The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-23

was the first time that they had ever fought.
Men Of their branch OF the army had never
but they recollected what their fathers had
done, and from the first blow they renewed
Honain. In spite Of the batteries, in spite OF
the mtrailcuses Notwithstanding the confusion oc-
casioned by the men and horsesslling around them,
the cuirassiers reached the front Of the Prussan
regiments, broke them, crushed them, charged on
and on, TIL the audnt gdrdc, shaken through its
entire thickness went backward. But other and
more numerous battaons brought the assistance OF
their weight to the Prussans who could no longer
advance, and what remained OF ouv cnirassiers dis
appeared in a whirlwlnd Of enemies. The 1st
Corps had had its route opened during an hour;
treat. The Marshal had at hand a regiment OF
chasseurs. TheI safety Of an army at stake; he
made sign; the regiment started of; and the pro-
oigies Of valor achieved by the curassers were
newed by the chasseurs. In their turn they
made a frightful onslaught and the French
forces, was saved. The chasseurs were all
killed. In the thiokest dart of the battle the
ordering him to send two divisions to Lam
bach to attack the Prussian army in the rear The
direction and General de Fays divisions f9 OF
ardor of course found no one on arriving at the lat
ter place."
The Battle was an Accident.
The correspondent of the London Times
writes as follows:-
SoULTz LES FORETs, Aug. I-Everything confirms
the impression that the great battle of Woerth was
an accident and the belief gains ground that Mac
Mahon, ike Douay, had no idea Of the force to
which he was opposed when he attacked it, At the
Prussian headquarters 1t surprise and the
outpost firing, which extended along the ridge over
the Woerth rivulet "a few yards broad aud q yard
deep) was not considered serious till the French
displayed a great line of artillery on the ridges and
opened furious Cannonade. Had the corps on the
Prussian left kept more in 'front.' and had the Bava-
rapidly and come on the French left their escape
would have been almost impossible AS it was,w when
the heavy cavalrywere repused in their charge round
through the battaliols In the rear, masses of men
threw down their arms. Their fighting at
Nechwiller was grand. The Prusslan gene
rails say they never witnessed any
thing h more brilliant. But the Prussians
were not to be denied. With tenaclty as great, and
fiery resolution, they pressed the rivulet
up heights where the vineyards dripped with blood
and, checked again and again, still pressed with
withstand in that desperate fight OF six long hours
during which the battle ragged In full vengeance. 1t
lasted indeed for thirteen hours and at time the
French gained ground and got down on to the ridge
on the left; but the main stress of the day was on
narrow front of e0me two and half miles along the
stream at each side of WOerth, and the final stand
was made by Reichshofen and Nechwier from
which the French retreaed by several roads through
a very dihicult country, by Niederbronn, etc. on
Bitche The victory OF GOeben at Saarbrucken opens
the road to Metz; but Btche, with strong citadel,
ought to complete his communication, viz, that of
Prince FL ederick Charles. The German losses are
cerlaiDly exceedingly heavy. In the 7th Regiment,
out of 81 officers, IS are killed or wounded! So it is
said. company OF a regiment, perhaps the same,
lost 200 men, But the French were utterly routed,
and the story Of two divisions vanishes with the
numbers on the caps of the prisoners.