The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-05
THE VAR.
THIS MORNINGS DISPATCHES.

ANOTHER sKIRMIsH AND A PRUssIAN VICTORY
THE FRENCH DRIVEN FROM THEIR CAMPS WITH
GREAT Loss-A FRENCH GENERAL KILLED AND
A PRUssIAN GENERAL WOUNDED.
STRAsBoURG, Aug. Yesterday, after the
council of war, Marshal McMahon, with the
chief of staff, General Coulson, surveyed the
Rhine from Kehl bridge upward. They
visited Brumuth, twenty miles north of here,
where the cavalry division and part of the
first division of infantry are e%ncamped. From
their movements it is conjectured that
McMahon, with the African army, is about
to cross the Rhine and pass rapidly by way of
Carlsruhe and Heidelberg to Frankfort, and
that thence he will endeavor to cut the rail-
road communicating between Berlin and the
Rhine.
1t is believed he will leave Mayence on his
left, while his main army passes on through
the lower Rhine provinces to Mayence and
Coblentz. The forward movement, it is ru-
mored, is fixed for Saturday. 1t is reported
that the Prussians are gathered in force to
the south, and that the Baden force 10 in the
Black Forest.
LONDON, Aug. Especial to New York
Tribune The correspondent Of the Tribune
telegraphs from the Prussian headquarters as
follows:-'"The Crown Princes army has
stormed Weissenberg. The troops of the
9Th and 18th Prussian army corps, reinforced
by the I'd Bavarian corps, engaged General
Douay's division of McMahon's corps.
''The French were driven off the field, and
the Prussians now occupy the French camp.
Several hundred French soldiers were cap
tured. The Prussian loss was considerable.
mo movements are announced from the
army of the Lower Rhine. The affair at
Saarbruck is regarded here as wholly unim-
portant. The Prussians at no time contem-
plated holding that town in force"
The IT56un6S correspondent at CoblentZ,
writing on Tuesday, says:-"The Prussians
are in much greater force on the banks of the
Saar and Moselle than is generally supposed,
and hence they do not intend to fall back on
Mayence or Mannheim, but will hold the
French in check from Sierck to Lauterburg.
One proof is hat long trains of provision
wagons stretch from here to Treves, and the
ambulance trains with them are in much too
great force for a mere affair of outposts.
Moreover, the large square, the 'Coblentz
Platz,' is covered with peasants wagons,
laden with bread and biscuit, moving west.
Treves is now the headquarters of the 8th
Army Corps. The Prussian wagon and am
bulance service is better organized and their
horses are in Letter condition than those of
the French. The soldiers are in admirable
spirits. Their enthusiasm is less noisy than
that of the enemy, but their quiet confidence
is far preferable to such effervescence as 1
recently witnessed on the other side.
"Coblentz Is full OF ~andwehr, there being
but few troops of the line there. The forti-
f~cations are being rapidly strengthened, and
are being filled in readiness for an attack.
All commanding points about the great fort
ress, the occupation of which would render
it indefensible against modern artillery, are
now strongly fortified, and earthworks are
rapidly being constructed toward the French
side"
CARLsRUHE, Aug. Especial to New York
Herald. --latest: The Prussian victory al
Weissenburg was decisive. TIL troops en-.
gagged were two regiments of the 9TH and 18th
Prussian Army Corps and the I'd Army Corps
of Bavaria, led by the Crown Prince in person.
The French force consisted of Genera
Douay's division of McMahon's corps. Weis
senberg and Geishill, in the rear of that town,
were carried by storm at the point of the
bayonet, after an obstinate resistance.
The general who commanded the French il
the absence of Douay was killed, with two
officers of his staff.
The French encampment, one piece Of
artillery, and FIVE hundred wounded prison
ers, including many Turcos, fell into the
hands of the Prussians.
On the German side General Kirchbocl
was wounded. The Grenadier Guards an
5Oth Regiment suffered severely.
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