LISTS OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 735, 10 November 1870, Page 3

LISTS OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.

The first official lists of losses in the field have been made public at Berlin. The Prussian correspondent of the "Times," analysing them, says:—A Prussian regiment on a war footing has 8006 men with 69 officers. Of these 69 officers the 74th Regiment,

Hanoverians, lost no less than 30 in killed and wounded at Weissenburg. The 77th, also Hanoverians, on the same occasion lost 25 officers; the 39th, Rhinelanders, 26 ; the 82nd, Hessians, 19; the 95tb, Thuringians, 16 ; the 83rd, Hessians, 14 ; the 53rd, "Westphalians, 11 ; the SSth, Nassauers, 9; the 80tb, Hessians, 8. &c. Still worse was it at "Woerth. There the 58th Regiment, Poseners, had 32 dead and wounded officers ; the 59th, Poseners, 23; the 7th, King's Grenadiers— Lower Silesians and German Poseners, 35; the 47th, Lower Silesians, 29; the 6th, Whesiphalians, 28; the 37th, Westphalians, 25, &c. But the most frightful carnage of all in the earlier part of the campaign was at Spicheren, where, according to private intelligence, the total losses were 2297, of whom 811 are dead and 1456 wounded. Accordingly every twelfth man was killed or wounded. Some companies left nearly one half their men on the spot. Of the tremendous three days' battle near Metz, we have but private intelligence, and this only referring to individual detachments ; yet we know already enough to imagine the rest. On the litb, in the action named after Pange or Gourcelles, the 48th, Bhinelanders, lost 32 officers and 891 rank and file; in other words, about onethird its complement. A rifle battalion in the same locality was by the enemy's fire deprived of nine of its officers and 27 rank and file— i. e., of a third of the officers and a fourth of the men. On the 14th as well as on the 16th—the latter being the battle of Mars-la-Tour or Thionville—the losses of the Prussians were comparatively greater than those of the French, the former being on both occasions greatly outnumbered. At Mars-la-Tour, within a few moments, by the unexpected unmasking of a mitrailleuse battery, Count Westarp, Count Wesdelen, Baron Kleist, Henry VII., Prince of Eeuss, Baron Grimm, Baron Witzleben and many other noblemen of rank and position were killed. At the grand finale at Bezonville or Gravelotte, on the 18 th, the Prussians are said to have suffered a loss of 18,000 combatants. Nor did the French suffer les3. In the three actions they had nearly 15,000 dead, and 50,000 dead, wounded, and prisoners together.

There used to be a pious old nigger in Boston, named Cajsar, and he was in the habit of praying so loudly as to be heard by many of the neighbors. On retiring for the night his petition invariably was—" Lord, send dy angel for ole Caesar —ole Caesar always ready." One evening two of his neighbors, good men, but sometimes bored by his "style," thought they would try him on. They took position at his door, and when the usual petition was made that " the Lord would send the angel," ole Cajsar being always ready, they knocked loudly at the door. "Who dar?" said "the darkey. " The angel of the Lord come for old Caesar," was the reply. Out went the light, a scrambling into bed was heard, and then in a trembling voice, that same old uncle said, "Go 'way, dar! go 'way! Ole Caesar been dead dis ten year." " Harper's New Monthly Magazine." It is said in Berlin that the failure of the intrigue of the Empress Eugenie to marry her niece, the Duchess of Alba, to Prince Leopold, is the real source of the present trouble between France and Prussia. The father of the Duchess is now in Madrid, drowned in debt, and generally despised.— '■ News of the "World.' An American paper puts a matter which it wishes to enforce in the following neat simile:—" You might as well attempt to shampoo an elephant with a thimbleful of soapsuds as to attempt to do business and ignore advertising." A South London paper mentions a oost revoling illustration of what may result from gross ignorance. A wotoan brought to a surgery the other day a child in a nearly dying state, and the doctor elicited from her that she bad been administering spiders to it as a cure for whooping cough.