The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-01
7 DEFEAT AND nour or MAoMAnos's Army.

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BowzANEY, August 81 ma LoNDoN.-The
Prussians attacked MacMaton's army to-
day near Beaumont and defeated it, driving
It back upon the Belgian frontier. The
French camp fell into the hands Of the vic.
torious army. The pursuit Of the French.
which was continued for several miles, was
interrupted by the number of cannon and
the provisions taken. The extent of the
battlefield was SO vast that it is impossible
to obtain details of the movement.
LONDON, August 31.-The courts decide
That the 1nman steamer City Of Boston,
which was lost at sea and has never been
heard OF, was not overloaded and was sea-
worthy when she left Liverpool.
MORE NEWS OF THE BATTLE.
LONDON, August 31.-A dispatch from
Carrlquan says cannon-firing was heard
south of that place all day yesterday, and
late tonight the result was unknown. The
Emperor has certainly left Carriqran for
Sedan. (Carriquan IS few miles northeast
of Beaumont.)
PLAN OF THE PRUssIAN ATTACK ON MAC
MAHoN.
LONDON, August 31.-The Prussians, con-
ceiving that Marshal Mac AIahon was en-
deavoring to gain the frontier and effect O
junction with BaZaine, advanced in three
lines. The Crown Prince marched vja
Commercy, Bar lie Due, st. Dizer, ard
Vitry. The fourth army, under the Prince
Royal of Saxony, keeping north of Pont o
Mousson, moved towards Chalons, at the
same time observing Metz while General
SteinmetZ, who had been reinforced, pro-
ceeded through Verdun to Rheims, his
right wing sweeping the Belgian frontier,
in hopes Of meeting MacMahon. This Ger
man advance covered the country from
Belgium along the Meuse to the Aube, and
rendered it impossible for MacMahon to
reach Metz.
FRENCH REPORTS.
PARIS, August 31-Erening.-There has
been no official Information from the seat of
war made public to-day. The Constitution
mel says that assurances Of an Unofficial cha
racter were given in the Chambers yester-
day to the effect that Mac Mahon had crossed
the Meuse without opposition, and that the
Minister of Foreign Affairs had received
from the French Ambassador at Brussels
news that BaZaine OIL the 18th and 10Th
disengaged his right after successful en-
counter with the enemy. Other journals
here continue to give news of French sue
cesses in minor engagements from private
sources.
PRUsSIAN REPoRTs-CoNFIRMATIoN OF THE
DEFEAT OF IMAGINATION.
BRUSSELS, August 81, ria LONDON, Sep
TENDER 80 a. M.-king William sent
the following dispatch to the Queen:
"FARRENSEs, August 3l.-The Crown
Prince has been in action with the Forty
eighth, Seventeenth, and Fifteenth corps,
and the Fourteenth corps of Bavarians.
miles beyond the river Meuse. Several
thousand prisoners and materials of war
were captured. [Signedl WILLIAM"
LONDON, August 31.-Count Bcehlen has
been installed as Prussian Governor Of
AlSace. The prussians say that the French
prisoners denounce the Emperor tiercely.
The French papers assert that the Prus-
slams place the red cross Of the ambulance
service upon their ammunition wagons,
and some officers wear the same bulge to
avert the French fire.
-Four million kilogrammes of powder
have been distributed to be used in defence
of the Notifications Of Paris.
A special telegram from Berlin this eve
ming says the advanced guard Of the Twelfth
corps successfully engaged the Fifth French
corps at Nouarte.
Trustworthy accounts place Mac MahOn
on the line from NIezieres to Sedan, with
his right wing on the railroad between Me-
ZereS and Rethel. The extension Of his left
NSiiiag from Longwy Is not fully known. 1t
is reported r1hh tet the suspension of travel on
the lines from Paris f0es sa.llaIS, ana Paris TO
Brussels, creates belief that -Is MIS- Slahon, S
army will be eventually transferred by the-
northern railway to Paris.
PARIS, August 31.-Gustave Raymond
has organized Il volunteer corps for the de-
fence Of Paris, composed of writers for the
press.
The announcement Of the stoppage of
passage between Paris and London il pre-
mature.
Thirty thousand troops left for the north
ward on Tuesday. but there are sufficient
number remaining in the city.