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Show BsmaBSSssssasMBastssssaBsssswaBsssassBSBsasawsiaMBSSB. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. Rpr; pi1 L It fer the Faat T IE2 HfLAU by THE WAR Fighting, Bloodshed, Victories and Defeat. Another Great Battle Re-Iiorted Re-Iiorted The French Victorious. A Decisive Victory for the Prussians at Weis-seuburg;. Weis-seuburg;. The Battle Brilliant but Bloody. Prussian Troops Concentrating Concen-trating ou Saarbrnck. Sweden Unprepared for a War. Bloodshed and Riot at the orth Carolina Election. FOREIGN. By Cable. Paris, 5. It is unumeially reported thut the French have taken SaarlouU ai'ter a great battle. London, 4. The New York Trib une'it special correspondent at Saar-bruck Saar-bruck writes: I thought at the end oi my last letter that my contributions from Saarbruck were finished, and had started for the railroad station, when a communication received from one id the best informed men in the place, determined me to stay ; and to-day the monotony of Saartiruek has been broken. Two thousand men with 16 guns have come within a mile of the town, and two whole reuiiuents are lying ly-ing in the immediate neighborhood. The first and third battalions and fortieth for-tieth Ilnhenzollern fusilier.-, made their appearance on the Sarlouis road, at the top of a hill two miles out of Saarbiuek, about 5 o'clock, and with them came 16 guns and a Ions line ol Thrv did not come into town. but turned into a large field high up on the hill where they will bivouac. There was great joy at the news of their approach All the town's people went up to the field to receive them, with provibious and presents ana cigars, &C Berlin, 5. The following dippatch has been received here f om Nieaerat-terbach, Nieaerat-terbach, a small village on the Atter Kiver, near Weissenbuisr, dated 6 o'clck Thursday evening: We have won a brilliant but bloody victory. The leu wing was the attacking body. It consisted con-sisted of the 5th aLd 11th Piussian corps, with the seconed Bavarian. This force assaulted and carried, under the eyes of the Prince Royal, the fortress for-tress of Weisenburg and the heights between Weissenuurg and Giersher. Donay's division of Marshal Mo-Mahon's Mo-Mahon's corps was splendidly defeated, being driven from its camp. General Donay himself was killed. Five hundred hund-red prisoners were taken; none of them were wounded. Many Turcos were among the captured. The Prussian Prus-sian General Kirchbach was slightly wounded. The lloyal grenadiers and filth Regiment of the line suffered heavy loes. Utrecht, 5. A special Stockholm dispatch says a war council of state was held here on Ju'y 25th, at which it was decided to dclare a complete neutrality. The Sweden and Norway press approve of :his declaration. Sweden is utterly unprepared fur war. She has but 50.000 Remington rifles and but five millions of ball cartridges, instead of ten millions absolutely required, re-quired, according to the minister of war, for service. The field armory is still worse off and include only 25 batteries and 15 guns. Not one fur-tress fur-tress can withstand a ticge. Carlscrona considered the strongest place in Sweden Swe-den could not hold out a week. But one Norwegian paper advocates taking part in the war. Paris, 5. The French General, Ba-raine, Ba-raine, made a rccorinoisance on the 3rd Lttwc.cn Saurbruckcn aDd S virloi'is to observe the movements of the Prusians. They were not found in anv force in the noighWhood. London, 5 The Times of :bi.-morning :bi.-morning says the plan of the l'ruian Command, r, Gen. Molfkc, has been recently chanced from the tl. fcn-ive to the orfen-ive. An advance into France is threatened. It is p-v-iLie that Prince Frederick Charlcwiil P'J-h forward and attack Nancy. The fight, at Saarlnxkcn lasted six hours and cn both tides six hundred men w-rc p'aced h)rs de. combat London, 5. The victory of the Pras-I Pras-I fian Crown Prince in eapturk? V e.s- senhurg and Giersher was brilliant but bloody. The Prench were repulsed and dispersed, leaving K'hind them their general, Donay, killed, and 5w rrisoners and many wounded Turcos. The Prus-iau- cajitnrod no cannon. The Prussian eommandr, Kirehbaeh, was slightly wounded. A French corps is said to have moved bt nii;ht on the Paar where a battlo was expected. The rumor of the. rapture of the town is unconfirmed. It is -aid a cavalry skimi-h occurred near Lauterliourg yesterday, in which twenty -five Fren.-h defeated a hundr- and fij";y rrusfiaus. The French on Tuesday shelled Saar-brucken Saar-brucken station. The engine, e3rs, wore savoil. |