The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
The Fiyhting Outside Paris-HOrrible
Appearance of the Battlefield.

tie, is thus described by a correspon-
dent Of the London Times:
There is a park just at the extreme
end of the village Villiers, IN the Paris
side. Before and all around it ragged
the battle on both days-the 30th of
November and the I'd of December. The
chateau is officers quarters. How it
suffered There is scarcely a window
sash left in one side of it, and to ap-
proach it there is no necessity to make
use Of the entrance gate. The wall is
smashed in a dozen places from top to
bottom. 1 entered near the gate and
the first sight 1 saw was ten dead Sax
ons in a row.. Their faces were covered,
and three of their comrades watched
over them Passing through the
park in the direction of Paris,
1 walked out through an embra-
sure inthe wall and came upon rising
ground. 1t was one of the hottest
parts of the battlefield, and almost the
center of the scene offghting. Heavens,
what a sight To see the men advanc-
ing under fire of the forts, and falling
at every step; to see the French and
the Saxons amid that horrid din of az
tillery shooting one another down with
Chassepot and needle-gun; to hear the
'hurrahs' followed by a volley, and as
the smoke cleared away to find the lines
thinned and living men advancing over
the PROSTATE bodies of dead and dying
was horrible, but nothing like so hor-
rible as the sight of this battlefield,
with hundreds of dead lying there in
the cold air, the sun shining on their
CHASTITY features and stiff forms, while
the cannon on Ayron and Nogent were
laundering with sounds which shook
the earth for miles around.
Gone of the first great groups 1
came upon was composed of 60 French
soldiers. A few Saxons and Wurtem-
bergers lay around them; but the Ger
mans had already removed and laid in
their last sleeping place most of their
dead. The centre of the group was
formed of a close line of 46. You
could not have placed a body between
any two. They fell shoulder to shout
der, Just as they had stood to fire. By
far the greater number of them were
on their backs, with their feet to Paris
and their head to Villiers. Alas, it
was painfully evident that many of
them, and of others whom 1 saw subse-
~quently, had not died instantaneously,
but had lived probably many hours
without a hand to lend them succor,
andsin 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
each bullet-hole. Several had taken
off their knapsacks and placed them un-
der their heads, and SO pillowed had
breathed their last breath. Others
clenched their water bottles in one
hand, but had been unable to remove
the cork, and died without being able
TO wet their lips in their last agony
Some, in their sufferings, had bRrrow-
ed their faces in the thick clay on which
they lay, and turned their bloody and
earth-staiDed faces upward before they
expired. Two I.saw who had theil
arms fixed and their fists clenched, as
if, while dying, they were engaged il
a pugilistic encounter. Only very few
were Oh their sides. These had theil
knapsacks under their heads. There
were men on whose faces beamed
the smile of an infant, and
whose c-ountenance were like hand.
some wax-work. The expression
of others was that of terrible agony
Every feature was contorted; theil
legs hadLbeen -oonvulsively ierkod VI
until their knees stuck into their stom.
aehs, and their finger and thumb nail:
had been squeezed until they became
riveted into the palms Of their hands
Behind, before, and at the O.
this line of 46 dead men were others
Saxon and French. One had a fright
full wound in the face. He had pulled
his hands up into his sleeves to warn
them, but his cap had fallen off, anC
the blood clotted on his hair till it wa.
all In bloody mats. Near him was an
other who had taken a biscuit from hi
knapsaek and the bottle from his side
and had partaken of a little of both
More than one of the slain had dice
with the hands clasped in prayer; anC
near n 1 found a little plaster medal
lion of the Blessed Virgin. A portion
of the edge had been shot off it. Tn,
~Chassepots and reedle-guns were still
in many a dead mans hand, and lying
between his arm and his body.
"Simllar were the sights all over the
plateau between Villiers and Brie, an6
Villiers and Champigny; and among
the corpses were knapsacks, helmets,
shakoes, bayonets, and many a letter
sealed and directed to relatives and
friends in Germany and France. Neal
a cemetery. situated on the battlefield
itself, l saw between 200 and 300 dead
French soldiers collected closely to.
gether; they had been removed from
where they had fallen and collected in
that spot for burial. All regulars,
and a considerable portion of them
were men OF at least 25 or 80 years OF
age. There were dead nearer to Paris
than any spot L visited, though the
Notifications were much too close to be
at all agreeable, and Neutrality-suspicious.
and Fontenay-sous-Bois seemed to be
within a few minutes distance IN nv
right and left. Ihope there were no
wounded. No armistice for the re-
moval of the dead and wounded had
been agreed to but both sides had
been removing them by night. So
late as 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 I"
LocKY OsrRoM, the aged lady who
died recently at Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
apparently in abject poverty, but really
with a large hoard of gold in her house,
once had a lover named James W. Gaz-
ley, a lawyer of Cincinnati. He is de-
scrlbed as having been very eccentric,
and the following is told of him: "On
n occasion, being overruled in a mo-
ton which he had argued before the
Court of Common Pleas, consisting of
three judges at the time. Mr.. Galley
o and with great gravity informed
the learned judges that they put HMM
mind of a Taratara team. One of the
judges, not exactly understanding him,
inquired what kind of a team that was.
Galley said it was a team much in
use in South America and was COM
posed of two mules and a jackass. He
was imprisoned for contempt of court,
as the people of the district thought,
without justice, for in the excitement
on his incarceration they
nominated him for Congress, and he
was triumphantly elected from the first
district of Ohio, beating Gen. VIM. H.
Harrison, who was afterward elected
President of the Unitad States