The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-08-12
THE WAR
THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE.
STRUGGLE AT WEISSENBURG
Desperate and Bloody Fight.
HEAVY LOSS ON BOTH SIDES.

LONDON, Aug. A special cor
respondent at Saarbruck writes
Tuesday morning: Our guns are
being brought up opposite the French
and will reply if the French open
fire.
The same correspondent, writing
Monday night, says: I thought, al
the end of my last letter, that my
contributions from SaarbrucH-Tert
finished, and had set out for the
railway station when a communica
ton, received from one Of the best
informed men in the place, made me
determine to stay, and to-day the
monotony Of Saarbruck has been
broken. Two thousand men, with
sixteen guns, have come within q
mile Of the town, and two whole reg.
iments are lying in th Immediate
neighborhood. The First and Third
battalions aud the Fortieth Hohen-
zollerR fusilers made their appear
ance on the Saar-Louis road, at the
.op of a hill two miles out of Saar-
bruck, about five o'clock, and with
them came sixteen guns and a long
line of wagons. They did not come
into town but turned into a large
field, high upon the hill, where they
will bivouac tonight. There was
great joy at the news of their ap-
proach, and the town people went
up to the field to receive them, with
provisions and presents of cigars,
&c. GOtt sal lob came from the
mouth of a patriot at my side as the
first cannon appeared. When I
wrote my first letter there were hard
" more than five hundred men in
Saarbruck, and had the French made
3 move forward, even with a small
part of their force about FOrbach,
we could have made no resistance
whatever. But from one source or
other our force was curiously ex-
sggerated. Paris papers have cred
ted US with an extraordinary garri-
son. There are at present in Saar-
oruck, or just outside of the place,
three thousand men, and moreover
The Forty-eighth regimennt with six
,een guns; within a short distance
are the Ninth Hussars and the Sixty
ninth regiment of the line, with
thirty guns. The Twentieth regi-
nent, which was to come here to-
lay, advanced nearly to Saarbruck
md then turned in another direc-
ion. The destination of the regi-
nent is unknown.
General Won Cohen made his ap-
here yesterday, and remain
ID a short time. The present COM
nander is General Won Griesena.
The correspondent Of the Trib-
me telegraphs from the Prussian
.eadquarters: The Crown Princes
rmy has stormed Weissenburg.
7he troops of the Fifth and
Eleventh Prussian army corps, rein
Orced by the Second Bavarian corps,
General Douay's division
f Marshal Mac Mahon's corps. The
'rench were driven off the field, and
he Prussians now occupy the French
amp. Several hundred French sol
iers were taken prisoners. The
russian loss was considerable.
A correspondent of the Tribune
7rites from Coblentz, Tuesday, that
he Prussians are in much greater
Orce on the banks of the Saar
nd MOselle than was generally sup
osed, hence they do not intend to
all. back on Mayence or Manbeim,
ut will hold the French in check
'om Sierck to Lauterburg. One
roofis that long trains of provis-
)ns stretch from here to Treves, !
nd the ambulance wagons with |
hem are in too great a force for a
lere affair of outposts. Moreover
he large square here and Clemenz
'lattz are covered with peasants
-agons, laden with bread and bis
nit. all moving west. Treyes is
ow the headquarters Of the Eighth
rmy corps.
The Prussian wagon and ambu- !
nee service is more perfectly Or
and their horses are in bet |
r condition than those of the |
rench. The soldiers are in admir- |
Die spirits, Their enthusiasm is
IS noisy than that of the enemy, |
ut their quiet confidence is far pre-
rable to such efTervescene as 1 re-