THE WAR IN EUROPE.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 730, 22 September 1870, Page 3

THE WAR IN EUROPE.

ADDITIONAL TELEGRAMS AND DETAILS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

Although the dates brought by the San Francisco papers are not biter than the telegrams we recently published, yet we find in them a very large quantity of additional telegrams and details of the campaign, and of incidents connected with it, which we have compiled under suitable headings, and which we feel sure will be read with great interest. Our extracts are from the telegrams published by the San Francisco News of the World : — BLOWING UP THE RAILWAY BRIDGE. The railroad destruction at Bitche was extremely important, as the line runs from Forbach and Saarguemines to Hagenau, and from thence to Strasburg. The order to destroy it was given en the 18th, to prevent the sudden concentration of French from the south. Accordingly, a small number of picked men of the 4th Hulans started under command of Lieutenant Von Voight for Zwelbrucken, the nearest German town to the French viaduct. At Zwelbrucken, an engineer with miners and workmen, awaited the cavalry on Tuesday, and then set off with 30 cavalry, with lines and charts, carrying necessary materials ; but on this night, and also the following one, the French outposts were too active, and they had to retire unsuccessful. Now follows the characteristic point of the expedition : they made up their minds that the heavy materials with which they were encumbered must be reduced to tho smallest possible compass, and that every man who took part in the expedition must be mounted, and two days were given up to riding lessons. After two days' instruction, the miners and workmen were able to keep on their horses, and on Saturday nigh 1 , the whole body crossed the French frontier. The mounted miners and workmen were charged to push on with all possible haste to the viaduct, while the Hnlans engaged the French outposts, who were surprised. They accomplished their tasks with perfect intelligence and success. The country was roused from sleep by the explosion, which sent the great viaduct into the air" The miners rushed out again upon the railroad from the spot where they had retired after lighting the end of the train, and succeeded in tearing and blowing up some telegraph lines on both sides of the viaduct. They then mounted their horses again, and returned safely into the Bavarian territory.