New-York tribune., 1870-08-05
SPLENDID PRUssIAN SUCCESSES.

SPLENDID PRUSSIAN SUCCESSES.
THE PRUsSIANs STORM wEIssENBURG - THE
FRENCH DRIVEN OFF THE FIELD - THE
PRUssIANs OCCUPY THE FRENCH CAMP.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUERI
LONDON. Thursday, Aug. 4, 1870.
The special correspondent of THE TRIBUNE tee-
sraps from the PTussan headquarters that the army
Of the Crown Prince has stormed Weissenburg.
Troops of the Fifth and Eleventh Prussian Army
Corps reinforced by the Second Bavarian Corps,
Gagged Douay's division of MacMahop's corps. The
French were driven of the field and the Prussans
occupy the French camp Several hundreds of the
French were taken prisoners The Prussian loss was
considerable.
No movements are announced from the Army of
the Lower Rhine The affair at saarbruck is re-
garded here as wholly unimportant The Prussians
have at no time contemplated holding that town in
force
AN ADVANCE INTO FRENCH TERRIT0RY-TEN
MILES OF RAILROADS TORN UP-GEN. NINA
mons ADVANCE PROBABLY RETARDED-oNE
GUN AND 500 PRISONERS CAPTURED.
CARLsRUHE, Thursday, Aug. 4, 1870.
There was hard fighting at Weissenbourg yester-
day To-day a large force of Prussians advanced be-
tween Weissenbourg and Lauterbourg, ten miles
into French territory driving the advanced posts of
the enemy and destroying miles of the railroad be-
tween Lauterbourg and Strasbonrg along which it
is supposed Mcmahon was preparing to advance.
Tho French loss heavy, including many pris-
oners.
LATEsT,-The Prussian victory at Weissenburg
was decisive. The troops engaged were regiments
Of the 5th and 11th Prussian army corps, and the
Second army corps of Bavaria led by the Crown
Prince in person. The French force consisted of
Gen Douay's division of Marshal McAlahon's corps.
Wessenburg and Geishill, in the rear of that
town. were earned by storm at the point of the bayo
net after an obstinate resistance The General who
commanded the Fench in the absence of Gen.
Douay was killed with two officers of his staff. The
French encampment one piece of artillery, 500
wounded prisoners including many TurcOs, fell into
the hands of the Prussians.
On the German side Gen. Kirchbach was wounded
The Grenadier Guards and 5Oth Regiment suffered
severely.
GEN. IMAGINATION SURVEYING THE RHINE.
HIS PROBABLE PLANs-A FORWARD MOVEMENT
FIXED FOR SATURDAY.
srRAsBoURG, Thursday, Aug 4, 1870.
Yesterday, after Council of War, Marshal Mac
Mahon, with his Chief of Staff, Gen. Coulson, sur
yeyed the Rhine from Kiehl Bridge upward They
visited Brumuth, 20 miles north of here, where
Cavalry Division and part of the First Division of
Infantry are encamped From these movements 1t
Is coniectured that MacMahon, with the African
Army is about TO cross the Rhine and dash rapidly
by the way of Carsruhe and Heidelberg to
Frankfort and that thence he viii endeayor to
cut the railroad communicating between Berlin and
the Rhine 1t is believed he will leave Mayence on
the left while the main army pushes on through the
lower Rhine province to Mayence and Coblentz
The forward movement, it is rlmored, is fixed for
saturdav. II is reported that the Prussians are
gathered in force in the South and that Baden
force is in the Black Forest Gen. De Gaual in com
rnand Of the Second Division of the Corps stationed
there vacant by the illness of Gen. Douay, dropped
dead from apoplexy the 1st inst r. .
THE PRUSSIAN POSITION ON THE FRONTIER.
A LARGE FORCE ON THE sAAR AND THE MO-
sELLE-THE PRUssIAN LINE FROM sIERCK TO
AUTHORIZATIONS PASSING THROUGH
CoLoGNE-sOUTH GERMAN ENTHUSIAsM-A
MATCH FOR THE MITRAILLEUR.
/BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUyEl
- LONDON Thursday, Aug 4, 1870.
The special correspondent of THE TRIBUNE at
Coblentz writes on the I'd inst, that the Prussans
are in much greater force on the banks of the Saar
and of the Moselle than is generally supposed Hence
they do not intend to fall back on Mayence or Mann
helm but will hold the French in CHECK from eierck
toLauterb0urg One proof of this is that long trains
Of provsion-wagons stretch from here to Treyes and
the ambulance trains with them are in much TOO
great force for a mere affair Of outposts Moreover
The large square here the Clemens Platz is covered
with peasants wagons laden with bread and biscuit
all moving west Tr6ves is now the headquarters OF
the Eighth Army Corps
The arrangements of Pnissian wagons annou-
Iances and horses are more perfectly organized ana
they themselves are in better condition. thah those
of the French The soldiers in admirable splts'
with less of noisy enthusiasm than the French but
with n ouiet confidence far preferable to such efer-
vescenoe "a recently witnessed. Coblentz isful OF
the Landwehr but contains but few troops of the
line The Notifications are rapidly strengthening
and the trees in front of the works are felled in
readiness for an attack. All the commanding points
about the great fortress which might have rendered
II indefensible against modern artillery are now