Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-08-17

mos At Tbionville, the second corps under
Gen Frossard, at St. Avoid, midway be-
tween Metz and Saarbruck, forming with
the third corps, under Marshal Bazaine'
AZ Metz, as a second line of tattle the
left center Of the line. Then came the
fifth corps, under Gen. Failly, at Blfsch'
forming the right center; and then hrS'
corps, forming the French right at stras-
burg, under Marshal Mcmahon. Back
of the third corps, just as the third corps
was back Of the second, was the eighth
corps, at Nancy, under Gen. Bourbakl.
Opposed to the French line. the Prus-
sian right, under Gen. Steinmetz, lay
from Treves to Saarbruck the center,
under Prince Frederic Charles, from
Saarbruck to opposite Bitsch, and the LETT
that point to one Immediately beyond
Wissemburg, or, perhaps, even to the
Rhine. Behind the center lay the King.
In this statement we disregard, for the
present, the sixth French corps, at Cha
Ions, and the fourth, under Felix DoIay,
at Bclfort near Mulhause, the latter hav-
ing no part in the campaign. Gen. A..
Douay, who was killed at Wissemburg,
was a division commander of McMahon's
corps, as was Gen. Raoult, who fell at
Reichshofen. .- 4#.
With the two armies thus fronting each
other,as they stood on the first of August,
the second corps, under Frossard, taking
Louis and me" along, undertook to
break the Prussian center at Saarbruck,
last Tuesday week. This movement re-
suited in nothing, but the next day the
Prussian left began to move to some
purpose.
August Sd the crown prince, with an
army made up of the fifth and eleventh
Prussian and the second Bavarian corps,
moved upon Weissemburg, and the next
day carried that point by storm. The
French retired upon Bitsch, whence joined
by several divisions of Gen. Fallly IS corps,
they took part with McMahon in the bat
tie of Hagenau. .... 70.
On the 9Th, reinforced by five divisions
from Failly's corps and some of Canro-
bert's divisions, McMahon advanced to-
ward Wissemburg, to retrieve his loss,
but was met at Worth by the Prussian
prince, who had been reinforced from
Baden and Wurtemburg, and was advan-
cling upon Hagenau.
Directly west of Worth the main road
leads to Reichshofen, about three miles
distant, a manufacturing place of consid-
cradle Importance, having the largest and
most perfectly equipped machine shops
Of the province, where steam engines,
cars and heavy machinery are manufact-
ured. Upon the falling back of the
French from their first line, this was the
scene of heavy fighting, as it lies III the
main road from Hapenau, which is about
10 miles distant, TO Niederbronn, which
is the key to the approaches from Bitsch,
where Gen. Failly was posted. Nieder-
broDn, town of about 1000 people, is
situated on little stream at the head of
a charming valley enclosed by two lines
of steep wooded hills.
1t is probable that the Prussiens sew
cred the French army at Reichshofen,
and pursued some divisions of it back up
on Faily at Bitsch, while McMahon. with
his main army retreated through the for
est of Hagenau to the railroad. which
took him to Saverne. If this conjecture
is right, the fight at Niederbronn was with
one fragment of the severed army, and
was followed soon after by the capture of
Bitsch. which lies few miles northwest
of Niedrbronn.
In this direction there was fighting,
Sunday morn g, for dispatches from the
Bavarian second corps represent them
as having aided the first Prussian corps
to carry the heights of "Guemnc," after
a severe and bloody action soon after sun.
rise on the 9th. 1t is probable that this
fight was followed, during Sunday by the
assault Of Bitsch, of which We have only
vague accounts. .y
While sour Fritz was routing and cut
ting in two the army of McMahon, and
thus demolishing the whole French wing,
uncovering strasbourg and threatening
Nancy, the Prussian right center was
moving by the left to pulverize the left
center of the French under Frossard. In
the absence of Gen Steinmetz, Frossard
was driven from Saarbruck, Forbach and
st. Avoid, and back upon gBazaine at
Metz, by Gen. Won Goeben, who led the
Prussians until Steinmetz came up in the
evening, joined his command. and pushed
on to St. Avoid. And on Sunday while
Failly was retreating from Bitsch, and