The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-31
the WAR IN.EUROPI'.EE
Additional Dispatches Of Monday
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Fla dispatch dated Headquarters King Of
Prussia, Sunday evening, says: Yesterday
there was an action between the Third
Regiment OF -Sax0nS horse, supported ny
o squadron Of the Eighteenth Huzzars,
and six sQuadrOns Of French Chassours,
near Sezanne. Our troops were vict0rl'
Gus. The French commander was woun'
dGd and taken prisoner. ..'i t,.HrH I
REVIEW Oh, TILE PRUssLAN SITUATION,
The correspondent Of the Tribune with
tho Crown Princes headquarters, writes
from Nancy on the 9th: "Whtlc General
Steinmetz and Prince Frederick Charles
have done SO well on the right Of
the main French army, tho Grown
Prince has occupied more and more
threatening position on the right OF the
whole French position. Unless General
Failly can quickly muster sufficient force
I'd cbyer, Central and Southern France,
the Empire will be exposed 70 imminent
danger In regions quite unpreparcd TOR
defenscJ Once relieved from tllepossibili-
" Of d movement from tho p0rthward,
the Crown Prince can do pretty much as
ho likes in other quarters. II Is true,
masses OF National Guards, the French
reserves, will soon be marching against
him, but without training, without proper
equipment, and many OF them without
breech, loaders, they must az down PC
fore the German armies. The situation
near Metz can't DO better summed up than
by saving that tue French army Is moro
than matched by the first and second
Prussian armies, and that II these armies
should win, though only BY q hairs
breadth, the Prussians and their Southern
allies In the third army could do what
they pleased with Central France 4!
The smaller French fortrcsses are
making a gallant resIstanca Ptalsburg
Is already famous from holding out so OBJ
stinatelY. .Toul has just successfully re,
PEELED a. somewhat serious attack anu
there seems 10 have been o mistake as TO
the condition OF tho place for defense.
Yesterday morning attack was met with
great ytgor- byathe French garrison. They
did not venture On4a sortie to follow up
their, advantage, but inflicted loss on
their assAilanis with, as far as VIC know,
very little loss to themselves. They do
not suffer what Is technically called 1.-THE
horrors of war; Young girls stand at
their cottage doors -n the villages or on
the street corners to see the. soldiers pass,
and arc not molestcd by them. Shops
open 10 tic towns. arc not plundered;
lpeaceablG Citizens 60 about their business
without fear forli or limb. 1t is essen
tally q civilized war in these respects,
but fruit and, vegetables are, taken along
the wayside; horses arc pressed into the
! service: soldiers quartcred on the people;
large supplies of,tood are demanded from
! local authorities. g,a4f II espiJ 4, iFi,
The same correspondent, under date 81
the Gath, writing from the Crown Princes
headquarters AZ VANCOUVER, says; While
there seemed 10 be any chance that Ma
poIeon might win near Metz, 1t was neces'
sary to hold the third army in readiness
TO; archin5ffiwafd, 30 " bile the battles
wefgI tatfhS meat. Metz! this army lay
about Nancy End IuneVtile, half expect;
ing toibe ordered up TO support the other
German armies THEN came the news 81
the defeat of the French by Steinmetz
\ and Prince Frederick Charles. There
was no longer need 70 hesitate about IN
vatdtng Central FRANCE, and the march
was conmenCed, Of which you will soon
hearuhe results. This is a straight and
rapid march Of the third army, supported
bY othet troops. Without giving details
oftha movements, moro than 150, 900 men,
| full Of confidence, flushed. with victory,
and spiendldlS organized, are to break up
tho CHARTERS Of tile French. Three or
4 four Columns iatc marching abreast; on
some roads two 20 by the road Itself, and
Sometimes two more through the field to
the right and lett OF lat least one other I!'
column. It is remarkable how well the
columns arc directed; how carefully they
choose their routes through d wood.
4 cd tjrnyince like that Of Ptalsburg. Toul
Visa ilnoint Of gallant resistance, but not 2
fallying point for the surrounding people,
The fortresses Is held and the enemy
pdsseaaon without troubling himself TO
tnkeit. Back at Pfalsburg and at Toul
there, have been experimental attacks,
4 which, have given thegarrisons an oppor-
thnity OF destruction. The French au'
thoritieS scam disposed 70, avoid .unneees-
sary destruction Of property by merely
FLOWING up and Knocking down. to hinder
the Germans. There are no traces Of AZ +
temph.at "I1 .pesttS BIerre' Ids Tar as 4
haFaTet seen. q Tho French simply retreat
clear out of reach when they do mot mean
d 'tight In earnest and. leave the open
tnwn9 and Villages To be quietly occupied