The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-27
IN FRANKIE ORT.

Dispatches from the Field Of WOerth-CaIm
Canvass Of Napole0n's Mistakes-French
Prisoners and How They AFRO Treated
Frontier Observation-Disclosures Teicgrams ca.
pards-Oa tho B0ursc.
FRANKFORT. August 10, 1870.
The battle Of woerth mas made end to our ap-
prehensI0ns about the war; we know now that
Chassepot and mitralllcuses cannot work miracles,
and VIC have full confidence in the pluck OF our
soldiers and In their Intelligence, to which the
French hordes, intermingled with Z0uaves and
Turcos, could never attain. We are here at loss
to understand why France declared war without
being prepared, thus allowing full time for collecting
our army which, once on the spot, Is In every way,
In drill, management and commissariat superior to
them II not taken by surprise VIC had very little to
risk. The passage Of troops and Of artillery OF every
cabre still goes on day and night, but the carriages
do not return empty as hitherto: they bring prison.
ers and wounded from the two armies. The first are
removed beyond the Elbc the latter are taken care
Of here and In the villages at the foot of the Tanus
mountains where they have the benefit of fresh and
invigorating air. Some thousand beds have been
provided for, but they are all full, though tho war
has only begun In earnest during the last week.
The same Is the case In the towns on the Rhine,
ana so far as SCISSOR. Other slightly wounded SOL
diers are sent home their families, il the distance
Is not too great and II they desire IT, About third
of the wounded French and it tells of the civil
llzation Of the 'great nation" that zouaves and
Turcos have wounded the surgeons who dressed
their wounds by stabbing them with knives they
had hidden, so that one Turco had to be shot, ana
oil have been now separated from the other French
prisoners While there are provided at every way
station with sausages, beer and cigars, Turcos and
Zouaves get now only bread and water they hav-
ing, as reported by German Officers, committed
every cruelty and abominatOn sayages could COM
init.
Here, as well in all other German towns, every
thing is done by voluntary contribution and by vol.
unteers. who assist the surgeons in their heavy
task. Young men from the best Families, to the
number OF about sixty, left yesterday under
the guidance Of an experienced surgeon for the
seat Of war; All this is done silently and regularly,
without any fuss, and even the victories OF
our armies are not exaggerated, the Prus.
sian bulletins reporting less than the
French avow. Everybody is assured that there will
yet be hard Ugh ting. that much blood will yet be
split, and that much misery must yet be endured.
that sacrifices OF all kinds are yet requred but 1t Is
the unanimous voice OF the people that French AFRO
| gance and brigandage must be put down in good
| account, and that the old German p'aces-Metz
| AMI Strasbourg from which we are now attacked,
must return to Germany, and their cannon turned
towards Paris 1t Is only then that the French will
! give up their pretenSons for supremacy and pres.
tlge prep0nuerdnce anu Couseut 10 IciuaIu OH
level with other people, which, bythebye, they have
| never attained.
II is now the duty OF our public press to impress
the people that If the French were allowed TO with.
| draw from the war by paying the expenses and by
| changing their government, they who were anxious
| TO take revenge for Sadowa which was not their
defeat would certainly seek revenge for their pre-
| sent inishaps as soon as they have revived their
forces. and that the only means TO prevent
| 1t Is to weaken their power by taking from
| them the strong military positions they took
! by fraud and violence under Louis XIV,
I when they devastated Paatinate, and laid
| Heidelberg, Worms and Lyons In ashes This was
| done to please Madame de Maintenon, the fanatic
mistress of the King, VINO wanted to eradicate
Professionalism. Should fortune have been favorable
! TO them the very same enormtles would have been
| committed again, a. IL proved by the wanton BON.
| bardment and destruction OF Saarbrnck. an open
and Industrious town, evacuated by the Russians,
so as not 10 expose her 70 the enerny's shells.
FALSE BULLETINS.
With regard TO the bulletins published by the cne-
NV every word IS a lie. Thus they speak OF twenty
| thousand men expelled from Saarbruck, while II L
evident TO every one who knows the locality tina,
not half the number could be quartered there. and
that in fact there were never more than six hundred
infantry Of che FOrteth regiment and two hundred
uhlans. These withdrew when attacked by three
French divisions. The same Is the case with regard
| To the Wlssembourg affair, where twelve TO fifteen
thousand Germans were engaged against eight Il
ten thousand french -certatau aot one hundred