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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. f---rd T-.-bJW for th Piait l-iti HrvJ. ty THE WAR 10..5GO Prussians Killed Wounded and made Prisoners at Wcis-senbur. Wcis-senbur. Italy will Ann. A Mutiny in the French Camp at Chalons. McMahon Recaptures Weissenburg. loOjOOO French Concentrated Concen-trated There. Important Military Move-J ments Along' the Line of liattle. iVorth Carolina Carried by the Conservatives. ice, SiC, &c. FOREKi.W Hy Cable. London, 5. A dispatch says tin defeat of the French at WeLssenbun. was di.-astryus. (jeu. Doiuy's dvi siens, cumpused of picked fighting wen, was uiteily routed. Woissen-burg Woissen-burg is in the possession of the Prus sians. A general advance here auu on Saarlouis is expected. A terrible earthquake has visited the thores of the Gulf of Corinth. The towns of Alphica and Galizida and several villages are destroyed Many persons were killed and wound ed. Ttie inhabitants are in great destitution. des-titution. Florence, 5. The Senaie has sanctioned sanc-tioned the proposed armament of the country and adopted a vote of confi deuce in the ministry, j Ijndon, 5. A special correspondent correspond-ent wiites from 1'uris on Thursday evening that there was almost a mutiny mu-tiny at the Chalons' camp among t e garde mobile when Marshal Cauiobcn lni-peeteJ them yesierday and asked the officers the usual question, "Any complaints?" .The regulation answer is, ''none sir;" but these young sol diers made many complaints and in a very sturdy way. One section signified signi-fied that they were sick of the service already, And cried out, ''Back to Paris." Marshal Canrobert, bursting with rage, told the mutineets they were unworthy the name of Frenchmen, French-men, and forthwith proceeded to make them aware of th; fact, which they hardly seemcnl to realin?, that though not regular troops they were subject ro the utmost severity of m u tial law. I hear he had two of the ringleaders brought to a drum-head court martial and bhot directly. It is known thai the commissariat of the garde mobile is very bad aud they want shelter shel-ter and food. There is great lamentation at Meti from the Prussians having flooded Saarbruckn coal mines, which produce pro-duce three and a half millions of jon.-of jon.-of coal yearly, half of which is consumed con-sumed in France. Paris, C. La LibrrU say McMahon McMa-hon moved yesterday towards Weis-senburg. Weis-senburg. lie was but two hours march from that point and his men marched at quick step, lie has between be-tween sixty and seventy thousand men. To-day there will be about 150,000 men concentrated ne ir Weifscnbourg. The loss of the Prussians in the re c?nt engagement reached 10,500 in killed, wounded and prisoners. The French forcts defending the town weie but eight or ton thousand, while tb attacking force numbered fully forty thousand. The enemy wa- no severely crippled that be could n'it fi low the V. ench when they retired. Paris, ii. - '1 he Journal Ojl'usial say the French troops only to the nuiubei of seven or ciL'lit thousan d were engaged enga-ged in the affair Wore Wcisnburg, and ha 1 to Contend with two 1 ru-cian army corp. including the picked troo t. of the l'ruj at. guards, and adds : In spite of the inferiority ol their nututhjrs, our regiments nis!e'l the assaults of the enemy fjr i- vera hours with admirable h.-roi-ui, wlc-ii thfy were forced to give way. Tin-lois Tin-lois of the enemy was o res ere that l.e did not d.ire to r ur-je. While at J-aarl'i .li-k w" hi. brk"ii the I'm-ian I'm-ian Hue. while o'n -nrn remain- intact. in-tact. Pari-,, o. I xi LiU rti puhlL-h- s a private di-p'iti h i-eiit at midnight !a-?t nijht. frjm :r i-b j.ir.-. r-pjrtin that McMahon h ad beat ttie IVu-.-ian- yesterday, yes-terday, the latter w'viiiiit Wci-;a-ba'g. Tel'-;rr. !. c:ni:i.a:ji.jt...a with Wci'nbourr La- t-' -a r'-e'ta', li-hed. Wu .-.. r. Tl- amiy of Bi-i-i ye--terday pasod the French frontier and advanced to Lonterbourg where it established head Barters and KeiW some boats in thj river. The I rench Hts at 'NeVertipieD was thr-e kiled Mi one wounded. The;,- shelled i-'t. Jt-ar ;a;ion. I.ind.in. 0. y a. ia Advices from the sea; of war this morning concur in represeiiT:iiinr that the corps under Mar-hal McMahon is ad" Miicinj after a fight with .he l'Vnssian. LaA evening even-ing the- cn'upied and now hold a stren.; position on ;re Bavarian frontier. The entire French line of operations is kept in intimate eoniainaication by urder ground telegraph wires. English pilots have Kvi formsHv torhiiden to s-?r.e arncd of the tligCKnts.; Paris, 6. The paiie-; la.-t night made a seisure cf.-pHeio shipped for the theatre of w.ir' by private p-t-ties. I"he books and isafe ot Baron Iliisch were also seiied, on the thi ge ihat the rale requiring them to Le placed under seal had been violated. |