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VOLUME X.-NUMBER 1465. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I, 1870. S?X DOLLARS A YKAH. MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES. A HOLOCAUST OF WAR. TWO HUNDRED WOMEN BURNED TO D? ITH IN STRASBOURG. PARIS STILL HOLDS OUT. ATTACKS OP TUE PRESS UPON THE NEW GOVERNMENT. THE FIGHT TO BE MADE AT THE FORTI? FICATIONS. Reports from Tours. X TOURS, September 23. Effective measures have been taken for the p otectlon ol Orleans and Tours. There 1B no news Irom Paris. The Prussians are withdrawing their iorces from other points and concentrating them around Paris. Their cavalry is incessantly in motion, patrolling the country for miles around the capital. The object is to prevent communications between the besieged and their friends outside. Paris will surely hold out and proceed with the elections. A corps of Spanish guerillas is forming at Toulouse to assist in the defence of France. Minister Gambetta has sent a new prefect to the department of Haut Shin. M. Valentine, recently appointed the prefect of the depart? ment of Bas Rhin, has succeeded In entering Strasbourg. The Prussians have entered Fontainebleau, and made a requisition for 150.000 francs. Prussian detachments are moving on Orleans und Rambouillet. The Strasbourg Horror. LONDON, September 23. Telegrams posted in the news-rooms state that the Strasbourg Cathedral, In which were two hundred refugees, mostly women, has been burned by shells. The inhabitants ot Sevres sent a deputation to ask for the protection of the Prussians. There wa3 a panic at Beauvais when the . Prussians drew nigh. ? The Latest from Paris. NEW YORK, September 23. A Paris special to the New York Tribune says : ''The attacks ot the press upon the gov? ernment grow more bitter than ever now that we are shut up. The forces sent to the iront having failed to check the enemy, General Trocha falls back upon his orignal idea of de lending Paris by itself." GOLD A.ND ROND MARKET. LONDON, September 23-Evening. Consols 92? Bonds 90*. NEW YORK, September 23-Evening. Gold declined in sympathy with the weak? ness in exchange. A leading dealer offered half a million at 13; Belier, sixty dayB, flat Only $250,000 was taken. Sevens 12J; fours 11$; Aves llj; new 10}; sevens same: eights 10?; lonies 6i ENGLAND AND THE COTTON SUPPL Y LONDON, September 23. Daring the session of the British Scientific v Association, Major Saunders presented - paper on physical geography, American emigration, and the increased production of cotton. The paper ls highly thought ot, especially its re? commendations to establish branch cotton supply associations in the Southern States. The newspapers strongly approve ot the scheme. jp -? R '.TAGES OE THE VOMITO ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST. MADRID, Septenit?i 23. Intense excitement prevails along the Medi? terranean Sea regarding the vomito, whlcn ls spreading in all directions. One thousand oases are reported in Barcelona alone, of which four hundred have proved fatal. Sev? enty thousand people have fled Irom -the city to avoid the pestilence. The disease was brought from Cuba in thc steamer Max lu Pia. WASHING TON ITEMS. WASHINGTON, September 23. The Government has ordered that the cases of forgery pending against the HOD. R. R. But? ler, of Tennessee^ in the pension office, be sus? pended until after the election in his district, he having been renominated for Congress. The cases have been ordered to be transferred from the Pension Bureau to the Bureau oX J us ti ce. THE CUBAN WAR. HAVANA, September 23. Captain Nlteo, with si::ty soldiers, attacked the insurgents in the Escondeto Hills, killing five, including Carlos Rosleff. There have been several skirmishes in Santa Spirito and Santa Cruz, with no Important reBult. SI'AUKS FROM THE WIRES. There were nine deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans yesterday, of which two were na? tives of America. In Boston yesterday a drunken blind man set fire to tho bei in which be and his wife were, and they were both burnt to death. Five hundred Chinese will be at work in a lew days griding a railroad in New Jersey. The Oregon 8enate refuses to pass the House resolution, inviting Sherman and staff to the capital, upon the ground that the civil service is under no obligations to rae military. Attorney-General Akernun hie returned to Washington. Professional politicians have matured their plans in regard to the new Germau Conledera tlon, to be called the Nord D-mtschebund. Henri Delbr?ck to be president. A council has been called at headquarters, and the Ba? varian, Baden and Wurteraburg Governments aae busily conferring in regard to their politi? cal future. Herr Lasoon, thu National Liberal Deputy, ls going to stump the North German States. It Ts proposed that Frankfort will be declared at tho same time a neutral city and the capital ol' the new Confederation. Thus it will hold towards the new Confederation the same position that Washington and the Dis? trict of Colunvbia does to the United States-of America This is the first direct step towards what has long be.en the dream of German pa? triots, not merely a German union, but the Germen union ci allied republics. THAT CONFIDENTIAL CIRCULAR. A STATE DETECTIVE TO BE PUT ON THE TRAIL. All 0,ni?t in Newberry. 'FROM OlH OWN* CORRESPONDENT.] COLCMBU, September 22. A prominent Radical-a leader, In one sense, in that section ol' the State-just from the mountain districts, has expressed the opinion that Governor Scott has lost five hundred votes in Anderson County alone by organizing and arming the colored militia to the exclusion of ali others. Five hundred in each county would make over fifteen thousand, and that would lose Dr. Scott his re-election by an overwelming ma? jority-even counting from the heaviest poll of his party. Passengers by the Greenville Road to-day represent affairs along that line quiet. At Newberry no new developments have transpired at the hour when the train passed, and it was understood that the disturbances were at an end. It was reported here, a day or two ago, that Tuxberry had suddenly left Union, but the rumor seems to be of the sensational charac? ter ol those rife from the up-country ol late. Attorney-General Chamberlain has con? ferred with the secretary of the Central Re? form Committee upon the matter of the CON? FIDENTIAL CIRCULAR. After examining the evidence in the case, Mr. Chamberlain re? ceived the paper, (giving his receipt for the the same,) with the purpose ol putting it In the hands of a detective, who will thoroughly sift the matter. This is evidently the best mode of proceeding with it. CORSAIR. THE TERRORS OF THE LEAGUE. A Colored Man Tied Down and Stack with n Bayonet. . The Chester Reporter prints ih<- following letter in sub; : an tia; ion cf a statement made by the Union Times, the truth of which is, aa usual, clamorously denied by the Ring : CHESTER, September 19. Above please find an extract from the Union Times, in which reference is made to me as to its troth. Tho facts, as represented tome,aro as follows : Sylvanus Atkinson, a very steady and bard working colored man, and a member of the Union League which meets at Nancy Hudson's, near Cbernut Grove, employed on my "Miller Place." received, as he say?*, a positive order to attend the meeting of that League, on Fri? day night, the 5th of August, to Se tried for n?gligence in attending tbe meetings. Be? lieving that he was compelled to go be did so. After the League was organized he was taken out behind the bouse, under armed guard, and according to his report "s'nek with the bayo? net"-not whipped. Edward Wright, another colored leaguer, told me--that they tied him down." This same colored man, Sylvauus Atkinson, wa j arres ted on the following Sun? day morning, August 7th. at mv plantation, by two colored men, named Wm. Black and Andy Khcinhart, and two white men, named Joseph Hudson and John Kee, uoder the following order from Captain Kee, ot the militia, deliver? ed verbally by Wm. Black, the colored man : "Ton must brine him or bis God d-d head," and was forcibly taken to Nancy Hudson's, Captain Ree's home. Sylvanus Atkiusoo has prosecuted William Black for assault and battery, for the attack on Friday night and Snnday. I have prosecuted the four roi* riot on my place on Sunday, tbe 7th of August. The constabulary hive not succeeded in arresting the man Wm. Black for assault, and from present prospects, don't think they intend doing so. For the correctness of mv statement, I refer to Trial Justices W. M. McDonald and John Lee, before whom the affidavits were made to obtain the writs. Very respectfully, Gio. W. MELTON. 5 UP REME CO URT DECISIONS. Morse and Wife vs. Adams et al.-The mere fact of a sale of land, without any mortgage or other instrument holding it as a security for the purchase money, creates no lien In favor oftheveudor. This has long been the estab? lished nile In this State, and the court, whose duty lt ls to administer the law as it is found to exist, will not, by a rash chance, unsettle rules of property so long accepted and acted on. [Opinion by the Chief Justice.] R. A. Pringle et al vs. Bela Suer et ??.-An existing liability on the part of sureties is a consideration which will sustain a confession of Judgment taken as an indemnity against loss by them. The fact that it was elven after suits com? menced against the debtor, will not of itself Invalidate it. The rule as laid down in Smith vs. Henry, Rill L. 1, T6, In relation to the retention bf possession by the debtor after a sale, does not apply to sales made by a sheriff. vVhere the confession was founded oa a bond specifically existing, the liabilities of the obli? gees which It was to protect, and the amount of lt exceeded the liabilities so stated, and the purchases at the BherlfTs sale of the property of the obligor, also exceeded such amount, and the bids were paid by a receipt of the sure? ties, (the purchasers,) on the execution, it be? ing the oldest. Heu, that they were responsible to the junior judgment creditors according to priority, for the difference, and could not ap? propriate it to other debts, on which they were sureties for the principal, not Included in their confession. In the event of the insolvency of the sure? ties, (the plaintiffs in the confession,) and their inability thereby to pay the said excess, the land so bought at sheriff's sale is a trust in their hands, liable fer such payment. Where a plaintiff died before tbe hearing, the bill as to him cannot be dismissed. An abatement In equity ls only a suspension of proceedings, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding in it. A dismissal would preclude the personal representatives of the deceased from reviving it, which they should have opportunity of doing. [Opinion by Chief Justice.] Cooke vs. Moore et a..-On the partition of the estate of an Intestate, personal property and two tracts of land were allotted to a daugh? ter, Mary Ann, and her husband, Alfred H. Moore, who were to pay another daughter a certain sum for equality, which the husband, Moore, In the lifetime ot bis wife, paid. Alter her death he sold one ol the tracts to Cooke, who purchased also the interest of her adult children, anr1 lied his bill for partition, claim? ing that by ' s purchase lrom Moore he had a right to h' ,ubstituted in his place, and to bold ther re the lien on the land which Moore by jis payment had acquired. Held, that Moore by his payment had satisfied the statutory lien on the land, and had therefore no claim on such account as against the wife lu her lifetime, or her distributees ai her death. That Cooke could look alor.e to his warrantee against Moore, who had acquired no lien on the land by his said payment. [Opin? ion by Wright. A. J.] THE VOMITO. MADRID, September 23. The vomito is spreading rapidly iu the sea coast towns ot Spain. Johann Jacoba, the leader of the Democratic party, has been imprisoned at K?nigsberg, by order of the military authorities. He called a meeting of his partisans, who drated a reso? lution against the forcible annexation of French territory. The Democrats of Munich have passed a similar resolution. It ls semi? officially announced tbAt the further unity of Germania will shortly be secured by new pol?t? ica! institutions. STARTLING TIDINGS. A W A JR i BETWEEN TURE EX AND RUSSIA REPORTED TO BE IMMINENT. THE PRUSSIAN PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. JULES FAVRE CONSENTS TO PAY THE COST OF THE WAR, AND TO GIVE UP A PART OF THE FRENCH FLEET. STRASBOURG, METZ AND OTHER FORTIFIED PL ACES TO BE DISSEAML ETD . ESCAPE OF FRENCH PRISONERS. THE HEROIC DEFENCE OFTOUL AND METZ CONTINUES. MEASURES FOR PROTECTING THE POPE. THE MILITARY SITUATION. NOON DISPATCHES. Bismarck's Policy. LONDON, September 23. The official organ ac Berlin contains two notes from Count Bismarck to the ambassa? dors of the neutral powers to the North Ger? man Confederation. In the first note, dated September 13, be urges that better and more material guaran? tees are necessary to secure against a new attack by France, especially upon the South German States. Hence arises the necessity for the possession of those fortresses which are a perpetual menace. In the second note Count Bismarck dis? avows any intention of Intervention for the reorganization ol France, but states that the cession of Metz and Strasbourg alone will give Germany the material guarantees for peace. While France retains these places, lt will be a mere truce, lea-ing France to choose her own time for a renewal of hostilities. Germany only asks for the passive strength to resist these attacks. Tile Military Situation. TOURS, September 23. The mails from Paris arrive at spasmodic in Intervals. General Cluseret has been recall- j ed, chained with encouraging dissatisfaction and disorder among the people. Great num? bers of French prisoners who escaped while en route to Germany have reach Lyons, and many more have reached Toul. Balloons trom Paris successfully watch the movements of the Prussians. Another bal? loon from Metz has fallen into proper (French) hands. It contained 137 letters. Meat ls scarce in Metz. The garrison and citizens are eating horses, but breadstufls are abundant. Garibaldi ls still a prisoner at Caprera, and Italian vessels, [cruising around the island, prevent his escape to France. The Terms ot Peace. BERLIN, September 23. Bismarck and Jules Favre were closeted all day Thursday. Bismarck insists on the con? vocation o? the General Assembly to ratify the proposed treaty. Favre han conceded an in? demnity for the cost ol the war, the surrender of part of the French fleet, and the dismant? ling of Strasbourg, Metz, and, probably, ether fortifications. Movements of the Armies. LONDON, September 23. The following are the latest advices as to the position and movements of the hostile armies: The French have abandoned the fortifica Hons at Vincennes. The Prussian guns at Sceaux command the southern parts of Paris. The Prussians avoid St. Denis. A railroad has been finished around the French fortifications. The bombardment of Toni continues furious? ly. Sallies from Thlonvllle continue, and harass the Prussians seriously. Arrangements have been made at Lille to mine thc surround? ing country in case the Prussians should ap? proach that place. The Prussians are preparing to move on Or? leans. Protection for the Pope. FLORENCE, September 23. The Italian General Cadonia has sent troops to protect the Pope. NIOHT DISPATCHES. English Reports. LONDON, September 23-G P. M. A Berlin telegram, which must be received with caution, has trie following startling in? telligence: "Russia is in motion to seize the Black Sea, and probably the Dardanelles. A war between the Czar and the Sultan is imminent." Lunette 52, at Strasbourg, became the ob? ject of a terrible Are. The Prussians lost heavily, Including their commander. The London Times says that neither the Democratic nor the Republican party of the United States is sacrificing the German vote through sympathy with the French Republic. Notwithstanding the blockade, forty-four ships have entered Swincmund since Septem? ber 2. Count Palikao, the Emperor Napoleon, the Princess Mathilde and Count Benedetti areal Brussels. Reports from Paris via Berlin state that ail discipline is vanishing in Paris. The soldiers are mutinous and in some cases have shot their officers. The Manchester Examiner says that General Ulric is inclined to surrender, but the wound? ed soldiers and the citizens of Strasbourg strongly oppose a surrender. The Germans have armed captured Lunettes 52 and 53, with the mortars. Louis LaFrance, claiming to write Irom un? erring authority, gives the following as the Prussian plan: "The advance towards Paris was regulated so as to bring several corps be? fore Paris on the Ulh of September, then Paris was to be turned on the south, cutting com? munication with Tours. From Versailles, as the Prussian headquarters, the forces were to harass Paris until it surrendered. Metz, Strasbourg and Toul held out, and will present at least a fortnight's task. Meanwhile the Prussians will detach two corps to LyonB, Havre and Cherbourg, and send flying columns throughout the country for forage. Seventy five thousand cavalry for th'vj purpose are ex? pected from Germany." A portion of thia programme has been al? ready carried ont. The writer reaffirms that General Steinmetz was disgraced because of the heavy losses Inflicted on him by Bazaine. The Journal, of this cl ty, s tates that M. Maga e. formerly the French Minister of Finance, writes privately that shortly before the cha of government, he paid for a million cha pot3and three hundred trousand other g which were never delivered. Pr* nell Reports. NEW YORK, September 2; A special telegram to the Tribune, de Tuesday evening, says: All egress from Paris is positively prob ted. The Prussians refuse passes to or fro. The Prussian advanced pickets are m Malmaison, between St. Germains and Pari No French troop? are in sight. All French troops have retired behind the def ces of Paris, and the Prussians alone occi the deserted surrounding country. The Prussians have thrown a pontoon bri? across the Seine below St, Germains, wh the army of the Crown Prince is stationed. The siege of Metz has become a mere bio .ade. A special dispatch to the Telegram says tl the Paris Happel abuses England for refus! to participate In the negotiations for transl ring Rome to Italy. The Eternal City. FLORENCE, September 23 Rome is now fully occupied by the Itallai The Pope ls allowed to retain a guard of 1 own troops, but ls restricted to those of Itali birth. The rest of-his army is dismissed. It ls thougtit that the plebiscitum will tal place on Monday. Upon occupying Rome the Italians took 9? prisoners, of whom 4500 were foreigners. ADDITIONAL DISEATCHE8. PRUSSIAN REPULSES BEFORE PARIS. LONDON, September 20. The Prussians sustained a very serious che yesterday in their third attempt to cut the ll of the Orleans Railway. After their repuls at Juvisy and before the Fort of Ivry, they y< terday undertook to force a passage and secu control of the line. They were met in th? advance from Corbell upon the main trunk the Orleans line at the hamlet of Wlssons, village commanded by low hills and burled woods, by the French. The Prussian colun of thirty thousand men was encountered by French force of about equal numbers, posti In thc most advantageous positions and with formidable artillery. The engagement was e; tremely severe and lasted near 6 hours. A frei column of nearly twenty thousand Prussiai came up after the battle had gone on for thn hours and attempted, by a flank movement, enter the woods. The slaughter here was tea nil. The masked batteries of French mitral leurs kept up so continuous and terrible a fl; that the cavalry and lntantry of the Prussia! were decimated and repulsed along the who line. They finally fell back in disorder, hot! pursued by the French, who cut off their n treat upon Corbell and the Essonne, and drot them down the main line or the Orleans roa more than three miles through Savigny at Epinay-sur-Orge, and back about a mile and half upon the village ot Montlhery, where ilerce stand was made In the Burgundian Gen ctery. The Prussians were here routed an driven In disorder back towards their mal body, being compelled to evacuate Corbell ? the same time and reconc?ntrate upon Meint This victory clears for the present the Oi leans line, which ls the only couimunlcatlo between Paris and the provinces now ope: Flying parties o? the Prussians have succeec ed ID cutting all the other roads at point more or less remote from Paris, within a circl of thirty miles, and in every case they hav caused proclamations In French to be dh tributed, denouncing death to all working pai ties attempting to repair the mischief done. PARIS F?LLT PROVISIONED. Paris is abundantly provisioned for mor than two months. Bread, ls now no deare than it was before the siege began, and mea ls actually cheaper. This results natural!: from three causes: the diminution In th' number ol' consumers, over three hundrei thousand persons having, it ls estimated, lei Paris during the last fornight: from the adop tion of rigid economy by families and citizens and from the reorganization under stric discipline of the commissariat of the troop by General Trochn. General Trochu has Intro duced in the garrison of Pajls a sternness o discipline not known In the French army fo: years, and with results already visible In tb perfect order of the city, the bearing of tbi soldiery, and the general high spirit whlc! pervades the whole metropolis. There ls mud alaru, however, among the shop-keeping classes at the arming of the working classes upon which General Trochu has Insisted anc which he ls carrying out, under a full under standing with the chiefs of all the societies o the workingmen. RENEWED PRUSSIAN REPULSE AT MONT VALK RIEN. LONDON, September 20. A special from Boulogne-sur-Mer telegraph! a rumored attack of the Prussians in forct from Pontolse. on the Northern Railway, bj St. Germain, upon the fortress of Mont Vale rien. There are no details beyond the re pulse of the assailants with loss. He telegraphs also that the tidal boats between Boulogne ant Folkestone were taken off this morolng. Tnt Thames steamers to Boulogne and Calais and the Southeastern Company's boats continue for the present their trips. TUE INVADING FORCES. OSTEND, September 20. The forces now assembled before Paris num? ber four hundred thousand men, and Prince Frederic Charles bas over a hundred and Mtv thousand men between Metz and Rheims. From Namur I hear that the pestilence ol Se? dan ls spreading throughout the lavadln" ar? mies. It ls aggravated by the water 01? the limestone districts, and the troops not inured to campaign life are suffering fearfully. This state ot things ls further made worse by the dreadful rain-storms and the prematurely chill, damp weather. Great dissatisfaction ls openly expressed in " Northern Germany at the treat? ment of General von Steinmetz, who is thought to have been sacrificed as too popular, von Moltke is reported to have abandoned the no? tion, if he ever held lt, of tryltig to storm Paris. He will seek to compel Its surrender by star? vation, and is reported to have pledged him? self that within three weeks not a morsel of food shall enter the city. PEACE PROSPECTS. LONDON, September 20. A cabinet, meeting was held this evening but adjourned after walting till io o'clock in vain for news of the result of the Interview between Jules Favre and Count Bismarck Nothing positive had then been attained but the dispatches received early In the evening here intimate that Count Bismarck has munU fested a disposition to recede from his extreme demands, and that he will induce the Kin" to consent to treat with the Provisional Govern? ment as soon as Its powers shall have been confirmed by a constituent assembly. He ob? jects, however, to an armistice. RUSSIA PUTS ON TUE SCIEW There !s no longer any doubt that Russia has made what, amounts to a positive threat that she will not permit the territorial a*"rdndize ment of Germany. This is con?rmett to me from the highest quarters; and to the attitude of Russia, taken in connection with the grow? ing Indignation ol the English people at the course ol Mr. Gladstone's government, peace must be attributed, If peacu la now reached The Russian fleets are fitting for sea at Cron etadt, and, as I have repeatedly notified von the Russian armies on the Polish frontier are ready to assume the offensive at ouce if necee sary. TUE STOCK UROKERS LEAP UP The Stock Exchange here is quite buoyant to-day over the news that Prussia appears to be meditating an honorable withdrawal from the dangerously Increasing complications of the hour. Stocks ol all kinda are alvuncin" and there were heavy Investments to-day fit foreign securities. ' TUE RED REPUBLIC REPORTED GROWING Rumors are, however, afloat that the ex? treme radicals at Lyon3 and Paris are bitteriy opposed to peace at this time, and desire to prosecute the war for the overthrow ot royalty throughout t?urope. They are said to be plot? ting the overthrow of the provisional govern? ment should it accept a peace which involves the dismemberment of the republic. THE IMPERIAL STUD UNDER THE HAMMER Fourteen Hue horses, belonging to the stud of the ex-Emperor of th J French, were sold to? day at TattersaU's. Four of them were Ameri? can carriage horses. Tti'j were seat 'rom Belgium here, and brought Mr prices. THE DECISIVE BATTLE HOW THE NAPOLEON DYNASTY RE C HIV JED ITS CO Ur-DE-GItA.CS. FULL DETAILS 10P THE BATTLE OP SEDAN. THE FORMAL TERMS OF CAPITULATION." Dr. W. H. Russell sends the following ac? count of the battle ol Sedan, and the scenes on tho field, to the London Times. He writes from Donchery on September 3 : The greatest event of our time has occurred under the eyes of those who saw the battle of Sedan. I think the British public must have had enough of battle-field horrors and hospital scenes. There will be plenty of;? letters describing Kranken-tragers, burial parties, wounded men, heaps of dead, the hideous re? verse of the medal, on the other side of which are the bright emblazonments of glory and victory. I will not dwell on the topic, but ask your readers to be content with the assurance that no human eye ever rested on such revolt? ing subjects as were presented by the battle? fields around Sedan. Let them fancy masses of colored rags glued together with blood and brains, and pinned into strange shapes by fragments of bones. Let them conceive men's bodies without heads,- legs without bodies heaps ol human entrails attached to red and blue cloth, and dlsemoowelled corpses in uni? form, bodies lying about in all attitudes, WITH SKULLS SHATTERED, FACES BLOWN OFF, HIPS SMASHED, bones, flesh and gay clothing all pounded to? gether as if brayed in a mortar, extending for miles, not very thick In any one place, but re? curring perpetually for weary hours, and then they cannot, with the most vivid imagination, come np to the sickening reality ofthat butch? ery. No nightmare could be so frightful. Several times I came on 6pots where there were two horses lying dead together In har? ness, killed by the same fragment. Several times I saw four, five and six men, four, five and six horses, all killed by the explosion of one projectile, and in one place there lay no less than eight Fiench soldiers who must have been struck down by the bursting of a shell over a company, for they lay all round In a circle with their feet Inwards, each shattered In the head or chest by a piece of shell, and no other dead being within a hundred yards of them. A curious and,.to me, unaccountable phenomenon was the blackness of most of the laces of the dead. Decomposition had not set in, for they were killed only tue day before. Another circumstance which struck me was the expression of agony on many faces. Death by the bayonet ls agonizing, and those who die by steel, open-eyed and open-mouthed, have an expression of pain on the features, with protruding tongue. A musket bali, which ls at once vital, does not seem to cause much pain, and the features are composed and quiet, sometimes with a sweet smile on the Ups. But the prevailing expression on this Held, of the faces which were not mutilated, was one of ter? ror and of agony unutterable. There must have been a hell of torture raging within that semi-circle In which the .earth was torn asunder from all sides with a real tempest of Iron hissing, and screeching, and bursting luto the heavy masses at the hands ot an unseen enemy. I cannot imagine anything so trying to the bravest man as to meet death utmost Ingloriously in such a scene as that-nothing so maddening to soldiers as to be annihilated without a chance of vengeance- nothing so aw? ful to the fugitive as to see lils comrades blown to fragments all around him. It ls well that wives and mothers and fond sisters were spared the sight of their beloved ones, and it ls well that In France lt is only mothers and sis? ters who will havo to deplore the slain. Whether the Prussians buried their dead early -the night of the battle Itself-or not I cannot tell, but their losses were almost nothing li they were to be estimated by the number of bodies on the field. Soldiers well know how deceptive is the appearance of ground viewed from an elevated point; and during the battle which raged for Alteen miles before and around us there were outbursts of firing from valleys and knolls which seemed purposeless, but which were at once explained when the po? sitions were gained. I 'was surprised, know? ing the French had capitulated, and that the Emperor had surrendered, to see great col? umns of the German army in motion towards the heights over the Meuse, and the Sixth Corps and the Bavarian Corps, in reserve, has? tening up in the same direction. But It seems that GENERAL WIMPFFEX, WU BX HR HEARD THE TERMS, declared that he would die sooner than sign them. He could not think his situation was so desperate. He was Informed-that if he pre? ferred the destruction of his army it was his own affair; but to show him that such destruc? tion was Inevitable, maps were produced, and the position and force of the corps of the Ger? man army and of its batteries indicated, ir at noon the capitulations were not agreed to. the 1 attack on Sedan would commence. General Wlmpffen was in a deplorable con? dition, and one which his brave enemies com miseratsd. He had arrived only two days : before from Algeria. He found an army already beaten to his hands. Marshal McMahon was wounded early in the day, struck in the back ; and hip by a piece of shell or ball, and i Wlmpffen had to take command of the troops without knowing the Marshal's plans, or even the disposition of the corps on the plateaux over Sedan, except through others. "And now my name will go down linked with a : humiliating capitulation for all time !"' To make assurance doubly sure, and to show that i the gros bataillons were on the side of the i victors, this display of force was made all : around Sedan, and when I got to the heights of Donchery the plains at our feet were cover- i ed with the masses of the Prussian army. The Wurtemberger3 had come up from the direc? tion ot Mezieres; the Bavarians were on the right of the second army. The hill-tops were black with troops, and all aloug them clustered the batteries in position. It was not a bright day, but the atmos? phere was clear and the position of the French admitted of their further study. The Meuse twists in such an extraordinary .ay that no one would suspect Its stream runs lu many places right across what seems a con? tinuous champagne and undulating land, and thus it was that the seml-clrcular bluff above the village of Flolng, on which the cavalry charges and many most interesting episodes of the li'lit went on, comes close to the bluff over Donchery, although the road to it must wind for six or seven miles by the banks of the river In a course which cannot be seen from the bluff. North of Flolng stands a mamelon, or conical hill, with n fenced patch of forests (?rs) on the summit. At each side of this wood the Prussian batteries, which brought such ruin on the defenders of the lutrenched plateau over Flolng, were established. This hill is about three-quarters of a mlle from the ridge over Flolng, and Inside the ridge the French were intrenched-a breastwork taking the natural Une of the slope, and a series of detached epaulements being formed higher up. Now. it is surely the old 6tory of Chinin over a<'aln. Generals ought to watch the weather. It?may be true that McMahon's force did not permit him to occupy the mamelon. In that case his position was very weak on the north? west; but it was worth making a strenuous effort to do lt. At all events, he should bave got a great strength of artillery to sweep it and check Prussian occupation. Bl'T IT WAS A FOOOV MORXIX?. The weather, as well as the gros bataillons, helped the Prussians. Their advance and their passa"e of the Meuse below Donchery by two pontoon bridges, were unnoticed; so, apparent? ly was their approaeh to the wood. The force which Marshal McMahon had at his disposal consisted of the First, Fifth, Seventh and Twelfth Corps, with a part of the Sixth Corps. It, ls thought that they may have reached 110, 000 men. with 4C0 gnus, but I have no precise information as to meir strength in either, nor will it be known for some days Ic Ls almost ridiculous to suppose that McMahon, with an enormous army under his nose, and with a river between him and them, should not have watched most Jealously the slightest Indication ot an intention to throw pontoons across and have tried to vex and defeat it; but the Prus? sians believed he was not Informed of the ex? istence ot the bridges, and that their appear? ance before Floing was almost a surprise. Everything about the war ia a surprise fro beginning to cud. The prisoners say lt w believed they could hold out lor Ave weeks the entrenched position they had made. Tl batteries o? the Fifth and Eleventli Arn Corps demolished their confidence. From tl plateau of Floing tbe ground falls tow a the Meuse, but retains its elevation ai bluff-like formations towards the non cut by several deep ravines running general north and south. In one of these hollow sweeping In a semi-circle towards Sedan, ll the villages of La Chapelle, Uley, dionne, & Woods on the summits of the ridges < sections formed by ravines conceal the featur of the country from a general view. Sede itself screens a good deal of the field from tl eye. 0n the right, towards Bezellles and ov< the road by which the Prince of Saxony ai vanced. the woods are so thick as to look Iii a continuous forest. THE POSITION. Anyone with a good map, (Reyman's Spec! Karte will do.) can get an Idea ot the posltic and nature or the ground by filling the lit from Cazal by Floing, and so on round by G voune to Bazeilles, and he can mark the effe in cutting up the ground of the two little rivi lets which flow into the Meuse east of Seda There were outposts in the villages towan Muuzon. but generally the ground lield by tt French was included within this semi-clrculi line. The army of the Crown Prince of Saxi ny, consisting of three corps and of the Pru alan Guards, came from the east aide, and ha to deal with the principal force of the Frencl It was atone time exposed to an offensiv movement, and had to attack positions mo: savagely defended, including those whlc covered the depots. One division i this army was not engaged at all, bi the losses were severe. One battallo of the Queen's Regiment of the Guard; the Augusta, lost 28 officers and 500 men. Th Bavarians attacked Bazeilles and the works c Sedan. Of the Crown Prince's army on tb west only the Fifth and Eleventh Corps ai tacked, and all the divisions of these were nc equally engaged. The Wurtembergers watct ed Mezleres towards Donchery on the left, co^ verlng the bridgea. The Sixth Army Corp was In reserve. Altogether there were abou 170,000 men engaged and in reserve on th attacking force at the very least, and If w take McMahon to have had 110,000, and cour the prisoners and capitulated 90,000 off, ther remains 20,000 to be accounted for as kllle or wounded. The disparity In force was, ho? ever, more than compensated by the nositioi held by the French as long as lt was not bulge in or contracted; but as soon as they allowe their line to be forced they were exposed to converging Are from the seml-clrcle closing t from east and west and north, and put in dei perate straits. Then tbere only remained th chance of breaking the fence and of forcln back one or other army, and their efforts wer directed to repulse the Crown Prince of Saxe ny, with the result known by this time to a the world. The Prussian guns were A3 SUPERIOR IN NUMBER AS IN POWER; in fact, if Marshal McMahon could, he ough to have evaded an encounter with such a fore? and would have done so. But what men cal fate was upon his track. The genius of Pru? sia, in the heads ot two men, was, humanl; speaking, irresistible. The Emperor and hi army were hunted down, lenced in, brough to battle, and overwhelmed In a vast ruin, c which mankind will speak and read as long a history endures. TUE PRISONERS. Beyond the town, a strange scene presente Itself. In the large fields near the railway sta tlon, there was a body of French prisoners unwounded, fenced In by a line of Wurtero bergers. They were about 2000 In numb? and were of several different regiments comprising all arms, drawn up as ll In militan order to receive rations, their officers taking down their names and calling out their num. berg. They were a remarkably fine body o men, taking them all in all. Manv were tot young-mere boys-but even in their depres? sion, after a night of cold, after a day of te rr! ble trial, they had that military as distinguish from a warlike air which ls characteristic o tbe race, A CONTRAST TO THE .SLOUCHING, SHAMBLING look of the men who were guarding them. Turcos and zouaves, lancers, Chasseurs d'Afrique,- hussars, cuirassiers, artillerymen, chasseurs and line were there In ranks, many lying down, others fast asleep-let us hope, happy In their dreams, poor wretches ! They had nearly all their great coats and cloaks; but the miserable throng looked as gay as a flower garden, owing to the variety of kepis, turbans and eh a kos. Further on lay a great spoil of the Prussian proper-a quadrangle filled with an army without arms-as many men as we can show royalty on a field-day at Aldershott-probably twelve thousand men such a spectacle I nave never seen yet in my life. There seemed to be whole battalions ol them-five hundred and six hundred ot single regiments. It is very unwise in a civilian to speak with prisoners of war If he has not au? thority to do so. Sentries are very Jealous on that score, so I could not make inquiries. Tue men were passive and quiet-no movement, no voices in the multitude. Outside, here and tbere, like sheep seeking to regain the flock, were wounded men Umping In twos, as if tor company sake, quite free, as their captors knew that a man wounded ls too sensible to dee from his only chance of cure and care and food. Streaming along the road, there was almost a procession of such objects, now Prus? sians, now French, and now a Prussian and a Frenchman together, with shattered hands or limping gait, or horrid lace wounds. I made for Floing in order to begin TUE REVIEW OF THE BATTLE-FIELD. The road was crowded with regiments and ammunition wagons, and, to my wonder, I saw lt winding tor three or lour miles by the river bank towards the village or little town, the steeple ol which looks very near from the Prince's hill. About a mile outside the vil? lage, on the roadside, I came upon dead horses, and then I remembered the dust, the firing of the Prussian Infantry, and the wild confusion of what I thought was a rush of runaway steeds. And so lt wa?, but the riders lay further on-cuirassiers aud lancers, who had either attempted to cut their way through or had fallen in pursuit of the Prus? sians. I regret to say that the sheets I sent from the field contained my notes of the times of the occurrences I observed, as I cannot now remember them. There were many cuirasses strewed In the field and by the roadside outside Floing, and here and there among the turnips, wurzel and potatoes, which the Prussians were gathering, lay dead men? ai! French. But there were pichel haubes and ne?.die-guns lying about also, and multitudes of cowhide knapsacks. After a most irritating ride, getting over useless ground, I got into thu village, which lies directly under the cliff like side of the plateau. From the south side there ls a steep, stony lane, a continuation ol it winding up north to lt again. The side la in Elaces scraped for patches of vines and vegeta? les, fenced with stone walls, and enclosures rouud small cabins. Floing was full of wound? ed men. The white flag and red cross floated all round; but it needed not that to tell there were victims of the fight here, for pale faces and bandaged limbs were at every doorway and window. The place was almost impassa? ble, owlug lo a wreck of arms, cbassepot?, needle-guiu, helmets, swords, accoutrements, bayonets, knapsacks, littered all over with regimental accounts, papers, "livrets"-here and there wagons and commissariat carts, am? munition boxes, tumbrils-things that had cost poor Frenchmen far away a great deal of money, for which there was a barren return indeed. I pressed, my horse up the steep, the beast ?nilling and starting at the dead chargers which lay tumbled over in the fatal onset. Some Prussians were lying in the little church? yard covered with blankets and wreaths of flowers on the breasts till, the grave-diggers came; rude crosses marked mounds which showed where they had done their work: a lew hundred yards and there came In view the epaukuwu; over the ridges inside were rows of French. The ground behind was rent In every direction and scarred by shells. TUE SEAMS AND PRAG ME NTS AND FURROWS told how they had met their death. Many were burled by the simple process of throwing down the bank. It ls very likely there were many men there who had dug their own graves, singing and laughing all the while. These men had all beep clean destroyed by the batteries on the mamelon, aud were thus rendered unable to prevent the advance of the Prussian infantry to the village and up the slopes. The ground on the top ls partly In cultivation-turnips, carrots, and potatoes, which the Prussians were digging up; and the plateau was dotted with burial parties, medi? cal men and Idlers. The dead were generally bootless, stockings and foot-gear goue, cons were torn open, pockets turned inside out by plunderers. About twelve o'clock, while I was on the plateau, a squad of the gendarmerie swept off the stragglers and ordered them to ? bury the dead. An Irregular line of dead horses almost at right angles to the line of the epaulement Indicated the position of the French batteries; which made a long and gallant but Ineffectual attempt to check the murderous Prussian guns, flanking and raking lt from the ridge beyond, at the same time that lt was torn to pieces by the batteries posted on tho mamelon. Men of the Thirty-second French; and of the Eighty-third Prussian, the Thirty seventh and Eighty-ninth French, were lying: together. A few Prussians scattered on the trampled earth Indicated the site ofthe first and - successful charge. Further on towards the river there was evidence of the terrible retribution. Such heaps of horses, gray and white ! And. here were the luckless riders as they feH Chasseurs d'Afrique, in light blue; men with, red kepis, marked with blue band, and Keaks lined with green, whom I conjecture to ave been hussars; and men In lh;ht bine, with, white facings; the luckless Fourth Regiment of Lancers, the Eighth Lancers, not more for? tunate, what once belonged to tie life and beauty of the gallant brigade which had tested the lance against the needle-gun. Among the?e bodies, which were not thick, but scat? tered all over the plain, lay men of the Sixth Artillery Regiment. Near them was a sort o? earthwork, very rude, with embrasures, six in number, ior mitrailleurs, with a profusion ot empty cartridge cases all about lt. The direc? tion of the two charges-the very formation of the Prussian companies which met them_ could be traced, and then the course of the flying cavalry round the flanks in a vaia at? tempt to escape and reform. On this field there were here and. there wounded men mov? ing uneasily in the blankets around them, and walting for the arrival of the escoleta and am? bulances. Prussian and French medical o ra? cers were going over the field together. [THE CAVALRY CHARGE. Let us leave the cavalry charge. Never cam I forget the prelude. When I saw the Frenen who bad lined the advanced trench on the 1st retiring to what I no W see was another epaule? ment, where they were again raked by the - flanking batteries of the outer ridge and pounded and brayed bj-the mamelon guns,'I did not know how they had suffered, and could not conceive why they retreated, The - Prussians coming up from Flolng were invisi? ble to me. Never can I forget the sort of ago? ny with which I witnessed those who first came out on the plateau raising their beads and looking around fer an enemy, while, hid? den from view, a thick blue band ot French Infantry was awaiting them, and a brigade of cavalry was ready on their flank below. I did not know that Flolng was filled with advancing columns. There was but a wide, extending, loose array ol skirmishers, like a flock ox rooks, on the plateau. . Now the men began fo? fl re at the heads over the bank line by the* French. This drew such a flash of musketry as tumbled over some and staggered the others, but their comrades' came scrambling up from the rear, when suddenly the first block of horse * in the hollow shook Itself up, aud the Une. in - beautiful order, rushed up the slope. The onset was not to be withstood. The Prussians were caught en flagrant d?lit. Those nearest the ridge Blipped over into the declivitous ground; those In advance, running in vaia, were swept away. But the Impetuosity of the charge could not be stayed. Men and horses-, came tumbling down into the road, where they were disposed of by the Prussians in the gardens. While the troopers on the left of the * line, who swept down the lane In a cloud bf dust, were almost exterminated by the Infan? try in the village. There was also a regular cavalry encounter, I fancy, in the plains below, but I cannot teU at what time; the Cuirassiers, trying to cut their way ont, were destroyed, . and a charge of two Prussian squadrons, . which did not quite equal expectations, oe-- - curred. The feat of these unfortunate cava> . Hers only cleared the plateau for a little time?, j In a few minutes np came the spiked helmets again over the. Frenou epaulement, crossing; their sabred comrades, and, therefore, all alive to the danger ot cavalry. They advanced In . closer order, but stUT skirmishing, and one long, black parallelogram was maintained te rally on. As the skirmishers got to the ridge they began' to fire, but the French in the second line of epaulement soon drove them back by a rattling rasil- - ade. The French rushed out ofthe epaulement ' I ~ in pursuit, still firing. At the same moment" a splendid charge was executed on the Prus? sians, before which the skirmishers rallied, on what seemed to me to be still a long parallelo? gram. They did not form square. Some Prussians too, far on, were sabred. The troop? ers, brilliantly led, went right onward In a cloud of dust, but when they were within a couple ot hundred yards of the Prussians one simulta? neous volley burst out of the black frodt and flank, which enveloped all in smoke. They were steady soldiers who pulled trigger there. Down came horse and man; the array was utterly ruined. There was left In front of that deadly Infantry but a hsap nf white and gray, horses-a terrace of dead and dying and dis? mounted men, and flying troopers, who tum? bled at every instant. More total dissipation of a bright pageantry could not be. There was another such scene yet to come. I could scarce keep the field-glass to my eyes as the second and last body of cavalry-which wa? composed of light horse also-came thundering up ont ol the hollow. Tbey were not so bold as the men on the white horses, who fell, many ot them, at the very line of bayonets. The horses of these swerved as they came upou the ground covered with carcasses, and their line was broken, but the squadron leaders rode straight to death. Once again THE CORLING SMOKE SPURTEB out from the Prussian iront, and to the rear and right and left flew the survivors ol the squadrons. The brown field was flecked with spots of many colors, and, trampling on the remains of that mass of strength and courage ol man and horse, the Prussians, to whom sup? ports were last hastening up right and left and rear, pressed on towards the Inner epaule? ment and became engaged with the French Infantry, who maintained for some time a? steady rollin** fire In reply to the volleys of the Prussians. To me the French force seemed* there very much superior in number. Bot they had lost courage, and what was left of it was soon dissipated by the advance of a Prus? sian battery, which galloped up to the right flank of their intantry and opened a very: rapid fire, to which there was no French bat? tery to reply. The French left the epaule? ment and made for a belt of wood, dropping fast as they retreated, but facing round and firing still. In a few moments more the plateau was swarming with the battalions ol. the Eleventh Corps, and the struggle there was over. Only for a minute, however, because from the flanks of the wood came out a line ot French infantry. The musketry fire wa3 re? newed: but it was evident the Prussians were ' not to be galnsayed. Their advaace was only checked that they might let their artillery play while their columns assisted it by inces? sant volleys. At the time 13tated in my for? mer letter the plateau over Flolng was won. A fierce onslaught by the French, made after they had retired behind the wood, only added to their losses. The Crown Prince's army, not? withstanding the cavalry succewat the oatset, had by three o'clock won the key of the posi? tion of the French right with comparatively small loss. I Now we arrived on tho Bavarian's field ol I action, which extended from BAzellles to Se? dan. In their gallant and most Injudicious j attack they lost UOOO men. It is said there vasa misunderstanding. Their advance col? umn seized the raliway station at Sedan. It Irs? maintained at headquarters thaf there were explicit orders given that they were not to de? velop their attack till the Crown . Prince of Saxony had come out on their right, but the authorities o'.' their own corps declare the or? ders they received were not quite'to be thus understood. THE BAVARIANS OP VON DER TANS'3 CORPS; on whom devolved the difficult task of carry? ing the village or town of Bazeilles and Bilau (a suburb of Sedan, outside tte fortifications) suffered enormously. They were exposed to a fire of infantry in the houses, ami to the . guns of the works and the musketry from the . parapets. The Inhabitants Joined In the de- . fence, and as soon as the Bavarians had cross- - ed the Meuse by their pontoons and by the railway bridge, they could receive but little ? protection from tuelr artillery placed on the nel^bts. The French made the most streno ousattempts to repulse them,in which the- *. marines were particularly distinguished; and three divisions ol' Bavarians, which began to . fight at 4 o'clock, were exposed to three dis? tinct onslaghts from the town and from the" corps under the walls. At one tinta lt appear? ed as if they would be overpower.-.1, although > it seemed as if success against : would i scarcely have secured the French army from < its ultimate late. It ls believed by the Bava- - [OonMmted on Fvurth Page.] i