The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-03-02


German Freedom = = Uniss Esd pro.
ceeds, according e., the tblkaseitsng
from the pen of Kasl BjinH h is alst
the author Of m appeal to he ,Polisl
regiments. The Conservative PAPER com.
plains Of The Corruption and demoralisa
non" which it is thus attempted 10 in
troduce into the Austrian army, while ths
Liberal organs approve of thisrropagan.
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THE DANISH, PRUssIAN AND AUSTRIAN
ARMIES Es-GxN. MExA AND GRN. wRAxGKL
CoPEHHAGxx, Jan. 26.--AmoDR the
many who attracted attention In tho late
Danish campaign, honorable prominence
was accorded to General Christian Julius
de Meza, then aBrigadier, now Comman.
der-in- Chief. The General to whose
gallantry and military skill the fate oil
Denmark is entrusted, 10 descended from
family Of Spanish Jews. who settled il
the country about hundred ysaas ago
Although more than seventy years of age,
he retains many Of the qlan,ies which
with the bulk Of mankind are the happy
privilege of youth, and become dimmed
long before the green old age be enjoys.
In this, as in every other respect, he is .
worthy opponent OF Baron WraDgel, the
Prussian General, who is nearly an octo-
genarian, but Was never seen in cloak,
and will head charge with something
like the FIRE bs exhibited At Waterloo.
Gen. Meza is politician Of the old
school, violently opposed to the party in
power, and after the rout Of the Germans,
would like nothing better than the defeat
Of Herr Hall and the men who ruled the
country for twelve years. His political
opinions, as we'll as his military talents,
are shared in an eminent degree by Col.
Kaufman, the chief of his staff, Kauf-
mann, Holsteiner By birth, has been in
the civil and military service of tho king
dom for many years, and proved himself
cool and intelligent officer in the war
Of IS4s. OF late he has acted in various
capacities, representing bis Govern me Mt
in the Diet at one time. and then submit
ting TO be sent to Kiel, to eoerce the
University and frighten professors into
loyalty. But this is not the most glori.
Gus part Of his career
The troops at the difposal of the gal
liant Twins, 40 they are called here. O. a.
not be estimated above 30, 600 or $4,000
men. More, it is tue. are being enlisted
or sre already in course Of form alton; but,
in order to make up for the gaps expect
cd to occur before long, . reserve-dif-
ferently given at from 5000 to 10000
men-wili be kept in the rear, and ad-
vanced only in proportion to losses 10 the
front. These troops are opposed by 5O,-
600 Prussians, and half as many Aus
TRANS, to which are to be Immediately
added 10000 more Prussians. However,
the Dannewerk being What it is, it will
require the utmost gallantry on the part
of the invading force to carry one OF the
few points at all accessible. A regular
siege, which would be safe bu. weari-
some operation, is evidently not intended
the allied armies having no heavy guns
with them. In the true old style Of
"Father Wrsngle;' man whose name
is not easily forgotten IN country which
has once made bis acquaintance. tie works
are to be carried, it is said, BY assault, or
rather series of assaults. Independent of
his particular notions Of strategy, and the
value of human life, delay 10 the present
instance would be anything bus sgreea
BILE, one may well imagine, to bis king.
DESCRIPTION OF TIE DAEsKH KRK.
The Dannewerk is the great Danish
balwask of the Duchy Of Schleswig. 1t
is of very ancient origin. Ii is situated
at the extreme southern part of the Dachy
of Schleswig, and is now an enormous
earthwork that stretches aimos. across the
the entire country. The length of the
Peninsula Of Schlesvig- Holsieiu TO the
end Of Jutland is said to be near three
hundred miles; SO that it extends almost
as far as the base line Of England from
the North Foreland to Lands End. The
breadth of the peninsula, however, is but
one-third of its length, and the Danne-
werk is forti6cation that reaches very
very nearly across the land from the Ger
man Ocean to the Baltic.
/. This "bordef wall" is said to have been
erected in the ninth century, and accord.
ing to the account given of it in "Olat
Tryggveson' Saga" itwss built OF wood,
stone and earth. In the year 937, the
wall, We are told, Was strengthened by
Queen Thyra, whom the people. in their
thankfulness for the national defense,
christened Danabod, which literally
translated, means the pride of the Danes;
and, as proof of the extreme antiquity
of the structure, there has been seen at
Rendsburg, splendid collection of flint
arrow heads and axes collected from the
barrows or earth mounds in the imme-
diate neighborhood. There we're epea,
points wrought out Of splinters of fint nc
thicker than the best steel. Here, too,
were shown the knuckle bone like stones
which had been used to separate the fine
layers of siliceous earth from the solid
mass, and which we're found embedded in
these same tarrows. with the very flint
ohiP-bsside them that the people, -thon.
sands Of yeart before, had broken nom
the integral block. 4 : =
Here, moreover, were the slabs Of stone
that the old Cells had used to grind thai
spear heads on ia. the sharpest possible
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