The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-10-12
The Losses at GrayelOtte-Morai
Effect of Dead FrenChmen.

Murat Halstead in his last letter
GAYS. "Half century after the battle
ofWaterloo there is sharp contro-
varsv as to many of the incidents OF
fine combat, and Victor Hugo raised
q storm of discussion by the introduce
t;on of his Waterlo chapter in Les
Miserables. 1t is not to be thought
emazinr. therefore, if there are dispu-
ted noints about the battle of Grave
lotte. One of the things talked about
Is n cavalry charge ordered by Stem
metz He is said to have directed a
regiment or regiments of laneers to
cboroe up the Paris road where it pas
Sos the head of the dismal hollow or
abrunt ravine behind GraTelotte that
have been trying to tell about. Inc
story ooes that there were three
thousand of them put in, and that but
eleven hundred came out. This sounds
like large proportion OF charging
norty to be destroyed, but there wouid
he no occasion for surprise II 1t should
tnrn ont that the facts were as repre-
sented. =.
lHThe Prussians have been smart-as
in nearly all things in this war tine
especial exception is in railroad man
oGement)-in the matter of removing
their dead. As a rule, they clear the
ground of their own dead and wound
ed with surprising celebrity, and ar
not so energetic in the disposition
tba French who are slaughtered am
thrown upon their hands. 1t woul
not have AN exhilarating effect upo
prussian troops to march Ill tn
thoughtful mood that comes after tn
oycitemcnt of battle among their mu
tiIoted comrades; and it imparts t
them lofty ideas of their own sanguina
WV nower To have strewn along the.
Moth Immense numbers ofdead French
mon The fact that the day after til
battIa T was for some time on the sp'
where the bloody cavalry charge
said to have been made, and that the
were no dead or wounded PRUSSIA
there. does not prove that the stat
ment of the destructive charge Is
nccnrate What I saw would rath
corrohorate the story. The road W
in that place bloody, though there HI
been q rain that would have remoV
n licht stain. The beautiful roadsl
trees were skinned and splintered a
battered in an extraordinary way.
That the lead and iron hail OF
battle storm had been poured TN
with the utmost fury was plain. LII
there were a number of broken lane
some of them snapped by shot, ana
the gutter were pennons ana hellh'
It is related that the cavalry, tern
cut ND in this charge, had to retr'
and it is a question whether they
ANYTHING for the country other I
ret killed in her name, and pursu
TO the exacting orders of the Vete
Steinmetz, of whom Gen. Sherman
have a higher opinion when he lei
that he fiercely refuses to have cor
pondents or other civilians, or vlsi
of any description, about his nj
quarters. He says Bismarck can
as he pleases around tho Kings III
quarters, but he will have no he
paper historians in his camp.
THE EMPREss,-The Empress
these days of trial, is said to be a n
ell of resignation. One of the gel
men of her household recounted to
miring listeners in an American S.
a few evenings since, that her Ma
was really noble Ornament digne) II
face of the approaching dynastic
"a fact Sublime in abnegatio