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Show By Tdftraph.J Otlicr Accoonti of Saarbrackcn. The Tiibune's special, under date London, 5, sends the following account of the affair at Saarbrucken, dated Tuesday, 8 a.m. : '"I have just come from the railway station. More troops are expected. Marshal Lebouf has just passed on his way to the heights of Spiereh(rn. A French officer ga"e me a seat in his carriage. At half-past half-past nine we reached the advanced posts as a lieutenant and captain were busy buckling on their men's knapsacks. knap-sacks. They only knew the orders were forward. At one o'clock the videttes of Bartul's brigade were sent to the front, and the infantry v:ns steadily advancing under cover of a wood. Following by the road on a parallel line were the artillery and cavalry. -We were all behind a hill. When they reached ! the plain the infantry in-fantry rapidly deployed and skirmishers skirmish-ers were thrown oat, aud the battalions battal-ions massed in the rear of the artillery artil-lery iu position on the heights. A skirmishing line traversed the valley, followed by the battalions and keeping at the. same distance. The heights from the other side were reached without serious opposition overlooking Saarbriick.' The' artillery opened fire at once, the Prussiaii batteries on the ! opposite side of the river replying vig orously. A division of battle massed upon the road from Forbach to Saar-bruck, Saar-bruck, moved up and the attack began in earnest. 1 At 12 the Emperor arrived arri-ved and cannonading was brisk all along the line. The Prussian battery at the entrance to the wood, near the village of Arneval, finding it too hot, limbered tip and moved away. ; A battalion bat-talion of Prussian infantry retreated at the same time in good ordir by the quay of the Saar. On thin battalion the first trial was made with the metrail-leur, metrail-leur, and with dceid d effect. The battalion was broken and disappeared in disorder behind the nearest cover. At two the troops in advance gained the grounds just held by the Prussians aod occupied them without further resistance. re-sistance. Here and there were a lew Prussians dead and many wounded. There was cannonading towards Saar-louis, Saar-louis, but it was getting weaker. Another correspondent writes from Metz on Tuesday evening, we had six killed and 370 wounded. The Prussians Prus-sians is not known but ia reckoned at 250. In the train with me from tsaar-brucken tsaar-brucken were some 114 prisoners, a-mong a-mong them fifty of the Prussian reserves. re-serves. : One is Hell, a son of the es-cliamber'ain es-cliamber'ain of the Dake of Nashau. A staff officer sent by the Emperor has arrived from Forbach to question the prisoners, and with orders that they be kindly treated. Nine strong columns of iniantry, with cavalry and artillery, : leaving Spierehern took position between the villapc of Arneval and the slopes of- Saarbruck. This movement was sustained on the left aod front of Forbach, by the first division divis-ion of the second corps, the other division divis-ion supporting tho right, the whole being be-ing 25,000 men. The 67th regiment forming the head of the column of the 2d division opened fire in skirmish order on the enemy w ho were very well posted iu the upper part of the valley. 1'he French deployed and the struggle was brief. Within twenty minutes the Prussian, infantry was in lull retreat ; but the enemy's artillery, posted at the edge of the woods, in the rear of Saar Oruck, opened on the French troops, who advanced under fire and estab-iished estab-iished several battallions on the heights above the Saar. The cannonading stretched along the line from Ludwig, a mi'!e and a half on the right of Saarbruck Saar-bruck to the extremity if the valley ol Arnevalin, in the rear of the village of the same name. The firing was continued con-tinued with violence till half pa.-t two, when the enemy's fire gradually died out. The other fuixrs fi ll tack and the French advanced and picked up two dead and seven wounded Paring the action the Prussians blew up the bridge over the Saar, which the Ficncil are now icpairing. The Prussian force numbered ;,"'- . |