The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-03
MORE DESPERATE FIGHTING,
Mcmahon and Bazaine Both
Engaged.
The Prussians Victorious Oh
Tuesday.
The French Victorious on We'd
nesday.
Conflicting and Contradictory
Dipatches.

BERLIN, September 2.-The followin.
from the King to Queen Augusta hai
Just been made public.
SEDAN, September l-3 p. M-Th'
battle has ragged since halfpast three
o'clock this m0sling. Our forces hav,
advanced VIGOROUSLY The Fourth
Fifth and Seventh corps and the Bava
mans were engaged. The enemy wa
almost entirely driven into the city.
MUNICH, September 1.-The Bavarial
Minister has received the following
lated near Beaumont, Tuesday: A
battle has just occurred, in which ",
were victorious. The French wer.
driven over the Meuse. The First Ba
yarian corps participated successfully
une battalion captured two guns.
LONDON, September 2.-The British
.Hadjcdi Journal SAYS that DR.. Hewitt
OF st. Georges Hospital, has been sum
mored to France TO attend the En-
ptror.
BoCILEoN, BELGIUM, September l.
Bazaine has driven the Prussians to-
wards Sedan. The French are at La
Chapelle.
Paris papers report obscurely three
French successes, without locating
them, from private sources.
LONDON, September 10 4. NJ
Dispatches received from Paris this
morning claim that the Prussians were
repulsed in their attack on McMahOn,
ailer ten hours sharp fighting. The
Prussans attacked them from the front
aud rear The French captured thirty
guns and a great many prisoners, and
the Prussians are reported To have
cen driven towards Belgium.
LONDON, September 2-l2 M.-An-
other dispatch says the Prussians were
victorious but ii is not generally known.
PARIS, September 2-Midnight.-The
Ministry has just given the follow.
ng news to the public, in the alb
,ence of official reports from Generals
commanding in the Northeast: From
the multitude of telegraphic dispatches
received from various Belgian towns
under date of August 5lst, from
eight o'clock in the morning until four
clock in the afternoon are extracted
the following which bear the character
Of probability:
On the 3Jth inst series of engage
ments occurred between Mcmahon 5
army and the enemy near the city of
Weziers, lasting from eight o'clock in
the morning until eight o'clock in the
evening. Our troops were attacked
hy the Prussians from the woods on
the heights OF Stonnes, a position We
had but recently evacuated, and which
the enemy recently occupied. The
attack, which was vigorous at first,
forced our troops 10 a retrograde move
ment, but we soon, at two o clock IN the
afternoon, took the offensive again, and
retained il till seven o'clock IN the even
ing, when darkness put an end to
operations.
After nightfall we recrossed the
Mcuse in order TO form again near
Donaherry, a few miles east of Mezi-
eres The engagement OF this first
days fighting have cost Ills sensible
losses. We have inflicted heavy dam
age on the Prussians. The infantry Of
Marne particularly distinguished itself,
and performed prodigles OF valor. The
Prussians ruined the town OF Monzion,
in that neighborhood, and killed most
oi the inhabitants. On the next
day (the 3lsD the Prussians
again took the offensive, at o'clock
in the mornings on the left
bank OF the Meuse, between the towns
OF DOnsy and Donsberg. Our forces
retreated slowly until Marshal Bazaine
had driven the Prussians into the angle
formed by the ramparts of Sedan, and
the heights on left side of the river;
here the Prussians experienced very
serious losses and were compelled on
account of. the murderous fire to re-
treat they effected this about noon,
withdrawing towards Nillemontry.
Atter several unsuccessful attemps they
at last succeeded in placing themselves
On the opposite side of the Meuse.
On the morning of the 3lst McMa'
non crossed the Meuse at Mauson.
This furnishes direct contradiction OF
the dispatch of King William to Queen
Augusta. which announced that he had
repused the troops under the command
OF Mcmahon beyond the Meuse.
Everything seems to indicate that
the engagements will be renewed to-
dav.
Special TO the Western Press
LONDON, September 2-230 P. NJ
The following official dispatch, dated
at Bovillan, Belgium, few miles from
Sedan, this dav, September ,, is just
made public: The battle, yesterday,
vas very bloody and resulted disastrous,
ly for the French who retreated on Ne,
z'eres The Prussians now occupy
Giyenne, few miles to the northeast OF
Sedan.
Some ten thousand officers and sol
tiers of the French army were forced
INTO the Belgian territory, where they
were required instantly to surrender
their arms A great number OF wounded
have also been admitted into Belgium
for humanity sake.
EVERY SATURDAY for September 10 i
one Of the handsomest Illustrated Pa
pers ever issued. 1t contains European
War Pictures,-the Baden Prisoner
OF l. Il