Most of them had hatchets by their sides, and they attack a position much as if they were boarding a ship.

About 100 prisoners had been brought into the town in the morning, as well as two Freres Chretiens, who had been wounded, and for whom the greatest sympathy was expressed.

Little seemed to be known of what was passing.

"The Prussians will be here in an hour," shouted one man; "The Prussians are being exterminated," shouted another.

"What is this ?" cried the crowd, as Monseigneur Bauer, the bishop _in partibus infidelium_ of some place or other, now came riding along with his staff.