Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-01-05
The Fighting Outside ParIs-HOrrible
Appearance Of the Battlefield.

The dreadful aspect Of the battle
field outside Paris, after the great sor-
tie, is thus described by a correspon-
dent Il the London Times:
"4hera is q park Just at the extreme
end OF the village Vi1liers, on the Paris
side. Before and all around it ragged
the battle on both days-the Both of
November andthe2d of December. The
cheteau is o~ficers1 quarters. How it
suffered There IS scarcely a Window
sash left in one side of it, and to ap-
proRch It there Is no necessity to make
use of the entrance gate. The wall is
smashed in adozen places from top to
| bottom. I enteredneaF the gate and
the first sight I saw was ten dead Sax
ons ina row. Their faces were covered,
and three of their comrades watched
over them. Passing through the
park In The direction of Paris,
III walked out through an embrars
sure inthe wall and came upon rising
mound Tt wns one OF the hottest
parts Of the battlefield and almost the
center of the scene effghting. Heavens,
what sightH To see the men advanc-
ing under fire of the forts, and falling
Af every step. to see sthe French and.
the Saxons amid that horrid din of ar
tillery shootingso zone another down with
Chassepot and needIe-gun; to hear the
hurrahs' followed by q yolley, and as
the smoke cleared away to find the lines
thinned and living men advancing '
the PROSTATE bodies of dead and dying
j was horrible, but nothing like so .hor-
Tribe as the sight of this battlefield,
with hundreds of dead lying there in
Che cold air, the sun shining on their
tRhastly features and stiff forms, while
the oannon ON Ayron and Nogent were
LAUNDERING with sounds which shook
the earth for miles around.
g 0ne ofEthe first great groups j
icame upon was composed of so French
4 soldiers. A few Saxonssand Wurtem-
bergers lay aronndfhem; but the Ger
mans had already r-emovedAnds laid in
their last sleeping place most of their
'Fdead. The centre of1the group was
formed of O close line Eof As. aYoul
could not have placed a body between
lany two. They fell shoulder TO shout
der, Just as they had stood to fire. BY
far the greater number eff them were
on their backs, with their feet TO Paris
and their head to, Vlhers, 6IAass il
was painfully evident that many of
them, and of others whom I saw subse-
kquently, had not died instantaneously,
'tbut had lived probably many hours
without a hand to lend them succor,
hand in piercing SNOW and frost, One
poor fellow lay ON his face. He had
two rifle wounds in his back
he had partly stripped himself,
and he died with a hand on
leach bnlletzhole. Several had taken
of their knnpsaeks and placed them un-
der their heads, and SO Rinowed had
breathed their last breath. Others
clenched their water bottles In one
: hand, but had been unable to remove
1.-THE cork, and died without being able
to wet their ips in their last agony
. Some, in their sufferings, had b1rrow-
ed their faces inthe thick clay on which
flthey1ay, and turned their bloody and
? feafth-sbained faces upward before they
1expired. Two I saw who had their
Farms fixed and their fists clenched, as
sit while dying, they were engaged In
, q pugiIistic encounter. Only very few
; wereEon their sides. These had their
knapsacks nnder their heads. There
, were men on whose faces beamed
!, the smile : of an infant, and
| whose tcountenance were like hand
some wax-work. The expression
, of others was that of terrible agony.
Every feature was contorted; their
l legs had been eonvulsively jerked up
/, until their knees stuck into their stona-
achs. and their finger and thumb nails
had zen squeeEed until they became
riveted into the palms of their hands.
BehindS before, and at the corners OF
this line of 46 dead menswere Others,
: Saxon and French One hadsa fright
fl wound in the face. Heshad pulled
, his hands up into his sleeves to warm
then, hut his cap had fallen of, and
1.-THE blood clotted on his hair till It was
I all in bloody mats. Near him was am
othee who had taken q biscuit HomShis
knapsack and the bottle from his side,
and had partaken of 3 httle-of both.
More than n of the slain had died
with the hands clasped in prayer; and
near one I found little plaster medal
of the edge had been shot off it. The
q Chassepots and needlesguns were still
in many q dead mans hand, and lying
between his arm and his body.
Il similar were the sights all over the
plateau between Vil1i6rs and Brie, and
Vi1iers and Chaapiey and among
1.-THE scorpses were knapsacks, helmets,
shakoes, bayonets, and many a letter
sealed and directed to relatives and
J friends in Germany and France. Near
a cemetery. situated on the battlefield
itself, saw between 200 and 800 dead
Trench soldiers collected closely to-
Fgether, they had been removed from
where they had fallen and collected IN
that spot for burial. AIwere regulars,
and q considerable portion of them
were men or at least % or so years of
age. There were dead nearer to Paris
than any spot I visited, though the
fortifications were much too close to be
at all agreeable, and Neutrality-suspicious.
and Fontenay-sous-Bois seemed to be
within a few minutes distance on my
rightsand Left j hope there were no.
wounded. No armistice for the re-.
mova1 of the dead and wounded had.
4 been agreed to; but both sides had
been removing them by night. So
late Is last night some Of the German
wounded were found among the dead
and are now IN hospital. What must
have been their sufferings in snow and
frost since the I'd inst, for they had
been lying out day and night since
then, if not since the Both"
LocKx OsrRoM, the aged lady who
died recently at Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
apparently in abject poverty, but really
with a large hoard of gold in herhouse,
once had q lover named James W. Gaz-
LEY, q lawyer of Cincinnati. He is de-
tscribed as having been very eccentric,
and the following Is told of him: tOn,
one occasion, being oxerruled in a mo-
ton which he had argued before the
| Court of Common Pleas, consisting of
three Judges at the time. Mr. Galley
arose and with great gravity informed
the learned judges that they put HMM
mind of Q Taratara team. One of the
judges, not exactly understanding him,
inquired what kind of q team that was.
NJ Go1Io4 aoid IL waa a team muCh in