Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-07-20
ARRIVAL OF The steamer Etna.
Official accounts Of the Battle Of .Salferi"o,

NEw YoRK. July Is The steamship Et-
ma. from Liverpool, on the I'd inst. arrived
at this port this morning. Her adVlces are
the same as those brought by the Canada to
Halifax.
TIc Battle of SaLfcriuo.-At Paris it is
believed in some quarters that the French
loss at the battle of Salferino amounted to
from sixteen to eighteen thousand men, as
follows:
Gen. NeiPs corps, 6 900 to 200; D'Hl-
lier's nearly 5 O00; MMahon's, 2, 800; Can
roberts. 600, besides casualties in the ar
tillery and special corps.
The French people are said to be dlssatlsh-
ed with the scantiness of the details as yet
published in the MoRitear.
THE Patrie' says Napoleon had an epau-
lette shot away.
Gen. den is reported among the dead.
The Austrians had seven or eight GeneT-
ais and many of their superior officers wound
ed Gen Greschke was killed.
Some of the French infantry regiments
were nearly cut to pieces. The Piedmontese
suffered SO severely rs to be incapable of for
ming in the line Of battle
! The Vienna correspondent Of the London
Times. writing on the 28th, says that some
! days must elapse before the complete loss OF
the Austrians could be received.
The same writer says that the Italian regi-
ments ia the Austrian army have become very
difficult to manage-the men desert by scores
and fifties. In the neigh hborhood of Trieste
whole battalion had raised the cry in favor Of
Victor Emanuel.
4 vessel on the coast, under the Ameri-
can flag, had been detected in the act of re-
ceiving the deserters on board after dark.
The people of Milan have made threaten
| ing manifestations against the Jesuits, whom
public rumor accuse of keeping up q secret
correspondence with Austria
The municipal body Of Vienna have offer
ed to maintain peace and order in case it was
necessary to despatch the garrison at Vienna
to the seat Of war.
Enormous masses of French soldiers are
marching into Piedmonte via Nice and Mount
Gents.
Napoleon was in perfect health, aad the
sanitary condition of the army was excellent
His headquarters were at Vallergro. where
Prince Napoleon was expected to arrive on
the 30th ult 1t is reported that at Salferino
nearly every officer and man of the artillery
attached to the Imperial Guard was put horse
lt combat.
The Austrian accounts of the battle admit
their loss to be $1,000, killed, wounded and
missing.
The Austrian official report of the battle
says:
The right wing of the army occupied
, Bozzolongo, Salferino and Cavriana; the left
wing marchdd on the 9th, to Quidizzolo,
Castiglione and Cofredo, aud repulsed the
5 advancing enemy on all sides. As the I'm
! perial army continued its advance towards
= Chiese, the enemy, who had also assumed tht
t offensive with his whole force, pushed for
| nah bC1 of hot thp-
s was general engagement between the tw,
armies At ten o'clock or thereabouts, q
It the morning of the 24th. the right wing
r which was formed Of tae second army, unae
O Count Schlick. maintained the position whici
e it had originally occupied in the first line G
n battle, until two o clock In the Afternoon, an,
the first army. left wing, under Count Vim,
:, fen, continually gained ground il the direc
ton Of Chicse
. Towards three o'clock in the evening the
n made q vehement attack on Salferino, an
4 after several hours hard fighting obtained po
q session Of the place, which had been heroi
e cally defended by the fifth corps de a,nael
An attack was then made on Cavriana, whic
= place vas courageously defended until evenn
o by the FIRST and seventh corps de Gynaec, bl
IS was eventually left in the hands of the enem
while the struggle for Salferino and Caveri
L
# which was on the outer faak and right win|
advanced and repUlsed the Sarlirian troops
who were opposed to it, but this advaBtag
did not enable the Imperial army 10 recove
:. the position that had been lost in the centre
The third and ninth corps de armee, Whicl
/ were supported by the eleventh corps, wer
/ engaged on the left wing, and the reserv
: cavalry attached TO this wing, made seyera
a brilliant attacks.
b Universally heavy losses, and the fac
o that the left wing Of the first army was una
> bic to make any progress on the right fan
{, of the enemy. who directed his main force i
L the centre against Volta, led TO the retreat {
g the Imperial and Royal Army. It bega
late IN the evening, during very violer
s storm.
IS The correspondent of the Ioudon Heral
e says so little did the French expect a battlt
u that on the previous night message from ii
'e King. asking for support, in case he shoul
II be attacked, was met with a refusal, on I'll
II ground that az attack by the AustFians VI;
'e not probable. At daybreak, however, tt
> corps of Marshal D Hillier8 came in sight {
e Salferino, and was Immediately set upon by
ST large Austrian force, which rushed down Il
N bill and fought with the greatest fury. III
VI Marshall resisted the attack to the best of b
l. power. and sent his aid-de-camp for support
e. but it was not before three hours of frightfr
as carnage had elapsed that the corps of Gel
'e Neil made its appearance The Austrian
1e were slowly driven back, and every now au
IN then there was pause, and the French col
tinued to gain ground, heaps Of their own al
the enemy's corpses marking the fuctuatiol
ce of the fight. The Austrians were TIL
te slowly driven out of Salferino, but all of
of sudden they made a tremendous burst 70
r. ward and the French were driven down Il
a. bill. Being admirably supported by the
no artillery, however, they made stand, al
ed commenced once moro to advance. II w
of like hail storm Of bullets and balls, al