The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-05


fire."
The same correspondent, writing on
Monday night, says: Il thought at
the end or my last letter that my
contributions from Saarbruck were
finished, and had set out for the rail =
road station, when a communication
received from one of the best-inform-
ed men in the place made me deter
mine to stay; and to day the monotoDy
of Saarbruck has been broken. Two
thousand men with sixteen guns have
come within mile of towns and two
whole regiments are lying In the i'm
mediate neighborhood.
The first and third battallions and
the Fortieth Hohenzollern Fussiiliers,
made their appearance on the Saar-
Louis road, at the top of the hill,
twelve miles from Saarbruck, and
with them came sixteen guns and a
long line of men. These did not come
into town, but turned into a large
field high upon a hill, where they
will blVOuac tonight. There was
great JOY at the news of their ap
proaeh, and the towns people went
up to the field to receive them, with
provisions and presents of cigars,
&c. Gott. soldiers came from the
mouth of patriot at my side, as the
first cannon appeared.
hen | wrote you a letter there
were hardly more than FIVE hundred
men IN SaaFbruck, aud bad the French
made move forward, even with q
small part of their forces about For
bach, We should have made no re-
sistance but from some source or
other, our force was curiously exag-
gerated.
+" The Paris papers have credited
us with an extraordinary garrison.
There are at present, 10 Saarbruck,
or just outside of the place, 5000;
aud moreover, in the city the 18th
regiment with sixteen guns, and with
in short distance are the Oh hus-
saTs, and Goth regiment of the line,
with thirty guns. The 20th regiment,
which was to come here to-day, ad
vanced nearly to Saarbruck, and then
turned 10 aonther direction. The
destination of the regiment is un-
known.
Especial to tbs Herald
STRAsBoURG, August 3-Yester-
day. after the council of war, Marshal
Mcmahon, with his Chief Of Staff,
Gen. Caulson surveyed the Rhine
from Kiehl bridge upward. They
visited Brumata, twenty miles north
of here. where cavalry division and
part of the First Division of infantry
are encamped.
From these movements 1t Is cOnjec-
tured that Mcmahon, with the Afri-
can army, is about to cross the Rhine
and dash rapidly by the way of Carls-
ruhe and Heidelberg to Frankfort,
and that thence be will endeavor to
cut the railroad communication be-
tween Berlin and the Rhine.
1t is believed he will leave Msyence
on the left, while the main army will
push on through the Lower Rhine
Province to Mayence and CoblsntZ.
The forward movement, us rumored,
is fixed for Saturday.
1t is reported that the Pfussians
have gathered ia force In tho South,
and that Baden force is IN Black
Forest.
General de Touial is in command
of the Second Division Corps, sta
toned here, made vacant by the i'll
ness of General Dousy, who dropped
dead from apoplexy on the 1st inst.
[Cab,e Spec al to the Herald
CARLsBUHE, August 4-There wa
hard fighting at Wiessenburg yester-
day. To day, a force of Prussiaus
advanced between WiessenburG and
territory, driving the advanced posts
of the enemy. and destroying miles of
railroad between LaDterburg and
=,
ed MacMahon was preparir to ad-
vance. The French loss is heavy, in
Guiding many prisoners.
The latest Prussian victory, at
Wessenburg, was decisive The
troops In the engagement we're reei-
menls of the Fifth aad Eleventh
troops, led by the Grown Prince. The
French force consisted of Douay's
divisions of McMahon's corps. The
fortifcations of Wesseuburg and
Geishall, in the rear of that town,
were carried by storm, at the point of
the bayonet. After an obstinate re-
sistance, the General who command
ed the French in the absence of
Douay was killed, with two officers of
his staff The French encampment,
one piece of artillery, five hundred
wounded prisoners, including many
Turcos, fell into the hands of the
Prussisns. On the German side,
Gen. Kerch bach, of the Grenadier
Guards, was wounded, and the Eff
tieth Regiment suffered severely.
[Cable Special 10 the Tribune
LONDON, August "A correspond
ent of the Tribune telegraphs from
the Prussian headquarters that the
Grown Princes army has stormed
Wessenturg. The troops of the
Fifth aud Eleventh Prussian Army
Corps, reinforced by several Bavarian
Corps, engaged DOuay's Division of
Marshal McMahon's Corps.
The French were driven from the
field. aud the Prussians now occupy
the French camp.
Several hundred French soldiers
were taken prisoners. The Prussian
loss is considerable.
No movement has commenced from
the Army of the Lower Rhine.
The affIir at Saarbruck is regarded
here as wholly ~unimportant The
Prussians at no time contemplated
holding that town in force
A correspondent of the Tribune
writes from Coblentz, Tuesday, that
the Prussians are in much greater
force on the banks of the Saar and
Moselle than is generally supposed;
hence they do not intend to falI back
on Mayence or Mannheim, but will
hold the French 10 check from Sierck
to Lanterbourg. One proof of this
is that 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 here is covered with peasants
wagons, laden with bread and biscuit,
all moving west.
Trevese is now the headquarters of