Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-15
WAR ITEMS.


Vienna, in the National Gazette of Berlin.
says 1t is generally believed in well-inform-
| ed circles that the next mail will bring an &C.
count OF an armistice, which will serve as the
basis for negotiations for peace The same
! opinion prevails at the Bourse, where prices
have improved"
A Berlin letter in the Hamburg News says
lit may be considered as certain that the Prus-
sian Government has opened negotiations with
England and Russia in order to establish a
common basis of mediation"
The Independence states that the new En-.
glish Ministry has addressed counseIs of mod
GRAFTON to the German States, cautoning them,
IN language serious and firm, against the dan
10 Il geIftfaf aFinG ~; 10y : .
The lnvalide Russo says that Austria ought
| to think seriously of peace. She is endeavor-
| ing to secure the support OF Germany and
Prussia, but in acquiring powerful allies, she
might at the same time array against her still
more powerful enemies. In that case, Europe
would be inundated with blood for nothing
else than to preserve Lombardy to Austria,
though that province can never more belong
to her morally.
The Constitutional argues that Germanvi is
not In financial condition to warrant the con-
federation taking up arms. While the an
nouncement OF the new French loan of 20 .OO0
900 produced tenders for five times that
amount, even Russia could obtain but very
little more than that sum for loan five times
less. The Bavarian government, too. which
asked for 100000 francs, only obtained
100000 francs.
From the Paris Correspondent of the Globe.
HE French FIELD TELEGRAPH-A war
correspondent dating from Brescia on the 9th
OF June, reports a fact which has not hitherto
transplred, concerning the scientific appliances
OF electricity tO IL
pear that the remarkable precision and unity
OF the French evolutions were accomplished by
a quite novel sort of flying aidesde-camn.
FROM each corps, once in position, a horse
man rode Oft to the next division, unroIIinp on
his rapid course light wire, which no Time
was lost i'll adapting to field apparatus and
the process was repeated all along the French
line OF twelve miles. Hence the move
ment OF the whole army was known
and regulated, like clock work, from
dawn to dewey eve," on that decisive day.
This arrangement had been planned in Paris,
and supply Of gutta-percha covered metal
thread forwarded with secresy and dspatcb
1t has done its work, and the patent may now
be disclosed. Portable galvanism beats porta
bic gas. 1t was already known to both armies
that special Geographic corps operated in the
rear of the allies, and laid wires as fast as an
advance was made. M. Lara is the Chief En-
gineer, and the first Frenchman who entered
Noyara, while the Austrians were scarce vet
out of it, was NJ Ganthier, of that staff. who
set up his box and telegraphed the details of
the retreatlng corps at the moment they were
outside the gates. Tomato, Montechiaro. and
Castiglione, were in instant communication
with Brescia and Milan, when evacuated by
the foe on the 23d
HE FRENCH SWORD BAYoNET-An eve
witness asserts that one of the causes which
has demoralized the Austrian soldier is the
new weapon-tbe INDEPENDENTLY which
he is attacked by the French soldier. and
against which neither his own old bayonet nor
his superior physical strength are of any
avail
Not only can the sword bayonet give thrust
for thrust with the older weapon, but while it
thrusts, or withdraws after delivering it, it
sewers the tendons of the arm or leg of the OBJ
ponent, thus completely disabling him prior to
the last death blow.
Moreover, the French soldier is taught to
WELD his weapon by posing it like quarter
stall horizontally as high as the head of his
adversary, and by slight movement in the
segment Of circle the sharp blade is swept
across the neck, chest or face of three men op-
posed to him in line.
This novel mode of attack cannot be met by
the old musket and bayonet hence the Aus
uiaii eoulcI has III despair feSOrleu 10 the butt
OF his musket in endeavorng to crush his
enemy, who, agile, skilful of fence, and rem
dered confident by the superiority of his new
arm, can deliver three wounds with his sword
bayonet while his antagonist is swinging his
club.
The Losses AT SoLFERINo.-A letter from
Paris says 81 have reason to believe, how
ever, that there is little exaggeration in what
Is stated on good authority to be the real loss
IN Killed and wounded on that terrible day at
Solierino. The loss appears to be from 10000
to lo,OOO. 1t is divided thus Marshal Neil's
corps from 5000 to 7000 Marshal paraguay
d'Hilliers nearly 5000; Marshal MacMahon's
z6OO, and Marshal Canrobert's 1000-which,
with casualties in the special corps, such as the
artillery, will make up the number. 1t is re-
ported today that Peschira isinvested and the
nghting has been resumed 1t is rumored, but
not on authority, that Gen. Dieu has died of
wounds, and that Gen. Ladmirault lies in
very dangerous state.
friyate kilograms and letters have been re
ceived at Vienna, and some of them which