The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1849-07-21

there encamped, and the Magyars. The
struggle was distinguished by unheard of
Jury on both sides, lasted sixty-four hours
without interruption, and ended with the
most complete defeat of the imperial armies.
Iwenty-three thousand Austrians and
Russians and eight thousand Hungarians
lay dead on the battlefield. The imperial.
1918 lost their whole artillery, and turning in
wild ,disarray, fed in the direction of Wen
na' followed by the holly pursuing Magyar
h"ssars. On the Hungarian side Gensrai
Arthur Gorgey and Geaeral Guyon com.
manded; the imperial forces were led bv
LII. Field Marshal Hayman and the Russi.
an Eetaa~+lv 10 +. .s-IA>e.-n- ----------,rvr
which has just reached us from Vienna, aud
another letter just shown US from great
banking house of the same city, is almost
verbatim to the same purpor. Our regu-
lar Vienna correspondent, as we'll as our
correspondent at Presburg, from both of
whom we have received letters up to the
10th, give us no news whatever in relation
TO this important battle: except tha. on the
18th the continuous roar Of cannon was
heard in the direction of Raab, and that the
| report f great defeat OF the Imperials,s
was circulating at Vienna. We must,
however, say in regard 10 this. that for some
time past all our letters from Presburg have
been opened, and when they contained
news unfavorable TO the imperia! cause.
suppressed. For this reason our cores.
pondent writes with all possible caution,
and for the most part forwards his letters by
travellers, whereby they often do not reach
us until they have become old
According 10 the old and new details Of
intelligence which are before US. the 18th Of
June was fixed on as the day when opera
tons should be opened on both sides. The
plan Of tho Hunsorians had for snrno DAYS
eentknown 10 be by overwhelming attacks
oi cavalry on the two extreme wings, near
Oedcnburg and Trenichin-to compel thu
inlperialist TO break up their centre, and in
this they seem to have been perfectly snc-
| cessful. Whether the attack of Schlick's
corps east of Oedenburg. which turned ou.
so badly for tho Auslrans, were only the
opening, or, as it were; the overture Of tho
great battle Of which our Vienna letters
speak, Or whether the defeat Of Schlicls was
only the cause of exaggerated reports o.
universal defeat, we shall know with Ger.
talnty in few days.
WHAT HAS THE SoUTH GAINED EY ELEc-
TING GEN TAYLoR.-'rhis question is fire..
quentl y asked, but it will probably take four
years to give the answer in full. Already
we can asYer in part. we have got u full
blooded AbolIionist for a postmaster. gene.
raj. :. A man who not only voted for tho
abolition Of slaves in The District OF Colum.
bia, but voted that the negroes should be al
lowed to vote on the question Of their Tree.
dom. We have gained a new department
Of This is PIaceu Nrf7 see.r;..a.d. aha in.
or rsAbalitioDls... ..s He with all his long list
of clerks have been added toithe Presidents
pa,ronage,and their whole influence isturn-
ed against the South. The former Secre.
tary of the Treasury was Southern n,sn,
and his annual Reports were each of them
tower of strength TO Southern rights
The present Secretary iss fnou. The North,
his feelings and interests are there, and his
influence will be arrayed against the South.
The South then has gained host OF for
midable enemies, BY. elec,ing Gen. Taylor.
Many honest men believed that electipg
Gen. Taylor, the South would have the ad.
vantage Of his influence his worth to the
South can be seen by the selection Of his
Cabinet. He has called 10 his, councils
some of the most bitter enemies Of tho
South, and in his Cabinet councils the intiu-
cnce Of Ewing, 4Gollamer g. Co. prevails.
His cabinet has already done many things
which Gen. Taylor, before the election, pro-
missed should not be done. We must then
believe either that Gen. Taylor has broken
his pledges that he made before the cleo
,ion, or that he is a perfect blank in his ad-
ministration, and cannot carry out his own
measures in either case the South has been
deceived and humbugged.
\ .,ss 80; Albany (Ga.) Patriot:
III GEN. TAyLeR-IHe Way the Democrats
Txsated Him, ard the Way he Repays ttess.
-e-Wh hen The present President Of the Uni
ted States, on the 9th and 10 of May, l647,
says the Ohio Statesman, fought the battles