Des Arc citizen., 1859-06-08
The Austrian Cavalry.

No power can boast such body oi cavalry as Austria. It is enormous In number. The horses are excellent-well bred, handy, active, and courageous. The men are bold riders, good swordsmen, and, better still, are the right weight, and are recruited in great part from two ol the greatest equestrian nations Tn the world, the Poles and Hnngarians. In her ser vice the monstrosily So often witnessed in France, of a giant oi two hundred pounds weight, laded with arms and accoutre- menls astrde of beast not much bigger than himself IS never witnessed In short the Austrian uhtun or hussar, is the model ! light cavalry man of the world Small, light, wIry, active, indelaigable, rider from his cradle, his bridle are his heels, and his hand, eye and heart, on his sabre, lindelatigable in the march, swift In the rcharge, everywhere by turns and nowhere long. Itmay be almost said that the Hungarian hussar. now that the Turkish spahi is a thing of the past, is the only 1 light cavalry, in fact the only cavalry in existence. His cuts ale as fatal and sure as other mems thrusts. His horse is part of himself; riding or fighting in his pas time. In former days he was the glory and boast of the Austrian army. Those lgay swarms of hardy little men which 1t shol from its sides on the march were its suresl aids in victory, its best safeguards in defeat.
 All this, however, goes down before the Eufed rifle and the Armstrong gun. Let the horse be ever so swift, the saber
 eyer so sharp, or the rider ever so bold, the conicaI ball is too much for him. A charge of cavalry upon body of properly armed infantry bids fair to be henceiof- ward impossible. Two hundred yards das been fixed by the best authorizes as the
 proper charging distance, and in bygone days 1t was only al two hundred yards that the fire Of square began to tell, and
 saddles 10 be empted. But now-a-days the iron rain patters on the horsemen be-
 fore they get within half mile of the
 foe If they quicken their pace to close llhe maddesl charge will not bring dra-
 goon-horse on the bayonet in less than
 three minutes, and when he arrives, he IS
 blown and disabled. "When he arrives, Tiff he arrives, we should say; for even lin traversing eghl hundred yards al the
 top of his speed, he receives half dozen
 voleys from pracliced sharp shooters. To
 send cavalry on such service vii we car
 safely predict. henceiorward be considered madness. The foot soldier has swiltel
 messenger in his carlouche-box than the
 heelest hussar, and Austria loses her mos
 efficient weapon TN. Y. Evening Post SEVEN UP This .snobie game" ha lately been brought into public notice by
 matched game, the preliminaries o which have just been arranged, to bt
 played by telegraph, between John D McGoodwln, oI Paducah, and Len. Faxon
 of Cairo. The regular stakes are twenty
 five cents in money, bottle oi Bond
 whiskey, and the championship ol Jack sons purchase; Barlow knife forfeit 3 Charley Smedey has been designated a ? bottle-holder, and Col. J c. Noble a l stake holder for the Paducah champion !. while Messrs. Phillips and Jennings vii g perform the same offices for the champion . of Southern Illinois. The excitement s intense and on the increase. Bets ar | ranging at about three yellow dogs 10 tw
 Cairo Io.s on the Paducah player. w r shall keep our readers posted. Louis