Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-09-06
War Notes.

tories of Saarbruck and Woerth con-
cludes thus:
"The French will concentrate their
armies toward their rear, and the de-
cisive battle will therefore have to be
fought in the interior of France. But
the inhumanity and incendiarism Of
their warfare, in setting fire to town
like Saarhruck, before relinquishing
it, cries to Heaven still more than
the aim of their warlike expedition,
which was nothing but the forcible
spoilation of our peaceable fatherland;
and Heaven will punish them by the
arm Of our warriors infamed to in
creased indignation and wrath by
this act of violence"
TIE correspondent of the London
Daily News, with McMahon's corps,
says:
"The disorder here in everything
is so great that it influences ones
mind. | cannot collect or class my
ideas. English papers speak Of the
mismanagement in England, but if
they saw the state Of things here they
would think English management per-
feet. 1t appears now that they are
calling every one to arms. There
are no arms to give them, and it is
actually thought Of issuing old flint
lock muskets to some Of the Garde
Mobile There are only fifteen Chas-
sepots per company at the camp, and
the others are told to look on while
the fifteen are drilled in that arm
1t is now apparent that the Empire
is being rolled up like scroll. AS
for France, she is now an old nation,
and must be satisfied to be classed
among the senile. Prussia is young,
and Of course will advance. 1t is
hard for a Frenchman to acknowledge
this, but it is impossible to blind
oneself to what one sees. As a French
writer of high position was saying
this morning at breakfast, Nobody in
France for the last twenty years has
studied or thought. The French
have done everything in superficial
and trivial manner, and have lived for
pleasure. The Prussians, on the con-
trary. are now first in all the sciences,
and they have just proved that they
are first in war. "
The Pail Mall Gazette has made
the following careful estimate of the
strength of tie armies Of France and
Germany, as they stood a. the end Of
July:
"France has 376 battalionS of in
f4ntry (3o battalions of guards, 20
chasseurs, 800 line, 8 Zouaves, 9 Tur-
cos, &C., of 5 companies each, in time
OF peace. The army Of the Rhine,
according to all we hear, comprises,
in the six army corps No l to 6 and
the Guards, 299 battalions. Includ
ing the seventh corps (Gen Montau
BAN which is supposed to be intend
ed for the Baltic, the figure is giyer
: as high as $40 battalions, which would
leave but SO battahon8 to guard AL
giers, the colonies and the interior O
France. From this it appears that
France has sent every available bat
2 TALON against Germany, and canno
increase her force by new formations
, fit for the field before the beginning
e Of September at the very earliest.
: Now for the other side: Probably
+; North Germany has in the field 80
? battalions of the line. and in garrison
:: 1913 battalions Of the landwehr; I,
). be reinforced, certainly not later thar
: the second half Of August, by IL
i fourth battalions Of the line, and g.
: third battalions of the landwehr. /
y all these troops there will scarcel
0 be man who has not passed throug
= his regular time of service in the al
), my. To these we must add th
4 troops Of HeSse Darmstadt, BadeI
: Wurtemburg and Bavaria, 104 ba
" talions of the line in all; but as tn
n landwehr system in these States ha
lie not vet had time to fully develop i
self, there may be not more than SCI
q entv or eighty battaliOnS available &c
! the field.
d The landwehr are principally il
Of tended for garrison duty, but in tt
~ war Of 1866 large portion marche
Is out as a reserve army for the fell
r; This will no doubt be done again.
OF OF the thirteen North German a
Il my corps, ten are now on the Rhin
of forming a total of $50 battalion!
70 then the South Germans, say 10 ba
le taions; grand total, $50 battalion
66r There remain available on the Goa
is or as a reserve three army corps {
ne S4 battalions. One corps, togeth
II with the landwehr, will be ample f
le the defence Of the coast The tV
of remaining corps may be, for aught v
know, on the road to the Rhine to
These troops can be reinforced
. the 10th Of August by at least L
y fourth battaIion8 and 40 to so Ian
Il wehr battalions, men superior to t
nc fourth battalion8 and gardeS mobil
Ie of the French, which mostly are col
- posed of almost undrilled men. I
d fact is, France has not more TIL
d. about $4,000 drilled men at her d
he posal, while North Germany alol
has $4,000. And this is an adva
tage for Germany which will t.
y more and more the longer decisi
re fighting is delayed, until it will rea
Is its eliminating point toward the e.
IL T, Of September"
~ ~ An English military paper, viii
~ ~ takes the Napoleonic side in the pr,
,n ent war, gives as one Of its reaso
&C. for doing so, the fact that "Napole
~ =" the Third has been the faithful ally
90 England, and nobly spraug to EI
r. &c lands side when her own flesh a
80 blood were, during the American WI
:? ready to turn and rend her."
nd A correspondent with the Fren
ue army (Bazaine's) says:
lit, II have been spending all the ev'
tx ing with a gentleman who left Pa
yesterday evening. He is man
some standing, being municil