The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-04

lrIoh tnc 81. LOuis lse1k2Dic20.
The Saar river has its sources in the Vos-
ges mountains, about twenty English miles
west of Strssburg. 1t flows into the Moselle
near Treves. On its borders there are five
small cities, two Of them still fortified, whilst
in former times all were fortroses whose
names are compounds of the Saar. They
are Sarebourg and Saregucmines, (Frenchi-
fled names for Saarbrg and Saargemund,
both on French territory,) and Saarbucken,
Saar-lOuis and SaariMrg in Rhenish Prussia.
SHOULD the Prnsians have been prepared
enough to operate at once on the left hank If
the Rhine" says General Sigel, in Il letter
to the Baltimore Wecke,, 'then it is proba
BILE that they have made the Star the basis
of a great movement in order to interrupt
the march Of the French against Luxennburg,
t. force battle upon the enemy, and
in case Of victory 10 isolate Metz,
tby the way one Of the strongest fortresses in
Europe), to take Nancy and arrest the inva.
zion Of Southern Germany by the French
from Strasburg and kehl We're the Pru,-
SLAMS not prepared, it Is doubtful whether
they could reach the line of the Saar iTreves
SI,r-brucken), and oppose the French there,
or whether they would no; have to mass
their trOOls between Coblentz and Mannheim,
in order either to break on, against the
French at the right moment, or receive them
on the eastern hanl, Of the Rhine. In such
a case the French might easily make great
movement from Str.sh,ig and Muhlha,,sen
into Southern Germany" 1t is easy to un-
tlerstand from these remarks what signii-
canoe the Sddr may have in the present war
We remark by the way that Norierney
is an island in the North sea, north of the
mouth of the Ems, and not two islands Nor
der and Neyl, as the telegraph gave it. IL
used TO he favorite bathing and fishing
place of the Hanoverian mobility, and it is
famous for being Peopled by the best pilots
If the North sea.
General Bernio, or whatever his name
may be, is reported TO have met Prussian
party at Nietlerbronn and an
nounced to the French secretary If war that
he repuised 1t, stating, as the despatch
reaches us, that the place was twenty-seven
miles northeast Of Strasb,lrg. This would
put NielerbrOnn in the vicinity ef Baden on
the right bank of the Rhine, and it would
prove that the French had entered Germany,
and Ofcourse occupied Baden and the Pala-
innate, from which in this case the Pr,ssian
army would have retired. The thing, how |
ever, is entirely the other way. There Is !
only one Nietlerbrunn, and II is a small |
town Of three or four thousand inhabitants !
in the French department of the Mosclle,
twenty seven miles west, and not east of |
Strasburg. This would prove that the Pr,s- |
sians hold the base efthe Saar, that they made |
I reconnOiter from Sargemund into France,
md that they fell hack on the main army |
when their Remembering party had seen |
What it had intended to see. Now, We do 1
sot attach any importance to this little az
lair in itself 1t serves us only to show how
he smallest inaccracy is apt to convey a
wrong impression about a very
important fact, s:lch m the situation Of
yreat army 0rls. II really Niederbrunn
rere east and not wet Of Stzasburg, the
French army woald have had to psss the
Rhine to eet there, whilst the despatch re-
Jared to really implies that the Prassians
ave advanced into the French territory.
Whether On that OCCASION they were repulsed, |
n watcher they retreated of their own voli-
ion. II entirely indifierenf. Armies Of hun
lrells Of thousands viii decide this war, and
sot skirnishes between few thousand men
y each aide.
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We suppose that it is generally understood
n Kansas that quite number Of Kansans
ave been ope1xling in Texas during the last
* meathe Their object hasban 70 induce
he Legislature 81 that State b la them build