New-York tribune., 1870-11-03
GERMAN GOSSIP.

The band of the Posen regiment No. 50,
went into the fight at Sedan and captured five men and
four horses
The son of Count Palikao was among the
prisoners taken at Sedan lie only seventeen dec
oratiOns.
The Knights of st. John, "a sort of private
sanitary assocatOn arc called Johannes The Princes
OF ThuTn and TaXis have recently joined them.
The 18th Regiment of Prussian infantry has
been armed with the Chasscp0t rife This Is an expert
ment. Bat there will be no time for preliminary Pr3e
tce their targets will be the enemy In the field
King William, on the battlefield of Sedan,
promoted the wounded Of Count Bismarck, tho
one to be an ensign and the other lieutenant The
French would probably have made them generals on the
spot.
Wesbaden is at present more crowded than
1t ever has during the most successful watering place
season. by of the large number of French prison
OF official rank who have chosen as place Oh resi-
dence while on parole.
In the I'd Regiment of Landwehr marched
the fathers of 1908 childreni This regiment disn
guished itself Mt the siege OF srasbourg 1t must he
borno in mind that Prussan regiment numbers over
5000 men. -
Tho new Bayarian revolving cannon are said
to be superior to the much vaunted mitraeuses. They
can be charged with 800 bullets at time, all Of which
can be fred of in single minute Tho German soldiers
call these guns hand organs"
Asnieres, formerly thriving village, situated
on tne ABOUT illu"dS DCtMccH oliS
tic Watering place OF Enghcim and which at the begin
ming Of the war had population OF six thousand is now
reduced to fourteen inhabitants.
A Frsncn sympathiZer at Hanover on hear
ing Of the German victory at Sedan exclaimed, "rhe
They lie !" ayes, indeedP said German patriot,
"and these wreched Prussans will lie themselves clear
into ParsW
Two siege guns of the heaviest caliber were
recently forwarded the army before Paris from Krupps
foundery at Essen, in Prussia The largest of the two
bore the following inscription:
WI
-hy.eli and my brother
Dol alone
Without any botberp
The health of the greater part of the French
officers held prisoners in the various German cities
Is found to be sensiby affected by the intense cold of
K0nigsherg and other northern towns They have been
allowed to choose residences in the mder climate OF
saxony, Brandcnburg, POmerania, and Sesia They
not however, allowed 10 60 10 Bcrl The most OF them
prefer Breslau and Dusseldorf
The chair in which Napoleon sat while ar
ranging Tor rather asserting toy the terms Of his captu
lation with King William at Sedan is likely to become
historical relic He had risen from it than
quarters, laid hands upon It, at the time giving the
servant who had charge OF the 20ranc piece. 1t
may yet sell for ts weight in gold, it is probably the
most Interesting Sedan chair in existence
The following, III the Cologne Gazette, is
vouched for Trustworthy statement Of the German
losses BY death and wounds GO0 by sickness, 2OOOOo
$4,000: by capture 900 to 1000 The loss in officers
reported to De three times great that In privaes
The French lists OF losses have not as yet been pub
lshed Bazaine's and MacMahOns losses are not known
at all