The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-10-12

MIR. Russell, in his letters to the
London Times descriptive of the bat
tle-Gcld of Sedan, says:
The troopers, billiautly led, went
right on wards IN II cloud Of dust, but
when they were within a couple Of
hundred yards of tho Prussians one
Simultaneous voliey burst out of tho
black tr"0t aud flank, which envel-
opcd all in smoke. They wcrc steady
soldiers who pulled trigger there.
! Down came horse and man the array
was utterly ruined. There was left
IN trout of that deadly infantry but u
heap of white and gray horses--a
terrace Of dead and dying dismountcd
men, aud fly ing troopers, who tumblcd
ut every instant. More total d;ssipa-
tion of bright pagoantry could not
DO ! There was another such scene
yet to como. could scarce keep the
held-glasa to my cyos as tho secoud
and last body Of cavalry-which was
composed Of light-horso also
thundoring up out of the hollow.
They wore not so bold as the men on
tho white horses, who, fell, many of
them, at the very line Of the bayouets.
The hc' 'sos of these swcrvel Us they
came upon the giuuhd covered with
caroasses, and their line was broken,
but the squadron leaders rode straight
to death.
l will not dwell on the topic, but
ask your readers to be content with
the assurance that no human eye ever
rested on suoh revolving objects as
were presented by the battlefield
around Sedan. Let them fancy mass
es of coiored rags glued together
With blood and brains, and pinned in
to strange shapes by fragments of
bones. Then conceive mems bodies
without heads, legs without bodies,
heaps of human cntraiIs attached to
red and blue cloth, and discmLowellcd
c"rpscs in uniform bodies lying about
in all attitudes, with skulls shattered,
faces blown of, hips smashed, bones,
flesh, and gay clothing all pounded
together as if brayed in a mortar, cx-
tending for miles, not very thick in
any one place, but recurring perpctu-
ally for weary hours, and then they
cauuot, with the most vivid imagina-
tion, come up to tho sioliening reality
o. that butchery. No nightmare could
be So frightful. Several times came
on spots where there were two horses
lying dead together in harness, killed
by the same fragment. Several times
| saw four, five, and six men, four,
five, and six horses, all killed by the
explosion of one projectilc, aud in ono
place there lay 10 less than eight
French soldiers, who must have been
struck down by the bursting of she'll
over company, fo. they lay all round
in circle, with their fee. inwards,
each shattered in the head or chest
by piece of she'll, npd no other dead
being within hundred yards of them.
THE WAR AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
4,c|J emigrants arrived at this per.
during last week, which would give u
tots Of considerably over 100000
per annum: These figures show that
the war has not by any means pnt an
end to emigration. Thousands of
those in humble circumstances con-
tinue to embark for "thc home Of tho
brave and the land Of the frce," in
order to better their worldly pros.
poets. 1t is furthermore highly proba.
bic that this war will stimulate q new
class of emigration hither. We refer
to the French, whose possessions are
now being despoiled or devoured by
the "invuders )" who see the savings
of years destroyed in few hours, and
who, like our Southern countrymen
during the rebellion, arc being rcduos
ed almost to penury. There is no
doubt that very many of these suffer-
ers will seek the New World to res.
tore their lost fortunes, where it can
he done much easier and quicker than
10 Franco. and they will receive
most cordial reception here. A little,
or considerable, Gallo element is
needed to mingle with tho Teutouio
and Celtic masses who migrate in such
large numbers to the United Stutes.
1t is not at all improbable that French
men will soon become as common
among us as Irish aud German now
are.-Ncw York Commercial.
The Columbus (Ohio) Democrat
pays tho Now York World the follow
ing decided left haLd compliment:
"The people Of tho South shoulA
be made fully acuuaintod with tl.