The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-19 00:00:00

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less than 12 corpses were this morning consigned ta
the churchyard turf at Augustenburg, all victims
of the typhus fever, which has been raging for seve-
ral days in the yards of the Slot-Lazaret. The worst_
calamities of war are weighing sorely on the devoted
army of the Danes. No wonder if exhaustion begins
to be perceptible in its scanty resources,
if confusion manifests itself in its councils. 7-‘lnrll*
ing and evening the mach-enduring soldiers of
forth, fury aware of the fate that a watts many et
them, but as yet unflinching in their duty, uncom-
plaining of hardships or dangers, or only occasionalli
to
murmuring that it " seems rather hard to have
submit to this blind, passive butchery, and wishiug
no
More
It were their lot to break out of the line of their bas-
tions, to plunge into the midst of their foes reaard.
less of inequality of numbers, and join with them to
a close struggle, in which they could at least take
life for life, and enhance the Prussians the:r victor);
by the high price they would have to pay for it. It;
was not to be so. The Danes must perish to a man'
and their German eneeci -s have it in their power to
blow them from their guns with almost perfect tin"
purity.
The farmhouse at Ronhave has been deserted, and
its 150 cows, driven from their stalls, are now wan-
dering without shelter about the lanes of Ulkeb°l'
Poor ;Farmer Rosen ! With a house lying on the
Sound within reach of the Prussian rifles in their
lurking-places on the opposite woods of Sandbjerg
and Stoveskov, he has hitherto had an anxious tiro:
of it. His young, pretty, and accomplished wife and
infant children have long since been banished to a
safer home. But Herr Rosen himself lingered on the,
spot, out of consideration to the Danish officers and
soldiers quartered upon him, towards whom he fu;
filled the duties of hospitality with a liberal hen'
His semi-rustic establishment was on the gigantio
scale common in these regions, and was conducten
with an order and care which entitled it to the
honours of a model farm. Many are the English
officers and travellers whom, upon my introductinn'
he showed with a most justifiable pride all over his
premises, and all of them agreed that neater build'
ings, a tidier yard, more wholesome cowhouses, a
sweeter dairy, a greater amount of rural wealth'
thrift, and good management were hardly to b°
found in the most favoured districts of agricultural
England. So happy a home, such fertile lands, ea
charming a site could not be resigned without a
pang. Farmer Rosen tarried on the spot, welcomed
his visitors, drew for them the cork of his oldest
bottle of Rhein wine, laid before them his choicest,
box of Havannahs, never inconvenienced by a en:o'
in his parlour, never ruffled by the unavoidable
exigencies of half a score of officers billeted on bibs'
never greatly disquieted by the rifle bullets that
rattled on his window panes from the opposite Opera
of the Alssund. His day came at last The Pros'
sians have reared their batteries on the edge of the
Sandbjerg woods. They opened fire on Ronhave:
as on any other point of their long line, not
any apparent object that one may see, but simply
f
because they have guns and like to hear the noise
them. Yet a day or two, and the Minster-like barn,
the 200-stall cowhouse, the stable with its 20 far°
horses, the hay-lofts, the granaries, all the Vide
and wealth of the gentleman-husbandman will be a
prey to the flames. Destruction has swept over the
whole face of llybbol and of the best part of Safi;
dewed. The turn must now come for the Isle 0
Alsen, and the tenements nearest the sea side 1:096"
bear the first brunt of the war. Ronhave has gene
Our dear Sonderborg Ladegaard must soon
The flocks have been penned up in the woods ; for
the herds the fo,:esters' huts will afford a refuge'
The cart horses and part of the stock may peebaril
escape the impending w,reck ; and the famiiy, /nal'
probability, what still hug era behind of them, an
their guests, military as wet; as civil, will take,
I themselves off in time. Shells and fragments 01
shells have not failed to give them timely warniog
. for the last three or four days.