The New York herald., 1870-08-31
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

The European journals OF the 10th OF August sup
ply the following interesting general items Of war
news:-
Among the dead at specheren were found two
angels. sisters Of Mercy. ll
Asa proof OF the severity Of the battle a. Wissem
bourg a French Journal states that one Of their
Sta ndards changed hands twenty ty-seven times.
number Of young men are reported TO nave left
Cork and also Dublin. Some stats that as many az
1000 have left to join the foreign legion In the
service OF France
The King OF Prussia has conferred on his son, the
Crown Prince, the Order OF the Iron Cross or the
second GLASS; as reward for the victory OF Wissem
report prevailed in Belfast that some French
agents had visited the town lately for the purpose
oi enlistlng Irish recruits for the French army.
Letters from Paris from persons about the En-
press describe her Majesty as painfully changed and
worn. She has scarcely slept for two hours al
time and IS unremitting in her attention 10 public
affairs. Her attendants have the strictest orders TO
wake her on the receipt OF every telegram.
that the Prussan infantry seek particularly to pick
Dfrt the enemy's officers, Tor whom four practised
marksmen TO the right Of each Prussan platoon are
specially instructed TO reserve their fire.
meeting Of all the families 0f the BOnapartes has
been invited by their present CHIEF in the French
Sero%e Of Maae to hsye
had his card. Cardinal B0naparte deaf to the
CALI and refused To quit Rome under any circu,n-
stances.
The Able Loyson, Professor OF Sacred Eioquence
in the theological Faculty OF Paris has written to
the Mayor Of the Fifth ACCOMPLISHMENT OF Paris say
ing-That II is forbidden to hts profession to taKe
up arms except in the last resort, but that he Will
most willingly work with the spade at the fortinca-
lions OF Paris and VIII be ready to begin wolK after
mass on Sunday"
M. Carnot, the republican Minister OF Isis has
written the following letter to the Mayor of the Eighth
reimbursement OF Paris -" Place my name on the
roll Of the National Guard as also that OF my son,
VINO is mining engineer. am close upon seven
w. and cannot render great service but good ex-
morrow"
Wissemboury, the scene OF the Crown Princess
n ms nv mi lffnru
struggles between the Gaul and Teut0n The lines
along tne chain Of heights, erected In 1905 by order
miles IN q continued series Of trenches walls and
Tedonbts. II Is remarkable that its loss by General
Beaunarnals, the maternal grandfather OF Napoeon
ILL.,, IN 1898, was expiated by that unucky servant
OF the republic on the guill0fine
- me parls ., Fgaro gives the following episode OF
carrying 10 me ambulance. on q SHUTTER one OF
their comrades, an old, wtlte-haired man, mortaly
wounded in the chest. 1t was doubtless marabOut
for feeling hts end approaching ne stopped the two
Turcos, who knelt down while he gave them his
feet with sobs and grOans aud then proceeded d
with their burden In the midst OF hail Of balls and
The story goes that the much lamented and ca,.
liant Genera. COlson chief OF MacMahon's stafY who
wa: Killed at woerth, fell BY his own hand. 1t is
said that the Marshal had desired him to explore a
wood In which he thought the enemy might lurk "a
and that COlsOn, having reasons OF his own for
thinking the wood uuoccupied, neglected to do So
In the engagement heavy dre was poured upon
the French from that very spot, and MacManon re-
prOachfully called the Generals attention to the
tact 1t related that Colson shot himself with his
pistol. q
when General Palika0 mounted the tribune to
read the list OF new Minister'S the Left heard him I'm
perfectly, and some one cried out, "Speak higher.n
Here the Connt made reply not every day made In
legislative assembly. .Gentemeu," said the Gen.
eral, ~ beg your pardon for not speaking higher,
but have for that q good reason received,
twenty-five years ago, ball In my breast IL Is there
SILL" The General Recommended reading the list
without further Interruption.
The French even OH their own Specheren heights,
we're as II IN foreign land, aud The ground where
Lhey lay was strewed with letters addressed TO such
one, camp or Chalons, or such another at Metz,
TO De forwarded q Ia suite de son regiment"
Several OF these letters were natural and touching
some nOtlned the enclosure OF money. "Your
ireDd, Louis Barbar." says letter from the mother
Of private soldier 10 her son, ''has proposed for
Modesto. Let US know as soon as possible whether
you accept him for your brother. r.in-law" certain
number Of French soldiers, whose knapsacks
had been emptled, seemed TO have carried rengious
books with them, generally OF the simplest Kind
from "DAlphabet Chretien" upwards. An Atlas
du Theatre de 10 uerre" lay by the side of one poor