The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-08-16
Further Foreign News.


.4usfria and Hungary.
There has again been some severe fight
ING in Hungary, and again the Magyars
have been victorious. Kossuth appointed
Denbinski commander-in-chief. "OuI
Vienna letters >and papers, says the
Times, ''are of the Goth inst. They con-
tain no new details of the battle of Wait
zen, excepting the official news which our
correspondent gives that the Hungarians
have succeeded in breaking through the
Imperialist lines and marched to the
north"
The correspondent above alluded 10
writes from Presburg on the l9th instant;
-"For some time the plans OF tne Hun
garian chiefs have been shrouded IN mys-
tery, and we are only now beginning to
gain an insight into them. 1t was IN vain
that Georgey kept SO long at Comorn-
He there awaited Dembinski, and after
this junction, the combined armies coop
Grated at the battle of Waitzen. Dem
binski took up his position with 10000
men at that place, Georgey maintained his
ground at Comorn.
Dembinski assumed the offensive, and
after well contested action, forced Pas
kewitch to retreat to Demabeez, near Co
dollo. Georgey was not equally success
fu; although he maintained his ground at
first he thought proper to retire to lsra and
Comcrn. The Hungarans have retaken
Neutra. We hear here. that the Russ
ians have been compelled to abandon
Debreezen from the want of provisions.
Fever and cholera have made fearful raw
ages. both in the Austrian and Russian
armies; and now that they are beginning
to be drawn away from their supplies, the
diseases will work their way i'll cores
ponding ratio.
Three ladies of high birth are under
Imprisonment at Pesth, for having mani
tested sympathy for the insurgents. They
were tried by courtmartial.
up. S.-I am Just informed ION no less
than Imperial authority that the Russ
ians have had a sanguinary conflict with
the Hungarians, to the utter discontinue
of the latter, with loss of nearly 1000
men. The particulars shall be able 10
give you in my next"
Another letter describes the Russian
retreat to Duna kees as a disorderly flight
before Dembinsky's Hussars, and states
that the Russians were only saved from
aunihilation by the arrival of Ramberg.-
1t was admitted in Vienna, on the goth,
that the victory of the Hungarians at
Waitzen had been complete.
While Dembinsky and Gorgey were
thus chastising the Russians in the north,
BEN in the south was completely crush
ing the army of the Ban Jellachich.-
Great demonstrations were made at Per-
lass, opposite to Titel, and the Servian
General kniczamin, devoutly believing i'll
the sincerity of these, and that it was the
settled intention of the Magyars to cross
the Thesis al this point, continued to dig
trenches and stockades with the utmost
assiduity, while the main corps of the
Hungarians, passed the river at O'Beckse;
and Benz, at head of 10000 men, sudden
ly fell upon Jellachich's army and COM
pietely crushed it.
Pesth offered on Sunday and Monday
a spectacle of terror OIL the one hand, and
of hope on the other. The partisans OF
Kossuth had the boldness to speculate once
moro in Kossuth bank notes, which they
ran up to 65. All houses and cellars
were shut close, and so it remained till
Tuesday morning. BY order of General
Ramberg, Egersy, secretary of Kossuth,
was shot.
kossuth, with the ministers, functional
rles, and chambers, having withdrawn on
the 9th to Gzegled, subsequently reno
we'd from thence TO Arad, after the surren-
der of that fortress by the Austrians under
General Berger. The steamers received
orders 10 move down the river to a place
OF security.
\ ministerial crisis at Vienna is report
ed. NJ. Schmerling and Count Leo Thun
are mentioned as likely to be admitted
into the cabinet.
General Haynau has been disgraced
and has to resign his command into the
hands OF General Hesse, who has lust
been appointed FeldZeugmeister.
According to Vienna letter of the Goth
the Emperors of Russia and Austria have
Just had an interview at Brunn, the former
having arrived in the strictest incognito.
Lord Ponsonby, the British ambassa-
dor, and his family, have arrived at Vi,
emma.
Vienna papers and letters OF the 22d
inst. contain a bulletin, which confirms
our former accounts Of the defeat of Baron
Jeilachch. The bulletin proceeds to state
that the Bans army suffered loss of coo
killed and wounded, and among them Ia
officers. 1t is, however, evident that the
loss of life must be greater by far than the
number quoted in the official reports
The headquarters of the Ban are asserted
10 be at Ruma, Syrmia
letter from the camp near Comorn
IN the Presse, gives an awful description
of the scenes that are enacting in the coun-
try around the fortress. On all sides col.