Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-06
PRUSSIA

dispatch has been received here from
Mederotterbach, a small village on
the Otter river, near WeiSSenberg,
dated o'clock Thursday evening:
We have won brilliant but
bloody victory. The left wing was
the attacking body, and consisted of
the fifth and eleventh PruSsian corps,
with the second Bavarian. This force
carried by an assault, under the eyes
Of the Prince Royal, the fortress of
Weissenberg, and the nights between
IWeissenberg and Geisburg. Donay's
division of Marshal McMahOn's corps
was splendidly defeated by being
driven from its camp. General Do
nay was killed, and 900 prisoners were
taken-none of them wounded. Many
TurcOs among the captured. The
Prussian General Kiarchbach was
slightly wounded. The Royal Grena-
diers and fifteenth regiment OF the
line suffered heavy losses"
BERLIN, August 5.-Dense crowds
assembled to-day in front of the
Royal Palace, to hear the Kings dis
patch announcing victory at Weis-
senberg, read by order of the Queen.
Great enthusiasm prevails and build
ings are generally covered with flags,
and will be Illuminated tonight.
Subscriptions to the Use loan already
exceed one hundred and twenty mill
lions.
Substantial fruits of the Crown
Princes victory are destruction of one
side of the French quadreiatOrial and
cutting McMahOn's troops off from
their Northern connections.
NIENKIRCH, near TREVEs, August
5.-The French, on Tuesday, shelled
Saarbruck station. The engines, cars,
ETC., were saved.
STRAsBoURG, August 3.-Yester-
day, after council of war, Marshal Nc
Mahon, with his chief of staff Gen. Coul-
son, surveyed the Rhine from Kiehl
bridge upward. They visited Bru-
mata, twenty miles north from here,
where cavalry division and part
of the first division of infantry en-
camped. From these movements it
is coniectured that Mcmahon with a
French army is about to cross the
Rhine and dash rapidly by the way of
Carlsruhe and Heidelberg to Frank
fort, and that thence he will endeavor
to cut the railroad communication
II
believed that he will leave Mayence
on the left, while the main army
pushes on through lower Rhine pro-
vince to Mayence and COblenZ. The
former movement was rumored and
fixed for Saturday. 1t is reported
that the Prussians gathered in force
in the South and the Baden force in
Black Forest. Gen. DeGargail is
commander of the second division.
The corps stationed here is vacant by
illness. Gen. Donay dropped dead
from apoplexy on the first inst.
There was hardifghting al. Wessen-
berg yesterday.
To-day large force Of Prussians
advanced between Weisenberg and
Lanternberg, ten miles in French
territory, driving the advanced posts
of the enemy, and destroying several
miles of railroad between Lanter-
bourg and StrasbOurg, along which,
it is supposed, Mcmahon Is preparing
to advance. The French loss was
heavy, including many prisoners.
A correspondent to the New York
Tribune telegraphs from the Prussian
headquarters that the army of the
Crown Prince has stOrmed Weisen-
burg.
The troops of the fifth and eleventh
Prussian army corps reinforced by the
second Bavarian corps, engaged Gen.
eral DOnay's division of Marshal Nc
MahOn's corps. The French were
driven off the field and the Prussians
occupy the French camp. Several
hundred French soldiers were cap
tured; Prussian'loss considerable. No
movement commenced from the
army on the lower Rhine. The affair
at Saarbruck is regarded wholly as
unimpOrtant. The Prussians at
no time contemplated holding the
town in force.
The correspondent of the Tribune
writes from Coblenz, on Tuesday,
that the Prussians force is greater on
the Bank of the Saar and Nos q
than is generally supposed, hence
they do not intend to fall back on
Mayence or Manuchien, but hold the
French in check from Siurck to Lam
terburg. One proof is the long
trains of provision wagons, stretching
from here to .rreves, and ambulance
trains with them are in too great
force for a mere affair of OutpOsts.
The larger square here and Glenn
ents Plattse is covered with peasants
wagons laden with bread and biscuits,
all moving west.
Treve5 is now the headquarters of
the eighth army corps.
The Prussian wagon and ambulance
service Is more perfectly organized,
and the horses are in better condition
than the French. The soldiers are in
admirable spirits, and their enthusi-
asm is less noisy than that of the
enemy, and their quiet confidence far
preferable to such effervescence as L
recently witnessed on the other side.
Coblenz is full of Landwehr. There
are but few troops of line there. Their
fortiticatiOns are being strengthened
rapidly, and trees being felled, in
readiness for an attack. All the COM
manding points about the great fort
ress, the occupation of which would
render 1t indefensible against sudden
artillery raid, are strongly fortified,
and earthwOrks are rapidly being
constructed toward the French side.
Our special correspondent at Cologne
writes Tuesday that troops are passing
steadily through that city going south
ward, all in excellent condition, and
each eorDs supplied with nroYisiong