The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-02-27
LATER FROM EUROPE.
THE sCHLRSwIa uoLsTEiy WAR.

THE sCHLRSwIa uoIsTEIN WAR.
From our Northern flies of the 2Oth, we have
some fuller particulars of the commencement of
hostiities between the Austfians and Prussians on
tile one side, and the Danes the other. On the
3lst Of January, Field Marshal Wrangel, the CON-
,nander Of the Austro- Prussian forces summoned
Gen. de Mesa, the Danish Commander In Chief, to
evacuate Schleswig, the territory in dispute. The
reply Of de Meza wis, that he had orders to defend
schleswis.
On the 1st of February the Germans crossed the
Elder, when Marshal Wrangei issued proclama-
ton assuring the people of schlsswig that the al
He'd forces had to protect their rights and
the civil commissioners OF AusiEia and Prussia
would assume the administration of the duchie.
of schleswig and Holstein In conclusion the
proclamation advised the Inhabitants To abstain
from any party agitation, which would not be SUI
fe.ed BY the Commander In Chief, In the iaterest
of the schleswigers themselves.
TN the 2d Of February, actual hostiiities CON-
nscnced. OF which we have the following details
PRrxFIAN HEApa'Rs, Feb. ,, 1854
Prince Frederick Charles OF Prussia employed
Sevenfy-f0ur guns IN the attack upon fssunde ycx.
terday His Royal HiShness was convinced that
the Danes would offer serious resistance TO the
Austrian and Prussian advance.
tHefe were one nuHQTcu ksiIeu and wounded In
Yesterdays engagement The troops behaved with
great valor. The vanguard Of the Eleventh infan
try brigade were under FIRE. Missunde in tiames.
RsSDsErR0, Feb. 3. Ie64
The Danish prisoners taken In the attack upon
Msa1nd. were brought In here to-day.
a heavy cann0nade from their forts against The
storming parties of German infanlfy eBsued. The
loss Of the latter is estimated 1T one hundred men
among whom are sevefa, superior officers.
The Danes continue the cannonade to day. The
prJla he from
Boas are ready for the transport Of troops the
Eehley.
TH1pANfsH BrLwARK OF scHLsswIa HoLsrEyN.
From the above 1t will be seen that the German
army has attacked Missande and other places en-
Lraced In the line Of the great Danish defence OF
the Danne Werk. We publish the following de-
scription Of this immense line Of Notifications:
The Dannewerk is the great Danish bulwark of
tbs uuchy OF >cbisswis II is of very ancIent Ort.
gin. II Is situated III the extreme southern part OF
the Duchy Of 5chleswis, and IL now enormous
earthwork that stretches almost across tbs entire
country. The lensth Of the peninsula OF Sehles-
wig -HOistein 70 the end Of Iutland Is said TO be
near three hundrsd miles no that 1t extends al
most as far as the base line Of England from the
North FOreisud tn Lands End. The breadth Of
the peninsula, however, Is but ne-tlird OF It's
length, and the Dannewerk IL a iortiheatiOn that
reaches very nearly the land from the Ger
man Ocean to the Baltic.
Iris "bOr0eT Wdft' Is said I'd nave been cree ted
In the ninth century, and, according 10 the
counts given Of IL In ssOlat Trygbesen's Saga, II
was built Of wood, stone, and earth. In the year
937 the wall, we are ,0ld, was strengthened by
Queen Thyia, whom the neOpe, In their taanki iu,-
mesa for the national defence, ehristened Danatod,
which, literally translated, means the pride of the
Danes; and, as preof Of the extreme antiquity Of
the structure, there has been seen at Flenshurg q
so eudid collection o flint arrow heads and axes
collected from the barrows earth mounds tn the
immediate neishberho0d There were spear points
wrought out of splinters of flint no thicker than
paper knives, and worked sharper than the best
like stones which had been used to separate the
fne layers Of slceous earth from the solid mass,
and which were found embedded In these same
buTrows with the very htnt chip beside them that
the people, thousands Of ysaIs before, had broken
from the integral block.
Here, moreover were the slabs Of stone that the
old Cells had used 10 grRd theis spear heads 10
the shaTpest possible points, 0oyed with the tolls
Of The workInsn, and seeming as if tey were des-
tined to tell the present age how this wonderfully
fine workmanship Of the hardest possible material
was executed IBdeed, In this collection Of works
long precedent 10 history, were arrow heads made
out Of dint hardly thicker than mother Of pearl,
| and wrought as sharp AZ needle
The fortress CONSISTS at the present day twiihOus
going into all the niceties Of historical deiai Ut
| three enormous eaFthwOfks stretching acrosS the
| entire breadth Of the land They are 90 arranged
| as TO- form the neck, os tunnel, with long out
| work to protect the narrow channel through which
the troops ultimately intended to be drfven.--
| Towards the Baltic, OF East Sea, there runs the
'sOstel- Woiden,n tor east rampart.) This stea
| toWaTds the ssEckenforde," and Is sometimes
| called the ssCamei- Dannswerk." II Is about two
Eaglish miles long, the earthworks beisg from toui
10 i've feet high and sixteen yards broad, and bese
with ditch, the dspsh Of which varies from 81,
| feet TO ten fsei.
Beyond this u the great bay formed by the river
Schley, which II so Wide that NO troops could pos
| stbiy attempt 20 pass II. Stretching immediutsy
| Ia front Il ihis 10 the "Kargraben," which II up
the SEEKER he; Il II from ten feet 70 twelve feet
broad, and ftoln four feet 70 SIX feet high BEHIND
this lies the great "Dannewefk' sse u, which con
sisis Of m ear.hwoFk not lees than fourteen miles
long Ia parts IL h from thirty feet 70 thirty
SIX feet high, aud the Famparts are Rom elxteet
| feet IN twenty feet broad. The whole ot these
| easthwoTks' are Immediately tn connection fshs
one side of cha Peniasaia t. the other, with the
y river Schiey the eastern side, and with the
river Treene which falis into the N.ssthcsu Ocean
] 20 that the Danish forcss have u wtthin &eyt
power 10 food not less than stxtY-scpr square
miles of land In front Of the great euN arr u Snses
Wig al moments nsties.
ssbui.s say the H.1on soldiers 70 The writer
swhai ere tae Lses o. lhe siuice eAteS - ths ums
4 af is0st ~ Taiking with Danish eNaAef9s, ebsl
cay they had Aooded the country win ne ihasnes
Afterwards, 80 tast sny lsoaps stsesDpsin1 - csos
The cosntsy would ~ ,aOWed dewn ~ the uistllss.
Hte corn. Indeed. there h not ~ iea1e e00es "a
forty thoasaaA NEE coSeA Hold ths Oannsu0sl
a9ainst one hyaarsd sho1sand oppoeiHg ts0srss m
II would feaAire q siseoe ~ amy - untsed 0eg
nAay ceui1 pesihlY nsstss = WssR esAleeMt
tsemp penmafe.
TIE ssesmer Qstsss vas syak q eo nt1nie