The New York herald., 1870-10-07

preaching speaking or acting against existing au.
thorIties Will be punished by military law.
A large police force has been sent to Alsace AMI
German Lorraine, where regular government IL
now established
THE LAST sIGHs OF NAUGHTY NATION.
The GaMsots gives the following extract from
letter written by the person charged by MacMah0n
to carry dispatches TO Marshal Bazaine:-
On the evening OF the battle OF Sedan at halfpast
FOUR the Prince OF Sax0ny, who was al La Chapele,
nitle village near the Belgian frontier. said 10
men those last cannon Shots WELL they are the last
signs oi liat naughty France, tbat nation once SO
Was only the last sph NS o hs sp AND yoa
@ would have no doubt on the subject were you to
l. hear the cry which Tor week past has resounded
from one end or France to the other the same that
was pronounced by our fathers in 1892. and which
made Europe recoil-name!y,. 0The country Is in
Sedan the whole night and gave the word. EVERY
one to Paris" There were at Sedan about $1,000
escaped. The Prussians Killed about 900 OF them.
but the rest got of. Several officers succeeded in
gaining Belgium IN plain clothes, and train which
brought me 10 Paris held about sixty who had got
away without ANYTHING. The Prussians nave not
taken single French nag. All ours were con-
cealed or burned. myself saved three from Sedan.
PRussiAN ACCOUNT OF THE DEGENERAcY OF THE
FRENCH SOLDIERS
Herr Wachenhnsen, in an article In the cologne
Gazette, thus gives his opinion the French SOL
ders. the result, he states, OF mis- observations In
the Crmea and Italy, as well as in the present
war;
I It may sound rash, but | assert that the French
soldier, such as he il, win gain no victory over
troops like the Germans either to-day or tomorrow
still less, Tor the degeneracy VIII but Increase. few
wears YEA na; neaGe ona ne re q france G - payea out It
yearly, through the artifc1ality OF It's manner OF
e It's dlsspations and us obstinate destruction OF
human life, Is depopulated, and whose people are
physically declining; that country alter this fearful
and bloody lesson. WIN have to give up any serious
thought OF conquest In Germany The French soldier
through his mode OF life has lost all military virtues
his discipline Is relaxed and his ambition stunned.
am assured that when the French soldiers marched
through Rheims they tired OF the weight OF their guns,
threw them away and sc0rnfully laughed In their
oiiicers' iaces. Everywhere have found proofs OF
the vandalism which the French soldiers have ex-
hibited IN all the villages and towns OF their own
country. nave met civilians who openly confessed
tnan nye Frenchmen as defenders. As to the want
OF vigilance OF the French army, we saw instance
OF Il at Beaumont where, at bright midday. our
cooking which had not appointed any sentinels In
the evening the meat, potatoes and rice In their
showed me the way over the battle Held. They
abandoned everything In the Widest night and we
other. The Arab, even, shames the French in this,
for he always. even on his caravan, ap-
points point - sentlnes at plght We see. however
| even from their conquered enemies As il
the French soldier In the camp so he Is on the march.
| He cannot march, indeed he consequently accom-
plishes only short distance in a DAY. Marches OF
twenty or twenty-five miles three or four days in
succession. as our troops In this campaign have
| often been obliged to make. would speck the roads
with the entire French army. The French soldier
/ Is therefore, so much the more se1shy eXacting.
All the quarters which the hostile army have occu-
pied ey1nce this. he bears privatIOns unwillngly,
murmurs II they are LAID upon him and takes by
force from his own countrymen what he needs The
| patience and endurance which our soldiers have
shown when IL was necessary TO dispense with
bread, and even Win water, would be tnconceivabe
To the French soldier IL Is true. and cannot sum-
! ciently emphasize the fact, that the French have
i fought bravely; and who would not with such u
! weapon as the ChassepOt2 But remember what
said OF the little prelude at Saarbruck; only when
| they are IN masses DO they give smart fire. They
also hold out IN strong positions. But are these
military virtuess Where artillery actively played
they always took to hight: their officers never
had authority over them What we suffered from
them-and God knows It Is much-was owing to
their fearful weapon when was death itself for
troops, and poured In as thick as hail. so tnat only
lucky accident averted death or wounds With
such weapon IN their hands our Prussians would
not have lost any OF the line positions which the
| themselves readily and voluntarily admlt.-"We
French no longer soldiers, ut least against such
| enemies as the Germans. Peace should, therefore
be given us. France is big enough. God only grant
that II does not become smaller ~ To sum up, Ma
poleoD, the great strategst, undertook war with
an army OF at most 100000 to $780, 900 men, including
the Gardc Mobile, which was first called up on the
simo, the great theOris showed that he understood
nothing at all of the Art OF war. HIS generals quar-
| relied like street urehins; one OF them showed HIM
| self still more incompetent than another. not
them had talent or made an opportunity anywhere
| to distinguish himself