, 1870-09-07

surrender. Al II O'Clock hts tousehol,t aud car- |
HRges lest town. aud VT knew he Was prisoner.
and the Empire 10 II orr. About the same hour
was posted In the streta proclamation from !
General W!npden. saying fhat, notwithstanding
p'odsetes Of courage, the asynv. having no more
ammunition, found itself unable to respond
to the summons Of tia chlefs and to force
It's way 10 monarchy, that. being surrounded. he
had mado the best conditions he cou1d-conft-
lions snch re- would inn!ct no humiliation On the
army. These conditions prove to be the tusTen-
DEF OF the whole e-mE, not less than hundred
Thousand men rs prisoners Of waF, with all fhe1r
anna, baggage, horBeB, Standards, and guns. The
Officers who sign n agreement not to dght against
PEuis.a during the war, may return
to their homts =, the remainder to he sent to gar
rtson rowns in Germany. Many onlces refuse to
a'sn psefcHtu9 to share tho captivity Of their
men. On Saturday, the whole force laid down
the1r arms. Not few soldiers, tn kheff r12e
hEoke. rather than s1Ye up, khets arms, and the
strrcta were Uttered with fragments Of all kinds
Of wt taIrns hr'ken swotis, rides. pstols, lances,
helmets, cutrAsses.au even mItEatllcusc8 covered
tie ground, and, In one place, where the Aeuse
runs through the town, the heaps Of such rag
men1s chofett the stream and rose along the sur
face. The mud OF the sfeets WIS hlscE with !
9uupoxder. The horses had been tied to houses |
ant gun-carriascs, but nobody remembered to |
feed OF water them, and, In the |
ffrnzy OF hunger nnd thlrst they |
tr0Se innse and ran wild through |
th- TOWN.. Whoever liked mish, have HORSE
e1rn otrcrrs horses. which we're pirate prop
e.ty,-fur the trouble Of catching them When
the Prusatans came Into the town they were very
sore and angry At thcs,ght Of all this destruction
nj Wa6te. What must have pleased them sill
less Eas the state tn which they
found the military. A soon ~ surrender
vas resolved on the French ot1cers were told to
make nut the best accounts they could, present
them Immediately, and receive payment. Nat
uraliy the statements thus brought In soou proved
SUFFICIENT to empty the Treasury. know Of otl-
| GERS who demanded and zreciycd payment for
horses that were not killed, auA baggaEr which
| had not been lost Decentralization showed Itself
| In every way, Even standards were burned or
huried-an act Of bad faith not 70 be pallIatcd
| even BY the grief and rage Of a beaten army.
Their rage ls greater against no one than General
Dc Fai!iy. ue hsd room In the hotel where
| was st3y1nK on Fraay. great multitude Of
soldlers gathered before the hou.e, the doors Of
| which were closed, demanding General De Fai!!y,
| With spch shouts and nenaces, that the landlord
thought It prudent to hattY him out back
window. The soldiers, could they hayn reached
him, Would have torn him to piecna Since ny
return to London, found It stated he VISA shot
BY enc Of his own men. but no such event had
happened on Saturday, and could not ell happen
I
Sims came snd occupied the Town and restored
order. / am sorry to have to acknowledge
that ali through the campaign the French
have acted much more Ike conque1lng army IN
hostile country than the Prusstaus. All the
/ anuoyance1 have experienced person21ls came
from my oWn countrJp.eu, from tho rcasaass,
aboEe all, VITO saw a spy In every stranRer
| When fell 1ntn the hantis Of the Prusstaus,
founH them couttesy itsclt-
fnrr r. hf.f a,
| ieaE1nR sedan, and thence to the frontier, u
! |. passing through Prussian posts. was stopped
I had bnt to say l WAS correspondent Of al
American Journal aud was at onCc sent klnhl
forward. On tic hack Ut NY French nlt!ltar,
pass tho Pruss!an s,af! had endorsed P1uaslat
este conduct. Afterwards WAS NIT obliged cyel
| III show 1ns papers Hy word YVES taken, N,
once unt OF Sedan caunc speedily through. Whel
, ! LETT Sedan Sunday morning things wcee getttn,
rapidly to rights The streets werc cleared NJ dta
\ Eu.scs aad nrn. The tndescslbable nlth q
. the tt,wu WAS being swrp: Into the river. Shop
were opening again, a,,.1 discipline had taken tn
:, | place Of disorder. l saw enough OF the Prlssin
p Equalization and energy to change. ii the Grtey
{ ! Gus defeat Of a nolc arny had not alFea4i
!. chanssl, the opinion hare 70 often exprcsse
= to yeu that ultimate victory for F!nucc sur,
= have followed MacMahon from the La
r when found him rcorxuuzipg his army y
n Chn,ons, to the fatal day at Sedan, when he Sill
a rendered the last organized force In France SAT
Il 1hc remnant Of that shut up In Metz. Cct1an1.
i | whcu was at the camp at Chal0ns, and then
n Rheims, Ind observed that the number VI sttai
), g.rrs wRs cuornious, and continually met 50
= tic1s who did not know where their regimen
. | were, had stes men aid officers disabled
- wounds. which French soldiers OF other dh,
- would have de>ptscd. hAd rematkt
= how uuslay aut rarclesa the me-
- we're allowed to be about their equipment
- These things, slight. nut Significant to mllta
:, cyc, had caused me, no doubt, some mis-tsings
>. tu the rapidlty Of success We hal the right to e
~ rect. saw. also, hox prone the French ONCE
r. were to avoid the fattSalcs Of long marches Al
:. s,tscornasts Of hyouacs. remember how Oft,
nave trayerset the French Ines at Il
!, dead OF night ami at garly dawn, Al
- | never heard q qut ripe, never come across
~ French vtdet1s, never fallen In with parts
-, Eclairna On thu other hant how often ha
,1 | seen officers spend the time that ought to ha
N ncen gwen to their men In cafcs or In POOR 5
h. laee inns. How often even, officers Of st
=. have neglected their dulles for pa,ry nmul
or me1ts, log Themselves Ignorant, sou
ra timrs, even Of the names Of the {
"a partment in which theJ were.
III that I have known French General obliged
-o xsA Ills way from peasants 1t the meeting uf +
ra reads. struggled long against all this Kind
vi evidence, hut the end ts on'y too CLEAR. Pain
a. 1t Is to nc, but am mound to declare my bel
IN that any further effort France mag make can O
~, cause useless hiooashcd, Anf that means OF
40 cape from her peril must uoW Ia sought 9th
4,l WISE than by aEMs+"
ny TIE BAT1IR OF BxAUNosT.
oe. LoSpoS, SEPT. b.-The 71ibun<'s correspond
ug' at Tue Kag.s headquarters sends the follow
LIE ACCOUNT Of tho battle OF Be eaumont, on Aug
lnd 80; "Tp to Thurstav evening, August 23,
l4t n
pen time out march Pariswasd without turning
aaa right or lefs har Thursday evening, when the
oi CTS Of staff were At dinner IN tho ftfectery
IN the L5ceuIu ut BaElenut, an orderly came IN
MI | important news. Two omcers Jumped up II
rue | the table md rode of notth, Ia the afection
tRc cler1nont. The news that had come was ir.t
aas important, namely, that MacManon, who
En's Quilted Chnlons, and taken up very Str
tne defensive position ut Rheims, was In free ma
ae1 | to relieve Dazatne, at Metz Our route for
cme next morning was, therefore, changed. and
Els star1ed on for Clermn1t en- AEgonne. TO th
{" ourselves between AacMahon and. .Stcinm
ou1 Alter TEDIOUS marching, had quarters, and wre
tae ed.y cold. vet weather, we reached the Wilt
tae of Gyant.Frs On Monday evening, Au9uz'
'atn On Thursslaymo,ntng sta1te'i carly from Ora
ana Pre-, the Kings headquarters, to sec
a1N battle expected line from
ope, village Of s,oune to s1enny, near1y mid
das passing through Beaumont MacManon Tas
shs licyed to be trying to push Oh to Metz accoE,
me 10 Ills plan of crushing Stenmetz, between
1isn self and Bazaine. But the Prussians were als
Foss Inst thirty-stx hours IN sdyance OF AacAl
Fna' | rsn1n The time he left Rheims ]
an". not gone far tuy road TO tho front before
thas n With the Grown Princes st11, his Roynl Il
atee | uess riding At the heaasof bis aide-de-camp
apet the plain uniform Of a Prussian General.
ear 60 orders hut tho pour IL Mkrite and the
e o. e.oss VIC rode slowly over the hills unit
met, r..chn. an e,n,n4nre aloye the valley OF the
,ass, ~ +,ts IN = a,, for ter11hly long time b,
me 1e:13 o'clock there WIS suddenly put OF =
''Ace smoke :tpm a hill about two mIles'in fro
tne us, and, before We had fairly time to
at our glasses on the hill. Fl
eaIn hat;eEy OF SIX guns opened On
', ~ Prussiaa columns advancing IN the 1uad b<
are c. ,rava.,naI hovarar raj rho nrA that It
W not saDnght advisable to send up Prnsstau
terry 70 reply, especially as We did not wish
aae the enemy Know what our force was, and VIII