Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-09-29
The Ravaxes Of the war.

A correspondent OF the London TIN s., writing
from Bouillon, Sept. 18th, says Your CORE
describing the battle Of Sedan, said that never
before in the worlds history bad there been
seen such q butchery as went on during that
great tight. believe it may also be affirmed
that never did a contest n arms result in such
terrific consequences to the sur, wing )mblt-
ants and ID he p6 )ple who's couui1y has been
made the scene of bo 1iilities. For miles around
Sedan one sees nothing but destruction and
ruin; and from morr'ng till far into the night
proce. 'iors OF the maimcd and woundc s-e
ppssing from he French Iiontier into tie neu-
ual territory OF Belgium. sedan f7elf is one
lon, q distance OF about ten English miles, there
is scarcely a church or house from which the
white fla With the red crocs Is not DOW waving
70 make kI own that there are wounded inside.
TIE FINAL STRUGGLE.
But it was at Bazei'les the greatest havoc
marked the final struggle between the PIus-
slams and McMa hons army. The Prusslaps set
fire ID it. A baudSomer or more prop erous
village there was rot in the nor rtheast Of France
1t was smell, but it cont lined an industrious
nifcent church and from twenty , thirty
houses of cor siderable pretensiors for village
resdences-housss OF Caen st)ne, aud having
elaborate bronze gates ard doors. Bazeilles is
now as complete q ruin as Pompeii. Indeed,
there are houses at Pompeii in better state OF
preservation than any at Bazeiles. Not roof
or floor remains in any one OF them. The
PruSian shells did their work SO we'll that even
the front walls OF Caen stone have been blown
and burnt to fragments, which now block
up the pavements ard all but cover the
roadway. Even in the lanes OFF the main
street every babitation was utterly destroyed.
No human being could now find shelter in
BazeilleS. When troop Of Prussian lancers
Iode through it yesterday DO sound was heard
there but the tramping Of their own horses, and
there was not living soul, man, woman or
child, of the happy population who d~elt there
little more than q week ago. The Prus 9iaps say
they destroyed Bazeilles because the inhabitants
denied by the French, who say that the shots
which came from the houses were tired by
the regular soldiers and the Garde Mobile.
Be this as 1t may, destruction YVES never more
and also from La Chapelle to Balm. the
country is a complete waste. Crop, and Or
chards have disappeared, and the farmhOuscs
are riddled by bullets. Rifles and cannon both
Sedan, distance of about An English mile.
Dead horses abound all along the route; Chase
pots lie about in hundreds, there are shakoeS,
helmets, and cuirasses In heaps, and Apsp7scks
certouche- bexes enough for a whole regiment.
In the vicinity Of such spoil observed )res
Of men wearing the white badge and cro-s,
and wounded, but seeking Tor anything worth
finding. Some OF them wore soldiers kp apsacks.
Numbers of these men and Of other badge bear
ers whom ! hate to meet about the battle field
are evidently mere tourists; while not few of
them are downright rascals. have BE- IN told
that they have roobed the dead. Some of them
aie vill''nous.looktng enough for ANYTHING.
REGISTRATION IN MARYLAND.-The number
Of registered colored voters i'm the several elec-
ton districts of Frederick county is LII. The
first congressional district is composed OF the
nine Eastern Shore counties. The number OF
colOred voters registered is about as follows
Cecil, 922; Kent, 1851; Queen Anne's, ,-Ji;
Talbot, (estimated,) 1,100; Caroline, (esti-
mated,) COO; Somertet Il Nestimated,) loo; Dor
chester, ,49S; WicomicO, ESTIMATED. 900; Wor-
cester, (estimated,) 90o-total, 1910. This
of colored men registered. At the last congres-
siOnal election Hamilton, democrat, received
IL ,290, and Torbert, republican, 1921 votes. 1t
should be added, however, that several hun
dred white voters were registered in the district
last week, and that in Queen Anne's county the
res sfered whites Of this and last year exceed
those OF the cOlored over 500 votes. The total
number Of voters recently registered in Carroll
county, as far as heard from, is as follows
Whites 293, cOlOred 4ci-total S07.-Bdh. .Sua.
The RACES At THE MARYIAxn EA1r