The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-04
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
The Sick and Wounded.
Napoleon III in Exile.
His Attempted Assassination
Germany in France.
"The Course of Empire"
Italy i'm Rome.
The Kingdom and the Holy See.
Etc, ETC., ETC.. Etc, Etc.
THE FRENCH PRISONERS.
Ihe Sick and Wounded in War.

Sir Harry Verney has forwarded very in
teresting letter from one of the most efficient of
Tie young surgeons now employed in the rear
of the Prussan army, dated Pout-a-Mousson,
September 15:-"Picture to yourself our Guards,
wounded and dirty, being marched through
London as prisoners of war, aud fancy what
would be your thoughts and feelings at such a
sight, and you will perhaps have an idea of
what the French inhabitants OF this town have
had TO suffer day after day for the past week.
Words are idle to express one tenth of the chill
ing woe that every one with heart must feel
at such a sight-the detected look and cast
down eyes of the French soldiers which
quail at the half-averted glance of the
cOnqueriug foe, as file after file, officer after
officer, goes to swell the mass under German
const1aint. Really the Germans behave in the
kindest way 10 their prisoners l have not seen
a single case to the contrary, and have seen
many thousands of prisoners. Complaints from
mans, on "a hours notice, supply a fresh con-
tingent S0, 600 strong of prisoners with food?
When they have it they give it. On good
authority state that society in this town,
consisting of Germans, gives to each wounded
French officer on entering the town change
of clean linen and 1O0f. for little luxuries.
To unwounded prisoners money is forbid
den, for in such cases it becomes a weapon.
Thus, l maintain, the Germans not only act
kindly but generously to their fallen foes. DR..
Sandford, of Kars celebrity, and myself. after
distributing some of the bounties supplied by
the International Committee went to the va
IlOuS nOSpllalS. 1OnI-a -MOu5SOn is one vast
charnel-house; the number OF wounded amounts
to the enormous sum of 5000 in this one town,
and since Sedan CHASTITY trains, filed with from
500 to 1000, come into the town every evening,
some OF these, of course, to get better, some to
become cripples, some alas many, to die.
One hospital QEglise Serninaire) had an
interior which would require an academi-
clan should he paint something wonderfully
picturesque but terrible in the extreme. The
vast interior has been denuded of shrines
and pews; and, on the straw, round the
pillars, on the altar. stones round the altar, lie
the wounded Bavarians and French, the latter
three times as numerous as the former. All the
uniforms, blended with straw as a background
made most thrilling scene. Gun-shot woauds
leave such depression that it is not to be won.
dered al that all lie still as the grave But thes,
poor fellows sufferings are aggravated by dys-
entery and typhus. Various appliances ar,
here wanting The straw accumulates the dirt
and wounds cannot be attended to properl,
while they are lying in it. DR.. Sandford
therefore, determined to go to the chief militar,
doctor, DR.. Gielen, who gave us leave to do any
thing we liked to better the condition of th,
wounded