The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-06-22
T FL e G EAT 3 ATTLE
FUKTHEK DETAILS.
a q evolt In MILAN.
THE VICTORY In DISPUTE.


THE VICTORY In DISPUTE.
The second dispatch, containing some de-
tails Of the great battle, will be found be-
low;
A desperate battle was fought at Magenta
on the 4th OF June, between the allied army
under the Emperor Napoleon and the Aus
TRAN army under Gen. Hess, in which I'M
limited forces were engaged on both sides.
The Emperor Napoleon, in bis dispatches
to the Empress at the Tuilleries. claims
decisive victory, saying that his army took
1000 prisoners, disabled 1000, and cap
tured three cannons and two standards. He
estimates the loss of his own army at 5000,
but it was rumored in Paris that the French
loss was between 5000 and $4,000.
1t is reported that there were from 1907
600 TO l80, 900 Austrians, and l3O, 900 French
engaged 10 the battle.
The Austrian accou nts differ widely from
those OF the French. Their bulletins speak
of several battles being fought, with varying
success on both sides.
1t was still undecided on the night Of the
9th, as to who gained the victory.
Great losses on both sides are reported.
General Of Division, Espinasse, or the Sec
ond corps d'armee, WAS killed, and Marshal
Canrobert, commander OF the third corps,
was MORALLY wounded.
General Maurice Mcmahon, commanding
second corps d'armee, has been created Mar
shall and Duke De Magenta, as reward for
his bravery on the battle feld.
Five of the French Marshals and Generals
were wounded.
Marshal d'Hilliers had been superseded in
his command of the first corps d'armee, by
Gen. Forey.
Four Austrian Generals and S staff officers
were killed.
There had been general revolt at Mil an.
The people had declared in favor OF the King
Of Sardinia.
The Austrians had retired from Milan, but
the city had not yet been occupied by the
French.
Later rumors detract from the French
claim Of victory at Magenta.
IL was believed that proposals OF peace
would follow the entrance Of the French into
Milan.
Paris had been illuminated in honor Of
the victory Of the French at Magenta. The
Paris Bonrse was active and the 3's had ad :
vanced.
Iawtessness In Kcokuk County.
We learn from the Sigourney, Keokuk
county, Democrat of the 10th, that other
deeds Of lawlessness have followed the break
ing open Of the county Jail and setting the
prisoners free. On Tuesday evening, the Ith
inst, Burroughs, one Of the liberated pris-
oners, was seen lurking about LANCASTER
where he resided. The Vigilance Committee
sale nI w nd fnn n; ri Of ha
spectacle portion OF Keokuk county, were
chosen TO decide his fate. The committee
retired, and after protractcd absence re-
turned and reported him guilty, adjudging
his punishment to IS lashes, and to leave the
county in "a hours. The whipping was nd.
| ministcred with horse.whip, and he was
thon told to leave the county instanter. No.
tice was then given to man named Clark, to
arrange his affairs and leave the county be-
fore the LIST Of September, and another mar
named John ShifAet was notified to remove
himself and family out of the county within
four weeks.
The crowd which broke open the Keokuk
county Jail, took Perry Carpenter, charged
with lewdness with his daughter, and whip
ped him until the blood ran through ~,
shirts, and they whipped the daughter Lucre
tia nearly as severely ms they whipped tn,
father.-[ Iawkeye, Goth.
a uan Accuses Iiimse III of IL obbery
The Cincinnati Gazette, of late date
says:
Yesterday afternoon young man, VIII
gave his name as Henry Holden, visited th
county Jail. and asked to be locked up on
charge of robbery. The jailor did not fee
i authorized TO commit him on his own con
fcsaion Of having committed crime, bu
handed him over 70 policeman, who cor
VI, ed him to the Ninth street Station Hous,
who're he wee looked up, and the authoriti.
at st. Louis written to. The prisoner state
that, in connection with another individual
a fw nights since, he robbed Mr.. Clark 4
Rove, OF 81. Louis, Of u watch, damon
breast pin, pair OF sleeve buttons, and 9th.
articles amounting in value to some three Q
! four hundred dollars, and that the properi
!, wins disposed of at pawn brokers' shop
thai. city, when he left and came to Oincil
r natl. lie represents himself AS having bee
an apprentice IN the printing office oil Keen
, & Hager.
g DIscovery OF the Tomb Of Phara o
q Amosis.
. A letter from Cairo, in the Constitutions
/ says that the general subject Of conversati,
! in that city is the discovery which has ju
n been made BY the we'll known arch@ologi,
It NJ. Mariette. He has found st Thebes, aft
long and difficult researches, the tomb, st
intact, Of Pharaoh Amosis. The king
:. lying In coffin, completely covered vi
If gold leaf, ornamented with long wings pair
If ed Oh it. Thirty jewels Of great value We
found in the same coffin BY the side OF /
q, king, as was also q Ratchet OF gold orn
j, mented with figures in lapis laxuli.
IN Some years ago NJ. Mariette had a sin
r lar piece of good fortune, in finding in
~ tomb Of Apis the jewels which now form I
it principal ornament Of the Egyptian Muse,
va | OF the Louyra. The ieHalA OF Amnais ,