The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-02
NapOIeon's Tender TO Austria.
French HerOiSn.
AT weissenhurg and woerth
nj. ABOUT'S JOURNAL.

Adventures of the French Author-The Battle
of F0rbRch- Official EncOHipetency.
NJ. Edmond About gives in the SOtr ''The
Journal of Journalist" in which he describes
the battle of Forbach or rather the mismanage-
ment which allowed thingsto to take care of them
selves and left generals of brigade and OF divi-
sion without orders until the corps drheee was
nearly destroyed. The journalist had left his
wife and children near Saverne, and ne suddenly
hears that MacMahon is there and s waiting for
the enemy. In haste to place his family in
safety, he hastenS in carriage towards Saverne
and on his way bears different rumors. Atlength
he comes in sight, halfway from Pfalzburg, of
the 4Vth OF the Line or rather WhaS is lett OF
them. An officer who has seen some service
says he never saw anything like the battle:
thirty two officers of the regiment are hors de
combat. At Pfalzburg he hnds the gate shut,
and has to make his way round lie says:-
From Pfazburg 10 near Sayerne met long pro
cession OF laggards- -cuirasseIs without cuirass,
fusiliers without guns horsemen on toot and lnfan
Try on horseback Here is small body who still
talon OF Foot Chasseurs. ~ congratulate you, my
friends your company has not suffered much"
you see. All the rest lie yonder." A dead
horse lies there on the roadside, and they
In proportion rg r as we advanced the read became
more narrow for us, and the wave OF men
sweP gI Oa R r & 81 "a
regiment Of infantry in pttahc condition, and min
gled with other unerms, ana had prudeatly placed
ourselves on the descent which leads down towards
the valley OF the 2orn, when real charge OF
cuirasslers, gallopng like rad upset my horse in
the ditch and broke the springs OF the Carriage The
but the carriage, horribly Damaged imme-
diately began to tumble about zg-zag, first
20 the left among the curassers and then
the right towards the internal ditch. We jumped
into the road in the middle of the gallOping cohort
One stopped the horse, another pushed the carriage
into hole in detaching the traces and We discovered
without q carriage and carriage without horse,
and all luggage in the midst OF the great retreat
of the 1st Corps. benevolent wOodman whose
horse under cover and hiding the luggage We left
the carriage in the ditch, and wenC Oh On foot to-
wards Saverne
On the way he was stopped as a spy by some
Zouaves, but saved by the timely arrival of an
officer of cuirassers, who told him he had slept
at his house on the previous night, and that his
wife aud family we're in the town. He con-
Marshal MacNahon.
1t was clear that our artillery had been roughly
tried when lmbers were seen passing WShout their
guns. There were nevertheless one, Two, three
regiments Of the line quite firm, sufficiently perfect,
their rifles on their shoulders, and their knapsacks
at their backs. In their rear was Marshal MacMa-
hon, calm, dgnifed, almost smiling and as fresh as
rose. Isaluted him in passing, and he responded
without knowing me. One of his aides-de- camp, NJ.
d'Abzac, named me TO him, and he then stopped
and asked for news, listening with fine composure
TO the defeat of NJ. Frossard, of which he was still
Ignorant, and telling me very SIMPLY, n few words,
] found 10000 before me. We have succumbed to
numbers. They have killed or wounded about 5000
men, but will take our revenge. Explain that to
the public. But where are you going tAus ?" go
Saverne." ''You will get yourself taken; the Prus-
ans will be there in two hours; they are seen " 81
have my wife and my children Then God protect
yOu Don't fail to say that the n0rGte OF the troops
ia excellent"
The Turcos.
From a communicative German soldier NJ.
About learned that the Prussians had sustained
enormous losses; that they usedl No tents, but
slept in their great coats; that they had plenty
of meat, but had had no bread for four days.
This was the Germans opinion OF the rnrcos:-
"pOnt speak, toIme:of them. They are tigers They
cut of the heads and gouge out the eyes OF our
wounded, filthy black beasts that they arei Detest-
able soldiers, they fire without taking AIM they rush
forward like FOOLS and run away with )ut knowing
why. They did US good deal OF harm with thsiT
tayOnets but when the Wurtemburg cavalry charged
item they turned their backs"
OmcIaI IncOmpetency.
Concerning the incompetency of the officials,
NJ. About says
We need not act like Carthaginians. nor even
Re the French OF 1890 The nation can afford tO
amnesty its Vanquished leaders, but let them hide
themselves from public view. The sooner the bet
ter The idea OF having recourse once more TO the
worn out lists OF the reserve prontably to replace
them is delusion. France, reluVenated by stroke
OF misfortune, wishes TO be commanded by young
men. Take cOonels TO make them generals, majors
and captains to make them colonels Break with the
wretched traditions of the Second Empire, which gave
everything by favor; let merit only he held OF ac-
count The army no longer wishes 10 obey warriors
OF the ante-chamber and piTtuost or the court. AS
TO the supreme chief, his account will be settled IN
stances. Emperor is the translation OF Latin word
which means victorious general II The victorious
general or Emperor s yanqulshed, lt ls not the
enemy, the nation, nor the army which depriyel
him OF his authority CmGndae but logic anc
plain grammar. Already the peasants Of
Alsace, those model electors, CRY
candidate We should not be IN darger, perhaps, Il
we had answered NO 70 the pssbIsejtpH." 0llYiel