Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-09-29
THE DAY OF MARs.LA-ToI

THE DAY or MARs.LA-TOT
has cost Germany aluos: twice as many
men IL killed and wounded as the CAY o.
honniggrat2 This is !. fac. which makes
all the usual epithets, such AS terrible, II
lawful, &c, appear pitiably below the
mark, Fortunately eighty per cent, OF
the victims are slightly wounded, and will
survive, although more OF less incapsciGteG
for work, The French losses are quite IS
large, and include evena greater number
Of dead. Putting the casualties on both
sides together, the total we obtain is, ! an
afraid, rather in excess Of $4,000 Some
regiments have Jared badly The Twelfth
infantry los. s!Xty'oue officers Of the sixty
nine il had, and / 500 rank and file Of the
8 coo forming its tul complement The
Foriv'seventb, almost as unfortunate, lad
/ IT officers and !, 400 men remove from tle
ranks, the Sixty.iourth, fl officers and
LOCO men; the Seyent7-secoud about so
officers Is Of whom are dead, and 600
men, Gloomlest Of all seems to have been
The doom Of the TveDiy-fougth, which is
said to have been deprived Of 1900 men
and nearly Ill its officers. OF the Dragon
Guards We know fer certain that oue.haIt
the rank and file are dead or wounded.
Nearly all their officers are gone or il o
critical condition. The announcements of
Officers deaths in the papers Gil whole col
uMns, Fathers, brothers and brides are
leaving IN shoals for the front TO tetcn the
coipses of their beloved o1es. Reading
these terrible Lists, one Is sometimes led 10
think that whole generation has passed
away. Alas ut the name of Marsha Tour
many heart will ache for many year 70
come
Apart from the melancholy interest at
tacuiug to SO fearful collision, the records
Of this battle VIII probably he scrptinizsd
by coming historians as Offering 4 standard
fer approaching the relative value OF the
con,endng armies At Mars-la Tour the
French, for the first time in the entire
course Of this m0meutous war, engaged
the Germans In fair sand-up fight. Until
this action the French, having always had
time to choose their ground, had either
stationed themselves high on hills or dug
themselves into rifle pits, or, as usual, COM
bluing both advantages, lined the upper
part of mountainous slopes with success
slve rows of bitches. But on this san
culinary 10th, being taken by surprise
hey we've mostly in the open fields,
and obliged to do battle free of cover At
first they did not relish fighting under
these unwouted conditions, and yielding
before their advancing enemy, lost their
camp and the position they had origin
ally occupied. But soon getting exas.
perated at the reverse sustained at the
hands Of Toe not half as strong AS them
selves, they took the offensive with the ut
most vehemence, and displayed the elan
for which they have been SO long and so
Jns,ly famous. Met with composure, they
eventually succumbed. The reeim nts who
Kept them at bay nearly whole day were
Bradenburgerg, the descendants of the sol
0lers Of Frederick the Great, and, it seems,
Is impeJtrrhable az their ioreiathers.
Among the many victims of the war is
Prince Salm, who accompanied the Arch
duke Macmillan TO Mexico, and so mar
rowly escaped sharing the same fate. He
fell ON the 18th, ut Reconcile. The regi-
msrt Queen Augusta, to which he
belonged, On that day had tweuty-eight.
officers and 500 rank and file struck IF its
Mrster-To.l,
The fortress of Metz, Toul, Phalsburq
ana SuasbouGg are still holding out. it is
supposed iLey have underground telegraph
communication with points outside their
walls Metz and SIasbourg viii be shortly
subjected to bombarjment which. if an
.lcipasious are answered, viii out.Sebasto-
pol s6bastopol. That Metz Toul, and
Phalsburg have not been captured give, no
uttio inconvenience to tho invading forces
The latter place blocks up the principal
pass Of the Vosges; the two others com
mand the only complete line of railway
rom Alsace to Paris. All the immense
supplies sent after the army have accord
ingly 20 be unoaded before reaching these
places. and carried round them in wagons
In tie case OF Metz this trouble viii be
shortly obvlated by the new semi circular
inc round the southeastern side Of the for.
tresB.