Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-04-19

10Ts8u De- history s. ooty, anu must
be fulflled. There is no more impe-
rsons slope thsn this: to tell the truth;
wiIoeveF ventures upon ilrolls 90 the
bottom. aItn0sa be 50. The Judge j.
! doomed 70 justice. - ftnslS
The battle 81 Sedan il mere than a
battle which ID 1oaghts il IS syllogism
which Einislss itself dread pFelnedita-
lion Of destiny. Eaie never hurries,
bat always aftains It. goal. les hour
strikes and Il 40 there. ltlets years 20
| Nv. fheu when least th0agha Of, Il ap-
mnars1 Sedan IL The fatal anexpertrd.
nuEn Hltn9 20 tlane, i history divine
! laeie makes sosties. Sedan j. one sSf
these sortiennl -sfta i.d 1ee' fisfu
So. on ahes 1st Of September at I've
o'clock IN the morning. the world awoke
under the Sun. and the French Army
under the thuadefbolt. 7eHe
Bazeille, takes Gre, Givonne takes FIRE,
Floing takes Gre; the thing begins by a
Gnfnace.s Tie whole horizon Is ahame.
The French camp is in this crater, stu
pefied, scared. startled, in a funeral
swarm. A ring Of thunderbolts encir-
cIesthe army. determination hens in.
This immense murder 10 carried on
all sides at once. The French resist,
and they are terrible, for they have
nothing lef. them but despair. Our
guns, almost all old fashioned and
carrying badly, are Immediately dis
mounted by the terrible and precise
ann Of the Prussisns. The destiny Of
the rain of shells upon the valley is
such that ''the earth is ruled" says a
witness, i'as by rake" How many
guns : Eleven hundred at least. Twelve
German batteries on Moncelle only, the
third and fourth abtAeiiuay. frightful
artillery, on the crests of Givonne, with
the second Horse Battery rs a reverse;
opposite Doigny, ten Saxon and two
Wurtemburg batteries; the curtain Of
trees in the wood north Of Villers- Ger
nay concealS the mounted a6fhsiLHRg,
the Third Heavy Artillery as a reserve,
and from this gloomy thicket is poured
a formidable Gre; the 25 pieces Of heavy
artillery from battery IN the clearing
near the road from La Moncelle TO La
Chapelle; the battery Of the Royal
Guard sets FIRE to the wood De Ia Ca
renne; the bombs and bullets riddle
Suchy, Francheval, Fouru-Saint Remy,
and the valley between Heibes and
GIvonne; and the triple and quadruple
row OF guns extend without break TO
the cavalry Of lily, the most remote
point of the horizon.
The German soldiers, seated or re-
cumbent before the batteues, look upon
the artillery dong its work. The
French soldiers fall and die. Among
the corpses which cover the plain is
one, that Of an Officer, upon which they
will find, after the battle, q sealed pa
per containing this order, signed by Ma
poleon: "ThIs September I, rest for
the whole army" The valiant Thirty
fifth Regiment Of the Line disappears
almost entirely under the crushing mass
Of shells; the brave marines hold the
Saxons and Bavarians in check for an
instant, but, being overAowed on all
sides, fall back; the whole admirable
cavalry of Marguerite s division, hurled
against the German infantry, stops and
breaks down when half way on its road,
exterminated, says the Prussian report,
"by well directed and quiet FIRE." This
field Of carnage has three issues, all Of
which are closed the BoUill0n road, by
The Prussian Guard, the Csrignan road,
By the BaEarians, and the Mezieres
road, but the WurtembeFgers. The
French have not thought OF barricadIng
the viaduct of the railroad; three Ger
man battaliOns have occupied il all
night; two isolated houses on the Balon
road might have been the pivot ofa pro-
longedresistance, but The Germans hold
them; the MontvIllers Park, at Bazeil-
les, deep and full of thick foliage, might
have prevented the Saxons, who are
masters OF La Moncelle, and the Baya-
Eians, who are masters of BazeIlles,
from affecting junction, buttbe French
have been forestalIed. and the Bava:
rians are seen there, cutting away the
hedges with their sickles.
The German army moves all Of a
piece with absolute unity; the Prince of
Saxony Is on the bill Of Marry, whence
he commands the scene. In the French
army the command oscillates at the out
set Of the battle; al 5:45, MacMahon Is
wounded by the fragment of q shell;
at seven o'clock DucTot takes bis place;
at ten O'Clock WjmPfen takes Ducrot's.
From minute TO minute the wall Of
the Ere approaches. the thunder-roll is
continuous, sinister pulverizing Of
90, 900 men. Nothing ike il was ever
witnessed; never did any army sink un-
der such falling mass Of grape. At
one o'clock all IS lost. The regiments
take refuge, pell-mell. in Sedan. But
Sedan begins to burn; lie Dionval
burns, the ambulances barn; nothing
but dash through the lines j. possible.
Wimpfen. brave and frm, suggests il TO
the Emperor. The Third Zouaves,
maddened. have set the example; beng
parted IRON the remainder ol The army,
they have made their way through the
foe and reached Belgium. A fight Of
lions. aes
Suddenly, aboye the disaster, above
the enormous heap Of slain and dying
men, above all this hapless herolsm ap-
pears shame. The white nag is hoisted.
Thereswere there THTenne and. Yau-
ban-both present, one il bis statue,
the other in bis citadel. m e
The statue and the citadel assisted ai
the horrible capitulation. The two yiE-
gins, one OF hronze, the other ol granite,
felt themselves prostiGufed. O, august
0Eow Of cur ecuntEy o eternal blpeh
OF shamel