The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1870, Page 3

THE WAR. Exciting News from the French and Prussian Armies, Severe Fighting and Battles at the Front. Reported Defeat of MacMahon by the Prussians, FRENCH CLAIM OF VICTORY. Field Manifesto of the Crown Prince of Prussia. Heavy Losses of the French at Weissenburg. FRENCH EXPLANATION OF THE DEFEAT. The Entire German Line in Motion. A Powerful War Fleet of France in the Baltic. Prussian Treatment of the French Prisoners. POSITION OF THE NEUTRALS. Paris Agitated and a Cabinet , Proclamation. : THE BATTLES. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Worward Movement of the Prussian Army= The Engagement at Thionviile—Flight of the Freach—The Entire German Line Sweeping Aloug—King William in the Field—Poworful Demonstration of the Preach in the BalticmThe French Prisoners Marching Through Beriin, Lospon, August 6—9 P. M, ‘Telegrams dated at Carisruhe to-day, at a quarter ‘past six o’clock in the evening, just to band in this city, report that a forward movement of the right Wing of the Prussian army wa? made from Treves and Saariouis yesterday, Sterck was captured, Thionville was vigorously attacked by the Prus- 6lans in overwhelming force, After some resistence at that point the French, tt is said, threw away their arms and took to flight. At the same moment the Prussian troops under command of the Crown” Prince advanced, the ad- vance guard of the Frencn in the direction of Bitche making only a slight resistance to the move- ment, ‘To-day there is a ge German army here. King William, of Prussia joins in the march. Upwards of 2,000 French prisouers have been for- rd dto Frankfort, ‘The exact position of the main body of the French army is not known just now, Itis supposed, how- ever, that Napoleon’s troops are concentrating at Meiz, MacMahon’s corps of the French army is supposed to have fallen back from Bitche and Haguenan towards Metz, marching on tts supports on either side, ‘There were reports of the illness of Napoleon pre- ‘Valiing to-day, just as tha troops moved towards Metz, Telegrams from Copenhagen dated on the 5th Inst., in the evening, announce that ten French men-of-war ships have entered the Great Belt. This makes the number of French war vessels serving in the Baltic nineteen. Despatches dated in Berlin to-day advise that the French prisoners captured at Weissemburg were passing through the Prussian capital on their way to Spanden, The Berlin poltce authorities issued a nouce calling on the people to maintain a dignified ‘course of behavior towards the captives, and to give a generous treatment to the men even although they are enemies, ‘al advance of the whole Engagement at Woerth—Reported Defeat of MacMahon. LONDON, August 6—9:20 P. M. The following despatch has just been received here:— Ww BURG, Via BERLIN, August 6, 1870. The Prince Royal has defeated Marshal Mac- Mahon. Severe Oficial Report of the Victory. BeRtrn, August 6, via LONDON—10:30 P. M. The Prince Royal telegraphs the following bulletin from the fleld of battle:— A Victorious battle has been fought near Worth. MacMahon was totally beaten (fotalement battu) by wie larger portion of my command. The French re- tired upon Bitsche, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Prince Royal. FIELD oF BaTrLE, NEAR WortuH, 4:50 P. M, Lhe Crown Prince to the Prussian Army. BERLIN, August 6, 1870. The Prince Royal Frederick William, commanding the South German Army, has tssued the following ‘proclamation:— SoLprers oF THE Tarp Corrs—Appointed to command you by the King, I greet you; soldiers of Prussia, Wurtemberg and Baden, united under my command. Your courage, discipline and perse- verance fill me with pride, joy and confidence, In true fraternity continue to spread your flag over new victories—victories which, God aiding us, will insure honor and peace to United Germany. Another Battle, | LONDON, August 6—$:30P, M. The Glode, on undondted authority, says a great battle, in which many bodies of troops were en. @aged, began yesterday, but was interrupted by darkness, Is was resumed eariy this morning, and continueq 8 o = Present and Prospective Boundary of the French Empire---Strategic Points of the Belligerents Positions of the Contending Armies. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. 3 MILITARY OPERATIONS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE. placard was placed beariny the inseription—. “Respect for the arms of Ruasta.’? ‘The shops which were mensced last night remain closed to-day. The Garde Mobile, at Chatons, are discontented. They have expressed their dissatisfaction with the provisions furnished them, and accompanied their complalats with shouts for “The Repuplle,” and for a “return to Paria.” Two ringleaders have beeu shot. COLOGNE REMAGEY PS BITTEQURG Enoayarees: Gr Prince ERED EHABLE i N32 CREUZNAC. QWITLIch ‘ 4 wo © Da ™ 2 2 = x 8 QO” PIRKENTE LOD , isi B Ce ren e ’ 4 i My 4 ; a A ZWEIBRUGIK, {DEUX PONTS cme “ - S SAARLOUIS: 397° /RECUEMINES ANC HALSB OURGHE COUIS &! METZ BRUMATA MEHDENHEIM aeRO W) GMAHGK STRASBOURG ro tani “ABBUACG PRUSSIA. | | Advance of the Army of Baden~The Miag nd the Other Royal Commanders—Pablic Enthu Loyalty—The Prisoners. Bex.in, August 6—Eveuing. A despatch dated at Carisrut: to-day aays:— The army of Baden yesterday passed the Freach fronticr and advanced to Lauterbourg, where I established headquarters an4 seized some boats in the river, The French loss at Neunkirchen was three kilied @nd one wounded, They shelled pt. Jean Station. The heagquariers of King William are at Cologne Prince Frederick Charles t8 tm command as | Kreuznech and the Crowa Prince at Manheim. | Information has reached here that al! Germans jn France will be obliged to take out ofteial perm) remain in the country. Intense euthusiasm prevails throughout Nerv in the lurge cities of the confederation mble th the streets to hear war news anc Germany crowds a make demonstrations of loyalty, | The Bavarian Ministry in Munich has been autho. rized to borrow 5,000,000 rigsdalers for two yeary. The French | nave been prisoners 80 far taken Ia the war tstribated around Be | | Marshal MacMahon Said to be Advancing-- Fighting Stil Going On—One Prassiag | Victory Confirmed—Reports trom Anutwerp— | War Material for the Contincot=Prblic | | Opinion of the Conflict. LonDon, August 6—Eventng. at of war this morning concur Mac uasians Advices from the in representing that the corps under Mars DARISTAD] pt IM last evening, occupied, and pow holds, 4 strony ' por varian frontier. neh line of operations is kept ty fon on th The entire Fi intimate communication by underground telegraph wires, At half-past one o'clock this atternoon rumors ‘ were prevalent of fighting going on, but no con ‘y firmatory despatches from the Continent were wo H hand at the time, Later advices from Prussla fully confirm the com pletengss of the victory at Wissembourg. The fortifications at Antwerp ana Hamburg are being put into a complete state of defence wita ei possible has Saltpett India, Bism WORMS. A \ ! } > fy + HEADOTS A CROWN PRINCE as been ordered from n vast quantitl organ at Beriin now approves of E land's observauce of her neatral obligatious, The schooner Lanman, captured by the French, would have escaped had she not called ut Cork, thereby giving the French consul opportunity to telegraph the fact to Parts and set the French ’ cruisers on the watoh for her. UF ‘\ Th elish pilots have been formally forbidden to i serve armed vessels of the belligerents. Among (he German craft taken refage in English ports are the Hermann, from New York, the Blumeu J N J thal, from Cuba, and the Talisman, from Brazil, ’ Torpe.toes have been sown thickly in the channe i of the ¥ \ ‘The correspondent of the Independance Belge says the affair at Saarbrack was a mere farce, There t4 great popular tinpatience in Paris at th ' delay in operations on the frontier, x It is proposed to establish @ Board of Naval @on- f struction In this city. 7 turduy Review explains the withdrawal of . the French troops from Rome by wy daowtaly phe their presemoe there and vy the new Freneh Wet mpevor has authorized, includmg tee “Marseiliaise.”’ do 4 The Review says Germany has access to English a arms (hrough Holland, witch is supplied by land, aud may, tn tura, send supplies to North - , nan The & momést thinks the suspension of the Bank of France a8 @ War Measure to reserve funds for the troops ts probable, but of little moment bere, ‘The French yacho feet follows the French naval fleet to the Baltic to act as ambulances, It was General Abel Douay, an infantry coi mane who was killed at Welssenburg, and not General C. Douay, the General commandmg the division, The Prassian government's prohibition of the ex- portation of cora 13 conflued to direet shipments wo France. The Times this morping says it ts melancholy to see two nations actuated by ambition rushing ta arms and seeking a military supremacy which no victories, however brilliant and continuous, can establisn; for, fortune assisting at all batties, the vanquished will always seek a fresh appeal to fortune, The vessel taken by the French proves to be tue Lanman, from Wilmington, N. 0. with a cargo of turpentine RUSSIA, Sympathy with Belgium. St. PETERSBURG, Angust 6, 1870. The Journal, in @ leading article, strongly sympa- thises with Belgium and urges tie maintenance o° the neutrality of that country. THE BATTLE FIELD OF WOERT The early despatches whieh arrived Saturday afternoon reported that Marshal MacMahon had re- oceupted Wissembourg and taken up a strong po- sition on the Bavartan frontier, This statement, however, was wholly tnaccurate, To the contrary, itappears that the German army, commanded by the Crown Prince of Prussla, had actually ad- is at present on friendly terms with Holland, and this extension 1s not possibie unless there is some secret understanding betw the Dutch govern- ment and that of France, Thus the above man is intended to show precisely what the fighting to wrest from Germany. ‘The places marked by stars are the fortified and Strategic positions of the belligerents, the principal of which are Thionville, Metz, Nancy, Strasburg, Haguenau and Bitche in France, and Cologne, Cob- jlenz, Mayence, Manheim, Landau, Rastadt, Saar- louis and Treves in Germany. As one of the most important features in the present war will be the use of railroads for the rapi@ transmission of troops As will be seen in the foregoing map the present boundary line of France runs along the left bank of the Rhine to # point near the Lauter river, where It turns abruptly and follows an trregular imaginary line in front of Lauterburg, Weissenburg, Bitche, Sarregemines, to Sterck, near which place it sirikes the frontier of Luxemburg, along which {t runs until it meets the Belgian boundary, which it unites with to the sea, The almost oMiclally expressed purpose of France ts to extend her frontier to the left bank of the Rhine from the Lauter river to a point below Cologne, where Rhenish Prussta is bounded by Hol- land. It is also the desire of France to continue her Irontier to the sea; but the Emperor's government from one point to the other all such roads are given in the map. It will be seen that at present the French have 4 decided advantage over the Germans in this respect, Their raflroad from Thionville to French are | Metz and from thence to Nancy ana Strasburg and Haguenau enabdies the throwing of men from one end of the line to the other {in a remarkably brief space of time. Cars have been specially constructed for this service, and arrangements have been made by means of which an entire division of troops can be moved on, @ single train. Unttl the capture of Saarbriick the Prussians possessed nearly the same advantages, although thetr line of raliroad commu- until seven o'clock this evening, when victory de- clared for the French. Simlar rumors are curr Bourse, The confict between MacMahon and the Crown Prince of Prussia, already mentioned, was ap- parently the commencement of the struggle. french Ministerial Manifesto, troops who, tothe number of 7,000 or 8,000, wero Panis, August 6, 1870. | engaged im the agatr before Wissembourg, had to The Council of Ministers has addressed, over the | contend with two Pru signatures of all ite members, the following procla- | mation to the people of tis city:— Invapitants ov Panis—Your indignation has been naturally aroused by odious manwuvres. The guilty ones have been arrested and justice now investigates their cases. The government takes the wost ener- getic measures to prevent such infamy. In the name of our country, in the name of our herole army, we ask you to be calm, patient, orderly. Disorder in Parts would be victory for russia. AS soon as any certain news reaches here, good or evil, it shall be communicated immediately Let us be united, having one wish, one sentiin the triumph of our arms. FRANCE. in 4, affecting the army corps, including picked troops of the Pru an Guard, The Journal adds: In spite of the inferiority of their numbers our regiments resisted the assaults of the enemy for several hours with admirable heroism, when they w forced to give way, The loss of the enemy was 80 severe that he did not dare to pursue. While at Saarbruck we have broken the Prussian line our own remains intact, La Liberté this morning publishes a private de- spatch vent at midnight Jast night from Strasburg, reporting that MacMahon beat the Prussians yester- day evening. The latter evacuated Wissembourg. Telegraphic communication with Wissembourg las been re-established, La Liberté says:— MacMahon moved yesterday towards Wissem- bourg, He was but two hours’ march from that point and his men marched at quick step. He has between sixty and seventy thousand men, To-day there will be about 150,000 men concentrated gear Welssen- burg The News in Paris, Panis, August 6, 1870—£vening, ‘The enthusiasm of the people here over the favor- able reports from che (rontier Is indescribable, Enor- | mous crowds fill the streets around the Bourse so that no vehicles can pass, and shout and sing patri- otic songs. The cafés are filled to overflowing. Placards are posted at the Bourse, giving particu. persion Greve vo Only nar oer Field Reports from Wissembourg—Explaining The oMctal reports are awaited with feverish anx- the Defeat—MacMahon’s Movementa—Prus- fety. None have yet appeared, and, as the govern- sian Losses—Results of the First Engage- ment will permit n0 other news from the army to ment, be telegraphed abroad, the bulletum reports cannot " be used, % Paris, August 6—Evening. The Journal Qficiel tuis morning says the French vanced into France, evidently on the road leading to Soultz-sous-Foréts, a small town of 2,000 inhabit ants, situated seven miles south by west of Wissem~ bourg and between that place and the fortifled city of Haguenau. Here the Prussian army must havo taken the road running west to Ntederbronn, Be- tween Soultz-sous-Foréts and Niederbronn 1s the. ge of Woerth-sur-Sauer, or Worth, ag tt 18 called in German. Near tnis place the battle is reported ta have taken place. Woerth {3 about twelve miles southwest of Wis. sembourg, che same distance southeast of Bitche } and some nine miles from Haguenau. It stands almost in the centre of the triangle formed by Hague. ae nau, Bitehe and Wissembourg. {t is almost at the base of the Vosges Mountains, the surrounding country being exceedingly hilly. Correctly writing, however, the village ties in the valley between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine river. By the despatch of the Crown Prince of Prussia, which says that Marshal MacMahon’s army retired upon Bitche, we are placed in doubt whether the Freach line of communication between that place and Haguenau 1s intact or not, Shonld it be broken, @ new line is possible between Bitche and Brumath. nication was much longer, Since the occupation of this town by the French, however, the railroad has been cut, and forcements for the Prussian right coming from Neustadt or Creuznach must disembark at Neunkirchen and paarch across the country. The positions of the contending armies are given ag ascertained from the latest reports, the French forces being Indicated by solid guns and those of the Germans by hollow guns, The headquarters of the several commanders, including those of Napo- leon and King William, are stated in print and marked by flags. Th ment reached 10,500 ta killed, wounded and pris- oss of the Prussians in the recent engage one The French forces defending the town were but eight or ten thousand, while the attacking force numbered fully 40,000, The enemy was 80 severely crippled that he could not follow the French when they retired. The Gaulois to-day prints ® despatch from Metz reporting that a regiment of the Royal Guard of Prussia was cut to pleces at Wissembourg on Thurs- day, and @ Prussian general way wounded, “The French soldiers fought like lions, and the loss of the enemy was 7,000 hors de combat." THE WER PEELING IN TBIS CITY. Hew the Germ Talk—Indiffereace of the French, aud its Canses—A German Banker's, Financial Udea of the “Situation.? The war feelimg in this city, even among the rmans, notwithstanding the stirring news which has been received from abroad during the past day; or two, has not been near 60 Intense as when the intelligence was first Mashed across the cable that France had thrown down the gauntlet to Pruasta,! ‘The Freuch population in New York, strange to say,’ do not manifest one-half the interest in the war that the Germans do, and although they love ta della CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE The books and safe of Baron Hirsch were seized last night, on a charge that the rule requiring them to be placed under seal had been violated. The attacks made last night upon the shops of the money changers were occasioned by imprudent re- marks made by some of their employés, who were Germans. The police protected the threatened places from damage, At one shop, which bore the arms of Russia, a >