The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-09 00:00:00

PAINFUL SCENII.

The railway station at Josephstaalt is some distance from
the fortified city of that name. It is something like a
similar establishment in England, except that there is a
small group of trees on the platform between the rail and
the refreshment saloon, and little tables and seats laid out
in the shade. These were now occupied by wounded
men, of whom many were lying on the ground;
they were Jagers, linesmen, and cavalry soldiers, and
most of them were wounded in the foot, or band,
or arm, from which I inferred that the more
severely wounded had been taken away in some of the
heavy trains which passed during the night. Inside the
refreshment-rooms, first and second class, as with us, with
a long bar in the outer mom for all corners, the lime
sight met the eye. On entering the inner room an
officer who was smoking • cigarette saluted me,
and I was about to sit down close beside him till
I saw a pool of blood under the bench, awl perceived
that his foot was terribly shattered. He wee a general
officer, I think, from his gold-braided collar, or a staff
officer of rank. AU the ocher places were taken up in
• similar way and every few minutes another sufferer was
brought in and examined by the doctors, or a vacancy was
made by taking oat others, and putting them in the
carriages of the train about to go southwards. The outer
and larger room warn equally full. One cheeg•looking
Tyrolese, who spoke a little Hann, told me there

had been a severe encounter with

day near &alit:, higher up on the rally.,
an Austrian oorps had been surprised
times the number of the enemy, and k
severely. The needle-guns, he said, enabled'
fire so fast then was no getting at
better," said he, " but they fire three time* u.,
Another soldier who was shot through both bey
on• fee a akar, 1,14-be eeedel wet liglifliiir
mouth of his own accord. !lei said "iiptiii...
devil full of cunning and 'not lialsai r.
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wounded in the rooms, but timing iii WI i
when the 'upon's probe tanididd 'a cle‘tha to
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or one was raised from the floor or ' 't dthA ,
bearers.

The strictest surveillance is exereised,
thing and everybody in the Austrian r

fact is more than once alluded to in

correspondence. He was specially

neoeuity of secrecy in the course of

AN rwritavirw WITH MARSHAL
The Commandant of the Police, who
cigar at the portico, received us iuul
risirs—maseive stone, through vaulted ,
ante•ahamb►n, filled with officers sad
through the folding doors there wu a gli
hall, like a great German sal24-4-nianger,
filled at each side with some 60 or

down to begin dinner/. Feldzengineister

Benedek wag seated about hall: wa]

left, and talking loudly and with mud

seeing me he rase and began a short address
man acting as correspondent of a Vienna

officer of Engineers, warning him against
genoa by letter or telegraph which would
The correspondent stood se the esal

on the conclusion of Ilia warning
Bomodek, bowing to me, sad, in Gerson,
end asked me if I tutdentood what

plied In the affirmative, and then he
relied on my promise to do no harm
which I was repaired. The dinner was r

—soup of rico sad vegotabko,6oui/14, rout

cheese, with decanters of white and red Hanged***
and water. Then came cheese, coffee, and shift
During dinner Feldseugineister von Ilensedek spelo
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peatedly in clear ringing tones to officers se they ess
from time to time ; he read despatches and
round
was during the meal The talk all round
was loud and free and genial. Meets of all ranksienw
together—generals, captains, colonels, lieutenant 1!)0
was young Prince Faterhazy, who had just rititha
miles that day, and wee still ready for duty. fl.
in a handsome Hussar uniform, was Baron As
who bad left his seat in the Hungarian plaits
to fight the Prussians. There, in another gay ank
uniform, wee young Hunyady ; and thers ess
Liohtensteins, Festetics, and many another to,
sentative of historic names and families, is law
white and brown, and light blue and grey ow
old and covered with orders, others yougiT
berning for distinction. Cigars were banded rand, a
lighted and smoked, and after an hour at table tie wb
party retired and the Feldseugmeister took his leave fin
and went to his private apartments. In hal
features be resembles Sir John Pennefatber,
features are rather sharp, his actions and tame are
and energetic, energetic, his figure is lean and Wiry, the Irak

sharply cut, the eyes dark and exoeedingly
penetrating—his whole bearing that of a soldier.
On the 29th the correspondent moved lA*
head-quarters, seeing on each side of him oh
left tens of thousands of men sleeping on the!iil
in their great coats regardless of the morning!. ,
He arrived at Dubernitz near noon, where a dug
position was taken up in expectation of a
attack from the Prussians. At Dubernits
head-quarters train was blocked in a none
lane for several hours by the enormous )ii;
of troops proceeding from west to east,
being concentrated in preparation for a bilk
On the morning of the 30th the headquais
train began to move more regularly, though dm
was still no cessation of the march. The ni
aides were lined with men who had lain dons
rest. Many of them were dressing their feet ma
in folds of linen, and seemed worn out, &mini'
few limped as they marched. At every twos
three miles were a regiment of foot or him
bivouacked in the fields, the men still glee*
and the thin curling smoke from the camp%
mingling with the mists, which slowly mein&
fore the sun. Early as it was, the people kith
villages were all up and lining the roadsides, vii
terror in their faces, and propitiating the sore
with large pitchers of water. Here Mr. Rua{
we regret to say, met with an accident,*
thrown from his vehicle with such Ihs
that an iron hook cut into his soli
severing a small vein, his face becoming covereisd
blood. The only consequence, however, he*
was that he received much commiseration fro
the country people as one who had been Tumid
in action, and he arrived in camp with Bernoulli'
honours of war. The halt was at Sadowa, nis
in a short time thetiews came of Prussian succor
and everything was hastily packed up, and de
headquarters train ordered to Nechanitz. The tend
of the inhabitantsat thesight of the retreatingsro
was now at its height. The victory at Jicin
Eisenstadt had enabled the Prussians to turn
left flank of the Austrian position, and let slip
cavalry on the rear. At half-past 3 in the
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noon a group of Prussian horsemen were
coming from a wood, but the vast booty bi

them was too big for their jaws. It imam,

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but s pleasant position for the Au
as s rapid retreat was out of the qi
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At 4 o'clock the train reached Ti

a considerable town, but abandoned by most of
inhabitants. The town was intended as a
place, but the Austrian colonel decided to pill
on to Koniggratz. When about an hour from 104
place, a mass of cavalry were seen riding as MO:
they could, apparently to cut the Austria .lica
from the fortress, and a race began. 4

THR RACE TO KomarmArz.

Pell-mell they came, and pell-mell our train 10
mingled with them. " What, in the name of Hawn.
is it all '^ " Why, we have been beaten by the Pr's&
again. They have taken GO carriages of the return •
munition, and 30 squadrons of their horse are MOO
us at full gallop." "All make for the fortress," Ira
cry, and on we swept in furious haste, thrall"
village and suburb-Angers and foot soldiers t2l
along the sides of the road, artillery and
galloping, till we reached a sort of Gear
hastily thrown up in front of the inundated gelds ill•
which the Prague highway leads to the city. Here
pieces were in position to command the causeway, Ali
body of infantry lined the trenches. Further on wr
see troops moving through the meadows, and the pi!"
pets, bristling with guns, were crested by the shalassrd
the Austrian artillerymen. At the outer gate.ikti
was a confusion beyond description--oflicess,
in hand, swore and threatened the drivers dwP
vehicles, who tried to fit two carriages in • space"'
would only hold one ; but it would answer no pullol_j9
dwell on the disorder, for at last we got through, F 17.,
over the outer moat and the main, over drawbridio
under portal till the panting horses drew up in the
Ring of Koniggratz, about half-past 8 o'clock at
after a day quite full enough of war's alarms, and via
perfect certainty that we were to be besieged till Faao4
meister von Benedek came to our succour.
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