan..' But,' cam botia the cru .ter, ' what il they
take your caahhox and your wife ? " Sly c salt boa and my wile;
says the oplimiat with a &emu. air, 'oh ! it IA ail eight; it is
B nit,.'. plait' The Parisian is intensely Impelul, all a
carcature NMI shed yesterday 4 a perfect image of htx
thought. There is a huge no u etrap on the Weed dertreay,
on which is h scribed • France ' A re Om ut of mice dri seal
as Prussian roltlers are morel Mg towards it. Th, ir leader
polo,. with his aw rd to the hoes. lost be, which has the
tempqng iitacriptian—' Paris ' It is quite nor allr that more
thou hell the PoPninff m it Paris. linititg at this sketch,
take it for an accurate prophecy of what will Minium The
mice sill real In u.,on the cheese, and teal be c Aught in the
trap. On all sides is echoed and re-echoed the es,ustuation,
'Not one of them will return.'—Nawspaptr Comspondant.

The London gran lard says it received Information on Mon-
day night that three war curreipowlents of L union news.
papers have got Into trouble. Mr. Austin, of Ihe Tithe., Is
inE.,risoned at Rheim• ; Mn. Sidney II 01, if the I;ruphic, to
undrog dog the same hard fate at Nancy and Mr U ids_
worth of the Doti!, News, has been brought back from
Solasons under a guard to Paris.
The Ihrt,to to informed that More N spoleon, being on
Friday in company with some Italian statesmen, turned to
000 01 them and denly and exclaimed, " Ills you, gentlemen,
yim, who are ruining Fenton. A general war would have
saved no; a waren:dined t Prus.ia will be martini, and the
Intervention of Italy no our favour would have provoked the
general war "
An official Prussian despatch from Clermont says —"AUTh.
Intelligence published in Par:s as coniiiig direct and by
tehneaph from Marshal Bar line is manufactured In Parts,
for Marshal Bissine has no tee},raphic conrounicattou with
Purls, and any ineastncer he mAy send w 1 o,i hove ti mak
fully s day's Journey from Me' z to the first French telegraph
station."

The North Germ2n Corresponden', In the latest number
received. 10)1—. rim rlinoaelnes .1 the great majority if
the English re pie and the floglish press, we have reason to
believe, are with Gm many, and we eon afford to smile at the
slanders, obtained second hand from Paris, and the sinister
pr.mheclea and denut.chtions levelled at us by the BJIII4
partist papers of London."
The Paris Paine has gee so far as to say that two officer.
of Unisys, who enliven a few .11.ys ago In • small town, sat
down bet. re • ea é, an I burst Into icon. We weep," they
salt to the astonished bourgeois who snrroun ,ed them,
.• because we feel certain that not one of our cout,tnnien
now In France will on.t it alive. Your soldiers ate all lions,
and we are but men."

L.°, multi ~,, was received at Dryer OR Tuesday, by the
En,lish mail boat arriving from ellais at floe o'clock in the
miserliness that the passenger traffic from Parts to Calm had
laren lotertupted and cut I ff. Ihe mails only were nflught.
Passengers f, e. the Cash bat had to roma by way of Boulogne
stc. The c.mmunleat,ons between P iris and Di Moan° is
also to he cot off, and the South Kssfern K silway asinpany
have given instructions to Mscontinue the ro:kestone tidal
boat from the lot of September.

Societies for the relief of the +minded are multlplyloz.
After the bloody battle of the 18th, commonly called the
battle of St. Privet, the wow dent remained ei hours in the
villages and farms, where they lacked almost evert thing. A
turin d >ming Nephew then art bet at the head of a long
Ite of eerie, and the removal was effected. few., In one of
these farm., it Is said, that a woe.,, put out he e'en o a
wounded 1'111516M clUer. She was hung by his comrades.
The Parls Correspondent of the Medical Times and garette
ray ,—" I must c.ufess that I was surprised to Mid some
that were Called wounded In hospital at all. NI any time. I
have seen Earelah agricultural 1 de wren doing their beat at
their usual work with wi nude quite as severe and quite as
far frem being healer., Ihe in let wound. exposed 1., view
during the visit had nothing peculiar shout them—the
punctures very cleanly made, and all &deg well. There
doee not seem to be a single Prussian in any of the Paris
hoepitale."
It Is stated that in view of a possible investment of Paris
the anth:dllics of the Brink of France have el oU:relined on im-
mediately trstisferrit g the grower portion of their still large
reserve of specie to one of the western seapert towns— pro-
bably there or Brest—for solely. Merry of the foreign
herd:ere have already transferred the most portable of their
effects, including securities, plate, fie , to London.

Perk is probably destined to eolve a problem which modern
military history has not hitherto embraced And it rimy be
put flu.: Can a very groat and very luxurious c maid, how..
over well fortified, however brav-ly defended, resist the
attack of a larva army, even if unprovided with the lull
tap-
pliaoe.e of a siege train' All reststsisies of this sort hi•herto
recorded 3111.1 Mild coal tIMOM are Mlle I up with different
Conditions from t h tee we hsvo mentioned.

LINT r. (lutaPie c )ntroversy ha+ arlien whether
lint ouent to toe sent to the mild ,re hospitals ahro..d, or the
linen of which hut is male, ahlch could then he on the epot
manufactured into " rbarnio," the I. reign auhditute or
tonivdent for lint. Od this point we have authdr ty to taste
that hy the National Socht)'s agenti it the seat tf war, bra
C it, Mayo, Fruit, Nre.rmac, and o'bers, the
at thing *tired for is .• Zuglish lint, which Is • great
luxury."

The King of Prussia, exercising the rights usually conceded
to the victor, hes given limes to three of the most recent
great hettlee. That of August 14, which was by the French
at lint titled the battle of Longeville, and by the el.rmens
that of range, is to bo known as the battle of CoracitLLES
that of the Itch, called variously that of Mar..lc- Your, of
Tronville, and of Gravelotte, is to bathe battle of VU,NVILLE ;
fl,fl the lest and greatest, that of the Mb, the battle of
GRAVILOTTI4

hi it ,chfort. lest he thoutd he resoled by the populace,
has been transferred from the Salta relarie prison to Vii.
centies.—M. Lissatteray, a political ally of ICchefori's,
thumb a cousin of Paul Or Cassagnec, who had ventured to
come to Parts from It: wads in the expectation of a revolu-
tionary movement, has here arrested and consigned to
prison, pursuant to • judgment for a press cliente scored up
against him some time ago Ile sax denounced ti the police
by hi. Paul de Cassagnac.
"Vein-. Pierre Bonaparte has been lot ally working for the
thready In Core ca Ile ha. recruit ell tome an army of 600
C. nacen spits, who gradualls, in small parties, have all
arrived at Marseilles. Their naiad nis to sprt at themselves
shout the country, and ineukate the idea that the Emperor,
who has been deceived an I b-ttrayed by Km +, 011ivier and
certain generals, will let be the savit.ur f Ft nice, and that
as a pr-of of his sit ate minded honesty, he is quite ready,
in pursnance of hie Instal tile princip'es, to submit his case
to another Plehlacit,"—Daily News Corm p mdenk
Wo are now in the country of Joan of Arc, het neither
peasant, maid, nor Empress, nor Salute MiLrAliklike can
work the miracle that is to save France fr rn the presence
of the mighty stranger that is within her rates The Um*
for ola phonetic action ha. ilot yet arrived, and, if one wet e tip
fidget from the t,mpt•r of the hour, any attempt on the
part oft neutral Power to regulate the c dose or anticipate
the work of armies In the field would he releeted with •
tevevity which would n I. mitt:fated by the O•ntaible hos-
tility of the neu• rale "—Serval.). CorreApon.lent.
3hs Manchester Examiner prints the following extract
from a private letter, written, it states, by a gentleman in
Berdn, who host,. n.O .I means of studt hag the political senti-
ments of the tapper classes in that capital The heat terms
of pace tor arm.° that are now talked of are hbe,al
pecti,dary indernoiflcation for the IrOr, and the er11,01111,10/
crept/ of ocettp,tion lentil actable arid peaceable goverwevrit
is as.reti to the ',awe ; the entire separation o. Frabce
from the Rhine at ail points, and the re-annexation of all
the old GaMitlrl, rakilig provinces to the Fatherland.
Nothing but dimmer to the Germain arms can seriously
MOO fly this programme, I am told."

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It would he to Jost, considering all the alma levelled at
tobAcco-so,kele ;sod how often they are solemnly toti that
torr,cco eestroas all their energieq, not to admit that the
mincers of the German. In the pre-en t warts rather a feather
in the *motet's cop. These men bairn to live on tobacco;
the Uillans, who in little parties of thrae or four trot gaily
in aurince anal take 1).011PWOU of fettle...A towns, Invert ably
c,irry tepee hi their moithn. The nia) or of each town Is
directed to foil c gars for every hotly heti ri an> th,ng els, Is
dune The 0 titian troops. it is *tette, thlok bit little of •
scarcPy of provisions—they flight as well without their
dinner as with it—but tobacco is iodispensahle to them.
Tonte.l.Ee Trimm, the amusing in the Petit
Moniteur, has yeiid a visit to the Canip a I Saint Maur. Lieut.
il'Oreeval, formerly reporter of the 61rtulas. I. there ; so alto
are Captain Adrien of the Choricari: esptsin -neat
&Handel, Varnalhat and novel at 1, r ; aod C.ptein Sank
bale y who has quitted the fi uillel.on of ihe Pattie for a
ourip.my there la also the non of Ar 0 le lioute ape gen ni
of the O.E h CAnique emptier, of t!..• Patio Journal ; and
Limit Browne, hrorner lif the well-known arst-t, and htimalf
a distinguished watercolour painter. At Chalons ahoy had
WWII to eataq'sh a heatre and a newspaper. The iheatre
wa to have (web called the "lobes Montle'," anal tee journal
Le Moblot. It is prethmahle that the c ',nee of garrison has
disa. reed the intention of there Lao projects !

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B.z deepatch upon the elibject of the regiment In
which C not kremlin:Ws 11.114 are e ervirs WWI means
the ar,surd etaggeretion which it wale Fuppomd at the time
when hie word ''ariiiihilart ul wAr, qul ted in the French
Chamber. A let,er to the oft. int,ehe Zedung from a young
genikman of Inahniire, Gentile hi rour.teer's year in the
regino-nt (ter Girard Our tme n.), .yeot the Vionvllle b ark
Ye4terd .y we had. noirdenare thht. Three arpirolnme
our rt triniant hid to Ii tree a column .if French Infantry We
lout In th •jr limo thirde of the men and nearly ail the
(litre the 4 h squall on) had neen kept back miii Lne
standards. The ...tiler three now only form a single one.
Cunt Bitmarck was cl use by, and both Ws eon; who ism
In our reglmont, were wounctod."

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From the height. Just above the tidoge, which command
• maenill et.t name-wide view, t•f S'ew Mire and Its north-
western environs. I have been for several hours watching the
of on emit, Tv noel 0 a large scale, Vuolit with
great obdinacy by both conthatuda . . The siege opera-
tions I witnetweil to-day were in the Ii ghee degree interest-
tog. A large Deal bar of ewe and mortar, had been got into
position last Illght, under cover of tins heavy firing met Mooed
to you in my lig letter; and the firing that was op lied up, -n
the defences he city this nr nuing was vey totting, and
eras maintain. with cmaiderable vigour throughout the day.
The Germau batteries, some of them very traleatc.d, were
judicioaxly disposed to a long sweeping co ve, extenoing
Inca the extreme Premien left, near Relchstett
to the Baden tight, not far from Llngoishelm.
Several of them had been tonshet forward to
within fifteen hundred yards of the walls, and them were
peculiarly active The French practice was excellent ; it
was, however, principally confined to ehellieg the villages in
immediate proximity to the town, and seemed to lb directed
upon the Prussian parallels only from time to time, when
roan peculiarly well Judged missile was dri ppel from the
latter into a Frauch in-tion era Strasburg street. A little
brie.), close under our v.etege.paint, which, by common
conseht, we cbriaterel Ti.by " alter witness-
ing its first performance, appeared to annoy the French more
than all the rest put together It comisted of four mortar,
which, every .even or eight minutes, pitche t four
shells Into the works between the /taverner Thor
and the Stein Thor with remarkable precidon and
panc!uality. After each of these fourfold ci,charges,
the I.'ranch would reply by as many guns—twerity-
four le unders—Mmed at s. Toby," the shell from which
would explode a little lu his front or rear, as thee sae might
he, hut not tine told f drly on the battery heel. Whilst we
were lookitig on, the town of Strasburg was eet on fire at
least fifteen times, and in one place, about two hundred yard•
worth of the Cathedral, bona steadily for over two hoitre, de-
spite the strenuous exertions male to extingniela the flames.
At one time, the city was on the in four places, and as soon
secure c ft tgration was got under, a neatly-pPched thell
ould generate orother near it.
It must have been a terrible dey tribe crowded loon As
an illustration of the terrors by which e ellls ms were
needed, I may mention that although there was a wrong
hr., is and a comparatively clear condition of the Minos-
pher-, I T sevetal hours the Batten monntains behind S:rat-
nourg—that is, across the 11,ine and directly oupostte °or
station were completely hi den from us by the thick itell of
smote that bring over the city and its euburha i chiding
Ruprechtsau, arising from bunting villages and Arnow dering
house. Ignited Ouritig the das'e tmorbarilmeet The French
hate now lath wriste the report of vilages immediately
• urrounding the town. Tne most considerable of these,
Schlltidieim, a large and prospsrone Owe fringed with
martufmtortes, has born neon or less on fire ever since
the IB,h, ond to-day received its coup de entire When I
10,111Pli MI the height above Niererhaothe rum', there were
twelve or thireim large houses standing utitouched
l , I need not say, abandoned by their on Intents. Five
111115111,m• later, one of them burst into • light flame, a little
later another, and so on till oily one remained—a square,
stoutli -built, red-roofed, comfortable-looking residence, sur-
rounded by orchards and gardens, probably the abode of
tome exceptionally well-to do farmer. Preset tly • pill! of
white smoke spotted out from the large bastion to the
north of the 'taverner Thor, followed by a fond "boom
and • scarcely audible smashing sound ; a shell
had struck the roof of the budding fairly, and in
half a minute it wee one sheet of flames. The tichlevement
or achlltigheirnal utter destrrenion lasted etaely nee hour
a d threequarters from the ignition tl the Met house to
that of the last; within that interval the property of at least
twelve families had been shmintely anultillaled All this
while the sun Was shiniug brilliantly on the town, and
brineing into strong relief against their dark fermi mat-es
the stonework that croa ns and Mods the eastern bastions
Into the heart of the latter evrn now and then, • Prowlan
atoll lambi penetrate, and, Musing, blow a great brown
hole mit of their •urface, the contents of whch were
nattered abroad in a cloud of dotty duet. Immodia.el, the
fort would answer with two or three enornions explosive
bolts that, striking the earth near the Insolent bath, ry e hence
the pr ivocative shell came, sent up a column of toil high in
the air, and split into a hundred Jagged fragments. Beside.
"Toby," wham, performances were terribly effective, there
was a lively little B 0011 battery, not far front Woltlitheim,
which kept up all ark fire on the north-western eutworksof
the fortress that must have been exceedingly harramlint to
their defenders. Two more Prussian batterim, mmked by
the woods behind Schiltigheim, opened fire about midday,
arid did a rreitt deal of damage to Rearechtsau and the
northern qusrter of the city Altogether I
batteries In hot action on our aide, whilst not more than
twenty pieces were emplosed from the fortress; hut these
last were tuarvellt tidy bogy all day.

Dreadful, indeed must he the condition of the non-military
Inhabitants of thrashing, whose sufferings are nowhere
more earnestly comp issionntt d than in the ranks if the
armies compelled to Intl ct them. Ticzens of Units to-day,
Prussian officers and soldier, have expressed themselves to
my hi terms of heartfelt sympathy for these pax people.
who, betides the perils thy are person illy Iv yeeted
t at every minute, are compelled to support a surplus
popidation of souse ten thousand men, om.m, and
children debuted refugees from imagined Prussiani
mut ility—who hove placed themselves in a position a
thousand times more dont r. is an.l ilirircesing than If they
hail ietreata d f tarn their desecrated homes to a post of safety
hihind the German lines. Front towneptopte who have
teenaged to reach our quarters Ourtrg the night, we hear
that them Inisati rem are multninghardi hips of the most grievous
character. tont that the citizens are well nigh driven to deeps.
ration hy I he severity of the trials they are called upon t.• under-
go. Think of see. nty or eighty thousand peeenage souls, alto-
gether Inhocent of participation In the crime which is bein4
visited upon them, hating war, and living business- even-
Daily a commercial, quit popu'istlini—shut up in a town
that is tieing hurt about tb ir heads from day today. Think
f the relive° peasants, houre'ess and without shelter,
sleeping hi the streets udder a rain of fire, and culls ions I Ivit
theic granges, farmhoures, and barns are being consumed
within a few hundred yards of the walls in which they are
Imprisoned
BM:MATH, Midnight.
Strasburg is burning fiercely In three places—two very
near the Cathedral—mid Itlprechtsau is also on flee Toe
Froasti-gidenseer fire is almost Incessant —ei.ht and nine
shots per minute froni large guns sod mortars. A clear
holly of flame, ap arently about slay feet high above
the grimed level, in I twi nty feet broad, is pereepdhle
front here—ten miles from the town—and irradiates
the whole sky with its Intense brightness. I have Fist
heard that the town of Kehl is entirely destroyed. The
knees on our side to.day have been niotterate, those in the
city are reported very large Fugitives arrive in nimbi r.
—how they g t out of the town I cannot conceive, nor
will they reveal Tim attack cannot list long without
resulting In th- total sionthicstion of Sir.s.in g The garrison's
weakness is more clearly antee it every day. To-morrow
will or ushered in by the ',tieing of 601116 I orty more pieces in
I odd.s to-rd ht 011 eve stile Heaven help the unhappy
meatures inside the French lines'