Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-10

favor OF all cllSISellC purify W nv 49,
well proposed vote for 10000 additional
troops and e2000,000, he was warmly
cheered So also was Mr.. Gladstone when
he told MIR. Stapleton that If golfers are
chartered to attend the fleet of q belliger-
ent to supply coal, they will to all practical
intents and purposes become store-shlps at
tached to that fleet.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, Aug SIN the House of Lords
to-day Lord Russell moved the second
reading of the bill amending the militia
acts. He spoke at some length in review
of the condition of foreign affairs, and said
the government requires full defensive
powers. The intrigues and perils on the
continent are due to the uncertainty as to
the course to be pursued by England.
Mr.. Cardwell, Secretary of War, answer
ing question, said all British regulars,
except one regiment in India, are armed
with the Snider rifle, while of the militia
and volunteers some have breech-loaders.
Evidence hourly accumulates of the SUI
periority of the needle gun over the chas-
sepot, and the fact creates deep concern in
France.
The Pail Mall Gazette estimates that the
Prussian army on the frontier now musters
half million of men.
Extensive activity is noticed in English
ports and dock-yards, and extensive pre-
parations are made to put the coast detences
! THE FIGHTING YESTERDAY.
! CARLRUHE, August 4, 6:30P. M.-There
was hard fighting at Weissenburg yester-
day. To-day large force of Prussians adj
vanced between Weissenburg and Later
burg ten miles into the French territory,
driving in the advanced posts of the enc
my, and destroying miles of railroad be-
tween Latesburg and Strasrburg, along
which it is supposed Mcmahon was pre-
pairing to advance. The French loss is
heavy, including many prisoners.
A correspondent of the Tribune tele-
graphs from Prussian headquarters that
the Crown Princes army has stormed
Weissenburg. The troops Of the Fifth and
Eleventh Prussan army corps, reinforced
! by the Second Bavarian corps, engaged
| General Douay's division of Marshal Nc
Mahon's corps The French were driven
off the field, and the Prussians now occu-
! ply the French camp. Several hundred
| French soldiers We're taken prisoners The
! Prussian loss is considerable. No move
ment has been commenced by the army of
| the lower Rhine.
| The affair at Saarbrucll is regarded here
as wholly unimportant. The Prussians at
| no time contemplated holding that town
| in force.
| In spite of the importance of maintain
| railway connectionsa at Saarbruck, the Prus-
slams have never seriously prepared to
|
to he henceforth independent of the Saar-
| bruck line.
| LONDON, Aug. A correspondent of
the DdUy NctOs, writing from Paris on
| Tuesday, says that the enthusiasm for the
| the war has entirely disappeared in Paris.
THE PRUSSIAN ARMY.
4 \ correspondent of the Tribune writes
| from Coblentz, Tuesday, that the Prussi-
ans are in much greater force on the bank
4 of the Saar and Moselle than was generally
i supposed, hence they do not intend to fal
back on Mayence or Menneheim, but vii
hold the French in check from Serck t
/ Laterburg. One proof of that is the Ions
trains of provision wagons which stretcl
! from here to TreVes and the ambulanc,
! trains with them are in too great force fo
III mere affair of the OutpOsts. Moreover
II the large square and Clemens Plats are
Il covered with peasants wagons, laden will
FL bread and biscuit, all moving west. 'rreve
: is now the headquarters of the Eighth Ar
: my corps. The Prussian wagon and am
e bulance service is more perfectly organized
e and their horses are in better condition
n than the French. The soldiers are in ad
= mirable spirits Their enthusiasm is les
t noisy than that of the enemy, but thei
e quiet confidence is far preferable to sucl
It etiervescence rs | recently witnessed
c The other side Of coblentz Is full of Land
Il wehr. There are few troops of the lin
II there. Their Qualifications are rapidly he
IS ing strengthened, and trees are being felle
Y in readiness for the attack. MI the CON
h handing points about the fortress, the oC
r cupation of which would render it indC
l. feasible against modern, artillery are nov
strongly fortified and earth words are RAJ
}, idly being constructed toward the Frenc
|. side.
II Our special correspondent at Cologn
: writes thursday, that troops are paSsi1
IS steddiy through that city, gOiHg sOuthcurC
Il all IN erceHent condition. EocH corps ,Oit
provisions for sir lCeckS No enthusiast
surpasses that of the South German reg
ments, many of which have petitoned I
:, form part of the advance gtared.
2 LONDON, August 3.-The engagement t
n Sa3rbruck was between a small detacl
20 ment forming a Prussiqn outpost and thrt
" divisions of French infantry supportin
4 % guns. The affairs of slight importanc,
: and the loss trifiing on each side. Tn
i, special correspondent of the Tribune
= Saarbruck says he was reused early Sunda
= mording by a report that the town was [
!, be evacuated, and for fifth or sixth tim
n he packed up for a start.
The announcementthatth e fOrtification
a of Paris are to be placed in a condition
! defence, and the Emperors admission tina
!. the war will be lOn-, have SINGULAR
: dampened the ardor of those who imagine
q that within fortnight glorious peac
which would re-establish the supremacy {
French arms would be signed in Berlin