The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-04
THE CREAM OF THE WAR NEWS.
The Grand Review In Paris.


graph thus describes the review OF French
troops in Paris by General Trochu on the 18th
OF September
At nine o'clock in the morning the different
battaliors began TO rendezvous. The Garde
National Sedentare assembled in companies
at some open place convenient 10 thelr quart
ers. and thence marched to the general rem.
devious of the battalion. When l tell you
that No. l3O is one of the strongest regiments,
YOU will believe that the National Guard OF
Paris is no trifling force. Each battalion
numbers fifteen hundred men or over, and
there are more than hundred and thirty OF
them. How many more l don't know. nor,
apparently does any one else, VINO IS willing TO
tell; but 7 can guarantee to you that the Sc
dentaires alone, without counting mobiles,
regular troops, sailors, marines, Francsti-
reIlrs or other corps, count more than two
hundred rhousand bayonets.
Assembled at their appointed stations, the
battalions moved up or down The boulevards
and the great thOroughfares to the several
spots where General Trochn had appointed to
review them. Thence arose that deluge OF
bayouets which so impressed the Parlslans all
the morning. In every possible direction.
north and south, east and west, this way and
that. on the parements, In the roadway, by
transverse streets, by right angles, by acute,
by obliuue, the sea of bayonets pressed on.
The smallest ripple of all the eager wave was
of five or six hundred men; the greatest was
OF twenty thousand Hour after hour they
blocked the streets, and their white bayonets
crossed each other in the strangest OF orderly
confusions, rs one great mass pushed east
ward and another west. watched them on
the boulevard till my dizzy eyes grew tired.
When General Trochu galloped past, doffnS
his kepi at each minute to the enthusiasm OF
the crowd, we hoped that something would
take place to rest our gaze awhile. But no! The
general might come and the general might go,
but the Gardes Sedentaire went on forever.
We stroiled up the little rise of the Boulevard
Montmartre. Below us, on either side, as far
as the eye could reach. a stream Of rifles push
ed onward. Down the dirty Rue st. Denis was
another heavy mass waiting sor q passage.
Down the Rue M0ntmartrc the head OF q third
was visible. We passed to the Rue Rtvol, and
there, marching In the contrary direction, was
q column miles and miles In length, and the
people shouting everywhere, and songs rising
In broken fragments from the troops, ana now.
ers falling from window and balcony, and
drums beating, and shouts OF "Vive la Repub-
lloue !" passing up and down the street like
waves OF a perturbed ocean. would that
william, King of Prussia, had beheld the sight;
he would no longer have thought or talked Of
Alarlc and Rome after an hour OF yesterdays
review.
ASH have already told you there was no
general massing of troops and no man9uTres
Each battalion, or group OF battalions, was
assembled in some large place or street, and
then General Trochu came to meet 1t. The
order of the day was kept BY the Gardes No.
bile. who stood side by side along the edge of
the pavement for q space OF nine miles.
Some of them passed along among the Gardes
Sedentulre, and the rest fell In behind them,
and took their portion of the paudits. II was
n sight, on the whole. which could be describ-
ed only rs superb. Under Caesars regime we
have many q time beheld displays far more
Impressive in the pomp Of war. But 1t was
the interminable array OF tnese cltizen SOL
diers that struck one with real awe. The ot1-
cial accounts are dumb rs to the numbers Tro-
chu saw, but should pnt them down as at the
least three hundred and fifty thousand men.
The Rnvages Of tho War.
A correspondent of The London Times, wri-
ting from Boulllon, September 18th, says:
Your correspondent with the army of the
Grown Prince, ia describing the battle of Sc
dan. said that never before In the worlds his
tory had there been seen such i bntchery as
went on during that great fight. believe 1t
NAV also be affirmed that never did contest
in arms result In such terrilnc consequences TO
the surviving combatants and to the people
whose country has been made the scene Of
hostilities. For miles around Sedan one sees
nothing but dest. uction and ruin; and from
morning till far into the night professions of
the maiIned and wounded are passing from
the French frontier into The neutral territory
of Belgium. Sedan Itself is one vast hospital,
and between that town and Bouillen, dis
tance OF about ten English miles, there is
scarcely church or q house from which the
white far and the red cross Is not now waving
to make known that there are wounded inside.
Blu; it was at Bazeilles The greatest havoc
marked the final struggle between the Prus-
slams and McMahon's army. The Prussians
set fire to it. 4 handsomer or more prOspe-
rous village there was not in the northeast Of
France. It was small, but il contained an in
.d,lstrious population. Among the buildings
were a magnificent church and from twenty TO
thirty houses Of considerable pretensions lor
village observation-disclosures OF Caen stone, and
having elaborate bronze gales aIo uoGrs. Ba1- !.
eilles Is now as complete run as Pompeii.
Indeed, there are houses at Poupel! in bet
fer state of preservation than any at Baz-
eIlles. Not roof or floor remains in
any one of them. The PrllssIan shells did
their work so well that even the front walls
of Caen stone have been blown and
burnt to fragments, which now block
up the pavements and all out cover the
roadway Even in the lalles on lhe main
street every HtUlliLlOu HeS seAtJ eSstoSSu
No human being could now find shelter in
Bazellles. When troop Of Prussian lancers
rode through it yesterday no sound was heard
there but the trnmpiug of their own horses,
and there was not a living sonl-man, woman
OF child-of the happy population who dwelt
there little more than week ago. The Prus-
SLAMS say they destroyed Bazeies because the
inhabitants had fired upon them from their
houses. This is denied by the French, who
say that the shots which came lTom the houses
were tlred By tile regular soldiers and the
Garde Mobile. Be this as lt may, destrlc-
ton was never more complete Than at Ba-
zeilles. Thence to Balm, and also from La
Chapele to Balm, the country is a
COMPLETE waste. Crops aud orchards
have disappeared, and the farm-houses
are rildled by bullets. Rifles and cannon both
played their part at Balan, and thence on to Sc
dan, a distance of about an English mile. Dead
horses abound all along the route, chassepots
lie about in hundreds; there are shakoes, hel-
NETS and cuIrasses In heaps. and knapsacks
and cartouche boxes enough for whole reg
mpnr. In the vicinity Of such spoil ! observed
scores oil men wearing the white badge and
cross, whose work was not administering to
the sick and wounded. but seeking for any
thing worth finding. Some OF them wore sol.